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Dan Stoebel

@profstoebel.bsky.social
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Prof of Biology, Harvey Mudd College. Studies how bacteria regulate their genes in response to stress, and how these systems evolve. (he/him)

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
And at least in California, once the financial aid packages from these spectacular small colleges come in, you’ll see they often line up exactly with that cost of attending a UC (with class sizes an order of magnitude larger).
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
"there's a new serif in town"
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This. There is no longer any excuse for vaporware. …but this dovetails in an interesting way with the idea a grant has to be half completed in order to get funded.
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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Apologies to xkcd...
The xkcd "standards" comic, minimally customized by me for reference letter upload systems.
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Peter Morrell @peterlmorrell.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
@jbyoder.org - I’m losing track of how many times I’ve posted a link to this blog post in a review. A national landmark! www.molecularecologist.com/2024/08/13/f...
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FAQ: Should I invent an acronym?
“Moveable type” (Flickr, David DeSandro) Q. I’m writing a research article, and the text frequently mentions the biological process that is the subject of the article. I’m a…
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Random thought, but what's the process the people designing the spaces that will be purposefully caught on fire for turkey or christmas tree PSAs use? Is it "this is the average American home" or is there room for "I saw this gadawful pillow at Target, let's burn this fucker"?
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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
published in 2018 and meanwhile seven years old(!), but still a highlight: wiggling 𝘝𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘰 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘦 competence pilus catching DNA for uptake/transformation. found during the repair of our archive. written by @racheldiner.bsky.social . #MicroSky
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Shin­ing a light on Vib­rio DNA up­take
by Rachel Diner — Vibrio cholerae is "kind of a big deal" in the bacterial world and a popular topic here on STC. Beyond being the causative agent for the disease cholera, it's a model bacterium f…
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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 18/11/2025
people are actually very susceptible to just-so stories about human origins because listening to bullshit helped us survive on the savanna
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on. (Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 06/11/2025
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
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GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Every tech company eventually either reinvents the bus or reinvents phrenology
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Julia Saltz @juliasaltz.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com
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Lauren @gramnegativity.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
parents, be sure to check your kids’ candy this halloween. I just found a novel phage defense system inside this snickers
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
“Bonferonni correction”, an invaluable method in #statistics, refers to the act of repeatedly correcting misspellings of the word Bonferroni at multiple places in a draft manuscript. #science #academia
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Not great, but, alas, his seems so appropriate for 2025.
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 27/10/2025
Despite decades of effort, scientists have still not discovered a foolproof way to evaluate colleagues’ work that doesn’t involve reading the paper
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Amelia Randich @ameliarandich.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Reposting this just in case anyone who is interested missed it. We’ll be reviewing applications on Nov 1st, so there is still time to apply for this position this week! Great position for people who want to do both research and teach at a high level with undergraduates!
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Kyle Orland @kyleor.land · 16/10/2025
"New Far Side comics" was definitely not on my bingo card for this week. They're not bad! www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 17/10/2025
Administrators: look at how your “peer institutions” are reacting. You wouldn’t want to sign it and mark yourself as needing special favor and so a tier below, would you?
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Frances Yap @ribo1214.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Glucose capping of 5'-mRNAs in E. coli 😱, presumably is installed during transcriptional initiation #MicroSky #RNASky www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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George O'Toole (he/him/his) @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Pls share: Hofstra University is looking for a Tenure-Track Microbiologists! ----- We are seeking a microbiologist with a research focus on a non-pathogenic bacterial model system. hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/6542
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Assistant Professor of Microbiology
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 14/12/2023
it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science
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Holzman-Tweed (he-suite) @holzman-tweed.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
My mother calls these conjugate nouns: I have folklore, you have superstition, they have witchcraft.
