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Traver Hart

@traver.bsky.social

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Assoc Prof, MD Anderson. Functional genomics, CRISPR/Cas12a genetic interactions & synthetic lethality, history, politics, snark.

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Traver Hart @traver.bsky.social · 29d

ouch that's absolutely worst case. what a disaster this has been.

Traver Hart @traver.bsky.social · 29d

3%. Still waited 90 days after council meeting.

Traver Hart @traver.bsky.social · 29d

NCI R01 NOA received. Long, long exhale.

Traver Hart @traver.bsky.social · Sep 5

Life goals updated. Source: www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolR...

Traver Hart @traver.bsky.social · Sep 5

I can withdraw from social media now. I have learned everything worth learning.

Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · Sep 5

Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.

Traver Hart @traver.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ruin a movie by making it about Gary

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Gary

Forrest Plump @nahyoudoit.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ruin a movie by making it about Gary

Dances With Gary

Jude Atwood @judeatwood.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ruin a movie by making it about Gary.

Charlie and the Gary Factory

Traver Hart @traver.bsky.social · Sep 1

I could not agree more strongly with this. 💯

Traver Hart @traver.bsky.social · Sep 1

Ironically, it's not even in the Midwest.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · Sep 1

"Midwestern State University" oh ok yeah sure that's a real school. I majored in Academic Subject at Midwestern State University and rushed Fraternity. Some of my best memories were nights with friends at Student Bar.

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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · Aug 30

I can

I can

Traver Hart @traver.bsky.social · Aug 30

My PhD was: hey look 12,000 images of budding yeast! Yay computers!

Traver Hart @traver.bsky.social · Aug 29

there was less to know back then 😉

Traver Hart @traver.bsky.social · Aug 29

Obviously I'm posting today because I should be writing.

Traver Hart @traver.bsky.social · Aug 29

In my experience, huge increase in knowledge from yr 3 to 4 to 5, especially from PhD students coming straight from undergrad. Lots of conflating issues in the US like yr 1 rotations, requiring a pub, and PIs hanging on to trainees for too long, but 3 years postbac does not seem like enough to me.

Traver Hart @traver.bsky.social · Aug 29

Yep. there's that.

Traver Hart @traver.bsky.social · Aug 29

Also: Illegitimi non carborundum

Traver Hart @traver.bsky.social · Aug 29

I think you answered your own question. You do it because you love it. Because you were born to do this. Because there's nothing better than sifting through your data, and thinking about ways to make it better next time. Because that joy doesn't depend on other people; it comes from within.

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · Aug 28

Oregon Trail image with text "You have listened to RFK JR"

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Aug 26

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps:

- It’s ‘voilà,’ not ‘wallah!’
- It’s ‘a lot,’ not ‘alot.’
- It’s ‘further ado,’ not ‘farther adieu.’
- It’s ‘flesh out,’ not ‘flush out.’
- It’s ‘sneak peek,’ not ‘sneak peak.’

No worries if not!!!

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · Aug 20

IN CASE OF FIRE:

1) If someone is on fire, punch them in the face.

2) Cop a feel off the person behind you, as these might be your last minutes on Earth.

3) Squeeze the junk of the person in front of you. It'll slow them down, allowing you to move ahead of them.

4) Exit.

“In case of fire” instructional graphic

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · Aug 17

TIL the original paper describing CRISPR, by Francisco Mojica, was rejected by 4 journals and took 2 years to be published

Traver Hart @traver.bsky.social · Aug 16

no. but it sounds like something I'd do just because I'll never be confident whether it's "fides" or "fee-days". I'll write it but I won't say it.

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · Aug 13

Come be my boss! My dept. at GT is searching for a new chair. Drop me a line if you are interested, I'd be happy to talk about this position, GT, ATL- anything. It's a drama-free department filled with cool people in a dynamic city.

www.biosciences.gatech.edu/chair-search

Chair, School of Biological Sciences Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta The School of Biological Sciences of the Georgia Institute of Technology (“Georgia Tech”) invites applications for the pos...

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Traver Hart @traver.bsky.social · Aug 13

Today I learned a new word: zebra

Zero
Evidence
But
Really
Arrogant

Traver Hart @traver.bsky.social · Aug 12

almost certainly.

Traver Hart @traver.bsky.social · Aug 12

And all those people have kept the biggest secret in human history for all those years. 🙄

Disclosure Party @disclosureparty.bsky.social · Aug 11

Various credible sources claim that the CIA and DoD have conducted covert UFO retrieval, tracking, and exploitation since at least World War II, operating through a complex network of U.S. and allied missions, defense contractor analysis, and interagency secrecy spanning decades.

CIA and DoD Engaged in Decades-Long Retrieval, Tracking and Exploitation of UFOs, Including Italian ‘Magenta Craft,’ Sources Reveal — Liberation Times | Reimagining Old News

With a potentially explosive Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) hearing set to take place in the House of Representatives next week, sources connected with the Intelligence Community and Departmen...

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