Eric Johnson

Life at different scales.

YouTube video by RHINO The Replacements - Can’t Hardly Wait (Official Music Video)

I was walking by the fancy cheese part of the grocery & the golden oldies music filtered into my brain--it was The Replacements, an 80s alternative band, playing "Can't Hardly Wait". youtube.com/watch?v=EvGj...
Having The 'Mats accompany my shopping is a bonus to getting older!

Frosty grass in an evergreen tree's shadow

The PNW has green grass in winter and evergreen trees that block the sun, so on a cold, sunny morning we get frost shadows like this one on the @uoregon.bsky.social campus.

The unreasonable effectiveness of plasmid sequencing as a service (Plasmidsaurus) 3.8k words, 18 minutes reading time

A write-up about Plasmidsaurus www.owlposting.com/p/the-unreas...

Willow got a haircut

A man wearing doublet

I once was googling about some doublet bands on an agarose gel and then was inundated with ads for RenFaire doublets like this

This was from a "Nature is Amazing" tweet...and the list does seem weird except for the 26 pairs of chromosomes. I'm trying to figure out what a non-weird number of pairs would be!

Our realtor sent a bag of cider spice powder in a little plastic bag and safety pinned it to a note. When I opened the envelope, fine powder spilled all over. This was right when someone was mailing anthrax to biology folks, so there was a moment (before the cinnamon & allspice scent hit) of concern

A graph of sunset times

Happy Later Sunset Day, Eugene! On this day the sunsets will start to be later, adding a little sunshine to the end of the day. This simple chart explains it all.

Did you brute force sequencing genomic DNA and get the mtDNA from the higher abundance or do something to enrich reads to the mitochondrial genome? Looks nice!

This ginkgo tree caught the light making the rainbow.

Word cloud has a big "rad" and little else.

My word cloud seems sort of sparse -- side effect of being a rad-seq one trick pony? scholargoggler.com

DNA doodle

YouTube video by KATU News FROM THE ARCHIVES: The Exploding Whale along the Oregon coast

Happy Oregon Exploding Whale Day youtu.be/V6CLumsir34

Feijoa fruit in a bowl

Feijoa harvest is going strong.

More DNA doodling

DNA generative art doodle

Henry the cat in the loaf pose next to the book 'The Perfect Loaf'.

Henry took the hint.

Eugene got some some and ice, and the tall tree in the neighborhood looks a little flocked.

Happy Later Sunset Day in Eugene, Oregon!

Stanford scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don’t have free will You may think you chose to read this, but Stanford scientist Robert Sapolsky would disagree. He says virtually all human behavior is beyond our conscious control.

People can understand alternatives and choose, but that choice is solely based on neurons being wired a certain way and the environment acting on those neurons, not from a free will that acts beyond physical laws. www.latimes.com/science/stor...

It is exciting to announce the opening of a Plasmidsaurus lab in London! Now we can better serve our customers in the UK and neighboring countries.
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A donut helped us imagine the annular eclipse, and then it did break from cloud cover at the peak!

Mapo tofu

Rainy October? Time for some mapo tofu!

Picture of George Streisinger

Thinking about how George Streisinger spent many years of unfunded work to get zebrafish going as a model system and how this was made possible by the tangible support of his colleagues at IMB/University of Oregon and their belief in that work. Probably not possible today with fiscal rules.

I am Eric from Oregon, USA. I enjoy working on niche sequencing methods ranging from RAD genotyping for population genetics while at the University of Oregon to whole plasmid sequencing at Plasmidsaurus.

Henry in dramatic lighting.

BIG NEWS! We are thrilled to share the news that
Primordium Labs and plasmidsaurus have joined forces, forming a single company with a unified mission of accelerating scientific discovery through innovations in DNA sequencing!