Justin Meyer

Are they back to the same middle columns in the same incubator?

With Jeff Barrick's return to #MSU, the #LTEE was restarted today after a short pause (frozen) for the move.

Today was daily transfer 12,301. With ~6.6 generations per day, they are now at ~82,007 generations.

100,000 generations is fast approaching! Are you ready, #Spartans?

@msumgi.bsky.social

SASSY San Diego Science Podcast · SAn Diego Science Storytelling, Ya’ll is a live, first-person storytelling event featuring local San Diego scientists and science enthusiasts.

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@pivotpod.bsky.social @karaswisher.bsky.social fun fact, the three groundbreaking technologies listed in a recent episode - CRISPR, mRNA vaccines, GLP1s - women scientists had a major role in their development.

Thanks, Fab! I really appreciate it. I missed the GRC this year, but hope to cross paths soon.

SASSY San Diego SAn Diego Science Storytelling, Ya’ll is a live, first-person storytelling event featuring local San Diego scientists and science enthusiasts.

Thanks ‪@analog-ashley.bsky.social‬, Margot Wohl, and Nick Deason for running SASSY, a science story-telling platform, and for all the help editing! Find more stories here: www.buzzsprout.com/2513792

Cichlids All The Way Down - SASSY San Diego Justin was just hitting his stride. Excelling in classes, conducting exciting research. But then, everything stopped. Justin's story is about how roadblocks can sometimes turn in to opportunities to a...

Listen to my science origin story, 13 minutes and includes my recovery from being blind, paralyzed, and unable to breathe to running a lab, and a message about these perilous times for science. Some LGBTQIA+ and first gen uni representation too. www.buzzsprout.com/2513792/epis...

~1.5 years ago blood donation was opened up to gay men, and today I've reached the one gallon donation threshold! Still grateful for the change in the discriminatory rule. ***Consider donating if you're able to***

Evolution ( @aburmeister.bsky.social UWM, Tapan Goel, UMD, @justinmeyer.bsky.social)

Ecology (Sarah Preheim JHU, @beckettstephen.bsky.social UMD, Daniel Muratore SFI, and Paul Fremont UMD)

w/ @mariandm.bsky.social as our lead lab instructor.

A colleague and her brilliant daughter at the #nokings SD March. While these two march often, I’m encouraged by the number of new protestors in my network. Welcome!!

If randomly kidnapping people (including first grade kids) from places of work, education, worship, and immigration appointments and disappearing them without due process to foreign prisons does not meet your definition of fascism, then your definition of fascism is wrong.

Featuring stories by myself, @justinmeyer.bsky.social, two PhD students from @scrippsocean.bsky.social, and more!

Happy Pride from my home town!

What marker delineates when AI is sentient? When AI questions if humans - with their wetware - could actually be sentient.

New faculty, do not give up the things that make you happy and healthy. What was I thinking?!?!?

I've started running routinely again, an activity I gave up 10 years ago when I started my faculty position. I am nowhere near as good as I used to be, so I am not setting any personal records. But, I am setting personal middle aged records for speed and distance. Is there a term for this?

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ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS

We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.

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NSF Director stepping down.

Email to staff on a Thursday. This doesn’t bode well for the typical Friday news dump.

Efficient and robust search of microbial genomes via phylogenetic compression Nature Methods - Phylogenetic compression achieves performant and lossless compression of massive collections of microbial genomes, facilitating fast BLAST-like search and versatile alignment tasks.

Our latest paper, in which @brinda.eu (along with @zaminiqbal.bsky.social and others) introduces phylogenetic compression for storage and search of enormous microbial genome libraries, was published today in @naturemethods.bsky.social:

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US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.

Find out how your community may be impacted.

Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org

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Exclusive: Science and tech agency cuts spark industry pushback As Trump administration cuts hit research, some fear American leadership in computer science is at risk.

"I want parents who have children to know that opportunities for your kids, if they aspire to be scientists or engineers, are being stripped away right in front of you," the NSF employee told Axios.

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Nope, it’s just cold and rainy in SoCal - ours gives up on life too during these rare days.

CRISPRi-ART enables functional genomics of diverse bacteriophages using RNA-binding dCas13d - Nature Microbiology Leveraging RNA-targeting dCas13d enables selective interference with phage protein translation and facilitates measurement of phage gene fitness at a transcriptome-wide scale.

It is finally out!

Muntathar Al-Shimary, @doudna-lab.bsky.social , @cresslab.bsky.social and I present a gene knockdown tool that works in diverse bacteriophages: CRISPRi through antisense RNA Targeting (CRISPRi-ART)!

Check it out @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy 37th birthday to @relenski.bsky.social long term evolution experiment. Here's a beautiful summary: the-ltee.org/history/

Join us this summer for a week of learning about the interdisciplinary study of bacteria-phage interactions.

Summer School, Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales U of Maryland, College Park, June 23-27, 2025

A small moment of science in the world of the very small... announcing calls for applications from MS + PhD students + postdocs for a Summer School on

Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales
U of Maryland, College Park, June 23-27, 2025

Apply by 3/21/25:

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Welcome to the Incoming Freshman Class of Project 2025 (Science and Research Options Now Limited or Unavailable) If successful, ongoing efforts to slash federally-funded research mean parents should expect to pay more even as students have fewer options for career-relevant training.

Educational opportunities for college students across the country are about to tank. A well written article for parents of college students by @joshuasweitz.bsky.social

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Because things are so f@$ked there for science, or because the US could really use one less asshole?

Concepts in Evolutionary Biology Evolutionary Biology has undergone several transitions from the publication of "On the Origin of Species" through holistic gradualism, reconciliation with genetics and the emergence of population gene...

Looking forward to this! Important question, should I pack hot sauce? I know @luiszaman.bsky.social wouldn’t, but I’m thinking I may need my own supply in Germany! workshops.evolbio.mpg.de/event/119/

Clear and great writing on the value of the NSF! By @joshuasweitz.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/joshuasw...