This doesn't require "creative solutions," like university-sponsored yoga, meditation, or journalling. It's literally just better pay, fewer hours, and removal of abusers.

Kevin Blake, winner of the 2024 #LaskerEssay Contest called for diversification of populations surveyed in microbiome research. ow.ly/j3VT50Syc8q @kevinblakephd Test Account

Outpaced in the Evolutionary Arms Race by Kevin Blake — Reports on antibiotic resistance almost invariably begin with a roll call of several very big numbers. 4.95 million deaths per year globally, calculates the WHO... Read more > tinyurl.com/4ta7b4an

I wrote about a fatal case of MDR E. coli bacteremia which adapted to evade antibiotic treatment not once, but TWICE in ~1 month. With just a handful of mutations it became resistant to every antibiotic thrown at it.

Our letter is out in this week's Science: Teach creativity in science! Creativity can be taught, nurtured and encouraged. Access to the space, time, and tools for creativity is crucial for the training of early career scientists. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… night-science.org

The 16S rRNA gene is the standard for differentiating between bacterial taxa by DNA sequencing. But what does it mean when one species' sole copy isn’t encoded on the chromosome, but a 9-kb plasmid? Read my story about this evolutionary oddball: medium.com/the-quantastic…

What're alternatives to biorender? - Simon Duerr's BioIcons bioicons.com - SciDraw scidraw.io (scidrawio) - reactome's reactome.org/icon-lib - ModelMatcher's modelmatcher.net/downloads.html - @[email protected]'s phylopic.org ... are grt icon libraries!

I have been told to stop stealing muffins from the bakery. Unfortunately, it’s the only way to keep my lucrative muffin stand in business. Everyone is fine with this.

Vaccines account for 40% of the decline in infant mortality over the last 50 years. Infant mortality rates have plummeted over the last 50 years. Globally, they’ve fallen by over two-thirds, from around 10% in 1974 to less than 3% today. A recent study — published in The Lancet

BioRender updated their terms and, oh yes, I'm sure journals will be *thrilled* to print hyperlinks direct to BioRender's website at the bottom of figure legends. help.biorender.com/hc/en-gb/artic…

Had a blast working with the wonderful Aayushi Uberoi to create this visual abstract. The Uberoi Lab studies the interplay between microbes, hosts, and the environment to study the different pathologies of the skin. #sciencecommunication #science #art #illustration

It was fantastic working with Kevin Blake PhD to bring our lab vision in this illustration. Kevin is scientific editor @wusm_pathology and I always learn so much from him.

Rarely have I seen AI described so succinctly.

The opacity of academic prose arises from the epistemological imperative to operationalize disciplinary jargon, facilitating intra-specialized discourse while obfuscating heterogenous interpretive accessibility and perpetuating a recursive dialectic of erudition and exclusion.

Every student who’s had an English class at my school has seen this on repeat. I guarantee you at least one graduate’s told their professors they don’t know what a paragraph is 😂🤣

Do carnivorous plants have a "gut" microbiome? I wrote about the symbiotic relationship between the carnivorous sundew plant and a fungus which helps it digest insects. Read it on ASM's Small Things Considered 👉

What your brain's microbiome means for your health? The answer is: Absolutely nothing, as there is none. And no, brain microbiomes play also no role in neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's. This article is not based on scientific information that is credible.

Sen. Ted Cruz’s comparison of critical race theory to the KKK reveals a growing authoritarian push to suppress complex truths. #Opinion undark.org/2024/10/03/opi…

It's Nobel week, so—after a break last year when this account became a Karikó stan account—I am reposting my annual plea to give Lipman and Myers a Nobel Prize for creating BLAST substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/luisp…

The Medium Newsletter featured my article on this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, promoting it to millions of readers across the platform. blog.medium.com/nature-is-a-bl…