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Microbial genomics of the Great Lakes @ Cornell. ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆScientist, Davidson Fellow, ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ชFulbright (he/him). Code-obsessed animal lover who likes to be outside.

Ithaca, NY
Joined October 2019
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4 months
As #ASLO24 is wrapping up, I want to share a project I'm so proud of: MicrobeMapper! MicrobeMapper is an interactive web app I built in #shiny which allows you to explore the spatial distribution of microbial taxa and water chemistry in Lake Ontario.
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2 years
Accepted without revisions!
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5 months
Poorly
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Mike Feigin ๐Ÿฅฏ
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How do people design PCR primers these days?
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@FelixJBerrios Iโ€™m Gus (he/him)! Iโ€™m a microbial ecologist who studies the bacteria of the Great Lakes. Outside of work I run/swim/bike/ski/anything outside. I also have two dogs, two cats, and five chickens ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐ŸŒพ๐Ÿˆโ€โฌ›๐Ÿˆโ€โฌ›๐Ÿ•๐Ÿ•๐Ÿ”๐Ÿ”๐Ÿ”๐Ÿ”๐Ÿ”
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@FelixJBerrios Hello! - Iโ€™m Gus (he/him) - Iโ€™m an aquatic microbiologist studying genome evolution in the Great Lakes - Iโ€™m a runner, gardener, and amateur home renovator - Iโ€™m named after the chubby mouse from Cinderella
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2 years
My first plot in @JuliaLanguage ! Specials thanks to @kdpsinghlab for the Tidier package - gave me the confidence to try #Julia from #RStats !
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@samfrowe @OpenAcademics @PrideinSTEM @TheSTEMvillage I'm Gus! I'm a gay microbiologist studying Staph infections at Georgetown. I love nordic skiing, backpacking, and loose-leaf tea. Also I have two STUNNING rats named Francie and Tammy!
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Delighted to commit to @Cornell Microbiology for my PhD! A huge thanks to my research mentors @bacteriality , @stxLiam , Rhian Waller, and @SBrinsmade for getting me there! Hereโ€™s to five years of environmental microbiology, teaching, and learning! (My cat recovered)
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2 years
Got a dog, need a name!
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5 months
I won a Leadership Award from @CornellOISE ! Very grateful to have my work building inclusive coding communities here at @CornellMicrobio be recognized. Coding is hard, but it shouldnโ€™t be scary!
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I know it's a silly metric and I know it's a humble number but I am still so proud of this!
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2 years
Brown tile had to GO
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9 months
Okay canโ€™t help myself
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3 years
Ready to present my poster with @SBrinsmade and @alqahtanisaq on S. aureus virulence at the @WindRiverConf ! Haven't had a reason to dress up in about a year so I was excited for business casual ๐Ÿคต
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2 years
This is hands down the best gift I have ever received
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2 years
Just wait till you see his sweater ๐Ÿฅน
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8 months
๐Ÿšจ๐ŸšจCool S. aureus lipid metabolism!๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ Our new paper in @MolMicroEditors shows an novel path to branched-chain lipids using aldehydes. Branched-chain lipids are essential for S. aureus viruelnce! Read it here: @MarcellePhdBio @WonSik_Yeo @SBrinsmade
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1 year
So happy I get to do this with him ๐Ÿฅฐ
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1 year
Turned 27 and got a whole new vibe
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2 years
Do you like lipids? Two-component systems? Hypervirulent bacteria? We've got it all! So excited to share this work with @SBrinsmade @alqahtanisaq @DADiMaggioJr @StarlCone where we find branched-chain fatty acids are essential for virulence in S. aureus!
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2 years
Just finished teaching a @thecarpentries workshop with @micro_marian and @brayan_vilanova in #Rstats for @CornellMicrobio . Feeling so grateful to share what I love with such a special group of learners! Excited to build a community of coders here!
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1 year
WE DID IT JOE!!!!
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2 years
I want another month of Halloween ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐ŸŽƒ
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2 years
Thinking back three years to when my boyfriend met me in Dublin for our anniversary. Grateful to be celebrating five years today!
