Chart showing in many countries, people see their fellow citizens as morally good.
We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country.
The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: www.pewresearch.org/...
Remember! Applied and Environmental Microbiology solicits minireviews. And they are free to publish!
There's 2 more I want to write. Time in my career to summarize and rant.
In my upper level class, we read a lot of primary literature since microbial ecology is moving so fast and the textbooks can't keep up.
Today I had the primary author of a paper join - I didn't tell the students - and they were shocked! It was so fun! I love when students can see authors as people.
Thanks! Wait til you see the next chapter - hopefully makes people think :)
Jacob is defending his thesis later this month, and gotta say, there's nothing like going in with chapters already published!
Also props to our reviewers, you improved this and were super helpful!
This is also a product of our dept writing class! W's all around.
New paper out! We sat down and compiled all viral work in marine sediments. The water column has been getting a second look for viral interactions, its time for sediment to have the same!
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
It's not that AI is useless.
It's that AI is useful like asbestos was useful.
I’m teaching our career prep seminar this year.
This is basically how class goes: youtube.com/shorts/B9Nit...
Good news: Scientists were wrong about how bad sea level rise is.
Bad news: It’s even worse than we thought.
The inverted microbial loop stimulates mineralisation of sedimentary organic detritus bg.copernicus.org/articles/23/... #jcampubs 🌊
My son is in JROTC. They’ve been told they cannot wear uniforms in public anymore.
All reaction to Iran. Kudos for protecting my kid but also what lesson are we teaching now? Run scared after you do war crimes?
Beyond ammonia-oxidizing bacteria-centric paradigms: #Geobacter -assisted anodic anaerobic ammonia oxidation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
3 hr commute but at least listened to good audiobook and saw parents. Got to discuss prepaying for funeral. Definitely enough adulting for today.
"She compared living in the U.S. to visiting a theme park: mesmerizing for a child, but less appealing a decade later."
With Eugene Koonin, we propose a concept of “the selfish ribosome”, under which evolution of life is viewed as a ribosomal takeover, where the ribosome evolved to consume most of the cell’s resources, while other cellular componentry ensures the propagation of the ribosome. arxiv.org/abs/2602.23268
I’m getting excited about my 3 hr commute tomorrow because I have a good audiobook to start. 💪
Yes. Was absolutely stunned. She made me realize the years of dealing with it was impacting my whole life.
Srsly took 2 sessions for therapist to ask me if I worked in a male dominated field. I hadn’t been talking about work at all by that point.
Nah I haven’t watched it.
Sometimes things happen in your career where the past events of sexism and neglect that you’ve experienced get ripped wide open. I should write a fucking book.
tagging @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social @uncultured.carinilab.com @mesohaline.bsky.social @methanojen.bsky.social @jcamthrash.bsky.social @surtlab.bsky.social @darkmicrobio.bsky.social @jlgoff.bsky.social @viromegirl.bsky.social @ianhewson.bsky.social @laurawilliams.bsky.social in case y'all have thoughts
🦠 Microbial friends - what is the BEST thing you've ever seen done in a teaching seminar demonstration during an interview? Pitch was to do an upper level micro lesson. Appreciate any tips for @micromal.bsky.social to consider.
It’s called a functioning spinal column. Thank you @scoutingamerica.bsky.social.
Amen.
My neighbor left the federal government to take the director of marine ops position at my campus. And they are going to starve UNOLS out of existence now. NSF and Navy were the biggest clients.
Sigh.
This is the directorate that funds all of the earth, ocean & atmosphere research at NSF.
Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.
The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇
I don’t even know anymore. War, the senseless murder of civilians, pedophiles in power, just a whole lot of fuckshit.
Ah. I thought for me it was just perimenopause. It would be nice to live in precedented times.
I’m shocked. We don’t have anything like this. If someone did shit like this to me I would just never go to the meetings.
