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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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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 14h
Live look in to your university’s administration
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Mr Bean Listening: Funny Ear Plugs
Alt: Mr Bean Listening: Funny Ear Plugs
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 15h
Our department has collected $750 in doordash gift cards and has already filled 3 weeks of a meal train schedule for our ill student. My heart is full, hopefully so is their belly.
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
bobcat in a box
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s a quintessential French experience when your institution is blockaded by protesting students. This is precisely what American students should have done when their institutions began capitulating to the Trump regime.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In the last couple of years, we've seen multiple critical collections (museums, herbaria) close. The IUCN--the global authority on the status of biodiversity--recently published on how important these kinds of facilities are in conservation. Every day, the dead are working to protect the living.
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From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums
The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,...
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Maitreya Dunham @maitreya.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Here's the ad for the Genome Sciences faculty positions ap.washington.edu/ahr/position...
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Position Details - Academic Personnel & Faculty
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Ryan O’Connell @ryanoconnell79.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
File this one under: Pretty Bad Ass. Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Nathaniel Rateliff, Tom Morello & company at Power on the People last night, ripping “Fortunate Son.”
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The problem with the lack of an algorithm is that we are going to keep seeing people independently discover this trash of a movie.
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Worst plot ever. Traumatic even.
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just day drank with the grad students. We were all at a 5K fundraiser and I had already grabbed a table to manage food and beer and told them to join my friends so they could do the same. Gotta look out the kids, right? Gave one of them my wristband for more beer.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Do yourself a favor. Read these 7 pages by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social right now. It is the most concise explanation of the current situation in U.S. politics I've seen and it captures why calls to reduce "polarization" can ultimately worsen the problem 🧵 www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/pol...
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Polarization Is Not the Problem | Journal of Democracy
Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress.
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Some concerns - the changes to reporting and demand for openness seem good - however they make it VERY hard to protect privacy. We’ve already had lots of convos about how to comply and not provide info to feed trolls.
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Jen Herman 🌪️ @jukebarosh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I see one positive change. At present, changes to IBC permit (eg. addition of BSL1 organism or even protein expression plasmid) requires the full IBC meet (which only happens monthly here). This change would allow one or a subset of IBC members to approve certain changes.
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DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hey Microbiology folks, 🦠🧫 Have thoughts about the new NIH Policy For Research Involving Biohazards? They are accepting comments! grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-26-112: Request for Comment: Draft NIH Biosafety Policy for Research Involving Biohazards
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Comment: Draft NIH Biosafety Policy for Research Involving Biohazards NOT-OD-26-112. NIH
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you get NIH funds at your institution, you will HAVE to comply with these policies. AND these policies will drive ALL of your institutions biosafety policies, even if you aren't getting NIH funding - so if your work touches biology in any way - MAKE COMMENTS ASAP #microsky 🦠
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One big change proposed - direct PI reporting to FEDERAL level BEFORE reporting to institution. No rules for plants? Nearly impossible rules for institutional biosafety officers. Comment before it's final!!!
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hey Biologists : Have you made any comments on the NIH Biosafety Policy for Biohazards? Because some of the changes are REDONKULOUS - and there are only 40 comments on file - Submit comments by Oct 19! osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form.... 🦠 #microsky
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Comment Form: Draft NIH Biosafety Policy for Research Involving Biohazards
Request for Information: Draft NIH Biosafety Policy for Research Involving Biohazards
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Archaea Biology Vienna @archaea-vienna.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Our paper on the dynamics of Asgard archaea (Promethearchaeota) is now out in Nature! Huge thanks to the reviewers for helping make the manuscript stronger. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Two “Lokis” stained for Lokiactin (FastAct, magenta), reaching toward each other to celebrate 🎉 #archaea
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Jonathan Jacobs @bioinformer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ATCC Genome Portal Q3 2026 Release out Monday! genomes.atcc.org previews... New genome assemblies: 207 bacterial, 24 fungal, 15 viral. Plus new RNAseq datasets for 51 human cell lines and organoids (255 total samples, typically N=5 per line) #genomics #bioinformatics #aixbio #referencedata #NGS
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I dunno I say you get priority. A girls gotta sleep!!! It is a struggle though. Why do out hormones shift us to 4am wake up’s just when theirs lets them be up all night?!?!
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I also suffer from this. I’m so sorry it’s happening to you too but I will say - installing a kill switch on WiFi solved a lot of issues. School nights it’s off by 9:30. Otherwise he would never sleep. Sent at 4:30am from a perimenopause wake up.
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ooof.
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
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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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So we unpacked a little. And I found a stepstool my son made in cub scouts in 2020 and took it back (dad didn’t want it).
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#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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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it was one of the few instances where I missed the algorithm of the bad place, because I think I would have gone viral.
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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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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I watched it Friday night and rage posted about it. Like wtaf, multiple editors/writers/producers had to approve that shit. I agree with rage bait.
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
love interest was changed to a postdoc instead of a professor it'd have been MUCH more OK!
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In the movie she's working on pancreatic cancer testing by blood biomarkers. Then she has like one random mouse on her benchtop. The idea that the author has a PhD is ughhhh. I mean surely many editors/producers/etc approved this and NO ONE thought to modify the plot line? I mean EVEN if the
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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
There were about 8 lawsuits represented in that plot.
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Y’all this movie suggests that not only does the main character get a faculty job at her grad school but that her BFF AND her criminally negligent professor boyfriend are also there. Thank goodness this is over. Do not watch. Save yourself.
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why does she look like Whitney from Mormon wives
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
THIS IS SO BAD
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Who washes glassware in a bathroom?!?!
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This girl shouts “we did it” to a SINGLE MOUSE ON HER BENCHTOP? WTAF. WTAF. Oh and the sole female professor has to pick up the pieces for her immoral male colleagues to save the female grad student. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh no. Dr Harvard meets at her hotel room?! OH JESUS THE PLOT GETS WORSE. NO ONE IN THIS MOVIE HAS A FUCKING MORAL COMPASS.
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sorry you’re getting meta exposure. The cat still hasn’t moved.
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨🚨 LAWSUIT WORTHY SCENE. 🚨🚨🚨🚨
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yall Off campus is a much much better fake dating story.
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One possible female professor at the conference. ✅ Omg HE SAYS NO ONE TEACHES YOU HOW TO BE A MENTOR. FALSE - I train on mentorship you moral lacking fucktard. He claims his mentor was a sadist. Yo those of us who had that situation usually are much nicer.
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
YOU DO NOT SHOW UP TO A MAJOR CROSS COUNTRY CONFERENCE AN HOUR BEFORE YOUR TALK. I mean I did once but my flight was super delayed. Ooh she’s getting accused of having a talk only because she is dating the keynote speaker. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Dude we would be saying much worse than that.
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
OMG AUTHOR DO NOT DO THE ONE BED TROPE. The professor just said “we’re adults”. Yo. Adults WHO DID NO TITLE IX OR ETHICS TRAINING.
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