Endosymbiosis Animations for " Biodiversity and the Tree of Life "
So I am in the midst of co-teachign a very large introductory biology course at UC Davis " BIS2C - Biodiversiy and the tree of Life " . I cover much of microbial diversity in this class and also the large scale structure of the Tree of Life. As always, I spent a lot of time working on slides and such for this class and recently posted some animations based on these slides to Twitter and Facebook and thought I would share some of them here. For today, I am sharing the animations I made on Endosymbiosis. I posted a first version of this to Twitter last week.Endosymbioses are so cool:Some of the images / animations I wil...
Source: The Tree of Life - April 23, 2022 Category: Microbiology Tags: BIS2C tree of life UC Davis Source Type: blogs

A good bye to my beloved Clover
 Our adopted cat Clover is pretty sick right now and likely on her last legs. We (my family, and the family of@LoranWyman who were her previous caretakers) are very sad. I compiled some of my Tweets about her herehttps://t.co/JqY1Mijips— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics)April 3, 2022Sadly, Clover is gone. I am 💔. I loved her very very very much.https://t.co/xQ1QXMQ658— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics)April 3, 2022 -------- This is from the" Tree of Life Blog " of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate at the University of California, Davis. For short updates, follow me on Twitt...
Source: The Tree of Life - April 6, 2022 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs

The ongoing saga with the UC Health Insurance Pharmacy " Benefits " Via Navitus
Well the saga continues. Here is an update. It all started March 7. See here for a long thread and also responses.Dear@UofCalifornia@ucdavisThis is NOT OK.I just got a notice by letter in mail that my insurance will no longer cover the insulin I have been getting " as of January 1, 2022 " . Letter was dated in February and was received after March 1, 2022.This is NOT OK.— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics)March 7, 2022 See this thread in an easier to read format here:https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1500934973775249412.htmlWell, in case you missed it. Two weeks ago I posted about the disastrous and dangerous and incompete...
Source: The Tree of Life - March 29, 2022 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs

Some links to articles about Diabetes and COVID19
Posted some links to Twitter that I am compiling here too about type 1 diabetes and COVID19 with a focus on recommendations for diabetics in current COVID situationPosting some information about#COVID19 and#type1#diabetes that might be useful to folkshttps://t.co/q9LrTXyrAy"Your Guide to Post-COVID Travel with Type 1 Diabetes"— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics)March 21, 2022"As masks come off, vulnerable Americans feel left behind"https://t.co/WGDJ1eII6x— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics)March 21, 2022COVID-19 Update: The Diabetes Connection, WHO Concerned about BA.2https://t.co/GT9xXPMNX2&mdash...
Source: The Tree of Life - March 23, 2022 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs

Lots of useful responses to question " What should high risk people do in face of relaxed masking requirements " ?
  So I posted this to Twitter.So - hive mind. A question. If you were at high risk for COVID complications if infected, with the ending of indoor mask requirements, would you just try to avoid large indoor gatherings of people even when you wear a good mask?— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics)March 18, 2022And got lots of useful resposnes. Rather than compile them here if interested people should browse the responses. -------- This is from the" Tree of Life Blog " of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate at the University of California, Davis. For short updates, follow me on Twitter. -----...
Source: The Tree of Life - March 23, 2022 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs

The ongoing disaster of the new UC Health Insurance Pharmacy " benefits "
Recently I posted to Twitter about the disastrous new University of California Pharmacy Benefits system.Dear@UofCalifornia@ucdavisThis is NOT OK.I just got a notice by letter in mail that my insurance will no longer cover the insulin I have been getting " as of January 1, 2022 " . Letter was dated in February and was received after March 1, 2022.This is NOT OK.— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics)March 7, 2022In summary, I got a letter in March that warned me of something that was about to happen in January (that is, in the past). And what was about to happen was bad - cutting off coverage of my insulin. And the sy...
Source: The Tree of Life - March 22, 2022 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs

Full text of University of California Message about Their Disastrous Pharmacy Benefits System
Recently I posted to Twitter about the disastrous new University of California Pharmacy Benefits system.Dear@UofCalifornia@ucdavisThis is NOT OK.I just got a notice by letter in mail that my insurance will no longer cover the insulin I have been getting " as of January 1, 2022 " . Letter was dated in February and was received after March 1, 2022.This is NOT OK.— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics)March 7, 2022In summary, I got a letter in March that warned me of something that was about to happen in January (that is, in the past). And what was about to happen was bad - cutting off coverage of my insulin. And the sy...
Source: The Tree of Life - March 22, 2022 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs

