To everyone thinking that cutting the research budget makes sense because of public debt, I want to remind them of Mary Lasker's words:
"If you think research is expensive, try disease"
Doing science is not a luxury we can't afford. It is investing in our future.
Avery is a postdoc in my dept at GT, someone I know personally. She nearly died because doctors could not treat her miscarriage until she was actively dying- a direct result of anti-abortion laws in GA.
VOTE, canvas, donate- do whatever you can, or this is coming nationally.
Yesterday a Nobel prize was given for alpha fold. Alpha fold could not exist without the Protein Data Bank (PDB), a public database funded by US taxpayers. Every structural biologist in the world that deposited their structure to the PDB indirectly helped train alpha fold.
These laureates are VERY deserving. But an important addendum—no model could be trained without 40 years of Helen Berman and others’ work at the PDB, and we would not be certain of AF’s success without 30 years of John Moult and others’ work on CASP. Hats off to them as well 🥂
The Li + Durbin 2011 paper showing that you can infer an entire population history from just a single genome is still one of the most mind-blowing results in genetics I have ever seen.
https://t.co/5yFPxNc8Pu
Thrilled to kick off EvolCompGen #ISMB2022 — welcome aboard!🎉
Stay tuned on @ISMBinfo Juno for talks/posters/panel disc.
🗓️Schedule: https://t.co/NEFFAMQcXS
Engage w/ COSI folks
- Join us on Slack: https://t.co/sWhrkU0K7R
- Twitter: @EvolComp
- Website: https://t.co/VRVLbhkRBt
Thrilled to kick off EvolCompGen #ISMB2022 — welcome aboard!🎉
Stay tuned on @ISMBinfo Juno for talks/posters/panel disc.
🗓️Schedule: https://t.co/NEFFAMQcXS
Engage w/ COSI folks
- Join us on Slack: https://t.co/sWhrkU0K7R
- Twitter: @EvolComp
- Website: https://t.co/VRVLbhkRBt
Please help us spread the word, we are looking for TWO grad students to represent the diverse community of early-career evolutionary biologists to SSE council
We strongly encourage students from outside USA and from underrepresented communities to apply
This ‘snowflake virus’ door decoration in the @DukeU Center for Virology @DukeMGM may be one of the most impressive holiday decorations I’ve ever seen! And yet it came in second in voting per @TheLuftigLab
Would love to see pics of the first place entry @valdi001 !