Michael Baym
@baym
Associate Prof @HarvardMed. Microbial evolution, antibiotic resistance, mobile genetic elements, algorithms, phages, molecular biotech, etc. Find me under “floating dumpster fire”
Super cool stuff, did you see the one that looks like a pirate ship? (Off in the background here, didn’t get a decent photo)
Woohoo, Martin Shkreli (yes that Martin Shkreli!) has given me a new business card!
You: The world needs more bioproducts Me: Behold, the biblically accurate 96-well plate
This is very cool: a simple statistical test of dysbiosis, or really any microbiome composition data relative to a reference. Outperforms Bray-Curtis and every other metric, while simultaneously being very simple to compute. Probably would work on RNAseq data too.
Thrilled to announce I completed my two-year project to run or bike every street in Cambridge this morning
It is astounding the extent to which the people funded by billionaires to envision “new ways of doing science” do not understand the way it’s currently done
It’s flatter here, and there’s more often water on the road than falling from the sky so single speed with a rack and fenders is ideal
Huge congratulations to Dr. Arya Kaul on his successful thesis defense today! The fourth from my lab
Most recent road trip: Barga to Genoa up the Ligurian Riviera with @audeber.bsky.social
Why yes, linkedin spammer, I _have_ been thinking that an MS in Biology might help my career in science
He may have only barely known about bacteria, and not at all about viruses, but Darwin was right about hating an ill-defined species concept
It seems only fair this morning, since they renamed themselves Mayenard, that an appropriate Seattle suburb can come and sack the town
So you’re saying a DIY arduino-powered relay board might not be the safest way to turn them on and off?
Looks like it’s gonna be another banner aurora night if it’s clear where you are
No such thing as bad grilling weather, only bad grilling clothing Not shown: the large snowflakes that fell on the ribs