Ray Loughran
@loughraymicro.bsky.social
Microbiology PhD Candidate with The Hanson Lab at the University of Delaware. I touch dirt, which is cool. (she/her)
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This CDC "survey" getting sent to grantees is wild yall.
This is some serious "Kiss my Ring" level bullshit.
This is some serious "Kiss my Ring" level bullshit.
March 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This CDC "survey" getting sent to grantees is wild yall.
This is some serious "Kiss my Ring" level bullshit.
This is some serious "Kiss my Ring" level bullshit.
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As a result of Trump’s slashes to research funding, dozens of graduate programs have announced reductions and cancellations of graduate admissions slots.
If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Grad Admission Impacts Survey
It is grad admissions season and many postbacs are feeling the chilling impacts of the Trump administration's recent executive orders freezing and slashing extramural research funding. Dozens of gradu...
docs.google.com
February 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
As a result of Trump’s slashes to research funding, dozens of graduate programs have announced reductions and cancellations of graduate admissions slots.
If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🧪🧠🧬🔬🥼👩🏼🔬🧑🔬
If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🧪🧠🧬🔬🥼👩🏼🔬🧑🔬
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Well just received this email regarding a paper under review:
February 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Well just received this email regarding a paper under review:
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Everybody knows what a nazi salute looks like. You can’t pretend you don’t know. It’s evil iconography. It’s a racism classic. You can’t have any remaining self respect any pussyfoot around what we saw today. We know what we saw.
January 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Everybody knows what a nazi salute looks like. You can’t pretend you don’t know. It’s evil iconography. It’s a racism classic. You can’t have any remaining self respect any pussyfoot around what we saw today. We know what we saw.
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Anyone who says this was NOT a Nazi salute can — with all due respect — fuck off.
January 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Anyone who says this was NOT a Nazi salute can — with all due respect — fuck off.
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You missed our series about unnoticed, but influential female scientists in microbiology that were honoured by naming a bacterium after them?
Here is the basic information about the 26 women and their groundbreaking work 👉 www.dsmz.de/collection/honouring-women-in-science
#herstory #WomenInScience
Here is the basic information about the 26 women and their groundbreaking work 👉 www.dsmz.de/collection/honouring-women-in-science
#herstory #WomenInScience
January 20, 2025 at 8:57 AM
You missed our series about unnoticed, but influential female scientists in microbiology that were honoured by naming a bacterium after them?
Here is the basic information about the 26 women and their groundbreaking work 👉 www.dsmz.de/collection/honouring-women-in-science
#herstory #WomenInScience
Here is the basic information about the 26 women and their groundbreaking work 👉 www.dsmz.de/collection/honouring-women-in-science
#herstory #WomenInScience
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Friends, please help spread the word about our microbiology REU program at Montana State University.
www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/
Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided.
Details in the attached pic--Feb 13 deadline
🧫🧪🦠#microsky
www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/
Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided.
Details in the attached pic--Feb 13 deadline
🧫🧪🦠#microsky
January 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Friends, please help spread the word about our microbiology REU program at Montana State University.
www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/
Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided.
Details in the attached pic--Feb 13 deadline
🧫🧪🦠#microsky
www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/
Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided.
Details in the attached pic--Feb 13 deadline
🧫🧪🦠#microsky
Greetings from the woodpile!
January 2, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Greetings from the woodpile!
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Open rank position alert (share away):
The Dept. of Biology at the U of Maryland, College Park invites applications from individuals studying fundamental questions in ecology and evolutionary biology using microbial systems for a tenure-track or tenured position at any rank
bit.ly/ecoevomicro-...
The Dept. of Biology at the U of Maryland, College Park invites applications from individuals studying fundamental questions in ecology and evolutionary biology using microbial systems for a tenure-track or tenured position at any rank
bit.ly/ecoevomicro-...
Open Rank - Assistant/Associate/Full Professor
Job Description Summary Organization Summary Statement The Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), invites applications from individuals studying fundamental questions...
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December 20, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Open rank position alert (share away):
The Dept. of Biology at the U of Maryland, College Park invites applications from individuals studying fundamental questions in ecology and evolutionary biology using microbial systems for a tenure-track or tenured position at any rank
bit.ly/ecoevomicro-...
The Dept. of Biology at the U of Maryland, College Park invites applications from individuals studying fundamental questions in ecology and evolutionary biology using microbial systems for a tenure-track or tenured position at any rank
bit.ly/ecoevomicro-...
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DSMZ researchers characterized and named 28 actinomycetes with inhibiting effects against other microbes. Honouring the impact of female scientists, they named the newly described bacteria exclusively after #womeninscience.
