My PhD student Fatai Olabemiwo and our undergrads have published our first paper in plastic remediation microbiology. Here's access till Dec 13: authors.elsevier.com/a/1hzhD…

As a (non-native) New Englander, I really loved this piece! A little New England nostalgia, a little Covid.... Thank you!

Our lab’s modest foray into the Global Virome Project. An approach to explore ecological diversification within virus species. We argue that virus lineages within a species that prefer different hosts may differ in likelihood to spillover to humans. tinyurl.com/vbx9e9c

A baseball parable on metadata. In biology as well as baseball, we need to collect our data more thoughtfully. Our data is not just for our own lab, now or in the future, but should anticipate future research programs of others with entirely different goals from ours.

Shout-out for my Wesleyan colleague Sonia Sultan for getting a major grant on how the environment experienced by an organism influences its development. tinyurl.com/yydj6mqe Sonia also recently published her book on phenotypic plasticity with Oxford! tinyurl.com/y683e7s3

King Juan Carlos’s bold action to restore democracy created an (occasional) role for monarchs to restore or protect democracy when threatened. Queen Elizabeth has reneged on any role in protecting British democracy, by acquiescing to Johnson. -an American tied to British success

Updating Socialism of the Microbe (investing in others' infections to save ourselves) for the 21st century: investing in eradicating HIV and TB, clean water and public health abroad, and providing alternative protein to reduce bushmeat hunting. tinyurl.com/y4dcdc6l

Article: How we can all share the fight against infectious disease tinyurl.com/y4dcdc6l 1) keeping our germs to ourselves 2) keeping ourselves healthy (vaccination!) 3) preventing, treating infections in others 4) preventing environmental disturbances that bring us infections

My student @wesleyan_u Jenny Aguiar earned All-American (top 8 in the country) in 400m at the NCAA championships! Congratulations! #AllAmerican athletics.wesleyan.edu/sport…

Wesleyan @wesleyan_u sophomore Ivie Uzamere @_iviexx is now the NCAA Division 3 champion for weight throw! (posted by her proud professor and Wesleyan’s NCAA faculty athletics rep) athletics.wesleyan.edu/sport…