#Microbes

1/ Q: Will staying isolated weaken our immune systems since we are not being exposed to other viruses like the common cold?A: The immune system gets stronger by learning to

#WomenInScienceWednesday #IndigenousInSTEM Kat Milligan-Myhre (@Napaaqtuk) is an Inupiaq scientist studying microbial interactions in the stickleback fish gut. She’s one of roughly 100 Alaska Natives with a Ph.D., and the first

Argh--the debunked mouse-burying-marbles study rears its ugly head again, this time from a Canadian science writer :( NTs: Please get over your obsession with trying to find out what "causes"

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01/18/2000, Astrophysicist Sir Fred Hoyle warned may be on brink of global epidemic.Outbreak caused by dust deposited high in atmosphere by passing comets forced to earth by sunspots.Peak every 11

Julie Johnston, PhD 🏳️‍🌈

I joked about this once so here it is...Lizzo as microbiology stains!Let's start with the common gram stains.Crystal Violet is often used to determine gram positive cells which have a

Asmeret Asefaw Berhe👩🏽‍🔬🌍🏔

This is concerning. My take on this might go against social norms, but the best place to put these bodies is in the ground, bury them quick. We have way

Many deep subsurface microbes like Bathyarchaeota, MBG-D, and Lokiarchaeota are dominant yet dormant in global marine sediments. The point of dormancy is that you get to grow someday. But we

StorytellingApe

Woohoo. My first paper is out. It's work done at @BLiSC_India at @DeepaAgashe 's lab, with funding from @India_Alliance. A 1 s summary:1234; we like microbes in our home. 5678;

To improve my teaching I collect instructive examples of students misconceptions about plant biology (e.g. all plants make photosynthesis) beyond photosynthesis and respiration. Many are formed at a very young

Today's Big Space Story: scientists detect an unusual gas in the atmosphere of Venus that *might* indicate life, pending more study.I'm especially excited by the potential parallels to recent research

Sudha Ramen IFS 🇮🇳

All about #WetMarket - Things you should know! Thread!We are familiar with the term 'Market' which has been a place of prime trade, since the days of Barter System. Broadly

#Phosphine at #Venus. If you want me to put money on it, I'd say there's an abiotic pathway that simply hasn't been identified yet. The team has worked very, very

Sarah Olson Michel

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person: why microbiology though?me, always: THERE ARE INVISIBLE MICROCOSMOS ALL AROUND US AND WITHIN US!! EVERYTHING CONTAINS MULTITUDES!!!! MICROBES ARE THE BASIS OF LIFE ITSELF!! ALSO THEY HAVE WEIRD NAMES

BREAKING: Data from two ground-based telescopes have discovered small quantities of phosphine gas in the clouds of Venus. There are no known non-biological mechanisms of making the gas on Venus,

I believe we get our immunity from touching people and objects touched by people.Now when I go out I run my hand along surfaces people touch like bank machines. I

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Vegans interest me. To be sure, the meat industry is extremely fucked up, but tons of other industries are too, just toward human laborers rather than animals. The idea that