How is 𝘗. 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘶𝘮 SO GOOD at evading host immunity? In our new preprint, we use ultra-long Oxford Nanopore reads to discover extra-chromosomal alleles of antigenic 𝘷𝘢𝘳 genes in clonal malaria parasites, Bernard Kim👑 Egan Lab Dmitri Petrov bit.ly/3Hy1nAD

📣 📣 📣 The shock of my day: Over the last few days, I measured power consumption of our -80°C freezers CECAD Cologne . ~13 kWh per day each 🤔So, one freezer consumes much more electricity per year than my family and me🙁

Flying back from grc.org/molecular-mech… - incredibly grateful and reenergized. One of the best conferences in terms of science, intellectual engagement, and conversation I ever attended. Thank you to all but especially to Olivier Tenaillon and Judith Berman 💔 for organizing!

With Hannah Gellert, Sam Church, Anton Suvorov, Dmitri Petrov and others, we use low-input (down to 30ng), single-insect Oxford Nanopore sequencing to help do 184 new genomes and address the near absence of genomic data for drosophilid species that cannot be cultured in the lab.

Very happy and proud about this project, where we are and where we are headed. Truly amazing work by Bernard Kim and everyone involved. Huge kudos to all! 1/n

I am happy to share our new preprint, "Bayesian inference of relative fitness on high-throughput pooled competition assays," with Madhav Mani and Dmitri Petrov! A short 🧵... biorxiv.org/content/10.110… (option to read it as HTML here: mrazomej.github.io/bayesian_fitne…)

I disagree with this decision. Mike’s tweet was in poor taste and was terribly hurtful to many people. It was not hate speech, however, and is within the bounds on normal discourse. Elife’s decision is inappropriate, will chill speech, and is part of the cancel culture I abhor.

U.S. meat consumption is going up -- that fact is indisputable. But while you might imagine that all Americans are consistently eating more meat every year, the truth behind this simple graph is much more complicated. Here are ten charts that explain how we eat meat.🧵

While you no longer can request a talk or a poster, you can still register to attend! The registration closes on Nov. 25. The schedule of talks and posters and the website is coming soon. Happy Thanksgiving!

This is not a milestone for animal welfare. EU leaders, led by Stella Kyriakides and Maroš Šefčovič🇪🇺, promised to overhaul the bloc's farm animal welfare rules. Their scientific panel agreed. So did >80% of Europeans. Then industry lobbied them ... and we're left with this.

Meat is killing the planet. Not only is this fact unanimously understood by scientists working on climate and environment, but it is supported by hundreds and hundreds of studies (one came out today in fact!) Here, I break down a small handful of the most important ones. 👇🏼🧵

I feel like we’re not talking enough about the fact that the Alabama Supreme Court quoted the Bible and cited the “wrath of God” as their legal reasoning for why frozen embryos are in fact “children.”