🧪 Quote of the Day, from Canadian American theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss -- mentioned 60X in Epstein files. This from 2011 article:

Any #archaea #archaeasky lab out there interested in having their Natrialba species sequenced on ONT r10 up to about 3Kx read depth for free? I'll send back annotated assembly, methylation data and raw signal files. I need at least one more species for a paper. Feel free to DM! 🧫🦠🧪

@uncultured.carinilab.com -- FYI, they look specifically at C fluxes in desert, arid, and grass and/or shrub and/or scrubland streams, AKA the West.

I just came onto this 2019 paper, prepping for my next Think Like a Microbe post -- it is a very interesting and thoughtful counterpoint to Monod's "the cell is indeed a machine" 🧪🧫 #philsci www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New on Think Like a Microbe! 🧫🧪 #philsci open.substack.com/pub/thinkmic...

@jcsmoot.bsky.social FAMEs!! This should have been a Findlay lab study www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Heeeeey #Microbial #Ecology folk! My department has a job opening for a tenure track Microbial Ecologist! Feel free to DM me with questions. Come join our awesome supportive whip-smart & kind crew in the Biology Department of @umassboston.bsky.social! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...

New on Think Like a Microbe ... Iron! 🧫🧪 #philsci open.substack.com/pub/thinkmic...

@elisabethbik.bsky.social Does the rapid rise of AI in images complicate sleuthing? I am stunned how seamlessly I can remove objects in my art photographs www.chemistryworld.com/news/fake-mi...

From 0.09% to 0.18% Tabloid journalism at NYT

UMass Amherst Microbiology is hiring a tenure-track virologist. Come work with me! 🦠🧪 careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

@markowenmartin.bsky.social Dude, this is so up your alley enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Next up on Think Like a Microbe 🧪🧫 #philsci open.substack.com/pub/thinkmic...

@nkalamb.bsky.social @derekcrim.bsky.social ICYMI … At Alabama, HC Kalen DeBoer deliberately started practice 90 minutes late ... "We actually had it originally scheduled earlier, moved it back just to get a little more heat. It's good for us. We even conditioned at the end, did some extra work”

Thinking about the limits to microbial life in TLaM ... 🧪🧫 #philsci open.substack.com/pub/thinkmic...

"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past" -- Oceania's Party in Orwell's 1984 🧪 #philsci grist.org/language/tru...

#Archaea #GRC folks, be sure to catch work by @oceancait.bsky.social representing our group this week in Switzerland. She'll talk about new Asgard archaea enrichments form the Oregon coast. Talk on Sunday, Poster during the week.

Latest #substack post is live. This was a piece I wrote several years ago for Rob Dunn's Invisible Worlds project. Here, I describe the vast metabolic versatility of microbes, through the lens of Sergei Winogradsky & Rhodopseudomonas palustris 🦠💥 gibbological.substack.com/p/jack-of-al...

I just came across this 🧪🧫 paper over weekend Very exciting insights -- I particularly liked this figure: type of illuminating exposition I see on @infobeautiful.bsky.social Defining ultra-slow-growing extremophilic microorganisms as aeonophiles www.nature.com/articles/s41...

After too long a hiatus ... another Think Like a Microbe 🧪🧫 #philsci open.substack.com/pub/thinkmic...

Fe is the element w/ lowest ratio between cellular content and aqueous solubility Competition can be fierce

Today's #economics PSA 🧪 medicalxpress.com/news/2025-06...

Think Like a Microbe is back!! 🧪🧫 #philsci open.substack.com/pub/thinkmic...

Nice commentary by a College Education AI dissenter hedgehogreview.com/web-features...

Hey @markowenmartin.bsky.social -- ICYMI Thought of you .... has a series of lovely colony photos 🧪🧫 www.quantamagazine.org/how-a-biofil...

This is a great, great #history of #science article!! From 1950s to the present “I was doing more simulation on a Tuesday of some weeks than I was going to do in my entire Ph.D.” www.quantamagazine.org/how-ai-revol...

Read the whole thing. You won’t be surprised, but you should be outraged.

Matthias makes some very, very important points here for science faculty / lab group leaders to consider re: how they are perceived by others in the lab

Today's rabbit hole after a duel with a Trumpster/RFK guy on health care. Poverty = no insurance / access = no prenatal care / regular screenings = infant mortality / chronic diseases Oh, and opioid addiction (20% of deaths 25-34 yo) + guns for 15-34 yo.

In TLaM today, I take a pause from microbial ecology to think about how US scientists should respond to 2025 change in climate 🧪🧫 #philsci #resistance open.substack.com/pub/thinkmic...

RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

@drewmckevitt.bsky.social FYI / ICYMI / "Don't blame the messenger" theconversation.com/guns-in-amer...

This is one of the most lucid explanations of Trump’s plan that I’ve seen #TributeDiplomacy open.substack.com/pub/observin...

Hot off the Think Like a Microbe presses .... 🧪🧫 #philsci open.substack.com/pub/thinkmic...

A small cohort of our Lab folks will be at the 2025 Symbiosis Workshop at Yosemite! I'm proud of the work they've done! Be sure to check Vivianna's work on culturing soil microbes, Jorge's work on vernal pools, and Caitlin's work on sediment archaea! @oceancait.bsky.social @mandussi.bsky.social

This is me :) Go read about the incredible microbes and currents of Lake Ontario!

@lukeepplin.bsky.social — it turns out I’ll have 5 h in central Santiago, Chile tomorrow. Any suggestions on how to spend this minimal time? Also, a wall poster seen in Castro

@nkalamb.bsky.social FYI it’s not just you …

New on Think Like a Microbe 🧪🧫 #philsci open.substack.com/pub/thinkmic...

Graduate education is as much of a core function as undergraduate education. Subsidies to UMass athletics total $45M (out of $56M budget). Why not cut those first? Also curious why you think grad programs are 'incredibly expensive'?

If future economic growth in US is tied to developing talented young scientists and engineers, I'm hard pressed to think of a program with higher ROI than #NSF #REU 🧪 www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

🧫🧪 "Ten species comprise half of the bacteriology literature, leaving most species unstudied." 'Model' gram - and gram + (Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtitles) + human pathogens www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Professor Shaun Harper and an expert on diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education offers strong guidance to college and university leaders on how to interpret and respond to the “Dear Colleague” letter from the Department of Education.

@nkalamb.bsky.social Some cringe-worthy quotes in here ... "In hockey, we play hurt. We play injured. That is the culture of the sport."

@nkalamb.bsky.social @derekcrim.bsky.social Dudes, feel like you have me well ahead of the curve -- keep bumping into news articles where I have to say, yeah, I already read an in-depth analysis of this problem in The End of Football www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/u...

Livestock manure in great lakes basin vs iowa open.substack.com/pub/riverrac...

Science is considering retracting ‘arsenic life’ paper #ScienceSky retractionwatch.com/2025/02/12/i...

Proving again 2 things: 1. Lack of a backbone by administrators 2. To the dis- /poorly-enfranchised: those 'allies' you thought you had? They'll desert you at the drop of a hat where it might cost them

Quite a nice detailed study here on anoxic metabolism of roots + microbes. 🧫🧪 Would have loved to have seen an 18-O water SIP experiment to ID important taxa. www.cell.com/molecular-pl...