Sign in

Ameet Pinto

@watermicrobe.bsky.social
1.6K followers 714 following 1.4K posts

Environmental Engineer. (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ www.pintolab.com

PostsRepliesMedia
Ameet Pinto @watermicrobe.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
(1/n) 23 years ago today, I left Mumbai for Fairbanks, a wild journey seared into my memory like it happened yesterday. It was my first international flight and only my second time on a plane.
140
Ameet Pinto @watermicrobe.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
this is Iris. one of our chicken babies.
000
Ameet Pinto @watermicrobe.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
#caturday chill
170
Ameet Pinto @watermicrobe.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Going to try to revive this account with a bit more science and cat activity.
060
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/12/2025
The @nytimes.com Lost Science series continues. Here's my Q&A with a scientist who was studying how wildfire smoke threatens human health when the EPA decided that her research was no longer a funding priority. Gift link: nyti.ms/4jhpw14
Portrait of Marina Vance, a scientist, sitting in a Colorado grassland.
3384177
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
First preprint as a professor and it’s… not wastewater but bees?!?!?? Lovely collab with my colleague Dr. Jennifer VanWyk. the middle authors are all the undergrads who took my bioinformatics course last spring and analyzed novel data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
biorxiv.org
Hot and Bothered, Bees’ Gut Microbiome Shifts Under Thermal Stress and Pathogen Infection.
Understanding bumble bee gut health is imperative as these vital pollinators are subjected to pathogenic infections and thermal stress from climate change. The gut microbiome serves as an indicator fo...
1185
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Bento Bio 🧬 @bento.bio · 04/11/2025
Interested in portable metagenomics for water samples? Here’s a new preprint using Bento Lab + ONT MinION with a quantitative workflow: ⭐5 field & 4 lab methods tested ⭐Results compared to digital PCR ⭐Field workflow comparable to lab performance 🔗 Read here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
biorxiv.org
Quantitative metagenomics using a portable protocol
A field-deployable DNA sequencing approach for quantitative microbial community profiling can enable rapid responses for a range of applications in the water sector – from process control to wastewate...
031
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Ryan Ziels @ryanziels.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I’m very happy this is finally out! Here, we showcase the combination of BONCAT and SIP metaproteomics to uncover rare and active microbes driving anaerobic acetate turnover. We are excited to see what other microbial metabolisms and ecosystems this approach can help to illuminate! 🦠
23114
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
This commentary offers a clear, powerful statement of why freedom of speech is at the heart of democracy and must be defended, whether the speaker is Charlie Kirk or Jimmy Kimmel, MAGA supporters or MAGA opponents.
642188214898
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 18/09/2025
Trump is launching a full blown attack on free speech while his harem of billionaires buys up every media platform. This is no coincidence. It’s a coordinated attack on your fundamental right to speak freely without worrying if you’ll lose your job or worse.
nytimes.com
ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments After F.C.C. Pressure
1353150918
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.
nytimes.com
Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting
22196942438
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
yahoo.com
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
19836139519533
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Full professor complaining to an assistant professor on how hard it is to get funding nowadays
220526
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Falk Hildebrand @bioinf.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
How do you long-read sequence metagenomes? I would argue it starts with the right sample storage & DNA extraction, to enable efficient @nanoporetech.com /@pacbio.bsky.social sequencing, which we investigated in our new paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Massive thanks to Klara for driving this
04224
Ameet Pinto @watermicrobe.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
If you receive an email like this from this (see screenshot) from an email address like this "ameetpinto6[at]gmail[dot]com"... it's someone trying to impersonate me. PLEASE IGNORE.
310
Ameet Pinto @watermicrobe.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
today’s harvest is purdy. #glassgemcorn
080
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
🧪 CRITICAL UPDATE: The House draft version is now out. ✅ Like the Senate's version, there's no cut to NASA's budget. ❌ There's a 23% proposed cut to NSF's budget. 8-page summary: appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su... Draft bill: appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
311688
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Science Magazine @science.org · 10/07/2025
The Senate appropriations committee has voiced its intent to ignore the request by President Donald Trump to slash the budgets of the National Science Foundation and NASA science programs. scim.ag/4nW7XWi
scim.ag
Senate spending panel would rescue NSF and NASA science funding
Its support for a flat budget is a sign of congressional resistance to drastic cuts Trump has proposed
4314106
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
43729653737498
Ameet Pinto @watermicrobe.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Uppsala 10:20 pm.
040
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
We feed you. They hunt us.
11933468914780
Ameet Pinto @watermicrobe.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Protein shake and shirt color coordinated this morning 😂
020
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.
453139264250
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
yes i am sure
tvos app text:

