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@mostlymicrobes

#scimom #scicomm sharing stories of our #microbe world. Associate Professor @TowsonU! @microbialTowson @craftymicrobiology #microbiome #microbiology #GirlScoutAlum www.mostlymicrobes.com

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@markowenmartin.bsky.social thanks so much for the dung beetle and brood ball kits!! You are too kind. The girls and I will have a ton of fun.

02.03.2026 18:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How Bacteria Die in the Microbial Marine Forest

Dr. Anne Thompson explores her research on salps, some of the most abundant animals in the ocean, and how their feeding mechanisms shape marine microbial food webs and carbon cycles.

@markowenmartin.bsky.social

28.02.2026 20:56 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

5/6 For anyone worried about synthetic vs "natural" compounds, synthetics are often purer, more stable, & engineered to be more effective and SAFER than "natural" compounds. So do what's right for your baby, get them the vitamin K they need, prevent VKDB, and avoid risk of fatal brain bleeds. πŸŽβš›οΈπŸ§ͺπŸ§¬πŸ‘©β€πŸ”¬πŸ₯½

08.02.2026 22:05 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Facts and myths parents should know about vitamin K shots for newborns | Cultivating Health Vitamin K shots are part of routine care for newborns. However, there are many myths about vitamin K injections. Our experts give you the facts about this potentially life-saving vaccine.

6/6 here's a helpful resource:

Oh and talk to your doctor about the hepatitis B vaccine for your baby as well. The fact I had to sign a waiver in order to get the vaccine for my baby because of the current misinformation is sad. πŸ₯½πŸ‘©β€πŸ”¬πŸ§¬πŸ§ͺβš›οΈπŸŽ

health.ucdavis.edu/blog/cultiva...

08.02.2026 22:05 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Distribution of capsule and O types in Klebsiella pneumoniae causing neonatal sepsis in Africa and South Asia: A meta-analysis of genome-predicted serotype prevalence to inform potential vaccine cover... Thomas Stanton and colleagues use whole genome sequencing to evaluate the prevalence of Klebsiella pneumoniae K and O antigen types in 13 countries in Africa and South Asia to help inform vaccine desi...

This is the sort of strategic planning that should go into #vaccine design πŸ’‰

They analysed 1,930 #Klebsiella pneumoniae 🦠🧫🧬 neonate blood isolates from 13 countries and estimate that 20 antigens πŸ§ͺ could cover 72.9% of all infections for 5–10 years

#IDSky #EpiSky

journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

29.01.2026 11:36 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Battersea rescue dog trained to detect lung infection Chilli will be able to identify the scent of pseudomonas aeruginosa in people with cystic fibrosis.

A rescue puppy is to become one of only a handful of dogs in the world able to detect a multi-drug resistant lung infection.

Chilli is being trained to identify the scent of pseudomonas aeruginosa, a major cause of lung damage in cystic fibrosis.

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@medsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

28.01.2026 06:43 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
A bearded man in nurse's scrubs offers aid to Justice, wearing a blindfold and holding a sword and scales, who has fallen to her knees.

A bearded man in nurse's scrubs offers aid to Justice, wearing a blindfold and holding a sword and scales, who has fallen to her knees.

Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...

27.01.2026 04:00 πŸ‘ 8007 πŸ” 2507 πŸ’¬ 101 πŸ“Œ 92
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Join #MVIF 46 cassyni.com/s/mvif-46

and #MeetTheSpeakers

@jeremyjbarr.bsky.social will discuss isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut!

27.01.2026 10:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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24.01.2026 23:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Let's start a virus snowflake blizzard! Snip out some viral snowflakes this weekend - using the great templates by @socialinfluenza.bsky.social See new blog post here: wp.me/p5dMJb-Rg

24.01.2026 23:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Assembly of the infant gut microbiome and resistome are linked to bacterial strains in mother’s milk - Nature Communications Here, with metagenomic analyses on longitudinal samples collected from 195 mother-infant pairs, the authors show that the breast milk microbiome contributes to infant gut assembly through bacterial st...

Breast milk isn't just nutrition – it delivers live bacterial strains that colonize the infant gut and persist for months.

Happy to share our new paper, where we used metagenomics to track bacterial strains between 195 mother-infant pairs over the first 6 months of life:

doi.org/10.1038/s414...

18.01.2026 20:35 πŸ‘ 72 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Book Review: Microbes: The Unseen Agents of Climate Change - Mostly Microbes . This review was first published in American Biology Teacher 2025 Vol. 87, No. 2, pp. 147–150, ISSN 0002-7685. Microbes: The Unseen Agents of Climate Change. By David L. Kirchman. 2024. Oxford Univer...

