Will James

what a barn, and awesome to get to see Michigan sweep the weekend!

🌊🧬🚨 NEW BLOG post! highlighting the Great Lakes Atlas of Multi-Omics Research (GLAMR), a public platform that brings together environmental ‘omics datasets from across the #GreatLakes. 📖 Read: ciglr.seas.umich.edu/omics-discov... 📝 NEW GLAMR fact sheet: ciglr.seas.umich.edu/wp-content/u...

“Detroit, Michigan is in the eastern time zone”

Glad to see I am not alone, had quite the Lokiarchaeota signal in some samples a while back that seemed to have been erroneous when compared to metagenomic sequencing. 16S taxonomies here from NB classifier trained on GTDB 207.

Couldn’t manage to catch peak conductions for this storm; but it did let me finally check of Nokhu Couloir off my list.

Thought my ski season was about over, only for the storm of the season to roll through. Inch per hour for the last 12, with almost no wind to speak of on the Cameron Pass USGS met station. Snow now starting to accumulate in Fort Collins. waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-l...

I’m going to be doing RNA extractions from soil all day Monday while trying not to think about Michigan being a 10 point favorite in a national championship game.

In the Trump administration’s reorganization of the struggling agency, painful echoes of BLM’s past moves.

Mountain lakes are the "canary in the coal mine" for how ecosystems respond to climate change. That's according to the Mountain Liminology Lab's Mary Jade Farruggia, who was featured in an article from the Aspen Times earlier this month.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Finally started snowing, and got to put some nice turns in on N. Diamond.

Nice radio piece from KUNC and CO-NPR with collaborators at USFS on our research on the biogeochem of process based restoration. www.kunc.org/podcast/inth...

Ok, it’s allowed to snow now.

This was good for morale

Tis the season!

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “AI–AI bias: Large language models favor communications generated by large language models.” Explore the article here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/Me2U50SkLRZ.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

236 metagenome-assembled microbial genomes from rivers along a latitudinal gradient www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Wrapped up field work for 2025 today! Blown away by just how dramatic the impacts of restoration efforts have been already.

I joined together with @CIGLR scientists from across the Great Lakes basin to explain the critical value of Great Lakes research and how investing in it directly impacts our health, wealth, and well-being. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Some pretty dramatic planform shifts following large wood installation. First time point for the field season in the books!

Santa Ono will NOT be the next University of Florida president after a contentious confirmation process before the Florida Board of Governors that resulted in a split vote to sign off on his hire. Story to come.

🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨 Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham. It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda. We’ve launched an open letter. SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

Cutbacks have gutted the staff at NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, who work to protect the public from toxic algal blooms. Severe spending limits have made it difficult to purchase ordinary equipment for processing samples, such as filters and containers.

Cuts to research are far reaching and will have immediate negative impact. Folks who work at CIGLR not only help facilitate fantastic work at University of Michigan but provide crucial HABs forecasts for recreation, fisheries, and water utilities. www.propublica.org/article/noaa...

Predicting the future of glacier-fed streams and their microbiome by @riverepfl.bsky.social, @layeb.bsky.social, @susheelbusi.bsky.social and friends in www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Well, well done dear Massimo!!!

Super fun to toss on the sticks and help out with the Fraser Experimental Forest’s Annual Snow Survey this year!

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

Sitting heart rate was elevated this afternoon.

ColoState Colleagues, come out at noon this Friday outside the LSC to Stand Up for Science!

Nice to see this important work make the news cycle when there is a lot of news in the world. Kudos to @laurenhart.bsky.social, @zepernickbn.bsky.social and others. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... And very nice of Newsweek to pick it up! www.newsweek.com/lake-erie-la...

Some nice light reading with the National championship in the background.

NEW: Springer Nature — the prestigious publisher of scientific journals like Nature and the 1845-founded magazine Scientific American — is imploring published journal authors to buy $49 AI-generated "Media Kits" that summarize their own work. futurism.com/springer-nat...

"you'll be visited by three spirits" The three spirits:

Christmas gathering for members of the Colorado State Microbiome Network!

Our sister department here at Colorado State (Agricultural Biology) is looking for a new department head. Position details here: jobs.colostate.edu/postings/153...

Great article detailing the work of Colorado State Microbiome (CoSMic) Network Research Professor Mikayla Borton, #CoSMic Co-Director Kelly Wrighton, and collaborators. In addition to the article below, check out the publication here in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #GRAM #Microbiome

My new op-ed Time magazine has just been posted. The lament of a climate optimist. time.com/7178677/clim...