Dave Baltrus 🦦

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Associate Prof at UArizona interested in genome rummaging and farm animals.

“I’m something of a scientist myself”

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You want the acronym to be memorable, but not overshadow the pipeline. There’s a sweet spot. Feels like this isn’t hitting the sweet spot.

MAGA: a contig assembler with correctness guarantee https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.10.602853v1

MAGA: a contig assembler with correctness guarantee https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.10.602853v1 www.biorxiv.org In genome assembly the task is to reconstruct a genome based on sequencing reads. Current practical

We’re trying to make the G3 journal a home for all your fun bacterial genetics stories! Please hit us up if you have a relevant manuscript to submit!

The annoying thing when (in retrospect) you probably would have designed the experiment different now than then, and the reviewer says this, and you acknowledge it, but there’s still valid results in the data and you have no money to do the thing again…and so it stays a preprint forever

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I'm not smart enough to know if keeping Joe or ditching Joe is the right call when it comes to defeating Donald Trump, but I _know_ Kamala would go on Hot Ones, and I doubt either of the other guys would, so that gives her the edge, I think.

It’s Biden’s job as a campaigner to change the discussion…and he’s failed miserably in doing that.

TFW it’s 112 degrees out

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Mid career disillusionment is no joke 😭

Can’t ever have nice things when there’s pigs in the yard

Does anyone have an npt2 promoter sequence that can be synthesized into a plasmid (and works for expression?) Or, other strong promoter that works across Gram negative bacteria? TIA

The best sketch of the year, and a good reminder of what the US celebrates on July 4th

I’m still partial to Nate Bargatze as George Washington. youtu.be/JYqfVE-fykk?...

Washington's Dream - SNLyoutu.be George Washington (Nate Bargatze) tells his soldiers (Kenan Thompson, Mikey Day, Bowen Yang, James Austin Johnson) his dream for the country.Saturday Night L...

My 2¢: There are going to be plenty of situations where you can tell who the authors are, but also situations where you or others can’t. If bias in the review process (and studies suggest there is) and double blinding partially works to counter bias and not introduce new biases then it helps

Double-blind peer-review is a great idea, but in practice it doesn't quite work. I just received a review request and based on the topic/system I know exactly who the PI is

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We are now on Bluesky! Follow us for the latest on recent papers and journal updates. ✅ Research on all areas of evolutionary biology ✅ Society-owned (Society for the Study of Evolution) ✅ Free publication for SSE members Read the latest papers and submit your research at academic.oup.com/evolut

Sit Biden in front of someone asking tough questions for a hour and do it live….if he can handle that well I’ll shut up about him dropping out

A better campaign would understand that the debate was a fiasco and their campaign is currently on life-support, and respond to it with the urgency that requires. It's not about one thing here or there to "fix it" and move on. It's that they're in real trouble, and not responding to it urgently

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Here’s why Biden is toast: in this situation, any candidate in Biden’s shoes would do a series of events (interviews, press conferences, town halls, etc) to prove they are up to the task. But, Biden isn’t doing that because he can’t. He’s not capable—and that’s not going to change.

Completely aware no one is listening but I’m finding it at least slightly cathartic to respond to every Biden fundraising text by saying he should drop out…

If he’s so sharp and focused behind closed doors in every meeting, surely he could show us this side publicly or something

You’re the President…do ***something*** quickly to counter the narrative or get the hell out of the way Press conference back and forth…something that shows you’re up for actually trying to win this thing

OK @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social … I mean I was blown away by plasmid sequencing by the next day, but I shipped bacterial genomic DNA at 4PM yesterday and got back whole genome sequences 10AM the next day

Pedantry corner: Transposons writ large are not “instruments of horizontal gene transfer” They can associate with regions of DNA that can transfer and so they’re over represented amongst HGT’d genes but a lot of them ain’t transferring themselves

Time to start the backup QB

They are arguing about golf handicaps

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Just reiterating this, because, unfortunately, it appears to be increasingly relevant.

If Biden literally shat himself during one of the debates, his opponent would still be the guy openly vowing to send federal troops to take over cities, set up mass detention camps, and imprison his critics. The only sane position would still be Team Pants Shitter.

So, so bad

My God…this is not good

My marriage, in a nutshell: Me: “How’d your day go honey?” J: “Mind if I go to the Olympics in Paris in August? Friend has tickets and a room” Me: “I’ll get the kids to school that week, go for it, can’t pass up once in a lifetime things”

Its promotion letter season! Remember, your job is to give the promotion committee snippets that they can pull out and highlight for the packet while not saying anything that could be misconstrued poorly

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Hi friends! I have a trans friend who is going to be traveling cross-country and they're kind of worried about getting stuck in places they won't be safe. Are there any up-to-date safe travels guides for trans people anywhere, like routes to take and towns to avoid at all costs? Thanks all 🥰