Laura Hug
environmental microbiologist and compulsive frisbee chaser, tangent-prone story teller. Assistant Prof. & CRC at U. Waterloo, tweets are my own. she/her
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When Numbers Don’t Count
Medium 21d 4 tweets
Changing Perspectives on the Justinianic Plague
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Laura Hug “If you have Y. pestis in your teeth when you die, that means you died of plague” - fun article on the intersection of classics and microbiology, sent to me by my classicist sister! 21d
What Questions Do You Want Answered About Climate Change?
Maggie Koerth-Baker - FiveThirtyEight 155d 3 tweets
We're here to help.
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Laura Hug Confused about an aspect of climate change, big or small? Want a team of highly trained statistics geeks/journalists to examine it for you? has you covered. 155d
Is Email Making Professors Stupid?
The Chronicle of Higher Education 301d 111 tweets
It used to simplify crucial tasks. Now it’s strangling scholars’ ability to think.  
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Laura Hug I've read Cal Newport's "Deep Work" and it changed my habits more dramatically than anything else in the past five years. His article here is a quick overview of his thoughts on distraction in the academy, and worth the read. 299d
AnnoTree
Annotree.uwaterloo.ca 399d 4 tweets
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Laura Hug Want an addictive, informative, gene distribution experience? Check out AnnoTree, our new tool. Here's the distribution of reductive dehalogenases (my favorite) on the bacterial tree of life. 399d
AnnoTree: visualization and exploration of a functionally annotated microbial tree of life
bioRxiv 399d 3 tweets
Bacterial genomics has revolutionized our understanding of the microbial tree of life; however, mapping and visualizing the distribution of functional traits across bacteria remains a challenge. Here, we introduce AnnoTree - an interactive,...
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Laura Hug Want an addictive, informative, gene distribution experience? Check out AnnoTree, our new tool. Here's the distribution of reductive dehalogenases (my favorite) on the bacterial tree of life. 399d