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Janet E. Hill, PhD @hilllabsask.bsky.social · May 20

That's so cool!!

Janet E. Hill, PhD @hilllabsask.bsky.social · Apr 10

Excited to share this work with you for two reasons: it's Divanthika's first paper (🥳) and it's pretty cool. Transformation of Gardnerella vaginalis with a Bifidobacterium-Escherichia coli shuttle vector plasmid #microsky | journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Transformation of Gardnerella vaginalis with a Bifidobacterium-Escherichia coli shuttle vector plasmid | Microbiology Spectrum

The healthy human vaginal microbiome is mainly dominated by Lactobacillus spp. An imbalance or shift in this population can lead to a gynecological disorder known as bacterial vaginosis (BV). In BV, t...

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Janet E. Hill, PhD @hilllabsask.bsky.social · Mar 23

😬😬😬

email header with sender blacked out. Addressed to me with the subject header "Inquiry about the machines". The email opens with Dear Dr. Hill, Happy Sunday!

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Alex Richards @alexandra-richards.bsky.social · Mar 18

A year ago, I was tasked with creating a timeline for @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social and we came across this amazing example of a way to keep track of a group with a long history.
We now have a record of our history going back to 2011, and I hope that this can stay alive and continuously updated as well!

A timeline of all the members of the TB modelling group at LSHTM, with their start dates, promotion dates, and, where applicable, their end dates and new destinations, starting in 2011 and going forward to 2025

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Janet E. Hill, PhD @hilllabsask.bsky.social · Mar 20

Awesome! Quite a few folks have added improvements and options. Can't wait to update my own next month 🤓

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Janet E. Hill, PhD @hilllabsask.bsky.social · Mar 15

She did great. It was a pleasure to be there to see it all unfold! Vet Micro is very proud of our latest graduate 👩‍🎓

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Janet E. Hill, PhD @hilllabsask.bsky.social · Feb 15

Seems like it. A lot of resources on display

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Janet E. Hill, PhD @hilllabsask.bsky.social · Feb 15

Be my guest!

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Janet E. Hill, PhD @hilllabsask.bsky.social · Feb 11

I think my university has a Department of Moving Snow Around. Every day piles of snow disappear in one place and appear in another

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#RealTimeChem @realtimechem.bsky.social · Feb 10

#ChemTogether.

Forever.

#RealTimeChem #ChemSky #Chemistry

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Janet E. Hill, PhD @hilllabsask.bsky.social · Feb 7

This was such a fun project and I love it when we can see an immediate application of our work 🐄🧬 #microsky #diagnostics #veterinarydiagnostics wcvmtoday.usask.ca/articles/202...

New genomic sequencing diagnostic tool targets reproductive failure in cattle herds - WCVM Today - Western College of Veterinary Medicine

A collaboration between researchers at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) and Prairie Diagnostic Services Inc. (PDS) has resulted in the creation of an innovative genomic sequencing too...

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Janet E. Hill, PhD @hilllabsask.bsky.social · Feb 4

Thanks for sharing this. Much appreciated

Janet E. Hill, PhD @hilllabsask.bsky.social · Feb 3

And I notice there was no explicit statement of what was changed, or did I miss that? Nice to see a list of what changes were made for “compliance”

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Janet E. Hill, PhD @hilllabsask.bsky.social · Feb 3

Feel free to add your favourite microbiology organizations that support equity, diversity and inclusion!

Here's another one started in Canada by the 2SLGBTQIA+ microbiology community: Pride in Microbiology. prideinmicrobiology.github.io

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Janet E. Hill, PhD @hilllabsask.bsky.social · Feb 3

Speaking of which, the Canadian Society of Microbiologists annual meeting is June 17-20 in beautiful Montréal. The EDI Workshop is on the Thursday afternoon event.fourwaves.com/scm-csm2025u...

Screen shot of webpage for the CSM conference in Montreal showing a nighttime view of Montreal with a huge Leonard Cohen mural on a building in the foreground.

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Janet E. Hill, PhD @hilllabsask.bsky.social · Feb 3

I've been an ASM member and supporter for >20 yrs and that is about to end. There are so many other choices internationally. I'll put my membership $ and publication fees, and donate my volunteer reviewer time to societies that prioritize diversity, equity and inclusion

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · Feb 3

Edited for brevity: I expect the professional society that I have supported with national & regional membership dues, conference fees for myself and mentees, journal publication fees, & my time as an editor and reviewer, to support widely held values & to advocate on behalf of ALL microbiologists, 🧵

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · Feb 3

My letter to ASM leaders that I sent is too long to be posted here, so I'm going to post highlights in case anyone else needs information for their letter. 🧵

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · Feb 2

@asm.org this better not be anticipatory obedience. I have 5 lab members planning on going to ASM microbe this year. I will absolutely pivot to another meeting if ASM gives in to anti-DEI efforts.

Shawna Reed @profpathogen.bsky.social · Feb 2

@vscooper.micropopbio.org and @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social while downloading scientist spotlights for teaching from the site; ASM has also scrubbed the entire IDEAA page including resources on LGBTQ+ scientists at asm.org/IDEAA/resources/pride-month

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Janet E. Hill, PhD @hilllabsask.bsky.social · Jan 30

Interesting stuff. Congrats to you and the team!

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Janet E. Hill, PhD @hilllabsask.bsky.social · Jan 23

Setting the tone for the office:

🧪Science is cool (especially microbiology)
🧑‍🎓Grad school is cool
🪶Birds are cool
❤️Everyone is welcome here

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John Gilleard @johngilleard.bsky.social · Jan 8

Our paper describing a new STH species Trichuris incognita which is resistant to albendazole-ivermectin combination therapy is out in Emerging Infectious Diseases wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/... Great work Abhinaya Venkatesan & collaborators @jsoghigian.bsky.social , Jennifer Keiser and team.

Photo credit Deo Ruganuza - field sampling

Photo credit : Mani Lejeune. Trichuris egg

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Janet E. Hill, PhD @hilllabsask.bsky.social · Jan 8

Nice work! Congrats

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Janet E. Hill, PhD @hilllabsask.bsky.social · Dec 20

Had to do some Canadian Common CV updates today and once again I am marvelling at the fact that I can satisfy the NSERC template and yet simultaneously anger the CIHR template. Apparently "student start date" is not a shared concept between the two 🤪

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Janet E. Hill, PhD @hilllabsask.bsky.social · Dec 13

Final grades: submitted 🥳

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Janet E. Hill, PhD @hilllabsask.bsky.social · Dec 10

Excited to see our latest development put into action in the diagnostic lab! Details in the Prairie Diagnostic Services November newsletter: www.pdsinc.ca/PDS/Assets/D...
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Targeted syndromic next-generation sequencing panel for simultaneous detection of pathogens associated with bovine reproductive failure | Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Bovine reproductive failure causes substantial economic losses to beef and milk producers, and infectious disease contributes significantly to this syndrome. Etiologic diagnosis is complicated since multiple pathogens can be involved and infections with ...

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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · Sep 13

Targeted syndromic next-generation sequencing panel for simultaneous detection of pathogens associated with bovine reproductive failure https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.10.612295v1

Bovine reproductive failure, which includes infertility, abortion, and stillbirth in cattle, leads t

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