Happy new year! The second big project of my PhD in Rachel Whitaker's lab is now up! 🎉 We look at how provirus infection affects the evolution of the bacterial chromosome with different types of viral induction – with CRISPRs or antibiotics. Take a peek 🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
(Part 1 of 2) Love your weird lakes! ⛰️🦐 Made this little comic for fun after some recent visits up north.
#scientificillustration #nationalparkservice #altnationalparksservice #monolake #comic #brineshrimp #illustration #sciart 🐡
My wonderful friend makes these awesome infographics. This one is about one of our favorite CA lakes! Give it a read!
Wow that sounds like a cool paper! Everyone should read it! (it's mine it's my paper 😁)
thrilled to announce that it's on BioRxiv now!! Anyone who is interested in the uncultivated majority, cool microbes, and eco-evolutionary dynamics should give it a read!!
Please share! The UIUC Dept of Plant Biology is hiring a tenure-track professor in mycology. Candidates should be strong in basic mycology and be interested in implications for a circular bioeconomy. Applications close Oct 31st!
illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Please share to any potential applicants!!
Know your bears 🐻
Sources: savebears.org, turpentinecreek.org, NPR article www.npr.org/2023/08/07/1...
#fatbearweek #nationalparksservice #nationalforestservice
Daphnia? More like daft-nia amirite...
List of Stand Up for Science events—official events in red, solidarity events in blue.
SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING!
To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎
Although we are not federally funded for this summer, WE WILL STILL RUN The National Summer Undergraduate Research Project (NSURP) in 2025. We remain committed to the work that needs to be done and will continue to meet people where they are. 1/4 nsurp.org
Stand Up For Science March 7, 2025 Washington, DC and nationwide. Science is for everyone. Find your local rally site and other ways to get involved standupforscience2025.org
If you've been let go from your federal science job and are interested in participating in this, DM me
Lets #StandUpForScience 🔬💪
www.standupforscience2025.org/STAND-UP-FOR...
16S rRNA is just like AI.
If you don't know how to use it, just don't, or train first.
Things I'm doing:
1) Setting up a local telethon to call our reps on Monday
2) Taking it to the streets 👇
Ok scientists. How do we respond? Scientific strike starting on Monday? Something has to be done to let people know what is going on.
Powerful and important infographics by @firefoxx66.bsky.social about the ongoing destruction of our public health and scientific infrastructure, one of the nation’s greatest assets. Read. Share. Take action.
ASM did a spotlight article on me last February and it has also been taken down as “under review”. Other spotlight articles are still up so not sure how else to interpret this besides the obvious. It feels pretty crappy to have been singled out and I won’t be engaging with them in the future.
My letter to ASM leaders that I sent is too long to be posted here, so I'm going to post highlights in case anyone else needs information for their letter. 🧵
Header: "ASM Action Alert" and "ASM Advocacy" next to image of bacteria Text: Urge the Trump Administration to Restore Normal Federal Grant Operations
Kudos to @asm.org I have never in my nearly 25yrs as a member been sent an "ASM Action Alert" asking me to contact my members of Congress. Make those calls. Write those emails.
There are extraordinary times and we must make ourselves heard
NSF PRFB POSTDOCS:
Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs.
If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite
If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.
Congrats on the paper, Alex!
Did you know that GEMS has a newsletter? The newest edition was just published today! Check it out on our website: symbiosis.illinois.edu/gems-nuggets...
Not all Bradyrhizobium fix N2! In fact, most that live in soil probably don’t. We isolated a bunch from Arizona soils and found none had N-fixing or nodulation genes. We report their genomes and phylogeny here in an accepted paper at access microbiology! www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
There's a lot of "Starter packs" going around, I follow a few! Welcome!
Funded #PhD project to work with me, @DrSelvaDhan, @andymitch20, @arwynedwards, & @LindaOyama on zoonotic bacterial pathogens and their mobile genetic elements, available through the OneZoo DTP:
shorturl.at/DGriT
Application deadline: 31st January 2025
Please share!
I made ,some time ago, a starter pack for Microbial #Symbiosis. I'm 100% sure it's incomplete, but short on time lately... You can reply and suggest prople/feeds/etc to add!
#MicroSky #SymbioSky
go.bsky.app/T8VUWCz
Hi bsky! I'll reintroduce myself after my X-odus (ha!) I'm a PhD candidate and the Sci-Comm Coordinator for
@gems-bii.bsky.social. I'm a micro-ecologist who <3s big sequencing datasets. I will be looking for jobs (2026 ish) in nonprofit, sci-comm, or bioinfo! Happy to be on a new sci platform!
Wow, this is so cool! I'm interested in similar dynamics in R. leguminosarum!
