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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · Nov 6

All important #BlueSoup updates, from me or Sebastian, will be added in line with the original thread here (it's run a little long so you need to click "show replies" at the bottom):

Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · Mar 1

Ok I'm outing myself here but there was forgotten beef soup in our fridge we just cleaned it out and it was BLUE?!?!? Wtf contam would make it blue??? Like BRIGHT blue!! 🤢🤮 Even w/ all my years in micro I'm not handling this well.

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Ana Dorrego Rivas @adorrego.bsky.social · 1d

Presenting lab meeting tomorrow

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RevolutionaryRadish @revoradish.bsky.social · 23h

Dems take note. This is what your constituents want to see. We know you don’t control every lever of power, so it’s less right now about triangulation and strategy, and more about what you’re willing to put on the line. Please show us you’re willing to stand up for and with us.

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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 16h

Evergreen faculty text interaction 😆

The image shows a lighthearted text conversation.

The first message says: “You know you have the capability to reply without replying all 😆.”

The reply reads: “Oops I thought I did that. It seems I didn’t 🤷.”

The first person then reacts with two laughing emojis 🤣🤣.
The exchange humorously refers to someone accidentally using “Reply All” in a group message or email.

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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 16h

I'm now witnessing the 5th iteration of this official unversity committee calendar invite/Teams meeting setup/re-setup/re-invite (and it's STILL not right), and it's really giving Committeemeeting_final__USETHISONE_finalfinal.docx vibes.

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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 18h

One of our lab alums who is now in a PhD program found this bit of paper from when she was a couple months in as a 2nd year undergrad in our lab 🥹🥹🥹

The image shows a scalloped-edge piece of lined paper with orange handwriting on it. The note reads:

“I performed the DNA/RNA extraction on my mice data. I’m finally starting to feel like I belong in this lab!”

The paper is being held above a laptop keyboard, and the screen in the background displays a scientific article or presentation slide titled “Prophage-host-microbe interactions.”

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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 1d

The worst decision I made when we adopted our rescue pup was to try to introduce her to every dog we crossed paths with in an effort to socialize her. All it did was make her anxious any time she saw a new dog approach. I later learned what socialization actually is, and it took years to fix this.

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Filip Husnik @filiphusnik.bsky.social · 2d

OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx!
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...

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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 1d

I wish Alarm Snooze minutes were as long as Western Blot imaging minutes.

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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 1d

Except the washes. NEVER skimp on the washes!

Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 1d

Lolllllll. And exactly. One of those methods that are evil until you get your bearings and then it's awesome.

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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! And our friend built the arch that we got married under, so we put it in our yard. Next up is to plant a grape vine to wrap up and over.

Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 1d

Perf! I will show my classes

Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 1d

To the Full Professors out there who actually lift people up, advocate for those with less power and voice, and who care about colleagues and trainees doing well over arbitrary gatekeeping... I see you and am grateful for you.

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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 2d

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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 2d

Doing Western Blots in lab classes today. Send me your "best" (aka worst) WBs for me to show my students how not easy they are 😆

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Ecological Society of America @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · 2d

Next up in our free series on ecology career exploration: Lela Schlenker at @avangrid.bsky.social and Andrea Benson from KCI Technologies. 10/14 at 2:00 PM ET.

https://esa.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vRLeAfEiQUuRcPkIl3ws6A

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Oliver Schwengers @oschwengers.bsky.social · 3d

Dear community, Bakta needs your help!

To further improve the functional annotation of "hypothetical" CDS, me and @gbouras13.bsky.social, we are looking for the worst Bakta-annotated bacterial genomes ;-)

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 2d

Either you're against fascism, or you're foolish enough to believe it won't come for you.

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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 2d

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GunnyJKJ @gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 3d

Whether you like it or not, this is our painful truth in America.

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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 2d

While there's no crown, heavy is the head indeed. But it's mindblowing to me how many people get into this job and just cut people down.

Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 2d

Please don't @ me with 'sometimes there's nothing you can do'. That's not the subject here. We know the situations I'm talking about.

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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 2d

I've said it once I'll say it again: if you are in a position of power over someone, suck up your feelings & have the difficult conversations when they need to be had, when things can be done. I'm sick of cowards blindsiding people publicly/officially bc they were too weak to course correct earlier.

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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 2d

Consider signing up if you're free next Wednesday!

Black Microbiologists Assoc (Black In Micro) @blackinmicro.bsky.social · 3d

#BlackInMicro is calling for volunteers! If you have experience evaluating scientific presentations, come judge the Research Symposium and support emerging talent in micro. Sign up: tinyurl.com/BIMW25-ECR or see link in bio

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Skype a Scientist @skypeascientist.bsky.social · 9d

On October 7th, learn how to communicate genetics topics to classrooms and informal settings with with @robomalley.bsky.social from @pged.bsky.social!

This is for teachers and all other kinds of educators.

RSVP for free here: givebutter.com/8TVNiA

DNA floats in the background of a texty event flyer that says "Personal genetics engagement in classrooms and communities, Learn about genetic advances and about how to bring conversations about ethical, legal, and social dimensions of genetics into classrooms and informal science learning. Tuesday October 7, 2025, 12pm EDT. brought to you by Skype a scientist and the personal genetics education and dialogue program. RSVP at linktr.ee/skypeascientist

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 3d

Listen. If you didn't want to be seen as the Twitter escape pod, you shouldn't have deliberately fostered a community of people so united by their contempt for arbitrary authority and love of absolute free speech that they were willing to abandon a platform they'd been using for 15 years

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