Lauren

Interested in a tenure track position teaching and doing research with undergrads at a PUI? We are looking for a broadly-defined microbiologist who can teach Med Micro and Immunology. Apply at universityofscrantonjobs.com/postings/8308. Pls share widely to feeds (& on twitter if you still tweet)! 🦠

Universities Must Reject Trump Admin "Loyalty Oath" Compacts The AAUP and AFT warn that the Trump administration’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda is entirely corrupt.

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me when I’m about to err

Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice!

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this time is even worse than usual because it’s not even a restaurant, it’s my GROCERY STORE 😭

everyone in seattle should have access to a form titled “kenji lopez-alt blew up my spot” that you can submit to receive compensation every time kenji lopez-alt blows up your spot

🔵 ANNIVERSARY SALE 🔵

To celebrate eleven years since we published our first book, we are running a sale on our website until 11.59 p.m. BST on 30 September, with a 40 per cent discount across our website.

Use the code ‘ANNIVERSARY40’ at checkout: fitzcarraldoeditions.com

This feels pretty good though ngl

Things I found in my desk on my first day (non-exhaustive):

-padlocks: 15 (padlocks with keys: 4)
-loose unlabeled keys: at least 40
-loose scalpel blades: 2
-clipboards: 7
-a receipt from 1978
-a peanut

Embark DNA test results: Chihuahua - 27.7% Supermutt - 16.3% Australian Shepherd - 13.6% APBT - 12.7% Chow chow - 11.3% American Eskimo dog - 8.3% Pekingese - 7.1% German Shepherd - 3%

the dog in question (brown/grey with black speckles, bat ears, and long awkward legs)

lmao my dog is “everything”

the dog resting is his head on the cat omg

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advocating for open access research and objecting to companies feeding your work to the plagiarism engine are not incompatible or even conflicting opinions

Postdoc position (please re-post)
A funded postdoctoral position, will open in 2026 to study aspects of Neisseria gonorrhoeae pathogenesis, antigenic variation, genetics, or physiology.
If interested in more information, please contact Hank Seifert
h-seifert@northwestern.edu
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grey and black speckled dog wearing a UW huskies bandana

teacher’s pet

I love that if you found some condition to which bacteria could not evolve adaptations, this would be considered a failure of the project and not, like, the biggest evolutionary discovery since luria-delbrück lol

thum mak tua (lao papaya salad w/ green beans instead of papaya), lao sausage, & crispy fried egg 🧑‍🍳🤌💋

They come in sealed bags and there are four designs, and the lady volunteering at the front desk asked me to open it so she could see which one I got and she said “oh good, that’s the cutest one!”

A Red Cross tshirt with the shape of a blood drop made up of tiny woodstocks from peanuts, captioned “a little goes a long way. give blood.”

Every single time I’ve donated blood during a giveaway they’ve been out of the giveaway item

UNTIL TODAY

Like how are any of you wearing socks?? I want to wear socks

Is there even a single woman in existence who prefers ankle length pants to actual pants length pants. You cannot possibly convince me that for the past decade+ the vast majority of women would rather look like a child who outgrew last year’s clothes. I hate ankle length pants so much

it’s both actually 🥲

Respect for Life and Conscience. The CDC should eliminate programs and projects that do not respect human life and conscience rights and that undermine — 455 — 2025 Presidential Transition Project family formation. It should ensure that it is not promoting abortion as health care. It should fund studies into the risks and complications of abortion and ensure that it corrects and does not promote misinformation regarding the comparative health and psychological benefits of childbirth versus the health and psychological risks of intentionally taking a human life through abortion. The CDC oversaw and funded the development and testing of the COVID-19 vaccines with aborted fetal cell lines, insensitive to the consciences of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of people who objected to taking a vaccine with such a link to abortion. As evidenced by litigation across the country, it is likely that thousands were fired unjustly because of the exercise of their consciences or faith on this question, which could have been avoided with a modicum of concern for this issue from CDC. There is never any justification for ending a child’s life as part of research, and the research benefits from splicing or growing aborted fetal cells and aborted baby body parts can easily be provided by alternative sources. All such research should be prohibited as a matter of law and policy. CDC should update its public messaging about the unsurpassed effectiveness of modern fertility awareness–based methods (FABMs) of family planning and stop publishing communications that conflate such methods with the long-eclipsed “rhythm” or “calendar” methods. CDC should fund studies exploring the evidence-based methods used in cutting-edge fertility awareness.

Data Collection. The CDC’s abortion surveillance and maternity mortality reporting systems are woefully inadequate. CDC abortion data are reported by states on a voluntary basis, and California, Maryland, and New Hampshire do not submit abortion data at all. Accurate and reliable statistical data about abortion, abortion survivors, and abortion-related maternal deaths are essential to timely, reliable public health and policy analysis. Because liberal states have now become sanctuaries for abortion tourism, HHS should use every available tool, including the cutting of funds, to ensure that every state reports exactly how many abortions take place within its borders, at what gestational age of the child, for what reason, the mother’s state of residence, and by what method. It should also ensure that statistics are separated by category: spontaneous miscarriage; treatments that incidentally result in the death of a child (such as chemotherapy); stillbirths; and induced abortion. In addition, CDC should require monitoring and reporting for complications due to abortion and every instance of children being born alive after an abortion. Moreover, abortion should be clearly defined as only those procedures that intentionally end an unborn child’s life. Miscarriage management or standard ectopic pregnancy treatments should never be conflated with abortion. Comparisons between live births and abortion should be tracked across various demographic indicators to assess whether certain populations are targeted by — 456 — Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise abortion providers and whether better prenatal physical, mental, and social care improves infant outcomes and decreases abortion rates, especially among those who are most vulnerable. The Ensuring Accurate and Complete Abortion Data Reporting Act of 20239 would amend title XIX of the Social Security Act and Public Health Service Act to improve the CDC’s abortion reporting mechanisms by requiring states, as a

But by far and away, the biggest priority for a Heritage Foundation-captured CDC is going to be using the agency's legal frameworks for access to medical data, and weaponizing them to control women. *Most* of the Project 2025 plan for CDC is a witch hunt against abortion on an unprecedented scale.

shape of a dog who definitely did not just upset the cat and get himself hissed at

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

The nature of mutation: a legacy of bacterial genetics Abstract. A central question in the fields of genetics and evolution was the nature and origin of spontaneous mutation. Bacterial genetic experiments throu

I cannot fully put into words what publishing this Review has meant to me, so I leave you with how we closed the paper.

"The humble bacterium is still a relevant tool for the study of the underlying mechanisms that are conserved throughout life."

🧪🧫🧬📚
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the wilco zootunes show is reaching levels of barefoot-in-public previously thought impossible

It’s past time to bring back being a craft purist 😤 we certainly aren’t in this for the fame and fortune – if we devalue what actually makes our profession unique and worth preserving, we’re only doing the fascists’ work for them!

Evolution of polyamine resistance in Staphylococcus aureus through modulation of potassium transport | mSphere Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of infectious disease-related deaths globally. Understanding factors that govern adaptation and survival of S. aureus and other pathogens in the host environme...

Excited to share the latest work by outstanding PhD student @kdc509.bsky.social. This was one of our first forays into experimental evolution and uncovered some cool connections between potassium transport and antimicrobial resistance in S. aureus. Major kudos to Killian!

Elio (1928-2025) by The STC Team — Losing a close friend always saddens one deeply, regardless of age. Losing a person who has so immensely influenced our worldview through his guidance and example makes the sadness e...

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