Recovering microbiologist, Senior Gadfly™️, aspiring photographer “I’m just basing my Tweets off the facts and statistics in my personal experience”
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And now for something completely different ... For my microbial ecology peeps -- I've enjoyed reading
@mrillig substack, so am giving it a whirl with an emphasis on the 'philosophy' of microbial ecology Introducing Think Like a Microbe open.substack.com/pub/thinkm…
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Paper out in @NatureEcoEvo
Soil viruses as key regulators of the microbial carbon pump in deep soils
A collab with @mzdsf, @YGZHURCEES and others at RCEES, CAS, Beijing
nature.com/articles/s41559-0…
New on TLaM -- I delve into a fantasy world:
Beijerinck and Winogradsky for the 21st Century
thinkmicrobe.substack.com/p/…
The latest from Think Like A Microbe:
What should be the standard of evidence for a claim?
Here, 'metabolic cooperation' between auxotrophs and prototrophs
thinkmicrobe.substack.com/p/…
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Who lived when and overlapped with whom? I love this chart. While they never met Thomas Aquinas and Rumi lived at the same time and overlapped with Genghis Khan. Goethe and Simon Bolivar were contemporaries. So much fun to ponder this chart: buff.ly/RswxQGP
Randy Levine, NY Yankees prez & College Sports Council member said this.
It is striking how uninformed these people in positions of power are re: the fundamentals of how a university is allowed to operate.
We’ve regressed to the 10th Century
BREAKING: The UAE has released several billion dollars of Iran's frozen assets held in UAE banks, including 2 tonnes of gold worth $283 million, with the goal being that Iran spares the UAE from future attacks, according to multiple senior sources in Tehran with knowledge of the transfers.
The assets were flown to Iran aboard a Boeing 737-7KK (A6-RJA) operated by UAE Royal Jet, from Abu Dhabi to Tehran's Mehrabad Airport and Karaj's Payam Airport on August 11 and 12, each staying one hour before returning.
On June 8 the same plane flew from Abu Dhabi to Tehran's Mehrabad transferring $3 billion, multiple Iranian officials told Reuters in June.
"What he wrote privately and what he told the country are two different stories."
-- would love to know the extent this is true for Rand Paul et al.
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I wrote up a primer on the economic impact of stadiums, targeted to policymakers and journalists. Feel free to pass along. jcbradbury.com/stadium-econo…
Just up on Think Like a Microbe -- a sequel to my last post on AI in Biology
open.substack.com/pub/thinkm…
Show me that you don’t understand soccer culture in Seattle
Sounders/USMNT/USWNT Til I Die!
#BornIn1974
Now Think Like a Microbe -- What, where, and tractability
open.substack.com/pub/thinkm…
Just up on Think Like a Microbe -- slacker culture in microbes: an under-appreciated life style
open.substack.com/pub/thinkm…
Quote from George Rendel, respected head of Middle East Department for British Foreign Office, soon after publication of Peel Report advocating partition of Palestine (1937)
Reading the book Palestine 1936 to get a better grasp on its history. A reminder that past few years are just most recent iteration of what has been going on since the British Mandate for Palestine after WWI.
From The Nation, 1936:
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At the @ThedrakegroupEF symposium in Washington DC at Howard U. Excellent panels and many ideas for college athletic policies going forward via potential federal legislation.