No advice to manage sleep regressions - I’m not sure it’s possible! My best advice is give yourself grace. When I felt bad in those times everything felt impossible. When you accept it, get through it, and everything somehow gets done then you feel like a badass!
Infection and Immunity is now welcoming nominations for highly promising scientists at the assistant professor level (or equivalent) to submit research to the next New Voices in Microbiology Collection!
Please nominate by the August 18 deadline using the below link:
app.asm.org/account/logi...
(Attempting to) Stump the Professors at @idsog.bsky.social 🧫🦠
Dinner with friends
University of Tennessee (et al.) well represented at @idsog.bsky.social 🧡🤍
Ah sigh. In other news, water is wet.
Fun but quick reunion at #ASMicrobe with @kellydoran.bsky.social @rebecca-keogh.bsky.social @bradyspencer12.bsky.social
👀 Spotting poster tubes in the airport - it’s #ASMicrobe time!
A cartoon titled ‘The Life of a Scientist’. (The life is depicted as a set of steps, three up then three down with a character on each) Baby: Such a mysterious world! Child: I must search for answers Young adult: Each answer leads me to more questions Middle age: ... At least I've got lots of questions Old age: Ok, I guess questions are my thing now From grave: Such a mysterious world!
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
I vote separate pubs. Then those of us who talk about blue soup in courses can assign both papers and compare! Students love it
I now have multiple sources that say at least one round of NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETINGS will now be announced in the Federal Register.
‘The rallies mattered. But they are just the start. Being activated is one part. We didn’t rally today for ourselves – as scientists. We rallied because science serves the public. It matters to everyone.’
Very much this.
Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.
"downsizes" is a weak way of saying "forced to cancel dozens of programs, which jeopardizes future STEM careers of talented undergrads" @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
I think I might need some sun on Friday around 12?
NIH impact in Tennessee
NSF impact in Tennesssee
NIH and NSF funded research has a huge impact on the State of Tennessee. This important research is currently under treat. @500womensci.bsky.social @marshablackburntn.bsky.social
Very excited to have been able to contribute to this awesome study led by @ajmonteith.bsky.social and lab!
I gonna keep trying to showcase that small questions in science are still very much real science. Just because the question and output is small, does not make it any less valid. We've gotten a lil snobby about how we define science today, more focused on size than content.
We're searching for a postdoc to study insect-microbe symbiosis in our lab at UNC Chapel Hill. Application can be found here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/295...
Huge congratulations Kim!!
Happy Valentine’s Day from 5 kick ass microbiologists - who all made it to this week’s zoom meeting for the first time in ages! #women #STEM #faculty #science @katypatras.bsky.social @laurainthelab1.bsky.social @lindseyatutk.bsky.social @alisoncoady.bsky.social
I would love to be on the list!
Check out this deadly good story from Zach Burcham and Jessica Metcalf!
A conserved community of microbes assemble to drive human decomposition
Pun absolutely intended 💀
This was a fun project to work on in 2020. Happy to see it in print.
Viral afterlife: SARS-CoV-2 as a reservoir of immunomimetic peptides that reassemble into proinflammatory supramolecular complexes | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
