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Share your stories! @asm.org is calling on members to share stories of how Federal policy changes are affecting your work and institutions. ASM will share your stories with lawmakers and staff to demonstrate impacts on specific legislative districts and states: www.votervoice.net/mobile/ASMUS...

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INVALUABLE must read for academic leadership and really all researchers 👇🏻

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Welcome to all attending @asm.org #Microbe2025 and to all following here. Looking forward to a great meeting! Delighted that many labmates & colleagues are presenting, as follows, and to celebrate the publication of the Academy's Early Microbial Life report, which I co-chaired. Check these out!🧵

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Thrilled to share that I’ve moved to the UK to join the brilliant Kamoun group! Excited to dive deep into the world of NLRs and plant pathogens 🧬🦠—and of course, to keep breeding my collection of Arabidopsis roses 🌹✨

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One tip that'll be useful at conferences (incl. #Evol2025): when a group of people are talking, make a "C", not a circle -- leave a little gap so others walking by can feel like they can join in. Small, inclusive gesture, and lets you meet cool new colleagues.

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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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one reason to block JD Vance is to build a cordon sanitaire so you don't get swarmed by MAGA C.H.U.Ds. The bluesky block is awesome, and it is useful for exactly this reason.

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There is so, so much good science being shared and discussed on bsky right now. The news of its demise is quite backwards. If you are having trouble finding it among all of the very important political news, use the papersky feed that filters posts you follow to just papers: bsky.app/profile/pape...

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This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

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New Preprint!! Alejandro González-Delgado accomplished a major feat on this one: ported retron recombineering, which we love so much in E. coli, into 14 new bacterial species via a massive collaborative effort involving 9 labs! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Hard to know what to say about all these policy flip-flops, except: as demoralizing as they are for those of us trying to keep scientists informed, they must be 10x worse for NIH staff trying to roll them out and 100x worse for PIs trying to figure out if they can make payroll.

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Phage tRNAs: decoding the enigma

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Grants at Columbia unfrozen at 9:30 this morning... Refrozen at 2:30 this afternoon with instructions to undo all of the releases done earlier. It like the 7th graders in detention broke into the Principal's Office...

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This is an awesome way to provide a solid foundation and foster science in the country /s

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Blanket statement: Yes, science is political. But…regardless of everything else, we scientists should be quite cognizant and aware that nationality does not inherently reflect anything about what people think about government actions especially in incredibly complex situations

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Adding on that “not doing experiments in the same way” also includes unknowingly changing uncontrolled critical environmental variables (like, what kinds of stuff are dissolved in your lab water)

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A big chunk of the oft-quoted ‘reproducibility crisis’ is due to people not doing experiments the same way it was done in the first place. It turns out that if you actually do the experiment the way it was done in the first place, it reproduces. Case-and-point.

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Today is my birthday, which means I am eating my mom's carrot cake, which is the best cake in the world, hands down. The world is a lot right now, here is my mom's carrot cake recipe, if having the worlds best cake might provide you some joy gist.github.com/aurielfourni...

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NSF Division of Earth Sciences Informational Webinar starting in less than a minute.... Will live post as things come up....

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This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

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Blasphemy

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For Microbe attendees: 🦠 Good bc my flight is delayed and I will DEFINITELY arrive past curfew.

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Heading to #evol2025? Come see what the Carter Lab is up to! @ruthwright.bsky.social and @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social will be there and would love to connect.

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Professor Malik Boykin....Thank you, sir youtu.be/nxeldsTXvXs?...

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This is ever so true, folks, read this thread if you want to land a CAREER award. The solicitation is clear that the development of your education plan should be well integrated with your research plan in a clearly articulated trajectory of professional development over the course of 5 years.

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🐠🦠Why can’t bacteria swim like fish? At microscopic scales, physics changes — viscosity rules! Researchers at our institute study how microbes like E. coli overcome this challenge with clever strategies like run-and-tumble. Watch our new video: youtu.be/drwCRRD7CGY?...

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PhD position open! 🌾🧫🧬✂️😃 Are you interested in plant pathology and genome editing? Have you ever seen how cool Xanthomonas manipulates the plant cell using TALEs? Don't hesitate to apply! www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/7...

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From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science https://go.nature.com/4kIRR01

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what the actual fuck

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This is the correct response to the prompt in the thread

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🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬 Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025

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Anyone have recommendations for buying a small BSL2 level bio safety cabinet?

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From xkcd.com/radiation/ (h/t @realitybased1.bsky.social)

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This one hitting me right in the feels (If you see me at a conference, please talk to me about the old science magic!)

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what talking to professors is like:

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“The bill’s process for selling off lands runs at breakneck speed, demanding the nomination of tracts within 30 days, then every 60 days until the arbitrary multi-million-acre goal is met, all without hearings, debate or public input.”

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Just the most ignorant people running things

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"TENURE-TRACK FACULTY POSITIONS INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND MICROBIAL BIOLOGY at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan *Application Deadline: 8/31/2025" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=Tu_6-13-25.pdf #PlantSciJobs

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the reissued NOFO for the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31) is finally published! grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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New preprint! Deacon is a versatile tool for filtering FASTA/FASTQ files and streams at hundreds of megabases per second using minimizers, built with rapid metagenomic host depletion in mind, but equally useful for search. github.com/bede/deacon

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