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Matt Taylor…

@dr-mptaylor.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at Montana State University. All opinions my own, especially the one's you don't like. Easily excited by virology, fluorescent microscopy, landscape photography, and beer.

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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This quiz says I talk like a Montanan. Shouldn’t be surprised since I have lived here longer than anywhere else in my life. Always thought I was a bit more bicoastal.
A map of the United States overlayed with a heat map of language similarity. Red indicates higher and blue is lower. The Mountain West is deep red lightening towards the middle of the country. The East coast and South are both blue.
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Ran a pair of ABI 373 long gel format sequencers for my first lab job. Cast all my protein gels on various formats through grad school. Still prefer to cast my mini gels rather than by pre-cast.
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Elysse @elyssegs.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
“Young people need to see a future in science” - Richard Kuhn on the Presidential Panel at #ASV2026. Outreach is CRITICAL. Want to talk about how to get involved? Send me a message. I have a nonprofit organization that has been engaging middle & high school students across the US for 11+ years.
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Had the opportunity to go to K-days fair in Edmonton this weekend. Ate some terrible abominations that were surprisingly good.
Deep fried cheesecake. Blue wrapper advertising Sugar Pops sweet treats with a fried cheesecake covered in powder sugar on a stick.Sushi Taco. Cardboard container with a taco shell made of deep fried nori, stuffed with sushi rice and cucumber strips. Topped with fresh tuna and sprinkled with sesame seeds and green onion.Oreo Cookie Korean Dog. Deep fried cheese stick and hot dog on a stick, layered with icing and crushed up Oreo cookie.Tokyo Dog. All beef hot dog covered in teriyaki sauce and mayo, sprinkled with nori and fried onions.
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National Malk Council @farmwisdom.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Idaho is the rest of the PNW’s Wario.
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Reflections, both external and internal, hold a bit of magic to transform how we see the world around us.
An image of a puddle at sunset. The sky and a tree are in focus in the center of the image, with out of focus ground above and below the reflected image
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Got out in the woods the other weekend. The light was low and striking the tops of the trees to create this mesmerizing image for #ForestFriday
Tall green pine trees stretch from the edges of the image towards the center. The tops of the trees are bright with sunlight, while the bases are dark and in shadow. Blue sky with small white clouds scattered to the right side define the background. The image was taken looking straight up in a forest.
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Democrats @democrats.org · 12/05/2026
Today, Trump admitted he doesn't care about Americans' financial situations. Watch our new ad:
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Caught this stunning view a few weeks ago and it has hung in my mind ever since. #MountainMonday
A black and white photo of a snowy mountain peak. Gray sky above, low clouds hug the lower hills in the center right of the photo.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
New Data Management and Sharing Plan format required for NIH grants submitted after May 25, 2026 (so for EI MIRAs due May 27, 2026) 🧪 grants.nih.gov/grants-proce... grants.nih.gov/policy-and-c...
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Data Management and Sharing Plan Format Page | Grants & Funding
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Old... yeah. Got to see them live summer of '95. Not only feels, but was, a lifetime ago.
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Sam stood proudly while Stanley deflated.
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Needed to post this massive torrent for #WaterfallWednesday
A tiny creek flowing over rocks with moss and fern. The long exposure time reveals water streaking from the upper left to middle of the frame. Sunlight in the left corner over-exposes and washes out the fern.
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I second the 293 rec with one caveat, they lift way too easily off a dish and stink for microscopy. Transfection reagents have greatly improved rates in most cell cultures. Check out Mirus Bio: www.mirusbio.com/discovery-re...
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Discovery Research – Mirus Bio
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Black Panther🍁💪🦫🇨🇦 @blackpanther25.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙮📖 'Kakistocracy'
Photo of the worst government in the history of the united states
Definition of Kakistocracy
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Nir Drayman @nirdrayman.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Voting for ASV (American Society for Virology) president ends next week, and I only now learned that @szparalab.bsky.social is in the running! Moriah is one of the most caring people, especially for trainees, in our field, and I can't recommend her enough ❤️
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
A veritable Nostra-dumbass.
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Mark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Students (and scientists) seem to hate saying “I don’t know.” It’s viewed so negatively. But I have long believed that thinking of “I don’t know” as a negative is wrong. It’s an *opportunity*.
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Please tell me someone has written a paper about autophagy titled "Caveat mTOR"
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Why half-ass one job, when one can quarter-ass two jobs at the same time!?
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Always a treat to see Snoqualamie Falls. This photo was taken just before sunset, casting the reddish hue over the scene. #waterfallwednesday
Photo of Snoqualamie Falls in Washington state. Foreground center right a torrent of white water falls into a dark blue pool in the bottom of the frame. To the right green cliff walls rise to meet tall pine trees that extent to the top of the frame. To the left, sheer brown cliff walls rise with the a brown building with white windows on the top.
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
We have hit the middle of February and the temp outside is an outrageous 44˚F (~6.5˚C for you rationale individuals). We have no snow and I am despondent at the lack of winter this year. Come'on East Coast, yer hogging all the snow. Send some to Montana! Photo for inspiration.
A swath of snow with deep shadows fills the foreground. Wind has carved horizontal lines across the snowy yard. A fence frames the background.
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American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Happy 134th birthday to humans knowing that viruses exist! OTD in 1892 Dmitri Ivanovsky presented his evidence of a tobacco mosaic disease caused by filterable agents (not bacteria!). Martinus Beijerinck confirmed this independently in 1898. And voila, virology is born!
