Amy Pickering
@SeqH2O
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Assoc. Prof. Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley. Moving to @seqh2o.bsky.social
UC Berkeley
Joined March 2020
Nope, won't save $4B given the positive externalities of NIH funding, BUT it will make college inaccessible for young Americans - tuition will increase. Faculty are already extremely efficient at research, teaching, admin/service for universities - there is no room to do more
Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above what many major foundations allow and much lower than the 60%+ that some institutions charge the government today. This change will save more than $4B a year effective immediately.
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New pre-print on infant first infections with enteric pathogens! 85% of pathogens detected in infants are also in animals living nearby, using longitudinal sampling we find child hand contact with soil contaminated with animal feces is a primary pathway!
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RT @ajjampur_s: Now published in #PLOSWater: Environmental surveillance of soil-transmitted helminths and other enteric pathogens in settin…
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Love how Europeans say they are “on holidays”, like there could never be just one day of holidaying
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RT @BerkeleyCee: Join us for the CEE Community Highlights Event on Friday, October 25th, 5-8 pm at West Pauley Ballroom! Register on Eventb…
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How can you do wastewater surveillance when there are no sewers? Check out our new preprint on sampling strategies!
📢Next in the EPISOL collaboration! 🇺🇸 🇧🇯and 🇮🇳Environmental surveillance - STH 🪱 & enteric pathogens - in places without networked wastewater - we need methods and strategies to expand surveillance outside of large urban areas @SeqH2O
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RT @CGerleinSafdi: Join our awesome department, @BerkeleyCee! Please RT and forward to any candidate who might be a good fit for this posit…
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RT @SGovindjee: Open assistant professor position at Berkeley in construction automation. Please pass on to those that would be good cand…
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RT @ajjampur_s: 📢Next in the EPISOL collaboration! 🇺🇸 🇧🇯and 🇮🇳Environmental surveillance - STH 🪱 & enteric pathogens - in places without n…
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RT @joshapte: Out today in @ScienceAdvances! How have 20 years of cleaner cars and trucks in California impacted PM2.5 air pollution expos…
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RT @ajjampur_s: 📢@plosNTDs paper on #environmental soil surveillance for monitoring #STH 🪱 - method development and field pilot testing 🇧🇯…
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RT @BerkeleyCee: Join Ashraf Habibullah, CEO of CSI, Inc., for an inspiring talk on making an impact as an engineer on Wed, Sept 11, at 5:3…
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RT @ScienceMagazine: More than 4.4 billion people in low- and middle-income countries lack safe drinking water, finds a new geospatial anal…
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RT @FletcherLab_UCB: Thanks to all the people who helped us organizing it this year. Check out the Ground State Ensemble full performance:…
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It’s always demoralizing when you finally resubmit a paper and it’s back in your inbox <24hrs because of technical/ format checks
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RT @EnvSciTech: In this ES&T study, @SeqH2O and team at @TuftsUniversity and @BerkeleyCee show animal ownership in rural Kenyan households…
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