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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So...We covered Esther Lederberg in intro microbio lecture yesterday... The time I spend presenting science (and scientists) to younger people has convinced me that prizes that laud singular "geniuses" aren't representing good science or how science gets done. They're JUST for show and flattery.

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This from the same people who claim that there is exactly one way to tell if a person is a woman and that is...*checks notes*... karyotype? anatomy? gamete size?

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🚨We're hiring!🚨 Join us as a laboratory technician to work on acquired metabolism, from tree-fungal mutualisms to the evolution of protistan photosynthesis. Apply by Oct. 7 at careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucsb/EMP...

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Yeast Journal @yeast-journal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New paper out in Yeast: Fellipe de Mello & team established a collection of ecologically diverse Brazilian yeasts and screened their performance in industrially relevant conditions, discovering some species that could be used for industrial applications 🇧🇷 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Screening of Brazilian Isolated Yeasts Reveals Multiple Potential Chassis for Industrial Biotechnology

Harnessing Brazilian microbial diversity, comprehensive phenotypic screening of 79 yeast isolates identified non-conventional strains with superior multi-stress tolerance and metabolic versatility co...

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Man, she looks like she's having the time of her life in both those photos

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I totally missed the themes of segregation and municipal corruption as a kid. The bad guy seemed, well, cartoonish, when I was a kid. And now seems very plausible (with disneyification, of course)

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Wow, I just watched "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" for the first time as an adult. Seen it several times as a kid. That movie goes way harder than I remember!

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Yeast Journal @yeast-journal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Many congratulations to Rosalie Wouters from Delft University for winning the best poster award sponsored by the #Yeast journal at the 9th Conference on Physiology of Yeasts and Filamentous Fungi @pyff-9.bsky.social in Valencia 🎉🎉🎉 The prize was awarded by our editor-in-chief @litinice.bsky.social

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Every once in a while I'm exposed to the conversation of, "there are things a non-parent would never understand until they have the special life-altering experience of being a parent," and I wonder if this is what they're talking about.

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This conversation always makes me wonder, what do people think kids' sports are for, anyway? Like, if I had kids I'd send them to sports so they could learn things like teamwork, sportsmanship, and exercise. Having any kind of diversity on the team enhances that!

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I just drove across the US and have two beautiful scenery recommendations: Bryce Canyon and Kodachrome State Park in Utah, or taking the train through Colorado. I did both while driving and wished I was in a bus (UT) or train (CO) so I could admire the scenery instead of keeping eyes on road

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ybrandvain.bsky.social @ybrandvain.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

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ybrandvain.bsky.social @ybrandvain.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm excited to release the newest version of my free applied biostats textbook. It's tidyverse style, clarkia inspired and loads of fun Im putting this down until the end of the semester, when I'll add and polish additional chapters, but the 1st 21 are pretty solid yanivjb.github.io/biostats-book

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A couple of other people got there first, but this interaction REALLY made me recall Eliza from the 1960s. I'm so sad for our electricity, water, and workers if this is all we're getting from them.

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Prasanth Prakash Prabhu @kavaka25.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I'm excited to share that one of my thesis chapters has just been published in Mycologia. #Nematophagy #Mycophagy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Thanks! Ant symbioses didn't occur to me, but they do count based on what I'm thinking of.

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

All my pubmed and google scholar searching gets me dimorphic yeasts, which shows how lousy my search foo is

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Hi fungal hive-mind friends! Does anyone know of citations on yeasts' interactions with mycelial fungi? I'm thinking yeasts as part of a mycelium's microbiome, or perhaps intra-hyphal yeasts. Could be no work on this so far! But also, it's hard to search for...

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Heh. I misread and thought it was a symposium for global scholars about satellites! 🙃

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Maybe the take-home is that we could all be a little bit self-satisfied now and again

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Oh, whoops, that was a misclick. Oh well!

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Soleil Young @soleilsolay.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

So excited to share that one of the chapters from my thesis has been published! In it we discovered that, despite previous assumptions, Escovopsis (a mycoparasite in the fungus growing ant symbiosis), has a complete MAT locus under purifying selection.

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Tatiana Moiseeva @tat1anamoiseeva.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Our lab at Pitt is looking to hire a technician. Ideal candidate would be a recent graduate with some cell biology skills, looking to expand their experience before applying to a PhD program in a couple of years. If you are this person, interested in DNA replication, please email me. moiseevalab.com

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Tatiana Moiseeva Lab

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This comment made me go, "isn't doxycycline used for malaria because it targets the parasite's plastid?" and then look it up--turns out the target of the antibiotic is in fact a plastid-like organelle called an apicoplast (also its name in malaria)! Cool! www.benthamdirect.com/content/jour...

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The Plastid-Like Organelle of Apicomplexan Parasites as Drug Target | Bentham Science Publishers

Apicomplexan parasites infectious to humans include Plasmodium spp., Babesia spp., Toxoplasma gondii, Cryptosporidium spp., Isospora belli and Cyclospora cayetanensis. With exception of Cryptosporidiu...

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I do not like being called out like this so directly

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Thank you! I think it's a great opportunity!

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I'd love that! SLO is closer to Puget Sound, so there'd be fewer time zone challenges!

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Thanks Sara!!! Maybe I'll see you at MSA in a few weeks?

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Thank you Ben!! I'll really miss having you so close as well!!

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Hi Friends! I just wanted to let you know that I'll be changing jobs soon! I'll be sad to leave Wheaton College, but am excited to start as an Associate Professor of Biology at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo this fall! Looking forward to working with new students and California yeasts!

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This anecdote strikes me as so sad.

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I would love to read this thread! What a cool-sounding experience!

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Patrick S. Mitchell @psmitchej.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Thrilled to announce that the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington, School of Medicine is hiring at the Assistant Professor level (tenure-track)! The Pacific Northwest is an awesome place to live and do science 🧪🦠. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/185622 Applications due 8/1.

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Holy moly. This is MY job because I AM THE ONE WITH MY NAME ON THE DAMN THING. Wow.

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Just want to announce a new peer-reviewed paper with THREE Wheaton student coauthors! This research was done in their Research Experience in Biology course, which fulfilled their Sophomore Experience requirement. @micropub7n.bsky.social www.micropublication.org/journals/bio...

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Sodium chloride stress inhibits Saccharomyces paradoxus meiosis | microPublication

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

My absolute favorite tourist attraction in Boston, hands down, is the Mapparium. It's a quick and relatively cheap visit. www.atlasobscura.com/places/mappa...

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Tag yourself I'm "Oh my God how I do hate species & varieties."

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Yes! Those are absolutely all veggies!!!

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Yay! Congratulations on getting it working!!!!

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Oh, crap. I guess I'm in for a long night tonight :(

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I'm experiencing this too, trying to submit a letter of rec for a student due tomorrow! I sent the help desk a message, but worry it won't be seen on the weekend.

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Juan Carlos De la Concepcion @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Please share! My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

If you participated in a yeast meeting in 2025, reach out to me about publishing your work from that meeting!

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

It may have been, but it does have a history of lobbying for gun control, specifically when Black Panthers openly practiced their 2nd amendment rights in California. Its words/actions today are consistent with past behavior. abc7news.com/post/califor...

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The NRA supported gun restrictions once in California. Is it rooted in racism?

With 10-day waiting periods, universal background checks, and open-carry restrictions, California has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country. Here's why one expert says they're rooted in...

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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I don't expect second amendment advocates to behave differently today than they did after Philando Castile's murder.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

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