No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life is only the core of their actual existence.
A sinus infection kept me from traveling to the Mn symposium, so I'm trying to participate on Zoom. Apparently Wind Cave National Park has terrible wifi. This isn't going to go well.
Phone call to spark dread in any biologist's mind: the -80C doesn't seem to be working.
Science in the Pub returns!
See you guys next Tuesday at Ramble West!
#SciComm
This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative.
1. Music
2. Cats
3. Plants
A colleague just emailed that they were sick for the 7th time since November but their homeopathic drugs will take care of it quickly. I'm posting here to keep myself from making a snarky reply.
Troy Cline at CSU Chico works on avian influenza
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you have seen:
Skinny Puppy
Covenant
VNV Nation
Billy Bragg
Tori Amos
🧪🧪 Nobel laureate Hamilton Smith, who discovered molecular 'scissors' to cut DNA, dies at 94 -- Smith, a microbiologist whose discovery revolutionized the field of genetic engineering, was a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine alumnus and professor emeritus
hub.jhu.edu/2025/11/04/n...
Unknown environmental isolate grown on minimal media with lignin with ornate filigree edges to growth
Filigree phenotype
Close-up view of a bacterial colony with iridescent purple color on its fringes
Found growing in the campus compost pile. Grown on minimal media + lignin at 37C for two weeks.
I might use this as an extra credit opportunity in my micro class, "list all the scientific mistakes in this post"
Keep sciencing. We are living through a time when looking at a rock and wondering how old it is qualifies as an act of resistance.
Oh good. There's no way this could go bad.
do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists
Have you tried Pandora?
An open door reveals a sunny balcony with potted plants in the background. In the foreground, a large orange cat lies on the ground staring up at a black and orange tortie cat staring down at him. The tortie's body language lets you know she's going to pounce on the orange boy any second now.
The cats fighting on the balcony. 30 seconds later, they were grooming each other. #caturday
The scientific infrastructure of the US is being dismantled, but a former student just emailed to say how much my microbiology class has helped her out in medical school. There are still some glimmers of light in the world.
Well, this is an interesting first: RiteAid just texted me to say my prescription is out of stock.
Since the US politics have decided to target DEI spaces, I’ve seen a huge drop of engagement in #DisabledInSTEM
Disabled, disability and accessibility are part of the list of banned words for grants too really really highlights that these identities are being specifically targeted to be silenced.
I'm going to use this article in my pre-health micro class next semester. See, social media isn't entirely a waste of time! Long COVID is Now the Number One Chronic Illness in Children www.thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid...
If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.
check out our newest paper in JB: Kuchma, Geiger et al. identify key components of flagellar-mediated surface sensing system of P. aeruginosa.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
@asm.org #Jbacteriology
A man at the farmer's market asked if my walking stick was my husband's "behave stick" I just said I don't have a husband but I should have asked him to explain his "joke"
This means something very different to microbiologists.
An orange cat was sleeping peacefully on the middle tier of a cat tree when his black and orange tortie sister decided to climb down from the top tier to bother him.
An orange cat was sleeping peacefully on the middle tier of a cat tree when his black and orange tortie sister decided to climb down from the top tier to bother him.
An orange cat was sleeping peacefully on the middle tier of a cat tree when his black and orange tortie sister decided to climb down from the top tier to bother him.
Caturday sibling rivalry
Two cats are perched on top of a cat tree looking out of a window. All you can see of the cats are their butts and tails hanging down, side by side.
Caturday bird watching
An orange cat's face is partially obscured by the tail of a black and orange tortie cat that is lying on top of him. Both cats are squeezed behind a woman's back - almost but not quite - hidden from the scary vet.
I feel like the internet could enjoy a photo of my cats stacked up behind me as they try to hide from the vet.
