Why Laura studied biology in Leiden/the Netherlands (and the importance of early scientific training)

How Laura ended up doing a PhD at Caltech with Lior Pachter (and how to choose one project if you're interested in many things)

gget: Developing and maintaining a software tool with no prior programming experience

Laura's future postdoc (with Pardis Sabeti): global virus-hunter

Finding and reporting questionable data in published papers about honeybee dances

A book or paper more people should read

Something Laura wishes she'd learnt sooner

Advice for PhD students/postdocs

Bonus: should I learn Catalan?

Laura Luebbert just finished her PhD in computational biology and will soon be a postdoc with Pardis Sabeti, to hunt some viruses. We talk about how she got into biology, how she created a widely-used software project (gget) with no prior coding experience, her recent reports when she discovered questionable data in key papers about honeybee dances, and much more. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. Support the show: <a href="https://geni.us/bjks-patreon">https://geni.us/bjks-patreon</a> Timestamps 0:00:00: Why Laura studied biology in Leiden/the Netherlands (and the importance of early scientific training) 0:13:41: How Laura ended up doing a PhD at Caltech with Lior Pachter (and how to choose one project if you're interested in many things) 0:22:00: gget: Developing and maintaining a software tool with no prior programming experience 0:54:07: Laura's future postdoc (with Pardis Sabeti): global virus-hunter 0:59:34: Finding and reporting questionable data in published papers about honeybee dances 1:36:43: A book or paper more people should read 1:38:55: Something Laura wishes she'd learnt sooner 1:40:38: Advice for PhD students/postdocs 1:44:02: Bonus: should I learn Catalan? Podcast links<ul><li>Website: <a href="https://geni.us/bjks-pod">https://geni.us/bjks-pod</a></li><li>Twitter: <a href="https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twt">https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twt</a></li></ul> Laura's links<ul><li>Website: <a href="https://geni.us/luebbert-web">https://geni.us/luebbert-web</a></li><li>Google Scholar: <a href="https://geni.us/luebbert-scholar">https://geni.us/luebbert-scholar</a></li><li>Twitter: <a href="https://geni.us/luebbert-twt">https://geni.us/luebbert-twt</a></li></ul> Ben's links<ul><li>Website: <a href="https://geni.us/bjks-web">https://geni.us/bjks-web</a></li><li>Google Scholar: <a href="https://geni.us/bjks-scholar">https://geni.us/bjks-scholar</a></li><li>Twitter: <a href="https://geni.us/bjks-twt">https://geni.us/bjks-twt</a></li></ul> References and links Episode with Jessica Polka: <a href="https://geni.us/bjks-polka">https://geni.us/bjks-polka</a> Episode with Elisabeth Bik: <a href="https://geni.us/bjks-bik">https://geni.us/bjks-bik</a> Episode with Joe Hilgard: <a href="https://geni.us/bjks-hilgard">https://geni.us/bjks-hilgard</a> Prototype fund Germany: <a href="https://prototypefund.de/en/">https://prototypefund.de/en/</a> PubPeer: <a href="https://pubpeer.com/">https://pubpeer.com/</a> Aaronovitch (2014-). Rivers of London series. Frisch (1927). Aus dem Leben der Bienen. Luebbert, Sullivan, Carilli, Hjörleifsson, Winnett, Chari &amp; Pachter (2023). Efficient and accurate detection of viral sequences at single-cell resolution reveals putative novel viruses perturbing host gene expression. bioRxiv. Luebbert &amp; Pachter (2023). Efficient querying of genomic reference databases with gget. Bioinformatics. Luebbert &amp; Pachter (2024). The miscalibration of the honeybee odometer. arXiv. <a href="https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2024/07/02/the-journal-of-scientific-integrity/">https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2024/07/02/the-journal-of-scientific-integrity/</a>

Laura Luebbert just finished her PhD in computational biology and will soon be a postdoc with Pardis Sabeti, to hunt some viruses. We talk about how she got into biology, how she created a widely-used software project (gget) with no prior coding experience, her recent reports when she discovered questionable data in key papers about honeybee dances, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Suppor...

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99. Laura Luebbert: gget, hunting viruses, and questionable honeybee dances