New sticker alert during 40% off sale @ Red Bubble! www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1826... I can't help but ruminate on the incredibly diverse microbial community that lives in the stomachs of ruminants! Without the plant fiber degrading enzymes from microbes, ruminants can't digest their food. 🧪🦠🔬🧫 🐐🐮🐏

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Cows, sheep, and goats are ruminants. They have an incredibly diverse microbial community that lives in their stomach called a rumen. The bacteria, archaea, fungi, and protists have special enzymes th...

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Happy birthday to #botanist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), 🧪👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher and mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, the first Indigenous Hawaiian woman to earn a doctorate in science and the first woman or person of colour to become 🧵

Towson University Dept Biological Sciences is hiring! Full time,tenure track,9-month Assistant Professor of Cell/Molecular Biology/Microbiology. Will teach undergraduate lecture/lab courses in Introduction to Cell/Molecular Biology, Genetics, and/or Microbiology. towson.taleo.net/careersectio...

Assistant Professor – Cell/Molecular Biology

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Towson University Dept Biological Sciences is hiring! Full-time, tenure track, 9-month Assistant Professor - plant or algal biology, lichenology, or mycology. Preferred start date is August 2027. More information: : towson.taleo.net/careersectio... 🧪🦠🔬

Reminder — UW #Microbiology has an open search for an Assistant Professor, focusing on fundamental problems in #bacteriology! If you or someone you know would be suitable, here's the ad: apply.interfolio.com/185622

Excellent talk today by @berondam.bsky.social at Towson Univ! I've always been inspired by her #lessonsfromplants and #lessonsfrommicrobes. Appreciate her message that environment matters for mentoring at all career stages.

Here's hoping that #MarylandDay goes well for the UMD Microbiome Center as they are giving out our silly stickers!

🧪 #measles #vaccination Thanks for posting this @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social 😢 This is a gift link, free to read, in case some people can’t read the whole thing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

Opinion | When Your Child Dies of Measles

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM@jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This gutted me. “That’s why herd immunity is so important. If there hadn’t been an outbreak when Renae was a baby, I don’t think she would have contracted it. She was eligible for the vaccine just seven months later” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

The misogyny of the Trump administration is palpable… #MedSky 🧪

Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD@arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 4mo ago

At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years. Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.” wapo.st/4euUt1c

How every layer of science's "self-correcting machinery" failed when Iva Veseli and I simply wanted to reproduce the findings of a high-profile study on gut microbiome and autism: merenlab.org/2026/04/15/u...

Unfalsifiable by Design: A Year of Trying and Failing to Reproduce a Human Microbiome and Autism Study

The myth of open data, reproducibility, responsibility, and accountability in science, and your role in it

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New paper: Some things to consider when you want to use old samples of flowers from herbaria to make inferences about changes in flowering onset over time (or similar). Had a blast building some Bayesian models for this. Thx David and Daniel for letting me help doi.org/10.1111/nph.... 1/2

Unified theory resolves phenological paradoxes in biocollection data by modeling phenophase duration during Bayesian inference

Phenology is increasingly studied using digitized biocollection data, yet no general theory links observed specimen collection dates to the unobserved processes governing phenological events. We der.....

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#OnThisDay in 1862, Louis Pasteur demonstrated that gently heating liquids could prevent spoilage! This experiment laid the foundation for pasteurization, a process that transformed food safety and continues to protect public health today. 🧪

Tonight's @asm.org MD Branch meeting - Rodney Rohde talking about reemerging pathogens

Little migrating songbirds are performing one of the most stunning behaviors on the planet-- some are flying from Brazil to Canada, overnight. When they stop to rest they are exhausted and vulnerable. Protect them by keeping cats inside! It helps cats too! abcbirds.org/solutions/ke...

Keep Cats Indoors - American Bird Conservancy

Outdoor cats kill up an estimated 2.4 billion birds in the U.S. each year. Discover how American Bird Conservancy is reducing the threat of roaming and stray cats through our Cats Indoors program.

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An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

The UnPopulist@theunpopulist.net · 4mo ago

Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.

God bless Bruce

Jess Craven ❌👑@jesscraven101.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥 Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

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Have you developed a new #bioinformatics tool to understand #phage or #virus? Make sure you add it to #awesome-virome github.com/shandley/awe...

On schedule now for #MattersMicrobial: podcast releases every other Tuesday. This week, Dr. Nahui Medina-Chavez (of the Michael Travisano lab) joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss halophilic archaea and evolution in the lab. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord?? youtu.be/oz04oGDiRY0?...

Why do we live in such a childish, stupid country? A country that wastes its money on useless billion dollar aircraft carriers, when it could be spending those tax dollars to actually help its citizens like sane countries.

"The greatest danger to our future is apathy." -- Jane Goodall, born #OTD 1934

Dr. Leila Denmark co-developed the pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine in 1932. She was the world's oldest practicing pediatrician until she retired at age 103 (practicing for 73 years). She died a supercentenarian #OTD in 2012 at the age of 114 years and 60 days. #WomenInSTEM

To get my kids to brush their teeth I tell them about bacterial biofilms. Within biofilms, each bacterial species has a "job". Streptococcus oralis & friends hold on to the tooth. S. mutans (top left) makes acid that causes cavities. Brushing removes S. oralis, so S. mutans can't grow! 🧪🪥🦷🦠🍎

In Gen Micro we "swab something". I encourage students to swab 👟b/c the diversity is fabulous! Here's a sticker dedicated to all the diversity we find on our plates. 🍎🦠🧪As a mom-scientist it's the diversity of things that is sometimes a bit much! At my RedBubble site: mostlymicrobes.redbubble.com

New Book Review up! Breaking Through: My Life In Science by Katalin Kariko. An inspirational story of an unconventional scientist who created the COVID19 mRNA vaccine. For anyone who doesn't fit into the status quo. @asm.org 🦠🧪🍎https://www.mostlymicrobes.com/brbreaking_through/

I always tell my students that bacteria are bad at math - they multiply to divide. *groan*. This and other silly stickers about serious science are up on my RedBubble site. mostlymicrobes.redbubble.com. Need bulk orders for #scicomm? LMK. #stickers 🧪🦠🍎

@markowenmartin.bsky.social thanks so much for the dung beetle and brood ball kits!! You are too kind. The girls and I will have a ton of fun.

How Bacteria Die in the Microbial Marine Forest Dr. Anne Thompson explores her research on salps, some of the most abundant animals in the ocean, and how their feeding mechanisms shape marine microbial food webs and carbon cycles. @markowenmartin.bsky.social

5/6 For anyone worried about synthetic vs "natural" compounds, synthetics are often purer, more stable, & engineered to be more effective and SAFER than "natural" compounds. So do what's right for your baby, get them the vitamin K they need, prevent VKDB, and avoid risk of fatal brain bleeds. 🍎⚛️🧪🧬👩‍🔬🥽

6/6 here's a helpful resource: Oh and talk to your doctor about the hepatitis B vaccine for your baby as well. The fact I had to sign a waiver in order to get the vaccine for my baby because of the current misinformation is sad. 🥽👩‍🔬🧬🧪⚛️🍎 health.ucdavis.edu/blog/cultiva...

Facts and myths parents should know about vitamin K shots for newborns | Cultivating Health

Vitamin K shots are part of routine care for newborns. However, there are many myths about vitamin K injections. Our experts give you the facts about this potentially life-saving vaccine.

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