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I’ve said this before but it’s still true - these responses from @vscooper.micropopbio.org and @surtlab.bsky.social live rent-free in my head 20-50 times a year

BLUE SOUP BAY-BAY!!!!

Our Pitt Microbiology and Molecular Genetics department in the School of Medicine is recruiting.. Microbiologists! 🧫🦠🔬🧪 Please apply to join our faculty and enjoy these views 👀 while doing great science cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

Asking my #DevBio @socdevbio.bsky.social & #Neuroscience @sfn.org colleagues to join me in donating to the ABRCMS conference poster award fund. I am sure there will be 🤩 posters on these topics @ ABRCMS 2025 in Nov, let's make sure there is award $ to recognize their work! abrcms.org/donate/stude...

Not My Cat, Jingles; My Not Cat, Ozzie; My Other Not Cat, Hank #InternationalCatDay

The Dunning Kruger Vaccine will save us from everything, y’all

I get what @asm.org is trying to do with #ASMicrobe. But elimination of the POMS track means I submitted 3 different session proposals, 3x each, since they’re broadly relevant to all 3 sections. Hopefully the section planners will work together if more than 1 accepts the proposals.

I spit out my drink infotel.ca/newsitem/mam...

Congratulations to @haidermanzer.bsky.social on being awarded the @bwfund.bsky.social Postdoc Diversity Enrichment Program Award!! So well deserved - we are very proud here in the Zackular Lab!

I keep opening bsky and quickly remember why I keep closing bsky

The EPA has placed roughly 140 employees on administrative leave days after they signed a public letter expressing concern about the treatment of federal employees and the Trump administration’s regulations on climate and public health. Read more: cnn.it/3I5wtDZ

Seminar from @asm.org July 7: Part 4: Practical Tips for Transitioning Into Industry, a Panel Discussion asm.org/webinars/to-...

honestly mostly what these fox graphics that clearly take completely for granted that the good things will be understood by the audience to be bad make me feel is that the gulf between me and the people who watch this is fundamentally insurmountable

Dear Science Journalists, Please mention when your write-ups covers work that was funded by federal agencies that are now being dismantled, defunded, and censored. The public needs to know what is being lost, and if you don't tell them in the context of Cool New Science, who will?

On a similar note: The 50 senators who voted against this bill represent approximately 379.77 million people. The 50 senators who voted for this bill represent approximately 298.41 million people.

lol the mets paid Bobby Bonilla more this year than the Pirates paid Paul Skenes

Today is the last day! #ASMicrobe 🧪🦠 #Microsky

Today is the last day! #ASMicrobe 🧪🦠 #Microsky

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It’s that time again! Time for @skypeascientist.bsky.social’s 7th annual United States of Science Challenge! Each bubble on this map represents classrooms we marched w/scientists this year. $10 donations fill bubbles! The first region to fill in all of their bubbles wins! givebutter.com/USS2025

Lena Flörl and Nicholas A. Bokulich evaluated the efficacy of universal mitochondrial and chloroplast PNA blockers across a range of concentrations and estimated their impact on alpha and beta diversity. Learn more: doi.org/10.1094/PHYT...

Happy 3-year anniversary to Don't Play Defense #Art #Pride

It’s #Swagurday!

Three days left to get the @binningsingletons.com #ASMicrobe shirt! www.customink.com/fundraising/...

Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages. ki.se/en/about-ki/...

Cached US Kindle giveaway:10 copies of @matthewphillion.bsky.social's THE INDESTRUCTIBLES, the first book in the eponymous series. I've given this out before, and it is one of my favorite YA superhero novel series. #KindleBookGiveaway

🎉The SciArt Feed 🐡 has reached 3,600 subscribers!🎉 Let’s have an artshare! Feed Followers, share this skeet, and share 3 art posts from the SciArt Feed! 🐡🧪🎨

Our latest, lead by @ahoiching.bsky.social, uncovering physiological vulnerabilities and helping to explain growth rate limitation in SAR11. Cell cycle dysregulation of globally important SAR11 bacteria resulting from environmental perturbation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

Question for soil microbiologists that came up in a meeting today: do we consider the deposition of spores "colonization", or only the occurrence/growth of germinated/vegetative cells?

With Pride Month🏳️‍🌈 at its peak, it’s a good time to revisit this powerful piece by Kamran & Jennings (2023): fieldwork must be made inclusive and safe by recognising differences, rethinking planning, protocols, and hearing LGBTQ+ voices. Safety is inclusion. #PrideInSTEM 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

Love bringing my sister to epi talks because then we have conversations about measurements and how there's a bias that things only exist if you can measure them... Which lead to a whole digression about things like QOL and recovery and might also be related to insufficient disabled people in STEM 🧵

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TAKE ME TO YOUR UNITS @themerl.bsky.social

Check out the latest Amplifying Diverse Voices journal club article written by BMA members Oluwatosin Orababa and Dr. Raphael P. Galleh! www.nature.com/artic... #BlackInMicro #AMR #antibiotics #JournalClub

A new blog post that explains why this research expedition is particularly special to me: 🌊🧪👩‍🔬 www.usgs.gov/centers/wetl...

🧵🦠🖥️🧬🧪 Please RePost 🙏 We just released reference genomes for another 250 strains to the ATCC Genome Portal (genomes.ATCC.org)! We now have assemblies for _5,750 microbial genomes_ AND all assemblies w/ @nanoporetech.com data will include DNA methylation profiles too (details👇) #genomics 1/

I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science

Only 2 of 225 US biology PhD programs pay enough to meet basic living costs. Conferences, childcare, software licenses—many costs fall on students. This “rite of passage” mindset is economic exploitation. #PhDLife #AcademicChatter

Thank you for being part of #ASMicrobe 2025—your energy & insights made it unforgettable! Save the date for ASM Microbe 2026, June 4–8 in Washington, D.C.! Session proposals are now open—help shape next year’s program & advance the microbial sciences. asm.social/2tm

The current administration has more successfully destroyed US science and the scientific enterprise than the hypothetical nuclear weapons program in Iran.

I got mine yesterday! 🎉🎉

“ICE Miller” seems less like a law firm and more of a political parody on the current state of affairs with the department of Homeland security and the current deputy chief of staff of the White House.

Last session of #ASMicrobe. I’m speaking in the ‘I’ve got a friend in me- symbiosis’ session. The session leads off with the brilliant and inspiring @napaaqtuk.bsky.social. Her lab uses stickleback to study impacts of microbiome on host eco-evo traits.

We’re bringing #ASMMicrobe 2025 to you, virtually. Join Robert James, Angela Hickey, and Jose Alexander as they share how real-time, Oxford Nanopore sequencing is transforming microbiology—from single bacterial isolates to the complexities of the microbiome. nanoporetech.com/about/events...

#ASMicrobe 2025 just ended, but session proposals are opening up on June 24th for 2026 in D.C.! Help shape next year's meeting by proposing the science you want to see!

To those who weren’t born yet or those like me who didn’t remember, this is why we have the EPA.

www.etsy.com/shop/MentalT... Some fun shirt designs I’ve finally ready to share!

This was such an amazing session and I was so honored to be asked to participate.