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lexi joyce 🦠✨

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PhD candidate @ UofGuelph | Studying cryophiles + greenhouse gas cycling in Arctic permafrost | she/her ️‍🌈🖖

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lexi joyce 🦠✨ @permallica.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I'm partial to Brock Biology of Microorganisms!
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 01/06/2025
CO₂ at Mauna Loa just reached a monthly average of >430 ppm for the first time. That's possibly higher than in over 3.3 million years. The global RATE of increase is off the chart. It's hard to exaggerate how unprecedented this is!
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 15/04/2025
#HigherEd travel to USA advised against 🧪 www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...
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CAUT advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S.
Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encou
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lexi joyce 🦠✨ @permallica.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
come hear @permafrostee.bsky.social talk about ground ice!
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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Patrick Stewart in Star Trek, dressed in a fedora and jacket, saying “computer, this isn’t what I wanted at all”
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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
#Arctic #ScienceSky just got a bit better: welcome to Bluesky, Permafrost Young Researchers Network @pyrn-official.bsky.social! We're so happy to see you here 🌏🙌
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 28/02/2025
New LGBTQ+ science resources! Today, we’re excited to share our PRIDE Guidelines for LGBTQ+ inclusive field work at inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/pride. Please share widely and see the thread below for more details 🧪🌍🌐
The progress flag in the shape of a shield against an outdoorsy background, titled "Pride guidelines: pointers for research that is inclusive, diverse, and equitable for LGBTQ+ fieldworkers"
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Mike Lee @astrobiomike.org · 25/02/2025
One cannot simply *stop developing* SPAdes :)
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lexi joyce 🦠✨ @permallica.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
voted for this guy today!! early voting is open today & tomorrow til 8pm! consider strategic voting if you want to protect the environment, healthcare, & education in ontario for the next four years votewell.ca
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VoteWell
A strategic voting tool for the 2025 ON provincial election
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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Today I was proud to announce the Ontario Greens 2025 platform. Our Plan for Fairness puts people before politics. Our plan will build 2 million homes that people can afford in the communities they love without paving over prime farmland and the places we love. 1/2
A photo of Matt Richter, Mike Schreiner and Aislinn Clancy standing on stage with Green signs around them.
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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/02/2025
Star Trek did say the 2020s were gonna be a little rough
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lexi joyce 🦠✨ @permallica.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
the NSF is laying off up to half of their staff over the coming months and cutting funding to projects with even the most tenuous ties to DEI, sooo not a great time to start grad school in the US bsky.app/profile/darb...
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David Hackney @davidnhackney.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The American College of OB/GYN’s website is now hosting the critical documents purged by the CDC This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now #MedSky www.acog.org/clinical/cli...
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ACOG Endorsed
The following documents have ACOG’s endorsement and are listed in order of endorsed date.
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Rebecca @rebeccab-writes.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
For the love of all that is good in this world do NOT buy books from Amazon. Cancel your Amazon accounts. Go to the Library (in person or online ebooks!) and support local bookstores instead. Please #BookSky don’t be ambivalent
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Jennifer Goff, PhD @jlgoff.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
It has been brought to my attention that my article has been censored to exclude certain terms: asm.org/Articles/202... web.archive.org/web/20250114... #MicroSky
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Women in the History of Antimicrobial Development | ASM.org
Women researchers played a key role in the development of antimicrobials during the mid-20th century. This article works to highlight their work, as their contributions often went unacknowledged.
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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I am appalled by the ASM's decision to remove DEI content from their website. Here is my email to the American Society for Microbiology, @ASM.org asking them to put everything back as it was. If you are an ASM member, please consider writing them.
Subject: Appalled by the decision to remove DEI content on the ASM website

Dear ASM Leadership,

For over 20 years, I have been a proud member of the ASM, a professional society that not only publishes outstanding microbiology research but also supports diversity, equity, and inclusion within our field.

I am deeply disappointed and angered by ASM’s recent decision to remove online content that highlighted and celebrated non-white, female, and LGBTQ+ scientists. Rather than unquestioningly complying with vague governmental directives to halt and delete inclusion efforts, ASM should have taken a principled stand and kept this content accessible. 

