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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 7h

Pickles was not happy with Josh Allen’s game ending interception thrown into double coverage

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That face you make when you are about to Schmitt the bed in front of the whole country

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Which is more shocking - Hillary losing in 2016 or the Cleveland Browns having a realistic shot of starting the season 4-1?

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We just put up these cameras up around the house. How am I supposed to get any work done now?

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Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Virginia Tech has TWO Assistant/Associate Professor positions open in the Department of Biological Sciences targeting fungal and bacterial molecular biologists. Join some great fungal biologists @mycorican.bsky.social and Kirsten Nielsen! jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/assista...

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Assistant/Associate Professor - Blacksburg, Virginia, United States

Job Description The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech seeks applicants for two (2) tenure-track research and teaching positions at the Assistant/Associate ...

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yeah he’s a mathematical genius but how would rank him amongst all the undergraduates? And where is the anecdote about him being humble, nice, and down to earth? Also you forgot to fill out our rubric. Finally this wasnt submitted through Interfolio - send again

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

APPLY!! Great department, great chair, great colleagues, great place to do science. And microbiology throughout Virginia Tech, including my department, is awesome. Still not convinced? Blacksburg is beautiful and affordable

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I enjoyed reading this as it reminded me that when used correctly genetics can tell us so much about biological processes. I worry that our trainees are not learning this as we focus on teaching the latest and greatest. Hopefully Tom's article will remind everyone about the power of genetics

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tuberville is so dumb that he makes the best case for DEI. He has not a single neuron in his teeny weeny brain capable of making a rationale thought. On the other hand, this probably tells us what he is intellectually capable of reading and this is how he found about furry pilots

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One reason that I was able to move to virginia tech is that i thought that buffalo jews would still be well repped and you were key to that plan. 2.25 hot dogs /person in five innings is a shonda. Especially before the fast that starts tonite

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Also pie is the worstest of the dessert food groups.

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Rousseau is playing at josh allen level right now

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

no one can top this email from this morning

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

At least this wasnt about zionists, which of course this person hates too

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Maybe a NIH official runs in the room screaming rigged election?

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I wonder what is the record for number of future hall if famers playing in a regular season NFL game? Ive got 12 on the Rams/49ers game

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I also will take these two wet dishrags over collinsworth any day

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

First post of the season bitching about the NFL ready?? NFL has got to figure out a way not to reward under thrown passes

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm not really sure that BlueSky is any different. It's pretty shocking just how open everyone is

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Tupos are a sign that you got biger things to focus don

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

And the crickets we are hearing from biotech and big pharma is disheartening. Hearing nothing from @hhmi-science.bsky.social is contemptible

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

now we know why these asshats do not want us to see our grant scores. This is a brazen theft of public money and at the very least the poor excuse for a NIH should be impeached. Hopefully this gives closure to those researchers with grants receiving low single digit percentile scores are unfunded

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

מזל טוב וברוכים הבאים

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Or a three finger score 👍🤞🖕

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If I’m understanding correctly (bc paywall), these two students were basically whistleblowers? I hope that people acknowledge them, bc that is guts

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Well if we are just changing names in a willy nilly manner

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Who is hell is @rokhanna.bsky.social to tellme or any other jewish person what we should or shouldn’t call antisemitism.

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Besides the impact it has on research and national security, the US government has taken an ax to one of the most effective and inexpensive foreign relations tools in our arsenal. What a waste and shame

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Think you’re having a bad day? Pickles would say you well at least you’re not needing to wear this bc of stupid birth control

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Oh I thought it was that you can’t mouth pipette ethidium bromide. Darn

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Dave Sherry @myonlyneuron.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I need suggestions for a specific antibody to label centrioles in a 4-channel immunofluorescence experiment. I need a primary anti-centriole antibody raised in chicken, guinea pig, rat, hamster, or a monoclonal Mouse IgG2c. Suggestions would be welcomed with great excitement.

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

They voted for it. They deserve it

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Did you give those buffalo a gobills?

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Stupid paywall. But I remember this getting discussed before I left and the reasoning was that most of the students are on parent healthplans. Of course they never really thought about grad students

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Not a bad way to start the last day of my second year @virginiatech.bsky.social. Hopefully, year 3 will have lots of pots of gold at the end of this rainbow

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Congrats!! You've got yourself a great department chair in @joanneflynn19.bsky.social

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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Shit I gotta get a bucket if that marinade. But the best part of Chiavattas on a Thursday night in august is that band camp is over

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Emmanuelle Genoyer @immunuelle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology at UF is hiring a virologist! Come be my colleague and join a fantastic fun virology community! We have two positions open in virology (and genetics too!) please share if you know anyone interested. jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/679645/a...

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Assistant / Associate / Professor - Virology, RNA virus, emerging viruses - University of Florida, Gainesville job with University of Florida | 679645

Two tenure-track positions at the ranks of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in Virology.

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George O'Toole (he/him/his) @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

New in JB: Shams-Eddin, Popham et al. link spore proteases, prote-protein interactions and protein stability to spore germination in Bacillus subtilis. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @asm.org @microsky.bsky.social #Jbacteriology

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