Mentorship is not just about showing how to do science, but how to do it while being inclusive and respectful of others. Mentors should lead by examples so that mentees may learn the many ways to be generous, especially to junior colleagues. We all benefit by elevating others.

The Polz lab is looking for a postdoc to work on bacteria-phage interactions: univis.univie.ac.at/ausschreibungs… Please feel free to get in touch if your background and interests are a good match, or please share with others.

Thanks The New York Times! Why didn't this occur to me earlier? Now I just have to figure out how to fit an office shed in my my apartment. #newsforrichpeople nytimes.com/2020/07/14/rea…

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I have a joke about academia, but I think nobody will laugh at my joke.

iTOL will require a subscription starting October. itol.embl.de/infoReg.cgi?f=p

Needed to retrieve info from the Pseudomonas Genome DB for more than a few genes. Couldn't find a tool that would let me get that info programmatically, so I wrote a thing. github.com/juliofdiaz/pgd… Feedback would be much appreciated!

Interested in AMR ? Don't miss this new pre-print straight out of my PhD research with Craig MacLean and Jose A Escudero on the coolest of mobile genetic elements: the integron ! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… A quick thread on these new results, and why integrons are so cool, in gifs! 👇[1/n]

Integrons are so cool! Please read this preprint by an AMAZING labmate.

Before PCA (i.e SVD), I preprocess with three principals: 1) sqrt any features that are counts. log any feature with a heavy tail. 2) localization is noise. *regularize* when you normalize. 3) and my favorite rule, the Cheshire cat rule explanations in 🧵...

I was just told by Amazon.co.uk that amazon lockers are only to royal costumers. The DUKE OF SUSSEX PRINCE HARRY can I use your amazon account?

MY PAPER on Science Magazine! SO PROUD 💚🖤! "These results add to a small yet growing body of work providing concrete evidence of how language barriers affect nonnative English speakers and hinder diversity in science" Thanks Rodrigo Pérez Ortega sciencemag.org/careers/2020/1…

Wonder Woman (2021)

How to define bacterial species. Volume I

Bioconductor 3.13 is released! Thanks to the core Bioconductor team in getting the release out👍 Below a 🧵 highlighting just a couple of the new packages that I've been following:

Turns out I gotta do a food tour before I pick up the fasta file I converted from genebank. Google you know me too well. #hungrybioinformatician