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Anne Estes

@mostlymicrobes.bsky.social
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#scimom #scicomm sharing stories of our #microbe world. Associate Professor @TowsonU! @microbialTowson @craftymicrobiology #microbiome #microbiology #GirlScoutAlum www.mostlymicrobes.com mostlymicrobes.redbubble.com

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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Anne Estes @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
New sticker alert during 40% off sale @ Red Bubble! www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1826... I can't help but ruminate on the incredibly diverse microbial community that lives in the stomachs of ruminants! Without the plant fiber degrading enzymes from microbes, ruminants can't digest their food. 🧪🦠🔬🧫 🐐🐮🐏
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Ruminating about Microbes by MostlyMicrobes | Redbubble
Cows, sheep, and goats are ruminants. They have an incredibly diverse microbial community that lives in their stomach called a rumen. The bacteria, archaea, fungi, and protists have special enzymes th...
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Happy birthday to #botanist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), 🧪👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher and mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, the first Indigenous Hawaiian woman to earn a doctorate in science and the first woman or person of colour to become 🧵

My linocut portrait of Isabella Aiona Abbott in indigo on cream coloured paper. She’s facing forward at a table in a shirt and sweater vest with a sheet with algae samples on the table. In my print, she is surrounded by algae of the Pacific, all of which appeared in Abbott's research publications, including several species she discovered, or based on images of specimen she personally collected or whose traditional use as food she documented. The algae are in pinks, khaki green and rust.
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Anne Estes @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Towson University Dept Biological Sciences is hiring! Full time,tenure track,9-month Assistant Professor of Cell/Molecular Biology/Microbiology. Will teach undergraduate lecture/lab courses in Introduction to Cell/Molecular Biology, Genetics, and/or Microbiology. towson.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Assistant Professor – Cell/Molecular Biology
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Anne Estes @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Towson University Dept Biological Sciences is hiring! Full-time, tenure track, 9-month Assistant Professor - plant or algal biology, lichenology, or mycology. Preferred start date is August 2027. More information: : towson.taleo.net/careersectio... 🧪🦠🔬
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Reminder — UW #Microbiology has an open search for an Assistant Professor, focusing on fundamental problems in #bacteriology! If you or someone you know would be suitable, here's the ad: apply.interfolio.com/185622
Screenshot of the job listing linked in full above
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Anne Estes @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Excellent talk today by @berondam.bsky.social at Towson Univ! I've always been inspired by her #lessonsfromplants and #lessonsfrommicrobes. Appreciate her message that environment matters for mentoring at all career stages.
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Anne Estes @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Here's hoping that #MarylandDay goes well for the UMD Microbiome Center as they are giving out our silly stickers!
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Nicola Low @nicolamlow.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
🧪 #measles #vaccination Thanks for posting this @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social 😢 This is a gift link, free to read, in case some people can’t read the whole thing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
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Opinion | When Your Child Dies of Measles
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Patrick McCann @pjmccann3.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The misogyny of the Trump administration is palpable… #MedSky 🧪
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A. Murat Eren (Meren) @merenbey.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
How every layer of science's "self-correcting machinery" failed when Iva Veseli and I simply wanted to reproduce the findings of a high-profile study on gut microbiome and autism: merenlab.org/2026/04/15/u...
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Unfalsifiable by Design: A Year of Trying and Failing to Reproduce a Human Microbiome and Autism Study
The myth of open data, reproducibility, responsibility, and accountability in science, and your role in it
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Martin Modrák @modrakm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
New paper: Some things to consider when you want to use old samples of flowers from herbaria to make inferences about changes in flowering onset over time (or similar). Had a blast building some Bayesian models for this. Thx David and Daniel for letting me help doi.org/10.1111/nph.... 1/2
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Unified theory resolves phenological paradoxes in biocollection data by modeling phenophase duration during Bayesian inference
Phenology is increasingly studied using digitized biocollection data, yet no general theory links observed specimen collection dates to the unobserved processes governing phenological events. We der.....
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Springer Nature @springernature.com · 20/04/2026
#OnThisDay in 1862, Louis Pasteur demonstrated that gently heating liquids could prevent spoilage! This experiment laid the foundation for pasteurization, a process that transformed food safety and continues to protect public health today. 🧪
An image split between a monochrome vintage photo and dark teal text. The photo shows a man in a lab coat working with scientific equipment. The text reads "Did You Know? Pasteur originally developed pasteurization to protect wine and beer from spoiling. Its later use for milk dramatically reduced foodborne illness and quietly reshaped everyday life worldwide."
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Anne Estes @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Tonight's @asm.org MD Branch meeting - Rodney Rohde talking about reemerging pathogens
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Little migrating songbirds are performing one of the most stunning behaviors on the planet-- some are flying from Brazil to Canada, overnight. When they stop to rest they are exhausted and vulnerable. Protect them by keeping cats inside! It helps cats too! abcbirds.org/solutions/ke...
