K.T. Elliott
@ktelliottmicro.bsky.social
bacterial geneticist, associate professor, mom. enjoy: science, dogs, gin, books, vaccines, chocolate, old bay
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Education and research can save lives, but only if we invest in them. Ask me how I know
@aftunion.bsky.social #StandUpForScience
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this is an official Wikipedia content guideline, btw, and it's precisely two sentences.
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November 29, 2025 at 10:37 AM
this is an official Wikipedia content guideline, btw, and it's precisely two sentences.
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BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
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The face of someone waiting silently, like a Seal Team 6 member, to make his move for Thanksgiving food.
November 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The face of someone waiting silently, like a Seal Team 6 member, to make his move for Thanksgiving food.
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One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
You can be as terrified or nonplussed or unperturbed as you like; the sun will still rise tomorrow & the rent will still be due on the 31st. The world has no romantic narratives for its fate except those we invent, because the world does not die. That is our privilege.
I said it elsewhere, but it’s weirdly exhilarating and addictive to be terrified all the time, and the people addicted to it, when they say this, may as well be saying “I can stop at any time, it’s just the world doing this *to* me.”
December 31, 2023 at 3:23 AM
One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
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Their getaway vehicle?
Escargo
Escargo
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
French police are on the trail of ‘experienced’ criminals who stole a whole year’s worth of produce from Jean-Mathieu Dauvergne’s L’Escargot des Grands Crus
stzl.ink
November 28, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Their getaway vehicle?
Escargo
Escargo
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Always remember that more people are not fascists than are fascists but fascists are very loud and insistent and are good at grabbing media
November 28, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Always remember that more people are not fascists than are fascists but fascists are very loud and insistent and are good at grabbing media
Tonight K2 was reading a book about volcanoes & got to a chapter about Pompeii. She immediately jumped up to tell her big sister
Her sister said "hold that thought" & ran & got her I Survived book about Pompeii which K2 immediately started reading
MY HEART SWOONED!!
Her sister said "hold that thought" & ran & got her I Survived book about Pompeii which K2 immediately started reading
MY HEART SWOONED!!
November 28, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Tonight K2 was reading a book about volcanoes & got to a chapter about Pompeii. She immediately jumped up to tell her big sister
Her sister said "hold that thought" & ran & got her I Survived book about Pompeii which K2 immediately started reading
MY HEART SWOONED!!
Her sister said "hold that thought" & ran & got her I Survived book about Pompeii which K2 immediately started reading
MY HEART SWOONED!!
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We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
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It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
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My husband's pumpkin spice brioche cinnamon rolls (a Thanksgiving morning tradition).
November 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
My husband's pumpkin spice brioche cinnamon rolls (a Thanksgiving morning tradition).
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We too lost our minds at this giraffe
November 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
We too lost our minds at this giraffe
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Nearly every mechanism that made my career possible—Ford, NSF, Harvard BiGS—is gone or on the way to the chopping block.
This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
November 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Nearly every mechanism that made my career possible—Ford, NSF, Harvard BiGS—is gone or on the way to the chopping block.
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Anyone looking for Christmas gifts for the whole lab?
Doesn’t your research team need something to wear at the next conference or rally?
Doesn’t your research team need something to wear at the next conference or rally?
We've got merch! Instead of giving your bucks to Bezos, why not get a gift that fuels the fight for science? Shop small this holiday season, and stand up for science! www.standupforscience.net/merch
November 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Anyone looking for Christmas gifts for the whole lab?
Doesn’t your research team need something to wear at the next conference or rally?
Doesn’t your research team need something to wear at the next conference or rally?
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I am very excited to announce that a fully funded PhD position is available in my group.
Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia
Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates.
Deadline: 11.01.26
More info:
shorturl.at/f1TuF
Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia
Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates.
Deadline: 11.01.26
More info:
shorturl.at/f1TuF
November 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I am very excited to announce that a fully funded PhD position is available in my group.
Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia
Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates.
Deadline: 11.01.26
More info:
shorturl.at/f1TuF
Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia
Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates.
Deadline: 11.01.26
More info:
shorturl.at/f1TuF
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Again, turkeys are 70-80% off from today onwards and last a year in the freezer.
If you’ve got a chest freezer in the garage that’s good soup, stew, and smoker meat for the whole winter for a really good price.
If you’ve got a chest freezer in the garage that’s good soup, stew, and smoker meat for the whole winter for a really good price.
November 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Again, turkeys are 70-80% off from today onwards and last a year in the freezer.
If you’ve got a chest freezer in the garage that’s good soup, stew, and smoker meat for the whole winter for a really good price.
If you’ve got a chest freezer in the garage that’s good soup, stew, and smoker meat for the whole winter for a really good price.
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So excited to share this as a new junior PI:
My brand-new lab website! 🎉🪰🌀
www.bischofflab.com
Please pass it on to young, motivated researchers looking for PhD positions 😊
And for the #FluorescenceFriday community: don’t miss the SciArt Gallery!
#CellBio #DevBio #PhDjob #PhDposition #Science
My brand-new lab website! 🎉🪰🌀
www.bischofflab.com
Please pass it on to young, motivated researchers looking for PhD positions 😊
And for the #FluorescenceFriday community: don’t miss the SciArt Gallery!
