how it feels to work on a grant proposal rn

Want to convert old relative abundance ocean amplicon data into absolute abundances? Williams et al. show a flow cytometry "anchor" can provide reasonable absolute abundances, validated by internal-standard corrected metagenomics with single copy genes, and amplicons academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

My brother got his chemotherapy port removed. Cautiously optimistic. Thanks John’s Hopkins medicine for saving his life after Penn Medicine said they couldn’t.

Things I’ve gained by my eldercare journey: I am really good at paperwork now. Made some big moves today - prepaid for both my parents to have funerals in case they pass. Ok now I’m done adulting.

If the dept of war issues a proclamation do we need to heed it? Because no one has approved that name so it legally isn’t usable, right? I thought only Congress could change the name.

This, and the scene where he touches his face *while wearing gloves* really ruins the rewatchability for me.

Apply to be an editor at an ASM Journal! Open call for editors at mBio, mSphere, mSystems, and Microbiology Spectrum. This is a very fulfilling way to share your expertise and give back to our society journals. @asm.org journals.asm.org/asm-call-for...

2nd defense done! Whew! What a day. Congrats to all my students and big thanks to their committees. Check out @treevaughn.bsky.social ‘s cake of Jacob

Bluesky introduced an AI tool. Anyone who's spent any time on Bluesky can probably guess how that's going... "Attie only has 1,500 followers, meaning that about 83 times more users have blocked the account than followed it." 😳 techcrunch.com/2026/03/30/b...

Thesis defense 1 done! Been kinda hectic over here today.....

THIS IS ART bsky.app/profile/cjze...

2/3rds of my grad students defend tomorrow 💪

At least 8 million people turned out at more than 3,300 'No Kings' protests across all 50 states Saturday, according to the No Kings Coalition.
 Organizers say protests Saturday were the largest single-day nationwide demonstrations in U.S. history.

A good friend schedules protesting with you. A great friend picks you up for the protest and asks if you mind getting Starbucks on the way there then hands you her phone to order in the app. ❤️

The crowd today was friendly and supportive. Such nice people. The cars honked, only 2 “countered” out of thousands that passed us.

LIVE IN 3 HOURS! The power is ours. The fight is ours. No Thrones. No Crowns. NO KINGS. The *official* #NoKings 3 #Virtual & #Accessible #Rally will be an online event to protect our health, defend our democracy, and say NO KINGS. #NK3VR Join us! zurl.co/fPfYi

885 people at the morning sign protest for no kings. Just at my section! There were 2 other spots for signs in town.

Found out today that @kyclark.bsky.social has made their great 'Mastering Python for Bioinformatics' book into a YouTube series. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

If you can't, or simple don't want to, go out today for #NoKings but still want to be involved, here's an accessible rally online for you to join! #NK3 #NKEAR

Jesus Christ this is bad

Plugged my EV into the free charger that runs off the wind turbine.

movie about all the world's nations working together to stave off an environmental apocalypse succeeds by completely avoiding politics

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

I started listening to this audiobook today and geez this review is too kind. The book is completely hogwash and presented as an analysis when it’s all just anecdotal. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/29/b...

I emailed my senator about this and was dumb and used my work email and had to register as a federal lobbyist. Reminder to send from personal email!!

Me: This winch is rated to 100 lbs Engineer: Great, our device is 200 lbs Can someone explain to me where I am going wrong in my communication?!?!?!

WTAF

Are you an early career biologist looking for a position (Masters up to Faculty) and looking for community? I started a Discord server to help us find opportunities, build a network, and support one another! We're 40 strong as of posting this, come join us! discord.gg/nmktHJhUPH

Mini-bacterioferritins: structural insight into a ferritin-like protein from the anaerobic #methane -oxidising archaeon Candidatus #Methanoperedens carboxydivorans @ribesresearch.bsky.social @cuwelte.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...

The US Congress House Science Committee is holding a hearing on #DeepSeaMining this Thursday. You can watch the livestream from the website. More info here: science.house.gov/2026/3/envir...

Deep in the throes of the pandemic-driven shutdown, many people (including me) used this meme of a dumpster fire to say that would be emblematic of what we all felt and experienced about that time. Seems almost cute that we thought things could not possible get worse.

Some climate change facts: 2015–2025 = hottest decade observed 🌊 ~90% of excess heat stored in the oceans Heat gain ≈ 18× global energy use Rate is accelerating, not stabilizing This isn’t just warming; it’s a system moving further out of equilibrium www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The feeling right now of every scientist trying to communicate the seriousness of ongoing global warming and the urgency of reducing emissions. Excerpt from a cartoon by the late Jon Kudelka.

I read this at 3am and I’ll be damned. The breathing technique worked and I went back to sleep! Gift link: wapo.st/4t1gHvW

I’ve dreamt about it for years; it finally came to fruition last December when we honored Thomas Bosch. This is a way to honor the good ones, the ones who inspire, the ones who walk on water, the ones who leave a lasting legacy for the future and our greatest aspirations in the microbiome sciences.

It was so nice and warm today and then the sun went down and we’re back to tundra temps. 🥲

My nephew got into my university! Maybe I’ll get to see my family more for 4 years!

Excited to announce our new journal from @isme-microbes.bsky.social ISME Host Microbe is live and now accepting submissions. Look forward to receiving your papers! #Microsky 🧫 🦠

I’m quoted in this important Guardian article by @whatsitlike.me about colon cancer. I got the bad news today that chemo didn’t do the trick after 24 treatments. I start immunotherapy next week. Get tested folks; don’t ignore your health. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Our lab's paper about the oxic/anoxic interplay in CO2 injected oil wells is out in open access! doi:10.1180/gbi.2025.10005 tl/dr: Genomic evidence suggests oxygen from CO2 injection could be why more methane is coming out of CO2 injected wells - bad news for CO2 storage in existing wells!

I just had decade old data accepted for publication. At least the nice thing about the deep subsurface is probably nothing has changed in the study site since the collection!

The woman who got famous for a swinging scandal and then fights daily on reality TV has…surprised people? SLOMW featured the 2023 assault. Stop acting like you’re shocked.

@lgpens.bsky.social You're interviewing for my class! If you can get one of them to sing me the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald, I'll give them extra credit. Thank you!

Bluesky, we need your help to count walrus! 🦭 Previously on "Walrus from Space", volunteers like you sifted through around 500,000 satellite images to support our conservation research. Now we're asking the you to help us count the walrus in those images 👀 ➡️ geohive.vantor.com/walrus/login

Please help spread the word about this 3-year postdoc position in my team. If your expertise & interest lie in studying how organisms from different domains of life (Bacteria and Archaea) communicate, come join us this summer in cozy Odense, Denmark. Job post: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

The U.S. Postal Service's leader says it is set to run out of money in less than a year and may have to stop deliveries because of declining mail volume and what USPS sees as burdensome requirements. n.pr/4bu15df

Folks, more good news! Our latest paper on oyster microbiomes out in @pnas.org. Led by the inestimable Dr. Andrea Unzueta-Martinez and with great support from the Wang lab @whoi.edu we explore the how a persistent community of microbes in calcifying fluid could shape shell deposition. Enjoy!

Living patescibacterial (CPR) cells are a rare sight! Meet Strigamonas methylophilicida, a parasite of methylotrophic proteobacteria we just described in our latest paper: doi.org/10.1128/mbio...

God bless whoever left the Hershey's kisses in the breakroom.