Thinking about my microbiology seminar at Penn State next week. And how to conclude it! #MicrobialCentricity #MicrobialEvangelist #Microbiology @asmicrobiology @univpugetsound @microbetv.bsky.social

This is my retirement goal: do some research (at my level) and promote #MicrobialCentrism to all. #MicrobialEvangelist Artwork by the wonderful @vexedmuddler

My needle felted tardigrade (“Blue Starri Tardi”) looks down on me from my computer monitor, reminding me with porcelain claws to catch up on work. #MicrobialArt #MicrobialEvangelist #MicrobialCentricity @univpugetsound @asmicrobiology @microbetv.bsky.social

My preferred job titles are #MicrobialEnthusiast, #MicrobialCentrist, and #MicrobialEvangelist But thank you so very much.

Here is a #LuxSelfie of yours truly, illuminated by #BacterialBioluminescence. It’s creepy and wonderful. #MicrobialEvangelist #MicrobialCentricity #MicrobialEnthusiasm @univpugetsound @asmicrobiology @microbetv.bsky.social

Happy to share Episode 126 of #MattersMicrobial, w Spencer Nyholm, discussing how maternal microbes protect squid eggs from fungal infection. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord? #MicrobialEvangelist #MicrobialCentricity @microbetv.bsky.social @spencernyholm.bsky.social

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“With my mind on my microbes and my microbes on my mind.”

With apologies to Snoop, this is how I feel each day away from the house. #MicrobialCentricity #MicrobialEvangelist #FindYourPassion @microbetv.bsky.social @asmicrobiology @univpugetsound

I really treasure this glass artwork of luminous bacteria made by the talented Jane Hartman of Trilobite Glassworks. #MicrobialCentricity #MicrobialEvangelist #MicrobialArt @microbetv.bsky.social @asmicrobiology @univpugetsound

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I love snow (right now in Tacoma!). And I adore the fact that each snowflake has a nucleation point…which is often a bacterium synthesizing ice nucleation protein. #MicrobialCentrism #MicrobialEvangelist #IceNucleation @microbetv.bsky.social @asmicrobiology @univpugetsound

Here is a swab onto R2A medium from the wall of a student’s plastic water bottle and a close up. Fungus or bacterium? Time and DNA will tell! #WaterBottleBuddies #MicrobialCentrism #MicrobialEvangelist @microbetv.bsky.social @asmicrobiology @univpugetsound.bsky.social

I’m kind of scared I left this outside my lab door. #MicrobialEvangelist #MicrobialCentrism

Current #MicrobialVibes. These are not Doc Martens, sadly, nor hand painted. I’m doing the best I can. #MicrobialEvangelist #MicrobialCentrism @drmartens-official.bsky.social @microbetv.bsky.social @asmicrobiology @univpugetsound

Here is a streak from a sample swabbed from a deionized water spigot. The closer I get, the more microbial diversity I see. And these are just the bacteria grown on R2A plates! #MicrobialEvangelist #MicrobialCentrism @MicrobeTV @asmicrobiology @univpugetsound

I collect lapel pins. Here are my very favorites, mostly of microbe-related topics. #MicrobialEvangelist #MicrobialCentrism @microbetv.bsky.social @asmicrobiology @univpugetsound

My opinion on the microbial world all around us and within us. #MicrobialEvangelist #MicrobialEnthusiasm #MicrobialCentrism @microbetv.bsky.social @asmicrobiology @univpugetsound

A gift a former student sent me. I wish I had a great scope for my crappy eyes! The microbial world is worth sharing! #MicrobialEvangelist

Well, sure. The first time I looked at a streak plate of bioluminescent Photobacterium in the dark. I was ten years old. It lit my way. Still does. #bioluminescence #microbiology #MicrobialEvangelist @asmicrobiology @univpugetsound @MicrobeTV

Here is a 3D printed hybrid of myself and a tardigrade. We call this a #TardiDoc. It makes me happy. #MicrobialEvangelist #MicrobialCentrism #Tardigrade @asmicrobiology @univpugetsound @microbe.tv

A microbiology student made this for me, complete with hat, several years ago. I treasure things like this from students. I have been very lucky. #MicrobialEvangelist #MicrobialCentrism #LuckyProf @asmicrobiology @univpugetsound @microbetv.bsky.social

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Best quote ever, talking to a microbiologist acquaintance. She said: "You don't seem like the retiring type." It is true, and ironic in both senses of the phrase "retiring type." I'll keep being me, with the goal of being *microbiology's* giant goofball. #MicrobialEvangelist #AuthenticIsBest

An important reminder. #MicrobialPhilosophy #MicrobialCentrism #MicrobialEvangelist @microbetv.bsky.social @univpugetsound.bsky.social @ASMicrobiology

A luminous Valentines Day to @jennifer.j.quinn . #BacterialBioluminescence #MicrobialEvangelist #MicrobialCentrism @asmicrobiology @univpugetsound @microbetv.bsky.social

This is one of my favorite microbiology themed lapel pins. #MicrobialEvangelist #MicrobialCentrism

During every recording of #MattersMicrobial, I have a #TardiDoc #PodcastPal. #MicrobialEvangelist #MicrobiologyPodcast @asmicrobiology @univpugetsound @microbetv.bsky.social

This says it all. #GramPositiveProkaryote. #MicrobialEvangelist #MicrobialCentrism @asmicrobiology @univpugetsound @MicrobeTV

Here are my two #DocMartians for the spring semester as I slouch toward retirement, trying to recreate myself. There is nothing like working with students in the lab. Period. #MicrobialEvangelist #retirement #QualityQuorum @microbetv.bsky.social PS @melissamacdonald28 made the giant micropipette!

This is how I have always felt about microbiology. #MicrobialEvangelist #microbialcentrism #DontFearTheMicrobe @asmicrobiology @univpugetsound @MicrobeTV @GIANTmicrobes

I found this beautiful plastic bacteriophage on eBay. It’s a Japanese toy! Really lovely. #MicrobialEvangelist #microbialcentrism @asmicrobiology @univpugetsound @MicrobeTV

As my last semester on payroll at the University of Puget Sound begins (focus and research and planning), I have inspirational lapel pins. I’ll do my best. #retirement #MicrobialEvangelist #QualityQuorum @asmicrobiology @univpugetsound @microbetv.bsky.social

Just to be superclear, I am DELIGHTED to be a #MicrobialEvangelist on #MicrobeTV with my #MattersMicrobial podcast. But since I don’t have local microbiologists with whom to share my microbial enthusiasms, it is just as much for me! It means so much! Thank you again, @microbetv.bsky.social