Geoff Zahn
@geoffzahn.bsky.social
mycology, microbial ecology, symbiosis, conservation, data science, ecopoet
Translational Insights into microbial Diversity Assembly & Linkages
https://gzahn.github.io/
Recruiting PhD students in Applied Science at William & Mary
Translational Insights into microbial Diversity Assembly & Linkages
https://gzahn.github.io/
Recruiting PhD students in Applied Science at William & Mary
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Geoff Zahn
@geoffzahn.bsky.social
· Sep 4
TIDAL Lab
Translational Insights into microbial Diversity, Assembly, & Linkages
gzahn.github.io
Hey, I'm recruiting for up to two funded PhD positions in #mycology or community #ecology. Please share!
Good stipend, lovely location in the woods near the beach. Field, lab, and computational projects. Seeking wide interests and bold ideas!
Lab: gzahn.github.io
Apply:
forms.gle/jK7bJkyrTAUH...
Good stipend, lovely location in the woods near the beach. Field, lab, and computational projects. Seeking wide interests and bold ideas!
Lab: gzahn.github.io
Apply:
forms.gle/jK7bJkyrTAUH...
Reposted by Geoff Zahn
I'm hiring a postdoc to work with myself, Dr Jim Lyons and the entire NOAA Firebird team on the adaptive management part of our larger project focused on the impacts of prescribed fire on Gulf Coast wetlands
Accepting applications until Feb 15th
blogs.illinois.edu/view/7426/19...
Accepting applications until Feb 15th
blogs.illinois.edu/view/7426/19...
Postdoctoral Research Associate - NOAA Firebird - Illinois Natural History Survey/PRI - Application Deadline: February 15, 2026
blogs.illinois.edu
January 7, 2026 at 4:28 PM
I'm hiring a postdoc to work with myself, Dr Jim Lyons and the entire NOAA Firebird team on the adaptive management part of our larger project focused on the impacts of prescribed fire on Gulf Coast wetlands
Accepting applications until Feb 15th
blogs.illinois.edu/view/7426/19...
Accepting applications until Feb 15th
blogs.illinois.edu/view/7426/19...
This week I welcome @taliamycota.bsky.social as my first ever postdoc in the lab! She's gonna be working on microbial communities and learning to eat oysters without a fork. Very excited!
January 5, 2026 at 11:40 PM
This week I welcome @taliamycota.bsky.social as my first ever postdoc in the lab! She's gonna be working on microbial communities and learning to eat oysters without a fork. Very excited!
Reposted by Geoff Zahn
It's the most magical time of the year — when estimates of last year's global average temperature anomaly come out. Time to dust off my "last year was hot" auto-response.
November 3, 2024 at 12:44 AM
It's the most magical time of the year — when estimates of last year's global average temperature anomaly come out. Time to dust off my "last year was hot" auto-response.
Reposted by Geoff Zahn
for the turning of the year...
December 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
for the turning of the year...
Reposted by Geoff Zahn
Live thread of the NSF biology virtual office hour:
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December 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Live thread of the NSF biology virtual office hour:
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Reposted by Geoff Zahn
I am delighted to share that the radEmu manuscript was accepted today to Biometrika 🥳 Sending gratitude to our users and reviewers for their enthusiasm and support!!
Huge congrats to @davidandacat.bsky.social and Sarah Teichman on all their hard work and brilliance 😻❗
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Huge congrats to @davidandacat.bsky.social and Sarah Teichman on all their hard work and brilliance 😻❗
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December 16, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I am delighted to share that the radEmu manuscript was accepted today to Biometrika 🥳 Sending gratitude to our users and reviewers for their enthusiasm and support!!
Huge congrats to @davidandacat.bsky.social and Sarah Teichman on all their hard work and brilliance 😻❗
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Huge congrats to @davidandacat.bsky.social and Sarah Teichman on all their hard work and brilliance 😻❗
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Reposted by Geoff Zahn
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
Reposted by Geoff Zahn
If you ever need to fuzzy search some DNA, sassy is your tool.
Please spread the word; I think many people just outside my own circle could benefit from this :)
cc @rickbitloo.bsky.social
github.com/RagnarGrootK...
Please spread the word; I think many people just outside my own circle could benefit from this :)
cc @rickbitloo.bsky.social
github.com/RagnarGrootK...
December 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
If you ever need to fuzzy search some DNA, sassy is your tool.
Please spread the word; I think many people just outside my own circle could benefit from this :)
cc @rickbitloo.bsky.social
github.com/RagnarGrootK...
Please spread the word; I think many people just outside my own circle could benefit from this :)
cc @rickbitloo.bsky.social
github.com/RagnarGrootK...
Reposted by Geoff Zahn
Does bioinformatics have an abandonware problem? My thoughts after reflecting on the Tucson Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting for a while: rbartelme.github.io/blog/the-aba... #bioinformatics #computationalbiology #FAIRdata #HPC #datascience
Bioinformatics Code Rot: Do We Have an Abandonware Problem?