👉 tinyurl.com/3uhs8ypc
#biodiversity #antibiotics #microbes
📷 DSMZ
👉 tinyurl.com/3uhs8ypc
#biodiversity #antibiotics #microbes
📷 DSMZ
New antibiotic producers described: Old DSMZ treasures with new potential
Researchers name newly described bacteria exclusively after female scientists
tinyurl.com
November 27, 2024 at 8:09 AM
DSMZ researchers characterized and named 28 actinomycetes with inhibiting effects against other microbes. Honouring the impact of female scientists, they named the newly described bacteria exclusively after #womeninscience.
👉 tinyurl.com/3uhs8ypc
#biodiversity #antibiotics #microbes
📷 DSMZ
👉 tinyurl.com/3uhs8ypc
#biodiversity #antibiotics #microbes
📷 DSMZ
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Vibrio are just E. coli in Comic Sans
December 17, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Vibrio are just E. coli in Comic Sans
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We are very happy to announce a free-to-attend #anvio workshop and ECR symposium in Oldenburg to discuss integrated microbial 'omics and learn applications of anvi'o.
More information and application link (application deadline is Jan 10): anvio.org/workshops/20...
Please apply and/or circulate 😇
More information and application link (application deadline is Jan 10): anvio.org/workshops/20...
Please apply and/or circulate 😇
December 16, 2024 at 10:38 AM
We are very happy to announce a free-to-attend #anvio workshop and ECR symposium in Oldenburg to discuss integrated microbial 'omics and learn applications of anvi'o.
More information and application link (application deadline is Jan 10): anvio.org/workshops/20...
Please apply and/or circulate 😇
More information and application link (application deadline is Jan 10): anvio.org/workshops/20...
Please apply and/or circulate 😇
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In one year, I genetically engineered the boring Arabidopsis into a beautiful ornamental flower 🧬🌹
Here is how and why I gave this model organism a visual upgrade 🧵(1/7)
Here is how and why I gave this model organism a visual upgrade 🧵(1/7)
December 12, 2024 at 11:24 AM
In one year, I genetically engineered the boring Arabidopsis into a beautiful ornamental flower 🧬🌹
Here is how and why I gave this model organism a visual upgrade 🧵(1/7)
Here is how and why I gave this model organism a visual upgrade 🧵(1/7)
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November 23, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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Republicans claim they're afraid of sex offenders in in bathrooms, but they keep elevating sex offenders to high office.
November 21, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Republicans claim they're afraid of sex offenders in in bathrooms, but they keep elevating sex offenders to high office.
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If struggling to feed yourself, foodbank is king
Asian markets usually have the best prices in town for vegetables and cooking spices.
Rice and beans are your friend, and easy to flavor
Frozen are good and cheaper than fresh vegetables.
Dairy goes far nutritionally
Want Meat? Chicken.
Asian markets usually have the best prices in town for vegetables and cooking spices.
Rice and beans are your friend, and easy to flavor
Frozen are good and cheaper than fresh vegetables.
Dairy goes far nutritionally
Want Meat? Chicken.
November 9, 2024 at 10:37 PM
If struggling to feed yourself, foodbank is king
Asian markets usually have the best prices in town for vegetables and cooking spices.
Rice and beans are your friend, and easy to flavor
Frozen are good and cheaper than fresh vegetables.
Dairy goes far nutritionally
Want Meat? Chicken.
Asian markets usually have the best prices in town for vegetables and cooking spices.
Rice and beans are your friend, and easy to flavor
Frozen are good and cheaper than fresh vegetables.
Dairy goes far nutritionally
Want Meat? Chicken.
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Interspersing polls panic with Firefly. A solid move. 10/10 would recommend!
November 6, 2024 at 1:30 AM
Interspersing polls panic with Firefly. A solid move. 10/10 would recommend!
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Voting Hillary 2016 and Voting Kamala 2024
November 4, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Voting Hillary 2016 and Voting Kamala 2024
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New pre-print out. Vadesse is my most recent student to finish who built on Amalie's prior work with expert core facility assistance.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Chlorobaculum tepidum Outer Membrane Vesicles Are Likely a Significant Route for Biogenic Sulfur Transport
Outer membrane-derived vesicles (OMVs) have been studied in different phyla of Gram-negative bacteria, most extensively in the Pseudomonadota, where they have been shown to participate in diverse biol...
www.biorxiv.org
October 7, 2024 at 11:14 PM
New pre-print out. Vadesse is my most recent student to finish who built on Amalie's prior work with expert core facility assistance.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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I just wanna eat soup and sleep for 4 days
October 5, 2024 at 11:23 PM
I just wanna eat soup and sleep for 4 days