You haven’t really written an academic paper until you’ve cut the paragraph you built the entire paper around.

SNP calling, haplotype phasing and allele-specific analysis with long RNA-seq reads www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪
longcallR: github.com/huangnengCSU...
Nextflow workflow: github.com/huangnengCSU...

Personally, I welcome our new abyssal overlords.....

With its UFO-like display, the cuttlefish may look like it’s trying to get attention—but its intent is anything but.

The undulating black stripes confuse prey, making the creatures all but invisible to crabs and other victims: scim.ag/3FVL43z

I have a new paper about these cute little guys (and some girls)!

White-necked Jacobins are interesting because all males and some but not all (!) females are brightly colored. The scientific question is why some but not all females?

(Img credit: Kate & Sam)

So - it happened. I was so excited to have found what was supposed to be my amazing long-term position and promising career pivot from bench to communications at the NIH. Unfortunately, I got the letter that so many others did. Several days of introspection, however, have yielded an idea: 1/n

Our Big Fantastic Virus Database (BFVD) is now published NAR! It contains protein structure predictions of major viral clades, enhanced by petabase-scale homology search and it's explorable on the web.
🌐 bfvd.foldseek.com
💾 bfvd.steineggerlab.workers.dev
📄 academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

News on the Zorya defense system: anchors to the peptidoglycan and detects membrane disruption by phage. It has a flagella-motor-like device that rotates once activated. So cool! I've been waiting for insights on Zorya since we first described it 5 years ago. Congrats Tylor&co!

t.co/WFvS9FePB5

The owl is back. In the past week, we've gotten two hat reports and a head scratch report. Be careful out there, Carrboro.

A real hoo-dunnit: An owl is stealing people’s hats in Carrboro triangleblogblog.com/2023/11/08/a...

Hi everyone! I haven't introduced myself yet, so I guess it's time. I'm Meg, a scientist fascinated by #virology, #scicomm, and science policy. I also like to run very far through the mountains, knit, and hang out with my cat Pip (obligatory photo below). Happy to be here!

Now that half of SciTwitter is here…

Come be my colleague!

The Dept of Cell Biology @EmoryUniversity is recruiting a developmental cell biologist.

🔬Do you study mechanisms of development using cell biological (and other) approaches? Join us!🔬

TY for RT!

jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/664684/t...

#H5N1 #birdflu has been found in a pig in Oregon, #USDA and the state's Ag Dept announced today. The significance of this is unclear at this point, but in general, H5 in pigs would not be a good thing. www.statnews.com/2024/10/30/h...