Karen Peralta Martínez
karenyperalta.bsky.social
Karen Peralta Martínez
@karenyperalta.bsky.social
Wife, mom, immigrant | Studying Physiology, Gut Microbiome & Genetics | PhD student @PittBioSci Kohl Lab | She/Her 🇩🇴 #AfroLatina
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Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.
February 3, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Today in US History: On Feb. 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, granted black men the right to vote. It was passed by Congress on February 26, 1869. Black Americans were set free by the 13th amendment. The 14th Amendment guaranteed citizenship.

#BlackHistoryMonth
February 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Any USAID folks working on cybersecurity, infrastructure, technology projects: please feel free to reach out. How will DOGE impact the work you do?

I'm on Signal at JennaMcLaughlin.54.
February 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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#BlackHistoryMonth ☮️💙🌊🐕‍🦺
February 3, 2025 at 3:48 AM
So excited this work is out! 🦠🧫🐾🥼🧪

If you want to cultivate and isolate bacteria from sensible microbial samples collected in the field and needed to be transporters to the lab, take a look at the study we conducted using multiple preservation solutions with or without cryoprotectants.
January 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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'Most Americans probably don’t know this, but so much of what we take for granted when we seek care in the US—the medicines, the diagnostics, the procedures—have come out of NIH research.'
@gregggonsalves.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Trump Is Trying to Destroy Public Health in America
The administration has forced crucial scientific activity to grind to a halt. It’s an act of national suicide.
www.thenation.com
January 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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@nclark.bsky.social, an associate professor at Univ of Pittsburgh’s #biological sciences department, and his fellow researchers are proving that even animals we’ve never seen can shed light on the inner workings of our own #biology.

Story via @post-gazette.com

www.post-gazette.com/news/health/...
How a blind Australian mole helps researchers 'see'
Despite studying the animal for years, Nathan Clark has never laid eyes on an Australian marsupial mole. Spotted only five to 10 times per year in the...
www.post-gazette.com
January 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM