V. Celeste Lanclos, Ph.D.

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ICE & CBP have killed several people over the last year and the only names to enter the popular consciousness are the names of the white Americans they have killed. We need to attend to what structures that, both externally & internally.

And the same outraged cops? Defended the killers amongst them

So so cool to see this fully out! Congrats @ahoiching.bsky.social and crew

micromorph: a Python toolkit for measurement of microbial morphology Detection of morphological phenotypes from light microscopy is a key part of microbiology. Despite advances in automated morphological analysis, accurate measurements still often require significant u...

Happy to finally share micromorph with everyone!
If you are interested in performing morphological measurements of bacteria, and like using Python and Napari then this is for you!

You can read about it in our preprint, and find the code on our Github repo, PyPi or directly from the napari hub!

We now have a working proof-of-concept implementation of the mim-enabled fastq parser in Rust. It uses needletail for the actual parsing and is *already* ~30% faster than the C++ implementation! Very excited about where this will go! cc @curiouscoding.nl

getting cozy with the possibility of failure and your own resilience through it will only be freeing. At least that is my two cents.

research. Not everyone will like that perspective, but it helps me to solidify that I will be okay even if my worst case happens. It helps to release the anxiety build up as that anxiety is frequently what actually CAUSES the failure. Academia is many failures with some success sprinkled in, so..

..your knowledge of a question, remember that all (or most) of your committee do want you to succeed. It helps me to think of the worst case. Here, worst case is failure. There is likely another chance. If failure happens again, it will end a chapter but by no means ends any chance of working in...

It's important to take time to zoom out and separate from the intense nerves. Reflect on the excitement for the projects you're working on, hype yourself up that you have learned a lot and you aren't the same as when you started, make yourself okay with admitting when you've reached the end of..

Are you a postdoc or 4-5th year grad student working on any problem in environmental microbiology and are interested in giving a virtual seminar (via zoom) on your hard work to a crowd of interested researchers at Montana State's Thermal Biology Institute in spring? Email/DM me!

So happy to announce our new preprint, “A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.” We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63°C (145°F) 🔥 - a new record for euk growth!
#protistsonsky 🧵

@heidi-aronson.bsky.social Do y'all do saltwater or only fresh?

Diving through the purple sulfur bacteria layer of Fayetteville Green Lake with our ROV last month. This is the most intense density of PSB that I've seen in many years!

“There is a cult of ignorance in the US & there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political & cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” -Isaac Asimov

Alien abuction zone

Opportunity!
Anybody knows of young marine ecologists (within 7 years from earned PhD) that would like to come to Gothenburg, Sweden, for a nationally funded Assistant Professorship? It is highly competitive but well funded. (1) of (3)

There's also one that is something like male survival space that posters get yeeted to when the commenters judge their space too harshly. Full battle of the form vs function crew

This is filthy and I love it. Gonna surprise my coworker with some code that slays later

OMG

The government shutdown is especially tough on men, who are losing $1.00 for every 75¢ a woman loses.

The white house, a gaping wound in the east wing. It looks like a ruin or a mound of garbage

No image has ever spoken so succinctly about the current situation in the US.

Update from Interim President Kim October 16, 2025 Dear Trojan Family, Earlier today, I sent this letter to the U.S. Department of Education regarding the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education. I appreciate the various p...

USC is also rejecting Trump's compact

This was a fun one- images remind me of the planet in Scavenger's Reign

We still can’t predict much of anything in biology Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI.

Biology is much more complicated than most non-biologists can imagine. And AI is not going to change this anytime soon.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/we-still-c...

Please circulate among your bioinformatics students! 🧬🖥️❄️🦠

AllTheBacteria - all bacterial genomes assembled, available and searchable The bacterial sequence data publicly available via the global DNA archives is a vast potential source of information on the evolution of bacteria. However, most of this sequence data is unassembled, o...

Wow, more than 2.4M of assembled bacteria in the new release of ABT! We plan to index these using our efficient colored De Bruijn graph index, Fulgor. We recently conducted experiments with nearly 1M genomes…getting there :)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Structure-informed microbial population genetics elucidate selective pressures that shape protein evolution An integrated analysis framework shows a strong association between within-population genetic variation and protein structure.

It's like you can see the interaction between ecology and evolution happening right in front of you. 💚🦠🧬
#mevosky #bluesci

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Cell Geometry Limits Bacterial Metabolic Efficiency www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs