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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 11m

oh heck no, just have to open/close their enclosure so they are protected from foxes and don't party in the pond all night.

Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 4h

They have a totally different funk than chickens. If you clean up the poop, chickens don’t smell bad.

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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 5h

We are taking care of our neighbors ducks this week. They are so cute but so stinky.

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JL Weissman @jlw-ecoevo.bsky.social · 21h

Stony Brook is hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Marine Molecular Ecology (assistant encouraged, molecular broadly defined, includes microbial omics!): apply.interfolio.com/174869

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apply.interfolio.com

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Jason Shepherd @jasonsynaptic.bsky.social · 1d

#goals

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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 1d

This paper is actually a collection of failed experiments, where we took the day 1 timepoint of each and added a bit more to show a seasonal trend.

If your experiments fail, there's usually a creative workaround! And thanks to colleagues for letting us use their equipment - this work was unfunded

Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 1d

Paper accepted!

This one kinda blows up some previous work I’ve done but more importantly shows that some other papers are just wrong.

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 1d

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 1d

Paper accepted!

This one kinda blows up some previous work I’ve done but more importantly shows that some other papers are just wrong.

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Shuxiao (Susan) Zhang @sxzhang.bsky.social · 1d

#tenure track #job position in #boston for #plantphysiology: careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

Details - Assistant Professor - Plant Physiology | Human Resources | UMass Amherst

careers.umass.edu

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Dr. Jennifer Glass (she/her) @methanojen.bsky.social · 2d

📣 New bacterial order name change alert!

🦠 The uncultivated alphaproteobacterial order (formerly TMED127) is now "Methylaequorales" in @seqcode.bsky.social

📝 New AEM paper on these marine methylotrophs: journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10....

🙏 Special thanks @rodriguez-r.bsky.social & SeqCode team

Diel cycle of lanthanide-dependent methylotrophy by TMED127/Methylaequorales bacteria in oligotrophic surface seawater

journals.asm.org

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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 2d

#eldercare PSA: PLEASE work on power of attorney forms & wills with elder relatives. Just talked with a friend who has had an awful 6 months dealing with his mom's estate and her live in boyfriend's estate.

Wills have to be active in the state you live in. POA forms need to be signed b4 illness.

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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 2d

Props you're important enough they are watching you?

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Last week, one of Trump's senior DOJ appointees strongly attacked a South Carolina's judge's voting rights decision. Today her house was burned to the ground by suspected arsonists.

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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 2d

Fox is back. Dog went after it. What do I do if he ever catches it?

🦊 Stay away from my chickens! 🐓

Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 3d

Woke up to a fox screaming outside my house.

Google fox screams. The song about what foxes say is so wrong.

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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 2d

In case you wondered what the end looked like. Sorry rented tablecloth. It should all come out.

Strawberry splotches on white tablecloth.

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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 2d

My Apple Watch recharges way faster than I do

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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 2d

We welcomed thousands of people to campus today for our biggest outreach event of the year. It was sunny and 80, low winds. What a great day.

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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 3d

Woke up to a fox screaming outside my house.

Google fox screams. The song about what foxes say is so wrong.

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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 3d

Not me looking for a can of spam in the photo.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4d

Meat is a blind spot for people who care about climate. When I used to have dinner with my colleague Wally Broecker, the climate scientist who coined the term “global warming”, he would always order a steak.

The climate movement’s biggest weakness

What the climate movement is getting dead wrong.

www.vox.com

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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 4d

Yup exactly. Now when I’m cooking dinner I can’t read the f$&king labels!!

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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 4d

Goshdarnit reading glasses really work.

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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · 4d

Had a lovely time chatting with @markowenmartin.bsky.social for the second time on his Matters Microbial podcast!

Thanks for having me, Mark! And thanks for this service you provide to our community 🙏

@isbscience.org @asm.org @microbetv.bsky.social

youtu.be/wdwTma0gV4k

Matters Microbial #110: Enumerating the Microbiome

YouTube video by MicrobeTV

youtu.be

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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 4d

Whooo! I am now vaccinated for COVID and Flu for the year!

Which, considering I think the rest of my house had the flu this month, I probably had good antibodies for, but an extra dose can't hurt.

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