Christy Grettenberger
@cgberger.bsky.social
Trying to put together microbes, ecology, and geochemistry as part of the world's coolest puzzle. Assistant professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Toxicology at UC Davis.
Oh no! Won't someone please think about the paperwork!??!
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November 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Oh no! Won't someone please think about the paperwork!??!
oof, yeah (or write permits for NFS lands probably)
November 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
oof, yeah (or write permits for NFS lands probably)
We just submitted a manuscript for review with a "we can't get our data approved in NCBI so please believe us that we will upload it" apology note in the methods section. 😐 (which is so minor compared to what other folks are dealing with)
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
We just submitted a manuscript for review with a "we can't get our data approved in NCBI so please believe us that we will upload it" apology note in the methods section. 😐 (which is so minor compared to what other folks are dealing with)
I love all of this but especially that you've made anvi'o databases (I may or may not have been contemplating how long it would take me to do that for the GTDB database this week).
June 11, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I love all of this but especially that you've made anvi'o databases (I may or may not have been contemplating how long it would take me to do that for the GTDB database this week).
oooh, I like this! I like MRA too (its such a smooth publication process). @titus.idyll.org might also have some ideas on where else folks publish this type of work.
May 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
oooh, I like this! I like MRA too (its such a smooth publication process). @titus.idyll.org might also have some ideas on where else folks publish this type of work.
oooh this will be a fun one to add to my "living or not living" lecture in geobiology
May 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
oooh this will be a fun one to add to my "living or not living" lecture in geobiology
NPR also had a nice piece on it this morning. I think this is the "print" version of that www.npr.org/2025/01/28/n...
Trump memo to halt federal funds triggers confusion and constitutional questions
Washington is scrambling to interpret a new Trump administration memo that appears to halt funding for many programs. The impact of the short memo, released Monday, is causing widespread confusion.
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January 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
NPR also had a nice piece on it this morning. I think this is the "print" version of that www.npr.org/2025/01/28/n...
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm... this article may be helpful (in the middle to bottom). As I understand it, this is proposal review and outgoing awards (I *assume* if the money is in hand already, you can continue you work, but that is an assumption on my part)
NSF cancels grant reviews to comply with Trump EOs
Scheduled review panels for National Science Foundation grant applications are on pause until Feb. 1. Some researchers believe the pause may be connected to the new administration’s anti-DEI crusade.
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January 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm... this article may be helpful (in the middle to bottom). As I understand it, this is proposal review and outgoing awards (I *assume* if the money is in hand already, you can continue you work, but that is an assumption on my part)
SeqCenter is the place in Pittsburgh - I've had really good luck with them and find them to be pretty affordable especially for the turn-around time (2 weeks) www.seqcenter.com/service/illu...
Illumina Whole Genome Sequencing - SeqCenter, LLC
The Illumina WGS pipeline is a common workhorse for many downstream applications and is our most popular service. Keeping scaling in mind, our packages are sized per sample and state the minimum total...
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November 8, 2024 at 5:59 PM
SeqCenter is the place in Pittsburgh - I've had really good luck with them and find them to be pretty affordable especially for the turn-around time (2 weeks) www.seqcenter.com/service/illu...
I think Writing Science in Plain English by Anne Green has a decent chapter or two on this. I can't find my copy now but the very last of these slides from the Dessimoz lab suggests that my memory is at least somewhat true (lab.dessimoz.org/teaching/rqb...)
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November 6, 2024 at 7:50 PM
I think Writing Science in Plain English by Anne Green has a decent chapter or two on this. I can't find my copy now but the very last of these slides from the Dessimoz lab suggests that my memory is at least somewhat true (lab.dessimoz.org/teaching/rqb...)
You should get a text when yours is received and counted! (though maybe If you mail it later in the cycle it may be after the race is "called" - especially in CA - but it still counts)
October 31, 2024 at 11:31 PM
You should get a text when yours is received and counted! (though maybe If you mail it later in the cycle it may be after the race is "called" - especially in CA - but it still counts)
subsurface microbial dark matter folks must feel especially called out.
(though as far as I know, no parasitoid wasps down there)
(though as far as I know, no parasitoid wasps down there)
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September 20, 2024 at 6:12 PM
subsurface microbial dark matter folks must feel especially called out.
(though as far as I know, no parasitoid wasps down there)
(though as far as I know, no parasitoid wasps down there)
This is such a cool story! Congrats on the preprint!! 🎉
September 9, 2024 at 8:47 PM
This is such a cool story! Congrats on the preprint!! 🎉
It's a good thing when your trainees say that "it's the healthiest lab environment I've ever been in" (and yes, one of them told me that).
September 9, 2024 at 8:45 PM
It's a good thing when your trainees say that "it's the healthiest lab environment I've ever been in" (and yes, one of them told me that).
Woohoo! So happy that it is good news for you!
August 13, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Woohoo! So happy that it is good news for you!