Thank you for the shoutout! So excited to finally share this work with the science community!

Good morning #ASMicrobe! Please feel free stop by my rapid fire talk at the AES Track Hub on Friday, 6/20 from 11:45a-12:30p and my poster AES-SATURDAY-791 on Saturday, 6/21, I'd love to chat about potential plastic degrading microbes and stickleback 👀

Oh my gosh, PhD candidates Carol Vieira da Silva & @spasqualetti.bsky.social won 1 & 2 place, respectfully, in the UConn Graduate Student Research Symposium! They also won 1st place for their respective categories of Cognition, Heath, and Medicine (Carol) & Economy, Energy and Environment (Sarah) 🎉🎉

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

The Stickleback Stock Center, with Dr. Kat Milligan-McClellan @napaaqtuk.bsky.social, is working to plan a Gnotobiotic Workshop! Please fill out our form if you have any interest in germ-free stickleback and the many ways to manipulate them. Please share. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

For the people who have asked how they can help people in Kotzebue recover from the storm: The Native Village of Kotzebue said that they are taking contributions through the Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation. healthyalaskanatives.org/kotzebue-flo...

Hello my #marinescience friends on the East Coast! Do you work with oysters? Do you collect and eat your own oysters? Would you like to get your oysters tested for Hg for free? If so, DM me!! I’m working on a massive project and need all the love and help I can get! Please repost!!

My student @spasqualetti.bsky.social gave an excellent talk (I'm a little biased) about identifying microbes from stickleback that are able to degrade plastics. She also found that microbes in community have enhanced ability to break down plastics. Proud PI status

@spasqualetti.bsky.social and @sticklestock.bsky.social manager Holly are leaving today, so we hiked part of Powerline. They are able to leave early this year because we were able to get all our fish in record time. I'll stick around Anchorage for meetings, then head home. Beautiful day for a hike!

Thank you!!

2 PhD students and an undergrad were awarded summer fellowships! I'm so proud of them! Congratulations @spasqualetti.bsky.social, Caroline Vieira Da Silva, and Jolie Atwood!

Are you ready to order fish from the Stickleback Stock Center? Head over to our website and check it out! www.sticklestock.com/news/were-op... www.sticklestock.com/store-1