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If you thought eggs were expensive, wait until you find out how much it costs to treat polio out-of-pocket when your health insurer denies your claim.

Looks like it’s time to start dusting off this ol’ guy again.

All milk sampling to date routinely shows 7+ logs of infectious virus per mL in samples from infected cows. Very glad this raw milk was recalled because I cannot emphasize enough what a bad idea it is for people to drink high titer H5N1.

Outside of academics, I do my best to uplift to LGBTQIA+ community on and off campus.

I founded my university's queer organization and gender inclusive housing.

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Instagram poll results between four options for which design will be selected for the next month’s sticker club drop. Petridish won

Design choices for next month’s sticker drop. 1) Petridish, 2) bacteria postperson, 3) poop emoji 4) gut-brain axis

Bumper sticker design “I brake for microbes” with a cartoon design of a gloved hand holding a Petridish. Petridish is covered in bacterial colonies.

The results are in! Next month’s microbiome sticker of the month club drop will be the “I brake for microbes” bumper sticker with extra tiny petridish stickers!

#Microsky #Stickers #SciArt #Microbiology

had an absolute amazing time at #ASM this past few days! got to meet some really cool people on all academic levels and hopfully some possible future opportunities
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#microbiology #microsky

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🧪🦠🌍🖥️🧬Great opportunity for a postdoc AND a PhD on functional ecology Ncycle/denitrification/N2Oreduction, in the group of Sara Hallin at the Swedish Agricultural University.

PhD: www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
Postdoc: www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

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Wait, wait, wait... so Ubisoft Montréal, 15 days before releasing the first Assassin's Creed, released an open-world Naruto game?

Exclusive to the Xbox 360?

And you can freestyle hand seals with the analog sticks? WTF

Study

A star cluster is shown inside a large nebula of many-coloured gas and dust. The material forms dark ridges and peaks of gas and dust surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright.

A star cluster is shown inside a large nebula of many-coloured gas and dust. The material forms dark ridges and peaks of gas and dust surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright.

A star cluster is shown inside a large nebula of many-coloured gas and dust. The material forms dark ridges and peaks of gas and dust surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright.

A star cluster is shown inside a large nebula of many-coloured gas and dust. The material forms dark ridges and peaks of gas and dust surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright.

The deeper you look into this wonderful new JWST image, the more there is to see.
Nearby stars, scenes of celestial birth farther away, galaxies everywhere in the background. Energy and action in play everywhere. 🧪🔭
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I keep getting random follows from people but with no interaction with my posts so I'm just confused

Galactic Volcano
Mt. Fuji with the Milky Way

#Galaxy #Milkyway #Fuji #MountFuji #Volcano
@bskyphotos.bsky.social

I'm trying to learn how to do a Cher impression

We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.

— Carl Sagan, Cosmos

img: Orionids Meteors over Inner Mongolia — Yin Hao, 30 October 2018
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Golden and orange blobs of gas form a circle near the center of the image. A haze of rainbow colors lies over the nebula. The rest of the image is covered with stars and smaller background galaxies 🔭

Wake up nerds, new JWST image ✨

The first candidate brown dwarfs were detected outside of our galaxy! Star cluster NGC 602 resides within a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way around 200,000 light years away.

📸: ESA/NASA/CSA; P. Zeidler, E. Sabbi, A. Nota, M. Zamani

Dying star creates fantasy-like sculpture of gas and dust: Cat's Eye Nebula — Hubble ACS (Advanced Camera for Surveys)
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I must be a fake aurora fan bc i had no idea they released a new album this year

It’s #AsexualAwarenessWeek! I’m an ace/aro author who’s been publishing for a long time, but only relatively recently have I allowed myself to be vulnerable enough to write ace characters. It’s been deeply liberating.

Here’s a little thread of my stories with explicitly ace characters.

i thought flutters were really cute 😔

can we start calling followers kaleidoscopes or kaleids for short? I think that'd be so cute since that's what groups of butterflies are called

We should call posts on here Flutters 🦋

this thread is so good

I fear Agatha all along might be added to my list of comfort shows I rewatch

Please add microbiome-related conferences for 2024 in this thread. Thanks.

this isn't strictly microbiome, but the South Central branch of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) annual meeting is coming up in November

southcentralbranchasm.com/annual-meeti...

this is advertising so interesting thank you!!

A master regulator of central carbon metabolism directly activates virulence gene expression in attaching and effacing pathogens Author summary This study reveals an unexpected role for a metabolic regulatory protein in the attaching and effacing family of pathogenic Gram-negatives. The transcription factor PdhR normally functi...

Really happy to share our latest paper on how metabolic regulation and overlaps directly with virulence in enteric pathogens. Congrats to Kabo Wale on this work, it was a pleasure to co supervise this PhD with Prof Andy Roe journals.plos.org/plospathogen...