My lab website is live!! thelewinlab.com Next up: recruiting some awesome people so I'm not the only one on the lab members page 😂

2 more weeks before baby is here and my work to-do list is not getting smaller. Neither my personal one.

Join us for our next Department of Biology seminar this Friday. This week Dr Daniel will speak about her education research program focused in increasing the next generation of biologist.

I am looking for a PhD student (Fall 2023) to study the links between hydrological properties and aquatic microbial communities in Texas rivers. This project is funded by the U.S. Army Corps. Please RT. tinyurl.com/5bjvuzxz

Postdoc(s) available in my lab! Looking for postdocs interested in understanding how diversity impacts microbial interactions & disease. Job posting here: thelewinlab.com/postdoc and email or DM me with any questions. Please RT & share! #postdoc #microbiology #interactions

I’m looking to recruit PhD students for Fall 2023. *Very competitive funding*. Candidates with MS degrees preferred. Email me if you’re interested in insect microbiome 🐛🪲🪳 Please RT. carloslab.wp.txstate.edu

🤝 My lab is looking to add two PhD students for fall 2023 with a (broad) focus on human dimensions of wildlife. These positions are fully funded for up to four years. Lab application deadline is 12/23/22 (don't wait). Full details are here: serenarilab.com/lab-opportunit…

Come join the learning at One Health Microbiome Center and at the YouTube Channel for past seminars. You can zoom in this Friday, 11AM EST, link ⬇️. @dr_kozik always pursued her curiosities about biology, and she took that creative passion to the highest ranks while co-founding @BlackInMicro.

Check out our new paper in Microb Ecol from the Carlos-Shanley Camila Carlos, PhD 👩🏾‍🔬 👩🏾‍🏫 and Huertas lab showing how nitrite (a common water pollutant) changes the microbiome composition of the nose, skin and gill of goldfish. A 🧵 rdcu.be/cYhwj txstResearch #womeninstem

the recent grant rejection confirms what I already suspected. I am not cut out for science

Always remember, this is the struggle of every academic who's not a native English speaker

if someone tells you that having a second child is easier, know they are liars. actually, your stress increases exponentially

Just found out we won’t have a daycare for my youngest for the Spring semester. Not sure how I will manage to keep my full time job that doesn’t pay me enough to hire a full time nanny #momacademia

Throwback to this awesome episode with Camila Carlos, PhD 👩🏾‍🔬 👩🏾‍🏫! Microbiota all around the globe and phylogeny! open.spotify.com/episode/1xcng6…

It is that time of the year again. I love teaching Hidden Markov Models!

Excited to be awarded the top poster award at the 2023 TXST Texas State University GSRC The Graduate College! 🦠🐒🏅 Jill Pruetz Camila Carlos, PhD 👩🏾‍🔬 👩🏾‍🏫

Megafish: a freshwater fish over six feet in length or more than 200 pounds. Catch our latest "Fish of the Week" episode with special guest Zeb Hogan: fws.gov/fish-of-the-we… Alligator Gar. 📷 Ryan Hagerty/USFWS #AllTheFish

Very thrilled that keep the study of lignocellulose biodegradation in termites is going. Collaborated with Daniel Yelle USDA Forest Service, J. Ralph Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), Currie-Lab Ants, etc., using sate-of-the-art NMR, we addressed woody plant decay across termites. science.org/doi/epdf/10.11…