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Jacob Pawley 🧽 🦠 🦕 @pawley.bsky.social · Aug 8

This is one my favorite images I’ve ever taken of a freshwater sponge

The depth-coded image (stained for F-actin) beautifully shows the static nature of the choanoderm and the extremely dynamic nature of migratory cells along and around the outer epithelia :)

#FluoresenceFriday #confocal

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 30

Motherfucking wind farms…

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · Jul 14

There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Jul 14

Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding & tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals.

What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.

Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.

zurl.co/YBGNy

‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines

Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stall

zurl.co

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Jacob Pawley 🧽 🦠 🦕 @pawley.bsky.social · Jul 5

You can take the funds from a scientist, but you will never take their passion

#4thofJuly

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Jacob Pawley 🧽 🦠 🦕 @pawley.bsky.social · May 23

Sponge choanoderm belongs in a museum

#FluorescenceFriday

Sponge choanoderm confocal microscopy image false colored by depth/z-position. F-actin is stained by phalloidin 568

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · May 18

If we all somehow agreed to follow some unwritten rule that nobody can publish more than four or five papers per year, I think that would make our culture healthier for everybody.

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Derrick Kamp @kampamycin.bsky.social · Apr 15

This work is finally officially out!

Check out our paper, where we use various advanced microscopy techniques to shed light on the structures of a complex symbiotic organ and the communities of bacteria that live inside it.

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Organ structure and bacterial microbiogeography in a reproductive organ of the Hawaiian bobtail squid reveal dimensions of a defensive symbiosis | Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Sequence-based microbiome studies have revealed much about how hosts interact with communities of symbiotic microbiota but often lack a spatial understanding of how microbes relate to each other and t...

journals.asm.org

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Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · Apr 8

I say this every time de-extinction comes up: it makes no sense to devote science to bringing back extinct animals when we can’t be bothered to keep extant ones alive in the first place.

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Tera Levin @teralevin.bsky.social · Apr 3

For grad students and postdocs: We'd love to see you at the Molecular and Cell Biology of Symbiosis course at the Marine Biological Labs this summer! Application deadline is Apr 14, so apply soon. Please share with anyone who might be interested!
www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

Molecular and Cell Biology of Symbiosis | Marine Biological Laboratory

This is an immersive research-based course designed to teach basic concepts, open research questions, and facilitate state-of-the-art experimental approaches in symbiosis research.

www.mbl.edu

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Jacob Pawley 🧽 🦠 🦕 @pawley.bsky.social · Apr 4

Happy to see this finally coming to light…

…sad beyond measure to know it’s a reality

I spent 6 months on Johnston Atoll, an uninhabited wildlife refuge, doing conservation/invasive species eradication work in 2019

The wildlife here will ALWAYS be more important than rockets

#Johnston #Elon

U.S. military aims to turn island bird refuge into SpaceX rocket site

Landing tests at Johnston Atoll in the Pacific could advance a plan to use rockets to ship military cargo but could also threaten an important nesting site.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · Apr 3

This is what happens when people speak up.

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Phillip Cleves @pcleves.bsky.social · Apr 2

It is happening again! Consider taking our course on the Molecular and Cell Biology of Symbiosis at
@MBLScience. We extended the deadline for
applications to Apr 14, 2025. www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

Molecular and Cell Biology of Symbiosis | Marine Biological Laboratory

This is an immersive research-based course designed to teach basic concepts, open research questions, and facilitate state-of-the-art experimental approaches in symbiosis research.

www.mbl.edu

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Jacob Pawley 🧽 🦠 🦕 @pawley.bsky.social · Apr 2

In the wakes of all this madness and of attacks to causes I care about and have dedicated portions of my life to protecting, I applaud all the biologists who have made possible getting this story to the public, and @reuters.com for being a brave voice against tyranny & exploitation

#Johnston #Elon

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Jacob Pawley 🧽 🦠 🦕 @pawley.bsky.social · Apr 2

“A SpaceX launch of its Starship rocket in Boca Chica, Texas, last year involved a blast that destroyed nests and eggs of plover shorebirds, landing the billionaire Musk's company in legal trouble and leading him to remark jokingly that he would refrain from eating omelets for a week to compensate.”

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Jacob Pawley 🧽 🦠 🦕 @pawley.bsky.social · Apr 2

This is in response to their “hypersonic rocket cargo deliveries” being removed from its current location: Boca Chica, TX, where he’s already decimated local bird populations & nesting grounds, along w/ large impacts to peoples living in the area

Unsurprisingly, Elon does not care in the slightest:

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Jacob Pawley 🧽 🦠 🦕 @pawley.bsky.social · Apr 2

I was a member of the Crazy Ant Strike Team on Johnston Atoll in 2019

It is sickening that Elon & SpaceX are planning to decimate decades of SUCCESSFUL invasive species eradication, and a truly remarkable rebound of several species of critically endangered seabirds, all for 10 rocket missions

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SpaceX rocket cargo project puts Pacific seabirds in jeopardy

A project proposed by Elon Musk's SpaceX and the U.S. Air Force to test hypersonic rocket cargo deliveries from a remote Pacific atoll could harm the many seabirds that nest at the wildlife refuge, according to biologists and experts who have spent more than a decade working to protect them.

www.reuters.com

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Jacob Pawley 🧽 🦠 🦕 @pawley.bsky.social · Mar 28

Inconclusive results make for a fun lil journey: “okay, let’s make art instead”

[I study freshwater sponges 🙂]

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Derrick Kamp @kampamycin.bsky.social · Mar 26

I made a website! Come check it out! Get to know me! See cool pictures! Learn that I'm looking for a post doc in fall 2025!

www.derrickkamp.com

Home | Derrick Kamp

www.derrickkamp.com

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Mar 22

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · Mar 18

We have a better setup now, but this was an early ‘success’ video of capturing bacterial chemotaxis in action!🦠💨Shows something important—bacteria are strong swimmers! Despite the flow, Salmonella head straight for the nutrients. Makes sense, gut has a ton of flow! 🧪 #Microbiology #Microsky #idsky

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Mar 6

Transgenic means that genes from 1 organism have been put into another. We make transgenic mice to understand how genes influence biological processes. We make transgenic plants to make them more nutrient rich. We make transgenic bacteria so they make medicine for us. It's wide-ranging & v. useful.

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U.S. Representative Al Green @algreen.house.gov · Mar 6

Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome x.com/repalgreen/s...

Congressman Al Green on X: "Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome https://t.co/sVklRmPCJl" / X

Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome https://t.co/sVklRmPCJl

x.com

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Jacob Pawley 🧽 🦠 🦕 @pawley.bsky.social · Dec 24

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune—just beautiful.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · Dec 3

If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.

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Jacob Pawley 🧽 🦠 🦕 @pawley.bsky.social · Dec 4

To be proud, or to be scared ?

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