This is my alignment

The #BEASTLab won second place in the departmental holiday decoration contest!

schedule your writing deadlines during finals week, i said, it’ll be fun, i said

Petri dish embroidery projects were due today and here are some of the finished ones 🥲 I had multiple students grab additional supplies to make holiday gifts as well! If you want to support this project and students with embroidery interests, here’s my wishlist www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Up to 10 doctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology now open for application! Start date September 2026. More info here: www.evolbio.mpg.de/imprs

PS Small liberal arts schools often have better name recognition than you kay guess, especially in certain industries. If you’re working class, first-gen, or from a different region than the school you may not have heard of it; don’t let that stop you if it’s the right fit. Ask about job placement.

As parents are helping their kids consider colleges, this is my perennial reminder that state schools often have lower price tags, yes, but private schools, including many small liberal arts schools, often have better aid packages, and are thus often cheaper in the end (but may be more competitive).

Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

so can you just ask a rich person to fund your lab for a couple of years, asking for a friend?

Love when I'm reading NY Times and @bielleogy.bsky.social just randomly shows up

Remembering the time I could see the aurora from my front porch in Tacoma.

Kenny Ortega did not make these choices *accidentally*. And so, this book is a love letter to Newsies and all its fans, but it is also a book that grapples with all of those complexities and all of the problems and questions of representation that come with them. 13/16

The world is terrible in so many ways right now, and I am trying to stay focused on what I can control and what brings me joy. While I have promoted the #Newsies book on here, it occurs to me that I haven't really talked about why I love this film and show, and there are so many reasons! 🧵 1/16

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

As a quick reminder for #DisabilityPrideMonth, double spacing is an accessibility issue. Reasonable margins are an accessibility issue. Your dyslexic friends want to read your manuscripts, proposals, ads, proofs, and documentation. Please make it easy by adding white space

Important update to understanding of the systems around us FOR IDAHOANS. These are Idaho-specific LAWS. This is very important information for specific people, ONES IN IDAHO. If that's you: the bathroom restrictions and speech and campus protest restrictions may apply! Stay informed, Idaho!

It bears repeating that the new paper showing that the U.S. has significantly higher rates of pediatric deaths than similar countries demonstrates that these deaths are primarily caused by: Firearms Motor vehicle crashes Substance use Homicide And are driven by: Economic and racial disparity

A Lost Generation of Researchers: Cuts to the nation’s science funding are forcing future scholars to delay graduate study, continue it abroad, or forgo it entirely. @mzahneis.bsky.social reports www.chronicle.com/article/a-lo...

I am extremely pro vaccine. (It is horrible that I have to say this, but welcome to our reality). Vaccines are responsible for a substantial portion of our greatly reduced child mortality. But don't forget about sanitation. Clean water is also a huge freaking deal.

Very excited to have this work out by @jeromics.bsky.social ! Please check it out. I think my favorite story from the supplement is how impactful normalization can be in this context. bsky.app/profile/jero...

For ESIs dealing with grants being rescinded: if an investigator’s 1st substantial independent research award is terminated within the first 3 years of the project period (not due to scientific misconduct ) they can request the reinstatement of ESI status grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

If you are in these districts or know anyone who might be, call these reps. Tell them to vote NO on a bill that will: * Deny insurance to millions * Cause thousands of preventable deaths * Reinforce and expand the fascist regime of deportation and camps

🧪 RFK Jr.'s HHS, citing "junk science" and cost, has canceled federal agencies' subscriptions to Springer Nature journals. This impacts scientists at NIH, NASA, USDA, and DOE, limiting access to critical research and publishing opportunities. #MedSky #AcademicSky

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

“Mark Salazar, a PhD candidate in Poulin’s lab, first saw a disposable vape pod when he was visiting a friend… He brought the pod back to the lab at UC Davis & tested its vapor for metal concentrations. “When I first saw the lead concentrations, they were so high I thought our instrument was broken”

health care is good for people

These NPG spinoff journals are out of control

After by fourth (4th!) tour with @fullstorybaltimore.tours, a few observation (and backhanded apology). 1. Every tour I walk away with at least one gem of an observation that I continue to use in my day to day life. They may be silly, but they stick with us. (See: Ouija board 7-eleven; jay walking)

Hi folks, we had a last minute cancellation at MBL STAMPS, the microbiome data analysis course in Woods Hole that runs from July 14th to July 24th. We can provide housing space for a woman. If you or anyone you know is interested, pls drop me an e-mail at [email protected]. Thx!

Happy #WorldMicrobiomeDay! 🦠 If you are a starter in this field, as I was until recently, here are some highly recommended articles from @natmicrobiol.nature.com that may help you understand, plan, and even improve your microbiome studies - A starter pack you might say! 😊🧵 #MicrobiomeSky #MicroSky

The great @jimalwine.bsky.social and I on the absolute necessity of restoring the NIH's funding. www.statnews.com/2025/06/26/n...

I realized the first item is semi misleading. Sorry, I have ADHD, but I swear, its about measurement

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 🧵

Hey. PS: There have ALWAYS been women on ships, in one way or another

Today I record my 100th episode of #MattersMicrobial. I never thought it possible. Thanks to @profvrr for the opportunity. @univpugetsound @ASMicrobiology @microbe.tv

Interesting, my saliva has a lower bacterial density than water from my tap.

Love today’s #xkcd comic on #MassSpec 🤣

Need to start making some new time blocks in my schedule for Being Sad About the Careless Destruction of US Scientific Research

Honestly, even the Chinese and Russians never made me do this to get a visa. Even the North Koreans, who made me hand over my phone for the duration of my visit, never made this demand.

We pored through more than 900 grants worth $2.6 billion that the Trump administration canceled at Harvard. “This is larger than any individual grant,” a researcher told us. “What we are losing is a future.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/... With @emmbadger.bsky.social and @ethansinger.bsky.social

I wish I was at ASMicrobe. Instead, I'm reading too many articles with enterotypes and my cryptid roommate just described them as "Meyers Briggs for gut microbiomes" and anyway, now I need someone to help me unsee that?

#ASMicrobe folks: did anyone attend the funding session? I missed most of it bc I was talking in a session. Important session given these times.

universities ARE healthcare rural clinics, rural hospitals, urban ERs all run by universities where corporations won't go attacking universities is public health poison bsky.app/profile/dday...

Driggs has a population of ~2000 people.

A lot of people are missing the point here. The point isn't that they'll restrict access. They're going to log and mine and graze on this land. Destroy it. It's about resource extraction

Hitting this again. They want to sell over 77.5 million acres of public land in Alaska. It’s mandatory, set up to be sold at bottom dollar, and there will be no public commentary/input or environmental review. The places you play, that make Alaska special, will no longer be available to you.

Hey, I wonder where in the USA these cheap smartphones are being made?

Thanks to @swirlgirl31415 , I will bring 50 3D printed “tardidocs” to #ASMicrobe. If you see me, ask. I’ll hand them out until they’re gone. All I ask in return is that you post photos of your tardidoc in cool places & tag me. I have plans for a #TravelingTardigrade IG account.