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Justine Debelius @jwoodelius.bsky.social · 11h

"Let me be the first to congratulate you, Dr X" is such a magical phrase.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Knowledge is NOT politically neutral. The scientific method is a tool for deriving knowledge. So why then, are we telling the arbiters of the scientific method and developers of knowledge to be politically neutral? Are scientists supposed to forsake knowledge for politics sake?

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Everyone say it with me: AI companies are ✨extraction machines at scale✨. They are DESIGNED to sift through a million stupid ideas per second to find the next golden egg they can monetize. And they are destroying our Earth, at scale, to do this.

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Justine Debelius @jwoodelius.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good morning to everyone, especially my ass who is shocked to discover that other people dont build their figure panels to an exact scale to be used as vector graphics. xkcd.com/2501/

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National Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC) @microbiomedata.org · 28/09/2026

The NMDC will be merging its core, high-performing functionalities directly into DOE-BRIDGE. We extend our deepest gratitude to our core team, advisors, ambassadors and champions, DOE BER, and the community 🦠 🌎 Thank you for seven incredible years of collaboration! microbiomedata.org/faqs

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I, personally, have never set my home on fire. Clearly, this indicates I do not have homeowner's insurance. Why would I pay my hard earned money for insurance I never use?

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026

Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/

Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The person who thinks that he has the ability to decide which science to fund out of hundreds of subfields is exactly the person who should not make that decision. There is a reason that expert committees of scientists review and give recommendations for funding. No one person can know all of it.

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Justine Debelius @jwoodelius.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Unpopular journal suggestion: Journals which are primarily online should take a plain text document with limited HTML and some way to treat equations as text and allow me to change the font class (serif/sans serif); background/text color; font size and font spacing to make reading easier.

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Justine Debelius @jwoodelius.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

No. There are so many bigger challenges in scientific publishing right now. Can we please start with publishing tools that can be installed and run before trying to set up code that can be re-run with modified seeds?

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Question for teachers and disability advocates: I've been going through and adding alt text for images in my slides. But I sometimes run into issues where I have an example image where it would take me literally pages of text to fully describe.

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Meredith Rose (from the grave) 👻 @mrose.ink · 16/09/2026

Me, riding 36 hours of hyperfocus: Haha!! I have defeated ADHD!! Suck it, disability! Me, crashing: what the fuck. I was informed I was cured

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Iain Bancarz 🇨🇦 @iainrb.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Put another, another way, that's about 14 million people alive today, or roughly the population of Istanbul. I wonder how many people disbelieve in the existence of Istanbul.

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Put another way: My high school graduating class was about 400 people. Which means that from statistics alone, there's roughly a 50/50 chance at least one of us was something other than XX or XY.

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

That's not most people, obviously, but it's also not that rare. To put that in perspective: people who are neither XX nor XY are more common than people with Multiple Sclerosis. Roughly as common as people with Down syndrome, or people with Parkinson's disease.

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Justine Debelius @jwoodelius.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Someone asked me about mad scientists and unfinished projects If I were an actual comic book mad scientist instead of an occasionally angry academic, there would definitely be a half finished death ray on my table. Along with the 8 manuscripts I really need to finish

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 14/09/2026

OH Scale xkcd.com/3297/

Comic. [Next to a two-story house and some trees is a huge rail (several times the height of the house) with an incomplete huge wheel on top surrounded by scaffolding.] [caption] Due to a typo in the plans, I’ve been building an 87:1 model train set in my yard.

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is absolutely true. Some things are worse than they were 15 years ago. But wow is almost* everything better than it was 40 years ago. * There are exceptions. Climate change, for example. But so many, many things.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It doesn’t matter if you eat organic foods. It doesn’t matter if you exercise regularly. It doesn’t matter if you inject peptides. It doesn’t matter if you have “good genes”. None of these things will prevent you from contracting vaccine-preventable diseases. There is only one thing that will.

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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Amazing new work from the @joeyzacks.bsky.social lab on the impacts of ‘asymptomatic’ carriage of C. Diff in the infant gut: “Early-life colonization with Clostridioides difficile remodels the developing gut” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Early-life colonization with Clostridioides difficile remodels the developing gut

Clostridioides difficile causes severe disease in adults but commonly colonizes infants asymptomatically. The consequences of early-life colonization on host development remain unknown. In a neonatal ...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/09/2026

1. So, at the Worldcon this year there was a person who was going from panel to panel, bothering panelists by trying to get them to "collaborate" with them on a project and sliding the proposed project to them on a piece of paper. Folks, I cannot stress to you how obnoxious this sort of thing is.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Evergreen post for all creative fields.

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Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Sigh.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. Now, two unvaccinated people have died from measles. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.

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Justine Debelius @jwoodelius.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Page by Tamora Pierce. I could never emulate Kel well enough to pull it off, but stoicism for 13 year olds is so powerful. Also because Tamora Pierce was the first author my sister read (she hasn't stopped since).