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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Colm Atkins, PhD @atkinscolm.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This may seems crass, but what the f' was I smoking. 2026 has been a burning tire dump of a year and we are only one month in.
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Memory is strange like that. I regret not getting a photo of him on this hike and I am so thankful for the photos I do have. Broadly, I realize that I need to take more snapshots of even the most mundane things. You never know when they won't be around.
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This photo doesn't seem like much, but it means the world to me. This was the last hike I ever took with a dear friend who passed away almost 10 months later. It is the only photo of the hike and he isn't even in the frame. But all it takes is one look to remember all that transpired on the hike.
Photo of a dirt trail in the woods. The trail is center of picture foreground with sunlight shining through branches. On either side of the trail, tall mossy trees reach to the top of the frame, casting shadows of the woods on either side.
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Ink Radio @inkradio.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Some songs feel like people you grew up around. Even when they’re gone, the sound still knows their shape.
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Mark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Not the best day today. The solution is for me to create a better tomorrow. It’s up to each of us, after all.
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Natalya Alas ☿ 𓁛𓁿𓁞 ♄ @orphicastrology.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Spent the last few days de-googling my workspace. I should've done this a couple years ago but here we are. Proton for email, drive, calendar, vpn. Brave browser. A friend in cyber security shared this guide for Cutting Google Out of Your Life for anyone who needs it: git.tycrek.com/archive/dego...
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This chamber straight, the cries of distress. On rushing, in a back seat. Jim.
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Aurora was out in Bozeman earlier this evening. I missed the peak and still managed to see some amazing pillars of greens, reds, and purples.
A view of the night sky with stars in the background. The aurora appears as streaks of red to green light through the center of the image. Dark outlines of rooftops and trees are in the bottom foreground.
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
The end of this year is nigh. It has been a tough one, but there have been some significant wins along the way. Don’t give up hope that 2026 is better.
An orange sun sets over a wine-dark sea. Clouds above a lit up, fading from orange to a grey.
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
100% using this in my protocols from here on out!
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Patrick R. Secor @prsecor.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Snowing at the lab today here at Montana State ❄️🦠🧫
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Emma Kate Loveday @doctorloveday.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Front yard in Bozeman. Amazing everytime.
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Northern lights report from Bozeman, MT. So red, easily visible without camera.
Night sky image of the northern lights. Red vertical streaks dominate the upper left, with clouds back-lit by a green glow underneath. Houses frame the bottom of the image.
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
If only the universe would give me a sign to tell me what I need....
Image of a sunset with trees and a shed in the foreground. On the shed is an orange neon sign that says "Beer".
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
This is the fire and truth we need to hear every day.
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National Day Calendar @nationaldaycalendar.com · 27/10/2025
Today we raise a glass to American-made beer — bold, refreshing, and brewed with pride! #NationalAmericanBeerDay www.nationaldaycalendar.com/nationa… #NationalDayCalendar #CelebrateEveryDay
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Thankfully, nothing that was critical was soaked. Some boxes on the floor took the brunt of the damage. I did get to meet the overnight janitorial crew. Lovely people.
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Nothing like a late night call about a leak in the scope room to really change the course of an evening.
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Nice write-up about our work by the MSU news service. I don't remember saying the opening quote.... but sounds like something I would say. www.montana.edu/news/24830/i...
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In new research, Montana State scientists explore how viruses replicate and infect
Matthew Taylor and Gary Dunn examined how different producer cells can result in differences in the viruses they are used to cultivate.
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
What separates freedom of speech from professional conduct? Can’t assume the line is the office or classroom door.
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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Partial Inhibition of Viral Replication Machinery Enhances Recombination in Herpes Simplex Viruses www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Nir Drayman @nirdrayman.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Vincent's new paper, describing the vast heterogeneity in HSV-1 progeny production by individual human keratinocytes, is now on line! (and recieved the Editor's pick). Check it out here: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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HSV-1 progeny production by individual human keratinocytes spans three orders of magnitude | Journal of Virology
Viruses are defined by their ability to take over host cells and turn them into factories that produce new progeny. Recent advances in Biology allowed us to study viral infections at the single-cell l...
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Forgot those emojis! 🧪🦠🔬
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Really excited to share the latest story out of the lab today. the culmination of lots of hard work by the first author, Dr. Gary Dunn. The producer cell type of HSV-1 alters the proteomic contents and infectious capacity of virions | Journal of Virology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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The producer cell type of HSV-1 alters the proteomic contents and infectious capacity of virions | Journal of Virology
Approximately 67% of the human population harbors herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infection. To study HSV-1, laboratories utilize several different cell lines to propagate HSV-1 for downstream exp...
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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 15/08/2025
A simple design framework that will massively improve your slides and your public speaking clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...
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Slide designs that present themselves: The assertion–evidence template
Your slides are not your talk.
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Matt Taylor… @dr-mptaylor.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Expletives enrich the tapestry of language. They are the highlights and shadow that can reflect deeper nuances, emphasis, and effect. Anyone who says otherwise is a fuckin' numpty. Also: www.sciencealert.com/swearing-is-...
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Swearing Is Actually a Sign of More Intelligence - Not Less - Say Scientists
The use of obscene or taboo language - or swearing, as it’s more commonly known - is often seen as a sign that the speaker lacks vocabulary, cannot express themselves in a less offensive way, or even ...
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