Graduate students need novel tools to publish. Labs lack funding for maintenance. How can we build sustainable bioinformatics software without fixing the incentive structure?
rbartelme.github.io
December 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Does bioinformatics have an abandonware problem? My thoughts after reflecting on the Tucson Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting for a while: rbartelme.github.io/blog/the-aba... #bioinformatics #computationalbiology #FAIRdata #HPC #datascience
AI is taking my job.
All those years of &runctitional medical frimmblal training was such a waste of my time!
All those years of &runctitional medical frimmblal training was such a waste of my time!
Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete.
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
November 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
AI is taking my job.
All those years of &runctitional medical frimmblal training was such a waste of my time!
All those years of &runctitional medical frimmblal training was such a waste of my time!
Reposted by Geoff Zahn
gggenomes: A Grammar of Graphics for Comparative Genomics thackl.github.io/gggenomes/ #Rstats
A Grammar of Graphics for Comparative Genomics
An extension of ggplot2 for creating complex genomic maps. It builds on the power of ggplot2 and tidyverse adding new ggplot2-style geoms & positions and dplyr-style verbs to manipulate the…
thackl.github.io
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
gggenomes: A Grammar of Graphics for Comparative Genomics thackl.github.io/gggenomes/ #Rstats
Reposted by Geoff Zahn
Funded PhD Opportunity: Seagrass Disease Ecology
Explore how the pseudofungus Phytophthora gemini impacts Zostera marina and restoration success. Lab + fieldwork @thembauk.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social & OCT. Combine microbiology, ecology & restoration science 🌱
👉 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK439/p...
Explore how the pseudofungus Phytophthora gemini impacts Zostera marina and restoration success. Lab + fieldwork @thembauk.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social & OCT. Combine microbiology, ecology & restoration science 🌱
👉 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK439/p...
November 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Funded PhD Opportunity: Seagrass Disease Ecology
Explore how the pseudofungus Phytophthora gemini impacts Zostera marina and restoration success. Lab + fieldwork @thembauk.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social & OCT. Combine microbiology, ecology & restoration science 🌱
👉 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK439/p...
Explore how the pseudofungus Phytophthora gemini impacts Zostera marina and restoration success. Lab + fieldwork @thembauk.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social & OCT. Combine microbiology, ecology & restoration science 🌱
👉 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK439/p...
Check out our latest dispatch where we make a (very convincing ☺️) case that marine #mycology is the next big thing and highlight a recent paper by Breyer et al.
Marine fungi have biomass = 22 MILLION blue whales!
Free link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3QW8S...
#aquaticfungi #microbiome #fungi
Marine fungi have biomass = 22 MILLION blue whales!
Free link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3QW8S...
#aquaticfungi #microbiome #fungi
authors.elsevier.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Check out our latest dispatch where we make a (very convincing ☺️) case that marine #mycology is the next big thing and highlight a recent paper by Breyer et al.
Marine fungi have biomass = 22 MILLION blue whales!
Free link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3QW8S...
#aquaticfungi #microbiome #fungi
Marine fungi have biomass = 22 MILLION blue whales!
Free link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3QW8S...
#aquaticfungi #microbiome #fungi
Yes, we all knew this of course. It's the entire brand.
October 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Yes, we all knew this of course. It's the entire brand.
New "Fidelity" #rstats package release with Abbey Neat can
quantify and compare the specificity of #microbiome communities associated with certain hosts or groups!
It intelligently handles rare taxa removal.
And check that handcrafted hex sticker! 😍
quantify and compare the specificity of #microbiome communities associated with certain hosts or groups!
It intelligently handles rare taxa removal.
And check that handcrafted hex sticker! 😍
October 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
New "Fidelity" #rstats package release with Abbey Neat can
quantify and compare the specificity of #microbiome communities associated with certain hosts or groups!
It intelligently handles rare taxa removal.
And check that handcrafted hex sticker! 😍
quantify and compare the specificity of #microbiome communities associated with certain hosts or groups!
It intelligently handles rare taxa removal.
And check that handcrafted hex sticker! 😍
Lovely visit to U of Maine. Great folks and fun conversations about microbes!
October 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Lovely visit to U of Maine. Great folks and fun conversations about microbes!
Reposted by Geoff Zahn
Check out what we have been achieving through @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social towards the conservation of #AquaticFungi 🌟
📢 NEW REPORT 📢
The @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social report for 2024-2025 is now published. 👇
iucn.org/sites/defaul...
Get in touch if you want to collaborate with us to advance the #conservation of #aquaticfungi. 💧 🍄
@iucnfungi.bsky.social @protectspecies.bsky.social
The @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social report for 2024-2025 is now published. 👇
iucn.org/sites/defaul...