#CellBio #DevBio #PhDjob #PhDposition #Science
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
So excited to share this as a new junior PI:
My brand-new lab website! 🎉🪰🌀
www.bischofflab.com
Please pass it on to young, motivated researchers looking for PhD positions 😊
And for the #FluorescenceFriday community: don’t miss the SciArt Gallery!
#CellBio #DevBio #PhDjob #PhDposition #Science
My brand-new lab website! 🎉🪰🌀
www.bischofflab.com
Please pass it on to young, motivated researchers looking for PhD positions 😊
And for the #FluorescenceFriday community: don’t miss the SciArt Gallery!
#CellBio #DevBio #PhDjob #PhDposition #Science
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My mind is preoccupied but still capable of sharpness, my imagination is as hungry as a child's. I love my job, unreliable as it is. I am buffeted, but not beaten.
For these things, I am thankful. Today, I choose to focus not on what is lacking, but on what is bountiful.
Happy Thanksgiving. x 4/4
For these things, I am thankful. Today, I choose to focus not on what is lacking, but on what is bountiful.
Happy Thanksgiving. x 4/4
November 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
My mind is preoccupied but still capable of sharpness, my imagination is as hungry as a child's. I love my job, unreliable as it is. I am buffeted, but not beaten.
For these things, I am thankful. Today, I choose to focus not on what is lacking, but on what is bountiful.
Happy Thanksgiving. x 4/4
For these things, I am thankful. Today, I choose to focus not on what is lacking, but on what is bountiful.
Happy Thanksgiving. x 4/4
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It's Thanksgiving in the US today.
The world feels so bleak right now. Like we lifted up old lino to reveal a swarm of giant woodlice. Giant fascist woodlice. And you think: "Jeez, have we been living here, day after day, completely unaware of all these giant bugs right under our feet?" 1/4
The world feels so bleak right now. Like we lifted up old lino to reveal a swarm of giant woodlice. Giant fascist woodlice. And you think: "Jeez, have we been living here, day after day, completely unaware of all these giant bugs right under our feet?" 1/4
November 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
It's Thanksgiving in the US today.
The world feels so bleak right now. Like we lifted up old lino to reveal a swarm of giant woodlice. Giant fascist woodlice. And you think: "Jeez, have we been living here, day after day, completely unaware of all these giant bugs right under our feet?" 1/4
The world feels so bleak right now. Like we lifted up old lino to reveal a swarm of giant woodlice. Giant fascist woodlice. And you think: "Jeez, have we been living here, day after day, completely unaware of all these giant bugs right under our feet?" 1/4
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I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
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If you have the audacity you need to give it back
November 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If you have the audacity you need to give it back
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a cancer nurse in a state I've never been to told messaged me and said that reading out Rice Truck aloud as it happened was the only day in her entire 14 year career on chemo ward that nobody cried and it's probably the best compliment I will ever get in my life
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
a cancer nurse in a state I've never been to told messaged me and said that reading out Rice Truck aloud as it happened was the only day in her entire 14 year career on chemo ward that nobody cried and it's probably the best compliment I will ever get in my life
Thanksgiving morning update: K1's 5k is in a little over a week. I got up today & ran my practice 5k. Slowly. But I ran the whole damn thing & each split was faster than the previous one
I still hate running & my fall allergies are terrible. But I love my kid & I'm really proud of both of us
I still hate running & my fall allergies are terrible. But I love my kid & I'm really proud of both of us
K1 is running a 5k (her 2nd) in December thanks to Girls on the Run. Awesome news!
I'm gonna have to run with her (she needs an adult running buddy). Terrible news! 0/10. I run when chased. By bears or other large predators
Training starts today 🤦♀️😬😭
I'm gonna have to run with her (she needs an adult running buddy). Terrible news! 0/10. I run when chased. By bears or other large predators
Training starts today 🤦♀️😬😭
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Thanksgiving morning update: K1's 5k is in a little over a week. I got up today & ran my practice 5k. Slowly. But I ran the whole damn thing & each split was faster than the previous one
I still hate running & my fall allergies are terrible. But I love my kid & I'm really proud of both of us
I still hate running & my fall allergies are terrible. But I love my kid & I'm really proud of both of us
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I did my PhD research thanks to a DDRIG through SBE. This is infuriating and while not quite a death blow, a giant obstacle to up and coming social scientists
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I did my PhD research thanks to a DDRIG through SBE. This is infuriating and while not quite a death blow, a giant obstacle to up and coming social scientists
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DOORDASH: imagine a $12 sandwich
ME: oh dang that sounds so good
DOORDASH: now imagine that it could be yours for just $37
ME: oh dang that sounds so good
DOORDASH: now imagine that it could be yours for just $37
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
DOORDASH: imagine a $12 sandwich
ME: oh dang that sounds so good
DOORDASH: now imagine that it could be yours for just $37
ME: oh dang that sounds so good
DOORDASH: now imagine that it could be yours for just $37
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TBH I don't know how anyone can buy Boar's Head anything (and for quite a while) at this point.
Boar’s Head Cheese Recalled Nationwide in Class I Alert for Listeria Contamination
Ambriola Company, a supplier of Boar's Head cheese, has issued a Class I recall of two popular Boar's Head products due to risk of listeria contamination. Boar's Head Grated Pecorino Romano Cheese and...
www.foodandwine.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
TBH I don't know how anyone can buy Boar's Head anything (and for quite a while) at this point.