John Eppley

A software engineer or microbial ecologist depending on when you ask me, always a dad and husband. He/him.

[John Eppley @jmeppley]

Phage satellites are short DNA elements that hijack viruses to hop from cell to cell, and we* found thousands of them in a few liters of Pacific Ocean water.

https://t.co/HTwasRiMAa

* w/@steve_biller, @oceanmicrobes, Andy Burger, and Ed DeLong

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[John Eppley @jmeppley]

@OakTownEli I’d buy the black “Gollen State” jersey!

[Julián Castro @JulianCastro]

Agree. Joe Biden and Congressional leaders have an opportunity to demonstrate moral clarity in this moment. They should do so. The slaughter of Israelis on October 7 was wrong, and the slaughter of innocent civilians in Gaza with disproportionate force is wrong. Need a ceasefire.

[İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي @iyad_elbaghdadi]

This sentiment is spreading far & wide among many people who 10 days ago were completely behind Israel

[John Eppley @jmeppley]

@ravenscimaven https://t.co/FIMv1jkBl9

[John Eppley @jmeppley]

@ravenscimaven I only know of him from the Monty Python song

[Liam Quigley @_elkue]

Beach 20th street two-way bike lane in Far Rockaway remains a failure

[Graham Coop @Graham_Coop]

A new paper claiming a simple model of genetics fit a range of social traits. It’s interesting data, but it’s a massive reach to say the model fit reflects genetic effects, as there’s no control for environment here. 1/n

[John Eppley @jmeppley]

@phylogenomics @celtics Yeah, that's a head scratcher for sure.

[sam @sam_d_1995]

This is entirely a policy choice. Japan has seen declining traffic fatalities for the past three decades.

If America had the same rate of traffic fatalities as Japan, it would save the lives of ~36,000 Americans every single year.

[Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein]

“She had discovered what appears to be the largest known slave auction in the United States and, with it, a new story in the nation’s history of mass enslavement — about who benefited and who was harmed by such an enormous transaction.” ⁦⁦ https://t.co/9JXjtb9DV1

[Brian Merchant @bcmerchant]

how this is going to go, over and over and over

[Telegraph For People @telegraphforppl]

🚨 BAY AREA FOLKS! 🚨 It’s time to mobilize and tell our state lawmakers to save public transit and avoid service cuts. We are excited to help organize the East Bay leg of this march/rally. Bring flowers to leave outside the state building.

[CREAF @CREAF_ecologia]

Hoy mismo se publica un estudio en la revista científica @PNASNews que advierte que hemos perdido, de media, un 25% de aves en toda #Europa 🪶📉 ¿La causa principal? La #agricultura intensiva. Por eso, el declive en las #aves típicas de zonas agrícolas asciende a un 57% 🧨

[David AttenBruh @AlHendiify]

What’s the first gif that pops up when you type your name

😭

[Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics]

I encourage everyone to donate to this fund in honor of @ucdavis undergrad Karim Majdi Abou Najm who was killed last week in #DavisCA

Memorial Undergraduate Student Research Award https://t.co/c1gV0ZuCe9

[John Eppley @jmeppley]

This is a promising approach to classifying and identifying genes in novel genomes. Their protein language model was able to detect distantly related genes beyond the ability of current methods.

[Libusha Kelly @microbegrrl]

New preprint driven by the incredible @zflam94 @EinsteinMed and an awesome new collab with my former @ChisholmLab_MIT @MIT_CEE postdoc buddy @steve_biller: Large language models improve annotation of viral proteins. A thread.

https://t.co/MTXWLV7RcL

[John Eppley @jmeppley]

@microbegrrl @THackl @ChisholmLab_MIT Yes! This is really cool! Our ability to classify and characterize phage satellites was definitely hampered by lack of gene annotation.