Morgan Carter
@morgancarterphd.bsky.social
🌿 Asst Prof. #NewPI. Molecular host-bacterial-fungal interactions. NCSSM/NCSU/Cornell alum. Y'all means all. Views are my own. she/her
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Please check out our updated version of this preprint - now with even more transposable elements! 🧬🦠
No really, we added in a few more analyses about TEs and further compared Mycetohabitans to related bacteria, plus other treats. @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
No really, we added in a few more analyses about TEs and further compared Mycetohabitans to related bacteria, plus other treats. @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Submit your abstracts to @asm.org #ASMicrobe 2026.
I will be hosting a HUB session on #archaea!
"The Biology of Archaea: From Non-Models to Emerging Model Microbes".
Speakers will give a flash talk (5 minutes plus 2 minutes for questions). Speakers will be determined from abstract submissions.
I will be hosting a HUB session on #archaea!
"The Biology of Archaea: From Non-Models to Emerging Model Microbes".
Speakers will give a flash talk (5 minutes plus 2 minutes for questions). Speakers will be determined from abstract submissions.
November 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Submit your abstracts to @asm.org #ASMicrobe 2026.
I will be hosting a HUB session on #archaea!
"The Biology of Archaea: From Non-Models to Emerging Model Microbes".
Speakers will give a flash talk (5 minutes plus 2 minutes for questions). Speakers will be determined from abstract submissions.
I will be hosting a HUB session on #archaea!
"The Biology of Archaea: From Non-Models to Emerging Model Microbes".
Speakers will give a flash talk (5 minutes plus 2 minutes for questions). Speakers will be determined from abstract submissions.
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Science People: We at NSF are still recovering/catching up/getting our lives together. But the agency posted these FAQs about post-shutdown resumption of operations which might answer a lot of Qs for you: www.nsf.gov/resumption-o...
Resumption of Operations at NSF
Information for NSF staff and the research community regarding the agency's resumption of operations after a lapse in appropriations.
www.nsf.gov
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Science People: We at NSF are still recovering/catching up/getting our lives together. But the agency posted these FAQs about post-shutdown resumption of operations which might answer a lot of Qs for you: www.nsf.gov/resumption-o...
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If you're an undergrad looking for a great biodiversity/conservation field course, please check this out. Run by my buddy Jordan Karubian through Tulane U.
November 17, 2025 at 8:09 PM
If you're an undergrad looking for a great biodiversity/conservation field course, please check this out. Run by my buddy Jordan Karubian through Tulane U.
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Is there anywhere in the US that does dual lipidomics analysis? 🦠🔬
November 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Is there anywhere in the US that does dual lipidomics analysis? 🦠🔬
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JOB ALERT @ UNC Charlotte
Come be my newest colleague!
DM me if you have questions about the department, city, or University
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65031
Come be my newest colleague!
DM me if you have questions about the department, city, or University
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65031
Assistant Professor
The successful candidate will be expected to develop and maintain an externally funded research program involving Ph.D., Masters, and undergraduate students and to teach graduate and undergraduate cou...
jobs.charlotte.edu
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
JOB ALERT @ UNC Charlotte
Come be my newest colleague!
DM me if you have questions about the department, city, or University
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65031
Come be my newest colleague!
DM me if you have questions about the department, city, or University
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65031
We are hiring!! Biological Sciences as UNC Charlotte has a broad search for a new assistant professor.
Apps reviewed 12/15.
Please spread the word! 💚⛏️
#PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
Apps reviewed 12/15.
Please spread the word! 💚⛏️
#PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
Assistant Professor
Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in the biological sciences or related fields.Candidates are expected to document expertise in their specialty by a record of postdoctoral training, peer reviewed publ...
jobs.charlotte.edu
November 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
We are hiring!! Biological Sciences as UNC Charlotte has a broad search for a new assistant professor.
Apps reviewed 12/15.
Please spread the word! 💚⛏️
#PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
Apps reviewed 12/15.
Please spread the word! 💚⛏️
#PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
You know what I do not like?
Hearing the major cross-road by my house on a morning news podcast as a place being targeted.
Having to get an email reminder about what to do if ICE approaches you on campus.
Knowing friends are fearful of coming to my city.
This sucks. This is terrorizing our people.
Hearing the major cross-road by my house on a morning news podcast as a place being targeted.
Having to get an email reminder about what to do if ICE approaches you on campus.
Knowing friends are fearful of coming to my city.
This sucks. This is terrorizing our people.
November 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
You know what I do not like?
