Jeff Dean (the Biochemist) @jeffdean@qoto.org

Our new #bacterial #scRNAseq preprint is out, building on the Vogel lab's MATQ-seq approach. We automate to increase cell numbers, increase sensitivity, and deplete rRNA using #Cas9, before applying this to gene expression heterogeneity along the #Salmonella growth curve.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.28.518171v1

@aleclindsay Oh, that's me (or at least, I've done that and it went viral, but maybe there are other ones): https://collegetables.info/. A couple of pages may be broken as I'm working on a big update to it soon: info on trends through time and additional data

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fungi-that-cause-lung-infections-may-be-spreading-across-the-us-180981189/ #fungi #coccidioides #blastomyces #histoplasma #thinkfungi

I am extremely pleased to announce the return of the Holiday Insect Print Sale, with photographs discounted up to 70% my regular fine art prices.

https://www.alexanderwild.com/Art/Holiday-Sale-2022/n-v3SCbR/

#insects #art #spiders #ants

So, folks, there's A Thing coming out hopefully very early next year. I rewrote and revised Alan J. Cann's Principles of Molecular #Virology for the 7th Edition! 😀

Trees in Singapore: LiDAR, AI and Sensors manage 7 million trees

https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/28/automating_tree_management/

Duplicated Gene Helps Bats Survive “Arms Race” With Viruses
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/duplicated-gene-helps-bats-survive-arms-race-with-viruses-70791?utm_campaign=TS_DAILY_NEWSLETTER_2022&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=235714429&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9stbMgJdBvoqg0Q33YmTC0JlGzIyZuL2WC4o5s2j7AGnnnLOr80vNdtav2EiEb2vdrt8IWujGf7bieEDw6jFVmih6wXQ&utm_content=235714429&utm_source=hs_email

Mississippi is America’s Blackest state. It’s mostly white MAGA Govt annually rejects $1B in Federal $ for Medicaid. Now the last hospital in a rural part of MS is about to close—devastating Black & low income people.

MAGA racism & cruelty on full display. Like the old saying goes. Republicans claim government doesn’t work—then they get elected and prove it.
https://nbcnews.to/3EMk43p

Opened in 1957, the pulp and paper mill in Crofton, BC has faced its share of public protests over pollution and odors. The paper mill will soon close its doors but leaves behind a legacy of toxic pollution in nearby ecosystems.

By Larry Pynn.

https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-price-of-paper/

My favorite part about this shot is that this Japanese Maple is like 4 feet tall, so you have to get real low as there's only a foot or so of space between the leaves and the ground. And also, there's a line of 4 or 5 photographers standing behind you waiting for their turn. 😂 😂

#photography #fall

For those that joined #Mastodon and grabbed the first server they could find, but would prefer to #migrate to a different one, I created a short guide on how to do this quickly and easily.
It also allows you to easily move any followers across to your new profile and leaves a redirection on your old profile for those that find it to help them get to your new one. 😁👍

I'd love if you could share it among your networks to help those that will invariably need it later on.
https://youtu.be/BpI-SplOXVE

Beautiful illustration of where people are concentrated.

If you squint, you can see Australia and New Zealand.

Views like this, I always find breathtaking. There's just something about a photograph of the Moon occulting Earth which is oddly humbling. Just imagine being aboard a spacecraft and being able to see that sight!

Genome Evolution of a Symbiont Population for Pathogen Defense in Honeybees https://buff.ly/3gmteKz @agmontaner @DanielTamarit @OlofssonTbs @MattTWebster #science #evolution #biology #genomes #SciComm

You never need to wait for a Black Friday sale to download NASA images from the Hubble and Webb space telescopes: They’re FREE!

Images are in the public domain and may be freely used. Search by “observations” or keyword within Hubble’s images:
https://hubblesite.org/resource-gallery/images

Or Webb’s: https://webbtelescope.org/resource-gallery/images