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Student-led experimental evolution reveals novel biofilm regulatory networks underlying adaptations to multiple niches We established a research-education partnership known as EvolvingSTEM that provides secondary school students the opportunity to conduct authentic research experiments centered on microbial evolution....

Sharing the most significant work from my group, led by the @evolvingstem.bsky.social team.

Come for the discoveries of how Pseudomonas adapts in biofilms, stay for the story of how they were discovered by thousands of young scientists in grades 9-12. 🧪🧫🧬🧵

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

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NIH's work saves lives—& Trump is gutting it.

Straight from D.C. I headed to Seattle Children's to hear from researchers & patients alike about the importance of NIH funding—it's not just about lines in a budget, it's about lifesaving discoveries.

We ALL need to speak up to save it.

Bezos plans to sell ~$4.8 billion of Amazon stock. That's only 2.5% of his holdings in the company.

That sale roughly equals the proposed ~50% cut to NSF.

IOW, with modest endowment-level growth of Amazon, Bezos could fund the entire NSF shortfall into perpetuity.

www.cnbc.com/2025/05/02/j...

Given today's onslaught on HHS, I'm resharing my OpEd in @elife.bsky.social.
You are not alone, and you do have an important voice!
Many colleagues remain unaware that the foundation of US biomedical research is crumbling under attack. Tell them!
Full text 🔗 elifesciences.org/articles/106...

About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark
It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back

Oh to be a little Tardigrade scratching its back on a bubble. 🫧🐻🧪

We're standing up for science in Columbus, OH

Flyer for stand up for science--more information available at www.standupforscience2025.org

TODAY IS THE DAY! 🧪☀️⬇️

Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!

Happy birthday to the LTEE! 🎉

Happy 37th birthday to the LTEE!
the-ltee.org/history/

Happy 37th birthday to @relenski.bsky.social long term evolution experiment. Here's a beautiful summary: the-ltee.org/history/

Hey! I'm a disabled microbiologist and evolutionary biologist who is missing fingers on both hands. I've been doing research at the bench for over a decade.

It's definitely possible 🙂

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How my Monday is going so far: I wanted to speed up permutation test code. So, I parallelized it and looped it 10,000 times but forgot that the original code was already being looped. What should've been 30,000 total permutations turned into (30,000)^2 = 900 million.

Classic.

Under fascism, no one is safe.

Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc.

Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations.

Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

I’ve been seething and grieving since yesterday’s Friday Night Massacre of NIH overheads, a seeming bit of bureaucratic trivial that will in fact destroy the US university system if unchecked. But I want to get away from budgets and rate breakdowns and F&A percentages for a moment.

Humor me?

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.

Another assault on US competitiveness at a time when biomedicine is roaring with innovation, an own-goal in a high-stakes international tournament. Of course the real losers are American people needing medicines and cures.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Many of us, and especially early-career scientists, are facing huge challenges now.

However, one of the joys of science is to delve into thinking about research. In that spirit, I offer this blog post on starting a microbial evolution experiment.

telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2025/02/08/h...

Interpretation for the non-scientists: When faculty get NIH grants, the University gets some extra cash to make sure the research is supported. NIH just cut that $$ by a LOT. That means Unis are less likely to support research. Most research in the US is done at Unis, so... it's bad 🧪

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Leading Disability Organizations: President Trump’s Blame of Deadly Plane Crash on Disabled Federal Workers Is Baseless, Irresponsible - AAPD For Immediate Release: January 30, 2025 Contact: Jess Davidson, jdavidson@aapd.com; 202-465-5528 WASHINGTON D.C. – In remarks today at the White House, President Trump cast potential blame for the tra...

"The President’s remarks today suggesting the deadly crash of Flight 5342 may have been the fault of public servants with disabilities are irresponsible, disparaging, and wrong."

www.aapd.com/disability-o...

I am confident that scientific societies will play an unusually important role in the coming years. If you are a microbiologist of any kind, please consider joining @asm.org if you haven't already. There are many ways to get involved, including advocacy.
To learn more:
asm.org/About-ASM/Vo...

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

Congratulations to @vscooper.micropopbio.org on his election to become the next president of the @asm.org!

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Today we're thrilled to announce our 2024 #HannaGrayFellows! Please join us in welcoming and celebrating these outstanding early career scientists!

Confronting risks of mirror life Broad discussion is needed to chart a path forward.

With today's report outlining risks on mirror life www.science.org/doi/full/10.... many have asked:

Could mirror life survive in the wild?

Yes. While mirror life in the wild could have some significant disadvantages (like finding food it can digest), they do not appear to be insurmountable: 🧵

SeqCoast is competitive and the lab is run by microbiologists for microbiologists (FCOI) @seqcoast.bsky.social seqcoast.com