🧪 #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...
The misogyny of the Trump administration is palpable…
#MedSky 🧪
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...
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
An image split between a monochrome vintage photo and dark teal text. The photo shows a man in a lab coat working with scientific equipment. The text reads "Did You Know? Pasteur originally developed pasteurization to protect wine and beer from spoiling. Its later use for milk dramatically reduced foodborne illness and quietly reshaped everyday life worldwide."
#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...
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
God bless Bruce
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...
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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
A black-and-white photo shows Dr. Leila Denmark (center), an elderly woman with glasses, seated and smiling while looking at a baby who is laughing and facing her. Another younger woman is also seated to the right, laughing and placing her hand near the baby's midsection. The scene suggests a warm, inter-generational interaction, possibly in a clinical or home setting. Dr. Denmark was a pioneering pediatrician, known as the world's oldest practicing pediatrician upon her retirement at age 103.
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
But left unbrushed, our teeth develop biofilms where communities are truly "stronger together".
For more "Silly Stickers, Serious Science" see mostlymicrobes.redbubble.com. If you need bulk purchases for outreach or clients, DM me. 🧪🦠🍎🦷🪥
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! 🧪🪥🦷🦠🍎
Sticker with a diversity of bacterial colonies on a petri dish. The sticker reads " I've got a lot on my plate!".
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/
Cartoon of a bacterial growth curve with bacteria "multiplying by dividing" underneath the growth curve
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...
This is the sort of strategic planning that should go into #vaccine design 💉
They analysed 1,930 #Klebsiella pneumoniae 🦠🧫🧬 neonate blood isolates from 13 countries and estimate that 20 antigens 🧪 could cover 72.9% of all infections for 5–10 years
#IDSky #EpiSky
journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...
A rescue puppy is to become one of only a handful of dogs in the world able to detect a multi-drug resistant lung infection.
Chilli is being trained to identify the scent of pseudomonas aeruginosa, a major cause of lung damage in cystic fibrosis.
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@medsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A bearded man in nurse's scrubs offers aid to Justice, wearing a blindfold and holding a sword and scales, who has fallen to her knees.
Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...
Join #MVIF 46 cassyni.com/s/mvif-46
and #MeetTheSpeakers
@jeremyjbarr.bsky.social will discuss isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut!
Let's start a virus snowflake blizzard! Snip out some viral snowflakes this weekend - using the great templates by @socialinfluenza.bsky.social See new blog post here: wp.me/p5dMJb-Rg