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I am very serious about citing resources (ZFIN, Flybase, Wormbase, yeast, mouse, rat, human, etc) and asking authors to cite them precisely for this reason: the more we talk about them and cite them in our papers, the better chance we have at justifying why we should increase the budget 🧪

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 19/08/2026

Scientists are making huge breakthroughs using mRNA vaccines to treat melanoma, pancreatic cancer, and other cancers. Meanwhile, RFK Jr has cancelled $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccine research. “Make America Healthy Again”

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Justine Debelius @jwoodelius.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

How do people combine their 16S human microbiome studies and what do they call them? Check out our scoping review in AJE advances. @ajeadvances.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ajeadvances/... TL;DR: Lots of heterogeneity in methods, analysis, reporting: we need field standards (1/7)

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In harmony? A scoping review of methods to combine multiple 16S amplicon datasets

Abstract. Robust evidence on relationships between the human microbiome and health is critical for understanding and improving the human condition. However

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My hot take is there shouldn’t be science influencers. Science is too vast & complicated to have *one person* be an expert on everything. The trap of being The Smart One is a poison. The best science communicators understand the limits of their expertise and defer to others to fill in the gaps.

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I sometimes think about the gender disparities that became apparent among academics amid the COVID Public Health Emergency. Men who weren't caregiving / had lower advising, teaching, and service loads were able to "focus" on research, while women were more likely to see slowed research productivity

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 07/08/2026

When I started The Perry Second Chances Scholarship, I was giving money out of my savings. Now we award $10,000 each which led to Naia graduating with a PhD in Aerospace Engineering & Anna with 2 Bachelor’s in Psychology & Criminology. This is what your donations go to thurmanperryfoundation.org

CONGRATULATIONS ANNA!
We are so froud of you!

CONGRATULATIONS NAIA!
We are so proud af you!

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I'm a full Professor of Immunology and fully vaccinated. I didn't get vaccinated out of obedience, but after decades of studying the immune system and evaluating all evidence. Calling that "lack of critical thinking" is not an argument. It's ideology masked as pretend intellect.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Weird accomplishments; I have an official My Little Pony based on me Deadpool uses my name in the first two movies and spoke at length about Women In Refrigerators I turned down Gene Simmons, Paris Hilton and Bacardi. My name was officially made into Babs Gordon’s middle name. More to come!

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Okay, my QUESTION OF THE DAY is… What is your weirdest actual accomplishment? Not the biggest necessarily…but the weirdest?

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Nicolae Morar @nmorar.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

As Kieran O’Doherty said “this paper pushes the boundaries of inter- and transdisciplinary partnerships. No single author in our team could have done this by themselves – we really did need the expertise and perspectives of all of us to make this work.”

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

4. The figure in a paper is not the figure to show in a talk. In a published article, figures can be really complicated and detailed, because people can sit with them for a long time. You might even get away with that in a poster. You can't in a talk. Simplify.

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Jonathan Jacobs @bioinformer.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

If you’re attending #ASMicrobe today and the #metadata / #microbiome dark matter session - you may be interested in my recent Substack article and preprint on this broad issue across all of #genomics open.substack.com/pub/bioinfor... interested? Send me a DM and let’s chat!

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Metadata as Infrastructure

Genomics data provenance and quality are something we can't ignore anymore

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

“When I assign analysis, (…) I am trying to put the student’s mind through resistance in order to make it stronger. Offloading the struggle to a chatbot does not “free students up for higher-order work.” It deprives them of building the strength to do any substantial cognitive work at all.”

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Doing a linear stretch on these images shows how dramatic the "edits" were, revealing the deception in clear terms. This should be a complete scandal for Thermo Fisher and more people in the biosciences should be talking about it.

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Justine Debelius @jwoodelius.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Obligatory #ASMicrobe selfie. I’m so excited to see what people are doing! Find me if you want an It Depends™️ or QIIME 2 sticker. (As in, “how should I analyze my data?”)

Justine - a white woman with short dark hair wearing a blue mask and a red top. Shes standing in front of a white stone building.

A stack of small rectangular stickers that say, “It Depends TM” in italic calligraphy

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Hannah Reich @hannahgreich.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Packed my sticker stash for #ASMicrobe! Come say hi! I have ~20 of the Phyco (🐆), lab flask & acorn stickers. Low stock of Microbe Girlie Funland (MgFl, ~5). @asm.org

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This is extremely chilling - virologists being targeted for what appears to be minor (if any) "offenses". We all know _why_ this is happening, so I'm not going to belabor that point - but I want to provide some context on the technical details. 🧵 www.science.org/content/arti...

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NIH scientists plead not guilty to smuggling monkeypox viruses into U.S.

Defendants face prison time for criminal charges but samples may all have been inactivated and used for routine diagnostics

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Mark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

While I am at ASM Microbe in DC, I will be handing out #MicrobialCentrism buttons and pins. I am bringing 50 each of the lower pins. And 10 each of the fancy enamel pins on top. Come introduce yourself and you can have one. Please promote #MicrobialPR? @microbe.tv @asmicrobiology

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