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Caitlin Billiot, PhD
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any pronouns | Postdoc in the Margolis Lab at St. Jude | UAB Microbiology PhD | LSU alum | cat and plant parent | Views are my own | #NativeinSTEM #LGBTQinSTEM
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November 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
microcait.bsky.social
I've been gearing up to do some big experiments so I haven't been as active lately but happy Native American heritage month! #NativeinSTEM
November 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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It’s time to let your creativity grow! Submit your entry for this year’s Agar Art Contest: Microbes Make the World Go Round. From food and health to climate and beyond, microbes shape our lives—now show us your story in agar! Submit by Oct. 26: asm.social/2Dt
Pain palette with microbes as the paint swatches.
October 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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elliejameson.bsky.social
Day 3, Soft. Soft agar is used to visualise phages - plaque assay: bacteria infected with phages are mixed with soft agar, poured over an agar plate. A bacterial lawn grows & plaques appear - as phages infect bacteria, multiply, kill & repeat to form an expanding hole. #drawtober #SciArt #Phagesky
Black and white ink drawing of an agar filled petri dish with black spots or plaques covering the surface. One of these plaques is surrounded by a circle, connected by dotted lines to a larger magnified circle showing a lawn of bacteria punctured by a circlar hole with 7 smaller bacteriophages inside
October 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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ellinoralseth.bsky.social
Feels surreal to say but: I'm hiring! If you are or know anyone interested in looking at the evolution of phage resistance using A. baumannii and natural transformation, then this might be for you
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Research position in Microbial Pharmacology and Population Biology (282139) | UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Job title: Research position in Microbial Pharmacology and Population Biology (282139), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Wednesday, August 27, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
August 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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xkcd.com
iNaturalist Animals and Plants

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Comic. The Most-Observed Animal and Plant in Each State on iNaturalist. (Not the most common species in the state, just the one people have reported the most times.) [labeled map of the US] WA: Mallard/Western Sword Fern. OR: Mule Deer/Western Ponderosa Pine. CA: Western Fence Lizard/California Poppy. HI: Green Sea Turtle/‘Ōhi’a Lehua. ID: Mallard/Big Sagebrush. NV: Common Side-Blotched Lizard/Creosote Bush. MT: White-Tailed Deer/Common Yarrow. WY: American Bison/Sticky Geranium. UT: Mule Deer/Utah Juniper. AZ: Ornate Tree Lizard/Saguaro. CO: Mule Deer/Great Mullein. NM: Mule Deer/Creosote Bush. AK: Moose/Fireweed. ND: American Bison/Prairie Rose. SD: American Bison/Hoary Vervain. NE: American Robin/Common Milkweed. KS: Ornate Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. OK: Pond Slider/Eastern Redcedar. TX: Northern Cardinal/Pinladies. MN, WI, IL: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Common Milkweed. IA, MI: White-Tailed Deer/Common Milkweed. MO: Brown-Belted Bumble Bee/Amur Honeysuckle. AR: Three-toed Box Turtle/Chinese Privet. LA: Green Anole/Baldcypress. IN: American Robin/Amur Honeysuckle. OH: Eastern Pondhawk/Virginia Springbeauty. KY: Common Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. TN: American Robin/Christmas Fern. MS: Northern Cardinal/Pale Pitcher Plant. AL: Gulf Fritillary/American Sweetgum. GA: Green Anole/American Sweetgum. FL: Brown Anole/White Beggarticks. NY: Eastern Gray Squirrel/White Snakeroot. PA: White-Tailed Deer/Garlic Mustard. WV: White-Tailed Deer/Great Rhododendron. VA: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern Poison Ivy. MD: White-Tailed Deer/Wineberry. DE: Fowler’s Toad/American Pokeweed. NC: Eastern Gray Squirrel/Christmas Fern. SC: Northern Cardinal/American Sweetgum. NJ: Spotted Lanternfly/Common Mugwort. VT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. NH: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern White Pine. MA: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. CT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Striped Wintergreen. RI: American Herring Gull. ME: American Herring Gull/Canadian Bunchberry.
July 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
microcait.bsky.social
I'm signed up to be a pen pal with Letters to a Pre-Scientist and I highly recommend it! LPS is recruiting STEM professionals to send and receive 4 rounds of letters throughout the school year with a middle school student. Learn more on their website: prescientist.org/volunteers/?...
For STEM Professionals - Letters to a Pre-Scientist
Pen Pal Program Overview We encourage STEM Professionals of all kinds to get involved with Letters to a Pre-Scientist! STEM professionals send and receive letters throughout a school year from ...
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July 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
microcait.bsky.social
Happy to be home to miss Luna Belle 🥹
A tuxedo cat with dilated eyes in a cat tunnel
July 12, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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emmajoycarlson.bsky.social
The science was cutting edge, and the company was unparalleled- thank you everyone for such a welcoming and thrilling #GRCMicroPop! Looking forward to cyberstalking all your google scholar profiles ❤️
July 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
microcait.bsky.social
Sitting in the airport waiting to go back to Memphis after the Microbial Population Biology GRC! I had a really lovely time and met so many great people. Thank you all for making me feel at home! Apologies if I didn’t get to connect with you, but I am looking forward to 2 years from now!
July 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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This week I am at the #GRC meeting for Microbial Population Biology. It is my favourite meeting. There is nothing like these small meetings for gathering a community together, and I learn a huge amount here every time. Here is to 40 more years of this incredible conference!
A celebratory cake at the 40th anniversary of the Gordon conference that says “ 40 years Micro Pop Bio Answering big questions with little things” .
July 10, 2025 at 5:29 AM
microcait.bsky.social
Finally on site for my first GRS and GRC!
A projector screen with text welcoming people to the 2025 GRS on Microbial Population Biology.
July 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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binningsingletons.com
Today is the last day! #ASMicrobe 🧪🦠 #Microsky
July 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Archaea

