A damsel(fly) in distress
Took some of my pics of a yellow dumped warbler eating a damselfly and made them into a Gif using Giphy. via GIPHY
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Source: The Tree of Life - October 16, 2019 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
Best pics from trip to NYC
I went on a short trip to New York for a Bat Mitzvah of my best friend's daughter. I brought my camera, a Nikon D500 (and the 200-500 mm lens) and I took some pics, mostly of birds, while I was there. Here are some of the better ones.
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This is from the "Tree of Life Blog"
of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate
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Source: The Tree of Life - October 15, 2019 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
A damsel(fly) in distress
Took some of my pics of a yellow dumped warbler eating a damselfly and made them into a Gif using Giphy. via GIPHY
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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.
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Source: The Tree of Life - October 15, 2019 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
Four days of microbial phylogeny at #UCDavis #Asgard #Phylogenomics #MAGs
So - I did a guest appearance in a UC Davis Microbiology class run by a colleague / friend of mine -Renee Tsolis and I thought I would just post the details here.Class: MIB200A - Biology of ProkaryotesFour days of microbial phylogeny oriented around discussions of papers. So to do this I picked four topics, really organized around papers. See below for details. I have posted the slides though I note they are pretty boring since most of them are just figures / text from the papers.Class 1: rRNA and the Tree of LifePapersWoese and Fox 1977 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC432104/ Hugenholtz et...
Source: The Tree of Life - October 9, 2019 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
Yet another mostly male microbiome meeting - #YAMMMM - a microbiome #manel in San Diego
Well, just when I thought the microbiome space was getting better about diversity of speakers. I got called twice today from someone trying to get me to sign up for this meeting and I got an email about it too.The meeting: "Gen-Next Probiotics and Microbiome - Advanced Therapeutics and Sequencing Congress” to be held on 6th and 7th February 2020 in San Diego, USA."Speakers from the email:• Maya Ivanjesku, Chief Scientific Officer, Dakota Biotech• Bharath Prithiviraj, Senior Scientist, City university of New York• Ross Youngs, CEO& Founder, Biosortia Pharmaceuticals• Seth Crosby, Director, Research Collab...
Source: The Tree of Life - October 7, 2019 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
Viome - trying to prove that my calling them "The Theranos of Microbiome Companies" was an understatement ...
A month or so I wrote the post below that I thought was an example of really bad misleading advertising. And it is indeed. But keep reading past the discussion of this ad, because today I got a much worse example.Post I drafted a month ago but did not actually make public:Uggh. This is just such BS. I saw a Viome ad on Facebook. Here is the text:DNA tests can tell you a lot about where you came from.Your past. Your family history, and your ancestry.But that doesn ’t help you right now.That doesn ’t help you today.DNA tests also told her what foods were best for, but the recommendations never ch...
Source: The Tree of Life - September 16, 2019 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
Some of my thoughts on academics close associations with child rapist Jeffrey Epstein
Just collecting some of my posts on this topic here:When, if ever, will@DrMANowak and@harvard do something about their unethical association with rapist Jeffrey Epstein - they took his money, propped up his reputation, and now? crickets - read more from@xeni about this:https://t.co/deoSQ7HbT2— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics)August 22, 2019Over the last few days, I have spent some time digging into the sordid connections between rapist / pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and various groups at@harvard e.g.,https://t.co/UAwjqbhh6t— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics)August 25, 2019To everyone who has been digging into the disturbing ...
Source: The Tree of Life - August 28, 2019 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
The benefits of having a #traildesk #iNaturalist #Birds #BirdPhotography #Yolo
Yesterday I had seven meetings or interviews for work which were by phone and one which had to be in person.So I decided to do the phone calls at what I call my "trail desk." That is, I do the call while out walking around and/or birding and/or at least doing something outdoors. Sometimes I have to sit down and look at my phone to see someone's slides or google doc but most of the time I can do things just as well when walking. And taking pictures every once in a while.Basically I drove to a few different spots around the #DavisCA area that I like including the Davis Wetlands and Yolo Bypass and did calls from th...
Source: The Tree of Life - August 17, 2019 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
Eisen Lab Outing to See the #Bats of #YoloBypass July 25, 2019
So on July 24, 2019 I went to see the bats of Yolo Bypass and wrote about it here:Bats at Yolo Bypass and a very very very fast visitor .. #NikonD500, #Bats #YoloBypass #PeregrineFalconAnd then on July 25, I went again with some members of my lab. It was spectacular, even though we did not see any peregrine falcons this time.I went a few minutes early and drove a loop in the park and then parked on the levee near the gate and went for a little walk there. On the walk I got a few nice pics of a great egret.Then I set up two trips over by where the bats come out. One with an old camera and a wide angle lens.&n...
Source: The Tree of Life - July 29, 2019 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
Eisen Lab Outing to See the #Bats of #YoloBypass July 25, 2019
So on July 24, 2019 I went to see the bats of Yolo Bypass and wrote about it here:Bats at Yolo Bypass and a very very very fast visitor .. #NikonD500, #Bats #YoloBypass #PeregrineFalconAnd then on July 25, I went again with some members of my lab. It was spectacular, even though we did not see any peregrine falcons this time.I went a few minutes early and drove a loop in the park and then parked on the levee near the gate and went for a little walk there. On the walk I got a few nice pics of a great egret.Then I set up two trips over by where the bats come out. One with an old camera and a wide angle lens.&n...
Source: The Tree of Life - July 28, 2019 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