Baby Hummingbirds at Yolo Bypass
  So I got a glimpse of a hummingbird nest at Yolo BypassHummingbird sitting in nest at#yolobypass - thanks to@ucdavis Prof. David Rizzo and wife who I bumped into and who pointed it outpic.twitter.com/qHRxfz2Fgl— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics)March 6, 2022And this was amazing for me - might be 1st hummingbird I have seen in field on a nest since 1988 when I studied Broad tailed hummingbirds at@RockyMtnBioLab with Bill Calder— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics)March 6, 2022Here are a few higher resolution pics (now that I got home)pic.twitter.com/2HXkxJmSKc— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics)March 6, 2022 And then I ...
Source: The Tree of Life - March 19, 2022 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs

A field guide to SarsCOV2
  Gave a talk on SarsCOV2 to the Yolo County Community of Practice group. I basically discussed how the concept of a field guide can be useful for thinking about SarsCOV2. Here are my slidesA Field Guide to Sars-CoV-2 fromJonathan Eisen I will try to post the recording of the talk at some point. -------- This is from the" Tree of Life Blog " of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate at the University of California, Davis. For short updates, follow me on Twitter. -------- (Source: The Tree of Life)
Source: The Tree of Life - February 11, 2022 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs

Northern Harrier at Yolo Bypass
 Some pics ... -------- This is from the" Tree of Life Blog " of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate at the University of California, Davis. For short updates, follow me on Twitter. -------- (Source: The Tree of Life)
Source: The Tree of Life - February 10, 2022 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs

Best Pics from Nimbus Fish Hatchery
Went to Sacramento for a Doctor ' s appointment and then had a 2 hour Zoom call. Decided to do the call while walking around the Nimbus Fish Hatchery which I have never been to. I heard that people had seen a rare duck there so went on over. And it was awesome. I then messaged a grad student in my lab, Alonna Wright who lives nearby and she came over for a walk after lunch. Here is a link to a slideshow of some of the pics I got -------- This is from the" Tree of Life Blog " of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate at the University of California, Davis. For short updates, follow me on Twitter...
Source: The Tree of Life - January 11, 2022 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs

Some thoughts on Omicron and COVID19 in the last week or so
  Some recent Tweets and threads from me on Omicron and related topicsI am dismayed by the people, including leaders, who are treating#Omicron as " mild "& therefore not a big deal ignoring the unvaccinated& unboosted, long covid, at risk groups and that it is not " mild " for everyone, just on average has less severe effects to the vaccinated— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics)January 5, 2022If you are citing something written by Monica Gandhi on COVID please read this and other threads pointing out just how many times she has been wrong wrong wrong and wrong.https://t.co/XJcJ2kytlt— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomi...
Source: The Tree of Life - January 7, 2022 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs

Tribute to EO Wilson
 When I was a senior at@harvard in 1990 I started an"Environmental Issues" journal as part of activities leading to the 20th anniversary of Earth Day. I hoped to get EO Wilson to be our faculty sponsor. I phoned his office and arranged a meeting with him via his assistant 1/nhttps://t.co/0fyvH0ykky— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics)December 27, 2021 -------- This is from the" Tree of Life Blog " of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate at the University of California, Davis. For short updates, follow me on Twitter. -------- (Source: The Tree of Life)
Source: The Tree of Life - December 28, 2021 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs

Video and slides of my talk for the Microbiome Virtual International Forum posted
I gave a talk last week for the Microbiome Virtual International Forum. https://www.microbiome-vif.org/ Title: Evolution of microbiomes and the evolution of the study and politics of microbiomes (or, how can something be both ridiculously overhyped and horrifically underappreciated) "  See the Youtube video:  Slides:Evolution of microbiomes and the evolution of the study and politics of microbiomes (or, how can something be both ridiculously overhyped and horrifically under-appreciated) fromJonathan Eisen Also see this Twitter thread for some more info:OK so I gave a talk for the@MicrobiomeVIF tonighth...
Source: The Tree of Life - December 13, 2021 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs

Slideshow of Otters at the UC Davis Riparian Preserve
Made a slideshow of the otters I saw at the UC Davis Riparian Preserve yesterday. See -------- This is from the" Tree of Life Blog " of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate at the University of California, Davis. For short updates, follow me on Twitter. -------- (Source: The Tree of Life)
Source: The Tree of Life - November 17, 2021 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs