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K.T. Elliott

@ktelliottmicro.bsky.social
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bacterial geneticist, associate professor, mom. enjoy: science, dogs, gin, books, vaccines, chocolate, old bay, the US Constitution & Bill of Rights

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Misty @anglobones.bsky.social · 1h
I like to refer to the part of the fast food drive thru between the payment window & the order window as burgatory, thanks so much everybody, I’ll see myself out
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 10h
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 19h
Application review for the GRC in Microbial Population Biology will start October 15th! Please apply before then if you are keen on coming. www.grc.org/microbial-po...
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New Philly voice article on the fight to reopen the Academy of Natural Sciences! www.phillyvoice.com/academy-natu...
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Academy of Natural Sciences is closed, but the fight for the museum continues
A grassroots group is urging Drexel's board to disaffiliate from the institution and calling for a public process to decide its future.
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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Chat let's look forward to something. I'm not doing the bonne maman advent calendar this year, but I still want to open a little present that's nice every day. Please share with me advent calendars that are not exclusively sugar themed that you think I should know about
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 29/09/2026
Our department is trying something new this year. We're using a short form "expression of interest" for grad admissions. You can take a look/learn more about it here: astro.washington.edu/graduate-adm...
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Graduate Admissions | Department of Astronomy | University of Washington
The Department of Astronomy is accepting applications to our graduate program for Fall 2027 admissions.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mom found joy in ice cream, so my family will be eating ice cream today in her honour. I can’t eat it anymore, so if you’re reading this and feel inclined… have an ice cream for my Mom. Hug your loved ones extra tight. Show compassion to others. Make your noise always.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Are you looking for a postdoc exploring the cell biology of development, defining how cells change shape and move? Do you want to develop a research program & teaching skills preparing you for a position at a college or small University? Our new NIH grant will support those goals 1/n Please share
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We're almost out of tickets for this show, so if you wanna go, you better get tickets ASAP (and you should wanna go, it's gonna be a hoot). biodiversitease.eventbrite.com
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🧪 postdoc with a kind PI, folks!
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today's winning Biology All email--in fact this is a contender for best this year
Hi all,

We received a package with no name to GSB 2144 with 80 sheep brains in it. If you are expecting this package, please reach out and we can coordinate the pickup!