Are you sure you want to exit HISTORY?
Ok
Cancel
3379611929
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/06/2025
a sitting federal judge — appointed by trump of course — awarded a student for a paper that basically says dred scott was right and should have gone further
16846101211
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
BREAKING: Judge denies NSF's 15% indirect rate plan. Like the DOE and NIH attempts, it too has now been rejected by courts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
2426152
Ameet Pinto @watermicrobe.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
when was the last time you tried to open your office with buttons on your car keys and wondered why the door wasn’t opening?
040
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
30233793912507
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Protect Trans Scientists. cowritten with a lot of amazing people (I tagged those I could find but there are so many more incredible folks) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @thepunkscientist.bsky.social @jlw-ecoevo.bsky.social @bfrancescol.bsky.social @drsueishaq.bsky.social
science.org
Protect transgender scientists
Transgender and gender nonconforming (TGnC) people are a primary target of the Trump administration. Multiple executive orders seek to erase TGnC protections; mandate denial of gender identity; and ba...
04123
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
👏👏👏👏👏
0204
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 15/06/2025
Our unofficial crowdsourced estimate of yesterday’s protest turnout is rising to 4.2-7 million as we gather more data. At this point potentially the second-largest single day of protest in U.S. history! www.gelliottmorris.com/p/no-kings-d...
gelliottmorris.com
"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions, rebuking Trump
Our unofficial estimate is that around 4-6 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.
36948348
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup
entire block of crowd control barricades arranged to accommodate a long line of people at security, empty
461172673713
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
This is an insightful and important thread, and connects things we've seen as DC residents over the decades.
1350101
Ameet Pinto @watermicrobe.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
#nokings in 🇺🇸. Protest safely www.instagram.com/reel/DK4u4BG...
020
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Glen Dsouza @nonresidentdesi.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Our paper in @science.org 👉🏽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... is accompanied by an especially thoughtful perspective by Carey Nadell and Chris Marx 👉🏽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
science.org
Antagonism as a foraging strategy in microbial communities
In natural habitats, nutrient availability limits bacterial growth. We discovered that bacteria can overcome this limitation by acquiring nutrients by lysing neighboring cells through contact-dependen...
28538
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
kate conger @kateconger.com · 14/06/2025
the US military detained a civilian, who just so happens to be a veteran www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
reuters.com
Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows
Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.
24414155
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
A man with a green card said ICE agents arrested him in #Lynn, Mass then took him to a detention facility—but first made a detour to a cemetery, where they took him out of their vehicle and beat him. #mapoli #Massachusetts
nbcboston.com
Worker arrested by ICE in Lynn, later released, says agents beat him in cemetery
A Massachusetts man said he told immigration agents multiple times that he's a legal resident and that he was brought to a cemetery where they assaulted him.
16941722374
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
“james adomian” @jadomian.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Daylight violation of the Posse Comitatus Act: the military is forbidden from domestic law enforcement or political repression
122443
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Senator Alex Padilla @padilla.senate.gov · 12/06/2025
If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.
530125494132
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Joe Weaver @joeeweaver.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Me when one of 'my' proteins shows up in Thobela's keynote and #MEWE11:
media.tenor.com
a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing
ALT: a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing
021
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Caitlin R Proctor @caith2o.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Having fun catching up with #Eawag at #MEWE11
062
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 09/06/2025
Violence is never acceptable—of course, I condemn it.   But I've also got news for everyone: the President who pardoned criminals who beat police officers nearly to death DOESN'T care about public safety.   Trump just wants more chaos as pretext to further abuse his authority.
32511121
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Michael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD @mikesenters.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This is a big escalation up from the Guard. That Guard has been federalized to handle crowd control and riots before but I cannot think of a single time in modern American history that active duty troops in the full time Armed Forces have been mobilized and deployed against US citizens.
34643167
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Rep. Veronica Escobar @repescobar.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
"The scene... turned violent AFTER federal immigration authorities used flash-bang grenades and pepper spray on people protesting…" Seems to be a convenient fact many of my Republican colleagues are leaving out in their statements of support for "law and order."
17729258
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 09/06/2025
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
24183423416333
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
1 in 12 Americans live in California. 1 in 35 Americans live in LA County. LA is America
110154143731
Reposted by Ameet Pinto
Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
5834256611311