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Jennifer Baker
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Postdoc researcher at Geisel SoM Dartmouth | PhD in Microbiology & Immunology from University of Michigan
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Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....

genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
🚨 NEW PREPRINT ALERT 🚨

In this study, we examine pneumonia through the lens of microbial ecology and find:

leaky lungs grow bugs better!

i.e., the metabolic microenvironment is a key determinant of pathogen growth - intuitive but not explicitly studied in this context before
Alveolar metabolite availability facilitates secondary infection by Pseudomonas aeruginosa in acutely injured lungs https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.18.629020v1
January 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Reposted by Jennifer Baker
My favorite group of collaborators has a new preprint out! This was such a cool project to be asked to be a part of, and I'm super excited it's finally out in the world! This has got it all: critical care, NMR, clinical and animal data, bacterial culture, etc.!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Alveolar metabolite availability facilitates secondary infection by Pseudomonas aeruginosa in acutely injured lungs
Secondary bacterial pneumonia is a frequent complication of acute lung injury (ALI) and the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Prior efforts to explain increased pneumonia risk in ALI/ARDS ha...
www.biorxiv.org
January 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Reposted by Jennifer Baker
Mark your calendars the Biology of Acute Respiratory Infections GRS/GRC will be Feb21-27 in Pomona California!
December 12, 2024 at 7:17 PM
wake up babe new antibiotic just dropped https://t.co/u4BOdGME6c
November 21, 2024 at 3:35 AM
Come see me tomorrow afternoon at #ATS2024 to learn about what Pseudomonas snacks on when infecting acutely injured 🫁 (spoiler: 🦠 prefers savory, not sweet!)

Session details below 👇 https://t.co/33XN3TbMVa https://t.co/B4RsVqzT7E
November 21, 2024 at 3:35 AM
Join our team!!! https://t.co/TDDOUPfzSM
November 21, 2024 at 3:35 AM
It was so fun to tackle this #scicomm project with @cdel_science - truly the best group project partner I've ever had 😘 😆 https://t.co/JwPwDmHNrV
November 21, 2024 at 3:35 AM
It's not @ComSciConMI without the colorful tshirts - today I've got my ✨🧪test tube earrings 🧪✨on to match 😄it's already been a great conference & we're only 3 hours in!! https://t.co/SU4EJg366w
November 21, 2024 at 3:35 AM
Covering climate change in the media is no small task - and neither is encompassing the topic during a 1 h discussion - but @CarolynGramling from @ScienceNews is up to it. The amazing audience questions & insight today @ComSciConMI got me feeling hope >> doom 🌎 https://t.co/gIMJYkNbTa
November 21, 2024 at 3:35 AM
Reposted by Jennifer Baker
If you have bsky invites and want to give them to scientists/academics, this form by @pkpd-babe.bsky.social has worked well for me. 🧪
I always request that my codes go to folks with marginalized identities and it seems like they try to honor that.
BlueSky Invites
Please fill out this form if (1) you’d like to donate invite codes to scientists, clinicians, academics, other researchers or scholars or (2) you’re a member of one of these communities and would ...
docs.google.com
September 29, 2023 at 3:57 PM
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beep boop, is this thing working? The Michigan chapter of ComSciCon now has a Bluesky account!
September 27, 2023 at 7:42 PM
So excited to meet all our participants and hear from our wonderful invited experts this weekend!! https://t.co/1AcQwm021M
November 21, 2024 at 3:35 AM
If you are a mouse lung microbiome-ologist and have 16S sequenced lung tissue samples after instilling intratracheal LPS, I have some questions for you! We're running into technical issues and any leads would be helpful
November 21, 2024 at 3:35 AM
At this rate, canal bikes will be endangered by 2025 and completely gone from the ecosystem by 2030. So sad and completely preventable if catch and release laws or daily catch limits were put into place 😢😢😢 https://t.co/L60pb3QPlD
November 21, 2024 at 3:35 AM
Cheers to 30 years! https://t.co/qFOIsnfTEv
November 21, 2024 at 3:35 AM
So excited for September - can’t wait to show you what our fantastic organizing committee has been working on! Year 5 here we go! https://t.co/XYkJToGT4m
November 21, 2024 at 3:35 AM
And last but certainly giving the most, Eli Neiburger! I really have no words for the sousaloopaphone - you really must experience this Ann Arbor invention for yourself… in the best way possible 😆 https://t.co/Z3HiGPvxKG
November 21, 2024 at 3:35 AM
Next, Amir Baghdadchi tells the full house about why Goldilocks and the Three Bears shouldn’t work from a literary structure standpoint, but somehow, absolutely does. https://t.co/DRUbmw5zNP
November 21, 2024 at 3:35 AM
First up, @MiSciWriters member Chloe Rybicki-Kler talks about how a specialized region in our brain helps us navigate through space! https://t.co/hhcDfvsS6B
November 21, 2024 at 3:35 AM
An empty stage waiting for nerds at June’s rendition of Nerd Nite A2 at Top of the Park! https://t.co/1zq4lSGupj
November 21, 2024 at 3:35 AM
Board 1052! https://t.co/5C0hiii5qB
November 21, 2024 at 3:35 AM
Today’s the day! Come see me in the HMB poster area to hear about the metabolites available to bacteria that cause secondary pneumonia in the lungs when the air-blood barrier is acutely injured (P138 HMB16 Mammalian Host-Microbe Interactions II, 10:30-11:30 & 4-5pm)
November 21, 2024 at 3:35 AM
P.S. @AshleyLHagen here’s the recap since you couldn’t make it!
November 21, 2024 at 3:35 AM