What a cool thing it was to write a guest blog post for Small Things Considered as a graduate student. I have never had such a great editor as Elio Schaecter. ♥️

Halloween fun: My Toto loves people and enthusiastically greeted all the people giving out candy on our walk home - she didn't need treats, she was the treat! 😆

Advice needed: I'm currently using Zotero to organize papers at my company. A colleague finds the user interface clunky, and his network suggested paperpile. Anyone have opinions? We will be using it to store papers for reading and commenting and citations. Pic of Mickey in a sweater for attention.

An important application of generative A.I. is facilitating discovery to override antimicrobial resistance with newly designed antibiotics, as demonstrated here for in vivo effectiveness vs S. aureus and N. gonorrhoeae www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Ever wondered why some antibiotics are made by Streptomyces on agar plates but not in liquid cultures? Read this work on redox control of antibiotic biosynthesis. Led by katienoble241.bsky.social and Rebecca Devine, and in collaboration with @barriewilks.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

It’s too late to save these lost young lives in Texas, but not too late to avert the next tragedy that could be fully avoided. It’s one thing to say you’re making things more efficient and quite another to gut something essential with no replacement. Turn the f’ing lights back on! /fin

Advice needed. I'm in the market for a new laptop. I've had macs in the past, but am slightly leaning PC. Any recommendations for a computer that is a good value for what you get?

This is Ripley. He was nervous about taking the stairs. May have panicked a bit. 12/10

When public health works, “nothing” happens. People stay healthy. People go on living.

I had not heard or realized this before. Good to know: www.nytimes.com/2022/02/02/r...

One of these things is not like the others

Pretty cool! Why was the previous thought that they would toggle? It seems more adaptable to quickly changing O2 and S availability to have both running simultaneously if both terminal acceptors are there (small cost to producing the proteins to carry out both)?

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

I wish I'd made a stronger statement: this headline is a cowardly way to describe the ongoing destruction of science & pretty rude coming from the American Assoc for the Advancement of SCIENCE that will happily charge >$5,000 to publish in one of the most gatekept scientific journals in existence

Diversity is our greatest asset, even if the government disagrees… They not like us! POC in STEM are here to stay. They tried to rig the game but you can’t fake influence! Mustard on the [Be][At] bro. Happy Black History Month!

You missed our series about unnoticed, but influential female scientists in microbiology that were honoured by naming a bacterium after them? Here is the basic information about the 26 women and their groundbreaking work 👉 www.dsmz.de/collection/honouring-women-in-science #herstory #WomenInScience

Lentils ❤️ mycorrhizal fungi. More nodules and greater plant biomass already evident on the inoculated plants at the bottom, compared to non-inoculated up top, in this Australian lentil variety 👌🏼

Neat - I'm looking forward to reading this!

Crazy stuff in PNAS dental plaque bacterium 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘺𝘯𝘦𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘪 can divide into an unprecedented 14 daughter cells at once—then each daughter cell starts growing immediately in a rare process called multiple fission, achieving 0.5 mm per day of expansion www.snexplores.org/article/bact...

Any recommendations for shows to binge? I'm subscribed to Hulu and Disney+ at the moment and looking for engaging shows to help me get through the winter.

I'd like to learn a programming language to help with data analysis. My company is a scrappy startup and Matlab (the language I know) is too expensive. Is Python the obvious choice? Any advice on learning Python with prior Matlab knowledge?

Science folks-please amplify 🧪 PhD students Matt Cope-Arguello and Jiayu Li (Manikantan lab) collaborated to quantify the biophysics/rheology of the goopy colonies of #Raltonia wilt pathogens. Are there other bacterial colonies (or other biological goops) that drip? Thanks! youtu.be/ECz8aN5d58I

by Christoph   ...Here now, it's again about C. acnes, but this time about se­ver­al strains com­pet­ing for growth in hu­man hair fol­li­cles, pores. An eco­lo­gi­cal fa­mi­ly af­fair, so to speak. Read more > tinyurl.com/5n92ws6n #MicroSky 🦠🧫

This dapper dude and I are day tripping in Salem, MA. Any tips for what to do?

Respiratory inhibitors triggered biofilm dispersal in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, making the cells more vulnerable to antibiotics. 💥 - In @AppEnvMicro (#AEM) journal journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

This is by far the coolest colony I ever isolated. It’s called the “hurricane”. natural #sciart 🧫🦠

There is a new 🐁 gut bacterium on the block that likes to hang out with other bacteria that feed it with taurine and bullies some pathogens Please welcome Taurinivorans muris 💩🦠🧫 #Taurinivorans #taurine #sulfide #H2S #bileacids #metabolism #microbiome #pathogen #prophage

Anyone have an invite code they can share? I'm still too new and a friend wants in. Pm me it (assuming sky supports pms 🙂) Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone! I'm excited to see what this sky app has to offer. Please connect and I'll follow you back as I'm expanding my science and microbiology reach on here. Photo of a soil bacterial isolate for attention.