Robert Pienaar🇿🇦

Graduate from the ITN Insect Doctors program working on BSF and virus discovery in the insect rearing industry #opentowork

[Southern @SouthernRailUK]

⚠️ We've been made aware of the emergency services dealing with an incident between New Cross Gate and Norwood Junction.

Train services running through these stations may be cancelled, delayed or amended.

ℹ️ More information to follow.

[Ming "Tommy" Tang @tangming2005]

1/ Bioinformatics takes years to master.
Not because it’s hard.
But because so much of what matters… no one writes down.
Let me explain

[Yusuf Abramjee @Abramjee]

It is concerning that @realDonaldTrump takes decision through inaccurate information, misleading reports, fake news and propaganda.

The decision to cut all funding will have significant repercussions, particularly for many ordinary South Africans.

It is crucial to ensure that decisions of such magnitude are based on accurate and verified data.

The US government must reconsider the information that has led to this decision and to verify the facts thoroughly.

The impact of this funding cut will be profound, and it is essential to approach such matters with a well-informed perspective.

RT to support and say to Trump:

#NoToFundCutting
#NoToFakeNews
#NoToLies
#YesToSouthAfrica

@GovernmentZA @CyrilRamaphosa @PresidencyZA

[Reviewer 2 @GrumpyReviewer2]

#AcademicChatter #AcademicX

[Robert Pienaar🇿🇦 @RobertPienaarID]

Waiting for the protein coding paper to pass peer review, but definitely an interesting week.

[Robert Pienaar🇿🇦 @RobertPienaarID]

@ClaysonMonyela @DIRCO_ZA Thank you very much 🙏🏻

[Robert Pienaar🇿🇦 @RobertPienaarID]

@ClaysonMonyela @DIRCO_ZA To be honest though🤣, if it wasn't for your tweets, there is a lot of info that would not be well dispersed. Thank you for being very present!
Also please could you have a chat with the SA consulates in Italy and France. If not going in person, it is basically "Goodluck Chuck".

[Robert Pienaar🇿🇦 @RobertPienaarID]

@ClaysonMonyela @DIRCO_ZA I have done an entire PhD in France now and didn't know this🙈

[Robert Pienaar🇿🇦 @RobertPienaarID]

@ClaysonMonyela @DIRCO_ZA We need to inform them? Doesn't this happen automatically when visa's are issued and at passport control?😅

[Jason Kaelber @Kaelberviridae]

We tracked a pandemic decimating beetle colonies and used cryoEM for sequencing-free discovery of the new virus that caused it. This virus is crazy; parvoviruses aren't supposed to have such structured protein-DNA interactions. We fulfilled all 4 of Koch's postulates for etiology

[Robert Pienaar🇿🇦 @RobertPienaarID]

@Kaelberviridae This is fantastic! @FangShiang @JWennmann @HerniouE

[Sam @samedwards410]

I'm excited to share a preprint from some of my PhD work - we found a 'Pathogenic #fungus expresses effector proteins in combination with a symbiotic #virus to behaviourally manipulate house fly hosts'. Thanks to @HenrikLicht and co-authors! https://t.co/AX1vDSGlJi

[Robert Pienaar🇿🇦 @RobertPienaarID]

It has been in the works for a long time now, but I am excited to finally share a preprint of the second in a series of papers on BSF and viruses resulting from my PhD.

#BSF #BSFviruses #Insectdoctors

https://t.co/Pzwlyp5xFO

[Robert Pienaar🇿🇦 @RobertPienaarID]

Ja ne...

[Re-energising Your Career @career_re]

#AcademicTwitter😂#phdlife #phdvoice

[Donovan Goliath @DonovanGoliath]

Legends never die they multiply 🕊️

[Robert Pienaar🇿🇦 @RobertPienaarID]

Antibiotic resistance is not the only problem here, but also long term use of antibiotics is not good for anyone. Also, what will happen once kids reach 5/6 years old, expected then to face all the pathogens with poor immune systems and microbiomes? This is not a solution!

[Medical Xpress @medical_xpress]

Giving an antibiotic to all children under 5 in Africa would save lives, researchers say @ucsf @nejm https://t.co/PV2tfYhajS

[Robert Pienaar🇿🇦 @RobertPienaarID]

@PatSchloss @mSphereJ Thank you for this @PatSchloss. I had a few arguments where people flatout dismissed anything that I said after I had suggested rarefaction...because of McMurdie and Holmes. My old lab always advocated for doing with rarefaction and without, then comparing after just to be sure.

[Robert Pienaar🇿🇦 @RobertPienaarID]

Finally something has been published and by one of the OG! Of course the questions and data will alter approaches taken, and there are many suitable approaches! However, it is important that people at least try to understand the methods and why they actually CAN work.

[Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash]

Host-microbiome mutualisms emerge from community interactions among microbes https://t.co/tKpgPIkSCE

[Robert Pienaar🇿🇦 @RobertPienaarID]

Hold the phone...28 banks alone are being investigated for this?! So far two banks have settled for different amounts, including the one used for the title

[BusinessTech @BusinessTechSA]

UK bank coughs up R43 million for manipulating the rand https://t.co/oGfbVHHrka