Flowing

Posted on November 5, 2023  •  2 minutes  • 215 words

Best laid plans of keeping up a blog have eluded me, as they often do. When the sampling ramped up on the ETNP cruise, leisure time for pet projects, and reflection all but disappeared. It was a good cruise, and I came back from the field with a great new network of collaborators and friends, and more samples than anticipated.

What’s happened since? So nice of you to ask. Here’s a round up of some public facing activities:

• While I was at sea, I was interviewed by Quanta Magazine about the consumption of viruses by unicellular eukaryotes

• In the spring, I hosted the 2023 GORG Bioinformatics Jamboree , a bioinformatics workshop focused on the GORG collection of single cell genomes, in collaboration with Ramunas Stepanauskas and the Single Cell Genomics Center

• An essay about my time at sea was published in Bigelow’s Transect magazine

• I co-presented a Cafe Scientifique public lecture with Catherine Mitchell on some of the early work we’ve done pairing microbial genomics data with satellite data

• I co-instructed a Data Carpentry workshop focused on using python for Ecology at Colby College

• Later that summer, I presented a Ocean Hack Week tutorial on Meta-omics Analyses for Ocean Science

On the back side, lots of science and adventure is cooking. More on that later.