Hey look, it's a new blue virus grid painting artologica.etsy.com/listing/4534... #sciart 🧪🦠

HYDRATION ADVICE from an archaeologist who works in intense heat: 1) Water isn't enough. You need electrolytes. Use liquid IV/ gatorade, premake a jug. 2) Set up phone reminders every 2-3 hours to drink 8oz, more if outside 3) Wake up and DRINK and have a glass before bed. You'll sleep better

Or some sweet little bacteria, also in blue artologica.etsy.com/listing/4528... #sciart

In honor of the 250, I highly recommend listening to First America. Rebecca Nagle is an excellent storyteller, weaving the history of Natives during the start of the US with interviews & stories from recent history that puts the origins of the country into perspective. omny.fm/shows/first-...

Playing Indian | Episode 2 - First America

Did you know that when colonists threw tea into the Boston Harbor they dressed up like Native Americans? Rebecca goes to Boston with historian Phil Deloria (Dakota descent) to try and understand Ameri...

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Are you thinking about graduate school? Are you interested in biomedical sciences? If so, ✅ out this excellent opportunity to visit St. Jude and present your undergraduate research! Applications are open! 🧪 👩‍🔬 👨‍🔬 Reposts appreciated! www.stjude.org/education-tr...

Very cool study: using non-toxigenic C. diff (probiotic) to protect vanco-treated patients from toxigenic strains. One fascinating result: many of the patients were quickly colonized by C. diff ribotypes that were not the probiotic strain after vanco treatment. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

🚨🦠💻🧬🚨 My lab is hiring!! Looking for a technician or postdoc to join us in Cleveland starting this summer to lead a project analyzing ~1000 metatranscriptomes from the human oral cavity. More info on my lab website www.thelewinlab.com/join-us #ASMicrobe #Microbiome #Microsky

The Department of Microbiology & Immunology is looking for a new Assistant Teaching Professor to join us at the UMN! hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...

Step into ASM's new look! In the lobby near registration, stop by our snazzy mirror wall and snap your moment at #ASMicrobe. We can't wait to see your photos! 📸

My first ASM Microbe with a PhD! I’ve attended a Gordon as a postdoc but Microbe has been consistent for me throughout my grad school years and this feels extra special! Excited to learn about bugs! 🧫

1. How common is LLM use in scientific publishing, and how does it vary across field, publisher, journal prestige, author demographics etc.? @kylesiler.bsky.social has new paper in PNAS that addresses this question on a massive scale: 7.3 million papers from Elsevier, PLOS, MDPI, and Frontiers.

The diffusion of large language models in published academic articles | PNAS

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly changing academic research, raising questions of who is adopting these tools and under what conditions. Th...

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Who will I be seeing at #ASMicrobe this week?

Happy Pride Moth Everyone 🌈🦋

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Hey @spavel.bsky.social I hope you don’t mind but we did the thing for real

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...

Biomedical Sciences PhD Program

St. Jude offers a unique biomedical PhD program at one of the world’s premier pediatric research centers. Find out about admissions, courses, faculty and more.

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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...

'Predators that just run in and grab, stab and kill': The deep cave bacteria resistant to modern medicine

In the brutal world of deep caves, bacteria live in a miniature world of terror. The weapons they have evolved can defeat antibiotics – but now they are inspiring powerful new drugs.

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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/...

There is No Consensus on Biological Sex

At this critical moment when misinformation about sex is being applied to policy globally, scientific clarification on the definition of biological sex is valuable. Here, we evaluate the primary appr...

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📣 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. 🔗

Ten Black Scientists That Science Teachers Should Know About

Help your students see the possibilities of careers in STEM fields by providing them with diverse role models.

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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