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1 year
How I look teaching : How I feel teaching
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3 years
A straight man on drag race. The doors Gia Gunn has opened
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4 years
I just turned in my thesis! To cap it off, I wanted to briefly explain my research, in English and in (incredibly broken) Irish! Link to english video in thread. Tรก brรณn orm faoi mo bhlas! #gaeilge #Irish #geography #seaweed @SeaShoreNUIG @Fulbright_Eire @SEMRU_NUIG
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Augustus Pendleton
4 years
@samfrowe @BMatB @OpenAcademics @PrideinSTEM @TheSTEMvillage I'm Gus, I'm a gay #microbiologist who studies Staph infections at Georgetown University! I love hiking, cooking, and banjo!
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5 months
Also shoutout to having the most AMAZING PI @micro_marian and BEST labmates @sophiaaredas @SophiaRichter17 who also lead coding tutorials at Hacky Hour and through the Carpentries workshops! @swcarpentry @thecarpentries
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Augustus Pendleton
5 months
I won a Leadership Award from @CornellOISE ! Very grateful to have my work building inclusive coding communities here at @CornellMicrobio be recognized. Coding is hard, but it shouldnโ€™t be scary!
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1 year
First half marathon was amazing! Felt strong, had a great back half, and placed first in my division ๐Ÿ˜ This is the best Iโ€™ve ever placed!
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3 months
My first New York fish EVER!
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6 months
Some personal newsโ€ฆ
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2 years
Sad to be leaving @GUBiology but excited about my next move - starting at @CornellMicrobio in the fall! I also made a personal website describing my research and coding projects so far. Feel free to click through and get to know me a little better!
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Augustus Pendleton
5 years
Fully geeked out the @Micropia museum in Amsterdam!! Amazing interactive exhibits, beautiful cultures, and awesome microbiologists around to answer questions! So cool!! @bacteriality @lostmykees #microbiology #amsterdam
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5 years
Even in the middle of winter, exciting things are happening in Irish #seaweed ! The pepper dulse is spicy, the sea spaghetti is sprouting, and you can always find dillisk (tho I'm told it's sweetest in late summer). So happy my research takes me to the beautiful #WildAtlanticWay !
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2 years
This is one of my proudest achievements โ€“ I learned so much producing this paper and Iโ€™m so excited to share it with the world. Follow this link to learn about a cool system where certain membrane lipids help activate virulence in MRSA!
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Augustus Pendleton
2 years
Just like, that effortless look, but it actually takes a lot of effort (2 hours!!!) @JuliaLanguage #JuliaLang
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2 years
nevermind Pam did me SO GOOD!
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2 years
Doing something a little scary with my hair today ๐Ÿ˜ฌ hoping this isnโ€™t a clown move
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1 year
Mile 2 / Mile 12
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Augustus Pendleton
4 years
A year ago i landed from Ireland for what was supposed to be a week-long trip...and ended up staying awhile. It's been a crazy year but so grateful I got to spend it with this amazing guy!
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2 years
Heโ€™s Hank ๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿ˜
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2 years
Got a dog, need a name!
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2 years
My boyfriend is outside splitting wood. Iโ€™m in the kitchen peeling turnips. Itโ€™s snowy outside. Life is good.
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2 years
Two papers published this week!!! This was a good week!!!
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Augustus Pendleton
1 year
A week on the @EPAresearch Lake Guardian done! We collected hundreds of microbial samples across Lake Ontario. These data will help us understand the structure, function, and evolution of the microbial communities in the Great Lakes!
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1 year
Proud of this cake so I have to show it off. Fresh eggs, handpicked apples, homegrown flowers!
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4 years
First time I haven't had a beard in like two years, everything's so cold!!!
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6 months
Gave a presentation today that Iโ€™ve been practicing for weeks. Went really well and Iโ€™m so happy to give those slides a rest!
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Augustus Pendleton
2 years
I made my first #RStats package! The doublr package launches a shiny app which allows you to interactively calculate doubling times from growth curve data. I learned so much making this and I can't wait to improve it :) Get it now from github using the screenshot code
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10 months
Today marks six years with him.* Can't believe how lucky and I am, and can't wait to marry him in a month! *the person, not the dog
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2 years
Heaven forbid my hand got cold while coding
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10 months
Solved a common and annoying lab problem. Made a shiny app which lets you convert a 96-well plate "map" into long format. You can either enter values manually or copy and paste from Excel. It's saved in a package of functions I've written for my lab ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป #rstats
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5 years
New on twitter so happy to belatedly share my first paper in @AppEnvMicro - who doesn't love flavins in Shewanella? Grateful to have worked with first author @lostmykees and @bacteriality at @BTI_UMN
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Augustus Pendleton
5 years
Always excited to talk about my research! How can seaweed harvesters' development be supported sustainably? Mรญle buรญochas @siliconrepublic #seaweed #connemara #gaeltacht #fulbright @UdarasnaG @SeaShoreNUIG @stxLiam
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Augustus Pendleton
4 months
Exciting news - I'm gonna be a @NOAADigCoast Margaret A. Davidson Fellow! I'll use metagenomics to study the population dynamics of cyanobacteria in the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve. Learn more about the program here:
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2 years
Heโ€™s a hiking dog
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2 years
Rosettes!
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1 year
Home renovation is really bringing out the grays
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11 months
So excited that this work is public! Can S. aureus make branched-chain lipids out of branched chain aldehydes? What started as a wild hypothesis from looking at KEGG pathways gets some experimental validation!
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Shaun Brinsmade (he/him)
11 months
Manuscript submitted!! Awesome job @MarcellePhdBio , Won, @AugustusPendle1 , Fabiana, Danna, and Maeve! Exciting findings coming out. Preprint here; stay tuned for updates! @GUBiology #brinsmadelab #phdlife
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10 months
One of those really great academic days. Had a paper submitted, finished prepping a 148-sample 16S library, and submitted a NOAA Davidson Fellowship. A lot of things I've been working hard on and I'm proud of getting them done, regardless of the results!
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10 months
Puppiesโ€™ first high peak!
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3 years
Just a couple of babes
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11 months
Me in R
@bananaliquor
SWEET โ˜… HONEY โ˜… MATII
11 months
I am a big list person. Like I cannot do anything without making a list. I cannot function without my lists. My lists control my life. I have a list of lists.
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4 years
Made a cran-apple pie for myself because I'm celebrating a MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜
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Augustus Pendleton
4 months
Sorry to get corny on main, but #ASLO24 felt like a paradigm shift for my science. These past five days have totally changed my vision of whatโ€™s possible and expanded my worldview. And the people have been so welcoming and passionate! Mind blowing is an understatement!
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5 years
The @Macnas parade was an unforgettable Irish experience! Can't wait to celebrate Oรญche Shamhna (Halloween) in the land where it originated! @Fulbright_Eire #Fulbright
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Macnas
5 years
Just a little look back by @JuliaDunin at last nights Danse Macabre on the streets of Galway
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11 months
@AnaelleFait If it makes you feel better, the python bros shame me for using R, and the base R bros shame me for using tidyverse ๐Ÿ˜Œ There is no winning
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2 years
Super grateful finishing my first rotation with @lizljohnson and her amazing lab! I got to use a Coy chamber, flow cytometer, AND a mass spectrometer. Threw in some click chemistry for good measure too!
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Augustus Pendleton
1 year
Told my boyfriend I needed 2.5 hours of uninterrupted writing time. In those two hours, he has knocked to: - Drop off two different snacks - Wash and refill my waterbottle - Make me a blueberry smoothie - Use our dog to guilt me for working He is trying his best
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4 months
Photographic proof!
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4 months
Giving my talk at #ASLO24 today in an incredible session around microbes and biogeochemistry. Excited to share more about the microbes of Lake Ontario!
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I think itโ€™s great for grad students to understand how they are budgeted. Our time is so much more valuable than we think, especially compared to materials. Get what you need to get the experiment done and donโ€™t cut corners - itโ€™s cheaper in the long run!
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2 years
Feeling Halloween-y at @CornellMicrobio !
