Ballot #92 submitted for my local elections in Massachusetts today! Please go vote for your community 🗳️

Faculty Applications: Describe your teaching pedagogy Me: Well, from what I have learned in the punk rock pit.... I meet every student where they are and pick them back up so they can achieve their career or personal goals 🧪 🧫 ✏️

An aside from the typical scientific programming. *record scratch* @thebeaches.bsky.social did the @npr.org tiny desk concert! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOmP... I've totally obsessed over last couple years with this awesome girly pop punk group for Toronto! We now resume with microbiology...

Sometimes I forget to type "coli" when googling genes. This time instead of finding search results for the transcription factor yidZ, I got a kosher B&B in Illinois and a "Judean Drip" instagram. Shalomie my prokaryotie homies ✡️ 🧫 🧬

Thanks for the highlight, @genetics-gsa.bsky.social! 🧫🧬🧪

As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...

Always happy to chat about microbiology, the development of bacterial genetics, and any hockey game (from the NHL to my silly rec team)! 🏒🧬🧫🧪 doi.org/10.1093/gene...

I cannot fully put into words what publishing this Review has meant to me, so I leave you with how we closed the paper. "The humble bacterium is still a relevant tool for the study of the underlying mechanisms that are conserved throughout life." 🧪🧫🧬📚 doi.org/10.1093/gene...

@thalia.bsky.social coli chromosome damaged unleashes stressed pol activate self-care #sciku 🧪🧬🔬🧫🦠 #Phages2025 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

@thalia.bsky.social: the transcription factor “stringent starvation protein” SspA is an important regulator of AZT(DNA damage)-induced genes #phages2025 🦠 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A conference requested an image that represents my work for an invited talk…. I give you Emo. coli. Also check out the paper: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 🧪🧬🧫🦠

cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool 🫠 🧪🧫📚 "'I call it a wrecking ball,' he said. 'It is a gigantic wrecking ball that’s hit Massachusetts.'" www.boston.com/news/local-n...

Having a great day? Go play hockey Shitty day? Better go play hockey Want to scream at the world? Take it out on the puck. Not enough steps for the day? Go skating Need an expensive coping mechanism? Try adult rec hockey 🏒

Michele is wonderful! During my PhD I commissioned this piece that eventually became a figure in my dissertation 🧫🧬🧪

With the rising price of eggs these days, I’m so glad my partner had the sense to buy in bulk

Did I just sign up with an additional library network so I don't have to wait to borrow the next book in a series? Yes. My mental health is fragile and being held up by 40+hr historical fiction audiobooks while pipetting. 🧪📚

Another friend from college is pregnant. Mazel Tov to her, but I'm staying pretty busy with a few billion children on these assay plates and the imploding world of academic science funding. 🧪🧫

NASA Eliminates Chief Scientist and Other Jobs at Its Headquarters nyti.ms/4iFAI5X

Going to see incredible women play hockey in Boston with the girlies of my rec league. Hockey women supporting women’s hockey on International Women’s Day. Perfection! 🏒🥅❤️

The Trump administration's efforts to slash research funding have US graduate students, postdocs and other early-career scientists fearing for their careers. Some might leave the country -- or abandon research altogether. https://go.nature.com/43ao2zq

The 4 Nations Face-off is some of the most exciting hockey I’ve seen in a long time! Anytime the USA plays Canada something special will happen on the ice. 🥅🏒 What a treat for Boston to host part of the tournament!

#standupforscience2025 ❤️

The 2nd date with my now spouse was meeting up at the Boston March for Science in 2017. 1. Support STEM 2. Meet the love of your life It’s a win-win 🧪🧫❤️

Expression of my Jewish identity today was making a dank chicken stock (and schmaltz!) from a Costco chicken carcass and veggies from the back of the fridge. No food waste & bubbe would be proud ✡️

“Your work is your rebellion” 💪 www.reddit.com/r/labrats/co...

