Virus-obsessed bioinformatician, DOE JGI Scientist, Enjoy exploring the viral world with #metagenomics and other cool #omics toys. He/him. Opinions my own.
Simon Roux
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📢 We are looking for a Junior Group Leader to join us at @institutcurie.bsky.social!
Having joined the department just over a year ago, I can honestly say that it is an exceptionally stimulating and supportive scientific environment, filled with outstanding colleagues — all in the heart of Paris.
A reminder... deadline June 30, 2026
Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution
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Finally, if you want to submit a paper to the Lab Launches Collection please use the following links for submission instructions and guidelines
#msphere: journals.asm.org/journal/msph...
#mSystems: journals.asm.org/journal/msys...
Breaking: A new Special Collection in @asm.org #mSphere and #mSystems – “Lab Launches - New Leaders, New Discoveries”. We started it bc that first paper is important – it communicates the group’s identity as well as the discoveries that propel a scientific career. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
this is in turn related to the very high information density of visually presented quantitative information (a la Edward Tufte) and that most of us treat papers like metatext (wrapper around a dataset and methods) then text (semantics)
Fifty years since a simple equation described the chaos of biology 🧪🌐 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
It's okay to use citation software. It's okay not to. Using citation software isn't even a little bit like using Gen AI to write, read, or summarize (citation software is deterministic: same inputs, same outputs).
These are actually easy things to know and understand and avoid Discourse about.
Do you study human microbiomes? Have you used the word "commensal"?
Then this paper was written with you in mind!
It was an absolute pleasure to write this with the incomparable @ginalewin.bsky.social
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