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Saria McKeithen-Mead, PhD @sciria.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Pleased to share my first preprint from my postdoc, where I ask what drives mobile DNA movement between bacterial cells in complex communities like the gut microbiome. To answer this, we built a way to capture mobile DNA in the act of moving between cells, using short-read metagenomics. 🧵

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Stephen Royle @steveroyle.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A post about how to make microscopy images as accessible as possible. quantixed.org/2026/07/21/c...

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Colorblind II: Microscopy images and colour blindness – quantixed

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Hey @rbreich.bsky.social it’s not flying under our radar! This impacts ALL DISCRETIONARY FED FUNDS…by the @standupforscience.net team’s estimate: $1.5 TRILLION annually. That’s a big ass slush fund. Folks can take action here: fight2win.standupforscience.net

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

If you are a scientist or someone who values current peer-reviewed science in the US, PLEASE read this guide and post a comment 🧪

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Jane Coffin Childs Fund for Medical Research @jcchildsfund.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Jane Coffin Childs Fellow Dr. Marlis Denk-Lobnig studies bacterial neighborhoods. Bacteria usually live in tight communities, where they interact all the time. These communities are diverse, comprised of antibiotic resistant and antibiotic sensitive community members. @marlis.bsky.social 1/

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Several people have asked for possible content and structure for comments regarding the proposed OMB regulations. With some suggestions from others, I have posted on example (as a Word document) for downloading). jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... I hope this is helpful.

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Matthew Bunn @matthew-bunn.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

If you’re interested in sound advice guiding science funding decisions, please sign.

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Marlis Denk-Lobnig @marlis.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions while teaching/discussing this with your kids/students/friends!

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Marlis Denk-Lobnig @marlis.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

It was an amazing experience to work with the editors at the Science Journal for Kids, to see how they crystallized our findings and ideas into accessible explanations and illustrations! I would absolutely recommend working with them if you have a paper you want to share with a broad audience.

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Marlis Denk-Lobnig @marlis.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Interested in teaching your kids or students about bacteria and how they interact to collectively respond to antibiotics? The @sj4k.bsky.social worked with us to adapt our recent paper into an article to help teens think about social interactions in bacterial communities:

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How do bacteria protect each other from antibiotics? - Science Journal for Kids and Teens

Researchers show how bacteria living close together form patterns, share protection, and respond to antibiotics in surprising ways.

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Jacob Moran @jacobmoran.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Excited to share our new preprint! In honor of May the 4th: a story about bacterial Clone Wars in space! Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Jane Coffin Childs Fund for Medical Research @jcchildsfund.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Our last session of research talks by 3rd year Fellows is focused on microbiology and immunology. Marlis Denk-Lobnig discussed her research on microbial social relationships. Microscopy images from Denk-Lobnig and Wood, 2025 @pnas.org 1/3

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Yannis Ntekas @ntekasi.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Our work with Lena Takayasu and @dwmckellar.bsky.social in Iwijn De Vlaminck's lab is now out in @natmicrobiol.nature.com ! 🎉 Spatial transcriptomics maps host–gut microbiome biogeography at high resolution rdcu.be/e7i7o

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Skype a Scientist @skypeascientist.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Science + Art appreciators, we need your help! We're working with the E. Kensington Neighbors Assn & H.A Brown school to create a community-driven mural on the biodiversity of our Philly neighborhood! We need your help to fund this project givebutter.com/KenzoMural Here's why this is important ⬇️

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H.A. Brown Elementary School Mural

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Nat Clarke @natclarke.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Interested in cell adhesion, evolution of multicellularity, or developing tools for emerging marine models? My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open: 🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!

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Post Doctoral Associate - Biology

Current Employees: If you are a current Staff, Faculty or Temporary employee at the University of Miami, please click here to log in to Workday to use the internal application process. To learn how to...

