I think some folks might be happy to see this. NIGMS MIRA R35 for EI/NI has been published. PAR-26-121 files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...

Everybody thinks this is a World Cup draw but really it's just a meme-generation show!

They made him a trophy that looks like the World Cup -- which he has admired -- but only bigger and goldener

“Next, the World Cup draw. But first, we will introduce every player from every qualified team”

P. aeruginosa giant microbe keeping a watchful pair of eyes from our tree

Happy Thanksgiving!

Before rideshare, the only cities in the country where someone could go out and confidently expect to hail a cab afterwards were Chicago and (of course) New York

The University at Albany Biomedical Sciences Department is hiring at the Assistant Professor level. We are looking for researchers at the intersection of infectious disease and artificial intelligence: albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta... #infectiousdisease #artificialintelligence

Incredible stuff from Ireland (who were robbed of a birth in 2009, also at the death)

If only someone, anyone at all, had predicted this totally obvious consequence of imposing tariffs on food

Amazing to have a Sounder -- de la Vega -- on the Puskás shortlist www.fifa.com/en/the-best-...

Incredibly close in the Seattle mayor race

Political advisor: literally everything you’re doing from tariffs to canceling IRA investments to reducing ACA subsidies is increasing costs for Americans Trump (yawning, trying to stay awake): what if I “seize” the affordability message?

New lab paper! Andrew Frando describes how MexT alters the quorum sensing cascade in P. aeruginosa. /1 With Nicole Smalley; two undergraduates, Jamal Omar and Bobby Parsek; and @dezieleric.bsky.social, @mariecg.bsky.social, and Mylène Trottier at INRS in Montreal journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

No kings, no crown, the people won’t back down

Seattle

Incredible game, perfect outcome. Worth every minute and inning!

This game is incredible

Another new preprint from our lab! This one details our efforts to produce new PqsE inhibitors and methods for assessing their potential to induce a conformational shift and weaken the interaction with RhlR. Haven't gotten there yet, but our methods are getting more sophisticated 😉

@sound-transit.bsky.social there are hundreds of people waiting for trains and the current wait is 19 minutes. Absurd and incomprehensible.

The degree to which the President can be swayed by the last person he talked to is really astonishing (This is a good outcome, but it’s only until he talks to someone else)

More than five years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, this passage from Camus’ “The Plague”, written decades ago, still resonates

New lab preprint! We set out to explore interstrain differences in P. aeruginosa cooperation and discovered an interesting variant of the quorum sensing receptor LasR. — by Kiki Bellamoroso, Maxim Kostylev, and Nicole Smalley www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Somehow I missed this tentative but important news -- extension of the NIGMS MIRA (R35) mechanism simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/...

I wish that I had a way to thank all of the program officials, grants specialists, scientific review officers, et al. at NIH — this is amazing and important work in the face of politically manufactured, ongoing adversity

Ive been thinking about this scene from Twin Peaks all day youtu.be/3bT-pzuo0tc

When there are guns everywhere, nobody is safe anywhere

settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off

Andrew Frando, @jrchandler.bsky.social, and I wrote a primer about excellent work done in Sam Brown's group @brownlab.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Excited to announce this is now published! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

U.S. Soccer announces that Cristian Roldan has been added to the #usmnt roster. He’s been outstanding for Seattle this season.

NIH progress on new R01s in FY 2025 drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/n...

Postdoc

The invisible hand of the free market

Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo Can Both See Zohran Mamdani Is Dangerous. Why Can’t New Yorkers? We Asked JD Vance. Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com

I visited Paris for a week

Looking to engage in interesting science that bridges microbiology, evolution, ecology, and plant biology? If so, join Phoebe’s new lab in Taipei!

Exciting news! I am launching the Lab of Polymicrobial Interaction & Evolution at IPMB at Academia Sinica (ipmb.sinica.edu.tw/en)! 🎉Our brand-new website is live: (www.labofpie.org). Check the lab of PIE out!!🥧🎈

New poster for my office

An advertisement at the UW light rail station. Things are going great.

Almost every campaign claims they are going to change the electorate like this … and then they don’t. Amazing from Mamdani

One possible - very American and very dumb - outcome, from a healthcare delivery perspective, would be for hospitals to charge a $5000 "litigation" fee with deliveries to ensure babies are citizens. This expense would get wrapped into the cost of insurance, pending an eventual SCOTUS decision.

New in JB: Tchadi, Taylor et al. use a heterologous expression system to show that binding of PqsE to RhlR fine-tunes RhlR activity and does so in a promoter-specific fashion. journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... @asm.org #JBacteriology

I encountered this beautiful Lepidopteran on a walk today

Simply accounting for supply and demand, prices of popcorn should be skyrocketing today

commemorating pride from the clinical microbiology lab

Our new big review on Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Hope you enjoy reading it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rainier vista, UW Seattle

It’s nearly miraculous for the police to make an arrest in a University district crime