Now that’s my kind of Little Free Library! One of the greatest hockey movies of all time and very appropriate for a snowy Boston day 🏒🥅📚

A formal thank you to my high school French teachers because I can just about translate a bacteriology article published in 1939. Even more of a shout out to the Interlibrary Loan system for getting this obscure article in two days!! ✍️🧫🧪

They found a way to litter from space

The best place to write is a townie pub before 5pm. A+ people watching $4 beers Free Wifi Biggest hits of 1970-00's Awesome fried chicken & no one bothers me or asks wtf I'm doing ✍️🧪🧫

Not all heroes wear capes. Some leave the extra seminar coffee in the lab hallway. We salute you, Captain Coffee: Savior of the afternoon drowsiness! 🧪 ☕ ✍️

I suspect most of my followers know but this is a case where actual scientists calling Congress — both houses, both parties — and making a BIG stink FAST can possibly make a difference. Gonna make my calls as soon as I'm out of lab

How many writing projects is too many writing projects? Asking for a friend (I am the friend) 🧪🧫✍️

New #sciart! Some more bacteria in beautiful blues 🧪🐡🦠 artologica.etsy.com/listing/1841...

Part of the academic life is a "Choose Your Own Adventure" journey through learning and communicating knowledge in new spaces. My adventure over the next couple weeks is auditing a course called "Being Human" at the Harvard Kennedy School taught by my friend. How do you define #BeingHuman? 🧪🧫

When you have non-Jewish friends with slightly warped senses of humor and too much crafting time on their hands. #HappyHanukkah 🤷🏻‍♀️

Bringing this energy going into 2025 #HappyNewYear

Very deserving! Susan’s work describing the stability of the E. coli stress response transcription factor, RpoS, was foundational for my PhD research

Sometimes when I need inspiration for academic writing I turn to the lovely work published in @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social. Discover their newest pieces compiled in the late 2024 retrospective 🧪🧫 schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2...

Hello BlueSky - its been a while! I've been busy in the lab (check out our latest publication!), co-teaching a project lab class, but most importantly winning my women's hockey beer league championship 🏒 🧪 🧫 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

A reminder from the entrance to the Brandeis science complex 🧪🧫

Local elections are important. Did you vote and support your community today?

Taking some time away from the bench after defending my PhD to do some light reading. Inspiring and heartbreaking 🧪🧫 #WomenInSTEM

Available now: UPDATED flyer showing our full #BlackInMicrobiology Week 2023 schedule! We can't wait to kick things off on Monday and celebrate with you, please see our corrected time for the STEM education panel. Register or Learn more today: blackinmicrobiology....

Good morning to everyone, but especially to my lab mate who made this thesis defense poster. It’s art, I love it. 🧪🧫

🌓🌎🌞 <-- lunar eclipse 
🌎🌓🌞 <-- solar eclipse 
🌎🌞🌗 <-- apocalypse

The leaves are changing, the rinks are frozen, and there’s a lovely brisk breeze in the air - must be hockey season! Happy first game, Blues! 💙

Communal writing spaces are so overlooked in academia. I feel much more productive when writing with others and knowing other folks are also making meaningful progress on their projects

#Inktober2023 day 2 - spiders I recently learned that scientists managed to produce synthetic spider silk using E. coli. Therefore, I present to you Spidercoli ! #sciart #scicomm #inktober #bacteria #syntheticsilk

#WomenInSTEM, we lost a good one. “I am not saying that women will do a different kind of science...I am saying when there are more women in science, everybody will be free to do a different kind of science.” - Dr. Evelyn Fox Keller. 🧪 Brandeis & Harvard alum, feminist, researcher, & teacher

Congratulations to the winners of the Nobel prize! I hope their stories, particularly KK's, force us to confront the misogyny, bias and assumptions about "impact" and "excellence" that very likely limit the recognition of similar innovations that could improve our world.