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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 18/11/2025

With ICE activity ramping up across the country, it is helpful to include as much info as possible when sharing within your community. S.A.L.U.T.E. Size/Strength Actions/Activity Location & Direction Uniform/Clothes Time & Date of Observation Equipment & Weapons #SALUTEICE 🖕

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When reporting or signal boosting potential threats: provide as much information as possible!
S.A.L.U.T.E.
* Size/Strength
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* Actions/Activity
> "Harassing random people on the move"
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* Location & Direction
> "Manhattan, East of Central Park, E 97th St"
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* Uniform/Clothes
> "Dark Jackets, ballcaps"
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* Time & Date of Observation
> "8:32 PM June 01"
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* Equipment & Weapons
> "They have Body Armor and Pepper spray"
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Not a useful tweet: "proudboys spotted"
"Where? When? What are they doing? How Many? What are they carrying?"
Would you like me to summarize what the S.A.L.U.T.E. acronym stands for?

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Tim Mosca (he/him) @drosophilosophy.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Please please please, if you are able, consider supporting Flybase fiscally. They need our help! I donated this evening. They are in danger of closing and any amount will help. We cannot allow this critical pillar of science to collapse!

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

We need about 300 more scientists before we let teachers loose on the database! Tell your colleagues, we need ya!

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Marlis Denk-Lobnig @marlis.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

#NearbyNature2025 June drawing, because I almost tripped over a skunk last night in my neighborhood🦨

Charcoal sketch of a skunk standing in grass

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

🧪 Attention those with terminated grants, including for NSF, NASA, EPA, NIH, etc: Let Congress know about the impact of terminations via this form: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela... Only Dem staff on the House Science Committee will have access (unless if you explicitly state otherwise).

How many trainees were supported by your award?
Enter your answer
14.What was the reason given for your grant’s cancelation?
Enter your answer
15.Is there anything else you would like to share with the Committee?
Enter your answer
16.Are you comfortable with the Committee publicly sharing the information you provided?
If you select “ask me first,” please be sure you have provided an email address or phone number.

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Marlis Denk-Lobnig @marlis.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

#NearbyNature2025 tried to draw a silly (creepy?) firefly for May

Color pencil drawing of the stomach side of a fire fly with a silly face

Photo taking through the window of the stomach side of a firefly sitting on the glass and looking in

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

🚨 Action alert: Two days left!! Help protect NSF/NIH from political interference. 👎 A new rule (Sched. F) would allow for replacing career program officers with political appointees. ➡️ Action: Object here by THIS FRIDAY. Comments can be brief and/or anonymous. Helps future litigation.

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Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduc...

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

As a part of the @standupforscience.bsky.social Summer Fight for Science campaign, we want to host 1000 teach ins across the US between now and Sept 30th. Yeah, it’s a big, hairy, audacious goal. I know. Here is a running list of ideas, please scoop and do! 🧵🪡

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Jane Coffin Childs Fund for Medical Research @jcchildsfund.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

As our intestinal microbiomes chew away at our lunch, Dr. Marlis Denk-Lobnig @marlis.bsky.social from Dr. Kevin Wood's lab at the University of Michigan tells us about bacterial communities and their social lives. These relationships are quite important in acquired drug resistance, for example. 26/

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

This is why I think it's so important and powerful for faculty and staff and leaders of colleges and universities to stand up for our work, our values, our students, and ultimately our democracy. Faculty can do a lot: 1) write a campus letter to your leaders bit.ly/CampusLetters2025 2) (cont.)

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Time to throw up a bat signal for a specific skillset for @skypeascientist.bsky.social We have a classroom that is looking for a scientist who can do a session with them in ASL. Do we know any scientists who would be willing to do a Q&A with a deaf classroom in ASL?

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Jordan Meier @doc-jlmeier.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Great news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost. www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Another day, more news of colleagues whose research grants have been terminated. I work in public health; these aren't studies that can just be paused and resumed where they were. These things affect people's lives and well-being, in a fairly proximal way.

