Little migrating songbirds are performing one of the most stunning behaviors on the planet-- some are flying from Brazil to Canada, overnight. When they stop to rest they are exhausted and vulnerable.
Protect them by keeping cats inside! It helps cats too!
abcbirds.org/solutions/ke...
#OnThisDay in 1862, Louis Pasteur demonstrated that gently heating liquids could prevent spoilage! This experiment laid the foundation for pasteurization, a process that transformed food safety and continues to protect public health today. 🧪
New paper: Some things to consider when you want to use old samples of flowers from herbaria to make inferences about changes in flowering onset over time (or similar). Had a blast building some Bayesian models for this. Thx David and Daniel for letting me help doi.org/10.1111/nph.... 1/2
Outdoor cats kill up an estimated 2.4 billion birds in the U.S. each year. Discover how American Bird Conservancy is reducing the threat of roaming and stray cats through our Cats Indoors program.
The misogyny of the Trump administration is palpable…
#MedSky 🧪
How every layer of science's "self-correcting machinery" failed when Iva Veseli and I simply wanted to reproduce the findings of a high-profile study on gut microbiome and autism:
merenlab.org/2026/04/15/u...
Here's hoping that #MarylandDay goes well for the UMD Microbiome Center as they are giving out our silly stickers!
Phenology is increasingly studied using digitized biocollection data, yet no general theory links observed specimen collection dates to the unobserved processes governing phenological events. We der.....
Reminder — UW #Microbiology has an open search for an Assistant Professor, focusing on fundamental problems in #bacteriology!
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Excellent talk today by @berondam.bsky.social at Towson Univ! I've always been inspired by her #lessonsfromplants and #lessonsfrommicrobes. Appreciate her message that environment matters for mentoring at all career stages.
The myth of open data, reproducibility, responsibility, and accountability in science, and your role in it
merenlab.org
🧪 #measles #vaccination
Thanks for posting this
@jennifernuzzo.bsky.social 😢
This is a gift link, free to read, in case some people can’t read the whole thing
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years.
Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.”
wapo.st/4euUt1c
This gutted me.
“That’s why herd immunity is so important. If there hadn’t been an outbreak when Renae was a baby, I don’t think she would have contracted it. She was eligible for the vaccine just seven months later”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
