Pat Schloss
@patschloss.bsky.social
Papa to 9 microbes, mackerel snapper, shepherd, master of sucking. I want to help you learn the skills you'll need to succeed in science.
Just FYI: people are anti-vaxxers for their kids. It's also for their pets and livestock. They've gone so far off the rails. People ask us about mRNA vaccines for sheep an other animals worried something weird might happen to the meat. I wish! We can't get enough vaccines approved for meat animals
October 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Just FYI: people are anti-vaxxers for their kids. It's also for their pets and livestock. They've gone so far off the rails. People ask us about mRNA vaccines for sheep an other animals worried something weird might happen to the meat. I wish! We can't get enough vaccines approved for meat animals
We've all heard seminar speakers say (myself included), "I know this is too small for you to read, but..." This usually happens because people are repurposing panels from their papers without adjusting for the medium (1/20)
October 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We've all heard seminar speakers say (myself included), "I know this is too small for you to read, but..." This usually happens because people are repurposing panels from their papers without adjusting for the medium (1/20)
I'm editing and putting the finishing touches on a grant proposal. The though of having AI write the whole thing or even a part of it is pretty unthinkable. When you write you see what you truly know. It forces you to think and troubleshoot your logic. (1/3)
October 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I'm editing and putting the finishing touches on a grant proposal. The though of having AI write the whole thing or even a part of it is pretty unthinkable. When you write you see what you truly know. It forces you to think and troubleshoot your logic. (1/3)
My google skills are failing... Back in 2011, NCBI (started to?) close the SRA. The SRA is still with us. Anyone know of any articles from around then about how they saw the light? For those that this is news to...
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Closure of the NCBI SRA and implications for the long-term future of genomics data storage - Genome Biology
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com
August 30, 2025 at 10:06 PM
My google skills are failing... Back in 2011, NCBI (started to?) close the SRA. The SRA is still with us. Anyone know of any articles from around then about how they saw the light? For those that this is news to...
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
I know things are hard right now. But, if you are going to review proposals submitted to a special PA, please at least read the PA before reviewing proposals submitted to the PA. I mean, if it says no biological questions allowed, don't ding me for not proposing to answer biological questions.
August 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I know things are hard right now. But, if you are going to review proposals submitted to a special PA, please at least read the PA before reviewing proposals submitted to the PA. I mean, if it says no biological questions allowed, don't ding me for not proposing to answer biological questions.
I'm offering a new workshop that's part instruction, part group coaching. This program will focus on the design principles we should consider when generating visuals. There won't be any coding so don't let that hold you back shop.riffomonas.org/products/tra...
Transform your data visualizations in 5 weeks - no judgement, no code
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July 31, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I'm offering a new workshop that's part instruction, part group coaching. This program will focus on the design principles we should consider when generating visuals. There won't be any coding so don't let that hold you back shop.riffomonas.org/products/tra...
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Sharing the most significant work from my group, led by the @evolvingstem.bsky.social team.
Come for the discoveries of how Pseudomonas adapts in biofilms, stay for the story of how they were discovered by thousands of young scientists in grades 9-12. 🧪🧫🧬🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Come for the discoveries of how Pseudomonas adapts in biofilms, stay for the story of how they were discovered by thousands of young scientists in grades 9-12. 🧪🧫🧬🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Student-led experimental evolution reveals novel biofilm regulatory networks underlying adaptations to multiple niches
We established a research-education partnership known as EvolvingSTEM that provides secondary school students the opportunity to conduct authentic research experiments centered on microbial evolution....
www.biorxiv.org
June 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Sharing the most significant work from my group, led by the @evolvingstem.bsky.social team.
Come for the discoveries of how Pseudomonas adapts in biofilms, stay for the story of how they were discovered by thousands of young scientists in grades 9-12. 🧪🧫🧬🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Come for the discoveries of how Pseudomonas adapts in biofilms, stay for the story of how they were discovered by thousands of young scientists in grades 9-12. 🧪🧫🧬🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
If you've been putting off learning how to make plots in R with ggplot2, then have I got what you need! I'll be teaching a zoom-based workshop on just that subject. This will be a one day all ggplot2 workshop on May 9th shop.riffomonas.org/products/int...
Introduction to ggplot2 and the grammar of graphics
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April 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
If you've been putting off learning how to make plots in R with ggplot2, then have I got what you need! I'll be teaching a zoom-based workshop on just that subject. This will be a one day all ggplot2 workshop on May 9th shop.riffomonas.org/products/int...