Best wishes,
Jenna
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Planning dinner is, for many many many people, about what they have on hand, what they can afford, how work schedules change day-to-day, kids’ complicated schedules, individual preferences. The idea that this just a series of tasks is a huge cultural blindspot — which was my original point.
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please pass along - Our CAMBIUM NSF NRT provides fellowships to support new PhD students at @uarizona.bsky.social To train & prepare a new generation of scientists to harness the revolution in biodiversity big data to adapt to & mitigate the impacts of climate change. cambium.arizona.edu 🧪🌐🌾
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please pass along: I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab. We study physical ecology, macroecology, and biodiversity — spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested 🧪🌐🌾
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was part of that 93.1%. Who else was? Anyone still use one of these bad boys?
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
please not again please not again lol
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State of St. Louis @stateofstlouis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The St. Louis Arch never looked better. Context in ALT text.
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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fucking rad.
“Land is Never a Gateway” by Nicholas Galanin, a Counterpublic installation at the St. Louis riverfront. Picture is of a  forced perspective art installation that makes it appear that the St. Louis Arch is a Native American-style drying rack for a tawed animal hide.
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“I will do it tomorrow,” said Toad. “Today I will take life easy.”
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today was incredible. The fight to save the academy of natural sciences is far from Over
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K.T. Elliott @ktelliottmicro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have had a productive day! - 7 loads laundry - homemade applesauce - chicken parm casserole - apple crisp Now I am waiting for the laundry to fold itself and the dishes to wash themselves because I am DONE
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My dog figured out how to get out of my deadbolted apartment the first week I had her, she’s stubborn as hell and has been exhausting me since 2014
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
From one of our volunteers at the museum today. OOF.
A picture of the closed doors via Academy of natural sciences, where people have stuck dinosaur origami to the doors. The caption says “there are children literally sitting on the steps and crying. Follow savetheacademt and go to the website and get involved”
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 26/09/2026
Science world (and everyone who knows someone with cancer or dementia): Keep an eye on this! It looks like another try at the pocket rescission gambit.
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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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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 25/09/2026
If I get an interview I already know how I’m going to respond with regard to my CV being mostly comics-related work: Comics and aquaria are both about telling stories by putting little things in boxes.
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I hate it so much. This can happen to you too. A year ago, almost everyone doubted this would happen. I had faculty at other schools telling me I was hysterical. (Irony!) Watch for the installation of right wing figureheads without an academic background. Watch for assaults on faculty governance.
BREAKING NEWS
UT cuts all Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies courses from core curriculum
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey @governor.pa.gov , want the easiest win of the year? Wildly popular, good policy, real impact, low cost? Help save the academy of Natural Sciences in Philly. creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st...
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America's oldest natural history museum is closing this week — but not without a fight
The oldest natural history museum in America shuts its doors this month. Here's what we're losing inside (it's big), and why City Hall is fighting back.
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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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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026
I'm of two minds about this information
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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🧪🌏
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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Research Cruise AR103 Thread: Work & Life Onboard Why does the clock say cheese on it? 🧀 every day on the R/V Armstrong we enjoy “cheese thirty” at 2:30pm, when a full charcuterie board is laid out. Phenomenal boat tradition.
A clock with a sticker over 2:30 that reads “cheese”A cutting board covered with assorted cheeses
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Kevin A. Scott, PhD @sculpturatus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
found at ucsf
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
this is my favourite headline today
River home to 500 crocodiles chosen as Olympic rowing venue
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."
bu.edu
New Learning Outcomes Announced | English
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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course.
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K.T. Elliott @ktelliottmicro.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
WTF is pre-AP bio/chem/etc? How and when did the College Board worm its way into my kid's middle school???
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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 17/09/2026
Honestly, it was scary to think about being named. As I sat with the opportunity more, I thought that there aren’t a ton of moments to act and set up a better future for science. We’ve all been through a lot. Even though I’m at a vulnerable stage of my career, I also have relative privilege…
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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/
A book cover featuring a beautiful closely cropped portrait of an Anna's hummingbird. The cover says LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale, by Ed Yong. The image also says US: 4/06/27 and UK: 4/29/27
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Please join me in thanking the named plaintiffs in this lawsuit, including @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social @michaeldgreen.phd & @jddaw.bsky.social These brave scientists are taking on risk to protect science, scientists & beneficiaries of science (all of us). www.aclu.org/press-releas...
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Researchers Challenge NIH Screening of Grants for Disfavored Viewpoints | American Civil Liberties Union
Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research
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Brian Sidlauskas @briansidlauskas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The American Museum of Natural History is searching for a new curator, either in ichthyology or mammalogy. This is an incredible opportunity to work with an exceptional collection and outstanding colleagues. Review of applications begins November 10. careers.amnh.org/postings/4925
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Assistant Curator/Assistant Professor, Vertebrate Zoology
The Division of Vertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) seeks an outstanding tenure-track Assistant Curator/Assistant Professor in either the Department of Ichthyology or M...
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Jeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu · 15/09/2026
Tempted to use AI to write your cover letter or email to a potential employer? RESIST! It is simultaneously obvious, insulting, and renders you totally undifferentiated from the other 80 people being considered t the same time. There has never been a better time to write concisely in your own voice!
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Dr. Sue Ishaq @drsueishaq.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
UMaine Orono seeks an Assistant Professor of Precision & Performance Nutrition!! Must have experience with athletes, a PhD, Credentialed Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN), and obtain a state of Maine Licensed Dietitian (LD). Info: fa-ewca-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Assistant Professor of Precision & Performance Nutrition
The University of Maine is a community of more than 11,900 undergraduate and graduate students, and 2,500 employees located on the Orono campus, the regional campus in Machias, and throughout the stat...
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Andy Pinedo @profandy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Social sciences colleagues working on more critical topics (e.g., inequality, racism, collective action), how are we thinking about advising our PhD students around the NSF GRFP this cycle? Is it work the effort, any sense whether they will receive fair consideration? A lost cause at the moment?
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 16/09/2026
Anyway, episode 5, and Darcy is attired more lightly than he’s ever been dressed. Bingley’s golden retriever energy is SO potent.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 16/09/2026
Pemberley is the true hottie of this story
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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Covid and flu vaccine selfie and reminder to y’all ♥️
Smiling selfie in my car with a red band aid on my left shoulder
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