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Jennifer Biddle

@jenbiddle.bsky.social
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Taking over the world one microbe at a time. Taking myself not too seriously.

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 22h
As a scientist, I wish everyone knew that getting ‘bogged down’ isn’t actually a bad thing. Here’s why. 🧵 1/
Image of a scientist - me! - waist deep in peat.
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 18h
My sourdough wasn’t breading right during shaping. So focaccia we go!
Focaccia
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404 Media @404media.co · 26/03/2026
NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.
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Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26/07/2024
Me: "I like to dump the dry ice from shipments into the sink and add a bunch of water so it looks like I'm a mad scientist tinkering with forces beyond my understanding, spitting in the face of the gods with my intellectual hubris." Priest: "Okay, again; kind of weird, but not technically a sin"
Don't do this to your plumbing, because it can really mess it up, and this isn't my lab, but it's a sink filled with dry ice that is boiling over with CO2.  A black lab bench with carboy of water next to the sink, and a centrifuge on the bench in fashionable "science beige".

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https://www.reddit.com/r/labrats/comments/xuo2kt/lpt_dump_excess_dry_ice_from_shipments_into_the/
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 20h
#eldercare realities. Dad’s condo got packed today. Of course even with me telling him 5x to pack an overnight bag and put it in his car, I got back from class to find that they had packed ALL of his clothes and he had no PJs or shirts for tonight or tomorrow. 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Made the poor decision to watch "The Love Hypothesis" this weekend and if you have any experience in academic science environments I strongly urge you not to. If the author, as claimed, indeed has a PhD in neuroscience from an accredited university I can only conclude that they wrote it as rage bait
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George O'Toole (he/him/his) @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pls share: Two tenure-track positions in Molecular Microbiology at Virginia Tech. I had a great visit there a couple of years ago! 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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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
WTAF with the plot of the Love hypothesis being a grad student dating a professor. At least they bring up title IX and then completely ignore it. 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Organized a crab dinner for my department tonight. Whew! It went great - food all good and not a leftover went to waste.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Girl dinner
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nooo I have to sell Dad’s condo in a week 😬 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
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Mortgage Rates Hit 7% as Iran War Fallout Crushes a Weak Housing Market (Gift Article)
The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the United States jumped to 7.03 percent, putting pressure on housing affordability.
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#eldercare update: COVID surging thru moms care facility. Move Dad to different facility next week. Learning about irrevocable trusts to protect assets.
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One of our students is facing a medical crisis so I set up a meal train. When I got into the system, it told me I still had access to when @patschloss.bsky.social set one up for @surtlab.bsky.social - and I am reminded that nice people exist!
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
pls note the bats have been carefully depicted HANGING FROM THEIR LITTLE BRANCHES on this radial phylogeny (bats drawn by Fiona Reid, whose portfolio is here --> fionareid.ca)
section of the central bat phylogeny figure from this new bat phylogeny paper; the representative bat from each family is hanging from the taxon label by its little toesies
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Simonetta Gribaldo @sgribaldo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Interested in #archaea, #methane, #cell-envelopes? New paper out @nature.com ! We discovered an enzyme that specifically cleaves the cell wall of methanogens, revealing a new chemical structure of archaeal peptidoglycan, 50 yrs after its first description www.nature.com/articles/s41... #MicroSky 🧵👇
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
[banging on table] FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK www.popsci.com/environment/...
popsci.com
The Fat Bear Week 2026 bracket is here and chunkier than ever
Voting starts September 22 with a final winner crowned on September 29.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We have *six days* left until the Academy of Natural Sciences, North America's oldest Natural History museum, is scheduled to close it's doors. Here are *six reasons* why we cannot - and will not- let that happen.
a slide that says 6 days until the doors close -- 6 reasons we can keep them open, save-the-academy.org @savetheacademy
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So about to move my Dad next week to independent living. So today I called Comcast. WTAF he’s moving 8 miles away. Nothing can transfer. I have to go IN PERSON 20 miles away to pray in supplication to MAYBE save his email address. No guarantee his phone number stays. THIS COMPANY SUCKS SO MUCH.
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
THANK goodness for these grad students. I had to email someone last night when I finished the season!
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Nick Loman @pathogenomenick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Folks - if you're interested in how machine learning/AI can be used for microbial genomics, microbiome and metagenomics studies - please join us for a workshop in Birmingham on Thursday 8th October organised with CLIMB & NVIDIA. www.climb.ac.uk/blog/2026/09...
climb.ac.uk
Call for Applications: GPU-Accelerated Computing for Microbiome and Metagenomic Research · CLIMB
CLIMB is a cloud computing infrastructure for microbial bioinformatics — notebook servers, shared storage and reproducible workflows for genomics, metagenomics and pathogen surveillance researchers ac...
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Congress was not a fan of the reports circulating this weekend that Vought is pushing for a commission to review all NIH grants www.statnews.com/2026/09/21/t...
statnews.com
Members of Congress push back on plan to create a commission of political appointees to review NIH grants
Several members of Congress voiced strong opposition about a reported plan to create a panel of political appointees to sign off on NIH grants
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yes. pmc19.com
