A postdoc with a newborn just told me daycare in Boston is ~$30,000/year 🤯 Despite having dual incomes, the cost is so prohibitive they are considering just going into industry... I wish there was a mechanism similar to the NIH Diversity Supplement to help parents with new borns

Is there a one-size-fits all best taxonomic classifier for metagenomes? Read about it in our paper, out now in Microbiology Society #MGen! bit.ly/3SLJqDU And scroll on for a short audio or video summary of our key findings! Morgan Langille Institute for Comparative Genomics

Had so much fun on this trip learning about Hill's Pet Nutrition! Looking forward to our future work together!

Working with Gina was awesome! Extremely knowledgeable and always ready to solve a problem highly recommend if your looking for someone in the sequencing area

Congrats to our colleagues, Dr. Jacob Nearing, Dr. Vanessa DeClercq & Dr. Morgan Langille on their new microbiome publication!! Using saliva samples from Atlantic PATH and ATP Research, this work explores the oral #microbiome in relation to cancer. bit.ly/3LoI5zB

On my way to CSM-SCM_2023 Dalhousie (Halifax) excited to see some familiar faces and meet some new ones! Let me know if you are there tweeter friends!

It’s a great feeling when you sit there stuck on some code and then come back to it an hour later and magically solve it with a few one liners (:

📣 PhD opportunity 📣 Come discover how longterm antibiotic use shapes the lung microbiome of people with COPD & how it contributes to antimicrobial resistance transmission between microbes! more.bham.ac.uk/mrc-aim/phd-op… (1/n)

🎙️Announcing an ASSISTANT PROFESSOR search for a faculty member studying VIRUS ECOLOGY in the Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology. Join our microbiome jubilee One Health Microbiome Center and vibrant research enterprise. Please RT. ⁦ psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Acad…

Canadian Postdoc median pay in 2020 was $52,500. Of great concern: 25% of postdocs were earning <45k. [Ref CAPS-ACPP] When I started as a Postdoc in 2020, I was paid 45k. After benefits and taxes, I wouldn't have been able to afford to rent a 1BR apt in Toronto.

Looks like we might have to make a last minute trip to montreal due to the storms in #halifax does anyone have any good recommendations for things to do for a short visit?

Calling all cat lovers! We are still looking for volunteers to enroll their cats in our study on the gut microbiome and calorie-restricted dieting. With your help we hope to uncover why some cats respond to dietary change while others do not.

I will be one of the instructors for this course! Check it out if your interested in brushing up on your metagenomic data prowess

Elementary methods provide more replicable results in microbial differential abundance analysis - a preprint. Feedback welcome :-) arxiv.org/abs/2404.02691

Come join us at the HCMPH symposium on May 13th! The deadline for poster abstracts has been extended to April 22nd!

Great poster by ⁦Jacob Nearing⁩ ⁦hutlab⁩ presenting PARATHAA at #ISMB2024!

JoRondo Wonderful chat today at lunch with bright bioinformatics minds #luckyme #CSHLmbiome Jacob Nearing JoRondo Ataberk Donmez & missing Johanna von Wachsmann who had already left Such a privilege to talk about cool projects, visas complications, travels, and statistical consensus 😂

We are happy to announce that the MaAslin3 manuscript is now available on bioRxiv! Check it out and feel free to post feedback on our forums! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…