Finally got my dissertation artwork tattooed (art by @fsantoriello.bsky.social) They're super adorable, based on the Ramones and the colors are the seasons since my work was seasonal changed in wastewater microbiome (red-summer, orange-fall, blue-winter spring-green)

New short story from my postdoc in the Bassler lab is up on bioRxiv! Turns out our favorite quorum sensing responsive phage VP882 is a member of a larger family of phages that is distributed across multiple bacterial species and can eavesdrop on a universally conserved autoinducer. #PhageSky 🦠🧫

This is a very good essay if you, like me, have been grappling with the changing world and what it all means and where we're going. Despite the title and heavy topic, it's actually more hopeful than most things (while still being real). rojospinks.substack.com/p/how-i-beca...

We’re excited to advertise the Microbial Friends and Foes REU program! Please share info with your undergrads, for 10 weeks paid research experience at Cornell. Apps due on Feb 1. @heatherfeaga.bsky.social cihmid.cornell.edu/academics-pr...

Civic duty done! Now I guess I run a gel and dissociate or something.

Happy to share our work that's now online in Nature Microbiology: Gamma-Mobile-Trio systems are mobile elements rich in bacterial defensive and offensive tools. If you're interested in Anti-phage, T6SS, Vibrio, or MGE then this is for you. 🦠 rdcu.be/dXMwQ

Today I will be doing my first western blot since 2020 (which is when I did my first ever western blot). Pray for me.

Fun fact: We have been in the seventh cholera pandemic since 1961, and it's still going strong. Global cholera deaths are surging, WHO says www.cidrap.umn.edu/cholera/glob...

Trippy phage #sciart #MicroSky 🦠

Another one. Dagger phage #sciart #MicroSky 🦠

Artist, QRP your 2 sides.

🚨We are also hiring a postdoc to work on our newly funded Lyme disease phage project at Montana State! Are you a spirochetologist interested in phage biology? Come work with us in beautiful Bozeman, MT! Apply here: jobs.montana.edu/postings/43811 🧫🧪🦠

Welcome refugees from X! Follow microbiologists and more in the @binningsingletons.com and Friends Starter Pack! go.bsky.app/H5k2p2g

It’s been a couple months, but I never posted about it. The final form of my first postdoc paper is out! Really excited to keep digging into this whacky phage that we love so much. #MicroSky 🦠 journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

Let’s keep it going. Death head phage #2 #sciart

If anyone is feeling like an imposter today…I present you with this thing. I am a postdoc who has been doing PCR for 12 years. Sometimes it just be like that.🧪

It’s been a year since I’ve posted new art on the internet. Let’s get back at it. Death head phage #1

New! a couple of cool bacteriophages in ink on yupo (poly paper) artologica.etsy.com 🧪🐡🦠

Nobody tells you just how sweaty Lexapro is gonna make you.

New preprint from my postdoc with Bonnie Bassler! We show that phage VP882 responds to different host factors depending on the environmental context of the infected host, highlighting the need to study phage-bacteria interactions in relevant contexts to get the full picture. #MicroSky 🦠

If you see this, post something toothy (Some oldies of mine)

The Genewiz pickup person is the molbio equivalent of the tooth fairy.

Rude of StoryGraph to call me out like that.

Very happy I decided to play, and make something like nothing I’ve ever made before. ‘Blue Light’ (2023)

Challenging myself to “just draw” for a bit. Put my markers on the table and decided to see what happens. #art #wip #pen #ink #marker

Evil Dead Rise is the wildest version of white people shit in the franchise so far. In the first movie they find the Necronomicon in a basement. Easy mistake. In this one they find it in a tomb covered in medallions under 1000 hanging crucifixes inside a sealed bank vault. What could go wrong?

I’ve been sick for the last 11 days, so I’m having a quiet Halloweekend movie marathon. So far I’ve done Scream 1-3, Midsommar, Us, and Hereditary. Barbarian is on deck. Taking suggestions.

We’ve been over this, but I have a love/hate relationship with the fact that this is a balanced rotor.

Microbiologists, as requested we have a feed: MicroSky! Use this form to sign up: forms.gle/kiPC8vDKGDZV... and then tag posts with #MicroSky (case insensitive) or 🧫 or 🦠 and enjoy! Thanks to @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social for getting this going

Maybe I’m wrong for this one, but… The Dysentery Camp at Burning Man 2023.

Just a girl and her dino.

A strong breeze caused some dead leaves to skitter across the pavement as I drove to work today, and something within me shifted. 💀🎃👻

Finch Reggie and the Full Effect Against Me! Norma Jean Cursive IDLES Sense Fail

Some black and white versions of my microbiology flash designs. #science #art #sciart #microbiology

My completed microbiology flash sheet for your enjoyment. #science #art #sciart #microbiology

Microbiology Flash Sheet #5 - Death’s-head bacterium #science #art #sciart #bacteria #microbiolgy

Reskeet some art about your mental state.

#academia

Reskeet with your mental state

I like the Spotify DJ because just like all my scene friends in 2006, it has no idea how to pronounce Alexisonfire.

Microbiology Flash Sheet #4 - Mandala Biofilm #sciart #science #art #microbiology

Microbiology Flash Sheet #3 - Fragile #sciart #art #science #microbiology #bacteria

First two pieces on the microbiology flash sheet. #1 - Phage Dagger #2 - Neglected Tropical Diseases #art #science #sciart

A mini dump of some favorites from Inktober 2020 #art #sciart #penandink

Wrapping up my microbiology flash sheet this morning. #art #digitalart #watercolors #flash #sciart

I hate begging for attention/help- but since twitters about to die I’m about to lose everything; so if you want to support a fellow artist please consider Resharing this post?- My names Jayne, I draw cartoons and animate. Looking for freelance commission work/storyboarding opportunities #art

Some baby peppers and dog for your enjoyment.

Hi, I’m Frank. I draw stuff sometimes. #SciArt #penandink #microbiology