Stephen Moxley

🌿🍶 Happy World Kombucha Day! 🍶🌿

Cheers to the bacteria and yeasts that make kombucha fizzy, flavorful, and fascinating.

Discover the microbial magic inside every brew:
👉 buff.ly/RMqTeAr

beautiful shots! what kind of tree did you plant?

New episode is out, and it's a corker!
Listen to The Delicious Legacy, discussing fermented dairy with Dr Simi Rezai-Ghassemi in lieu of her new book "Fermented Dairy of Central Asia" coming out this Sunday 15th!

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

#podcast #food #dairy #fermentation #cheese

Fermentation fans: help add to this collection on @semble.so!

#fermentation

Here is a very rough version of the For You Stats dashboard: linklonk.com/foryou

It shows you 3 things:
- how much you've been using For You
- how many views and likes your posts got in For You
- how your likes/reposts helped surface posts to other people in For You

Feedback welcome

RNA strand that can almost self-replicate may be key to life's origins Life may have begun when RNA molecules began to replicate themselves, and now we’ve finally found an RNA molecule that is very close to being able to do this

(1) this is cool (2) lol at the framing of "molecule can almost do important thing"

🧬 Engineering stress-resistant #Yeast: Overexpressing PIR3 & SPI1 helps yeast tolerate high-concentration molasses stress from potassium/calcium ions. Modified strains showed significantly higher ethanol production than wt
🧪 #YeastResearch #SGD #Biotechnology
www.yeastgenome.org/reference/S1...

Not something you see in textbooks very often: tripolar mitosis.

An mTurquoise2-Based Glucose Biosensor Glucose is an important substrate for organisms to acquire energy needed for cellular growth. Despite the importance of this metabolite, single-cell information at a fast time-scale about the dynamics...

Great to see this officially out: An mTurquoise2-Based Glucose Biosensor - works in yeast & mammalian cells and is compatible with FLIM: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Ink drawing, Edinburgh old town-inspired architecture

More Burgh

⚡ Unconventional zinc finger binding! Newly solved structure shows #Yeast Fzf1 transcription factor uses non-canonical DNA binding strategy with its 5 zinc fingers; unusual binding pattern controls key stress response genes like SSU1 and YHB1
🧬 #YeastResearch #SGD
www.yeastgenome.org/reference/S1...

Cat in snow

Gérard DuBois

tinned food with various designs,some very simple other more complex

'1970s canned goods label designs, from The Art of the Label by Robert Opie.'

your calm moment

Drawing of the artist in a sweater at a desk, scowling at an empty sketchbook page. TEXT: “Maybe the REAL problem is I don’t have the right system of little notebooks…”

2-minute comic

The importance of being malted: making malt and malt sugars from cereals in the Palaeolithic. The Shanidar Cave: one of the places where the ancient magic of malt was first discovered. (image: Wikimedia)  I should have presented this...

🏺How was #malt discovered? I should've presented this at the World Neolithic Congress last year but was not able to. So I submitted it to PAST, the newsletter of The Prehistoric Society. It was published last month in the November issue. It should be online soon!
merryn.dineley.com/2025/12/the-...

a square filled in with strong orange color #f47c10.

#F47C10

"The Hidden Power of Microorganisms: No microbes, no life…”

“Self-portrait of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae.”

“Circles of Life: Microbes in Motion.”

The 2025 Agar Art Contest winners have been selected! This year’s theme, “Microbes Make the World Go Round,” inspired 557 global entries—from food fermentation to antibiotic production. See the masterpieces and finalists! asm.org/press-releas... #agarart

A rectangular box labeled “Semi-circles and Quadrants,” containing a variety of them.

A rectangular box labeled “Gothic Percent Marks, wide and narrow,” containing a variety of them.

A rectangular box labeled “Spartan Medium Fractions,” containing a variety of them.

A rectangular box labeled “Heavy Round Corners,” containing a variety of them.

Trade catalog images
American Type Founders Co.
Elizabeth, New Jersey
1950

Images: Type, Typewriter and Typography Collection via @archive.org; archive.org/details/ATF1...

Looks like it’s been a particularly good season for death caps, but I can’t help but wonder if any of these people were using AI generated identification guides

twenty one people in the past MONTH??

Hometown Unveils Disappointing Microbrewery

Hometown Unveils Disappointing Microbrewery https://theonion.com/hometown-unveils-disappointing-microbrewery/

fuzzy friend. media's theirs now!

this would fix me, etc etc

Using Experimental Evolution to Correct Mother-Daughter Separation Defects in Brewing Yeast The budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is the workhorse of the brewing industry. Brewers have domesticated a vast array of different strains with traits that complement the beers they wish to br...

Fun new preprint from the lab, headed up by two incredible undergraduate researchers: Using Experimental Evolution to Correct Mother-Daughter Separation Defects in Brewing Yeast. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

AWESOME technical goal. This is exactly the direction to go on this problem, and worth taking a risk on.

A cloning strategy as depicted in the OpenCloning website

#OpenCloning is a an Open Source alternative to SnapGene/Benchling that supports automation and integration with other software

✅ Free
🔓 Open Source
🧬 More cloning methods than SnapGene
🤖 Can be automated with python
👨‍🔬 Built by a researcher — for researchers!

👉 Check it out at opencloning.org

Golden Conecap, Conocybe aurea. Two picked fruitbodies.

Golden Conecap, Conocybe aurea. in situ, in a pot of compost in an allotment neighbour's greenhouse.

Golden Conecap, Conocybe aurea. Spores (x1000, in water).

Golden Conecap, Conocybe aurea. Cheilocystidia (xw100, stained in Congo red).

My latest blog post: Golden Conecap, Conocybe aurea.

A rather scarce fungus in the UK and a very nice find this summer when I was watering a neighbour's greenhouse at the allotments.

www.jeremybartlett.co.uk/2025/11/20/g...

#Fungi #FungiFriends