iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

New book "A Primer for Experimental Evolution" with coauthors Michael Rose, Margarida Matos, and Joe Graves. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook... A compact primer for students and colleagues interested in planning and designing experiments to address questions in evolutionary biology.

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A Primer for Experimental Evolution

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

It remains very weird to me that in a world of actually useful technology -- photovoltaic power generation, mRNA vaccines, maglev trains, smart phones, etc -- the tech sector has gone so all-in on bullshit generators and plagiarism machines.

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Kyle Card @kylejcard.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I don't understand why groups design plasmids, publish protocol papers centered on their use, and then not deposit them to Addgene. Open, reproducible science should be our North Star, not an afterthought (or worse, never considered at all).

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Kyle Card @kylejcard.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Thrilled to share our paper that just came out in PNAS! We asked a deceptively simple question: What happens when S. aureus adapts to vancomycin, a critical first-line antibiotic? 1/5

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 23/09/2025

🚨 Microbiologists! We are recruiting Assistant / Associate Professors in 3 collaborative areas of our U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine. 1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro 2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute 3) Center for Vaccine Research 🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...

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Faculty Professor Associate - Full-Time | Vaughn Cooper

We are recruiting Faculty microbiologists in three (3) different, complementary, and collaborative areas at the University of Pittsburgh associated with the School of Medicine. 1) Fundamental researc...

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 08/06/2025

Sharing the most significant work from my group, led by the @evolvingstem.bsky.social team. Come for the discoveries of how Pseudomonas adapts in biofilms, stay for the story of how they were discovered by thousands of young scientists in grades 9-12. 🧪🧫🧬🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Student-led experimental evolution reveals novel biofilm regulatory networks underlying adaptations to multiple niches

We established a research-education partnership known as EvolvingSTEM that provides secondary school students the opportunity to conduct authentic research experiments centered on microbial evolution....

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

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NPR @npr.org · 05/05/2025

You and millions of other people rely on the NPR Network for trustworthy journalism. NPR’s editorial integrity and independence are non-negotiable. It’s a promise we make to you – a promise we will fight to keep. Now, we need your support. Donate today: n.pr/3EYClNR

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 02/05/2025

NIH's work saves lives—& Trump is gutting it. Straight from D.C. I headed to Seattle Children's to hear from researchers & patients alike about the importance of NIH funding—it's not just about lines in a budget, it's about lifesaving discoveries. We ALL need to speak up to save it.

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Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Bezos plans to sell ~$4.8 billion of Amazon stock. That's only 2.5% of his holdings in the company. That sale roughly equals the proposed ~50% cut to NSF. IOW, with modest endowment-level growth of Amazon, Bezos could fund the entire NSF shortfall into perpetuity. www.cnbc.com/2025/05/02/j...

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 01/04/2025

Given today's onslaught on HHS, I'm resharing my OpEd in @elife.bsky.social. You are not alone, and you do have an important voice! Many colleagues remain unaware that the foundation of US biomedical research is crumbling under attack. Tell them! Full text 🔗 elifesciences.org/articles/106...

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DocAtCDI @docatcdi.com · 12/03/2025

About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back

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Kyle Card @kylejcard.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

We're standing up for science in Columbus, OH

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 07/03/2025

TODAY IS THE DAY! 🧪☀️⬇️ Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!

Flyer for stand up for science--more information available at www.standupforscience2025.org

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Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Happy 37th birthday to the LTEE! the-ltee.org/history/

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History – The Long-Term Evolution Experiment

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Justin Meyer @justinmeyer.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Happy 37th birthday to @relenski.bsky.social long term evolution experiment. Here's a beautiful summary: the-ltee.org/history/

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History – The Long-Term Evolution Experiment

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Kyle Card @kylejcard.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

How my Monday is going so far: I wanted to speed up permutation test code. So, I parallelized it and looped it 10,000 times but forgot that the original code was already being looped. What should've been 30,000 total permutations turned into (30,000)^2 = 900 million. Classic.

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025

I’ve been seething and grieving since yesterday’s Friday Night Massacre of NIH overheads, a seeming bit of bureaucratic trivial that will in fact destroy the US university system if unchecked. But I want to get away from budgets and rate breakdowns and F&A percentages for a moment. Humor me?

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 08/02/2025

Another assault on US competitiveness at a time when biomedicine is roaring with innovation, an own-goal in a high-stakes international tournament. Of course the real losers are American people needing medicines and cures. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately

The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.

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Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Many of us, and especially early-career scientists, are facing huge challenges now. However, one of the joys of science is to delve into thinking about research. In that spirit, I offer this blog post on starting a microbial evolution experiment. telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2025/02/08/h...

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Interpretation for the non-scientists: When faculty get NIH grants, the University gets some extra cash to make sure the research is supported. NIH just cut that $$ by a LOT. That means Unis are less likely to support research. Most research in the US is done at Unis, so... it's bad 🧪

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 23/01/2025

I am confident that scientific societies will play an unusually important role in the coming years. If you are a microbiologist of any kind, please consider joining @asm.org if you haven't already. There are many ways to get involved, including advocacy. To learn more: asm.org/About-ASM/Vo...

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Volunteer With ASM | Overview

ASM volunteer opportunities range from speaking with legislators about funding research during ASM's annual Hill Day, to writing articles for asm.org, to serving on committees and the Board of Directo...

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 28/01/2025

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

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HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Today we're thrilled to announce our 2024 #HannaGrayFellows! Please join us in welcoming and celebrating these outstanding early career scientists!

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 12/12/2024

With today's report outlining risks on mirror life www.science.org/doi/full/10.... many have asked: Could mirror life survive in the wild? Yes. While mirror life in the wild could have some significant disadvantages (like finding food it can digest), they do not appear to be insurmountable: 🧵

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Confronting risks of mirror life

Broad discussion is needed to chart a path forward.

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