Ended another great year of student research with the Goff-Maresca Labs Graduation Potluck…featuring unhinged capstone talks and graduating leopards. @micromaresca.bsky.social @hannahgreich.bsky.social

The artwork displayed next to my office door!

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

On the last day of Microbial Biochemistry, we created microbes of Europa’s ocean! Based on our reading of this paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... (Energy Cycling and Hypothetical Organisms in Europa's Ocean)

Interested in a teaching faculty position in Bacteriology at UW-Madison? See the attached announcement! @uwbact.bsky.social

Only 3 weeks remaining to submit your poster abstract for the Northern New England Microbiome Symposium at UMaine on June 11! The 2nd Northern New England Microbiome Symposium Whether we are interested in the way coastal wetlands sequester carbon, how diet affects us differently, or how public and…

My husband and I were watching a documentary about a cult last night and at one point an ex-member said, “they had us working hard, so that we could earn the privilege of working harder” and I literally said out loud “wow that sounds like my job” 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u... So sad for all the students and faculty and staff. This is also a huge loss for higher ed. Hampshire College was always a place I looked at and imagined how fun it would be to teach there.

From our FY26 New Investigator call: @jlgoff.bsky.social will use multi-omics to identify which soil microbes degrade PyOM from prescribed burns, providing insights for biochar use in bioenergy systems. jgi.doe.gov/user-science/science-stories/jgi-announces-2026-new-investigator-portfolio

This needs to be talked about. Moving was financially brutal when I took my position. I got very little moving reimbursement & my first paycheck arrived after 6 wks. I now have persistent issues with student researchers having paychecks coming MONTHS late . www.chronicle.com/article/cong...

Sharing about environmental microbes with Senator May and Chancellor King!

Had a blast talking to our state legislators and SUNY officials about why we should care about environmental microbes!!

Made it!

Microbes go to Albany for the SUNY Research Expo

Excited for this new project with JGI!

Vote for Oakie in mascot madness! Not only is an acorn objectively the coolest mascot for a forestry school, but Oakie is also a big fan of a microbiology-themed game created in @micromaresca.bsky.social’s biochem II class! www.suny.edu/mascotmadnes...

Present your research at the 2026 CNY Environmental Science & Studies Conference (March 27–28, SUNY ESF)! Student oral talks (10–12 min) & posters welcome. Free, interdisciplinary, and open regionally. Registration deadline is March 6! There are still lots of spots open for student talks!

When your flight to DC for a meeting was cancelled due to blizzard but you are still deeply committed to hanging out with your postdoc lab bestie who will be at the meeting.

Georgie visits lab meeting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😻

Love making dreams come true at work! @hannahgreich.bsky.social

Proud of my winter community college interns for presenting on their research projects today! In just two weeks they accomplished a lot of new work!

The peak of my academic career has definitely been our local cheese shop sharing the ESF insta post about the cheese day I do in my class! 🧀🧀🧀

⏰ Reminder: Peggy Cotter Travel Award apps due Feb 16! We have 3 $1,650 travel awards for ASM Microbe 2026! 👩‍🔬 Early-career professionals (≤15 yrs from terminal degree)are eligible 📧 Apply: [email protected] 🧬 ASM + CNY ASM membership are required Learn more: sites.google.com/view/cnyasm/...

Friends, please help spread the word about our microbiology REU program at Montana State University. www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/ Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided. Details in the attached pic--Feb 14 deadline 🧫🧪🦠#microsky

⏰ Reminder: Peggy Cotter Travel Award apps due Feb 16! CNY ASM is offering up to 3 awards ($1,650 each) for ASM Microbe 2026 (DC, June 4–7). 👩‍🔬 Early-career professionals (≤15 yrs from terminal degree) 📧 Apply: [email protected] 🧬 ASM national + CNY ASM membership required (can do after applying)

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... We have a new paper out that looks at metabolic adaptations to mildly acidic conditions in a denitrifier isolated from acidic, nitrate-contaminated groundwater. 🧵

The deadline for this is fast-approaching! While we are flexible in the membership requirement (don't need to join to apply, but will need to join to receive the award), we encourage you to go ahead and join! It is $25 for full and $10 for student/postdoc membership. myasm.asm.org/eweb/Dynamic...

