I am delighted to welcome 4 outstanding new editors to the Applied and Environmental Microbiology #AEM team. Welcome Drs. Laura Aldrich-Wolfe, Johnny Chaston, Josh Michener, and Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social ‼️ journals.asm.org/journal/aem/...

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New paper from my lab: a sustainable water treatment solution for commercial horticulture‼️ A commercial-scale woodchip bioreactor operated to remove pesticides from greenhouse irrigation return water & recovery/reuse of nutrients. #SustainableAgriculture #Bioremediation doi.org/10.1021/acse...

Scalability and Tunability of Woodchip Bioreactors for Agrochemical Removal and Water Reuse in Commercial Production Settings

Frequent irrigation and intensive pesticide use in the specialty crop industry often result in the transport of harmful agrochemicals in return water, threatening production targets and water security...

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Manolo Escobar singing “Que viva España!” In the WorldCup final. So much symbolism. 🇪🇸

ESPAÑA!!!! 🇪🇸

Lamine Yamal's Emotional Moment for Spain

ALT: Lamine Yamal's Emotional Moment for Spain

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One more Worldcup game, one more valid goal disallowed that favors Argentina. Vamos España! 🇪🇸

Ok this is very good

The #Cryptosporidium outbreak highlights the importance of research on foodborne pathogen transmission. Here are some pubs in Applied & Environmental Microbiology #AEM shedding some light. We start with a review of interactions between Cryptosporidium oocysts and biofilms. doi.org/10.1128/AEM....

Cryptosporidium-Biofilm Interactions: a Review | Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Biofilms are increasingly implicated as playing a major role in waterborne cryptosporidiosis. This review aims to synthesize all currently available data on interactions between Cryptosporidium oocyst...

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YES 🇪🇸

Where are all those experts that predicted a big France win over Spain? 🇪🇸

Latest from my lab‼️ We show how cation chemistry controls the structure of the Gram-negative cell envelope and provides reciprocal control of piliation and vesiculation. In Geobacter, this impacts extracellular electron transfer and biomineralization. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Applied and Environmental Microbiology #AEM #ApplEnvironMicrobiol and other journals in the ASM Journals family are proud to sponsor the best posters presented at the #IBS2026 International Biotechnology Symposium (Kobe, Japan) this week.

Also one of my favorite people and colleague at Michigan State!! And we get to be lab neighbors. Go green! 💚

Jennifer Biddle@jenbiddle.bsky.social · 3mo ago

One of my favorite people in the world has a postdoc open! Go work for Rosa Leon Zayas! careers.msu.edu/jobs/postdoc...

Happy Mother’s Day to all and, most especially, to all those wonderful mothers and daughters out there who continue to manage a myriad of expectations both at home and at work.

Alexis Rose: 'Hell Yeah' for Hard-Working Women

Alt: Alexis Rose: 'Hell Yeah' for Hard-Working Women

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While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

Do you want to see the "big picture" on climate change? Here it is. Emissions are on the left, and include CO2, CH4, N2O, and f-gases. Natural CO2 sinks (from healthy forests & oceans) are on the right. And carbon removal, what little there is, is on the right, too. All expressed as GWP100.

Now out in AEM @asm.org! 🎉🧪 *High school student-isolated mutants 👉🏻 novel genetic causes of biofilm-associated adaptations *We learn how diversity arises quickly and is maintained *EvolvingSTEM enables scalable research in classrooms & promotes scientific literacy journals.asm.org/eprint/FBU9M...

Genetic diversification of Pseudomonas fluorescens maintained by multi-niche selection within biofilms | Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Bacterial biofilms dominate microbial life; however, their evolutionary genetics remain incompletely understood. Extensive replication of biofilm selection experiments by secondary school students can...

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Vaughn Cooper@vscooper.micropopbio.org · last yr.

