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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In the book she’s testing pancreatic cancer treatments by testing how long a mouse can hold onto the roof of its cage. The science in the movie sounds about right for the source material..

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Read the book and was BAFFLED when the acknowledgments clarified the author has a science PhD. Ok?! So then you know?! So why?!

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Clearly Carney recognises that an unbound Trump, surrounded by sycophants in his administration, is simply too capricious to engage with through the norms of rational diplomacy.” This has impressed me from the start. Carney has never tried to enjoin Trump, he has deftly sidestepped the circus.

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Join us at the "2027 Applied and Environmental GRC: Mechanistic Microbiology for a Complex World" July 18-23, 2027 and GRS "Mechanistic Microbiology Beyond the Model Organism" July 17-18. Applications are open! @thuls.bsky.social and I put together an awesome schedule! www.grc.org/applied-and-...

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2027 Applied and Environmental Microbiology Conference GRC

The 2027 Gordon Research Conference on Applied and Environmental Microbiology will be held in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Apply today to reserve your spot.

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I will always host play dates because having n=3-11 kids in my house is always easier than having the baseline n=2. YMMV, my n=2 are oil and water with each other.

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Max Telford @maxjtelford.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Lovely review of my book 'The Tree of Life'. Thanks @lhug.bsky.social!

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

HugLab (and adopted @nagissa.bsky.social lab) on a boat! Watching the Auckland skyline before #ISME20 kicks off!

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

@maxjtelford.bsky.social forgive me, I couldn't help myself. "It is a confident worm biologist indeed who can afford to be so flippant with two entire domains of life and with the “querulous” scientists (p. 209) who study these exact questions and may be asked to review one’s book."

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

My review of @maxjtelford.bsky.social's "The Tree of Life: Solving Science’s Greatest Puzzle" is out today in The Quarterly Review of Biology. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... In brief, it's great, you should read it. Especially if you like worms.

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Why do they exissssssst

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

A Canadian grocery chain has themed-by-country food suggestions for the World Cup. 🇨🇦: a lot of maple. Maple marshmallows even (why) 🇫🇷: Dijon mustard and pain au chocolat 🇲🇽: lime crema, tortillas 🇺🇸: a cheesecake and three varieties of mayonnaise 😂

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Kid1, (laying out a yoga mat, the uno deck, and the set deck) Mama want to play no rules Uno? Me: what in the CalvinBall is this? Kid1: (brandishing two handwritten pages) here are the rules Me: for no rules UNO?! It involved burpees and I lost…

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Also seconding that the lack of actual heat on the cooktop is great. Oatmeal overboils and you just wipe it up.. nothing bakes onto the surface of the stove

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

We switched earlier this year when our oven died and love it! So fast to boil things and such even controllable heat. We lost one pan - you can stick a magnet to all of your existing cookware bases and if it sticks they are ok for induction!

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tomate 🍅 @jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Never noticed before that the enchantress eternally cursed an entire castle of people because a 14 year old boy was rude to her. #BeautyAndTheBeast #WhatWasSheExpecting

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Ozma @psychicozma.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I'm excited to read it! And would love to know more about the process of deciding to, and then actually writing, a book. (preordered!)

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Jeffrey Marlow @jjmarlow.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Hey guess what - I wrote a book, and it's coming out soon! The Dark Frontier is about the wonders of the deep sea...and the threats they face. Check it out, and if you're so moved, you can preorder from your favorite purveyor of fine literature 📚❤️ www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/652987...

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The Dark Frontier by Jeffrey Marlow: 9780593230183 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

An awe-inspiring investigation into the hidden world of the deep sea—the most mysterious, unforgiving environment on Earth—whose secrets can radically revise our understanding of life itself...

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I'm about a 3, set it all gently aflame. I think it would be difficult to actually fix/harmonize most of the taxonomic errors (polyphylies, etc.) without renaming from bottom to top, and when making exceptions, whose fave gets to win?

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Covers of the 2 leading science journals this week @science.org and @nature.com www.science.org/content/arti... www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

If you manage people, and you don't read @rawsignal.ca's newsletter... well, that's probably fine but you definitely should start. On managing teams when you don't have the relevant expertise: "The tools are getting faster but the core issue was never that you were bullshitting slowly."