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Comic. PERSON: It’s weird how, despite being one of the main branches of the tree of life, no archaea species are known to cause disease in humans. PERSON WITH SHORT HAIR: Personally, I think it’s because those gross methane breathers are too weird and incompetent to figure out how to hurt us even if they wanted to. [from small point under microscope on desk]: *Hey!* [caption] Bad news: After overhearing a conversation in our lab, Archaea has finally started harming humans.
May 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
microcait.bsky.social
When your labmate is a baker, you get VRE chromagar cupcakes
Cupcake with white icing as a base and decorated as a bacterial streak plate with blue and pink icing as the streak.
May 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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#ASMicrobe @ LA is just over a month away! Binning Singletons helps lower the activation energy required to have a great meeting through mentoring and community!
Microbes in cartoon panels. Text reads: BINNING SINGLETONS iS A MENTORING 8 NETWORKiNG PROGRAM FOR ATTENDEES SEEKING COMMUNITY IN A LARGE MEETING PARTICIPANT S SELF-IDENTIFY AS SINGLETONS (OFTEN SOLO AND 1ST TiME ATTENDEES) WE GROUP SINGLETONS iNTO BiNS BASED ON COMMON INTERESTS EACH BIN HAS A MENTOR THE MENTOR iS A MEETING COACH AND HELPS WITH LOGISTICS AND NETWORKING WE BRING THE DiFFERENT BINS TOGETHER TO GROW THE COMMUNIT WE SUPPORT SiNGLETONS BY PROMOTING THEIR PRESENTATiONS, HOSTING MEET-UPS, ATTENDING VENDOR EVENTS, ORGANIZING SOCIAL ACTIVITIES, AND PROVIDING ASSISTANCE THROUGHOUT THE MEETING
May 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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lostcitymagic.bsky.social
Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

For everyone observing Trans Visibility Day
Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The words are trans visibility and pronounced dahdahnaytleeyuhskuhee guhkawaduhdee gaysuhee
March 31, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Excited to share our latest, out today in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social Bacteriocin production facilitates nosocomial emergence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium www.nature.com/articles/s41... @idpittstop.bsky.social
Bacteriocin production facilitates nosocomial emergence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium - Nature Microbiology
Genomic and functional analyses of healthcare-associated vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium reveal that bacteriocin T8 is enriched in emergent lineages and provides a competitive advantage in v...
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March 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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vexedmuddler.bsky.social
Did this fun bacteria mani a few weeks back using a couple of my favourite nail art techniques - fluid art and velvet-style magnetics.
My hand posed palm down with my fingernails facing the camera. All the nails are at least partially visible. The middle and ring finger nails have a green (velvet magnetic) background with fluid art bacteria. The other nails are the inverse of this. On all nails the bacteria are outlined in white and flagellae have been painted on one end of each. The same mani, a close-up of 4 fingernails. A close up of the thumb nail.
March 11, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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copperbae.bsky.social
Although we are not federally funded for this summer, WE WILL STILL RUN The National Summer Undergraduate Research Project (NSURP) in 2025. We remain committed to the work that needs to be done and will continue to meet people where they are. 1/4 nsurp.org
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National Summer Undergraduate Research Project
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February 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
microcait.bsky.social
Happy snow day, Memphis! Working from home today with a warm cup of coffee!
January 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users?

Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT

More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
Two photos of Anna, a young white woman using an electric wheelchair, wearing a blue lab coat that fits her well with tables and dry-lab equipment in the background. Text reads: "A team of researchers and designers led by UCL is looking for wheelchair users working in wet lab environments to user-test what is believed to be the first-ever prototype of a lab coat adapted for wheelchair users."
January 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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"It's Dr, actually"

I'm very excited to share this new pin with you all! canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...
Round enamel pin with a trans flag design and the words "It's Dr, actually". The pin is on a pin backing card with a grassy design that says canopyrobin.etsy.com
January 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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🌿 Over 50 Indigenous Peoples from around the world collaborated on this groundbreaking book (including me!), now available for preorder.

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#NativesInSTEM #IndigenizeSTEM #NativesInAcademia

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January 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Forget Die Hard vancomycin is a Christmas antibiotic
Vancomycin colored over to be a 🎄
December 14, 2024 at 12:18 AM