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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 28/08/2026

Happy new #mastodon music day to those who celebrate!

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 07/07/2026

Feel like we've heard this before.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 07/07/2026

Had an awesome time at Hayward field watching some jaw-dropping *amazing* athletes do their thing at the Pre Classic this weekend!

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 20/05/2026

I was sampling an OR mudflat at low tide a few years ago and I was genuinely scared I would get stuck. That stuff is super hard to get free from. That's me in the image.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 16/05/2026

Come See our Grad Student @astrobio-agb.bsky.social this week at #AbSciCon2026. She'll be presenting her research on how desert microbes can literally drink water vapor from the air! 🌵💧 #Microbiology #Extremophiles #Desiccation #Astrobiology

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 11/05/2026

Our updated preprint is live. Anergiobiosis: a testable framework for microbial life under extreme energy flux limitation with @environmicrobio.bsky.social and @jenbiddle.bsky.social ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 23/02/2026

Since everyone is posting pics of their weather... (not actually taken today, but it's comparable)

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 23/02/2026

ICYMI, our work building on the recent "aeonophily" proposal. We define anergiobiosis (an-er-jee-oh-biosis) as "life without energy" to describe life persisting on maintenance energy inputs alone. So-called "aeonophiles" may be specialists under this umbrella. Feedback welcome!

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 22/02/2026

So chilly these last few days. Here in the 'dirty T' summer is the best 9 months of the year! We have summer (apparently now in Feb), super summer, and super-dee duper summer.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 28/01/2026

From 1 sweater to another, these are pretty good and make you look a bit like like Walter Sobchak: www.amazon.com/dp/B07H25M7W...

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 16/12/2025

One of my favorite places. This is me sleeping in one of the FHL labs ~20 years ago. Now, if only they needed a microbiologist...

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 02/12/2025

My most-used bluesky words in 2025 were: 1. "congrats" (25×) 2. "research" (17×) 3. "paper" (15×) 4. "soil" (13×) 5. "those" (13×) Pretty fun app that compiles your usage into a report here: anisota.net/harvest

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 30/10/2025

ICYMI: Our latest shows what happens to transcriptional and metabolic profiles in a desiccated soil bacterium. To simplify things, I've attached a visual abstract. Comments on the preprint are welcome! #microsky #microbesky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 25/09/2025

SO CLOSE to submitting our last paper that was started pre-pandemic!

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 19/09/2025

I recently played Oregon Trail at an arcade. I died, but the Family made it to the Willamette Valley.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 25/08/2025

Happy start of semester to those who celebrate. I hope you're coping deliciously.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 22/08/2025

RIP Brent Hinds. A year ago I caught Mastodon playing all of Leviathan live. Now that Brent is gone, it hits different. Don't wait to see the bands you love – those moments become irreplaceable.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 27/07/2025

Bucket list item for me this weekend: Attending the Indy Car race at the Laguna Seca Raceway with the famous 'corkscrew' turn! Absolutely amazing weather, fast cars, family. Rooting for Pato O'ward (Indycar) and Myles Rowe (Indy NXT), but really just here to have fun!

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 18/07/2025

#Archaea #GRC folks, be sure to catch work by @oceancait.bsky.social representing our group this week in Switzerland. She'll talk about new Asgard archaea enrichments form the Oregon coast. Talk on Sunday, Poster during the week.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 30/06/2025

Intertidal zones are my happy place. The last pic is an octopus, which is a first!

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 23/06/2025

So proud of our student’s presentations at #ASMicrobe. Great to meet a bunch of new folks and talk shop with friends. See you all again soon! @astrobio-agb.bsky.social @oceancait.bsky.social

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 23/06/2025

Here was a slide from my talk highlighting some of my opinions of why isolation experiments have difficulty getting funded. Would love to hear other’s experiences.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 20/06/2025

How do you like my badge twitter handle?

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 15/06/2025

This is one way to have a Father’s Day BBQ.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 14/06/2025

This is where I have mine! Alongside some very meaningful items from my career. Glass carboy from Giovannoni. Flasks from N Pace. Microscope from a late friend. Felted Woese! And a melted autoclave bin—my first!

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 11/06/2025

The Carini Lab will be at #ASMMicrobe 2025 in LA next week with THREE talks! Come hear about dormant microbes, ancient archaea, and anaerobic cultivation. Plus I have limited "Cultured by the Carini Lab" stickers to give away! 🧪✨ Thread below 👇

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 29/05/2025

Our internet usage at home jumped 40% this month! We determined was the new hummingbird cam we got for mother's day! Yes, that many hummingbirds! Mainly Broad-billed, Costa's Anna's. Waiting for the Mexican long-tongued bats to show up so we can snap a pic.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 20/05/2025

We said congratulations & goodbye to two wonderful undergrads last week! Makaela who was with us for 3 years, and Tu for just over a year. They made huge contributions to our research during their time with us and we're super grateful to have worked with them! Can't wait to see what's next!

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 19/05/2025

Spotted in the wild! I'll bring some to #ASMMicrobe. Hit me up if you'd like one!

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 12/05/2025

For example, GC skew is the purple/green ring near the center.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 09/05/2025

It's pretty addictive, isn't it?

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 08/04/2025

Anyone seen something like this? Supernatant after beating for DNA extraction of an anaerobic microbe grown at high pH.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 16/03/2025

Had an amazing time in Dallas this weekend! JFK museum was fabulous, as was the BBQ. But the real winner was the Deftones concert!

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 12/02/2025

Welcome Dr. Jorge Montiel-Molina to our group! Jorge brings extensive expertise in microbial ecology and bioinformatics from his work studying vernal pool ecosystems. He'll be joining our NSF-funded project investigating RNA dynamics in desiccated soil bacteria. Our full team carinilab.com/team

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 22/12/2024

The electrolysis was a bit slow because of the overcurrent setting on gel power supply. Here’s the finished, seasoned pan. I forgot a before pic, but none of the wording on the bottom was legible because of more than a decade of use. #Griswold for the win! Now on to all my other pans.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 21/12/2024

All killer, no filler. Here’s my version. And my thoughts scribbled on it.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 19/12/2024

I met @kiricarini.com 17 years ago today! We’re celebrating both sick at home together while we figure out who is running which kid where and what we’ll feed them. Christmas was our 2nd date! Here’s how it went.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 15/12/2024

Cast iron electrolysis day with a surplussed gel power supply. Looks dangerous, and might be.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 14/12/2024

We have an overachiever cookie decorator this year. The beaver is crazy good for bowls of frosting and spoons.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 10/12/2024

We had our second annual ornament giving. We anonymously pick names and make an ornament that is themed after that person. Holiday vibes optional. I love the thought that goes into these!

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 09/12/2024

Thanks for my annual mailbox check reminder! I did indeed receive #microbialswag! Thank you for an enjoyable discussion and kind gift!

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 06/12/2024

In that eternal laboratory paradise, it shall count cells with unbridled joy, free from the earthly constraints of maintenance contracts and software updates. Each particle shall pass through its laser beams like a shooting star, perfect and pure. Losing old lab equipment to obsolescence is hard.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 06/12/2024

Frustratingly still shorts weather here. Been a really warm intro to the “winter” season here in TUS.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 04/12/2024

When I do intervals, I do 6 sets of 4:00 on, 4:00 rest. Usually pulling around 220-250 watts across the workout (set 5 is my strongest). I’m doing a long row today at about 140 watts (~2:15). (13K today. My gym isn’t as nice as yours, but here’s my equivalent shot)

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 02/12/2024

Electric guitars, flames and Christmas carols? Can only mean one thing: TSO! Turns out half our lab attended the Trans Siberian Orchestra show in Phoenix last night. But none of us knew we were there!

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