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Martin Hoyt

@martinhoyt.bsky.social

178 followers 357 following 33 posts

Mostly molecular biology, microbes, music, and baseball

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Martin Hoyt @martinhoyt.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

“The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out” - Tolkien

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 07/03/2026

FIRE RFK JR

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

David Botstein, a titan within the scientific community, died last week. GSA mourns his passing and celebrates his legacy. Read more about his significance to our community in this thread ⬇️🧵

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪 From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

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Martin Hoyt @martinhoyt.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Bacterial defense systems are fascinating and their characterization has led to to the development of new genetic engineering tools. This is a nice summary of new research.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Just as our bodies have evolved to defend us against bacterial and viral pathogens, bacteria face the same challenges. They must deter their own viruses, chemically compete with other microbes, and deal with challenges from eukaryotic hosts 1/n 🧪

Cartoon microbe with boxing gloves defending itself against other microbes Adobestock: 299822964

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Martin Hoyt @martinhoyt.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Love this. The universe is amazing vast and beautiful.

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Martin Hoyt @martinhoyt.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

The National Institutes of Health websites are all down at the moment.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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NPR @npr.org · 31/01/2025

BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.

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Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies

Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Naval officer, hero, peanut farmer, dad, husband, President, humanitarian who has built homes for the homeless and almost eradicated Guinea worm, a peacemaker, a brilliant and good man. 🙏🏽

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Sadly, it’s a good time to once again share this amazing infographic that we ran at @science.org more than 7 years ago 🧪 #IDsky www.science.org/content/arti...

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Here's the visual proof of why vaccines do more good than harm

See year by year how vaccines beat back nine dangerous infectious diseases

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Martin Hoyt @martinhoyt.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

This is fantastic work and a really interesting finding.

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Martin Hoyt @martinhoyt.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

Post an album that has emotionally damaged/healed you

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Martin Hoyt @martinhoyt.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

This is a nice, concise description of a classic experiment.

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Martin Hoyt @martinhoyt.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

This is a great thread explaining the theory underlying a recent Nature paper on Assembly Theory and evolution that’s been getting a lot of discussion.

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Martin Hoyt @martinhoyt.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

One of the things I did for my new venture was to buy some reference texts.

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Martin Hoyt @martinhoyt.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

I left my position at a biotech company to do something new, so I’m heartened to see so many science folks on here. Likewise for some people I followed at the other place to keep with new and interesting music.

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