@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.
@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.
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.
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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. πβοΈπ§ͺπ§¬π©βπ¬π₯½
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. π₯½π©βπ¬π§¬π§ͺβοΈπ
health.ucdavis.edu/blog/cultiva...
This is the sort of strategic planning that should go into #vaccine design π
They analysed 1,930 #Klebsiella pneumoniae π¦ π§«π§¬ neonate blood isolates from 13 countries and estimate that 20βantigens π§ͺ could cover 72.9% of all infections for 5β10 years
#IDSky #EpiSky
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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...
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...
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!
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
Breast milk isn't just nutrition β 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...
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!
π§΅ 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 epidemiologyβand exactly why it still matters. Letβs dig in.
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 :)
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.
Today's student Thank a Microbe post features Pseudomonas putida! Need to clean up oil spills and other toxic hydrocarbons? Call in P. putida.
I'm finally getting these up this week. Hope you enjoy them!
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!
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!
that time of year when as soon as you finish writing 2 letters of recommendation, 2 more requests come in....
For more info - please see this amazing #graphicnovel - www.patreon.com/cw/corradonai
#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! π§ͺπ¬π¦
Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask βdo you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.β
Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment.
No questions asked.
No proof required.
Pass it on.
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 Jrβs attack on the agencyβs science base.
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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. π€±π€°πΆπ§ͺ #microbiome
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There with you
Using this resource on AI vs human capable Bloom's Taxonomy from @oregonstate.edu as I write learning objectives! #STEMEdu ππ§ͺ
ecampus.oregonstate.edu/faculty/arti...
How to write a Symbiosis class syllabus. π Loving working at Ovenbird coffee shop these last few weeks while our youngest is at a synthetic biology camp. #Baltimore
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...