Excited to share that I've been awarded a 5-year NIH MIRA (R35) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences! The lab is growing! We're recruiting postdocs and research techs interested in microbial ecology, quantitative microscopy, microfluidics, and molecular biology. Please share!

TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data. @sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...

How much of Thermo Fisher’s antibody data has been manipulated?

We’ve documented more than 100 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo’s catalog

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Our latest work on shape-programmable tissues is out in @science.org. By positioning topological defects in cellular nematics, we encode frustrated 2D force fields that relax into predictable 3D shapes. Collaboration with Marino Arroyo’s lab, led by @pauguillamat.bsky.social at @ibecbarcelona.eu.

- How do immotile microbes escape confinement? - They ferment, generate biogenic bubbles, and hitch a ride! 🫧 Very excited to release this work: lnkd.in/gwBEr3f7.

Apply now to attend the next EMBO Bacterial Networks meeting #EMBOBacNet 🗓️13-18 September 2026 📍Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain 📝Program and registration info: meetings.embo.org/event/26-bac... 👩‍🔬Organised with co-chair @s-lab.bsky.social and ECR @coralietesseur.bsky.social #MicroSky

Seen on the Hill last week, no notes

Anyone who says humility and kindness are unnecessary traits one should carry as part of their personhood is a bad faith actor. Full stop. Be a pillar of your community. Serve with kindness. Always.

Final call: Applications close September 2! KI is recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential. All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...

Excited to release our latest work: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Here, we describe how confined bacterial suspensions self-organize into structured domains of different motilities, in response to oxygen limitations🦠🍥 Bluetorial follows! [1/8]

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Really happy to see this work finally published! An achievement that results from a real group effort over the past 7 years. Many thanks and congratulations to all the people involved 🥳

Laura Zorzetto@laurazorzetto.bsky.social · last yr.

What do E. coli, a rheometer and a nanoindenter have in common? Discover it in the latest publication of @cmbidan.bsky.social group at @mpici.bsky.social! #bacteria #biofilm #mpici #mpikg #womeninSTEM pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

I just released a preprint reporting on my experiment with generative AI in my Engineering Computations course. TL;DR: It was a mess. The biggest issue? The "illusion of competence." #GenAI #education #edtech

Please stop saying it saved money until you understand the value of what was cut. They are downsizing, and if the stuff getting cut had real value, its not a saving.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2y ago

DOGE says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that

The real fight against Musk’s coup started when federal workers and DC residents took direct action, blocking the billionaire’s minions at OPM. Now the rest of us need to join them. We need to understand that the rules are out the window, and this is a real fight. www.jphilll.com/p/the-real-f...

The real fight against Elon’s coup has begun

It started on Sunday.

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This year I got my PhD! After many coffees it's finally done. If you want to talk biofilms, interferometry, or how gradients rule the world, let me know!

In few US states has homelessness improved between 2020 and 2023. The country continues to face a housing crisis. HT @VineMapper