Who will I be seeing at #ASMicrobe this week?

Happy Pride Moth Everyone 🌈🦋

My talented lab tech is looking for a position in CA starting in August. She is looking for: -University research -Clinical setting -Clinical organization ideally, but open to any position Her skills: -microbiome research (from tissue collection to bioinformatics) -Genome assembly/annotation

Big meetings like #ASMicrobe can present unexpected challenges when you are by yourself or attending for the first time. #BinningSingletons can help you overcome them and have a great meeting! 🧪 🦠 🔬 #Microsky (Artwork by the great Johnny Chang) binningsingletons.com/singleton/bi...

Do you love amplicon sequencing? Do you want to sequence MORE amplicons, faster and at lower cost? Check out 💘CUPID-seq💘, a highly multiplexed library design that lets you sequence hundreds of amplicon samples (16S, 18S, and more!) on a single sequencing run! (1/n) 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Thinking of doing a PhD with a focus on infectious diseases? My lab is seeking enthusiastic students to investigate the emergence and transmission of pathogenic Vibrios. Join us at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, an extraordinary research center! www.stjude.org/education-tr...

new bucket list unlocked for my adhd craft friends:

Acronyms are pronounced as words. -scuba -laser -NASA Initialisms are pronounced as individual letters. -NFL -TSA -TGIF 'Acronym' is frequently used for both kinds of abbreviations, so it's ok to call an initialism an acronym.

‼️Please share‼️ Nemudryi lab is looking for postdocs to join our team and study: 🦠 Bacterial phage defense mechanisms 🧬 RNA repair & CRISPR-based RNA editing Excited about RNA, host-virus interactions & mechanistic biology? Let's talk! Apply: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs. But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅 First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti. #rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

Happy trans day of visibility, here is a wrasse design I made awhile ago because all wrasses change sexes as they age.

Really cool story. How scientists are studying cave bacteria with intrinsic resistance to existing antibiotics as a way of identitying novel molecules which could help fight antimicrobial resistance. Amazing science journalism.♥️ www.bbc.com/future/artic...

New paper out in ecology letters! with @andylee.bsky.social @allydefduf.bsky.social We synthesized the active debate on how scientists define sex, including limitations and assumptions. We believe this discussion will lead to more accurate science. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣 SING USA 2026 applications are open! The Summer Internship for Indigenous Peoples in Genomics (SING) workshop will be July 19–24, 2026 at UW–Madison. ⏰ Apply by March 13 (midnight Hawaiʻi time) Learn more & apply: sing.nativebio.net Please share with Indigenous students! #Indigenous #Genomics

STEM Black History Fact 10/28 Vivien Thomas developed the surgical techniques that made lifesaving pediatric heart surgery possible for “blue baby syndrome.” He did not have an education past high school but received an honorary doctorate from Hopkins for his efforts. 🔗

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...