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Andrés Cumsille
@cumsille.bsky.social
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Postdoc | Studying Microbial Interactions, Natural Products & BGCs
Into Science, politics and travels 🏳️‍🌈
📍Madison, WI
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edzitron.com
The Rot Economy's digital tinnitus has ruined everything you love about tech - Search, mobile browsing, and social media to name a few. When growth is all that matters, the user experience only exists to promote growth, even if the experience sucks.

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After a coup by head of ads Prabhakar Raghavan in 2019, Google intentionally made search results worse as a means of increasing the amount of times that people would search for something on the site. Ever wonder why your workplace uses Sharepoint and other horrible Microsoft apps? That’s because Microsoft’s massive software monopoly meant that it was cheaper for your boss to buy all of it in one place, and thus its incentive is to make it good enough to convince your boss to sign up for all of their stuff rather than an app that makes your life easier or better. Why does every website feel different, and why do some crash randomly or make your phone burn your hand? It’s because every publisher has pumped their sites full of as much ad tracking software as possible as a means of monetizing every single user in as many ways as possible, helping ads follow you across the entire internet. And why does everybody need your email? Because your inbox is one of the few places that advertisers haven’t found a consistent way to penetrate. It’s digital tinnitus. It’s the pop-up from a shopping app that you downloaded to make one purchase, or the deceptive notification from Instagram that you have “new views” that doesn’t actually lead anywhere. It is the autoplaying video advertisement on your film review website. It is the repeated request for you to log back into a newspaper website that you logged into yesterday because everyone must pay and nothing must get through. It is the hundredth Black Friday sale you got from a company that you swear you unsubscribed from eight times, and perhaps even did, but there’s no real way to keep track. It’s the third time this year you’ve had to make a new password because another data breach happened and the company didn’t bother to encrypt it.
December 16, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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edzitron.com
Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.

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Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...
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December 16, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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tinyearthnet.bsky.social
CALL TO ACTION: Tiny Earth encourages everyone to be educated about the effects of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the consequences for our society.

#TinyEarthWAAW #antimicrobialresistance #WAAW #TinyEarth #microbes #antibioticsresearch

Policy suggestions adopted from WHO's 2025 AMR Campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
cumsille.bsky.social
This is not a drill! Auroras in Madison :)!
November 12, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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wildtypemc.bsky.social
On Wisconsin
October 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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criordor.bsky.social
Ayer presentamos "Amor Microbiano" a la comunidad de Ecología Microbiana Latinoamericana en Mérida, México 🇲🇽🙌
Muchas gracias por la oportunidad, excelentes preguntas y la excelente recepción.

#ISMELat2025 😊🦠🩷 🌈
August 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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jcedielbecerra.bsky.social
GATOR-GC is out at @narjournal.bsky.social!! Check out our new targeted genome mining tool featuring a novel similarity metric to efficiently compare and deduplicate gene clusters.

We uncover biosynthetic diversity missed by other genome mining tools

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Targeted genome mining with GATOR-GC maps the evolutionary landscape of biosynthetic diversity
Abstract. Gene clusters, groups of physically adjacent genes that work collectively, are pivotal to bacterial fitness and valuable in biotechnology and med
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July 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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pluskal-lab.org
This paper represents a great effort by @roman-bushuiev.bsky.social and his brother @anton-bushuiev.bsky.social. The DreaMS foundation model for mass spectra of small molecules now opens lots of avenues for possible downstream applications. It might be a game changer for computational metabolomics.
May 24, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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nataliehall.bsky.social
My absolute favourite movie, my day just got so much better 🥲
April 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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alepdavo.bsky.social
ismelat2025.org
Registration closes at the end of April! Please share!!
No olviden registrarse! Vengan a Mérida!!
ISME-LAT 2025
ISME Latin America - Regional conference
ismelat2025.org
April 7, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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gonebabygone.bsky.social
April Ludgate from Parks and Rec saying “I didnt think March 31st existed”
March 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
cumsille.bsky.social
What’s exciting about Bluesky is that I’ve replaced my dopamine-scrolling addiction with a thrilling cortisol-scrolling addiction
March 31, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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wildtypemc.bsky.social
The Chevrette Lab has some big news.

Beginning in August we'll be joining @uwmadscience.bsky.social in the Department of Plant Pathology and @widofficial.bsky.social

Beyond excited for this new chapter.

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Kenny Chesney - Back Where I Come From (Live at Farm Aid 2005)
YouTube video by Farm Aid
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March 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
cumsille.bsky.social
There’s a pond in my apt building.
There’s an alligator there and there was an otter :(
This is Florida
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March 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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wildtypemc.bsky.social
GATOR-GC preprint is live! If you haven't already, check out our new tool for targeted gene cluster mining. @jcedielbecerra.bsky.social

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February 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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markowenmartin.bsky.social
Thursday: time for #MattersMicrobial Episode #81! Dr. Marc Chevrette talks about genome mining, secondary metabolites, and why microbes are the very best chemists. Please share the #GoodMicrobialWord. @profvrr @wildtypeMC

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February 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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microbialcmmc.bsky.social
got microbial metabolites? Add to the public knowledgebase available through GNPS2!

cmmc.gnps2.org
February 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Anastasia state park
#fungifriends
February 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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✨Florida✨
February 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Florida Butterfly rainforest
February 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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microbiologysociety.org
Come and meet with fellow queer microbiologists at our LGBTQ+ Networking Event on Tuesday 1 April 20:30 GMT, with a Trans and Nonbinary pre-meet. For further information and to secure your place, visit our website: https://microb.io/Microbio25 #Microbio25
February 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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wutangforchildren.bsky.social
So how’s it going so far?
January 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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bacigalupe.bsky.social
Pedro Lemebel.
La columna de Marcelo Simonetti
January 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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paulhoskisson.bsky.social
Join us for ISBA2025 on Actinomycetes at the lovely beach of Egmond aan Zee (NL), from June 15–19, 2025. Topics include development, drug discovery, ecology and pathogenicity. universiteitleiden.nl/isba2025. Registration and abstract submission here: shop.paylogic.com/574b03bd08ee... #ISBA2025.
20th International Symposium on the Biology of Actinomycetes
ISBA2025
universiteitleiden.nl
January 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social
Apologies for getting a bit political on main tonight.

I think this cartoon sums it up.
January 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM