Prashant K

Prashant K

@prash-k.bsky.social

Microbe tinkerer, synthetic biologist

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Steven Nelson
@snelsonus.bsky.social

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

Prashant K
@prash-k.bsky.social

Here's an excellent collection of bad graph practices and examples of improving them. Bonus: Also includes R scripts that help you start on the right foot for making the better versions of plots!

Chenxin Li, PhD@chenxinli2.bsky.social

Here is a thread showcasing my GitHub repositories: 1) Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bad Graphs. An opinionated essay on good and bad graphs. My popular one by a long shot with 6.4k stars and 248 forks. github.com/cxli233/Frie...

Prashant K
@prash-k.bsky.social

We developed an RNA enzyme that adds barcodes to 16S rRNA to track bacterial DNA exchange in wastewater, identifying plasmid hosts via sequencing. This surpasses fluorescence methods by enabling multi-sample/plasmid analysis. Paper: go.nature.com/440gL5E. More technical details: shorturl.at/Y4KnA

go.nature.comInformation storage across a microbial community using universal RNA barcoding - Nature BiotechnologyBarcoding microbial ribosomal RNA creates a recording of gene transfer events without requiring translation.

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