Since ASM is not a federal agency and derives most of its funding from publishing and membership fees, this decision to remove content that so many of us support is both disheartening and perplexing.

I have read ASM’s statement following the recent STAT article, which claims that no content was deleted but is instead "under review." I must ask: under review for what purpose? Will the language be altered? Will key aspects be removed?

I urge ASM to demonstrate integrity and restore the content in its original form.

As BlueSky user Len Kurland worded it nicely, this is the perfect time for Microbial Resistance.


 
Kind regards,

Elisabeth Bik
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.
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lexi joyce 🦠✨ @permallica.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
who gave her the right to be so fluffy
a medium haired grey tabby cat laying on her back with her fluffy tummy exposed
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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Permafrost people! Consider entering the Canadian Permafrost Association’s photo contest! And also consider becoming a member, it’s a great group! Follow us/them on instagram, if you are inclined! www.instagram.com/p/DFYXxQdyHg...
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 22/01/2025
where the world stands on the paris climate agreement, as of today:
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Polar Impact: Minorities in Polar Research @polarimpact.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Hello Bluesky! We're excited for our new home. We're an inclusive network of racial & ethnic minorities and allies in the polar research community. More about us: www.polarimpactnetwork.org Please share your recommended feeds related to polar science and folks who live/work in polar regions.
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Polar Impact
Polar Impact is an inclusive network of racial & ethnic minorities and allies in the polar research community.
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Trends in Microbiology @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
The Jan '25 issue is live. Articles on Toll-like receptor 4 (cover), mapping TB outcomes in mice, temperature regulation of virulence in bacterial pathogens, envtl. antifungal resistance, permafrost cryophiles, historical plague pandemics, tea plant microbes & more! www.cell.com/issue/S0966-...
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Why are billionaires
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lexi joyce 🦠✨ @permallica.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
this is a really good question
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lexi joyce 🦠✨ @permallica.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
not the point of the post at all but that table is awesome! I assume the base is from a sewing machine??
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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
JPL is one of NASA's major science and climate centers—home to the Mars rovers and 1000s of people. Firefighters held back the flames at JPL’s gates, but many of our coworkers lost their homes. Here’s a thread of their public GoFundMes if you can share & support however possible:
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Fiona James @langevineqn.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Graduate-student stipends in Canada below the poverty line
Students struggle to make ends meet despite recent boosts to federal scholarships, study finds.
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Tom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I have seen a lot of "news" stories about the current California fires as natural disasters. Southern California ecosystems are fire prone, but this event is a direct result climate change and management neglect. We need to change how we view these events, and the press is not helping.
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lexi joyce 🦠✨ @permallica.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
If you want to help, Academic Solidarity With Palestine is recruiting volunteers to teach/TA a variety of online courses for Gazan students academicsolidaritywithpalestine.org/about For more info and to inquire about volunteering, email academicsolidaritywithpalestine@proton.me
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lexi joyce 🦠✨ @permallica.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
You can get on their email list and be contacted about future openings, but I do know they are actively recruiting for a number of courses in a variety of disciplines starting next week or the following week! They emailed a couple days ago about needing TAs for the following biology/pharma classes:
A list of course names: Cell Biology Lab, General Chemistry Lab, Pharmaceutical Microbiology Lab, Physical Pharmacy Lab, Biochemistry Lab, Pharmaceutics 2 Lab, Pharmacology Lab, Phytochemistry 1 Lab.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/01/2025
I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
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lexi joyce 🦠✨ @permallica.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
If you want to help, Academic Solidarity With Palestine is recruiting volunteers to teach/TA a variety of online courses for Gazan students academicsolidaritywithpalestine.org/about For more info and to inquire about volunteering, email academicsolidaritywithpalestine@proton.me
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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 09/12/2024
Climate data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social shows, it is virtual certainty that 2024 will be the warmest year on record and the first calendar year above 1.5°C. This does not mean the Paris Agreement has been breached, it means ambitious #climateaction is more urgent than ever 🧪⚒️🌏🌡️📈
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no
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lexi joyce 🦠✨ @permallica.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
they look like citrus popsicles
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Claire Kemp @clairekemp.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Very happy to share our new paper (also my 1st, first-author pub!), which is the result of several years of relationship building, planning, adapting, learning, and reflecting amongst an incredible collaborative team. So awesome to see it out in the world! www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/...
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Weaving ways of knowing in practice: a collaborative approach to prioritizing community knowledge and values in wildlife camera monitoring with Magnetawan First Nation
There is not one singular way to weave together Indigenous and Western knowledges; creating meaningful cross-cultural collaborations requires a foundation of relationships rooted in the context of spe...
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Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · 30/11/2024
An important statement by the @uofguelph.bsky.social CSA. “What actions, if any, does the UofG plan to take to show graduate students they are welcome, wanted, and supported here?” Full statement here: csaonline.ca/administrati... #ISupportTheUofGGradStudents
A screenshot of a statement by the VSA at UofG. It reads “ in the University of Guelph 2022 to 2027 strategic plan, the university committed to “increasing the number of students enrolled in research based graduate programs end” and stated that “graduate students are key to their reputation as a top comprehensive, and research intensive university” however, the actions taken this year, reflect a systematic disregard for graduate students best interests. A screen shot of a csa statement that reads “ these decisions, made without a parent, student consultation, have left many students uninformed and unprepared. Research links financial stress to performance surveys show that 81% of food bank users at U of G are graduate students - 74% of them international students. the message many graduate students are hearing from university of Guelph is that they are unwelcome,unwanted, and unsupported here.
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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Check out the #permafrost pack and let me know if you should be on it! Please share far and wide and yell into the BlueSky from the frozen mountaintops to the Arctic tundra! go.bsky.app/UhFqWzJ
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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Kashif Pirzada, MD @kashprime.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A women-led team of 20, working remotely, is showing up a trillion dollar megacorp. Truly inspiring.
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Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · 20/11/2024
This is not the way. Grad students and Post Docs are an integral part of what makes a university great. They are part of the teaching team. They are part of the research team. We forget this at our own peril.
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lexi joyce 🦠✨ @permallica.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The truth is that the university doesn't care about graduate students. We write letters, we talk with university reps all the time, and things only get worse for us. They care about our tuition $$ and our research outputs but they don't consider us as actual people
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alex @dremenec.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs. However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!
An infographic. There are six panels.

