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Lindsey Burcham @lindseyatutk.bsky.social · Jul 29

No advice to manage sleep regressions - I’m not sure it’s possible! My best advice is give yourself grace. When I felt bad in those times everything felt impossible. When you accept it, get through it, and everything somehow gets done then you feel like a badass!

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Andreas Bäumler @abaumler.bsky.social · Jul 22

Infection and Immunity is now welcoming nominations for highly promising scientists at the assistant professor level (or equivalent) to submit research to the next New Voices in Microbiology Collection!

Please nominate by the August 18 deadline using the below link:
app.asm.org/account/logi...

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Lindsey Burcham @lindseyatutk.bsky.social · Jul 19

(Attempting to) Stump the Professors at @idsog.bsky.social 🧫🦠

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Lindsey Burcham @lindseyatutk.bsky.social · Jul 18

University of Tennessee (et al.) well represented at @idsog.bsky.social 🧡🤍

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Dr.Dr. Helene Andrews-Polymenis @hpolymenis.bsky.social · Jul 8

Ah sigh. In other news, water is wet.

Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · Jul 7

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No

Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.

www.forbes.com

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Lindsey Burcham @lindseyatutk.bsky.social · Jun 22

Fun but quick reunion at #ASMicrobe with @kellydoran.bsky.social @rebecca-keogh.bsky.social @bradyspencer12.bsky.social

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Lindsey Burcham @lindseyatutk.bsky.social · Jun 18

👀 Spotting poster tubes in the airport - it’s #ASMicrobe time!

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · Jun 14

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

A cartoon titled ‘The Life of a Scientist’.

(The life is depicted as a set of steps, three up then three down with a character on each)

Baby: Such a mysterious world!
Child: I must search for answers
Young adult: Each answer leads me to more questions
Middle age: ... At least I've got lots of questions
Old age: Ok, I guess questions are my thing now
From grave: Such a mysterious world!

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Jan-Willem Veening @veeninglab.com · Jun 10

New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

DMF: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in Molecular Microbiology - Site des postulations FBM

wwwfbm.unil.ch

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Lindsey Burcham @lindseyatutk.bsky.social · May 21

I vote separate pubs. Then those of us who talk about blue soup in courses can assign both papers and compare! Students love it

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Mar 14

I now have multiple sources that say at least one round of NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETINGS will now be announced in the Federal Register.

a muppet news anchor says " and now a muppet news flash " while holding a piece of paper

ALT: a muppet news anchor says " and now a muppet news flash " while holding a piece of paper

media.tenor.com

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Heidi Goodrich-Blair @hgblair.bsky.social · Mar 8

‘The rallies mattered. But they are just the start. Being activated is one part. We didn’t rally today for ourselves – as scientists. We rallied because science serves the public. It matters to everyone.’

Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · Mar 8

Long-form perspective, inspired by Friday's #standupforscience2025 rallies in the context of ongoing attacks on science and scientists. The central message of the piece is simple: we are at risk of moving into a period of state-sponsored pseudo-science.

joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/attacks-on...

Attacks on Science: A Most Dangerous Game
joshuasweitz.substack.com

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · Mar 8

Very much this.

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · Jan 29

Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.

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Julia Willett @jlewillett.bsky.social · Mar 1

"downsizes" is a weak way of saying "forced to cancel dozens of programs, which jeopardizes future STEM careers of talented undergrads" @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

NSF downsizes summer research program for undergraduates

Many participants are from groups underrepresented in science

www.science.org

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Lindsey Burcham @lindseyatutk.bsky.social · Mar 4

I think I might need some sun on Friday around 12?

Heidi Goodrich-Blair @hgblair.bsky.social · Mar 4

standupforscience2025.org/local-event-...

Hey UT-Knoxville friends… I think the front of the Mossman building might be a great spot to be at noon on Friday!

Local SUFS Events

Stand Up for Science is officially supporting rallies in Washington DC and 31 other cities around the country. This means that a confirmed site leader—backed by our core team—is actively organizing…

standupforscience2025.org

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Carolyn Ibberson @cbibberson.bsky.social · Feb 24

NIH and NSF funded research has a huge impact on the State of Tennessee. This important research is currently under treat. @500womensci.bsky.social @marshablackburntn.bsky.social

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Lindsey Burcham @lindseyatutk.bsky.social · Feb 27

Very excited to have been able to contribute to this awesome study led by @ajmonteith.bsky.social and lab!

Andrew Monteith @ajmonteith.bsky.social · Feb 27

The debut paper from the lab is live! Check out the amazing work by @ashleydwise.bsky.social and collaborators discovering that mitochondria are not just the 'powerhouse of the cell' but adapted by neutrophils to sense bacterial persistence and trigger NETosis.

www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Mitochondria sense bacterial lactate and drive release of neutrophil extracellular traps

Historically, neutrophil mitochondria were overlooked as they do not contribute to energy homeostasis. Wise et al. reveal that neutrophil mitochondria can sense bacterial persistence in the phagosome ...

www.cell.com

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Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · Feb 17

I gonna keep trying to showcase that small questions in science are still very much real science. Just because the question and output is small, does not make it any less valid. We've gotten a lil snobby about how we define science today, more focused on size than content.

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Ben Parker @ben-parker.bsky.social · Feb 17

We're searching for a postdoc to study insect-microbe symbiosis in our lab at UNC Chapel Hill. Application can be found here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/295...

Post-Doc Research Associate

The researcher will be primarily responsible for carrying out experiments and aims of a recently funded NIH award, using an insect model system (aphids) to address mechanistic and evolutionary genetic...

unc.peopleadmin.com

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Lindsey Burcham @lindseyatutk.bsky.social · Feb 15

Huge congratulations Kim!!

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Jacqueline Kimmey @jkimmey.bsky.social · Feb 14

Happy Valentine’s Day from 5 kick ass microbiologists - who all made it to this week’s zoom meeting for the first time in ages! #women #STEM #faculty #science @katypatras.bsky.social @laurainthelab1.bsky.social @lindseyatutk.bsky.social @alisoncoady.bsky.social

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Lindsey Burcham @lindseyatutk.bsky.social · Oct 23

I would love to be on the list!

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Lindsey Burcham @lindseyatutk.bsky.social · Feb 13

Check out this deadly good story from Zach Burcham and Jessica Metcalf!

A conserved community of microbes assemble to drive human decomposition

Pun absolutely intended 💀

Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Feb 12

A paper in Nature Microbiology suggests that a component of the microbiomes associated with decomposing human cadavers are universal regardless of location or environmental conditions. go.nature.com/3OIpMYV 🧪

This is figure 2, which shows that decomposer community assembly is governed by stochastic and deterministic bacterial assembly processes.

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Alison Coady @alisoncoady.bsky.social · Feb 3

This was a fun project to work on in 2020. Happy to see it in print.

Viral afterlife: SARS-CoV-2 as a reservoir of immunomimetic peptides that reassemble into proinflammatory supramolecular complexes | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

www.pnas.org

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