The forbidden boba @contamclub.bsky.social

It’s officially happening folks! The Microbial Population Biology Gordon Research Conference is back in Andover, New Hampshire starting June 27th of 2027! See you there!! @wcratcliff.bsky.social @ksbakes.bsky.social @surtlab.bsky.social #microsky #mevosky

Don't forget to look at @nativebio.bsky.social swag page! We can take requests for more merch and content! www.bonfire.com/store/native...

I've been gearing up to do some big experiments so I haven't been as active lately but happy Native American heritage month! #NativeinSTEM

It’s time to let your creativity grow! Submit your entry for this year’s Agar Art Contest: Microbes Make the World Go Round. From food and health to climate and beyond, microbes shape our lives—now show us your story in agar! Submit by Oct. 26: asm.social/2Dt

Day 3, Soft. Soft agar is used to visualise phages - plaque assay: bacteria infected with phages are mixed with soft agar, poured over an agar plate. A bacterial lawn grows & plaques appear - as phages infect bacteria, multiply, kill & repeat to form an expanding hole. #drawtober #SciArt #Phagesky

Feels surreal to say but: I'm hiring! If you are or know anyone interested in looking at the evolution of phage resistance using A. baumannii and natural transformation, then this might be for you www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

iNaturalist Animals and Plants xkcd.com/3118/

I'm signed up to be a pen pal with Letters to a Pre-Scientist and I highly recommend it! LPS is recruiting STEM professionals to send and receive 4 rounds of letters throughout the school year with a middle school student. Learn more on their website: prescientist.org/volunteers/?...

Happy to be home to miss Luna Belle 🥹

The science was cutting edge, and the company was unparalleled- thank you everyone for such a welcoming and thrilling #GRCMicroPop! Looking forward to cyberstalking all your google scholar profiles ❤️

Sitting in the airport waiting to go back to Memphis after the Microbial Population Biology GRC! I had a really lovely time and met so many great people. Thank you all for making me feel at home! Apologies if I didn’t get to connect with you, but I am looking forward to 2 years from now!

This week I am at the #GRC meeting for Microbial Population Biology. It is my favourite meeting. There is nothing like these small meetings for gathering a community together, and I learn a huge amount here every time. Here is to 40 more years of this incredible conference!

Finally on site for my first GRS and GRC!

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

Archaea xkcd.com/3095/

When your labmate is a baker, you get VRE chromagar cupcakes

#ASMicrobe @ LA is just over a month away! Binning Singletons helps lower the activation energy required to have a great meeting through mentoring and community!

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. For everyone observing Trans Visibility Day

Excited to share our latest, out today in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social Bacteriocin production facilitates nosocomial emergence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium www.nature.com/articles/s41... @idpittstop.bsky.social

Did this fun bacteria mani a few weeks back using a couple of my favourite nail art techniques - fluid art and velvet-style magnetics.

Although we are not federally funded for this summer, WE WILL STILL RUN The National Summer Undergraduate Research Project (NSURP) in 2025. We remain committed to the work that needs to be done and will continue to meet people where they are. 1/4 nsurp.org

Happy snow day, Memphis! Working from home today with a warm cup of coffee!

Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users? Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...

"It's Dr, actually" I'm very excited to share this new pin with you all! canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...

🌿 Over 50 Indigenous Peoples from around the world collaborated on this groundbreaking book (including me!), now available for preorder. 📚 Use code S25 for 20% off and free shipping through June 30, 2025. #NativesInSTEM #IndigenizeSTEM #NativesInAcademia osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/indigen...

Forget Die Hard vancomycin is a Christmas antibiotic

Help us out this #GivingTuesday! Over the last 5 years we have directly helped hundreds at meetings through mentorship and community building! We are a grassroots and 100% volunteer organization. All donations go directly to the program. Thanks! venmo.com/code?user_id...

PLEASE AMPLIFY: We will host our Summer 2025 workshop on #Indigenous #Health & Artificial Intelligence to take place on the lands of the Ak-Chin Maricopa Indian Community in AZ week of June 2-6: indigidata.org Travel & Lodging 100% Covered Deadline to apply: January 31st #AI

That’s my friend!! @csebastianbio.bsky.social

It's National Bison Day! Bison were abundant in the Bluegrass prior to European settlement, probably the largest population east of the Mississippi, and had a key role in creating the Bluegrass woodland pasture ecosystem. This, minus the fences, are what the Bluegrass looked like before 1780.

Want to make beautiful scientific figures? Easy! The NIH released a library of 2000+ free scientific illustrations called *BioArt*. Check it out! bioart.niaid.nih.gov #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky 🧠🟦 🧪

Long time, no post! Hoping to be more active here and connect with some awesome scientists!

Wiigwaasabakoon birch bark scrolls, Ojibwa (Anishinaabe) people of North America, up for auction. Seems like these should go back to Anishinaabe folks, not be auctioned off.... www.liveauctioneers.com/item/1689579...

Made it to the cover of IAI!

I really hope you guys like it this year - I truly put my heart into it! ❤️😂 Get yours at ➡️ contam.club ⬅️

My cousin James Dommek (of Whipsaw fame for the Alaskans, author, radio DJ, and now Podcaster) has a podcast highlighting Indigenous voices in Alaska! Read about it below. alaskapublic.org/2023/11/09/a...

#IndigenousPeoplesDay is Monday. My challenge to non-Natives: dig into the history of the people who were displaced from your land, learn about the history of how they were displaced, find out where they are now, and support them financially or by protesting with them. Go beyond platitudes.

The plot chickens