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Keep Cats Indoors - American Bird Conservancy
Outdoor cats kill up an estimated 2.4 billion birds in the U.S. each year. Discover how American Bird Conservancy is reducing the threat of roaming and stray cats through our Cats Indoors program.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death
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Anne Estes @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
God bless Bruce
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Have you developed a new #bioinformatics tool to understand #phage or #virus? Make sure you add it to #awesome-virome github.com/shandley/awe...
The awesome virome logo of a phage above a strand of DNA
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Mark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
On schedule now for #MattersMicrobial: podcast releases every other Tuesday. This week, Dr. Nahui Medina-Chavez (of the Michael Travisano lab) joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss halophilic archaea and evolution in the lab. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord?? youtu.be/oz04oGDiRY0?...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Why do we live in such a childish, stupid country? A country that wastes its money on useless billion dollar aircraft carriers, when it could be spending those tax dollars to actually help its citizens like sane countries.
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
"The greatest danger to our future is apathy." -- Jane Goodall, born #OTD 1934
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Dr. Leila Denmark co-developed the pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine in 1932. She was the world's oldest practicing pediatrician until she retired at age 103 (practicing for 73 years). She died a supercentenarian #OTD in 2012 at the age of 114 years and 60 days. #WomenInSTEM
A black-and-white photo shows Dr. Leila Denmark (center), an elderly woman with glasses, seated and smiling while looking at a baby who is laughing and facing her. Another younger woman is also seated to the right, laughing and placing her hand near the baby's midsection. The scene suggests a warm, inter-generational interaction, possibly in a clinical or home setting. Dr. Denmark was a pioneering pediatrician, known as the world's oldest practicing pediatrician upon her retirement at age 103.
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Anne Estes @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
To get my kids to brush their teeth I tell them about bacterial biofilms. Within biofilms, each bacterial species has a "job". Streptococcus oralis & friends hold on to the tooth. S. mutans (top left) makes acid that causes cavities. Brushing removes S. oralis, so S. mutans can't grow! 🧪🪥🦷🦠🍎
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Anne Estes @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
In Gen Micro we "swab something". I encourage students to swab 👟b/c the diversity is fabulous! Here's a sticker dedicated to all the diversity we find on our plates. 🍎🦠🧪As a mom-scientist it's the diversity of things that is sometimes a bit much! At my RedBubble site: mostlymicrobes.redbubble.com
Sticker with a diversity of bacterial colonies on a petri dish. The sticker reads " I've got a lot on my plate!".
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Anne Estes @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
New Book Review up! Breaking Through: My Life In Science by Katalin Kariko. An inspirational story of an unconventional scientist who created the COVID19 mRNA vaccine. For anyone who doesn't fit into the status quo. @asm.org 🦠🧪🍎https://www.mostlymicrobes.com/brbreaking_through/
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Anne Estes @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I always tell my students that bacteria are bad at math - they multiply to divide. *groan*. This and other silly stickers about serious science are up on my RedBubble site. mostlymicrobes.redbubble.com. Need bulk orders for #scicomm? LMK. #stickers 🧪🦠🍎
Cartoon of a bacterial growth curve with bacteria "multiplying by dividing" underneath the growth curve
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Anne Estes @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
@markowenmartin.bsky.social thanks so much for the dung beetle and brood ball kits!! You are too kind. The girls and I will have a ton of fun.
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Microbetv @microbetv.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
How Bacteria Die in the Microbial Marine Forest Dr. Anne Thompson explores her research on salps, some of the most abundant animals in the ocean, and how their feeding mechanisms shape marine microbial food webs and carbon cycles. @markowenmartin.bsky.social
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Dr. Marissa Civic @stemfactually.com · 08/02/2026
5/6 For anyone worried about synthetic vs "natural" compounds, synthetics are often purer, more stable, & engineered to be more effective and SAFER than "natural" compounds. So do what's right for your baby, get them the vitamin K they need, prevent VKDB, and avoid risk of fatal brain bleeds. 🍎⚛️🧪🧬👩‍🔬🥽
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Dr. Marissa Civic @stemfactually.com · 08/02/2026
6/6 here's a helpful resource: Oh and talk to your doctor about the hepatitis B vaccine for your baby as well. The fact I had to sign a waiver in order to get the vaccine for my baby because of the current misinformation is sad. 🥽👩‍🔬🧬🧪⚛️🍎 health.ucdavis.edu/blog/cultiva...
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Facts and myths parents should know about vitamin K shots for newborns | Cultivating Health
Vitamin K shots are part of routine care for newborns. However, there are many myths about vitamin K injections. Our experts give you the facts about this potentially life-saving vaccine.
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Ben Vezina @bananabenana.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
This is the sort of strategic planning that should go into #vaccine design 💉 They analysed 1,930 #Klebsiella pneumoniae 🦠🧫🧬 neonate blood isolates from 13 countries and estimate that 20 antigens 🧪 could cover 72.9% of all infections for 5–10 years #IDSky #EpiSky journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...
