Michael Cory, PhD

Microbe-Mineral Atlas Engineering The Barstow lab at Cornell University is looking for a new postdoc for 2026 and beyond to help us with the next phase of our Microbe-Mineral Atlas project. We plan on going from basic scientific disco...

We’re starting to look for postdocs for 2026 and beyond. Nothing official yet, but if you want to use your synbio skills and the growing Microbe-Mineral Atlas to build cutting-edge biomining technologies read more below:

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1/ Happy to share our preprint from the Greenleaf Lab: beCasKAS, our method to directly detect CRISPR base editor off-targets in primary cells. We additionally show how non-coding edits can be triaged for epigenetic dysregulation using deep learning.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is NOT cute. Ph.D. level experts only cram in your pocket when they're really stressed.

That is a cosmic dog nose

The Trump administration covers the whole spectrum of sufficiently advanced stupidity to pure malice - and the end result in all cases is just an endless stream of evil.

Top figure: Diel transcription of TMED127 lanthanide-dependent methanol dehydrogenase (xoxF5) and glucose dehydrogenase (gdh) at Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) site, Sargasso Sea, North Atlantic Ocean. Transcription peaks in late afternoon each day over 5 days. Bottom figure: Schematic of key metabolisms and functions in TMED127/Methylaecorales based on genomic reconstruction, showing the most highly transcribed proteins are shown (PQQ-dependent methanol dehydrogenase (XoxF), PQQ-dependent glucose dehydrogenase (GDH), and proteorhopsin (PR)).

New preprint is out where we report a new obligate (?) methylotrophic bacteria with diel cycle of methanol dehydrogenase transcription in surface seawater, with implications for marine lanthanide and carbon cycling. Where the methanol comes from is a mystery! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I am calling for the immediate removal of an HHS Secretary that does not believe in *GERM THEORY*.

If we scientists and healthcare professionals cannot bring enough muscle to push the government into ousting him, we are lost as professions.

Our work on biological rock weathering for CO2 sequestration is online as a pre-print: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I am new to Bluesky - check out our paper and lets exchange follows if you are one of the following!

Flyer for Massachusetts stand up for science, at the Massachusetts state capitol in Boston on March 7th from 12-4 PM. More info at standupforscience2025.org

HEY BOSTON! 📣☀️

MARCH 7TH, MASSACHUSETTS STATE CAPITOL!

Join us to #standupforscience2025 and make your voice heard!

SEE YOU THERE!

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Get in dorks, we're going protesting!

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL

Because science is for everyone!

Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org

#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

This campaign needs you now Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap (NOT-OD-25-068)

Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap.

Sign and Circulate.
Mobilize. Organize.

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Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

I’ve unfortunately needed to add more material to my post from yesterday. The re-election of Donald Trump is looking like the biggest act of American self-destruction since the Civil War.

Same link, new title and some updates.

I am a biologist working on organizing rn. Even I was not aware until recently that RFK Jr literally does not believe in germ theory. He believes in miasma or "terrain" theory. Openly. In 2025.

He rejects vaccines and he rejects medicine based on germ theory.

That will kill untold numbers.

58 Democrats helped Republicans pass the Laken Riley Act, which will enable Trump's ICE to put migrants *accused* of shoplifting in detention, without due process.

As in, with Trump's new call to detain 30,000 migrants in Guantanamo, these Democrats may help put them there:

Hi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able.

#academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social

Ten species comprise half of the bacteriology literature, leaving most species unstudied https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.04.631297v1

Our review on bacterial metallostasis is now online in Chemical Reviews! This collaboration by the Giedroc (@betainverse.bsky.social and @jsrocchio.bsky.social) and Capdevila labs delves into bacterial metal regulation. 🦠 #Microbiology #ChemicalReviews #BacterialMetallostasis doi.org/10.1021/acs....

NIH Revenge Politics As my colleagues wring their hands with dismay and misplaced hope about the immediate future of the NIH, I have a single response. We do actually know what is going to happen. Or, more specifically…

Revenge!

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Lanthanum and cerium added to soil influence microbial carbon and nitrogen cycling genes The soil microbiome plays an important role in carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) processing and storage and is influenced by rare earth elements (REEs), whi…

Lanthanum and cerium added to soil influence microbial carbon and #nitrogen cycling genes
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Lanthanides in Enzymology and Microbiology Lanthanides in Enzymology and Microbiology, a new volume in the Foundations and Frontiers in Enzymology Series, offers a detailed discussion of lantha...

#Lanthanides in Enzymology and #Microbiology

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