Joe Weaver

May the typographers who make fonts with I and 1 indistinguishable and the people who select those fonts as appropriate for a journal have an unpleasant night.

Those who make ρ and p too similar, consider yourself on notice.

I get to do the "I'm pleased to announce" thing!

Durham University has offered me the the position of Assistant Professor in Theoretical Biological (Microbiome) Modelling with the SMART soils lab to help create healthier soils across many environments and spanning multiple disciplines!

This is an indication of learning and progressing. You're doing great!

Even if your code is "messy". Even if it doesn't run fully. Making it easily available helps understanding the nitty gritty details that don't even get put into SI.

Gettin' REAL tired of bubble charts using diameter to indicate p-value when the chart ends up being panel Q of a 3x3 inch figure.

In my current project, I'm tracking my lower and upper task estimates and qualitative 'uncertainty'. I've been tackling the uncertain tasks as soon as possible and updating the upper/lower bounds. It's very fun watching the overall project upper/lower ETA converge.

Did I just become a Bayesian?

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Me when one of 'my' proteins shows up in Thobela's keynote and #MEWE11:

Kind of blown away that *98%* of U.S. deaths from waterborne illness are specifically from biofilm associated pathogens. #MEWE11

Every time I fly west. "Gosh is this what being a morning person is like? I hate* morning people."

* Am deeply envious of.

#MEWE11

Decades of flying and probably dozens of times through ATL. I think this may be the first time I've ever seen the outside of the airport. #MEWE11

The reality is setting in, getting bags packed for #MEWE11

I saw a version of this talk at the Microbiology Society earlier this year. It was fascinating stuff!

Just me rewriting to remove em dashes in my proposal to avoid the latest generative AI witch hunt.

Keeping my 'moreovers' though.

Lots of writers I admire have advice which boils down to 'be consistent, don't wait until the mood hits you'.

I have had great success using the 'task inertia' of my personality. Not in the mood to write? OK, just set a timer and make an honest effort for 15 mins. An hour later...still writing.

We'll also go over nuts and bolts stuff, like how to get in contact with our colleagues in middle and high schools (hint: talk to them early!), how to bridge the languages secondary and higher education, how to navigate ethics approval, and how to disseminate the lesson plans widely.

At the end of the workshop you'll have at least one 'nugget' for the core of a lesson plan or outreach activity, aligned to educational standards, which uses your real-world research as an engagement hook.

We'll support interested participants in continuing to flesh things out to a full activity.

Did you ever want to use your research to hook secondary school students on microbes and poo water?
I'm running a workshop at the upcoming #MeWe11 conference on finding relevant curriculum standards, combine them with your research to create learning objectives, and develop content around all that.

Yet again, the email I'd been putting off all day took about 5 mins and had zero negative consequences.

One of those cool little conference things. I was chatting with Marcel during my poster session, but hadn’t caught his name. Now I know why he seemed to get excited when I mentioned I was getting interested in bacterial Interactions with AMF!

#Microbio25

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And consulting with bioethicists to make sure that's ok? #Microbio25

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Antibiotics by synthesizing proteins from extinct giant ground sloths?! #Microbio25

Emily Radford, "Model strains are not always the best [at the trait you want to use]", music to my enviro. micro. Ears! #Microbio25

Almost Impossible urge to cluster rising...
#Microbio25

He explained it very clearly; coatings like that are outside my experience but I could follow along easily. Great talk.

That’d be great. I’ll be wandering around the poster session this afternoon - grey jumper, tall white guy with a beard (if that narrows it down).

I will not post spoilers Emily Stevenson’s results, but I will applaud her use of animations to lead the audience through interpreting a full-screen heat map instead of just showing us a giant tapestry “as you can see…” #Microbio25

I just visited this poster. Fantastic work!

@drgvank.bsky.social Much of the current work on biofilms arose from outside interests (a passion for swimming) - “don’t ignore your hobbies.”

#Microbio25

Major theme throughout the Beyond the Bench:

Uncertainty in regulations, driven by (inherent?) differing speeds of research vs. regulation.

Ameliorate a bit via working closely together (e.g. visiting researchers) and 'sandboxes' which reduce restrictions while still managing risk.

#Microbio25