What in the world just happened? Why were all the fish dead? Here’s a short thread as to how our latest paper, the last of my PhD at @yale_eeb, came to be by starting at the beginning.

My colleague, themccleerylab.org, and I are hiring at @UF: a postdoc/project manager, a field research lead (M.S. or Ph.D.), and 3 field technicians to track threatened beach mice with automated telemetry during rocket launches at Cape Canaveral 🚀🐭 ufduttonlab.github.io/beach-mouse-jo…

NEWs.

Happy to share MicGeo's benchmark work on "Functional #metatranscriptomics of the #rhizosphere: towards an understanding of metabolic processes of the microbial carbon pump"

Led by Julian Ruggaber. Congratulations.
#carbon #microbiome #crop
academic.oup.com/femsec/article…

our goal as a science robotics company is simple: deploy as many robots as quickly as possible into the real world to do valuable science.

one of the first pieces of advice @daltonc gave us during YC last year was to bet on models getting better.
that was a very good bet.

today, we’re starting to see the payoff with code-as-policy for robots.

if you want a robot in your lab, or want to work on deploying robots into labs, reach out.

We have found it much more useful to treat the LLM as a programmer operating inside a robotics system, rather than as the robotics system itself.

New job alert! We’re looking for computational biologists to do some analysis and application of tools/workflows we’ve built @ArcadiaScience and help make them more useful for a broader set of users.

Looking to hire several people to start ASAP, so apply now (or please pass along if you know someone who might be a good fit)!

job-boards.greenhouse.io/arcadiascience…

Replacing the bulkhead on one of our trusted field vehicles, a 1988 Land Rover Defender, 300TDI. 🤞🫣

Everglades. Squint and you can see our...🤖🐇🏹🐍

August 2004: International Police oversight in Iraq.

August 2026: 22 yrs later at 50 years old, running a microbiome lab at a UF.

Nothing in the first photo predicted the second. Don't be afraid to follow your interests as they may evolve...as you grow.

⭐️Postdoc position available⭐️

Join the Henry Lab to investigate how horizontal gene transfer drives beneficial host–microbe symbioses.

Interested in host–microbe interactions?

Apply: t.ly/M0K3k

l.henry@qmul.ac.uk

Please share! #EvolutionaryBiology #Symbiosis

Dinner and movie night at camp with our friends. Hilarious watching #TheSheepDetectives with our local friends who actually have sheep.

Last sun downer of the field season. So thankful for our extended family. Tuka Pamoja!

Sorry girls, now is not a good time to swing...let's go sit by the fire.

Bird eating snake

Summer camp for our daughters at our research camp in Kenya... washing clothes by hand is a big part of the experience. 💪

Wondering... if the dwarf mongooses are trying to tell me that there is a 🐍 outside the tent?

I had no idea baboons could read maps? Lol

Nothing better than @AmandaSubalusky submitting paper revisions shortly after cooking lunch in our camp and being greeted by warthogs.

Beautiful sunset tonight.

Yesterday's commute.

Thanks to an amazing week with our colleagues at @MMaraUniversity working on proposals, sample processing, and data. Asante sana! Tuka pamoja! @AmandaSubalusky @UF_CLAS @GlobalGators @UF