Book review of Microbes:The Unseen Agents of Climate Change is up on the blog - rb.gy/wchw8f. Really love this book and will use for Environmental Microbiology!

17.01.2026 15:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Zika Virus Outbreak ... This report describes a Zika outbreak in Dhaka, Bangladesh, during September-December 2024.

🧡 1/7 #AltComms
MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) this week on a Zika outbreak in Bangladesh in 2024

This is classic, boots-on-the-ground epidemiologyβ€”and exactly why it still matters. Let’s dig in.

09.01.2026 21:26 πŸ‘ 52 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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As you partake of bread and beer - give thanks for Saccharomyces cerevisiae! Yeast ferments sugar into alcohol. The CO2 given off is what helps bread rise.
Each semester we do a Fermentation Feast in class to "taste the diversity of cultures". Microbiology - the field full of sensory delights :)

27.11.2025 14:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This student for "Thank a Microbe" really loved Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. Predatory bacteria are easy to love! It bores its way into another bacterium, digests the bacterium, then reproduces, with its babies breaking out of the empty shell of the bacterial prey.

26.11.2025 17:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Today's student Thank a Microbe post features Pseudomonas putida! Need to clean up oil spills and other toxic hydrocarbons? Call in P. putida.

25.11.2025 11:39 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm finally getting these up this week. Hope you enjoy them!

24.11.2025 11:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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For the Thank a Microbe project, Lactobacillus sp. were a favorite genera of bacteria to thank.

Lactobacillus acidophilus is what digests milk sugars into acetic acid, which gives yogurt its tangy taste!

24.11.2025 11:25 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It's the season for being thankful - THANK A MICROBE returns! Here's the first of several student flyers appreciating the wonders of our microbial world!

23.11.2025 23:31 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

that time of year when as soon as you finish writing 2 letters of recommendation, 2 more requests come in....

05.11.2025 20:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Corrado Nai | The Dessert that Changed the World | Patreon Science Writer & Microbiologist

For more info - please see this amazing #graphicnovel - www.patreon.com/cw/corradonai

31.10.2025 19:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#WomenInScience inspired Halloween costume this year is Fanny Hess! In Koch's lab in the hot German summers, the gelatin used for bacterial cultures would melt. Fanny learned of agar - used to stiffen gelatin desserts - and brought that into the lab. Her ingenuity changed #microbiology forever! πŸ§ͺπŸ”¬πŸ¦ 

31.10.2025 19:33 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask β€œdo you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.”

Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment.

No questions asked.

No proof required.

Pass it on.

28.08.2025 14:12 πŸ‘ 11617 πŸ” 6164 πŸ’¬ 303 πŸ“Œ 262
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BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout.

They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.

(πŸŽ₯ AP)

28.08.2025 19:41 πŸ‘ 10551 πŸ” 3400 πŸ’¬ 168 πŸ“Œ 246
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The Microbirth Plan - Documentary More than a documentary. It’s a plan to protect the future of our species. | Check out 'The Microbirth Plan - Documentary' on Indiegogo.

I just supported Toni Harmon's/Alto Films latest documentary about #microbiome of #birth and first foods. Please join me in supporting this important film. πŸ€±πŸ€°πŸ‘ΆπŸ§ͺ #microbiome

igg.me/at/themicrob...

18.08.2025 14:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There with you

18.08.2025 11:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Using this resource on AI vs human capable Bloom's Taxonomy from @oregonstate.edu as I write learning objectives! #STEMEdu 🍎πŸ§ͺ

ecampus.oregonstate.edu/faculty/arti...

18.08.2025 11:39 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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13.08.2025 13:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

How to write a Symbiosis class syllabus. πŸ˜† Loving working at Ovenbird coffee shop these last few weeks while our youngest is at a synthetic biology camp. #Baltimore

13.08.2025 13:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Respiratory Virus Vaccine Reduced Number of Babies Hospitalized by 72% The respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine, introduced across the UK in late summer 2024, led to a 72% reduction in babies hospitalised with the virus if mothers were vaccinated, a new study has…

A new study shows that vaccinating pregnant women against RSV led to a 72% drop in hospitalizations for babies with the virus in the UK, highlighting the real-world effectiveness of the vaccine in protecting infants.
www.technologynetworks.com/tn/news/resp...

22.07.2025 16:19 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0