Get in touch if you want to collaborate with us to advance the #conservation of #aquaticfungi. 💧 🍄
@iucnfungi.bsky.social @protectspecies.bsky.social
iucn.org
October 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Check out what we have been achieving through @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social towards the conservation of #AquaticFungi 🌟
Reposted by Geoff Zahn
This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
October 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
youtu.be/8AeCo3AD1cM?...
"How could you even begin to pay me enough to do such a feat of Sisyphian futility?!"
Beautiful
"How could you even begin to pay me enough to do such a feat of Sisyphian futility?!"
Beautiful
Confused Teacher Crashes Out Over His Job | Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping | Channel 4 Comedy
YouTube video by Channel 4 Comedy
youtu.be
September 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
youtu.be/8AeCo3AD1cM?...
"How could you even begin to pay me enough to do such a feat of Sisyphian futility?!"
Beautiful
"How could you even begin to pay me enough to do such a feat of Sisyphian futility?!"
Beautiful
Reposted by Geoff Zahn
Preprint out for myloasm, our new nanopore / HiFi metagenome assembler!
Nanopore's getting accurate, but
1. Can this lead to better metagenome assemblies?
2. How, algorithmically, to leverage them?
with co-author Max Marin @mgmarin.bsky.social, supervised by Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social
1 / N
Nanopore's getting accurate, but
1. Can this lead to better metagenome assemblies?
2. How, algorithmically, to leverage them?
with co-author Max Marin @mgmarin.bsky.social, supervised by Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social
1 / N
High-resolution metagenome assembly for modern long reads with myloasm https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.05.674543v1
September 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Preprint out for myloasm, our new nanopore / HiFi metagenome assembler!
Nanopore's getting accurate, but
1. Can this lead to better metagenome assemblies?
2. How, algorithmically, to leverage them?
with co-author Max Marin @mgmarin.bsky.social, supervised by Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social
1 / N
Nanopore's getting accurate, but
1. Can this lead to better metagenome assemblies?
2. How, algorithmically, to leverage them?
with co-author Max Marin @mgmarin.bsky.social, supervised by Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social
1 / N
COVID vaccine gun show!
(Yeah I have asthma, diabetes, a weak heart, smoke 3 packs a day, or whatever lies you have to tell to get preventative medicine)
(Yeah I have asthma, diabetes, a weak heart, smoke 3 packs a day, or whatever lies you have to tell to get preventative medicine)
September 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
COVID vaccine gun show!
(Yeah I have asthma, diabetes, a weak heart, smoke 3 packs a day, or whatever lies you have to tell to get preventative medicine)
(Yeah I have asthma, diabetes, a weak heart, smoke 3 packs a day, or whatever lies you have to tell to get preventative medicine)
RIP to my add_blast_header.sh script
The new -outfmt 20 in BLAST 😍. No more frustrated googling to remember which column is which.....
September 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
RIP to my add_blast_header.sh script
Reposted by Geoff Zahn
We are hiring! The #PlantBio department at UIUC is looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in Plant-Fungal interactions. Application deadline is October 31st @dallingjim.bsky.social see the link below for more details:
illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Assistant Professor- Department of Plant Biology
Duties & Responsibilities
illinois.csod.com
September 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
We are hiring! The #PlantBio department at UIUC is looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in Plant-Fungal interactions. Application deadline is October 31st @dallingjim.bsky.social see the link below for more details:
illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
10 years using Ubuntu and other linux distros and I JUST NOW learned that you can mount any server address in the file browser so easily!?
September 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
10 years using Ubuntu and other linux distros and I JUST NOW learned that you can mount any server address in the file browser so easily!?
Hey, I'm recruiting for up to two funded PhD positions in #mycology or community #ecology. Please share!
Good stipend, lovely location in the woods near the beach. Field, lab, and computational projects. Seeking wide interests and bold ideas!
Lab: gzahn.github.io
Apply:
forms.gle/jK7bJkyrTAUH...
Good stipend, lovely location in the woods near the beach. Field, lab, and computational projects. Seeking wide interests and bold ideas!
Lab: gzahn.github.io
Apply:
forms.gle/jK7bJkyrTAUH...
TIDAL Lab
Translational Insights into microbial Diversity, Assembly, & Linkages
gzahn.github.io
September 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Hey, I'm recruiting for up to two funded PhD positions in #mycology or community #ecology. Please share!
Good stipend, lovely location in the woods near the beach. Field, lab, and computational projects. Seeking wide interests and bold ideas!
Lab: gzahn.github.io
Apply:
forms.gle/jK7bJkyrTAUH...
Good stipend, lovely location in the woods near the beach. Field, lab, and computational projects. Seeking wide interests and bold ideas!
Lab: gzahn.github.io
Apply:
forms.gle/jK7bJkyrTAUH...