#Artemis did not disappoint! Got an amazing view of the launch yesterday from NASA Kennedy Space Center. Hard to describe, but the feeling in my bones was something else and unexpected! 🚀🧪

Super excited to be at Kennedy Space Center for a #NASA project ( #wormsInSpace launching next week, but more on that later ) AND to be able to see the launch of #Artemis II! To the moon and stars!! 🚀🌖 🧪

Big news from #arXiv. They are "spinning out of Cornell University and into a new independent non-profit later this year." "We are launching the search for a Chief Executive Officer to lead the new organization and ask for your help in spreading the word." #scholarlypublishing #preprints #academia

Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

We in the C. elegans community are lucky to have the #wormfeed. Big shout out to @microbeminded.bsky.social for creating such a wonderful gathering place. And you can pin the wormfeed to your homescreen: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Friends! I am so happy to share our new preprint! Hydrogen peroxide has been the most common reactive chemical threat to life forms since the Great Oxygenation Event 2.5 billion years ago. How do animals like C. elegans sense it fast and escape? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread 1/

Excited to see this out in the world. The CGC is launching a curated strains collection, the first being protein degradation systems and this is a pilot primer to pair with it authored by myself, Dave Reiner, Ann Rougvie, and Aric Daul. We review the state of the field and provide use guidance (1)

I signed. I was supported by a GRFP during my thesis research and its award reinforced that I was a scientist during my training.

I signed and was supported by this program as a graduate student myself.

More foundations should do this: "Funding is exclusively available to applicants who have already received federal funding (e.g., from the NIH, CDC, NSF) for their health equity research, but have since had their funding rescinded due to federal administrative actions" www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...

CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?

This EO, combined with the retirement of Noni Byrnes at CSR/NIH, makes me very concerned about peer review at the NIH

“This appears to be the administration's response to Congress: An attempt to place a major roadblock to any new funding and establish the structure that will formally exert the ideological control that it wants.” Great reporting from @jtimmer.bsky.social arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Well, this is a huge Executive Order power grab... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 1/3

I am honored to be selected as an ASCB fellow! SO much thanks to those who nominated me and provided letters of support! And congratulations to the other Fellows selected! 🎉🥳🎊

#NatMicroPicks Engineering Peace in the Gut Microbiome ☮️🔧🦠 BACTRINS, a microbiome engineering platform that precisely edits gut pathogens by inserting therapeutic payloads and neutralizing virulence genes, transforming them into allies. @natbiomedeng.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

>80% microb species detected by metagenomics are undetected by metaproteomics; because existing workflows rely on incomplete reference DBs, underutilize spectral data and don't robustly incorporate FDR control. Here, a new workflow (uMetaP) seems to improve everything. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to have our new mini review on Microbiome Metabolism out today in I&I as part of the @asm.org New Voices in Microbiology collection! Check it out! 🧫🧪 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Here the authors propose that gut #microbiota derived peptides exhibit potential for prevention and treatment of human metabolic disorders www.nature.com/articles/s41...

You can get an accurate estimate of total bacterial biomass from stool metagenomes by simply normalizing by host read count, without needing any additional measurements. Excellent work by UW Master's student Gechlang Tang in @asm.org #mSystems Journal. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... 🧵

Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.

For the life of me, I cannot fathom the rationale for any of this. Utter wanton destruction of one of the best research ecosystems in the world.

Well, none of us may ever get funded again but in the meantime, here's some new science! Led by recent PhD Anjali Pandey w/ex-UG Maya Katz. Here we identify an asymmetric molecular mechanism that underlies symmetric context-dependent sensory plasticity in the AWC olfactory neuron pair in C. elegans

Tomorrow SCOTUS quietly decides if Trump administration can illegally cut grants tied to DEIA. This and today's bombshell announcing no new NIH grants is an orchestrated assault. We need to scream from rooftops.

