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miniamenni.bsky.social
I don't see enough people or reporters talking about the mass terminations of nih lgbtq+ grants that happened yesterday. How can we get the word out so communities understand the huge loss to science, safety, and economy this is??

#academicsky
March 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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plantteaching.bsky.social
Today marks the launch of "Build A Plant"—Joyce G. Onyenedum's new educational video series on plant anatomy! Whether you're a student, instructor, or plant scientist, this free resource is for you. Watch the first 4 episodes here:
youtube.com/@joyceonyene...
#BuildAPlant #NYCBotany
Professor Joyce Onyenedum
Welcome! This channel is dedicated to sharing my love of plants with anyone who will listen. My name is Dr. Joyce G. Onyenedum, and I am a Botany Professor at New York University in New York City. ...
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March 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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adrianaguatame.bsky.social
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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physgal.bsky.social
I could have written one of these. It would have been very similar and that was more than 30 years ago. The pace of change in physics is way too slow. ⚛️ 🎢 👩‍🔬
adrianaguatame.bsky.social Adriana Guatame-García @adrianaguatame.bsky.social · Mar 6
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩‍🔬
There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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kgandersen.bsky.social
Over on the other site, this is what corruption in scientific publishing looks like.

This is a common theme for "lab leak" papers and has already occurred multiple times.
January 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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milsteinlab.bsky.social
Forget a clean room, we can do most of our larger feature #microfluidics on a resin based #3Dprinter. Here’s a PDMS mold for a serpentine mixer that you can even bake at 120C.
Serpentine mixer mold
December 9, 2024 at 6:18 PM
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desijoy.bsky.social
I asked my larval human to stick some tape to her forehead so we could rip out some Demodex from her hair follicles. They’re oddly adorable.

🦠 Demodex folliculorum
🔬 Olympus BX51 w/DIC
🎥 iPhone 14 + iLabCam Ultra
👩🏼 Desirée Moffitt
🏷️ #microscopy #science #arachnid #skincare #microbiome #creepy
November 29, 2024 at 10:40 PM
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bugsinyourguts.bsky.social
Applied Microbiology International is here! Give them a follow @amiposts.bsky.social

#microsky #microbiomesky
November 27, 2024 at 3:54 PM
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ututuy.org
Three seconds into this clip, a spinning sphere full of fluid stops. But the fluid interior keeps spinning! The flow at the surface develops nice horizontal shear lines and then becomes turbulent. 🧪 🔭
#Physics #FluidDynamics
November 24, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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sespagnolie.bsky.social
Deformable bodies relaxing in a nematic liquid crystal. (I settled on Paraview!) I want to eat them.

A review of 'Rigid and deformable bodies in nematic liquid crystals', with the amazing Tom Chandler, is out today in Phys. Rev. Fluids. @apsphysics.bsky.social 🧪⚛️

journals.aps.org/prfluids/abs...
November 20, 2024 at 4:32 PM
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bdidierhg.bsky.social
Couple infographics from the 2021 FAO "The State of Food and Agriculture" report (that had the best infographics from the last past 4 years!)

➡️ Unit 3: Global resource consumption and security

Great for infographic practice
#ibgeog
#edusky
#geographyteacher
November 23, 2024 at 8:43 PM
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lauraeme.bsky.social
Excited to have our review 'Archaea and the origin of eukaryotes' in the @NatureRevMicro special issue celebrating the 40th anniversary of Woese and Fox's paper! With @anjspa1 @cstairs J. Lombard and @Ettema_lab
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro.2017.133
November 16, 2024 at 5:43 PM
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thegoosegirl.bsky.social
I happened to be in the right place at the right time to see THIS happening:

#fungifriends #fungifriday #slimemold
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Shiny wet bright yellow slime mold (I think?) growing in a sort of webby network along the bottom of a thick branch, with a couple of long gooey strands dripping downward like stalactites or icicles A wider shot of the whole webby yellow network
August 23, 2024 at 5:13 PM
danaimont.bsky.social
#fungifriends
November 23, 2024 at 5:06 AM
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miquai.bsky.social
A microfluidics device being developed to hunt for signs of life on icy ocean worlds!
November 14, 2024 at 6:02 AM
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naranson.bsky.social
Hey Bluesky! For my first post thought I'd share this awesome movie made by Phopho Biomedical Animation for our recent paper on the folding of bacterial outer membrane proteins in Nature Comms: doi.org/10.1038/s414...
#cryoEM #AstburyCentre
November 18, 2024 at 12:07 PM
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neomeruru.bsky.social
My most popular comic is about how people with privilege don't understand how others have to work 1000% harder to get where they are. A cropped version made it on to Neurospicy Facebook and it's been shared, uncredited, tens of thousands of times. 🙃

howbabycomic.com/comic/hb464/
Comic depicting a person (me, circa 2020) struggling to form a platform out of mismatched blocks, while someone on a solid cube platform says 'Why is it so hard for you? Just do it like I did.'
November 17, 2024 at 6:13 PM
danaimont.bsky.social
Fluffy fungi! #fungi #fungifriends
November 17, 2024 at 11:01 PM
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rborza.bsky.social
🚀 Excited about our pre-print:
AlphaBridge: A User-Friendly Tool for Interpreting Protein Predictions

Whether you're an expert or just new to the field of Protein Prediction, AlphaBridge is the way to go!

🔁Try it and share your thoughts!
📜 Article: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 28, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social
Pictures Considered #64: Emergent Properties

by Roberto — Some years ago, when Scott Chimileski wrote 'Life at the Edge of Sight', we wanted to present two images that displayed emergent properties of organisms expressing collective behavior. We came...

Read more > tinyurl.com/bde3sar2
#MicroSky
From Life at the Edge of Sight by Scott Chimileski & Roberto Kolter
November 7, 2024 at 9:16 AM
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stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social
not fungi but nevertheless #FungiFriends
mossgatherer.bsky.social Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · Aug 28
It's the most wonderful time of the year, slime mold season! #nature
Slime mold
November 8, 2024 at 12:51 PM
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stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social
tagging #SymbioSky
mcsymbiont.bsky.social John McCutcheon @mcsymbiont.bsky.social · Apr 22
Symbiosis nerds! Some of you might have seen a smattering of recent posts about papers in PLoS Biology, but it's worth looking at the entire special issue, called Symbiosis Across the Tree of Life (edited by Richards and Moran). There are so many interesting reviews, comments, etc. type things here!
Symbiosis across the tree of life
The aim of this collection is to showcase symbiotic relationships across the tree of life, exploring their evolutionary basis and underlying mechanisms.
collections.plos.org
November 15, 2024 at 9:48 PM
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stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social
tagging #MicroSky
more on vampires...
from F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu
November 15, 2024 at 10:26 PM
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ulrikeboehm.bsky.social
🔬 Are you eager to dive into the world of light microscopy & learn from top-notch microscopists about its essential techniques for life science applications? If that sounds exciting, don’t miss out on this free, in-depth iBiology series! 👉 www.ibiology.org/online-biolo...
November 16, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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prsecor.bsky.social
Phil Stewart passed this iconic TEM image of a P aeruginosa biofilm on to me. There is so much detail! Are those filamentous phages I see? 🦠🧫🧪
October 8, 2024 at 7:56 PM