Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

Today in US History: On Feb. 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, granted black men the right to vote. It was passed by Congress on February 26, 1869. Black Americans were set free by the 13th amendment. The 14th Amendment guaranteed citizenship.

#BlackHistoryMonth

Any USAID folks working on cybersecurity, infrastructure, technology projects: please feel free to reach out. How will DOGE impact the work you do?

I'm on Signal at JennaMcLaughlin.54.

#BlackHistoryMonth ☮️💙🌊🐕‍🦺

Early career microbiome scientist here! Can I join, too?

We cultivated and isolated large number of bacteria from gut samples that were stored in preservation solutions and that were frozen for 2 months.

Some of the preservation solutions contained components that can reduce microbial growth at room temperature or that better protect microbial cellular integrity when freezing them down.

So excited this work is out! 🦠🧫🐾🥼🧪

If you want to cultivate and isolate bacteria from sensible microbial samples collected in the field and needed to be transporters to the lab, take a look at the study we conducted using multiple preservation solutions with or without cryoprotectants.

'Most Americans probably don’t know this, but so much of what we take for granted when we seek care in the US—the medicines, the diagnostics, the procedures—have come out of NIH research.'
@gregggonsalves.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

@nclark.bsky.social, an associate professor at Univ of Pittsburgh’s #biological sciences department, and his fellow researchers are proving that even animals we’ve never seen can shed light on the inner workings of our own #biology.

Story via @post-gazette.com

www.post-gazette.com/news/health/...