Laura Hug

find me @lhug on bsky. Environmental microbiologist and compulsive frisbee chaser, tangent-prone story teller. she/her

[Laura Hug @LAHug_]

@phylogenomics @environmicrobio I do know what they (me) were thinking and a plant is a different version of multicellular than a biofilm, c’mon Roland, you weren’t there.

[Laura Hug @LAHug_]

@NagissaM Literally nothing in the years leading up to a tenure dossier made me cry, but my COVID disruptions paragraph did.

[Laura Hug @LAHug_]

@erin_cameron We have been using them for a few years now and they are great! Email me and I can send you the protocol we developed for sampling in the field with RNALater and then the protocol for getting the biomass back out once at the lab

[Laura Hug @LAHug_]

Groundwater/micro twitter - have you used these cartridge filters for large-scale filtration, and if yes, can you easily crack them open to get the filters out for nucleic acid extraction? Pros/cons, alternatives?
https://t.co/IeImgSZ6qm

[Laura Hug @LAHug_]

@phylogenomics I have a set of 3, 20 min videos and an accompanying workshop module - one could run it on their own if they were up for installing the programs.

[Laura Hug @LAHug_]

@environmicrobio @NagissaM @CinTyLeeEarth Me too please? :)

[Michael Fralick @FralickMike]

🤖 looking for a post-doc in bioinformatics🤖 If you are interested and want to work with a great group that includes trainees, MDs, PhDs, and all sorts of other kind and smart people please reach out!!! @kieranrcampbell https://t.co/LdQsGd0CLI

[Republic of Kiribati @KiribatiGov]

We promise to only use drones and the sleep paralysis demon that lives in your walls to spy on you.

[Laura Hug @LAHug_]

@jensomics how do they have 86% rubella when it's an MMR vax? Does Rubella only need the first shot, and MM need the next one for a complete course?

[André Soares @GeoMicroSoares]

We’re nearing the finishing line for our survey!!
If you work on #metagenomics or other #omics please fill our 5min survey and then pass it on to colleagues & colaborators!!

Here is our survey: https://t.co/zj56TIBXmD

Please fill it until the 31st January!

[Michael Fralick @FralickMike]

🧫New pre-print from CUBE🧫led by Aaron Hinz (lab wizard!). We show that floor swabs can be used to identify COVID-19 cases on a university campus. Floor swabs had stronger correlation than wastewater, req less setup costs, and are less gross 💩 1/3 https://t.co/T7tkIuxpte

[André Soares @GeoMicroSoares]

Please contribute to our survey on metagenomics data reuse! Survey at: https://t.co/8iUcHugXqe

We’re (@AlexJProbst, @FolkerMeyer, @LAHug_, @CristinaMorar20, @environmicrobio) looking forward to know what the scientific community thinks of this topic!

Please RT widely!! 🔥🔥

[Laura Hug @LAHug_]

Four different people on Twitter in the past week: I saved a kid from drowning at a BBQ, here’s what to look for.
Me today: oh that kid is drowning.
Got him out, all fine.

[Laura Hug @LAHug_]

Thanks @jgi for the excellent NELLi symposium this week and for collaborations from 2009 to 2023!

[Laura Hug @LAHug_]

Today the team is out at the landfill, and finding methane!

[Dr Maria Strack @wetland_GHG]

Working on fun interdisciplinary project this week testing ⁦@telops⁩ hyperspectral camera for #methane measurements in #wetlands #landfills. Testing today on north campus
⁦@WaterlooENG⁩ ⁦@WaterlooSci⁩ ⁦@envwaterloo⁩ ⁦@TonyaDelSontro⁩ ⁦@LAHug_⁩

[Laura Hug @LAHug_]

OH:
Stylist: enjoy your birthday
Client: thanks you too!
Client: [embarrassed]
Stylist: actually it’s coming up!
Client: [relieved, left]
other stylist: I thought your birthday was in October?

So smooth, doing the real work

[Laura Hug @LAHug_]

@elvisha9 I look at the week I am currently in on my calendar and ask myself if I would be willing to make time for this new thing in this level of busy week. And if I would, I say yes. And if it would be untenable or frustrating to give that time, I say no. It has helped a lot.

[Laura Hug @LAHug_]

@JacquelynGill Nice perspective on this announcement, thanks! But I also live very near Crawford Lake, so am enjoying the local nerdery for now.

[Alex Ensminger @legionella.bsky.social @legionella]

The University of Toronto, Department of Biochemistry is searching for an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream. FYI, these positions are analogous to research "tenure-stream" in that following a successful 6 yr review promotion is to Associate Prof (continuing status).

[Laura Hug @LAHug_]

@environmicrobio @DinaGrohmann @journal_mlife People are still willing to be very rude about phylogeny, trust me