News post saying ‘two more people are dead after eating oysters infected with flesh-eating bacteria, bringing the 2025 death toll to six.”
Yesterday’s #LSUsciencecafe was from Dr. Crystal Johnson who
discussed Vibrio bacteria 🦠 and it’s impact on oysters 🦪 (see image and alt text above) - and I just read about two people who died yesterday from eating infested oysters. She’s saving lives!
Me with LSU science cafe speaker, Professor Crystal Johnson, on stage with a quote from her talk on a screen “Vibrios are snakes, but students are the butterflies”
I’m the host of @lsu.bsky.social #LSUsciencecafe and it is one of my favorite things I do. We have LSU researchers speak to the general public to talk about their work. It’s not just great for the attendees but #scicomm practice for the speakers discussing their work in broad and approachable terms.
Dr. Hopper on stage showing some mussels from Louisiana on screen
Enjoyed hosting @lsu.bsky.social #LSUsciencecafe with speaker Dr. Garrett Hopper who spoke about freshwater mussel diversity and conservation in Louisiana. These filter feeding friends trick fishes into hosting the development of their larvae on their gills. His website … www.lsu.edu/agriculture/...
Laura showing what happens to tonic water under a black light - more magic from the fever tree
Use the QR code to learn more
Such a nice job by @tropicalbotany.bsky.social presenting this month’s #LSUsciencecafe it was a packed house and besides lots of cool facts about botanizing in the Andes, Laura made a compelling argument to #savetheNSF and reaching out to your representatives to stop this grant freeze
My LSU colleague Dr.Alyssa Johnson talking about her research adding years to people’s lives through intermittent fasting. ‘Autophagy cleanses your cells of garbage.’ And benefits are multigenerational (epigenetics) #LSUsciencecafe
They'll get there. MT @LSU_FISH: My kids might not be (yet) but I'm excited 2 hear Jackie Stephens at #LSUScienceCafe
