Jordan Barrows, PhD

SwearSky Bluesky profanity, as it happens

The Bluesky Swear Word Visualizer is absolutely amazing (and is that Matt Berry's voice?)

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Super proud of BCMB PhD candidate @dezmondcole.bsky.social who received his white coat yesterday at the JHSOM graduate coating ceremony. 🤩🥳🥼

Which part? Nothing in the post mentioned funding Hamas.

This is awkward… www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-ne...

Or we could just not send aid to ANY terrorist/genocidal groups. Not sure why sending aid to Hamas is the only other option in your mind.

Revising isn’t the same as editing – and that’s much more important than it sounds The other day, I was pounding the keyboard as I drafted what will become Chapter 5 of my (coauthored) new book, Helping Students Write. As often happens to me, I hesitated over word choice: I typed ��...

New blog post: on the distinction between revision and (line) editing - which sounds trivial but gets us in trouble all the time! scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2023/10/17/r...

My favorite price in that range is definitely $100. 😉 But to answer your actual question, I’ve gotta go with a shaking incubator because it makes my cells happy. 🥰

As far as I know, no. At least not in an easily Google-able way.

Does anyone have recommendations for reliable Himar1-based transposon systems for performing transposon mutagenesis in new bugs? Or considerations when choosing/designing a system? There seem to be a lot of good options, so I’m just trying to narrow it down.