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Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

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Prashant K @prash-k.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Here's an excellent collection of bad graph practices and examples of improving them. Bonus: Also includes R scripts that help you start on the right foot for making the better versions of plots!

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Prashant K @prash-k.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

We developed an RNA enzyme that adds barcodes to 16S rRNA to track bacterial DNA exchange in wastewater, identifying plasmid hosts via sequencing. This surpasses fluorescence methods by enabling multi-sample/plasmid analysis. Paper: go.nature.com/440gL5E. More technical details: shorturl.at/Y4KnA

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Information storage across a microbial community using universal RNA barcoding - Nature Biotechnology

Barcoding microbial ribosomal RNA creates a recording of gene transfer events without requiring translation.

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