I'm partial to Brock Biology of Microorganisms!

US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱

Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".

#climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience

CO₂ at Mauna Loa just reached a monthly average of >430 ppm for the first time.

That's possibly higher than in over 3.3 million years.

The global RATE of increase is off the chart.

It's hard to exaggerate how unprecedented this is!

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

#HigherEd travel to USA advised against 🧪

www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

come hear @permafrostee.bsky.social talk about ground ice!

#Arctic #ScienceSky just got a bit better: welcome to Bluesky, Permafrost Young Researchers Network @pyrn-official.bsky.social! We're so happy to see you here 🌏🙌

An instagram post from WDG public health. The post reads: Media release: measles circulating in Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph.

FYI Guelph - Just saw this posted to the @wdgpublichealth.bsky.social Instagram account. Full media release can be found on their website: wdgpublichealth.ca/news/media-r...

The progress flag in the shape of a shield against an outdoorsy background, titled "Pride guidelines: pointers for research that is inclusive, diverse, and equitable for LGBTQ+ fieldworkers"

New LGBTQ+ science resources! Today, we’re excited to share our PRIDE Guidelines for LGBTQ+ inclusive field work at inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/pride. Please share widely and see the thread below for more details 🧪🌍🌐

unless you're voting for doug ford, in which case I think the election is tomorrow

my cat really wanted to walk across my keyboard and post this here: bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbh9

translated from cat into english, it reads "please go out and vote today"

'We pledge to make abortion unthinkable in our lifetime': PC MPP Sam Oosterhoff | CBC News Niagara West MPP, Sam Oosterhoff spoke in support of anti-abortion at rally in front of Queen's Park Thursday.

Do we really need another reason to #VoteFordOut?

Ah, WTH, here ya go:

'We pledge to make abortion unthinkable in our lifetime': PC MPP Sam Oosterhoff | CBC News

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

One cannot simply *stop developing* SPAdes :)

voted for this guy today!! early voting is open today & tomorrow til 8pm!

consider strategic voting if you want to protect the environment, healthcare, & education in ontario for the next four years votewell.ca

A photo of Matt Richter, Mike Schreiner and Aislinn Clancy standing on stage with Green signs around them.

Today I was proud to announce the Ontario Greens 2025 platform. Our Plan for Fairness puts people before politics.

Our plan will build 2 million homes that people can afford in the communities they love without paving over prime farmland and the places we love.

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Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

Star Trek did say the 2020s were gonna be a little rough

the NSF is laying off up to half of their staff over the coming months and cutting funding to projects with even the most tenuous ties to DEI, sooo not a great time to start grad school in the US

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ACOG Endorsed The following documents have ACOG’s endorsement and are listed in order of endorsed date.

The American College of OB/GYN’s website is now hosting the critical documents purged by the CDC

This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now

#MedSky

www.acog.org/clinical/cli...

For the love of all that is good in this world do NOT buy books from Amazon. Cancel your Amazon accounts.
Go to the Library (in person or online ebooks!) and support local bookstores instead. Please #BookSky don’t be ambivalent

It has been brought to my attention that my article has been censored to exclude certain terms:

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#MicroSky

Subject: Appalled by the decision to remove DEI content on the ASM website Dear ASM Leadership, For over 20 years, I have been a proud member of the ASM, a professional society that not only publishes outstanding microbiology research but also supports diversity, equity, and inclusion within our field. I am deeply disappointed and angered by ASM’s recent decision to remove online content that highlighted and celebrated non-white, female, and LGBTQ+ scientists. Rather than unquestioningly complying with vague governmental directives to halt and delete inclusion efforts, ASM should have taken a principled stand and kept this content accessible. Since ASM is not a federal agency and derives most of its funding from publishing and membership fees, this decision to remove content that so many of us support is both disheartening and perplexing. I have read ASM’s statement following the recent STAT article, which claims that no content was deleted but is instead "under review." I must ask: under review for what purpose? Will the language be altered? Will key aspects be removed? I urge ASM to demonstrate integrity and restore the content in its original form. As BlueSky user Len Kurland worded it nicely, this is the perfect time for Microbial Resistance. Kind regards, Elisabeth Bik

I am appalled by the ASM's decision to remove DEI content from their website.

Here is my email to the American Society for Microbiology, @ASM.org asking them to put everything back as it was.

If you are an ASM member, please consider writing them.

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

a medium haired grey tabby cat laying on her back with her fluffy tummy exposed

who gave her the right to be so fluffy

Permafrost people! Consider entering the Canadian Permafrost Association’s photo contest! And also consider becoming a member, it’s a great group! Follow us/them on instagram, if you are inclined! www.instagram.com/p/DFYXxQdyHg...

where the world stands on the paris climate agreement, as of today:

Polar Impact Polar Impact is an inclusive network of racial & ethnic minorities and allies in the polar research community.

Hello Bluesky!

We're excited for our new home. We're an inclusive network of racial & ethnic minorities and allies in the polar research community. More about us: www.polarimpactnetwork.org

Please share your recommended feeds related to polar science and folks who live/work in polar regions.

The Jan '25 issue is live.

Articles on Toll-like receptor 4 (cover), mapping TB outcomes in mice, temperature regulation of virulence in bacterial pathogens, envtl. antifungal resistance, permafrost cryophiles, historical plague pandemics, tea plant microbes & more!

www.cell.com/issue/S0966-...