Thing 2:
96-well plate washer

Cost:
$2 in plastic
$15 for a pack of 14 gauge cannulae (not pictured)
20 minutes of my time

Commercial cost: $8000

We were able to show through multi-layer network modeling that strong subcommunities of generalists helped bouy vulnerable specialists from changing conditions, and possibly also help provide nitrogen sources for them.

We took a "leave-no-stone-unturned" approach: looking at organisms, functions, and community organization across multiple levels of granularity to prove to ourselves, beyond a doubt that the communities not only demonstrated resistance to change, but also hints of resilience.

Stordalen Mire is underlain by permafrost which thawing rapidly, shifting the landscape from carbon-sink to potential carbon source. This carbon release is mediated by microbes that inhabit the three "canonical" habitats in the Mire that form a permafrost thaw gradient (Palsas -> Bogs -> Fens).

I (and most of the first-authors) came late to the game on this data - we stand on the shoulders of 10+ years of giants. Each year a field team from @emerge-bii.bsky.social has painstakingly collected 'omics, biogeochemical, and carbon flux data from Stordalen Mire in Sweden.

In this picture courtesy of Maxar everything red is unburnt. The neighborhood I lived in? Pretty much dead center in this photo.

The neighborhood I grew up is destroyed, every house on the street but one looks like this:

How do you spend your Sunday night laundry time? This week, I made a @Toolik-themed palette for R, which @paxrodana modified to make colorblind friendly. See it featured soon in @FMontanoLopez , @paxrodana, and @science_chump papers!

Exciting start to this week's #ACSMTG in St. Louis! Luckily I was up already and working on my talk. (Everyone is fine!) I got to meet some fellow attendees staying in the same building. #networking??