We are still accepting abstracts for our upcoming Symposium on May 13th. TWO posters will be selected to give short talks!

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Need help planning your microbiome study, or processing, analyzing, or visualizing your data? The Harvard Chan Microbiome Analysis Core can help with all stages of a project! hcmph.sph.harvard.edu/hcmac/services/.

Wouldn't it be fabulous if you could perform a microbiome research study without worrying about sample collection, aliquoting, and storage? The Harvard Chan Microbiome Collection Core can help! hcmph.sph.harvard.edu/hcmcc/services/.

The 3rd Edition of Think Python is available now at allendowney.github.io/ThinkPython The print edition is available for preorder, expected to ship in June. What's new? Jupyter notebooks, turtle graphics, doctest, unittest, regular expressions, and a new, full color, parrot on the cover!

Five advantages to software that runs entirely on your computer: 1. It doesn’t track you. 2. It doesn’t show you ads. 3. It doesn’t require 2FA. 4. It doesn’t change unless you change it. 5. It doesn’t stop working if your internet connection stops working.

The lab had a great time playing bocce ball at this years Harvard Biostatistics picnic!

Don't just catch A shark, catch THE SHARK! Introducing LEGO Ideas 21350 Jaws 🦈

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We don't think you'll need a bigger boat, this one looks the perfect size! #LEGOIdeas

How it started. How it's going.  Ten years later, and it's still a good look! IWillVote.com

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There’s an old joke: Why can’t programmers tell Halloween from Christmas? Because oct 31 = dec 25. More people got the joke when it was more common to have to convert between octal and decimal.

This year I invested in pumpkins. They’ve been going up the whole month of October.

🧵one of my favorite tools: Foldseek (1/7) We have traced the evo of species by comparing their proteins. We use models that assign a %similarity between seqs and confidently infer that 2 proteins are homologous if share ≥25% SeqSim. But what happens when it’s less than this?

🥁 New Publication Alert: Our manuscript on the ☕️ and #microbiome relationship is out in Nature Microbiology: nature.com/articles/s4156… 1/12

OUT NOW: Profiling lateral gene transfer events in the human microbiome using WAAFLE @longnguyen07 Eric Franzosa hutlab Clinical & Translational Epidemiology Unit - MGH Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health nature.com/articles/s4156…