Photo of the Sept 21 (most recent) Covid Heat map from the PMC Covid Data Dashboard, showing high levels of COVID in the west, northwest, southwest, south, and parts of the East coast.
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I guess we finally know that momtok won’t survive this. Also finally catching up on S5 - and Jessi says M is gross?! What? He’s all over her instagram today!
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The difference in Delaware is - distance hasn't changed at all, we just have a SHIT TON more people living here and no improvement in infrastructure. My 8 min commute is now 20 min. At least in my 3 hr commute I usually go 160 miles.
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No, you just patiently waited as you warmed your food up in an unplugged toaster 🤦🏻‍♀️ #Monday
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yeah it hit me hard that I had no idea what I was doing - meanwhile my colleagues likely heard about faculty meetings and deans over dinner. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Fingers crossed for pancreatic cancer clinical trials. My brother just started trying to get into one. ☝🏻
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’ve connected with 2 grad students that I can discuss reality television with 🤣 normalize being normal in science. I may go with them for the midnight SJM release too 🤣🤣
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Delaware loves to canoodle with corporations but we also don't put up with this type of bullshit
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Here is a nice mushroom
A big beautiful bear’s head tooth mushroom growing on a perimortuous maple tree. The green undergrowth climbs around it on all sides, and yellow summer sun infuses the woodscape. All photos by me
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 17/09/2026
The Trump admin has decimated American science budgets, taking away life saving opportunities, and the potential for groundbreaking discoveries. This is how you destroy American innovation. apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com
Trump administration has cut or frozen $177 billion in grants across every state, analysis shows
An analysis finds that the Trump administration has cut or frozen up to $177 billion in federal grants since the president took office for his second term.
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
ha! I'm watching old #MicrobialMatters podcasts and @markowenmartin.bsky.social says "Hudson Freeze, that's a super villan name!" youtu.be/UxxiDXxyulg?...
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Matters Microbial #79: How Amoebae Beat the Heat
YouTube video by MicrobeTV
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 16/09/2026
Authors!🚨 While you scramble for scarce $ 🤔 “Springer Nature reports revenue growth of 6.2%..and adjusted operating profit growth of 7.7%. They reported even more stunning submission growth of 30% and published article growth of 13%.” Publishing in society journals helps YOU not them👇🏻. Pass it on.
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Man Lying on a Pile of Money
ALT: Man Lying on a Pile of Money
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/09/2026
Over 100 new cases of measles in Pennsylvania have been reported over the past week, according to the state’s health department. This brings the state’s total to 731 cases in 38 counties for the current outbreak, which started in late April.
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See the latest measles count for the Pennsylvania outbreak
The state’s measles outbreak continues to grow.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/09/2026
Here's the Guardian.
theguardian.com
New lawsuit accuses Trump administration of blocking NIH grants as form of censorship
The administration has used a list of 235 keywords – such as ‘gender’ and ‘racist’ – to prevent topics from being funded
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Mike Sieracki @msier.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
That’s more than the whole NSF budget
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Was the technique there? No!” “Was the effort? Absolutely!” I need to remember that for qualifying exams 🤣
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@phoebefossil.bsky.social congrats!! www.geosociety.org/what-we-do/i...
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The 50 Under 50 Award: Honoring Mid-Career Excellence and Leadership in Geoscience
The 50 Under 50 Award is a joint initiative of the Geological Society of America (GSA), the Geological Association of Canada (GAC-AGC), and the Sociedad Geológica Mexicana (SGM) that honors outstandin...
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Jaap de Roode @jaapderoode.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So excited to share that the Department of Biology @emoryuniversity.bsky.social is hiring an open-rank faculty member in the area of ecology. Happy to answer any questions. Please share! 🧪 apply.interfolio.com/191783
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
University board of trustees should have duty of care and duty of loyalty to operate on behalf of the entire community and at universities, that has typically included a shared governance structure and academic freedom.
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Andy Whitmore @more-whit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Last year, Trytten and a colleague concluded that deep-sea mining is “highly unlikely” to become commercially viable within the next 15 years because of “substantial economic and technological uncertainties.” A 2025 Rand Corp. study came to a similar conclusion" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
The Companies Trying to Cash In on Trump’s Deep-Sea Gold Rush
Entrepreneurs are racing to secure seabed mining permits. Then comes the hard part.
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I talked to a higher up at NOAA last week and he said - one thing I would love to see is the teaching of students how to do science without bending to political pressure - it's a part of ethics that no one usually covers because it was seen as so impossible here.
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A high schooler just asked me to sponsor him to do a research project this year. He’s 4 hrs away from my lab. WTAF? I suggested he look closer to home.
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FelixTCat @felixtcat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The way I explained the suppression of Atlantic hurricane activity to my students is that El Niño chops off the heads of hurricanes by altering global atmospheric circulation, generating strong upper-level westerly winds across the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean.
bbc.co.uk
New hurricane season record as 'historic' El Niño leaves Atlantic eerily quiet
The Atlantic hurricane season has reached its climatological peak, but a strong El Niño means no hurricanes have formed this year.
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Rad O'Brien, Chief Engineer @radobrien.myatproto.social · 07/03/2025
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🤷🏼😕
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