Hearing the major cross-road by my house on a morning news podcast as a place being targeted.
Having to get an email reminder about what to do if ICE approaches you on campus.
Knowing friends are fearful of coming to my city.
This sucks. This is terrorizing our people.
Hearing the major cross-road by my house on a morning news podcast as a place being targeted.
Having to get an email reminder about what to do if ICE approaches you on campus.
Knowing friends are fearful of coming to my city.
This sucks. This is terrorizing our people.
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NSF is open again!
A few comments:
*Please be patient.
During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails.
*Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th.
*POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.
A few comments:
*Please be patient.
During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails.
*Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th.
*POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
NSF is open again!
A few comments:
*Please be patient.
During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails.
*Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th.
*POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.
A few comments:
*Please be patient.
During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails.
*Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th.
*POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.
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I'm looking forward to a fun year of working with these folks! We met today, and they are excited to start sharing great plant science!
📣ASPB is happy to announce the 2026 Plantae Fellows, an impressive group ready to bring their best to this resource for the global plant science community!🌱
Read more: buff.ly/CDI47lq
#PlantScience
Read more: buff.ly/CDI47lq
#PlantScience
November 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I'm looking forward to a fun year of working with these folks! We met today, and they are excited to start sharing great plant science!
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A far more important lesson to learn is that most genetic variation, including the capacity for genius in all domains of human endeavor, is shared across the whole of humanity.
How many Einsteins, Beethovens, Monets have died with their potential unrecognized?
How many Einsteins, Beethovens, Monets have died with their potential unrecognized?
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
- Stephen Jay Gould.
- Stephen Jay Gould.
November 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
A far more important lesson to learn is that most genetic variation, including the capacity for genius in all domains of human endeavor, is shared across the whole of humanity.
How many Einsteins, Beethovens, Monets have died with their potential unrecognized?
How many Einsteins, Beethovens, Monets have died with their potential unrecognized?
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Abstract submission open for #Fungal26 through Dec 4! Comparative & functional genomics, gene regulation, cell biology, biochemistry and metabolism, population & evolutionary genetics, host-pathogen interactions, ecology, and more. Can’t wait to see your science!
genetics-gsa.org/fungal-2026/...
genetics-gsa.org/fungal-2026/...
November 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Abstract submission open for #Fungal26 through Dec 4! Comparative & functional genomics, gene regulation, cell biology, biochemistry and metabolism, population & evolutionary genetics, host-pathogen interactions, ecology, and more. Can’t wait to see your science!
genetics-gsa.org/fungal-2026/...
genetics-gsa.org/fungal-2026/...
Still Into You - original song is Paramore, but this is a lovely country-leaning cover by Julia Sheer that brings a completely different vibe to it
open.spotify.com/track/7tBIV7...
open.spotify.com/track/7tBIV7...
November 12, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Still Into You - original song is Paramore, but this is a lovely country-leaning cover by Julia Sheer that brings a completely different vibe to it
open.spotify.com/track/7tBIV7...
open.spotify.com/track/7tBIV7...
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Up to 323 cancelled CSR study sections. That's more than the 204 sections cancelled earlier this year. Rescheduling is going to be a hot mess with NIH staff reductions and study section members heading into finals and holidays that limit availability. 🧪
Been a rough year for federally funded scientists, and I hate to add another tab to this spreadsheet. So far, the shutdown has resulted in cancellation of 161 CSR study sections. 🧪https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lLEx14q7HKrlYahQYJaN6aHKpMqSMJwX4aenyL5g_ZU/edit?usp=sharing
2025 Study section tracking
docs.google.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Up to 323 cancelled CSR study sections. That's more than the 204 sections cancelled earlier this year. Rescheduling is going to be a hot mess with NIH staff reductions and study section members heading into finals and holidays that limit availability. 🧪
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We are recruiting for an Editor to join JMM! We’re looking for Editors with some previous editorial experience to support our Disease, Diagnosis and Diagnostics section. Apply by 30 November 2025: microb.io/4oykaAo
Journal of Medical Microbiology Editor for the Disease, Diagnosis and Diagnostics: Call for Expressions of Interest
10 November 2025
microb.io
November 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
We are recruiting for an Editor to join JMM! We’re looking for Editors with some previous editorial experience to support our Disease, Diagnosis and Diagnostics section. Apply by 30 November 2025: microb.io/4oykaAo
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I have had other colleagues from Europe tell me they simply will not attend conferences in the US for the foreseeable future because they no longer feel welcome. They have seen the stories of travelers detained and don't want to hand their social media over to the current administration for approval
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I have had other colleagues from Europe tell me they simply will not attend conferences in the US for the foreseeable future because they no longer feel welcome. They have seen the stories of travelers detained and don't want to hand their social media over to the current administration for approval
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These autoclavable polypropylene fly fishing bead boxes (TidyCrafts) have a convenient injection molding scar dead center which helps me orient leaf tissue for gene gun shots.
