Morticia (MLS, ASCP)

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

“I haven’t checked if this is true, but…”

Let me stop you right there, friend-o.

There’s enough actually horrible stuff really happening without you spreading inflammatory wrong information.

A map of the US. Counties with large minoritized populations are shown Black populations are largely in the South, Latino in the West, AI/AN in Alaska and the upper Midwest, and Asian in Hawaii.

reposting this every time i see a bad rural take. via @janprobst.bsky.social www.brookings.edu/articles/map...

2 panel meme. Top panel: Guy in a military outfit including a gas mask riding on the front of a motorized something or other, a tank perhaps, with a long gun barrel sticking out. He's looking at the camera, turned around from the direction of travel. Overlaid text reads, "hey friend listen, I know the world is scary right now but" Bottom panel: It's a zoom in on the eyes in the gas mask. The original meme says, "it's about to get much worse" or something like that. This version is subverted where that text is removed and "the future is unknowable and will be determined by how hard we fight now for a loving world" is inserted.

TOMORROW BELONGS TO US

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Donut granulomas from a Coxiella burnetii infection🍩

A deadly shooting at the CDC shook its scientists. Now they want answers from RFK Jr. CDC Director Susan Monarez convened an online all-hands meeting of the agency division that focuses on vaccines, and employees called out Kennedy’s rhetoric specifically.

Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterday’s shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

it's Very Vinay (sorry) that he quit actual regulatory work (Actual Work) after two months to go back to podcasting (his true lifes Passion)

The US technically hasn't lost measles elimination (yet)
But there's a good chance we will
Elimination = no endemic transmission for 12+ months
The first Texas case was detected Jan 20
With the right resources, we might be able to keep measles eliminated in America

Top panels: graphs showing increases in spillover events, extinction rates, and temperature anomalies over the last few centuries. Bottom panel: a map of 10 pandemics since the year 1900. Four were linked to agriculture, two to wildlife use, and one to climate change.

🚨😷🧪 NEW: A growing body of evidence shows that pandemics, biodiversity loss, and climate change are part of a broader polycrisis - but there are no simple solutions. A sweeping overview of "Pathogens and planetary change" for the first issue of @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social, out now 🔓 rdcu.be/d6lHl

Simultaneous entry as an adaptation to virulence in a novel satellite-helper system infecting Streptomyces species - The ISME Journal The ISME Journal - Simultaneous entry as an adaptation to virulence in a novel satellite-helper system infecting Streptomyces species

Image source publication: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Even microbes need a hug! I love this TEM image of a phage helper (blue) and its satellite virus (pink) 🥰 Satellite viruses are dependent on helper viruses for genome replication. They are not able to invade a cell and replicate their genetic material without attaching to one. Teamwork! 🤝

Hetero Awesome Fest - Guerrilla Performance - Boise, Idaho - Boy

🚨 A QUEER PERSON HAS SNUCK ONTO THE STAGE AT HETERO PRIDE THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨

Genetically, Shigella bacteria are a subspecies of Escherichia, (or you might be more familiar with the name E. coli.) In other news, did you know different strains of E. coli can differ in their genetics by anywhere from 30 to 80%? LOL 🤪

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the primary causative agent for the disease known as tuberculosis, showing off its prolific "cording" trait. These cord-like structures play an important role in both endogenous antibiotic resistance and disease progression!

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Nature ran a piece finding that 25 million people could die as a result of ending USAID. This puts Trump and Musk in the category of the most brutal leaders of the 20th century in terms of unnecessary lives lost.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

These are prints of an original painting, so they are high-quality copies :)

Neutrophil (Original Artwork) Print Hello👋🏻👩🏻‍🔬Morticia here, welcome to The Lab!

Prints of an original artwork (Neutrophil Extracellular Trap) are available on MorticiasLab! morticiaslab.com/products/neu... #SciArt

This is bleak reading

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m.youtube.com/live/Lva3TxY... Come support Recovering from Religion! 🥳✨

All Products | Morticia's Lab Hello👋🏻👩🏻‍🔬Morticia here, welcome to The Lab!

Speaking of Lab Week...you might find some cool lab-themed stickers over on Morticia's Lab. You know..if you're interested in that sort of thing. And if not, well that sucks for you. morticiaslab.com/collections/...

Happy Lab Week to the med lab squad! May your QC always be in range and your microtainers unclotted. 🧫🧪🔬

Rigorous science demands support of transgender scientists To build a just, equitable, and diverse academy, scientists and institutions must address systemic barriers that sex and gender minorities face. This …

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Paenibacillus dendritiformis is captivating. Just look at that colony morphology! This "social" microbe forms dynamic communities that behave like a multi-cellular organism; with specialized cell differentiation, communication and linguistics. It reminds us what we can achieve when we work together.

The horrors persist but so do we. We are not the first people to be here, we aren't the first scientists to be persecuted, we aren't the first citizens to be oppressed. We have footsteps to follow, and shoulders to stand on! Fascism wins when you lose hope. To joyful persistence, my friends! ❤️‍🔥

How do we balance evidence and gaps in knowledge when discussing science? 🤔 New discussion at Morticia's Lab! morticiaslab.com/supporters/p...

You can review the published data, learn more about how this survey was constructed, or contact the PhD candidate for the project if you feel you can correct their methodology. Links at the top and bottom of the page :)

I rated my resilience as average. I was a little surprised to see my results at the end!