Tribute to EO Wilson

 

When I was a senior at @harvard in 1990 I started an "Environmental Issues" journal as part of activities leading to the 20th anniversary of Earth Day. I hoped to get EO Wilson to be our faculty sponsor. I phoned his office and arranged a meeting with him via his assistant 1/n https://t.co/0fyvH0ykky

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) December 27, 2021

Video and slides of my talk for the Microbiome Virtual International Forum posted

I gave a talk last week for the Microbiome Virtual International Forum. https://www.microbiome-vif.org/ Title: Evolution of microbiomes and the evolution of the study and politics of microbiomes (or, how can something be both ridiculously overhyped and horrifically underappreciated)" 

 See the Youtube video:  

 Slides:

Evolution of microbiomes and the evolution of the study and politics of microbiomes (or, how can something be both ridiculously overhyped and horrifically under-appreciated) from Jonathan Eisen

Also see this Twitter thread for some more info:

OK so I gave a talk for the @MicrobiomeVIF tonight https://t.co/4fJ4n6AJE6. I think it went, well OK, but it was really hard for a few reasons ... 1/n

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) December 8, 2021