@geowei

Prof. Emeritus, Dept. Genetics and Genome Sciences, UConn Health. CSO, EVP General Biomics @geowei@toot.community

 Connecticut, USA
Joined January 2009
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Exciting start to 2023! I retired from Jackson Laboratory and am now spending full time at my company, General Biomics, and as Emeritus Professor at UConn Health. The start of new adventures!
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UNBELIEVABLE! NCBI Taxonomy to include phylum rank in taxonomic names ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.go… via @ncbi

NCBI Taxonomy to include phylum rank in taxonomic names - NCBI Insights

NCBI Taxonomy will append a list of 42 names of prokaryote phyla published for validation purposes as required under the International Code of Nomenclature for Prokaryotes (ICNP). You can still...

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Science Needs Fixing, Not Just Funding nationalreview.com/2021/09/s…

Science Needs Fixing, Not Just Funding | National Review

Today, researchers spend nearly half their time on paperwork and administrative tasks, rather than research.

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Many conservatives have a difficult relationship with science – we wanted to find out why theconversation.com/many-con… via @ConversationUK

Many conservatives have a difficult relationship with science – we wanted to find out why

It’s not just issues like climate change and vaccines that pose problems for conservative thinkers – it’s the way science itself is conducted.

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Ivermectin Shows Us the Consequences of Politicized Science thebulwark.com/ivermectin-sh… via @BulwarkOnline
Great Job! Fox News Boldly Claims Russian Jet Flies at Twice the Speed of Light. futurism.com/the-byte/fox-ne…
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Happy Pi Day
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105-year-old who recovered from COVID-19 credits gin-soaked raisins for breakfast thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief…

105-year-old who recovered from COVID-19 credits gin-soaked raisins for breakfast

A 105-year-old New Jersey woman who survived both the 1918 flu pandemic and a bout with the coronavirus attributed her longevity to her daily ritual of eating nine raisins soaked in gin.“Fill a jar…

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Perspective | The government can — and should — send high-quality masks to every American washingtonpost.com/outlook/2…

Perspective | The government can — and should — send high-quality masks to every American

We need better masks. Here’s how the Biden administration can help.

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The human genome is finally nearing completion. Excellent article by Nature's @metricausa, with quotes from my colleague and former student @aphillippy and many other well-known genomics types
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Pevzner on finishing assembly gaps, "Closing windows can sometimes be seen as a sport for nerds”. Happy to be in good nerd company 😆 @khmiga @lh3lh3 @sergeynurk @ArangRhie New article from @metricausa nature.com/articles/s41592-0…
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It gets worse with age.
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‘I just want to find 11,780 votes’: In extraordinary hour-long call, Trump pressures Georgia secretary of state to recalculate the vote in his favor washingtonpost.com/politics/…
‘We want them infected’: Trump appointee demanded ‘herd immunity’ strategy, emails reveal #SmartNews politico.com/news/2020/12/16…
Paris City Government Fined for Appointing Too Many Women to Senior Positions #SmartNews slate.com/news-and-politics/…

Paris City Government Fined for Appointing Too Many Women to Senior Positions

Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s hires ran afoul of rules intended to correct the gender imbalance.

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Check out Taylor Nicole's video! #TikTok vm.tiktok.com/JYs7nmY/

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