It’s fun studying “water bottle buddies” (#WBBs). Here is a plastic bottle swabbed from the inside wall of the bottle, and the integral straw. Cannot wait to see 16S rRNA results! I wish I had $$$ to do this seriously. #MicrobesEverywhere #MicrobialCentricity #WaterBottleBuddies @microbe.tv

This is sadly true (as a microbiologist) & the pathogenic ones are a pretty low % of the microbial world but I take solace in all the microbiomes playing their part to put things right and to sustain us 🍞🍷🍺🧀& the fact that they're pretty much everywhere #microbeseverywhere

From my #Bio350 microbiology course: a #Micronaut swabbed the inside wall of their water bottle onto R2A media. Lots of #WaterBottleBuddy microbes, but a few fluoresce under UV light! Siderophores for scavenging iron? #MicrobesEverywhere #ItsAMicrobialWorld @univpugetsound @asmicrobiology