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Taking over the world one microbe at a time. Taking myself not too seriously.
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jamelle
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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
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Imani Gandy
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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.
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BWJones
3 days ago
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.
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Dominique Baker
4 days ago
"Fake-citation Matthew effect" has killed me, you're talking to my ghost now
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Greg the Miller
4 days ago
love seeing PhD’s liking my fart jokes
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Colette Delawalla
4 days ago
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 💁🏻♀️
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NSF announces $1.5B NSF X-Labs initiative to pursue generational breakthrough science efforts
https://www.nsf.gov/tip/updates/nsf-announces-15b-nsf-x-labs-initiative-pursue-generational
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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. ❤️
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ProPublica
4 days ago
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.
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Russell Vought: The Shadow President
YouTube video by ProPublica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1LuV82l0vs
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Evgenii Protasov
6 days ago
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...
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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!
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Drew Steen
5 days ago
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!
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One of my favorite people in the world has a postdoc open! Go work for Rosa Leon Zayas!
careers.msu.edu/jobs/postdoc...
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Postdoctoral Scholar-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Position Summary The Department of Microbiology, Genetics, & Immunology seeks a highly motivated Postdoctoral Scholar to conduct cutting-edge research in environmental genomics with a focus on met...
https://careers.msu.edu/jobs/postdoctoral-scholar-fixed-term-east-lansing-michigan-united-states-453c1c3c-9f7e-403f-9e6b-a2ef062fb9a1
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Maureen Barr
6 days ago
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...
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INSPIRE is recruiting! Please share broadly with senior graduate students and beginning postdocs. INSPIRE, the NIH-funded Rutgers-IRACDA, offers postdoctoral training for individuals interested in… | ...
INSPIRE is recruiting! Please share broadly with senior graduate students and beginning postdocs. INSPIRE, the NIH-funded Rutgers-IRACDA, offers postdoctoral training for individuals interested in com...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/martha-soto-7b7bb322_inspire-is-recruiting-please-share-broadly-activity-7459968193344737280-fyga?utm_source=share
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What a headline....
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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French woman was told by doctors hantavirus symptoms were just anxiety
Exclusive: Spanish health minister says MV Hondius passenger, now in a ‘critical state’, had been suffering flu-like symptoms
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/11/french-womandoctors-hantavirus-symptoms-hv-hondius
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Dael Norwood
7 days ago
It appears that Instructure (makers of Canvas) just straight up paid off the criminal gang
www.instructure.com/incident_upd...
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Security Incident Update & FAQs
https://www.instructure.com/incident_update
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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....
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michael roston
7 days ago
"Cloacal diving" thank you
@bittelmethis.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/s...
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A Fish That Hitches Rides Where the Sun Doesn’t Shine
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/science/a-fish-that-hitches-rides-where-the-sun-doesnt-shine.html
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Teresa O'Meara
7 days ago
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
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Paul Carini
7 days ago
Our updated preprint is live. Anergiobiosis: a testable framework for microbial life under extreme energy flux limitation with
@environmicrobio.bsky.social
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@jenbiddle.bsky.social
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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️
12 days ago
📢 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!
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Observational Oceanographer
British Antarctic Survey | Open-Ended Appointment | Cambridge |
https://fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/UKRI-Careers/job/2284?mode=job-location
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Ulisse Cardini
7 days ago
🪸 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
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Open position: PhD scholarship in microbial ecology of coralline algae - Marine Symbiomes Research Group
We invite applications for a PhD student to work on the microbiomes of crustose coralline algae (CCA) across tropical mangrove–seagrass–reef corridors.
https://marinesymbiomes.eu/2026/04/27/open-position-phd-scholarship-in-microbial-ecology-of-coralline-algae/
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🗽LOLGOP🗽
8 days ago
This year, be sure to honor mom with the gift any mom loves most: paid parental leave, single-payer healthcare, and unquestioned bodily autonomy.
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Sarah W. Davies Ph.D.
10 days ago
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
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Boston University, Department of Biology
Job #AJO32034, Lecturer, Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, US
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32034
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Luke Steuber
about 1 year ago
When I’m fully disassociated and I put on my active listening face
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Jerry Chen
11 days ago
:( :( :( more like cantvas
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Adam L
11 days ago
The one professor with a box of bluebooks who keeps all their grades in an Excel spreadsheet
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Sarah Tuttle
11 days ago
Exactly this. Our university emailed this afternoon, after big chunks of our teachingtools went offline.
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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez
11 days ago
Who needs Canvas anyway?
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Jess Calarco
11 days ago
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...
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“PAY OR LEAK”: Hackers Target Big Higher Ed Vendor
The criminal extortion group ShinyHunters breached Instructure last week. The hackers, who have also attacked individual universities, demanded the ed-tech giant pay up or face a data leak.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/administrative-tech/2026/05/05/pay-or-leak-hackers-target-big-higher-ed-vendor
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Lauren Palmer
11 days ago
🚨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...
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Nikita Gill
11 days ago
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.
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Ari Berman
11 days ago
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
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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.
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I GOT A REFUND! I WIN!
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Mya Breitbart
12 days ago
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!
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Donate to USF Marine Science: Fire Recovery Support, organized by Bella Iannotta
On Saturday, May 2nd the University of South Florida Marine Science Lab (MSL)… Bella Iannotta needs your support for USF Marine Science: Fire Recovery Support
https://gofund.me/4373c6ff3
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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....
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Judd Legum
12 days ago
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.
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The real cost of the Iran War: $72 billion for the first 60 days
Popular Information crunches the numbers. The official accounting is at least $47 billion too low.
https://popular.info/p/the-real-cost-of-the-iran-war-72
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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.
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Prosanta Chakrabarty
13 days ago
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
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Morphology of the light-organ system and bioluminescent blinking in the ponyfish tribe Equulitini (Teleostei: Leiognathidae)
Ponyfishes in the Family Leiognathidae uniquely possess a complex bioluminescent system with an esophageal light-producing organ containing bioluminescent bacterial symbionts, a reflective gas bladder...
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0347687
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Kate Atherley
14 days ago
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...
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Paper accepted! Just glad it’s out. Big props to the former postdoc who got it over the line.
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Joshua G. Schraiber
15 days ago
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
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Amee Vanderpool
16 days ago
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...
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Cherie DeVaux has chance to become first female trainer to win Kentucky Derby
The 44-year-old former pre-med student turned horse trainer will join a small list of females who have ever started a horse in the Derby and she can become the first in the races 152-year history to w...
https://www.wlky.com/article/cherie-devaux-first-female-trainer-kentucky-derby/71142762
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RuthLeyMicro
15 days ago
Come and work with us in a beautiful corner of Germany: 5 years of funding for your microbiology research and lots of great colleagues 🦠🧫
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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍
18 days ago
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
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Karolina Heyduk
16 days ago
Those were the days
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Got in my feels tonight and solved it by buying shit off the Amazon wish list of a cat rescue from Texas 💪
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Beth Orcutt
17 days ago
🚨🌊 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...
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COBRA Webinar - May 2026 - COBRA: Crustal Ocean Biosphere Research Accelerator
COBRA Webinar Series, May 5, 2026
https://cobra.bigelow.org/cobra-webinar-may-2026/
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Jacquelyn Gill
19 days ago
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
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