The 2025 GRS/GRC on Microbial Adhesion and Signal Transduction was absolutely amazing! I made so many great new connections and was blown away by the research. With that said, I’m also very happy to be home again, sipping delicious coffee alongside my sweet kitty! Excited for 2027 MAST!

Congratulations to 2025 GRC Microbial Adhesion and Signal Transduction Poster Award Winners!! 🎆🥂🙌 Thank you @cp-cell.bsky.social and @femsmicro.org for sponsoring! From, Your secret judges 🤫

We are now over 2/3 full for the 2025 Microbial Adhesion and Signal Transduction GRS! Apply to join us July 19-20 (through 25 for GRC) at Salve Regina University! It’s going to be a great meeting with amazing science and people!Please re-post!! #MAST

A special issue on #WomensHealth in #ScienceAdvances highlights a growing wave of research focusing on women’s unique biological and psychological experiences. Learn more: scim.ag/3R59fPe (THREAD 🧵)

We are now halfway full for the 2025 Microbial Adhesion and Signal Transduction GRS! Apply to join us July 19-20 (through 25 for GRC) at Salve Regina University! It’s going to be a great meeting with amazing science and people! Please re-post!! #MAST

While Black History Month is still happening, I want to give you a little insight into different coping strategies Black people take to survive. For instance, I used to be introverted, which must be shocking for those who know me. Here's what happened...

We are almost halfway full for the 2025 Microbial Adhesion and Signal Transduction GRC and GRS! Apply to join us July 19-25 at Salve Regina University! It’s going to be a great meeting with amazing science and people! Please re-post!! #MAST

Happy BHM! Celebrating our history and taking pride and joy in the contribution of Black Americans to this society has been and will continue to be a form of resistance

Many people, including academics, don't understand what F&A is for. Please share to help. 1) Translate to "overhead" in common business accounting: 60% IDC => 60/160 = 37.5% overhead (low!) 2) Infographic explaining what it's for, linked here: www.cogr.edu/sites/defaul...

Detailed and concise 1-pager explaining what F&A does and how it underlies the competitive advantages of American sciences. F&A pays PEOPLE and allows universities to be the anchors of regional economies that they are! 🔗 www.cogr.edu/sites/defaul...

Spots are filling up for the 2025 Microbial Adhesion and Signal Transduction GRC and GRS! Apply to join us July 19-25 at Salve Regina University! It’s going to be a great meeting with amazing science and people! Please re-post!! #MAST

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

We submitted this grant today. It holds the dreams and promise of supporting a future that is under attack, but not lost. Helping, serving, and welcoming people are ideals that can't be taken away from me. If what we wrote doesn't even get reviewed, the message stands and that is worth fighting for.

The MOSAIC K99 link is now dead

Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.

Officially changing my MOSAIC K99 application to a Parent K99 because my NOFO (PAR-24-225) is gone. Luckily, I was jaded enough to start making two versions of documents since last Friday. It’s been a struggle to stay focused and motivated through this, not going to lie.

This isn't mine at all, but the Magic School Bus TV cartoon, which inspired untold millennials including myself, originated as an NSF grant 🧪 www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

To all constituents, journalists, and representatives interested in today’s hearings for RFK Jr, please read, consider, and ask the following questions of him. On behalf of the Coalition for the Life Sciences cc: @needhibhalla.bsky.social www.coalitionforlifesciences.org

While President Trump illegally pauses federal funding from Congress, the Senate must not be business as usual. We do not consent to this lawless power grab.

Microbiome science needs more microbiologists- A new commentary authored by myself and @abaumler.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In another detrimental turn of events, #diversity supplements on NIH grants are no longer a thing as of today - grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... Right now, ~$65M goes to 750+ projects / people doing to #ScientificResearch in 45 of 50 states. #academicSky #publicHealth #medSky 1/n

I’ve been working on my MOSAIC K99/R00 application since winter break... I am now making “Parent K99/R00” alternatives of all the documents in case it gets scrapped last minute 🫠 Apologies in advance to my LOR people if I frantically email a new PAR# days before the deadline 😓

This Thursday, I am hosting an event called CIENCIA EN ESPAÑOL for the community, not just scientists, to have researchers talk about their science in Spanish. There is a Zoom option, so please share it widely!

As someone who has benefited immensely from this predoc (protected my research time and eliminated the need to TA) AND postdoc… this is beyond disappointing.

Congratulations to @vscooper.micropopbio.org on his election to become the next president of the @asm.org! asm.org/Press-Releas...

I'm proud to be elected to the ASM BoD. It is an amazing opportunity to continue to do work that inspires others to do science, tells them how to get to the room, and how to take a seat at the table. If you are interested in my motivations, please read my candidate statement. asm.org/Press-Releas...

Applications are open for the 2025 Microbial Adhesion and Signal Transduction GRC and GRS! I’ve had the pleasure of planning the seminar with Dr. Delaney Miller, and the conference is organized by @proftracypalmer.bsky.social and Dr. Fitnat Yildiz!! Join us July 19-25 in RI! #MAST Please re-post!!

Applications are open for the 2025 Microbial Adhesion and Signal Transduction GRC and GRS! I’ve had the pleasure of planning the seminar alongside Dr. Delaney Miller, and the conference is organized by @proftracypalmer.bsky.social and Dr. Fitnat Yildiz!! Come join us July 19-25 in RI! #MAST