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2 for 28. I was 1 for 27. Grants funded vs. grants applied. The American grant system is broken. My middle name is R.—for rejection. Professional jealousy, imo, is a real thing. But, try, try, try…again applies. Stay tuned for something amazing and unbelievable in years to come.

Today, 6 June, is the 80th anniversary of D-Day-Europe. If you are alive in 2024, part of that is because of what happened 80 years ago. Democracy. Freedom. A better world, for all? That does not come easy. Embrace and understand the past. Make your local world—better! Vote.

Congratulations to the second annual Colorado School of Mines Quantitative Biosciences and Engineering field session students! We finished our four-week field session investigating biological solutions to plastic waste and recycling. Way to go all!

We now have the power to kill ourselves from the inside--even faster. We can worry about outside forces affecting us in the US, but the inside ones may be worse: npr.org/2024/06/14/g-s…

What a loss. Another one of the great humans passes. Take the lesson of Willie—be a great one! Willie Mays, baseball’s electrifying ‘Say Hey Kid,’ dies at 93 - The Athletic nytimes.com/athletic/30700…

If any of this happens, be concerned. If only a portion of this happens, be outraged. If all of this happens, the U.S. will cease to exist. Democracy is about patience and tolerance. Pay attention. Vote! via The New York Times nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Yet another spectacular June evening in a swamp for the Volta exercise (burning swamp methane) with the Microbial Diversity Course ⁦⁦Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)⁩

From lunch table to lab table…ever thought about the Eastern Oyster microbiome with their high concentration of spirochetes? Amazing! And no, they are not bad…⁦Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)⁩

It’s finally here! The “opus magnum” of my PhD, as @environmicrobio always referred to it. Our work in collaboration with Joint Genome Institute and Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) shows that multicellular magnetotactic bacteria (MMB) are metabolically and genetically heterogeneous:

Yet another example of where we all ⁦Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)⁩ have to—embrace and enjoy the wonder of it all!

Congrats Noor Hamdan & Carmen Villarruel--A great study on what happens to a stream with a lot of recreational tubing activity. I'll still keep on tubing, but not drinking the water and give more thought to managing the activity. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Follow up story on what in Clear Creek with recreational activity: denver7.com/news/front-ran…

Debate. 🍊—“They are eating the cats!” ABC News—is not following the debate rules. Biased coverage happening in real time. Check it.

Congratulations to Kalen Rasmussen for a great paper out in Geobiology on microbiota, silica, biosignatures and relevance to the rock record as described from Yellowstone National Park. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/6…

Join us for Microbial Diversity 2025! Life changing…

Great to be a part and mentor of first-gen Geobiology! I didn’t give 5% of my lifetime to one of the best interfaces in science for nothing—keep on going!

Pls share: Postdoc position in microbiology with a focus on antibiotic heteroresistance

I know—it snuck up on us too… The application deadline for the 2025 Microbial Diversity Course Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) has been extended to 10 February. If you would like to participate in a life-changing experience, please apply: mbl.edu/education/adva…