βI'm optimistic that, you know, five years from now a majority of kids are going to be in a private school choice program.β www.propublica.org/article/educ...
08.10.2025 12:14 β π 141 π 47 π¬ 12 π 6@tacaro.bsky.social
Microbiologist and geochemist | Postdoc @ Caltech | Formerly @ CU Boulder, NASA, Berkeley | Isotope, dataviz, and pottery enjoyer
βI'm optimistic that, you know, five years from now a majority of kids are going to be in a private school choice program.β www.propublica.org/article/educ...
08.10.2025 12:14 β π 141 π 47 π¬ 12 π 6Stony Brook is hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Marine Molecular Ecology (assistant encouraged, molecular broadly defined, includes microbial omics!): apply.interfolio.com/174869
07.10.2025 18:38 β π 11 π 16 π¬ 0 π 1Biology is much more complicated than most non-biologists can imagine. And AI is not going to change this anytime soon.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/we-still-c...
Not sure people realize how INSANELY DRAINING data centers will be on our planet.
If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 β outranked only by China, India, and the U.S.
Read this in @bloomberg.comπ
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
with @isotopes.bsky.social and @kopflab.bsky.social
06.10.2025 18:11 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thrilled to see coverage of our work in Alaskan permafrost!! Now in @popsci.com by @andrewpaul.bsky.social
www.popsci.com/environment/...
βFor the past 2 decades, scientists haveβ¦landed on the same takeawaysβesp. that rich countries must shift their diets to be more plant-based. But that message has, with few exceptions, failed to incite action by governments and food companies, or even the environmental movement itself.β #EatLancet
03.10.2025 20:13 β π 97 π 33 π¬ 6 π 6#ProtistsOnSky
02.10.2025 19:04 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Scientific illustration showing a cross-section of Saturnβs moon Enceladus. It features three labelled layers: An ice shell at the top, with visible cracks releasing jets of water vapour into space; an ocean in the middle, depicted as a large body of water beneath the ice; a rocky core at the bottom, shown emitting heat that may drive the jets. In the background, Saturn and its rings are visible in space.
π The discovery of new complex organic molecules at Saturn's #Enceladus enhances the likelihood that the moon is habitable πͺ
On Earth, these molecules are involved in chemical reaction chains that lead to the more complex molecules essential for life.
Read more π www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
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The obsession with economic output as a measure of human development puts sustainability on the back burner
go.nature.com/4pNC96G
i wouldn't call myself an expert on capitalism or anything but this does indeed seem like something of a problem
30.09.2025 16:11 β π 820 π 166 π¬ 33 π 1wow!! what's going on here
27.09.2025 23:20 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Slide with text βSupport Society Journals: Society-based journals help build and advocate for our scientific communitiesβ showing the logos for non profit publishers ASM, ACS, ASBMB. microbiology society, Science, and ISME. Underneath βfor-profit journals do notβ showing logos for Nature, Elsevier, Frontiers, CellPress, and MDPI.
A reminder to please support non-profit publishers.
Itβs good for science and scientists.
Itβs 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.
The first steam-powered passenger rail trip was on 27th Sept 1825 (200th bday is nuanced - regular passenger steam slightly later). Here's transport carbon footprint today - Eurostar easily cleanest cos fully electrified. I hope the next 200 yrs has even more (electric) trains! With lower prices...
27.09.2025 14:07 β π 956 π 223 π¬ 51 π 15That's devastating ... there must be so many students in that position. Back when I was in grad school I deferred applying as well. What a nightmare
26.09.2025 18:57 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The vast majority of permafrost exists in the subsurface. What happens when this deep, ancient permafrost thaws? How fast does it take microbial communities to "wake up"?
This project now published in JGR, with @isotopes.bsky.social , @kopflab.bsky.social , et al., aims to address that question!
The GRFP announcement from NSF cuts out an entire cohort of 2nd year students from consideration, without warning. This is so deeply unfair that it warrants a formal protest from the scientific community. If someone wants to work with me to craft an open letter and solicit signatures, LMK.
26.09.2025 17:10 β π 170 π 88 π¬ 9 π 9Wow! This is amazing news. Having friends who are confronted with Huntington's, this brings a ray of hope.
bbc.com/news/article...
Translucent, green chrysotile prism with lots of wispy white fibres coming out of it. From Soanesville, Western Australia. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.
White mass of matted chrysotile fibres. From Ivybridge, Devon, England, UK. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.
265 of #365Minerals π§ͺβοΈ
Chrysotile:
- A serpentine group mineral
- The most common type of asbestos
- Forms via low temperature metamorphism of peridotite
- Its name comes from the Greek words chrysos (gold) and tilos (fibre) #minerals #MineralMonday
"Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change," a brief communication in the journal Nature Climate Change. There's a map showing regions of the world, and pie charts of relevant studies as they apply to different health impacts like "heat-related deaths" and "maternal and child health"
π¨ NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" π www.nature.com/articles/s41...
17.09.2025 11:57 β π 872 π 498 π¬ 20 π 37We can't have innovation if we block out those with new ideas or who challenge old ones. Reviewers can challenge without being assholes, and we need to acknowledge such behaviors exist and need to be expunged. π§ͺ
18.09.2025 15:21 β π 11 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0Weβre hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Quantitative MicrobeβPlantβEnvironment Interactions, starting Fall 2026!
16.09.2025 18:31 β π 8 π 15 π¬ 1 π 0Come join us in Knoxville! π§«π§ͺπ¦
17.09.2025 20:00 β π 10 π 10 π¬ 0 π 0We are hiring! Please share the news.
Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Bacterial Pathogenesis
See link below for details.
We are a vibrantly growing department with friendly colleagues and supportive environment. Bonus: year-round sunshine in Tampa, FL π€π΄
Job Ad: tinyurl.com/USF-Microbio...
Cool!!
16.09.2025 19:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Assistant Professor (Quantitative Microbe-Plant-Environment Interactions), Dept of Microbiology, Fall 2026 apply.interfolio.com/173345 at University of Tennessee - Knoxville. Position is part of a faculty cluster hire in Bioinformatics, Genomics and Quantitative-based Solutions for Food Security.
16.09.2025 17:52 β π 8 π 15 π¬ 0 π 1Graphic saying "Sign Up to Join AGUβs Pool of Peer Reviewers"
AGU's volunteer #PeerReviewers help advance the Earth and space sciences and maintain the integrity and accountability of the scientific record. π
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New blog post!
Ever wonder what geom_histogram is actually doing? How about geom_boxplot?
In celebration of the release of #ggplot2 4.0.0 (ggplot8?), I explore the relationships between the βgeomsβ and βstatsβ offered by the core {ggplot2} functions.
#rstats
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15.09.2025 11:52 β π 28 π 31 π¬ 0 π 0Are you looking for a lectureship in biochemistry, molecular genetics, or bioinformatics? Come and enjoy the greatest place for kayak fishing and a fun research+teaching career.
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