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Recovering academic / microbial ecologist / nascent philosopher Fluent in both academic & national lab-speak ❤️ to Think Like a Microbe https://open.substack.com/pub/thinkmicrobe
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Nice commentary by a College Education AI dissenter hedgehogreview.com/web-features...

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Hey @markowenmartin.bsky.social -- ICYMI Thought of you .... has a series of lovely colony photos 🧪🧫 www.quantamagazine.org/how-a-biofil...

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This is a great, great #history of #science article!! From 1950s to the present “I was doing more simulation on a Tuesday of some weeks than I was going to do in my entire Ph.D.” www.quantamagazine.org/how-ai-revol...

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Read the whole thing. You won’t be surprised, but you should be outraged.

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Matthias makes some very, very important points here for science faculty / lab group leaders to consider re: how they are perceived by others in the lab

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Today's rabbit hole after a duel with a Trumpster/RFK guy on health care. Poverty = no insurance / access = no prenatal care / regular screenings = infant mortality / chronic diseases Oh, and opioid addiction (20% of deaths 25-34 yo) + guns for 15-34 yo.

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In TLaM today, I take a pause from microbial ecology to think about how US scientists should respond to 2025 change in climate 🧪🧫 #philsci #resistance open.substack.com/pub/thinkmic...

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RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

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@drewmckevitt.bsky.social FYI / ICYMI / "Don't blame the messenger" theconversation.com/guns-in-amer...

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This is one of the most lucid explanations of Trump’s plan that I’ve seen #TributeDiplomacy open.substack.com/pub/observin...

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Hot off the Think Like a Microbe presses .... 🧪🧫 #philsci open.substack.com/pub/thinkmic...

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A small cohort of our Lab folks will be at the 2025 Symbiosis Workshop at Yosemite! I'm proud of the work they've done! Be sure to check Vivianna's work on culturing soil microbes, Jorge's work on vernal pools, and Caitlin's work on sediment archaea! @oceancait.bsky.social @mandussi.bsky.social

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This is me :) Go read about the incredible microbes and currents of Lake Ontario!

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@lukeepplin.bsky.social — it turns out I’ll have 5 h in central Santiago, Chile tomorrow. Any suggestions on how to spend this minimal time? Also, a wall poster seen in Castro

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@nkalamb.bsky.social FYI it’s not just you …

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New on Think Like a Microbe 🧪🧫 #philsci open.substack.com/pub/thinkmic...

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Graduate education is as much of a core function as undergraduate education. Subsidies to UMass athletics total $45M (out of $56M budget). Why not cut those first? Also curious why you think grad programs are 'incredibly expensive'?

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If future economic growth in US is tied to developing talented young scientists and engineers, I'm hard pressed to think of a program with higher ROI than #NSF #REU 🧪 www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

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