StoryGraph wrap-up 2025
Collage of book covers read in 2025
2025 reading wrap-up and noticing I started and ended the year with cats 🐈
03.01.2026 14:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
StoryGraph wrap-up 2025
Collage of book covers read in 2025
2025 reading wrap-up and noticing I started and ended the year with cats 🐈
03.01.2026 14:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Looking forward to contributing to (and reading!) this collection in 2026 as part of the inaugural New Voices in Virology minireview collection! 🐀🦠
journals.asm.org/journal/jvi/...
When you've been in the cell culture hood all day and finally get to take off your gloves:
06.03.2025 20:21 — 👍 775 🔁 100 💬 25 📌 6Elise is great (can vouch) and Burlington is great (can also vouch)👇
15.02.2025 20:40 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Looking if anyone has a CAT ELISA source as my go-to from Roche was discontinued. Currently doing some revisions and need this or a work-around to quantify CAT in a reporter assay. Any advice welcome!
www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/produc...
Maple, a southern shepherd-lab mix dog at heart, gears up for a winter walk wearing her fashionable rubber boots and an orange puffer coat.
Enjoying(?) the snowy weather since it has finally warmed up from feeling like it’s below zero
10.01.2025 22:29 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of several book covers read in 2024
Screenshot of several book covers read in 2024
Screenshot of several book covers read in 2024
Looking forward to another year of good (and bad) reads. Recommendations welcome!
31.12.2024 23:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
Wild Houses by Colin Barrett
Top of the tbr for 2025 include Migrations and Wild Houses
31.12.2024 23:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Screenshot of Leave the World Behind generously rayed 1.5/5
Screenshot of This is How You Lose the Time War rated 2.75/5 mainly because the cover is cute and I liked the concept.
Least favorite books that I can’t recommend to anyone
Leave the World Behind and This is How You Lose the Time War. Ugh.
Screenshot of the Prophet Song rated 4.5/5 which I think is a must read and has a global commentary I still talk about
Screenshot of The Bee Sting rated 3.75/5 which definitely grew on me as I read but was hard to get into at first
Books that took me a while to finish:
The Prophet Song by Paul Lynch thanks to the heavy content
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray thanks to Imelda’s chapter
A screenshot of The Liar’s Dictionary which was DNFd mainly because the audiobook couldn’t keep my focus
Screenshot of There is Power in a Union at 21% finish. A very heavily academic and dense text that I can only manage a chapter at a time
Book I didn’t finish and won’t pick back up: The Liar’s Dictionary
Book I didn’t finish but will (hopefully) someday: There is Power in a Union
Screenshot of Foster by Claire Keegan rated 4.25/5. The second and second favorite Claire Keegan read of the year.
Screenshot of Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut rated 4/5. I think my 4th Vonnegut read and definitely a favorite. Bokomaru anyone?
Authors I read multiple works from are Claire Keegan and Kurt Vonnegut (thanks @rchrisskinner.bsky.social)
31.12.2024 23:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Screenshot of Pests by Bethany Brookshire rated 4/5. As a rodent lover, a must read!
Screenshot of The Mosquito rated somewhat generously at 3.25/5 because I liked the content but the framing around military and war got to be a bore.
Favorite science read: Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villians
Least fave: The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
StoryGraph wrap up showing my reading stats for the 2024 year
2024 reading wrap-up powered by #Storygraph
Favorite literary reads this year are Small Things Like These, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and Never Let Me Go
A hand holding up a red and brown book titled One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
final (?) read of the year and got me over 10,000 pages 🥣
24.12.2024 15:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A plastic champion cup sitting on an above desk shelf
Proud and honored to be the inaugural Botten Lab Mario Kart tournament/holiday party champion 🏎️
21.12.2024 02:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A white female hand holding a light blue paperback book titled “The Bee Sting” by Paul Murray. The title is written in large hot pink capital letters and there is a small illustration of a bee on the cover.
Took nearly 2 months to finish this book, mainly because I set it down for two weeks in the middle of Imelda’s section 🐝 #iykyk
17.12.2024 13:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A shepherd lab mix cozies in a tan furry dog bed underneath a scantily decorated Christmas tree.
Tree is up and Maple has decided that she is the gift.
02.12.2024 14:05 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of Apple fitness step count reading 33,117 steps and 15.59 miles walked
View of the Paul Revere statue in sunlight with fall colored trees lining the sides and the Old North Church steeple against a blue sky
Old gravestones in near rows, some with moss and lichen and others nearly toppled over
Johnny Blue Skies aka Sturgill Simpson and his band playing with green and white lights illuminating a smoky stage
May have proved to myself that Boston is indeed a *very* walkable city with @rchrisskinner.bsky.social
25.11.2024 05:05 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Excited for my first bluesky post announcing TWO openings for tenure track positions in virology! I am chair of the search committee and with a new department head Mike Gale we are in an exciting building phase.
Please share with anyone who might be interested: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...
A lab shepherd mix named Maple is sitting on a dark green couch and solemnly looking out a window to the grey and rainy day.
Not so patiently waiting for the rain to subside
23.11.2024 14:36 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
2024 Pew Research Study on public trust in scientists. The data suggests a rise of 3 percentage points YoY.
Trust in Scientists 🧪
Public confidence in scientists edged up slightly in 2024, according to a recent Pew Research Study, but still remains 10 percentage points below pre-pandemic levels. The confidence rise is split along party lines (88% vs. 66%), but notable that Republicans edged 5% higher YoY.
📢 Boosting Flu Vaccination Rates for Heart Health
Did you know? A study in Denmark found that simple electronic reminders focusing on the heart-health benefits of flu vaccines helped more people—especially heart attack survivors—get vaccinated. https://buff.ly/40Qbv3b #HeartHealth #PublicHealth
Just finished my first classroom visit with @skypeascientist.bsky.social and wow! the questions these 3rd graders asked were impressive. Highly recommend signing up as a scientist (and donating!)
20.11.2024 23:54 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A college basketball gym with the Vermont catamount logo at half court. UVM is playing the Buffalo Bulls.
A chilly night at the UVM soccer stadium illuminated by lights. Catamounts are playing UMBC in the America East semifinal game and go on to win in the second overtime.
A good week to be a Catamount 💚💛
20.11.2024 15:49 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Couldn’t find a virology starter pack so here’s one to get the ball rolling. Repost/reply if you are a virologist so I can find and add you to the list!
go.bsky.app/SinqoJU
A slightly cross eyed taxidermy bobcat mounted on a piece of WV hardwood
A white woman in a tan sweatshirt and white man in a green sweatshirt kneeling in a grassy field and petting a medium sized brown lab-shepherd mixed breed dog
Happy to be back at the old stomping grounds for WV Wesleyan homecoming festivities (and the highlight of Maple getting blessed by the Dean of the Chapel)
18.10.2024 21:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Eeeep! y'all! My book is temporarily on Kindle Unlimited!
GO GO GO
THE RATS NEED YOU
www.amazon.com/Pests-Humans...
UVM is searching for its first Assistant Dean and Manager of Postdoctoral Affairs
Deatils: jobs.chronicle.com/job/37680735...
A little late on sharing this, but some final studies from graduate school finally over the publication hurdle #TeamFerret
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