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Brian Stevenson Ph.D. spirochete lab @bstevensonlab.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
#MicroSky
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Amelia Randich @ameliarandich.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Interested in a tenure track position teaching and doing research with undergrads at a PUI? We are looking for a broadly-defined microbiologist who can teach Med Micro and Immunology. Apply at universityofscrantonjobs.com/postings/8308. Pls share widely to feeds (& on twitter if you still tweet)! 🦠
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025
2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:
from cyberselfish by paulina borsook: It's an inability to reconcile the demands of being individual with
the demands of participating in society, which coincides beautifully
with a preference for, and glorification of, being the solo comman-
der of one's computer in lieu of any other economically viable be-
havior. Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable,
fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many
political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a
philosophy out of a personality defect.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
If the NIH appropriations are generous, many applications are submitted to take advantage of the available funds. If NIH appropriations are constrained, many applications are submitted to compete for the limited funds. 11/17
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Count Draugula @artd.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
🎶 Staaaaar House Is a very very fine house, With no cats in the yard, Because cats belong indoors, But there’s no cats in there either, Since my wife is allergic, And we have bunnies,, And I’m not really sure how this song goes…🎶
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ASM @asm.org · 04/09/2025
As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...
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Joint Statement Calling for Secretary Kennedy Resignation
The American Society for Microbiology released a joint statement calling for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions. Descriptions and links in the following two posts.
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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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Aisling Brady @aislingbrady.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
What is everyone's favourite review on anti-phage/defence systems? Ideally as an introduction to the concept/key systems for undergraduate level without expertise in phage biology #MicroSky #PhageSky
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Jeremy Baskin @jeremybaskin.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Faculty opening in Cornell Chemistry at the Assistant Professor level in the area of chemical biology, broadly defined! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30338 #chemjobs
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Cornell University, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Job #AJO30338, WDR-00054776 Assistant Professor - Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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Christopher Witt @msbbirds.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Rare bird fails to move Overton window
From Western Birds, vol. 56, no. 3, 2025; a handheld Varied Bunting, Nevada’s first record, after hitting a window in Overton, Nevada, before its eventual release. Photo by Kayla Wolfe, July 4, 2023.
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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 15/08/2025
A simple design framework that will massively improve your slides and your public speaking clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...
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Slide designs that present themselves: The assertion–evidence template
Your slides are not your talk.
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Darryl Yong (he/him/his) @dyong.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Friends, the mathematics department @hmc.edu is looking to hire a new tenure-track operations researcher who would feel at home in our department. Please spread the word: math.hmc.edu/tenure-track...
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Petra Levin @redrockcity.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Elio Schaechter was one of my heroes. His 1958 paper with Ole Maaløe and Niels Kjeldgaard (fondly known as “SMK”) is a North Star for so much work in my group. A wonderful scientist, great communicator, and a very kind person. May his memory be a blessing.
Elio Schaechter and Petra in San Diego
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Allison Lopatkin, PhD @ajlopatkin.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
If you ever find yourself needing evidence for ‘Plasmids are just as common in microbes without resistance genes,’ we’ve got you covered! Check our new paper, out today: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
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Plasmid prevalence is independent of antibiotic resistance in environmental Enterobacteriaceae
The rapid rise of antibiotic-resistant pathogens poses a critical threat to the treatment of infectious diseases. While the spread of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) via plasmid conjugation has bee...
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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 12/08/2025
Yup. clauswilke.substack.com/p/phd-level-...
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PhD-level intelligence or the graduate student from hell
AI companies love to tout that their models are approaching—or have reached—PhD-level intelligence. This is blatant nonsensical marketing geared towards an audience that deeply misunderstands what a P...
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Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
LLMs wouldn’t pass a grad school comprehensive exam (It’s the confident bullshit in the face of experts that would fail it)
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
tip for trolling live imaging scientists: watch their little cell movie and then tell them "the book version was better"
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Amelia Randich @ameliarandich.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Hadi Yasmine (with @schraderlab.bsky.social): BR body condensates degrade mRNA during exponential phase and store mRNAs during stationary/stress in #Caulobacter; this storage is advantageous as it promotes a faster transition to exponential growth #phages2025 🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Stress Changes the Material State of a Bacterial Biomolecular Condensate and Shifts its Function from mRNA Decay to Storage
Bacterial ribonucleoprotein bodies (BR-bodies) are dynamic biomolecular condensates that play a pivotal role in RNA metabolism. We investigated how BR-bodies significantly influence mRNA fate by trans...
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Dan Stoebel @profstoebel.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Also interested in this!
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.
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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Okay some wisdom here would be most welcome. ICE continues to run rampant through our community and many of our students are at risk simply because of their identity. Other than providing flexibility to faculty in how they run their courses, what institutional policies or practices can we adopt?
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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Doing a PhD where you abandon a project after less than a year is probably perfect preparation for industry.
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