Recently I convinced the institute to let me buy pizza for the campus once a month, not as a moral boosting strategy, but as bait.
Today with the postdoc committee, I hosted the first Pizza Solves Everything event
I made a joke about cats not letting their humans leave the house at London Calling, but the kittens seriously protested my absence by unplugging the wifi so I'd not see it when they threw a plant down the stairs.
@rtvig_j@OmicsOmicsBlog It's currently very appropriately on Brick Lane in London. I've actually seen it before in San Diego. This was a smaller exhibition than that one, but still good.
Another year of updates for direct RNA sequencing:
-20% increase in output, and longer reads
-Comprehensive RNA mod detection (in all contexts) including: m6A (N6-methyladenosine) & pseudouridine.
-120 million short RNA reads on a single PromethION Flow Cell
#nanoporeconf
Today I found out that being the guy with the stamp on his head caused @the_schmidti to meet the guy who went on to give him his current job. You're welcome, Max.
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