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
These autoclavable polypropylene fly fishing bead boxes (TidyCrafts) have a convenient injection molding scar dead center which helps me orient leaf tissue for gene gun shots.
One of my undergraduate students is submitting a GRFP proposal today and I'm really proud of her resilience and determination to get one pulled together. 🤞
#NewPI life - always made better by the students
#NewPI life - always made better by the students
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
One of my undergraduate students is submitting a GRFP proposal today and I'm really proud of her resilience and determination to get one pulled together. 🤞
#NewPI life - always made better by the students
#NewPI life - always made better by the students
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Pre-ACA, I was a postdoc on an NSF fellowship at a university that didn't offer employment benefits to independent fellows. At that time, being a woman meant that my premiums were double that of my male counterparts. The extra cost came out of my grant's budget for benefits, equipment, and travel.
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Pre-ACA, I was a postdoc on an NSF fellowship at a university that didn't offer employment benefits to independent fellows. At that time, being a woman meant that my premiums were double that of my male counterparts. The extra cost came out of my grant's budget for benefits, equipment, and travel.
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I just got the first significant data report from my student and I’ve never been so excited before!
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I just got the first significant data report from my student and I’ve never been so excited before!
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Note for my academic friends- your University is almost certain to have a food pantry. They will make good use of your cash donation.
This, and also, create a food cupboard where you work to lower the barriers to accessing food. We just did this at our research center because, as illustrated in the thread below it's not just access to food, but efficient access to food. Having to wait in long lines makes the situation worse.
Friends, if you have the means to donate to a local food pantry financially via online giving, I highly encourage you to do that. But I don’t want to discount the importance of actually showing up at the pantry, even if it is just to drop off food. (1/5)
November 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Note for my academic friends- your University is almost certain to have a food pantry. They will make good use of your cash donation.
Spent a little time pretending to be a real mycologist today. 🧪🍄
November 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Spent a little time pretending to be a real mycologist today. 🧪🍄
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Per our previous posts on this, the social person doesn't get a say in the hazard descriptions so we must infer that this glass bottle breaks in a way that is unusually dangerous for glass bottles to break.
November 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Per our previous posts on this, the social person doesn't get a say in the hazard descriptions so we must infer that this glass bottle breaks in a way that is unusually dangerous for glass bottles to break.
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(I'm worried about a lot of the USDA field offices and similar--those are usually in rural areas where people are going to have to get out of to find work and won't be easy to get people back to. Lots of potential consequences in things like the US food system....)
November 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
(I'm worried about a lot of the USDA field offices and similar--those are usually in rural areas where people are going to have to get out of to find work and won't be easy to get people back to. Lots of potential consequences in things like the US food system....)
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⚠️ Alert! AFRI RFP Deadlines have been EXTENDED! Deadlines for submitting proposals for the AFRI’s Competitive Grants Program Foundational and Applied Science (FAS) Program (USDA-NIFA-AFRI-011134) will be shared after the government shutdown ends. More info 👉 www.nifa.usda.gov/grants/progr...
AFRI Deadlines
The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative has numerous program area priorities in the three Requests for Applications (RFAs) posted each year. Each program a
www.nifa.usda.gov
November 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
⚠️ Alert! AFRI RFP Deadlines have been EXTENDED! Deadlines for submitting proposals for the AFRI’s Competitive Grants Program Foundational and Applied Science (FAS) Program (USDA-NIFA-AFRI-011134) will be shared after the government shutdown ends. More info 👉 www.nifa.usda.gov/grants/progr...
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One of the most useful resources for anyone who uses fluorescence methods.
The FPbase spectra viewer just had it's biggest software refactor in 6 years. It *should* be largely invisible to the end user (hopefully just faster and less buggy). Please let me know if you find any issues as you use it!
www.fpbase.org/spectra/
www.fpbase.org/spectra/
FPbase Fluorescence Spectra Viewer
An interactive fluorescence spectra viewer to evaluate the spectral properties of fluorescent proteins, organic dyes, filters, and detectors.
www.fpbase.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
One of the most useful resources for anyone who uses fluorescence methods.