This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative.
1. Music
2. Cats
3. Plants
A colleague just emailed that they were sick for the 7th time since November but their homeopathic drugs will take care of it quickly. I'm posting here to keep myself from making a snarky reply.
Troy Cline at CSU Chico works on avian influenza
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you have seen:
Skinny Puppy
Covenant
VNV Nation
Billy Bragg
Tori Amos
🧪🧪 Nobel laureate Hamilton Smith, who discovered molecular 'scissors' to cut DNA, dies at 94 -- Smith, a microbiologist whose discovery revolutionized the field of genetic engineering, was a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine alumnus and professor emeritus
hub.jhu.edu/2025/11/04/n...
Filigree phenotype
Found growing in the campus compost pile. Grown on minimal media + lignin at 37C for two weeks.
I might use this as an extra credit opportunity in my micro class, "list all the scientific mistakes in this post"
Keep sciencing. We are living through a time when looking at a rock and wondering how old it is qualifies as an act of resistance.
Oh good. There's no way this could go bad.
do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists
Have you tried Pandora?
The cats fighting on the balcony. 30 seconds later, they were grooming each other. #caturday
The scientific infrastructure of the US is being dismantled, but a former student just emailed to say how much my microbiology class has helped her out in medical school. There are still some glimmers of light in the world.
Well, this is an interesting first: RiteAid just texted me to say my prescription is out of stock.
Since the US politics have decided to target DEI spaces, I’ve seen a huge drop of engagement in #DisabledInSTEM
Disabled, disability and accessibility are part of the list of banned words for grants too really really highlights that these identities are being specifically targeted to be silenced.
I'm going to use this article in my pre-health micro class next semester. See, social media isn't entirely a waste of time! Long COVID is Now the Number One Chronic Illness in Children www.thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid...
If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.
check out our newest paper in JB: Kuchma, Geiger et al. identify key components of flagellar-mediated surface sensing system of P. aeruginosa.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
@asm.org #Jbacteriology
A man at the farmer's market asked if my walking stick was my husband's "behave stick" I just said I don't have a husband but I should have asked him to explain his "joke"
This means something very different to microbiologists.
Caturday sibling rivalry
Caturday bird watching
I feel like the internet could enjoy a photo of my cats stacked up behind me as they try to hide from the vet.
The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't.
Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure
Eugenics is fake science.
But it’s creeping back into public discourse—through political rhetoric, bad policy, & scientific silence. We’re seeing this pseudoscience rebrand itself once again as legitimate.
We must call it what it is—& stop it before it spreads further. We’ve seen where this leads.
Happy Caturday!
My masters student's poster abstract for Microbe 2025 was accepted but I have no grant money to support student travel and she can't afford the cost. So she can't go.
