Tim Smith

@clownworld sex at noon taxes

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New career starting, very excited about helping where I can !

@mike_schatz Thanks Mike, will definitely miss pool day at AGBT !

Will miss you Tim! Good luck in your new adventures!

I'm retiring on September 30, last day my USDA email will work is Wednesday, April 30 (two more days!)

@MediocreJoker85 I'll be mellow when I'm dead

First lyric or song to come to mind when I say: Weird Al Yankovic?

latest pub with Beth Shapiro, the hybrid bison/cattle breed is not actually a hybrid. First experience publishing in eLife. elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr…

Congratulations Temitayo Olagunju ! The cattle/sheep complete Y chromosomes paper is live at Nature Comms rdcu.be/dVikS

Thanks to everyone who helped with bringing this to fruition, especially Rachel for crafting the main figure

Ruminant T2T project article is finally out ! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Induction into the USDA Agricultural Research Service Science Hall of Fame last March. Thanks to all my support staff over the years that led to this. Especially Bob Lee, happy retirement Bob ! Also a long list of excellent collaborators from academia, government, and industry.

New white paper describing the Bovine Pangenome Consortium is out ! genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

In a world where you can be anything, always be a number 50!

Team #T2T stopped by chilly Nebraska this week looking for some more genomes to finish and found lots of volunteers 🐮 Thanks for the great workshop @tplsmith!

This works better. Sandhill cranes make a weird dinosaur-like sound. Hard to see in the video how large they are but they are big birds. Thanks to Amy Sandeen for getting us the "VIP" heated bird blind and bringing us wine and beer while we waited for the cranes to come in.

@zevkronenberg My technician Kelsey used DALL-E to create the images on the poster

@tplsmith Like colorful art!

Thanks to my partners Brenda Murdoch and Stephanie McKay in organizing the Ruminant T2T workshop last week ! Also to support staff that made it run smoothly

Also thanks to the all the speakers: Adam Phillippy, Karen Miga, Rachel O'Neill, Erich Jarvis, Klaus Koepfli, Yana Safonova, Tamara Potopova, Sergey Koren, Arang Rhie, and Ben Rosen, and to all of the attendees in person (pic) or virtual !

Those who stayed to join the sandhill crane migration outing were rewarded with a particularly spectacular night as a pair of coyotes kept rousting the cranes into the air. I'd load video but twitter seems incapable of that today

@Jsolis_s I don't have time to submit each cell as it comes off the sequencer, once the full set of data for the project is collected and assembly performed and we start moving toward publication I can justify the time to get that going.

@tplsmith Please, let's now when these reads are deposited at SRA

A little late to the party but first HiFi cell that produced >40 Gbase Q31 from 1.87M reads 22.5Kb avg, total 42.2 Gbase. Cattle blood DNA.

@CallumJCParr cost is relative, there is library prep and running the SMRT cell so I wouldn't want to put a number on it. PacBio could help with estimating cost of a cell