Alaina Weinheimer @[email protected]

@simonsfdn postdoc fellow @BigelowLab @rstepanauskas Lab | @faylward lab alum | I like big phage & I cannot lie, aspiring Wumbologist 🦠🧬🌊🆒

[Alaina Weinheimer @[email protected] @SCUBAlaina]

What if we could put all tailed phages in a single, evolutionarily meaningful phylogeny? Check out the latest from the Aylward Lab (twitterless) and myself - we present a phylogenomic framework toward unifying phage diversity! 🧬🤝 https://t.co/rIlF8nS1St

[Alaina Weinheimer @[email protected] @SCUBAlaina]

Congrats to @chang_tianyi @julesinboots @stepanausk8197 on helping the environmental microbiology community better understand the strengths and weaknesses of SAGs versus MAGs! Using either/both data types? Read this to more accurately interpret your data https://t.co/QGJuKLKxtD

[Alaina Weinheimer @[email protected] @SCUBAlaina]

@JanBruewer @AlexJProbst @jcamthrash @pepgppepgp @NBartlau @MichiWagner4 @SteindlerLaura @EvaBrodte @dlkirchman @Virosphere2012 @virome_girl @LuckingDominik @vardilab @simroux_virus @kevinzhong2006 @EvelienAdri @JedFuhrman @deng_lab This is super super cool! Congrats! Excited to read!!

[Jan Brüwer @JanBruewer]

How many SAR11 cells are phage-infected in the environment? And what are zombies🧟‍♂️?

We studied phage infection in SAR11 using the🔬. Up to 19% of SAR11 cells were phage infected and many host cells were devoid of ribosomes🧟‍♂️!

What else did we find? A 🧵

https://t.co/Q4MT2J2aQc

[steven mcbride @hburgmcbride]

Super cool paper from Ernie Osburn, @Gaowen_Yang @mrillig and @strickm27 showing that alpha-diversity relationships with soil ecosystem function are non-causal.

[Alaina Weinheimer @[email protected] @SCUBAlaina]

How tf didn’t the UK or Ukraine or Slovenia or Austria get more points????

[Alaina Weinheimer @[email protected] @SCUBAlaina]

@Micro_Yunha @AnsahCarlos @sokrypton @ancornman1 @pgirguis You’re on fire! 💥 Congrats! Excited to read!

[Yunha Hwang @Micro_Yunha]

Can large language models understand genomic sequences and uncover new biology? 🧬🧬🧬 Excited to share a new #preprint with @sokrypton, @ancornman1, and @pgirguis. TLDR: A Large Language Model for genomic sequences! #genomics #AI #machinelearning #NLP
https://t.co/g6FPz5c8bs 1/

[Alaina Weinheimer @[email protected] @SCUBAlaina]

@_casuali Without a doubt!!

[Alaina Weinheimer @[email protected] @SCUBAlaina]

Instead of asking “did you feed the cat her wet food?”, we ask “were you the hero today?” And I’m only now realizing how sad it is that we have to exaggerate our importance to her to convince ourselves she needs us bc cats

[Alaina Weinheimer @[email protected] @SCUBAlaina]

@KarthikGeomicro @AnantharamanLab @UWBact Congratulations! 🎉 🎉

[Alaina Weinheimer @[email protected] @SCUBAlaina]

@Micro_Yunha 🤩 Amazing amazing paper!! Very exciting findings!! 🤯 Congrats!! 🎉 💥💯

[Yunha Hwang @Micro_Yunha]

New paper alert!🌋🌊🧬🦠 I'm so excited to share our paper "Viruses interact with hosts that span distantly related microbial domains in dense hydrothermal mats" 1/ https://t.co/HtPUWbFvbL

[Alaina Weinheimer @[email protected] @SCUBAlaina]

@LajeunesseTodd Hahaha cabin fever must be getting to me! Thankfully it’s starting to warm up! Hope spring is showing itself in state college!!

[Alaina Weinheimer @[email protected] @SCUBAlaina]

I’m sure I’m not the first to ask this, but if Pseudomonas exists, who is the real monas?

[Alaina Weinheimer @[email protected] @SCUBAlaina]

@cpavloud @carolina_micro Thank you!! ευχαριστώ ! :)

[Alaina Weinheimer @[email protected] @SCUBAlaina]

@TweetingDrE @admiraladkins 😂 honestly! I’ve been waiting so long!

[Alaina Weinheimer @[email protected] @SCUBAlaina]

@scicrow 😂 for real!

[Alaina Weinheimer @[email protected] @SCUBAlaina]

@aatendu Ahhh cool! Just saw from a reply that a “monas” is a type of protist. Is that the real ones you’re referring to? Or is there another “Monas” (my mind keeps wanting to connect this all to Mona Lisa, but I know there’s nothing to connect😆🫠)

[Alaina Weinheimer @[email protected] @SCUBAlaina]

@giant_virus Ah I see! Thank you, Monir!