Excited to share that you can now join the CNY ASM branch through the ASM national website: myasm.asm.org/eweb/Dynamic... Remember, you don't need to be within the "official" zip codes to join (looking at our friends in Ithaca)!

Somehow we need to be better about vaccine education at the college level. I used to teach micro for nursing students and had several tell me they never understood the importance of vaccines until my class. These are students who were already working in medical settings with vulnerable patients. 🧵

SUNY did a study and found that faculty are all extremely burnt out! I had no idea! dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/server/api/c...

My (now) weekly update on 2026 NIH funding. New and competitive renewal awards. 3 new awards (compared to ~100 expected based on recent years). No new ICs... still just NIA, NINDS, NIDCD, and NIDCR. 1/2

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We have a new preprint out that examines how prescribed fire drives lasting changes in N biogeochemistry! The field work was designed and led by my undergrad mentee Gray. The data analysis and writing were led by my other undergrad mentee Alaina, who is lead author.

Looking for something new to integrate into an #evolution or #microbiology course? Useful for lectures, labs, homework? Have a look at our STEPS program, which simulates bacterial evolution, including the #LTEE. Easy web-based interface & lab manual w/ exercises to help develop students' intuition.

Everyone should go to NEMPET because it’s the best conference ever! #microSky

Making one final call in search of a few more #insect, #fish, & #fungi options for my #cellbio course's final proj on 'emerging' model organisms. 🐝🐜🐛🐟🐠🦈🐬🍄 #cellbiology #biology #entomology #icthylogy #mycology 🧪 (1/2)

Fun fact: $1 bills can carry human pathogens—including ones with antibiotic resistance genes. doi.org/10.1371/jour... Less fun fact: CNY ASM still needs a treasurer. Good news: no dirty money involved.💵 Interested? Contact [email protected]

Plz apply if you are an early career CNY microbiologist so we can keep getting these funds!

We are accepting applications for up to 3 Peggy Cotter Travel Awards ($1,650 each) to support early-career professionals attending ASM Microbe 2026. Apply by Feb 16, 2026 by emailing a 1-page letter to [email protected]. ASM membership required; branch membership may be completed once that is live.

Hello microbiology friends of CNY! We have reestablished the CNY branch of ASM! This is our official BlueSky account. Follow for future updates! #microsky #microbiome #microbiology

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... new preprint from my lab led by my PhD student Isaac! He and undergrad researcher Chan re-analyzed microplastic biofilm metagenomes to identify plasmids. They linked ARGs to specific plasmid replicons and mobility.

I adopted a kitten while out-of-state for Christmas (she showed up my my parent’s house in GA on Christmas Day and we kept her and flew her back to NY), and I just found out that one of the students in my lab did the same exact thing over break😆 Clearly my lab filled with my type of people 🐈🐈‍⬛

Friendly reminder that government spending on Great Lakes Restoration averages a $3:$1 ROI.

Please nominate some cool prokaryotic microbes for @hannahgreich.bsky.social !! There was not enough prokaryotic representation last year imo 😤

It's that time of year again! I'm looking for suggestions of 'emerging' model organisms for my #CellBio course's final proj: Organism nomination form here (links to blog on proj info): forms.office.com/r/v8zYgqVe8W #cellbiology #biology #academicsky #microsky #archaeasky #protistsonsky 🧪 (1/n)

www.emsl.pnnl.gov/emsl-selects... Super excited to be selected for funding to do nanoSIMS and high resolution electron microscopy to characterize tellurium micromineralogy!

2026 lab vision-boarding organized by my students!! So wonderful to be back with everyone!

Went on a quick nostalgia tour of my postdoc town (Athens, GA)!

So happy to announce our new preprint, “A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.” We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63°C (145°F) 🔥 - a new record for euk growth! #protistsonsky 🧵

🎙️ New Microbes and Us Podcast🔬 In our latest episode, we hear from the insightful Prof. Max Häggblom, as he shares his personal, inspiring journey—from his first student publication in a FEMS Journal in 1987 to becoming Editor-in-Chief of FEMS Microbiology Ecology. buff.ly/MkOmbBq

Oh hey congratulations @oliverio.bsky.social @rmshepherd.bsky.social @hbrappap.bsky.social on the awesome thermophilic amoeba story!