“Withholding or suspending these funds would jeopardize that trust and hinder progress on critical health challenges facing our nation. Ultimately, this is about finding cures and seeing them through to fruition.” www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Seeing this published is even better than eating sweets! I am so happy and proud of whole @lisamaierlab.bsky.social, especially Lisa and @jdlcz.bsky.social who walked the funny/exciting/rocky road with me until the very end. Check it out! #science #microbiome #health www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Future of NIH in the hands of five senators. Write to them if you are in PA -McCormick WV - Moore Capito ME - Collins AL - Britt LA - Cassidy

A potent bacterium in the human gut can supercharge the effects of some cancer drugs in mice — and researchers are now planning a clinical trial to test whether it could do the same in people. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It's an honor to be recognized for advocating for what you believe "that everyone belongs in computational biology and that all ideas are valued equally, recognizing that diversity of thought and background drives scientific excellence" doi.org/10.1093/bioi...

New Boston Globe story about NIH funding and its impacts www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/14/b... 1/n

"NIH [.. is] instructed to nominate replacements that are aligned with the priorities of the administration of US President Donald Trump — and have been warned that political appointees might still override their suggestions and hand-pick alternative reviewers". www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thrilled to share the first preprint from my group! Prevotella are predominant but understudied members of the respiratory microbiome. They have a reputation for being hard to work with, but understanding them is likely important for understanding how they contribute to respiratory health. 🧫🔬

Dear all, PLEASE add comments on the importance of model organism research at this link:

NASA is more than rockets and moonwalks. NASA is behind much of our everyday technology. From space discovery, to Air Jordans, to CAT scans, NASA has played a role. We get it all on less than a penny of every federal dollar. Now their science may be gutted by 50%. #NASADidThat

While I’m a big fan of new technologies that help us study human biology…there’s still no replacement for animal research! See my article in Gen News. www.genengnews.com/topics/trans...

Home stretch for #McClintockLetters! #Scientists, there's still time to participate. Reach out if you need a hand with getting published or edits or your pitch! Are you living in or are from #Wyoming? Write to your local paper to share your science: tinyurl.com/McClintockLettersInitiative

New profile! Dr. Sarah Heilbronner (@srheilbronner.bsky.social‬) uses cutting-edge neuroanatomical and neuroimaging techniques to decipher the wiring diagram of the primate brain. Follow the link below to learn more! www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202... #StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuroscience

Today, *every* living prior leader of NASA's science directorate have released a joint letter condemning the proposed cuts to NASA science. These individuals every administration from Reagan to Biden, and all believe these cuts are insanely destructive: www.planetary.org/press-releas...

A letter from scientists to the community: Protect transgender scientists. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science! The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic

Amazing as always Worm Show at #worm25 last week! Such a great community to be a part of and was so great to catch up with so many friends and colleagues! #Celegans forever! 🧪 🪱 🧬

Exciting Senior Scientist 👩‍🔬 👨‍🔬 role available in my research group 🧠 🦠 - Closing date Tuesday 5th August 2025. Please Share @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social @anatneuroucc.bsky.social Full details here my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru...

July 4th parade in Woods Hole today was a celebration of freedom, life, liberty and happiness through science! Many @mblscience.bsky.social groups represented— so fun! May have missed #Celegans, but flies, squid, and axolotls well represented. 🧪

We are looking forward to the Worm Meeting 2027 and thank Suhong Xu(Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China), Kavita Babu (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India), and Erik Andersen (Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, USA) for organising. #worm25

Congratulations to all the #worm25 Poster Award Winners and Honorable Mentions!

As it’s my first time joining Worm Meeting, I was excited to participate in Worm Art show as well. This year’s topic is resilience. In times of scarcity, worms gather holding one another to reach new grounds. Alone - they are fragile, together - they rise. Even the sky yields in unity. #worm25

And then there's this nonsense. WE CANNOT SUBSTITUTE ANIMAL TRIALS WITH AI. We don't even know some of the basics of the immune system bc it's so fricking complicated. AI is based on what we know. Man, I was happier on the plane without wifi. Utter nonsense.

The "Big Beautiful Bill" isn’t the federal budget—it’s a reconciliation bill focused on tax cuts. The real FY26 funding decisions for NIH, NSF, and more are happening now in Congress. www.ascb.org/science-poli...

Don’t forget to vote! #worm25 👇🏼