I think I'm done here.
Find me at @JacobPhD@scicomm.xyz

One of my first uses of this site, in 2013, was to live-tweet my re-read of Jurassic Park. In the story, a greedy tycoon bites off more than he can chew in a business venture and accidentally turns it into a living nightmare. Have we come full circle?

You know it's getting real when university admin gets involved.

Synapsids (🦣) and sauropsids (🐦) have been at war over planetary dominance for >300 million years. 🦣got an early lead in the Permian, then🐦famously ruled the Mesozoic.🦣took over again after the K-T extinction. Today many species of both🐦&🦣are endangered. What happens next?

I guess that sink at twitter headquarters was meant in the "source–sink dynamics" sense

I’ve joined Mastodon: @JacobPhD@scicomm.xyz
But not abandoning twitter yet.

We are searching for a Genomics Technology Transfer Specialist to help support malaria molecular surveillance at partner laboratories in South America. Please reach out to me directly if you fit the profile and will be at #ASTMH2022! shorturl.at/CMPS8

Covid has killed so many more than, say, Ebola, in part because it’s not scary enough: folks didn’t take it seriously since it’s largely survivable, hence the huge death toll. I think of this when people point out that climate change is more survivable than, say, nuclear war.

Going to my first in-person conference (ASTMH) since 2019. To the best of my knowledge I’ve still never had covid. Wish me luck.

Even Randall Munroe gets confused by chirality

Sea cucumber or microbe?

This is fine

Has anyone ever read the "transparent" peer reviews published alongside a paper (which refer to an earlier draft of the manuscript and thus are presumably largely unintelligible)? Why?

Reviewer: The methods are logically flawed and Figure 1 is not supported by the data; units are wrong on line 108
Author: *fixes methods and removes figure, making the next figure into Figure 1, line 108 is now a lit review*
Reader of transparent reviews: Huh?

Pleasing that the name of the wettest forest in the lower 48 is a water molecule.

Of course the entire Olympic NP is amazing.

First time in decades that I’ve driven through so many insects we had to stop and clean the windshield. A twilight storm of October caddisflies near Forks, WA.

"The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me." -Eckhart
"If you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." -Nietzsche

So if I stare at my data long enough...?

There are too many angsty tweets; don't forget to tweet when you're happy. So: it's a beautiful day and I'm sitting in my backyard doing cool science. Its so nice out because it's a record-breakingly warm autumn due to climate change.

Ok, I'll try again later.

Erecting a life-size human skeleton in my home (i.e. getting out of bed)
Driving with a life-size human skeleton in the front seat (i.e. normal commute)
Taking a life-size human skeleton into the coffee shop (etc…)