Bruce Hamilton

You’re in pretty good shape
For the shape that you’re in
— Dr. Seuss

Well played, Spelling Bee. Well played.

OK, we can get some fish tacos and make a corona disappear when you get back.

Pro-tip: check your inbox before you send that follow up email.

Your record swim across the Yangtze will never be equaled.

We are in awe that you also did not allow a single hurricane to land this season

This online seminar on GenAI is struggling with Zoom.

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article) A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

Gift link for NY Times article on cuts at NIH and NSF:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Screenshot of New York Times post, “If the thought of installing a smart lock intimidates you, don’t be.”

Grammar are for chumps, I supposes.

The arc of the moral universe, unable to bend, is seeking a referral to metaphysical therapy and hoping insurance will cover it.

Hot darn!

Have I been good @profanity.accountant ?

The longer you’ve been at it the more magical this seems.

I am thankful for gene synthesis, hi-fi assembly, and inexpensive whole-plasmid sequencing.

Typo of the day:
“pot-baccalaureate program”

I mean, Steve Gadd’s chart on the title track is still amazing.

One month later and those 30 billion base pairs are crammed into just about 14 chromosomes. HOT DANG! This seemed impossible 4-5 years ago.

Always write for your audience, not for numbers of writing units submitted.

Self evident truths. Fight for them!

Open faculty position (Assistant or Associate) in UW Medical Genetics. As you might expect, faculty often end up also interacting with Genome Sciences, so we're hoping for some great prospects! Note the clinical requirements for the position. apply.interfolio.com/176466

Partisan mood affiliation has led some people to take the stance that AI and robotics and biotech are no big deal and our lives will go on largely unaffected, or that they are all bad and we should simply resist. I’d much rather have those people thinking carefully about the big changes to come.

yoda says do or do not , there is no try . ALT: yoda says do or do not , there is no try .

When you agree to review, review.

I had to look up the term and now I’m sorry I did.

A REAL PHAGE TURNER

Great work in Nat Comm from the UC San Diego laboratories of David Pride and Justin Meyer—experimental evolution of bacteriophage to successfully expand their host range against MDR strains of the critical threat pathogen Klebsiella pneumoniae.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It’s not dogma or orthodoxy it is actual science. I can’t take it with you guys

A microscope on the left, an identical one on the right except that it's glowing green. The left is captioned "Fluoresence Microscope", the right "Flueorescent microcscope"

Know the difference.

Calling something "scientific orthodoxy" rather than "established fact" or even "scientific consensus" is so incredibly damaging.