Nathan Clark

Looking forward to presenting but also learning from others!

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Excited to share this work, out today in MBE! In polar fishes, we found that antifreeze protein genes expanded in copy number at low temperatures and contracted in the deep sea, highlighting a role of depth and pressure in AFP evolution.

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When the justice system and the rule of law is being called "terrorism". I'm certainly terrified!

Exactly. Resist!

Our Annual Reviews article is finally out!
We aimed to capture a lot of comparative genomics in mammals, while pointing out challenges and new directions.
With @ekopania.bsky.social

a black laptop is floating in the air with clouds behind it ALT: a black laptop is floating in the air with clouds behind it

When my out-of-office email hits your inbox and you have one set too, why doesn’t it result in an infinite out-of-office emailing loop?

"letters necessary to demonstrate the support of consortium participants and collaborators such as Senior/Key Personnel and Other Significant Contributors included in the grant application"
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Grant writers of the NIH kind:
Did you know the grant guide asks for Letters of Support from *all* senior personnel, Co-Is, etc...?
I have never done this! Have you? I had no idea, just assumed they're funded on the grant and helped write it, so why?

Congrats, Jacob!
(also, is it wrong to italicize latin phrases?)

Reupping support for journalism outlets not beholden to corporate interests. When everything is a commodity, it's worth asking where your news is coming from.

What are your favorites? Mine are @apnews.com @propublica.org @theguardian.com @pbsnews.org @motherjones.com @haaretzcom.bsky.social

@ekopania.bsky.social

Congrats to lab postdoc, Dr. Emily Kopania, on being selected for a Catalyst Award from the Center for Evolutionary Biology and Medicine! Her project will develop a Virtual Reality experience demonstrating to students how other species see the world through their differing visual systems.

It's ridiculous and sad

There's this great showdown between Gothic and Brutalism a block from work at Pitt.
Who will win?

A new study, with Pitt research, reveals surprising adaptations of high-altitude mammals Scientific discoveries don’t always follow the expected path, Pitt associate professor and genomic researcher Nathan Clark points out.

New write up of our high altitude study by Dr. Allie Graham
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This Is What—and Who—We’re Losing in RFK’s Purge The story of one scientist, a career in public health, and the crisis at the CDC.

NEW: "Long the envy of the world…the CDC finds itself no longer able to advocate for what its scientists believe the best available research shows….The agency has since January shed literally centuries' worth of collective experience through a combination of firings, retirements, and resignations."

Lab purchase for equipment made in Canada only.

Guess who’s paying the tariff?

Hint: it’s not the company!

If every reporter and official just did this, maybe we’d be in a better place, but they give him slack for the clicks and ratings. Media is addicted to him

Welcome to the Burgh!

Damn. What’s going on there? I hope that comes through soon

Competing. it’s just the 3rd year installment of an award that competed, well 3 years ago, but it’s still a NOA. :-)
This year was supposed to start July 1st, so it’s not bad all things considered

NOA has arrived. Research continues in our little corner of the scientific world.
Thanks to those NIH officials working hard to move things forward. We appreciate you.

railroad trestle in the Burgh

A hearty welcome to Scientific American on Bsky!

BEHOLD! One of Earth's greatest lineages of life: the lil wiggle arm guys, Meteora.

These single-celled critters, originally found in deep-sea sediments, are SO DIFFERENT from other lifeforms on Earth that they're likely in their own kingdom (as in, the Animal Kingdom, the Plant Kingdom etc). 🧪🌿

Machine learning reveals genes impacting oxidative stress resistance across yeasts - Nature Communications Yeasts are exposed to oxidative stress during routine metabolism, bioproduction, and interactions with other organisms. Here, the authors use a machine learning classifier to identify genes that are p...

In another fruitful collaboration with the @rokaslab.bsky.social, Hittinger Lab members @katarina-aranguiz.bsky.social and @linder-surprise.bsky.social , et al. established a ML framework to identify gene families in the yeast subphylum Saccharomycotina whose copy numbers predicted ROS resistance.

Right. Imagine the race to the moon, but instead we landed astronauts on a plateau in Arizona with manmade craters.

This is Colossal. As much as it hurts to say so.