Alex Sacco @alexandrasacco.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Today I was sequence maxxing at the UMaine CORE DNA Sequencing Facility. I had all three platforms running simultaneously: Sanger (ABI 3730), Nanopore (Mk1d), and Illumina (MiSeq). Short reads, long reads, and targeted reads all happening at once. 171
Reposted by Alex SaccoNoah Houpt @noahhoupt.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Check out the latest from @cathyhernandez.bsky.social, where she shows that prophage activity underlies intraspecific variation in thermal tolerance AND evolutionary rescue in response to extreme temperature challenge. This is one for prophage peeps and climate change peeps. 082
Reposted by Alex SaccoSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here. 335177064789
Reposted by Alex SaccoAngie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Why did pages supporting DEI need to be "under review" in the first place? @asm.org is not a government organization. It is not subject to the Executive Orders, which call for the systematic erasure of many ASM members. This is a pathetic, cowardly excuse for voluntarily complying with fascism. 732581
Reposted by Alex SaccoDarby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science. 12652768615653
Reposted by Alex SaccoMrinalini Watsa @surroundscience.bsky.social · 22/11/2024A rather exciting Thursday night,quickly becoming the norm. #nanopore #flongles #fieldgenomics #consgen The new MK1d just soaring on my first ever Flongle with 90 pores. Fresh out the factory, run within a week. Savouring this rare moment :) 6492
Reposted by Alex SaccoElinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 24/09/2023🤯 Supposedly running ONT flow cells in the dark drastically increases output. 84627