1. "Slow internet. Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images." a drawing shows a phone with poor signal, and alt text is visible where the image should have loaded.

2. "Findabillity. Alt text helps to search content." A drawing shows someone searching 'dog with banana' and a post is shown underneath without the words 'dog' or 'banana'. It is implied to be part of the alt text.

3. "Screen readers. Alt is read out to people using text-to-speech software". There is a drawing of the output a screen-reader would show when viewing an image with alt text on bluesky.

4. "Translation. Alt text can be translated". A drawing shows a post being translated. The alt text is also translated into german.

5. "Readability. Text in images can be made legible" There is a drawing of some truly awful handwriting inside a speech bubble. The alt text clarifies what the text is supposed to say.

6. "Disambiguation. Description helps clarify intent." There is a drawing of a post with a picture of a creature. This is styled after the famous optical illusion of a rabbit and a duck. The alt text clarifies that the animal is a rabbit. It definitely looks more like a duck.
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lexi joyce 🦠✨ @permallica.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
my cats say hi :)
A brown tabby with big ears, looking sleepy in a cave made of blankets on a grey couch An overhead shot of a grey tabby with a white chin and big eyes, lounging on a pouf ottoman and looking straight up at the camera
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lexi joyce 🦠✨ @permallica.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I just published an article in Trends in Microbiology about how #cryophiles in permafrost may respond to a changing climate! ❄️🦠 www.cell.com/trends/micro...
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Transitioning ecosystems: how will permafrost cryophiles respond to a changing climate?
Permafrost harbours a diversity of cryophilic microorganisms that can be metabolically active at sub-zero temperatures and likely play a role in global carbon cycling. This forum article explores poss...
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lexi joyce 🦠✨ @permallica.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
ahh congrats that's amazing!!
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Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · 17/11/2024
Developing a Starter Pack of #UofGuelph folks, departments, schools, colleges, etc. Will grow the list as I find folks :) go.bsky.app/JuZidb9
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