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Distribution of capsule and O types in Klebsiella pneumoniae causing neonatal sepsis in Africa and South Asia: A meta-analysis of genome-predicted serotype prevalence to inform potential vaccine cover...
Thomas Stanton and colleagues use whole genome sequencing to evaluate the prevalence of Klebsiella pneumoniae K and O antigen types in 13 countries in Africa and South Asia to help inform vaccine desi...
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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
A rescue puppy is to become one of only a handful of dogs in the world able to detect a multi-drug resistant lung infection. Chilli is being trained to identify the scent of pseudomonas aeruginosa, a major cause of lung damage in cystic fibrosis. 🧪🐕🦠 @medsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Battersea rescue dog trained to detect lung infection
Chilli will be able to identify the scent of pseudomonas aeruginosa in people with cystic fibrosis.
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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 27/01/2026
Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...
A bearded man in nurse's scrubs offers aid to Justice, wearing a blindfold and holding a sword and scales, who has fallen to her knees.
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Microbiome Virtual International Forum @microbiomevif.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Join #MVIF 46 cassyni.com/s/mvif-46 and #MeetTheSpeakers @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social will discuss isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut!
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Anne Estes @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Let's start a virus snowflake blizzard! Snip out some viral snowflakes this weekend - using the great templates by @socialinfluenza.bsky.social See new blog post here: wp.me/p5dMJb-Rg
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Breast milk isn't just nutrition – it delivers live bacterial strains that colonize the infant gut and persist for months. Happy to share our new paper, where we used metagenomics to track bacterial strains between 195 mother-infant pairs over the first 6 months of life: doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Assembly of the infant gut microbiome and resistome are linked to bacterial strains in mother’s milk - Nature Communications
Here, with metagenomic analyses on longitudinal samples collected from 195 mother-infant pairs, the authors show that the breast milk microbiome contributes to infant gut assembly through bacterial st...
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Anne Estes @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Book review of Microbes:The Unseen Agents of Climate Change is up on the blog - rb.gy/wchw8f. Really love this book and will use for Environmental Microbiology!
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Book Review: Microbes: The Unseen Agents of Climate Change - Mostly Microbes
. This review was first published in American Biology Teacher 2025 Vol. 87, No. 2, pp. 147–150, ISSN 0002-7685. Microbes: The Unseen Agents of Climate Change. By David L. Kirchman. 2024. Oxford Univer...
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 09/01/2026
🧵 1/7 #AltComms MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) this week on a Zika outbreak in Bangladesh in 2024 This is classic, boots-on-the-ground epidemiology—and exactly why it still matters. Let’s dig in.
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Zika Virus Outbreak ...
This report describes a Zika outbreak in Dhaka, Bangladesh, during September-December 2024.
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Anne Estes @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
As you partake of bread and beer - give thanks for Saccharomyces cerevisiae! Yeast ferments sugar into alcohol. The CO2 given off is what helps bread rise. Each semester we do a Fermentation Feast in class to "taste the diversity of cultures". Microbiology - the field full of sensory delights :)
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Anne Estes @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
This student for "Thank a Microbe" really loved Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. Predatory bacteria are easy to love! It bores its way into another bacterium, digests the bacterium, then reproduces, with its babies breaking out of the empty shell of the bacterial prey.
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Anne Estes @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Today's student Thank a Microbe post features Pseudomonas putida! Need to clean up oil spills and other toxic hydrocarbons? Call in P. putida.
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Anne Estes @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
For the Thank a Microbe project, Lactobacillus sp. were a favorite genera of bacteria to thank. Lactobacillus acidophilus is what digests milk sugars into acetic acid, which gives yogurt its tangy taste!
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Anne Estes @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
It's the season for being thankful - THANK A MICROBE returns! Here's the first of several student flyers appreciating the wonders of our microbial world!
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Anne Estes @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
that time of year when as soon as you finish writing 2 letters of recommendation, 2 more requests come in....
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Anne Estes @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
#WomenInScience inspired Halloween costume this year is Fanny Hess! In Koch's lab in the hot German summers, the gelatin used for bacterial cultures would melt. Fanny learned of agar - used to stiffen gelatin desserts - and brought that into the lab. Her ingenuity changed #microbiology forever! 🧪🔬🦠
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)
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Anne Estes @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I just supported Toni Harmon's/Alto Films latest documentary about #microbiome of #birth and first foods. Please join me in supporting this important film. 🤱🤰👶🧪 #microbiome igg.me/at/themicrob...
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The Microbirth Plan - Documentary
More than a documentary. It’s a plan to protect the future of our species. | Check out 'The Microbirth Plan - Documentary' on Indiegogo.
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Anne Estes @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Using this resource on AI vs human capable Bloom's Taxonomy from @oregonstate.edu as I write learning objectives! #STEMEdu 🍎🧪 ecampus.oregonstate.edu/faculty/arti...
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