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does walking to the autoclave count as fieldwork

*on a first date* Yeah I guess you could say I’m the Steve Irwin of yeast

who decided to call them “probiotics” and not “bacteriYUM”

As we move forward in a new era of open science, mechanisms must protect data generators and ensure scientific content is accurately propagated. I look forward to discussions establishing best practices for data use, including at a minimum adhering to established data policies.

If this gets 200 likes I will 16s sequence a Taco Bell Baja Blast If this gets 1000 likes I will do deep metagenomics of a Taco Bell Nachos Bel Grande

The preliminary results are IN: There were ZERO culturable microbes recovered from Taco Bell Mountain Dew Baja Blast Freeze. Methods in replies.

Humans are just several trillion bacteria in a trenchcoat trying to get into a bar

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A UN report looked at the climate change effects of land use. We've been tracking many trends at the intersection of climate and food and taking action against. Learn about the importance of healthy soil and what we're doing to help farmers.

So far, USDA has reportedly hired only 13 new employees to replace ~430 NIFA & ERS staff members who decided to quit rather than move to Kansas City. The mass attrition is crippling the agencies' capacity to conduct and fund critical agricultural research. thefern.org/ag_insider/few…

Using this account to aggregate all the cool microbial ecology stuff on the web.

An overwhelming consensus—over 97%—of climate scientists agree that human activity is the driving force behind today's rate of global temperature increase. Natural factors that impact the climate are still at work, but cannot account for today’s rapid warming.

Greenhouse gases: Carbon dioxide 🔴⚫🔴 Methane  ⚪ ⚪⚫⚪  ⚪ Water vapor 🔴 ⚪⚪ Nitrous oxide 🔵🔵🔴 Ozone 🔴🔴 🔴 Chlorofluorocarbon  🆑 🇫⚫🇫  🆑 Science-denying bluster 🗣️📣💨💨💨

Soils wouldn’t be the same without their biology! To celebrate soil biodiversity on #WorldSoilDay I’ll send one of my soil ecology stickers (your choice!) to the first 50 soil lovers to RT this & DM me! 🍃🐜🍄🐞🐌🍂

Post docs wanted for summer 2018-looking for folks with experience in metagenomics, field work, or anaerobic metabolisms. Email PI Wrighton!

And today in why microbiology of the built environment matters #microBEnet flip.it/85goJt

Great 2-year post-doc opportunity in Environmental Microbiology at Eawag! Pick your own topic, select your collaborators, write your own project...! Details: apply.refline.ch/673277/0585/pu…

I am looking for a post-doc to join our 'farm-to-ferment' phyllosphere microbiome project. Please RT sites.tufts.edu/wolfelab/join-…

Purdue is getting an automated phenotyping facility. These plants come out of their growth room on a conveyor, go through a series of imaging chambers, get watered, then back to the growth room. Automatically!