Ameet Pinto
@watermicrobe.bsky.social
Environmental Engineer. (they/them) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ www.pintolab.com
Going to try to revive this account with a bit more science and cat activity.
The @nytimes.com Lost Science series continues. Here's my Q&A with a scientist who was studying how wildfire smoke threatens human health when the EPA decided that her research was no longer a funding priority. Gift link: nyti.ms/4jhpw14
First preprint as a professor and it’s… not wastewater but bees?!?!?? Lovely collab with my colleague Dr. Jennifer VanWyk. the middle authors are all the undergrads who took my bioinformatics course last spring and analyzed novel data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Hot and Bothered, Bees’ Gut Microbiome Shifts Under Thermal Stress and Pathogen Infection.
Understanding bumble bee gut health is imperative as these vital pollinators are subjected to pathogenic infections and thermal stress from climate change. The gut microbiome serves as an indicator fo...
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Interested in portable metagenomics for water samples? Here’s a new preprint using Bento Lab + ONT MinION with a quantitative workflow: ⭐5 field & 4 lab methods tested ⭐Results compared to digital PCR ⭐Field workflow comparable to lab performance 🔗 Read here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Quantitative metagenomics using a portable protocol
A field-deployable DNA sequencing approach for quantitative microbial community profiling can enable rapid responses for a range of applications in the water sector – from process control to wastewate...
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I’m very happy this is finally out! Here, we showcase the combination of BONCAT and SIP metaproteomics to uncover rare and active microbes driving anaerobic acetate turnover. We are excited to see what other microbial metabolisms and ecosystems this approach can help to illuminate! 🦠
Nature Microbiology@natmicrobiol.nature.com · 10mo agoOUT NOW Activity-targeted metaproteomics uncovers rare syntrophic bacteria central to anaerobic community metabolism by @ryanziels.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This commentary offers a clear, powerful statement of why freedom of speech is at the heart of democracy and must be defended, whether the speaker is Charlie Kirk or Jimmy Kimmel, MAGA supporters or MAGA opponents.
Trump is launching a full blown attack on free speech while his harem of billionaires buys up every media platform. This is no coincidence. It’s a coordinated attack on your fundamental right to speak freely without worrying if you’ll lose your job or worse.
ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments After F.C.C. Pressure
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This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.
Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
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Full professor complaining to an assistant professor on how hard it is to get funding nowadays
How do you long-read sequence metagenomes? I would argue it starts with the right sample storage & DNA extraction, to enable efficient @nanoporetech.com /@pacbio.bsky.social sequencing, which we investigated in our new paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Massive thanks to Klara for driving this
If you receive an email like this from this (see screenshot) from an email address like this "ameetpinto6[at]gmail[dot]com"... it's someone trying to impersonate me. PLEASE IGNORE.
🧪 CRITICAL UPDATE: The House draft version is now out. ✅ Like the Senate's version, there's no cut to NASA's budget. ❌ There's a 23% proposed cut to NSF's budget. 8-page summary: appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su... Draft bill: appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈@davidimiller.bsky.social · last yr.🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding. Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24. See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it. 🧵 1/3
The Senate appropriations committee has voiced its intent to ignore the request by President Donald Trump to slash the budgets of the National Science Foundation and NASA science programs. scim.ag/4nW7XWi
Senate spending panel would rescue NSF and NASA science funding
Its support for a flat budget is a sign of congressional resistance to drastic cuts Trump has proposed
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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.
Protein shake and shirt color coordinated this morning 😂
I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.
a sitting federal judge — appointed by trump of course — awarded a student for a paper that basically says dred scott was right and should have gone further
Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof@evanbernick.bsky.social · last yr.Words fail me. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...
BREAKING: Judge denies NSF's 15% indirect rate plan. Like the DOE and NIH attempts, it too has now been rejected by courts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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when was the last time you tried to open your office with buttons on your car keys and wondered why the door wasn’t opening?
Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
Protect Trans Scientists. cowritten with a lot of amazing people (I tagged those I could find but there are so many more incredible folks) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @thepunkscientist.bsky.social @jlw-ecoevo.bsky.social @bfrancescol.bsky.social @drsueishaq.bsky.social
Protect transgender scientists
Transgender and gender nonconforming (TGnC) people are a primary target of the Trump administration. Multiple executive orders seek to erase TGnC protections; mandate denial of gender identity; and ba...
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