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

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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: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon
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

Laura's links

Ben's links

References and links
Episode with Jessica Polka: https://geni.us/bjks-polka
Episode with Elisabeth Bik: https://geni.us/bjks-bik
Episode with Joe Hilgard: https://geni.us/bjks-hilgard
Prototype fund Germany: https://prototypefund.de/en/
PubPeer: https://pubpeer.com/
Aaronovitch (2014-). Rivers of London series.
Frisch (1927). Aus dem Leben der Bienen.
Luebbert, Sullivan, Carilli, Hjörleifsson, Winnett, Chari & Pachter (2023). Efficient and accurate detection of viral sequences at single-cell resolution reveals putative novel viruses perturbing host gene expression. bioRxiv.
Luebbert & Pachter (2023). Efficient querying of genomic reference databases with gget. Bioinformatics.
Luebbert & Pachter (2024). The miscalibration of the honeybee odometer. arXiv.
https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2024/07/02/the-journal-of-scientific-integrity/

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Chapters

1. Why Laura studied biology in Leiden/the Netherlands (and the importance of early scientific training) (00:00:00)

2. 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) (00:13:41)

3. gget: Developing and maintaining a software tool with no prior programming experience (00:22:00)

4. Laura's future postdoc (with Pardis Sabeti): global virus-hunter (00:54:07)

5. Finding and reporting questionable data in published papers about honeybee dances (00:59:34)

6. A book or paper more people should read (01:36:43)

7. Something Laura wishes she'd learnt sooner (01:38:55)

8. Advice for PhD students/postdocs (01:40:38)

9. Bonus: should I learn Catalan? (01:44:02)

114 episodes

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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: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon
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

Laura's links

Ben's links

References and links
Episode with Jessica Polka: https://geni.us/bjks-polka
Episode with Elisabeth Bik: https://geni.us/bjks-bik
Episode with Joe Hilgard: https://geni.us/bjks-hilgard
Prototype fund Germany: https://prototypefund.de/en/
PubPeer: https://pubpeer.com/
Aaronovitch (2014-). Rivers of London series.
Frisch (1927). Aus dem Leben der Bienen.
Luebbert, Sullivan, Carilli, Hjörleifsson, Winnett, Chari & Pachter (2023). Efficient and accurate detection of viral sequences at single-cell resolution reveals putative novel viruses perturbing host gene expression. bioRxiv.
Luebbert & Pachter (2023). Efficient querying of genomic reference databases with gget. Bioinformatics.
Luebbert & Pachter (2024). The miscalibration of the honeybee odometer. arXiv.
https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2024/07/02/the-journal-of-scientific-integrity/

  continue reading

Chapters

1. Why Laura studied biology in Leiden/the Netherlands (and the importance of early scientific training) (00:00:00)

2. 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) (00:13:41)

3. gget: Developing and maintaining a software tool with no prior programming experience (00:22:00)

4. Laura's future postdoc (with Pardis Sabeti): global virus-hunter (00:54:07)

5. Finding and reporting questionable data in published papers about honeybee dances (00:59:34)

6. A book or paper more people should read (01:36:43)

7. Something Laura wishes she'd learnt sooner (01:38:55)

8. Advice for PhD students/postdocs (01:40:38)

9. Bonus: should I learn Catalan? (01:44:02)

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