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3 years
I need someone to teach me Bayesian statistics but like how Patrick Swayze tought pottery in Ghost
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3 years
New earrings for my birthday - my boyfriend knows me well! ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿฆ€โค๏ธ
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11 months
Super late to #tidytuesday but had some fun plotting with ggimage! #Rstats #TaylorSwift #TaylorSwiftErasTour
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Augustus Pendleton
1 year
I love weddings โค๏ธ๐Ÿงก๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’™ ๐Ÿ“ธ
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4 months
Finished off another fantastic cruise on the @EPAGreatLakes Lake Guardian for the Lake Erie Cooperative Science Monitoring Initiative. Excited to process these samples to learn more about the microbial diversity of Lake Erie!
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1 year
Shout out to my $100 bike from the 70s for carrying me during my first triathlon!
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Augustus Pendleton
4 years
On this EXCELLENT of days, I'm also really enjoying making plots using my new theme based on the people's flag of Milwaukee #RStats #ggplot2 #tidyverse #TidyTuesday #dataviz
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3 years
My first first-author paper was just published through @SpringerNature ! So excited to share our work on an #Antarctic cup #coral from the Drake Passage. Use the link to see some awesome #reproduction in this unique species! #research #PolarBiology #marine
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4 months
Love being home and having a piano again, even if the audience is rude ๐Ÿ˜‚
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Augustus Pendleton
1 year
Was identified as โ€œthe grad student with the glasses and the mustacheโ€โ€ฆ canโ€™t believe they didnโ€™t mention the eyebrows
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Augustus Pendleton
4 years
#PolarPrideDay is bringing back fond memories of working at @UMaineDMC studying #Antarctic cup corals! I miss swimming in the Damariscotta River everyday. Hopefully I'll be sharing data from that work soon! #LGBTSTEMDay #coral @UMaine P.C. Tania Balco
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@AugustusPendle1
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3 years
My phone autocorrects โ€œpathogenesisโ€ to โ€œpathogens sisโ€ and Iโ€™m kinda living for it ๐Ÿ’…๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ
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10 months
Thatโ€™s all for now. I love coding, and increasingly I love teaching others to code as well ๐Ÿ’• So grateful to work with an amazing team including @micro_marian , @cassidyprints , @sophiaaredas , and my amazing colleagues at Cornell Micro!
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1 year
Meet Twiggy! Newest addition to our family and my first time adopting a puppy!
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2 years
@NicolaBragazzi Not even ONE ๐Ÿฅฐ
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Augustus Pendleton
4 years
Had a script with >600 lines of code analyzing data from six growth curves. Spent an hour today writing a function to reduces that analysis to 86 lines of code, and will make adding new data easy. Feeling proud ๐Ÿค— #rstats #rstudioglobal #DataScience #microbiology #r4ds
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Augustus Pendleton
2 years
The sexual tension between me and an h-index of 2
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Augustus Pendleton
2 years
Every email I write has two stages: writing it and then removing all the exclamation marks.
@perfect_write
Dr Jen Harrison
2 years
Is anyone else struggling with addiction to exclamation marks? !!!!
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4 years
Calling on this fat little beeswax bear to give me good luck and motivation while working on paper revisions
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1 year
Am I really dumb or am I really smart ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ @JuliaLanguage #JuliaLang
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Augustus Pendleton
1 year
CUBScout.jl v1.0.0 is officially out! ๐ŸŽ‰ This is my first package in @JuliaLanguage . CUBScout helps you analyze codon usage, quickly! To celebrate, I used CUBScout to analyze how codon usage changes from the start to end of a gene. Read about it here:
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@AugustusPendle1
Augustus Pendleton
4 years
A huge thanks to @DiversaRevista for the profile! When I came out at 17, I never imagined the incredible #LGBTQSTEM community which I'd find. Here's to another 24 years of #gayscience !
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2 years
Heโ€™s a model
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Augustus Pendleton
4 years
Made it my goal to bike to work everyday this week. Eighty miles later and I'm done!
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Augustus Pendleton
1 year
Submitting your paper after three years of edits and two rounds of review
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