i have been writing about the virginia supreme court decision with a certain amount of analytical detachment but if i’m being honest i’m also fucking furious i took the time to go vote and then my ballot got tossed out by these dipshits

Hi. 😊 Black American here. Norway is an almost entirely white country. The United States is racist as fuck. That's why we don't have a social democracy or, like, healthcare. Follow for more glimpses into a racist society where white people* would rather die than see a Black person succeed.

If it’s down this much at MIT, imagine state and ag schools in the middle of the country. Actually we don’t have to imagine. It’s unmitigated disaster for some programs.

"Fake-citation Matthew effect" has killed me, you're talking to my ghost now

love seeing PhD’s liking my fart jokes

Well, would ya look at that! NSF is going to send >10% of its current budget to industry (read: tech start ups) instead of universities…it’s as if the admin is trying to dismantle our basic science mechanism and use it as a start up fund for private companies 💁🏻‍♀️ www.nsf.gov/tip/updates/...

Last day of classes today. I had some amazing students this semester. We ended my one course with us following each other on Goodreads. The other one finished with LinkedIn. ❤️

This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

Rare event, but it happens: a proposal of a new bacterial class, Nanosynbacteria within the Minisyncoccota phylum (aka Patescibacteriota or Candidate Phyla Radiation). #microbiology #bacteria #parasites #taxonomy #MicroSky @microbiologysociety.org www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Took my lab out to dinner to celebrate the last week of classes. Didn’t know that bar trivia was happening. Wound up being one of the most fun lab dinners! We would have tied for 2nd if we bet more on the final!

Yeah the NSF POs I’m in contact with are acting like heroes behind the scenes. I’m sure it’s the same at NIH. We need to support them however we can!

One of my favorite people in the world has a postdoc open! Go work for Rosa Leon Zayas! careers.msu.edu/jobs/postdoc...

POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY!!! The Rutgers IRACDA program is phenomenal: 70% of postdoctoral fellows land faculty positions. Martha Soto (LinkedIn below) is the amazing director and leader of this program. Please apply or reach out if you have questions. www.linkedin.com/posts/martha...

What a headline.... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

It appears that Instructure (makers of Canvas) just straight up paid off the criminal gang www.instructure.com/incident_upd...

Girl bossed a little too close to the sun and now I have to speak at commencement. Need to hand in the text early for closed captioning and ASL practice. Right now it's a bunch of song lyrics....

"Cloacal diving" thank you @bittelmethis.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/s...

We are hiring @umichmicroimmuno.bsky.social ! Tenure-track assistant professor position in our Microbiology and Immunology department. We are especially looking for someone working in bacterial pathogenesis

Our updated preprint is live. Anergiobiosis: a testable framework for microbial life under extreme energy flux limitation with @environmicrobio.bsky.social and @jenbiddle.bsky.social ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

📢 Job Alert; open-ended post!! We are seeking an observational oceanographer, with a keen interest in instrumentation and fieldwork in the polar regions. Please share and help connect us with the right candidate! fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

🪸 We're hiring a PhD student in microbial ecology of crustose coralline algae! Fully funded 3-year position jointly hosted at SZN Genova & MPI-MM Bremen, with fieldwork in Belize, Seychelles & Fiji. ⏰ Deadline: May 21, 2026 #PhD #MarineScience #Microbiology #OpenPosition

This year, be sure to honor mom with the gift any mom loves most: paid parental leave, single-payer healthcare, and unquestioned bodily autonomy.

Hi folks! @bu-biology.bsky.social is hiring two (!!) lecturers in Cell and Molecular Biology. It is a sweet gig in an awesome department. Come join us! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32034

When I’m fully disassociated and I put on my active listening face

:( :( :( more like cantvas

The one professor with a box of bluebooks who keeps all their grades in an Excel spreadsheet

Exactly this. Our university emailed this afternoon, after big chunks of our teachingtools went offline.

Who needs Canvas anyway?

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

🚨Faculty job search: University of Illinois Chicago Micro & Immuno department is hiring! Open rank and open area within host-pathogen interactions. Apply by May 31 to join us in UI College of Medicine in the heart of Chicago! uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

A reminder that this is why we make fun of The Odyssey. The book would not exist if Odysseus was not such a complete chaos goblin who was busy causing problems for himself by arguing with Gods and being a shit navigator. There is no way to make an extremely serious movie out of this material.

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

So one of my students is big into Ren Faire stuff and today in lab meeting I asked if he knew Jacques de Whipper and HE DOES. Legend. Both of them.

I GOT A REFUND! I WIN!

Lots of people have reached out asking how they can support us after the devastating fire in the MSL building, the heart of @cmarinescience.bsky.social Here’s one way, a GoFundMe organized by our graduate students - gofund.me/4373c6ff3. Please share widely, and thanks for helping our community!

I have said the same of a few of my colleagues. If you're nominating for an award, make sure to look at original versus synthesized content....

1. Hegseth testified in Congress that the cost of first 60 days of the Iran War cost $25 billion. Internally, the Pentagon says its $50 billion. Popular Information crunched the numbers, and the real cost is much higher: At least $72 BILLION.

Since we have a winter semester we are now in the time of year where everyone else is shouting freedom from spring semester and submitting new papers and I’ve still got 2 weeks of classes and finals to grade. Be patient please! And no - I can’t do any reviews right now. Sorry not sorry.

Love this paper on maybe my favorite group of fishes, the ponyfishes (Leiognathidae) Morphology of the light-organ system and bioluminescent blinking in the ponyfish tribe Equulitini (Teleostei: Leiognathidae) Ghedotti et al. 2026 #oa journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Well, this is exciting! The preview copy of my newest book has arrived. CIRCULAR KNITTING FOR BEGINNERS AND BEYOND, published by David & Charles will be available July 28 this year. More info and preorder links here... www.davidandcharles.com/books/knitti...

Paper accepted! Just glad it’s out. Big props to the former postdoc who got it over the line.

This means that hundreds, if not thousands of labs all over the country will close. Tens of thousands of jobs will be lost. This is in defiance of Congress's will and in defiance of good stewardship of the US economy. This is entirely because Russ Vought hates science

Cherie DeVaux, the 44-year-old former pre-med student turned horse trainer has just joined a small list of females who have ever started a horse in the Derby and the first in the race's 152-year history to win it. www.wlky.com/article/cher...

Come and work with us in a beautiful corner of Germany: 5 years of funding for your microbiology research and lots of great colleagues 🦠🧫

Screaming to the abyss: #ColossalBio did not resurrect the dire wolf and they're probably just going to make an antelope with methemoglobinemia to give it a bluish color. Their #DeExtinction #DisInformation campaign is just a pyramid scheme because #ExtinctionIsForever 🧪

Those were the days

Got in my feels tonight and solved it by buying shit off the Amazon wish list of a cat rescue from Texas 💪

🚨🌊 Want to learn about the latest and greatest #DeepSea eDNA technologies and science for understanding biodiversity? Join the COBRA webinar next Tuesday - register here. cobra.bigelow.org/cobra-webina...

I am begging people looking to make major donations to universities to either 1) care as much about academics as they do sports, or 2) make unrestricted gifts instead. Signed, A faculty member at a university with brand new athletic facilities and crumbling teaching and research infrastructure