Robert Porch

PhD candidate in the Louca lab @uoregon / @RutgersEENR alum / microbial ecology, metabolism, bioinformatics / first-gen / music enthusiast 🏳️‍🌈

[Robert Porch @robporch]

So excited that our plant neighborhood paper, led by @kylemmeyer1, is now published in @ISMEJournal! With a large-scale garden experiment, we asked if a focal plant’s local neighborhood influenced the assembly of its phyllosphere microbiome. Throughout... https://t.co/e2lmuprFOO

[🥨 @marisapk]

I am watching a toddler die on a table in a field hospital in Rafah with half her face blown apart while listening to college students fight tears reporting on a police assault on their campus for protesting that, and I feel like I am losing my fucking mind.

[Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction]

“They’ll say we’re disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war.” Howard Zinn 1971

[PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 @OnlinePalEng]

The Flour Massacre!

Israeli military has employed hunger as a weapon, targeting Palestinians who dare to risk themselves just to get flour in the northern Gaza Strip.

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

It’s finally happened. A peer-reviewed journal article with what appear to be nonsensical AI generated images. This is dangerous.

[Will Ratcliff @wc_ratcliff]

We have a new preprint up. This one is a hypothesis paper, addressing one of the bigger unanswered questions that people have been asking me for the last 15 years: why has complex multicellularity only evolved in eukaryotes, never in prokaryotes? 1/33

https://t.co/3KmFYaIOhE

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

It's a stunningly dangerous precedent to censure a member of Congress for speaking up about the mass killing of an ethnic group, who is part of that same ethnic group.

[Robert Porch @robporch]

The Louca lab is recruiting a postdoc to work on ocean microbial/biogeochemical modeling! Check the flyer below and visit the lab website @ https://t.co/UOSpczhPgx. Please RT!

[clara T @ramencult]

i wrote a paper about using machine learning to identify patterns of co-dispersal in Anopheles and Plasmodium

https://t.co/l8QOagrXTw

[Robert Porch @robporch]

The Louca lab is recruiting a postdoc to work on ocean microbial/biogeochemical modeling! Check the flyer below and visit the lab website @ https://t.co/UOSpczhPgx. Please RT!

[Robert Porch @robporch]

That’s a wrap #Evol2023! Had a great time sharing my research, (re)connecting with folks, and spending quality time with lab members ☺️

[Robert Porch @robporch]

The name of our Lyft driver to the natural history museum… you can’t make this up

[Robert Porch @robporch]

Had a blast presenting a poster on my research at #Evol2023! 🦠

[Robert Porch @robporch]

Interested in microbial metabolism / metabolic trait predictions in microbiome surveys? Come check out my poster at #Evol2023 tomorrow evening! 🦠

[Robert Porch @robporch]

Passed my proposal/qualifying exam yesterday! I’m now a PhD candidate 😁

[Robert Porch @robporch]

@BigGirlPlants congrats!!!

[Robert Porch @robporch]

@HilaryRoseD Congrats! Your talk was great!

[Robert Porch @robporch]

Cooking dinner and just dumped an entire can of chickpeas into the sink. Pretty much sums up how I’m doing mentally rn

[Lauren Hallett @lmhallett]

Hallett Lab is hiring! We've got a great season lined up with @madelon_case and @littleotter827. Cool science, big skies, $18/hr, housing included. RTs please, a/o advise on where to advertise now that Twitter is not what it was

[Meredith Willmott @the_leafhopper]

Designed an urban evolution sticker lately, it came out exactly how I wanted!

[Robert Porch @robporch]

@kdc509 I just ordered a pair the other day hahah