Had a GREAT time chatting with Dr. Marcy Balunas about chemical communication in symbioses on #MattersMicrobial #67. Very inspirational; I'm starting to regret my upcoming retirement. What a time to do microbiology! @BalunasLab @univpugetsound@ASMicrobiology
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For somebody working on the gut #microbiome, the responses ("gross", "embarrassment", "pseudoscience", etc.) to this @Nature article on the treatment of C-section babies with their mother’s poo are quite sobering. So, I thought I would provide a perspective in the thread below.
Feeding a baby born by caesarean section milk containing a tiny bit of their mother’s poo introduces beneficial microbes to their gut go.nature.com/48oD7hK
AMEN! As I was writing "get out the vote" postcards for @MomsRising in October - I kept thinking of all that women have gone through to just get the right to vote. @senecaprojectus captures it perfectly.
NEW AD🌟 Introducing "American Girl" – a powerful anthem for women as we stand together to reclaim our freedoms at the ballot box! 🗳️💪
Our voices matter. It's time to defeat Trump & MAGA extremism!🇺🇸
#AmericanGirl#WeWontGoBack
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WILD story about how local ghost tours are spooked by a national brand that has spread to something like 100 cities, including Baltimore and Annapolis.
Great @BaltimoreBanner read by @briaovers thebaltimorebanner.com/econo…
Here's my message to young people: you wouldn't let a bunch of old people decide what music you're going to listen to or what clothes you're going to wear – so don't let them decide your future.
Make a plan to vote today: IWillVote.com/Obama
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Fecal microbiota transplants (FMT) are last-resort treatments for recurrent C. difficile infection. In @mSphereJ, researchers define structural and functional changes associated with a successful FMT to aide development of microbiota-focused therapies. asm.social/28W
👶🦠Infant microbiomes have 5 different trajectories of development over the first 2 years of life, driven strongly by initial microbiome colonization and environmental exposures
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
On October 9th, I'll be giving a seminar on my career thus far to undergrads and grads in @ASMicrobiology !! I recently joined the Board at ASM, and I'm delighted to share my path through science and advice that helped me.
Registration: tinyurl.com/8ev7spfu
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And the Grand Prize Winner is... 🏆 Congratulations to @eliza_coli for their outstanding artwork in the #MicrobeArt2024 Contest! Your artwork creatively highlights the fight against AMR with cyclopeptides. 🦠
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The General Services Administration, which oversees the website that helps visitors register to vote, told NBC News that as of 2 p.m. ET Wednesday, 337,826 people have visited a custom URL that Swift posted on Instagram when she endorsed Kamala Harris. nbcnews.com/politics/2024-el…