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  1. Arete

    The only place to buy coffee with all the construction on campus only has decaf. Considered cancelling my 8.30am lecture in protest. 

    1. CharonY

      CharonY

      That is an atrocity and will only lead to an black market beans. I think it is time to get an espresso machine.

  2. Arete

    Spent the night evacuated in Merced from the Detwiler fire in the central Sierra. May not have a house anymore but at least the family is safe

    1. Daedalus

      Daedalus

      Sorry to hear that Arete. I almost lost my house to a fire back in 2010. So, I know what you are going through. I'm glad you and your family are safe, and I hope that your home and all of your belonging are safe too.

  3. Arete

    "But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything." Charles Darwin

    1. Moontanman

      Moontanman

      Great minds evidently think alike!

  4. Arete

    My first ever graduate student defended today - fake it until your grad students make it?

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    2. imatfaal

      imatfaal

      Arete has reached such a grand old age that he has now acted as a supervisor to a PhD candidate who has defended their thesis. You start having to "fake it" (ie pretend a/o hope you are good enough) when you embark on research - if you can nurture a second talent to a PhD then you have pretty much shown you know your stuff.

    3. imatfaal

      imatfaal

      Joking about the "grand old age" bit of course ;-)

    4. CharonY

      CharonY

      It is the circle of taking.

      And it moves us all

  5. Arete

    Just welcomed my first postdoc to my lab!

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    2. imatfaal

      imatfaal

      And similar to what I said to ajb - they are lucky to have such a generous mentor

    3. Arete

      Arete

      I have 2 PhD students already, and thank you for the kind words.

    4. CharonY

      CharonY

      Here's to a mutually beneficial relationship.

  6. Arete

    going for a record in "umm ahh". My evolution 2016 talk is online https://goo.gl/YTTxlu

    1. CharonY

      CharonY

      I have you beat in the "rush through slides and skipping explanation until you realize half-way through that this is audience actually needed the explanation"-section.

  7. Arete

    we got some science in the news! Glad to have this paper out: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160526091959.htm

    1. StringJunky

      StringJunky

      High five! May there be many more.

  8. Arete

    My grad student made a documentary - check it out!

  9. Arete

    Turns out we're a lot less microbe than we first thought: taking a poop might be all it takes to change you from mostly microbial cells to mostly human cells! http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/01/06/036103

    1. imatfaal

      imatfaal

      And there goes one of my favourite odd scientific facts. Although it is many other peoples and now I can counter it with references :)

       

  10. Arete

    Today's new year labfail - never lift an Eppendorf 5804 centrifuge on your own if you don't enjoy back pain. By the power of Greyskull, that thing is heavy.

    1. CharonY

      CharonY

      Still better than to drop it it. Bloody thing is expensive, too.

    2. Arete

      Arete

      Got home from holidays to find a ton of ordered equipment and consumables piled up in my lab space. Most of it is unpacked, the BSC is certified, now I just need reagents and samples to do some of my own science instead of just analyzing other peoples data... exciting times.

  11. Arete

    We have a new paper out on phage resistance in Pseudomonas http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0144514

    1. ajb

      ajb

      Great. It is always nice to get work published.

  12. Arete

    A paper accepted and another submitted, and it's not even lunch time! on a roll today!

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    2. ajb

      ajb

      Sometimes rejections can come quick, if the paper is rejected at stage one by the editorial staff. The problems start when referees get involved!

    3. Theoretical

      Theoretical

      I'd like to know their analysis criteria. I'd imagine controversy is a big one.

    4. hypervalent_iodine

      hypervalent_iodine

      Congrats x 2!

  13. Arete

    New lab website launch! https://sistromlab.wordpress.com/

    1. hypervalent_iodine

      hypervalent_iodine

      Looks great (and a belated congrats, by the way)! Good luck with everything come July.

       

      Also, I think I spotted a small typo on the home page.

       

      "...however our primary focus on RNA virus populations in... "

       

      Should have an, 'is,' in there:

       

      "...however our primary focus is on RNA virus populations in... "

    2. fiveworlds

      fiveworlds

      http://www.sistromlab.tk/
  14. Arete

    I probably a little too happy with myself for writing a perl script to turn a giant csv into a giant fasta file. Now on with the local BLAST searches...

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