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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 2d

“I asked them to, if they have a chance, call me back,” said Thomas Perlmann, secretary-general of the Nobel committee

Probably a call that you’d return…

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

www.theguardian.com

Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 7d

If you aren't knowledgable, you are impressionable.

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 26d

“Many young extremists now believe in a much simpler binary: Order and chaos. And if you are spending any time at all trying to derive meaning from violent acts like this then you are, by definition, their enemy.”

Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 26d

And this one via @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social at @garbageday.email sent me down some rabbit holes (but in a good way).

www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme

Making sense of our dark new era of extremely online political violence

www.garbageday.email

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 26d

And this one via @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social at @garbageday.email sent me down some rabbit holes (but in a good way).

www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme

Making sense of our dark new era of extremely online political violence

www.garbageday.email

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · Sep 8

Manufacturers use the same cartridge for tons of tests (pregnancy, flu, etc) and just swap out the paper strip for the right one. But I agree that positive/negative would be better!

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · Sep 8

They’d been exposed for a few days the week prior. They are pro testing, just befuddled

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · Sep 8

Walked someone through reading a COVID test correctly after they texted me a pic of a perfectly negative test saying “sorry I can’t come”…. No the C does not stand for COVID.
#ItsBeenFiveYears #TwoLinesNotOne

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Sep 8

If it’s run for profit, then it’s profiting off of … us.

When I hear that the post office lost money, I think this: Good. We already paid for it. Why on earth should it make even more money from us? Who would keep the money? Would we see it?

Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · Sep 7

I don't want to start a thing so I'll just say that there will never be a good argument for privatizing USPS. That would be like privatizing libraries. The aim of services isn't to be run for profit, they are for serving the greater good, which USPS has been extremely successful at.

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · Sep 5

I can’t stop laughing about the neighbourhood of doom

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · Sep 5

At one point his fire station was on fire.

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · Sep 5

14 yo nephew is playing Cities Skylines and his mishaps are legendary.
He built a neighbourhood that only had subway access to improve ridership
He forgot to build a cemetery so the bodies piled up for a while.
Later, discovered more piles of bodies - turns out you can’t take corpses on the subway

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Aug 29

The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible.

But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.

Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · Aug 29

Kansas City: COVID-19 outbreak forces metro school to close until next week fox4kc.com/news/covid-1...

fox4kc.com

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · Sep 2

And in the meantime Canada (checks notes), right, Canada hamstrings research by bankrupting universities

Larry Miller, PhD @larrymillerphd.bsky.social · Sep 1

Europe steps up as US science funding shrinks. Aix-Marseille’s $16M “Safe Place for Science” drew an unexpected 300+ US applicants in 2 weeks, while the EU launches a $500M “Choose Europe for Science” push to attract top researchers. 🧪🧬🔬 #SciComm

Europe wants to attract American scientists - The World from PRX

In the wake of federal funding cuts that threaten scientists’ jobs in the US, programs have emerged across Europe to attract those worried American scientists. The World’s Gerry Hadden reports from a ...

theworld.org

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James McDonald @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social · Aug 11

Really exciting and important tree microbiome paper published in @nature.com ‘A diverse and distinct microbiome inside living trees’ 👏 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A diverse and distinct microbiome inside living trees - Nature

Microbiome analyses of living trees show that a single tree can host approximately one trillion bacteria, with microbial communities distinctly partitioned between heartwood and sapwood and with minim...

www.nature.com

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · Aug 6

If you are a postdoc working on any topic related to environmental microbiology and are looking for exposure, the Thermal Biology Institute (tbi.montana.edu) has slots open for virtual talks via zoom this fall. Email me if you are interested! Seminars are most Mondays, 3-4 pm Mountain Time.

Thermal Biology Institute - Default | Montana State University

Index to the Thermal Biology Institute's website.

tbi.montana.edu

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · Jul 29

Congratulations Asaf!

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · Jul 28

wrote the grant. Am annoyed in equal measure that it required 1.5 fully dedicated days and that it _only_ required 1.5 dedicated days given I was meant to have it done in April..

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · Jul 25

Ooh good one. I meant to pick your brain about board games at the GRC, 8 yo is very into Terra Mystica at the moment and I’m looking for options that are similar-ish but shorter (we have Terra Nova, it is “less good, because there are no cults” 😅

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · Jul 25

commiserations and Hershey's Hugs to you

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · Jul 25

at the "must actually write the grant" stage of procrastinating writing a grant. worst stage. only mitigated by my established candy reward structure

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · Jul 24

my capacity to lose receipts* is astonishing.

* notice a receipt in my bag/wallet, think "ew, why do I have this?" and throw it out...

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Jeffrey Marlow @jjmarlow.bsky.social · Jul 23

The year’s crowning achievement! 🙌😂

Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · Jul 16

Volta experiment at the GRC AEM with @jjmarlow.bsky.social and @dkountz.bsky.social (video by Zackary Jay)

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · Jul 19

My sister: are you having an Icarus moment? ☀️🪽🪽
Me, yes and-ing my way to over commitment: probably? But I know how to swim! 🏊‍♀️

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David Macdonald @davidmaccdn.bsky.social · Jul 17

Research grants to universities & colleges as well as graduate scholarships face $764 million in cuts to pay for tax cuts and miliary spending. The Tri-council agencies providing those funds just won an increase in the last budget, but that will be completely undercut now. 6/x

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Denise Akob @deniseakob.bsky.social · Jul 17

@gilbertjacka.bsky.social does a karaoke version of Microbe Microbe with @lhug.bsky.social and @kuesellab.bsky.social and the 2025 AEM GRC group meet the challenge?

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