Dan Sprockett
@danielsprockett.bsky.social
New Assistant Professor. My lab works on the ecology and evolution of the microbiome.
Former CIHMID Postdoc Fellow at Cornell. Stanford M&I Alum. NMDC Microbiome Data Champion @microbiomedata.org
Former CIHMID Postdoc Fellow at Cornell. Stanford M&I Alum. NMDC Microbiome Data Champion @microbiomedata.org
One thing I think I want to ban entirely is using AI-generated citations. You can't really cite something if you haven't read it yourself.
And even if AI hallucinations get better, I think the risk is far too great.
And even if AI hallucinations get better, I think the risk is far too great.
May 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
One thing I think I want to ban entirely is using AI-generated citations. You can't really cite something if you haven't read it yourself.
And even if AI hallucinations get better, I think the risk is far too great.
And even if AI hallucinations get better, I think the risk is far too great.
One thing that comes to mind that could be very positive is assistance with coding and data analysis. But how do I ensure that lab members have a deep understand of how every line/function works?
May 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
One thing that comes to mind that could be very positive is assistance with coding and data analysis. But how do I ensure that lab members have a deep understand of how every line/function works?
I'll take your re-tweets over fancy journal citations any day
April 1, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I'll take your re-tweets over fancy journal citations any day
...Way ahead of you, Steve-o (from way back in 2014!)
Moral enhancements and your microbiome:
medium.com/gut-check/gu...
Moral enhancements and your microbiome:
medium.com/gut-check/gu...
Your stomach bacteria is changing the way you think.
The saying “thinking with your gut” is more accurate than you probably realize.
medium.com
April 1, 2025 at 6:28 AM
...Way ahead of you, Steve-o (from way back in 2014!)
Moral enhancements and your microbiome:
medium.com/gut-check/gu...
Moral enhancements and your microbiome:
medium.com/gut-check/gu...
Sorry, I'm just reading this now. But are you saying that these investigators reached the wrong conclusion, or that this paper shows that they would have reached the wrong conclusion if they hadn't binned correctly? If the former, whats the evidence that it was wrong?
March 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Sorry, I'm just reading this now. But are you saying that these investigators reached the wrong conclusion, or that this paper shows that they would have reached the wrong conclusion if they hadn't binned correctly? If the former, whats the evidence that it was wrong?
Related: We found some MAG databases are contaminated by sequencing adapters, but the collective response was basically "meh..."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Removal of sequencing adapter contamination improves microbial genome databases - BMC Genomics
Advances in assembling microbial genomes have led to growth of reference genome databases, which have been transformative for applied and basic microbiome research. Here we show that published microbi...
link.springer.com
March 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Related: We found some MAG databases are contaminated by sequencing adapters, but the collective response was basically "meh..."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
This is such a great question! Although I think the expectation for even uncovering those mislead conclusions should be scaled to how few people actually look at this.
March 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This is such a great question! Although I think the expectation for even uncovering those mislead conclusions should be scaled to how few people actually look at this.
Very cool -- I can't wait to dig into this paper!
What was it about the results that suggests phages and not some other host-specific factor?
What was it about the results that suggests phages and not some other host-specific factor?
February 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Very cool -- I can't wait to dig into this paper!
What was it about the results that suggests phages and not some other host-specific factor?
What was it about the results that suggests phages and not some other host-specific factor?