Okay, I swear, I am going to get back to work.

FInally, well after he is gone, the people remember him fondly, even putting him on the Mount Jurassic!

Where he serves a long and beloved career

And they vote him into office

Extending the story - the community really decides to embrace Godzilla

Okay, enough procrastinating, back to editing.

And finally, when Godzilla makes peace and utopia reigns:

What the same attack 200 years in the future would look like:

What is great about modern times, you can let your imagination run wild. After a short conversation with ChatGPT, I was able to envision a Godzilla attacking my neighborhood in the 1950s:

No major injuries, but so much happens within 100 ft of my window, and this is one of the oldest blocks in Denver. What it looked like 115 years ago!

I enjoy living almost directly downtown Denver, so many intriguing stories. Last night, a BMW crashed into an antique shop on my block's street corner. The fire department had to install a temporary steel girder to ensure the second hand clothes store on the second floor didn't collapse out onto 8th

Congratulations to all those receiving NSF GRFP awards and honorable mentions this year! Also to all those that applied. It appears to be an incredibly narrowed year - only 1,000 awards offered in 2025 so far. There were 2,036 in 2024.

Apply now: Eawag Postdoctoral Fellowship 📢💪

The Eawag postdoctoral fellowship is designed for outstanding early-career researchers with innovative ideas

👉 www.eawag.ch/en/about-us/...

BLAST back up! Cranky to load, likely servers are processing queued calls. But... unsettling.

PubChem back up! BLAST still down. No explanation postings as of yet.

BLAST seems to be down completely as an integrated service, hitting EBI, Uniprot, and IMG seems understrain. With about 20 years of using this service, I do not recall an unplanned outage this long.

Comptox still functional, subbing in for PubChem atm.

I was assembling a takehome exam today - seems all resources of NCBI are down, been down since this morning.

After getting Norovirus this week and being forced to sleep for almost three days straight, I think I awoke out of my "stunned" phase. Hello, deep, kindly anger - I get productive with thee! Last time we hung out, I built a daily wastewater sampling network (only 23 sites) from scratch in 60 days!

Two things: (1) heard, not shouting into a void, (2) thank you for reviewing in the first place! I bet if I was ever lucky enough to have you as a reviewer, my project would be better. (3) Overall, you are awesome. Shoot! That's 3 things! This is why we need peer review...

Wow, all verklempt now. I realized I am a better man because of the #NationalScienceFoundation. (4/4)

A highest level of thank you to the #NationalScienceFoundation for openning up to me the most enriching profession I could have ever asked for. I am without words of how much of a positive impact they have had on my life, and by extension and with much work, my students' lives. (3/4)

A thank you to all of those that work, and work extremely hard, to open these crucial doors. To creating new avenues of insights into natural phenomena and our ability to apply that hard-won knowledge into practical and meaningful solutions. (2/4)

What the #NationalScienceFoundation means to me that is often hard to communicate = They invested in a 22 year old and told me I had promise. Even 17 years later, I know I have been repaying and will continue to repay that debt and honor for the remainder of my career. (1/4)

Especially since the cost savings aren't currently focused on debt interest, but rather shrinking the federal workforce and removing incomes. I just don't understand the economic model 3/3

Genuinely curious, 2007-2009 was about a 4% contraction (roughly $1.5 trillion in today's value) - I'm out of my depth on this one, but how does this rapid siezing of the government not trigger a similar recession? 2/3

I've been thinking about statements such as "reducing government expenditures by $3 trillion". Wouldn't businesses need to immediately invest dollar-for-dollar to offset a massive GDP loss when using expenditures as the metric? We're talking about 10% of total US GDP. 1/3

There is a quote from the TV show Newsroom that I has been stuck with me: "Leona, we don't have the trust of the public anymore." "GET IT BACK!"

Perspectives for wastewater-based surveillance of houseless communities in the United States - IOPscienceSearch Perspectives for wastewater-based surveillance of houseless communities in the United States, Maybruck, Vanessa, Miller, Ana-Lilith, Mansfeldt, Cresten

Happy to share a new perpsective from my group! My PhD students are really rocking it recently.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

YouTube video by Cresten Mansfeldt Central Dogma

I got drunk tonight and created a thing: youtu.be/qslvQEVh5aM