Sharing the most significant work from my group, led by the @evolvingstem.bsky.social team. Come for the discoveries of how Pseudomonas adapts in biofilms, stay for the story of how they were discovered by thousands of young scientists in grades 9-12. 🧪🧫🧬🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Got this one right in my bracket…

a woman is singing into a microphone while standing at a podium

ALT: a woman is singing into a microphone while standing at a podium

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The Athletic@theathletic.com · 5mo ago

🚨 DOWN GO THE REIGNING CHAMPS 🚨 No. 9 Iowa upsets No. 1 Florida in the Round of 32. The Gators are the first one-seed to fall this men’s NCAA Tournament.

Please, listen till the end to this glorious statement: “There were no books”.

404 Media@404media.co · 5mo ago

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

Darwin’s feelings seem more relatable with each passing day. 😑

a grassland chase 🌾🌾🌾🌾@chasesolidago.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Since everyone, including me, always uses the same lowres google image, I did some digging and found the actual archive scans of Darwin's famous bad day "But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders." as.amphilsoc.org/repositories...

Thank you to all the wonderful folks at Johns Hopkins Environmental Health & Engineering and my host @shilvashrestha.bsky.social for a great visit! What a terrific group working to advance environmental health science. Onwards and upwards!

New paper out! We sat down and compiled all viral work in marine sediments. The water column has been getting a second look for viral interactions, its time for sediment to have the same! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Viruses in marine sediments: a review of their effect on biogeochemistry and microbial interactions | Applied and Environmental Microbiology

In the ocean, viruses are known to mediate the carbon cycle, keeping dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in the microbial loop and preventing its movement into secondary consumers (1). However, few direct ...

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‼️The February issue of ASM Journals #AppEnvMicro #AEM is out and, with it, the articles I picked for the Spotlight. A 🧵 in the comments 👇 doi.org/10.1128/aem....

Articles of Significant Interest in This Issue | Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Liu et al. (e01971-25) describe the evolutionary history of laccase isozymes in white-rot fungi and demonstrate links to the ancestral emergence of their lignin substate in plants.

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New preprint from my lab‼️ We describe how cations in the media remodel the Geobacter envelope for reciprocal control of cytochrome-loaded vesicles and conductive pili. Important phenomenon to understand discrepancies in the literature about the true nature of nanowires. doi.org/10.21203/rs....

The “boys’ club’ is alive and well. Just ask any woman in academia.

Errin Haines@errinhaines.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NEW reporting from @19thnews.org on the Epstein files shows how academic research funding intersected with women scientists and institutional power shaped by male influence. An important story about accountability, impact and who gets protected -- and who doesn't. 19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...

Interesting reflections on academia, its deficit in psychological safety, unrealistic performance expectations, and the need for transformational leadership to protect focus, interpret external chaos, and foster that missing psychological safety. www-oms--lab-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.oms-...

Scaling the 11th Century Start-up, or, Why Universities Break People

53% of academics show signs of depression. This is a role design failure, not a resilience issue: we are managing 21st-century experts with medieval guild structures. To fix the crisis, we must abando...

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🧵 After years out of the field, I and my lab are again working on bacterial type IV pili. We have just posted our first preprints, and I'm excited to share what we have discovered. This shows Neisseria gonorrheae bacteria infecting a human epithelical cell. Here, you can see the pili in red. 1/

Happy Valentine’s Day to all scientists and, most especially, those that share my love for applied and environmental microbiology and our beloved @asm.org journal #AEM ❤️ 🌹 Roses are red 🦠 Science is rad 📓 Submit to #AEM 💡 For environmental and applied

On this International Day of Women and Girls in Science, I want to take a moment to celebrate the wonderful women in the editorial board of Applied and Environmental Microbiology at @asm.org Journals. It is an honor to work with them. Onward and upward! #WomenInScience #AEM #ApplEnvironMicrobiol

I have entered the phase of Michigan winter when I ask the same question that Bad Bunny asked in ‘Nueva Yol’: “Y este frío, ¿cuándo se acaba?”

We have come such a long way since the early pandemic days…

Judge Roy Ferguson@judgefergusontx.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy #Lawyercat Anniversary for all who celebrate! It's been four years since the kitten appeared in my Zoom courtroom, and I released the 48 second video that made the whole world laugh. Here is the full video showing the big reveal at the end (in two parts because Blue sky). Enjoy!