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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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.
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
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.
“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
🚨 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.
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% 🧨
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
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.
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
@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.