If the folks at @umich.edu need help with web design I'm sure the designers of harvard.edu would be happy to help
Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
harvard.edu
April 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
If the folks at @umich.edu need help with web design I'm sure the designers of harvard.edu would be happy to help
Just to be clear... there are two editorials. I appreciate the love for the other one on supporting science, but I don't want this one on diversifying science to get lost
My editorial simultaneously published in all of @asm.org's journals addresses the ongoing effort by the administration to halt efforts to diversify science. It should be obvious from ASM Journals' efforts over the years, but we aren't fans journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
A call for healing and unity | mBio
Executive orders signed since 20 January 2025 aim to end programs intended to diversify the scientific workforce via equitable and inclusive practices and processes; cut federal funding for research and innovation; and stifle scientific communications. They represent a stunning reversal of policies that have been the bedrock of the U.S. scientific research enterprise and its leadership in the world, and therefore not surprisingly they have been met with a number of legal challenges. Some of the executive orders have been blocked by temporary restraining orders, and others are pending judicial review.
journals.asm.org
February 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Just to be clear... there are two editorials. I appreciate the love for the other one on supporting science, but I don't want this one on diversifying science to get lost
My editorial simultaneously published in all of @asm.org's journals addresses the ongoing effort by the administration to halt efforts to diversify science. It should be obvious from ASM Journals' efforts over the years, but we aren't fans journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
A call for healing and unity | mBio
Executive orders signed since 20 January 2025 aim to end programs intended to diversify the scientific workforce via equitable and inclusive practices and processes; cut federal funding for research and innovation; and stifle scientific communications. They represent a stunning reversal of policies that have been the bedrock of the U.S. scientific research enterprise and its leadership in the world, and therefore not surprisingly they have been met with a number of legal challenges. Some of the executive orders have been blocked by temporary restraining orders, and others are pending judicial review.
journals.asm.org
February 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
My editorial simultaneously published in all of @asm.org's journals addresses the ongoing effort by the administration to halt efforts to diversify science. It should be obvious from ASM Journals' efforts over the years, but we aren't fans journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
The @asm.org Journals Committee has published a response to the recent disruptions in science in the US... A call for the United States to continue investing in science | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
A call for the United States to continue investing in science | mBio
The U.S. life science research mission is critical not only to human health and understanding
the natural world but also to agriculture and food production, technological innovations,
socioeconomic pr...
journals.asm.org
February 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The @asm.org Journals Committee has published a response to the recent disruptions in science in the US... A call for the United States to continue investing in science | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Hey folks! Over the past few weeks I've been posting videos recreating several of W.E.B. DuBois's "data portraits" from the 1900 Paris Exhibition in #Rstats using only {tidyverse} and {showtext}. I have 4 up now and there will be 4 more over the next 2 weeks www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
DuBois recreations - YouTube
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February 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Hey folks! Over the past few weeks I've been posting videos recreating several of W.E.B. DuBois's "data portraits" from the 1900 Paris Exhibition in #Rstats using only {tidyverse} and {showtext}. I have 4 up now and there will be 4 more over the next 2 weeks www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Reposted by Pat Schloss
"Make America Great Again. Make America Healthy Again. These were promises made by candidate Trump in his campaign to be president of the United States of America. What in this campaign platform should have prepared us for a war on discovery?"
Guest column: “The war on discovery” is antithesis of campaign pledge to make America great again - Wisconsin Technology Council
By Jo Handelsman MADISON, Wis. – Make America Great Again. Make America Healthy Again. These were promises made by candidate Trump in his campaign to be president of the United States of America. What...
wisconsintechnologycouncil.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"Make America Great Again. Make America Healthy Again. These were promises made by candidate Trump in his campaign to be president of the United States of America. What in this campaign platform should have prepared us for a war on discovery?"
Happy to share that a manuscript describing my {phylotypr} R package has been released on Microbiology Resource Announcements. {phylotypr} is an R-based implementation of the naive Bayesian classifier, aka the RDP classifier: journals.asm.org/doi/epdf/10....
phylotypr: an R package for classifying DNA sequences
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journals.asm.org
January 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Happy to share that a manuscript describing my {phylotypr} R package has been released on Microbiology Resource Announcements. {phylotypr} is an R-based implementation of the naive Bayesian classifier, aka the RDP classifier: journals.asm.org/doi/epdf/10....
My first thing on this platform (what are the things called?).
What's your favorite plot that you've seen recently?
What's the most 🔥💩 plot that you've seen recently?
I'm getting headaches looking through 42 part figures that are full of over bolded prism plots, 58 by 287 heat maps with attached dendrograms, or balls of yarn attempting to show interactions
What's the most 🔥💩 plot that you've seen recently?
I'm getting headaches looking through 42 part figures that are full of over bolded prism plots, 58 by 287 heat maps with attached dendrograms, or balls of yarn attempting to show interactions
January 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
My first thing on this platform (what are the things called?).
What's your favorite plot that you've seen recently?
What's the most 🔥💩 plot that you've seen recently?
I'm getting headaches looking through 42 part figures that are full of over bolded prism plots, 58 by 287 heat maps with attached dendrograms, or balls of yarn attempting to show interactions
What's the most 🔥💩 plot that you've seen recently?
I'm getting headaches looking through 42 part figures that are full of over bolded prism plots, 58 by 287 heat maps with attached dendrograms, or balls of yarn attempting to show interactions
January 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
What's your favorite plot that you've seen recently?
What's the most 🔥💩 plot that you've seen recently?
I'm getting headaches looking through 42 part figures that are full of over bolded prism plots, 58 by 287 heat maps with attached dendrograms, or balls of yarn attempting to show interactions
What's the most 🔥💩 plot that you've seen recently?
I'm getting headaches looking through 42 part figures that are full of over bolded prism plots, 58 by 287 heat maps with attached dendrograms, or balls of yarn attempting to show interactions