Tom Hanson

Cool study on aerotolerant methanogens! Options they might protect themselves from O2 include biofilm formation in response to O2 exposure and antioxidants (F420-H2-oxidases, rubredoxins, thioredoxins, and peroxiredoxins). This opens up a vareity of new possible habitats for methanogens.

Jesus, it's going to be vitamin C. Maybe they'll make a bold choice and go with biotin or lipoic acid. What a bunch of fucking clowns.

How thoughtful experimental design can empower biologists in the omics era - Nature Communications Here, the authors discuss principles of experimental design that are relevant for all biology research, along with special considerations for projects using -omics approaches, highlighting common expe...

Great publication from Maggie Wagner (KU) and Manuel Kleiner (NCS) on how to design microbiome (+ other Omic) projects with downstream statistics in mind!

A must read for trainees!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Backyard from a deck running riot with flowers, herbs, and native plants

Flower bed in backyard garden with outdoor fireplace and patio.

Gravel and flagstone garden path leading to deck and gazebo

Back of back yard wall of false sunflowers

The garden is...enthusiastic. We take no responsibility for what happens if you stand still for too long.

@bluntrochester.senate.gov @coons.senate.gov @mcbride.house.gov If this budget gets enacted, the U.S. will lose the lead in STEM and will probably not get it back for a decade or more.

Retirement cannot get here fast enough for me.

Rising Sun Present Concerts under the stars, sipping at a beer on a glorious evening waiting for Fantastic Cat and Low Cut Connie. Enjoying this amidst the chaos. #wxpn

My linocut portrait of Marie Tharp (woman in grey shirt with oversized glasses and red hair in up-do) in front of her physiographic of the Atlantic (in grey on teal) with mid-ocean ridge, resting her cheek on her left hand with elbow on table covered with depth sounder data.

Happy birthday to #geologist & oceanographic #cartographer Marie Tharp (1920-2006), whose pioneering, thorough & complete ocean floor maps with Bruce Heezen, made using realms of echo sounder data, revealed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.⁠ 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬⚒️ #histsci
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After studying #geology & math, Maurice ‘Doc’ Ewing

Chlorobaculum tepidum outer membrane vesicles may transport biogenic elemental sulfur | Applied and Environmental Microbiology All living cells must exchange material with their environment while maintaining cellular integrity. This is a particular challenge for materials that are not water-soluble; however, many bacteria utilize insoluble materials for energy conservation and as ...

Really proud tthat my group's recent #AppEnvMicro paper is a Spotlight article. Great recognition of work by two group members with outstanding support from @udelaware.bsky.social core facilities. 🦠🔬🧪
@asm.org @microgem.bsky.social @stephdagostino.bsky.social
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Rivers are closing to protect fish in Yellowstone National Park One fishing guide said, "The water just keeps getting warmer."

Yellowstone closed 3 rivers because the water’s too hot for fish to survive. When rivers become lethal in Yellowstone, coldwater species everywhere are in trouble. Climate change isn’t theory. It’s happening.

www.sfgate.com/national-par...

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders.

Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.

It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.

That’s it.

@coons.senate.gov @bluntrochester.senate.gov @mcbride.house.gov

Please promise to hold people accountable.

Seen

A math teacher friend does this with ChatGPT and math. Which it constantly gets wrong. Very effective lesson

🧪We are hiring #MicroSky🧪
Postdoc position in #microbiology #bioinformatics for our @volkswagenstiftung.de funded MOMENTUM project. Join us to study bacterial gene expression with #microfluidics and #microscopy.
➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/03290000/2025/Postdoc_MOMENTUM_Sharma_2025-08.pdf

Ahhh.

Sometimes you just need to be having a beer waiting on a burger.

📣 The Mendes Lab is recruiting PhD students in statistical phylogenetics! Interested, or know someone who might be? Details here 👉 tinyurl.com/542wyfb9 — please share!

Thrilled to share the first preprint from my group! Prevotella are predominant but understudied members of the respiratory microbiome. They have a reputation for being hard to work with, but understanding them is likely important for understanding how they contribute to respiratory health. 🧫🔬

Another gut wrenching but inspirational contribution from @gregggonsalves.bsky.social. Read it and weep and battle on

Working outside on days like today reminds me why I enjoyed UG research trying to purify proteins: all the time in the cold room.

Congrats!

National Science Foundation Workers to Issue “Alexandria Declaration” Decrying “Catastrophic Changes” Under Trump Administration The new declaration echoes similar efforts from NIH and EPA.

Alexandria Declaration coming out from courageous NSF staff.

www.importantcontext.news/p/national-s...

I knew this was it in the works, but did not know the timing. Stay tuned...

Speaker Mike Johnson wants you to know, "I'm grateful to God for being able to get this Bill done. Our rights did not come from the government; they came from God himself."

On behalf of Democracy loving Americans, I say this to Speaker Mike Johnson: Go F*ck Yourself.

Congrats to Lisa Murkowski on voting for a bill that she herself admitted was not ready in hopes that the House would change it. Now it’ll become law. She had the power to stop it, and instead chose to become complicit. That’s her legacy.

Btw if you live in Philadelphia and own a building (like your house for example) with a big wall like this and want a science mural, get at me. Especially if your street has high foot traffic. Philadelphians feel free to repost this one.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.