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Marlis Denk-Lobnig @marlis.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Mentoring REU students has been one of my favorite aspects of being a postdoc. This is so sad and unjustifiable.

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The next deadline for the JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants is Friday 7 March 2025. These grants are open to ECRs that otherwise wouldn’t have sufficient funding to attend a microscopy or bioimage analysis course to support their research in cell biology. www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...

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Marlis Denk-Lobnig @marlis.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This project was a close collaboration with my postdoc mentor Kevin Wood and wouldn't have been possible without his mentorship, creativity and scientific genius. It's bittersweet that we don't get to celebrate this paper together, but I will forever be grateful for getting to do science with him.

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Marlis Denk-Lobnig @marlis.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

You can also find one of our colonies on the cover of the current issue of PNAS: www.pnas.org/toc/pnas/122/7

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Marlis Denk-Lobnig @marlis.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

We used modeling and experiments to show that local competition and cooperation with dynamic length scales lead to complex population dynamics and diverse spatial arrangements in the colony homeland.

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Marlis Denk-Lobnig @marlis.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Exciting to see this story out! We explored how cooperation (antibiotic-resistant bacteria protect their antibiotic-sensitive neighbors by degrading the antibiotic) drives spatial organization of E. faecalis colonies (a bacterium that causes many antibiotic-resistant, hospital-acquired infections)

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Department of Education FAFSA changes are open for public comment. The changes include requiring trans students to misgender themselves and removes the nonbinary option on forms. Note: comment period is 60 days, and comments are publicly visible. Form here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Education published the information collection for the 2026-27 Free Application for Federal Student Aid ( FAFSA®) form in the Federal Register, the first public step in the FAFSA development process. The Department is on track to launch the 2026-27 FAFSA by Oct. 1, 2025 as mandated by the FAFSA Deadline Act.

The Department also announced that current and future FAFSA forms will rightfully reflect the biological reality that there are only two sexes: male and female. Department officials will remove “nonbinary” as a gender identification option from the current year’s FAFSA form.

“The Trump Administration will correct the failures of the last Administration and ensure students and families can easily access the FAFSA form in a timely manner,” said Acting Under Secretary James Bergeron. “Resolving ongoing problems with the 2024-25 form, reflecting biological reality by referencing sex identifiers, and beginning the process for the 2026-27 form on-time will allow the Department to earn back the trust of the American people. Families and students depend on the FAFSA form to plan their futures, and any release delays or unnecessary politicization of the form is wholly unacceptable.”

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Marlis Denk-Lobnig @marlis.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

A tufted titmouse for February's #NearbyNature2025, because I recently learned about them when I saw one in my backyard in Michigan.

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Sri Narasimhan @snarasimhan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

A new issue of Cell is out, featuring the 4 winners of the Rising Black Scientists Awards. Their essays bring hope, inspiration and reinforce the importance of equity in science. Do take a moment to check them out: www.cell.com/cell/current @cp-cell.bsky.social

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Jennifer Goff, PhD @jlgoff.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Other articles that are now deleted: Black Women in Microbiology: web.archive.org/web/20241210... Ruth E. Moore: web.archive.org/web/20240719... Women in the History of Antimicrobial Development (Jane Hinton, Ruth E. Moore, Mattiedna Johnson): web.archive.org/web/20250114...

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Iconic Black Women in the History of Microbiology Research | ASM.org

Recognize the ground-breaking achievements of Black women researchers by exploring highlights of their contributions in the history of microbiology.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Reminder! Science IRL mini-grant applications are due February 14! These grants are to support IN PERSON science communication projects in the US that reach science disinterested people, and ideally encourage concrete action in the audience. Apply here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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SCIENCE IRL: Community SciComm mini-grant

Skype a Scientist is offering $300-$1,000 mini-grants to support boots-on-the-ground science communication. The Science IRL mini-grants will support projects that put either 1) important science mess...

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