Brandon Seah

biologist from 🇸🇬 living in 🇩🇪
favorite tree is the coconut palm
currently taking a Twitter break

[Brandon Seah @kbseah]

Let me tell you about Kentrophoros, one of my favorite organisms. They are ciliates living in marine sediments, and carry about a ‘garden’ of bacteria that’s their food. This symbiosis is weird in so many ways... 1/n
https://t.co/ifkRIVugsX

[Brandon Seah @kbseah]

@justin_r_leung "not enough type in the drawer" :P

[Brandon Seah @kbseah]

@egasmb @justin_r_leung @airin_lvr @C_M_Churchman three-character classic with mandarin, cantonese, and hokkien? https://t.co/gOf0rYDjqk

[Brandon Seah @kbseah]

@justin_r_leung gog4-zi3 bho2-ghe2-rig8 kuai3-lag8!

[Brandon Seah @kbseah]

my blog post trying to sketch the background for a general audience - how did i do? https://t.co/iD7EHwWSK9

[Brandon Seah @kbseah]

new publication from my former lab, on the evolution of UGA codon reassignment in ciliates
https://t.co/9SZUfhVjyg
out as a reviewed preprint on eLife
my former PI, Estienne Swart took the lead on this one

[Brandon Seah @kbseah]

@SiobhanLeachman @wikidata looking forward to reading it!

[bioRxiv @biorxivpreprint]

How did UGA codon translation as tryptophan evolve in certain ciliates? A critique of Kachale et al. 2023 Nature https://t.co/3sYS1iUBAH #bioRxiv

[Brandon Seah @kbseah]

@anariesgogil hear me out: sponges are the apex predators of the oce...

[Brandon Seah @kbseah]

@aditi oh no i linked the wrong @aditiseeu 😓

[Brandon Seah @kbseah]

new light on the protein machinery involved in Paramecium genome editing, another piece of the puzzle slotted in thanks to work led by @aditi

[Aditi Singh🇳🇵🇨🇭 @aditiseeu]

Here is our latest work on the ISWI1 complex proteins where we have identified its highly divergent complex partners and their role in genome editing https://t.co/EAvHcLc4iu

[Tatsuya Amano @tatsuya_amano]

How hard is it to do science in a language that’s not your first language? We quantified the severity of #languagebarriers for non-native English speakers when reading/publishing papers and attending/presenting at international conferences.
https://t.co/Z6za22rMgg
1/9

[Brandon Seah @kbseah]

@JohanaProtists @protistologists thanks for the pictures! it was a pleasure to finally meet you in person!

[Brandon Seah @kbseah]

@daniel_vaulot @MDPIOpenAccess @FrontMarineSci the @PeerComJournal model appealed to me because it is free for authors/readers, financial support comes mostly from public institutions, and the running costs are very modest

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

Every so often, this incident comes up on social media and everybody has a laugh at the ignorant biologist that didn't know basic math. I think this case illustrates something very toxic about the way many of us think about a life in science.

[Marc Tollis @evilsmaug]

People who study non model organisms when the human pangenome is published.

[PepGasol @pepgppepgp]

Great paper on scientific life. Must read by Paul del Giorgio (not in twitter?) https://t.co/NsmWERzqiO

[Laura Ross @lross_evoento]

Will be advertising a 2yr ERC-funded postdoc on sex chromosomes and DNA elimination @SBSatEd soon. Please RT and get in touch if interested. More information coming soon!

[Brandon Seah @kbseah]

@aconga7 pretty damn cool :)

[Brandon Seah @kbseah]

had to read the abstract a few times to wrap my head around this - really cool biology!
great example of an intriguing negative result

[Laura Ross @lross_evoento]

New preprint: human lice are not only a itchy nuisance but also have some very unusual genetics: males inherit and express genes from both parents, but eliminate their fathers DNA from their sperm! This insight is important for pesticide resistance evolution