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Eowyn 🏳️‍🌈⚧️ @punchupnotdown.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

This is exactly my first thought when is comes to literally *anything* about Greenland. The native Inuit who were colonized by Europe, and who have fought long and hard to regain some level of home rule, deserve better than to have their homeland considered "for sale" by this bullshitter president.

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Sean MacK @stmack.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I've played enough Risk to know that if the US takes Greenland, they're going to want Canada and Mexico next to get the completed continent bonus.

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Magical overnight visitors have a hard cap of one per month, thank you

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

The classic academic urge to write a book… #IDontHaveTimeForThis

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Not youtube, but the podcast Normal Gossip has 90% female guests and is also delightful, and is my current “steady chatter to fall asleep” option

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I’m running a social experiment on my family. This fall, I’ve taken up a new hobby. I’ve mentioned it to everyone at least twice, with appropriately nerdy enthusiasm. Will holiday gifts be overwhelmingly this-hobby-related, or has it not percolated into their view of me yet?

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels. 10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C 20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.

theguardian.com

World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds

Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Not *quite* the attitude I’m looking for..

Worksheet on soil layers with components labeled. Above, in pencil and with messy handwriting is written “I don’t need to hear this because my mom is a microbiologist”

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

New paper from our group - megaphages, compact CRISPR-Cas effectors, and more from landfill phage, led by the talented Dr. Nikhil George (not on bsky). rdcu.be/ePo8o

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Discarded diversity: novel megaphages, auxiliary metabolic genes, and virally encoded CRISPR-Cas systems in landfills

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Two emails this week told me the photos of landfills on my webpage really sparkle. No, no they really don’t. Sparkle seems the word du jour

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Josh Neufeld did with the 3rd year Env Micro and Diversity course I now teach - it had been flipped back before it came my way. Maybe ping him?

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Michael Bazaco @mcbazacophd.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I love kids. I have two of them. They’re amazing. However, kids are the absolute least self aware, clumsiest little puffins on the planet. Please don’t drive tonight unless you have to, and if you do drive, drive super slow and pay 100% attention at all times. Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 💀 #PublicHealth

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

not to brag but i can generate slop with natural intelligence

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

@planetmoney.bsky.social AI hosts in the Trojan Horse episode? Or sound mixing gone overboard? Really hard to listen to Kenny when interspersed with the interviews, then back to “human” for the wrappers, just obviously robotic in some way

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

First two (of five) carved. Now to see if the squirrels eat them before Friday…

Two pumpkins side by side on a deck in sunlight. The left pumpkin is a round orange gourd carved with a confused face. The right pumpkin is a smaller white pumpkin carved with a spooky ghost.

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

“I asked them to, if they have a chance, call me back,” said Thomas Perlmann, secretary-general of the Nobel committee Probably a call that you’d return… www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

If you aren't knowledgable, you are impressionable.

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

“Many young extremists now believe in a much simpler binary: Order and chaos. And if you are spending any time at all trying to derive meaning from violent acts like this then you are, by definition, their enemy.”

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Manufacturers use the same cartridge for tons of tests (pregnancy, flu, etc) and just swap out the paper strip for the right one. But I agree that positive/negative would be better!

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

They’d been exposed for a few days the week prior. They are pro testing, just befuddled

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Walked someone through reading a COVID test correctly after they texted me a pic of a perfectly negative test saying “sorry I can’t come”…. No the C does not stand for COVID. #ItsBeenFiveYears #TwoLinesNotOne

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

If it’s run for profit, then it’s profiting off of … us. When I hear that the post office lost money, I think this: Good. We already paid for it. Why on earth should it make even more money from us? Who would keep the money? Would we see it?

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I can’t stop laughing about the neighbourhood of doom

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

At one point his fire station was on fire.

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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

14 yo nephew is playing Cities Skylines and his mishaps are legendary. He built a neighbourhood that only had subway access to improve ridership He forgot to build a cemetery so the bodies piled up for a while. Later, discovered more piles of bodies - turns out you can’t take corpses on the subway

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/08/2025

The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.

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