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Justin Meyer @justinmeyer.bsky.social · 28d

Are they back to the same middle columns in the same incubator?

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Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social · 28d

With Jeff Barrick's return to #MSU, the #LTEE was restarted today after a short pause (frozen) for the move.

Today was daily transfer 12,301. With ~6.6 generations per day, they are now at ~82,007 generations.

100,000 generations is fast approaching! Are you ready, #Spartans?

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Justin Meyer @justinmeyer.bsky.social · Aug 29

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SASSY San Diego

Science Podcast · SAn Diego Science Storytelling, Ya’ll is a live, first-person storytelling event featuring local San Diego scientists and science enthusiasts.

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Justin Meyer @justinmeyer.bsky.social · Aug 2

@pivotpod.bsky.social @karaswisher.bsky.social fun fact, the three groundbreaking technologies listed in a recent episode - CRISPR, mRNA vaccines, GLP1s - women scientists had a major role in their development.

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Justin Meyer @justinmeyer.bsky.social · Jul 15

Thanks, Fab! I really appreciate it. I missed the GRC this year, but hope to cross paths soon.

Justin Meyer @justinmeyer.bsky.social · Jul 14

Thanks ‪@analog-ashley.bsky.social‬, Margot Wohl, and Nick Deason for running SASSY, a science story-telling platform, and for all the help editing! Find more stories here: www.buzzsprout.com/2513792

SASSY San Diego

SAn Diego Science Storytelling, Ya’ll is a live, first-person storytelling event featuring local San Diego scientists and science enthusiasts.

www.buzzsprout.com

Justin Meyer @justinmeyer.bsky.social · Jul 14

Listen to my science origin story, 13 minutes and includes my recovery from being blind, paralyzed, and unable to breathe to running a lab, and a message about these perilous times for science. Some LGBTQIA+ and first gen uni representation too. www.buzzsprout.com/2513792/epis...

Cichlids All The Way Down - SASSY San Diego

Justin was just hitting his stride. Excelling in classes, conducting exciting research. But then, everything stopped. Justin's story is about how roadblocks can sometimes turn in to opportunities to a...

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Justin Meyer @justinmeyer.bsky.social · Jul 6

~1.5 years ago blood donation was opened up to gay men, and today I've reached the one gallon donation threshold! Still grateful for the change in the discriminatory rule. ***Consider donating if you're able to***

Justin Meyer @justinmeyer.bsky.social · Oct 30

One arm, two symbols of LGTBQ+ progress. 9 years ago and I could not have had that wedding ring, and until 9 days ago I could not donate blood. Let’s keep moving forward!!!

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · Jun 25

Evolution ( @aburmeister.bsky.social UWM, Tapan Goel, UMD, @justinmeyer.bsky.social)

Ecology (Sarah Preheim JHU, @beckettstephen.bsky.social UMD, Daniel Muratore SFI, and Paul Fremont UMD)

w/ @mariandm.bsky.social as our lead lab instructor.

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Justin Meyer @justinmeyer.bsky.social · Jun 15

A colleague and her brilliant daughter at the #nokings SD March. While these two march often, I’m encouraged by the number of new protestors in my network. Welcome!!

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · Jun 11

If randomly kidnapping people (including first grade kids) from places of work, education, worship, and immigration appointments and disappearing them without due process to foreign prisons does not meet your definition of fascism, then your definition of fascism is wrong.

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ashley juavinett @analog-ashley.bsky.social · Jun 11

Featuring stories by myself, @justinmeyer.bsky.social, two PhD students from @scrippsocean.bsky.social, and more!

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Justin Meyer @justinmeyer.bsky.social · Jun 1

Happy Pride from my home town!

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Justin Meyer @justinmeyer.bsky.social · May 28

What marker delineates when AI is sentient? When AI questions if humans - with their wetware - could actually be sentient.

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Justin Meyer @justinmeyer.bsky.social · May 28

New faculty, do not give up the things that make you happy and healthy. What was I thinking?!?!?

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Justin Meyer @justinmeyer.bsky.social · May 28

I've started running routinely again, an activity I gave up 10 years ago when I started my faculty position. I am nowhere near as good as I used to be, so I am not setting any personal records. But, I am setting personal middle aged records for speed and distance. Is there a term for this?

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Apr 24

ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS

We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.

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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · Apr 24

NSF Director stepping down.

Email to staff on a Thursday. This doesn’t bode well for the typical Friday news dump.

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · Apr 9

Our latest paper, in which @brinda.eu (along with @zaminiqbal.bsky.social and others) introduces phylogenetic compression for storage and search of enormous microbial genome libraries, was published today in @naturemethods.bsky.social:

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Efficient and robust search of microbial genomes via phylogenetic compression

Nature Methods - Phylogenetic compression achieves performant and lossless compression of massive collections of microbial genomes, facilitating fast BLAST-like search and versatile alignment tasks.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · Mar 28

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.

Find out how your community may be impacted.

Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org

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US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.

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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · Mar 12

"I want parents who have children to know that opportunities for your kids, if they aspire to be scientists or engineers, are being stripped away right in front of you," the NSF employee told Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/03/10/a...

Exclusive: Science and tech agency cuts spark industry pushback

As Trump administration cuts hit research, some fear American leadership in computer science is at risk.

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Justin Meyer @justinmeyer.bsky.social · Mar 13

Nope, it’s just cold and rainy in SoCal - ours gives up on life too during these rare days.

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Ben Adler @benadler.bsky.social · Feb 26

It is finally out!

Muntathar Al-Shimary, @doudna-lab.bsky.social , @cresslab.bsky.social and I present a gene knockdown tool that works in diverse bacteriophages: CRISPRi through antisense RNA Targeting (CRISPRi-ART)!

Check it out @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

CRISPRi-ART enables functional genomics of diverse bacteriophages using RNA-binding dCas13d - Nature Microbiology

Leveraging RNA-targeting dCas13d enables selective interference with phage protein translation and facilitates measurement of phage gene fitness at a transcriptome-wide scale.

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Justin Meyer @justinmeyer.bsky.social · Feb 24

Happy 37th birthday to @relenski.bsky.social long term evolution experiment. Here's a beautiful summary: the-ltee.org/history/

History – The Long-Term Evolution Experiment

the-ltee.org

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Justin Meyer @justinmeyer.bsky.social · Feb 21

Join us this summer for a week of learning about the interdisciplinary study of bacteria-phage interactions.

Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · Feb 21

A small moment of science in the world of the very small... announcing calls for applications from MS + PhD students + postdocs for a Summer School on

Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales
U of Maryland, College Park, June 23-27, 2025

Apply by 3/21/25:

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Summer School, Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales
U of Maryland, College Park, June 23-27, 2025

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