Dr. Jennifer Glass (she/her)

Excellent work on yours too!

Jen making “No Faux-King Way!” Poster with sequins

“No Faux-King Way!” Sign

#nokings see you tomorrow on the streets!

Here's the link to the @seqcode.bsky.social registry: registry.seqco.de/names/51452

📣 New bacterial order name change alert!

🦠 The uncultivated alphaproteobacterial order (formerly TMED127) is now "Methylaequorales" in @seqcode.bsky.social

📝 New AEM paper on these marine methylotrophs: journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10....

🙏 Special thanks @rodriguez-r.bsky.social & SeqCode team

Outstanding paper - congrats team!

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

Also @ascbiology.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social @jcb.org

Slide with text “Support Society Journals: Society-based journals help build and advocate for our scientific communities” showing the logos for non profit publishers ASM, ACS, ASBMB. microbiology society, Science, and ISME. Underneath “for-profit journals do not” showing logos for Nature, Elsevier, Frontiers, CellPress, and MDPI.

A reminder to please support non-profit publishers.

It’s good for science and scientists.

It’s a responsible use of taxpayer dollars.

It requires resisting peer pressure to submit to Nature journals.

Thanks @bacteriality.bsky.social for this helpful slide for microbiology journals.

2025 RECIPIENT Union Fellow Caroline A Masiello

The amazing Carrie Masiello received @agu.org 2025 AGU fellow !! Extremely well deserved! Congrats Carrie! @agubiogeosciences.bsky.social

@eleonpalmero.bsky.social thank you for visiting us and giving an excellent seminar!! bsky.app/profile/eleo...

🎤 Excited to share that I will give a seminar next week at Georgia Tech’s 🌎 School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences!

💡 Photochemical formation of nitrous oxide! #PhotoChemoDenitrification
📅 Sept 25, 11AM

🔗 eas.gatech.edu/events/eas-seminar-series-dr-elizabeth-leon-palmero

📣 Hope to see you there!

Seminar poster containing the text Title: Photochemodenitrification Unveiled: Illuminating Aquatic Nitrous Oxide Production Abstract: Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a potent greenhouse gas and the main agent depleting stratospheric ozone. During the last decade, its atmospheric levels have risen faster than previously estimated, highlighting the need to better understand its sources. While microbial processes like ammonia oxidation and denitrification are known contributors, our recent research has uncovered a novel abiotic pathway-photochemodenitrification-where sunlight drives N20 production from nitrite in oxygen-rich surface fresh and marine waters. In addition, photochemodenitrification exceeded biological NOproduction in surface waters. Our latest findings reveal that this photochemical process also occurs in polar regions and the tropical open ocean, emphasizing its global distribution. Because it occurs in surface waters in direct contact with the atmosphere, photochemodenitrification holds the potential to contribute significantly to N20 emissions.

Excellent seminar talk today by Dr Elizabeth Leon-Palmero on her discovery of #photochemodenitrification & nitrous oxide production in aquatic systems.

2025 Science paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Check out her website for her impressive research & outreach: eleonpalmero.com

2025 Caregiver Grant Application The AGU Biogeosciences Caregiver Grants, made on behalf of the Early Career Committee, are reserved for applicants who are the primary caregiver for a dependent, have financial need, and who may other...

Attending #AGU25 with caregiving responsibilities? Whether you're joining virtually or in person, our Caregiver Grant is here to support you!

Let us help make your participation at the Fall Meeting possible and meaningful.

Application Link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Biogeoscientists - plz apply for DEI travel grant to AGU 2025 Annual Meeting ! Details below!

Same here.

Anas al-Sharif, smiling, sits outdoors holding his young daughter Sham on his left and his infant son Salah on his right. Both children are smiling; rubble is visible in the background.

Journalist Anas al-Sharif with his daughter Sham and son Salah.

Today's assassination of al-Sharif and four other Al Jazeera staff brings the number of journalists killed by Israel to 237.

www.middleeasteye.net/news/al-jaze...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Map of Gaza showing dozens of blue dots and four yellow squares

Blue dots are UN aid distribution sites that existed in Gaza before the IDF and US mercenaries took over the process and blocked the UN.

Yellow squares are current sites.

The current system is aid theater and has created killing fields where dozens of aid seekers are killed every single day.

Yes. Outstanding. And “Persepolis” books. This one is in that same category.

Cover image of “Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir” by Tessa Hulls.

Incredible graphic memoir. Highly recommend. Winner of a 2025 Pulitzer in autobiography.

Photo of myself in front of Atlanta 50501 protest against ICE with sign reading “Immigrants Make America Great” with t-shirt “y’all means ALL”.

I’m marching today in ATL against unlawful detentions by ICE. My shirt reads “Y’all Means ALL” #rageagainsttheregime #50501GA

Second email was the charm! Got reply from genomes@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

But have any other Science papers been retracted based on that new policy? I sent the Science EiC suggestions twice. No reply either time.

Yeah it’s problematic that Science singled out this paper when there are dozens (hundreds?) of examples of other Science papers that are now shown to be wrong. To be fair, they should have done a mass retraction. But that wouldn’t have generated as much click bait. 🤦🏻‍♀️

I'm OK with the new policy as long as it's applied fairly. I pointed this out to the Science EiC last November when they began this retraction process. No response. Just re-sent the email today.

Other examples in astrobio:

www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Disproven by:
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Disproven by:
www.science.org/doi/full/10.... (and many others)

“If the editors determine that a paper’s reported experiments do not support its key conclusions, even if no fraud or manipulation occurred, a Retraction is considered appropriate.”

So LOTS of other Science papers are gonna have to be retracted now.

I’ll try emailing again with the one I’m waiting for…

Looks right! Are your emails being answered these days though?