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Cynthia Becker
@cynthiabecker25.bsky.social
Asst Prof @ Ithaca College 💙
Marine microbes 👩‍🔬 Coral disease 🪸 Metagenomics 🧬 Bassoonist 🎶
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Today was yet another sad day for science. All U-RISE training programs, including the one at SJSU, got stop work orders. We've had a version of this program at SJSU for 30+ yrs. Devastating for the students who got their stipends & tuition pulled w no notice & for the future of science 🧪 1/
March 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Hey #Microbiome peps - has anyone generated ONT (10.4) data for full length 16s rRNA analysis and has a data analysis/OTU clustering pipeline they are happy with and are willing to share? TIA!

#nanopore #MicrobiomeSky
December 5, 2024 at 9:31 PM
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Inter Research » Journals » MEPS » prepress abstract
www.int-res.com
December 2, 2024 at 11:49 PM
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Make sure you follow the #BlackEduSky starter pack

go.bsky.app/R1Fhqjw
November 23, 2024 at 8:47 PM
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Wow, Bluesky really took off in the last couple of days! The first microbiome starter pack is full now and I started a second one with non-overlapping profiles.

Check out these people below and please let me know if you would like to be included!

go.bsky.app/6vPBEty
November 13, 2024 at 1:56 AM
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Love this idea for helping the community make the transition to Bluesky, so I’ve compiled a woefully incomplete list of microbial ecologists and -omics peeps I know are here.

Please make suggestions and share. Let me know if you’d like to be added.

go.bsky.app/TQpaTqF
November 10, 2024 at 11:21 AM
Happy Halloween from the Ithaca College “Life on the Ocean” class 🦈🎃
When shark day lands (intentionally) on Halloween, of course I have to dress up!
October 31, 2024 at 11:11 PM
🌊 #ASLO25 abstracts due Mon, Oct 21st!! 📅

Please consider submitting an abstract to our session SS08: Integrating and developing #omics technologies in #aquatic community #ecology!

*invited speakers* @nekton4plankton.bsky.social & @akiledal.bsky.social
October 16, 2024 at 4:05 PM
These Barbies do science!! 🧫 🧬 🪸
✅Poster done
✅ Talk done
Now ready to absorb all the other great stuff #ASMicrobe has to offer!
June 14, 2024 at 10:52 PM
A couple of the lovely ladies of the @lebetimonas.bsky.social lab are in Atlanta for #ASMicrobe! Let’s meet up if you want to talk corals, disease, and microbiomes! 🪸

Talk - AES-IDS-011
Poster- AES-Friday-831
June 14, 2024 at 2:42 AM
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If you’re new to #ASMicrobe from @ASMicrobiology there’s a lot going on you might not know about. Here’s a few things that might help you have a better experience #BinningSingletons 1/n
What Huh GIF
Alt: What Huh GIF of Travolta
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June 12, 2024 at 12:59 AM
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Let the #ASMicrobe FOMO begin…. Thanks to everyone posting here! And check out Jean Lim and Aly Rogers’ poster on RNA viruses associated with Karenia brevis harmful algal blooms in Florida. #7239 EEB-P-001 – EEB01 Friday Microbial Ecology. Wundergrad Aly will be giving the lightning talk!
June 13, 2024 at 2:15 AM
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Multiple science job openings at the ⁦‪Gordon And Betty Moore Foundation ‬ www.moore.org/about/careers
Careers
www.moore.org
June 13, 2024 at 7:31 AM
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Back by popular demand - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2025!
PIs - Enter your position info here: forms.gle/adBbhEBqYUg5...
Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) - share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Please share!
Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2025
Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2025 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...
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June 10, 2024 at 11:05 PM
Just wrapped up a couple wonderful days at Cornell!! I had a great time sharing my research on sctld & microbes and loved all the science chats with other faculty. Thanks so much to @ianhewson.bsky.social for hosting me!
April 18, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Nothing says an academic “Happy Birthday” more than having a paper published on your birthday! 🎂🥳🎉🙌🏻
Check out our latest work highlighting how SW microbes capture and predict hurricane and disease (SCTLD) impacts on USVI reefs: enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Microorganisms uniquely capture and predict stony coral tissue loss disease and hurricane disturbance impacts on US Virgin Island reefs
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 5, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Had so much fun at #SUNYESF talking all things coral reef microbes and meeting all the wonderful scientists there! Thanks so much for hosting me @hannahgreich.bsky.social! 🪸
Had a blast hosting @cynthiabecker25.bsky.social at our #SUNYESF water seminar. We were treated to exciting coral reef microbe science and stellar graphics. 🪸🌊🧫
March 20, 2024 at 1:27 AM
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Had a blast hosting @cynthiabecker25.bsky.social at our #SUNYESF water seminar. We were treated to exciting coral reef microbe science and stellar graphics. 🪸🌊🧫
March 20, 2024 at 1:06 AM
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My Ph.D. student Erin had worked with an amazing group of ECR women to put together this much needed comprehensive review of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD).
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Stony coral tissue loss disease: a review of emergence, impacts, etiology, diagnostics, and interven...
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is destructive and poses a significant threat to Caribbean coral reef ecosystems. Characterized by the acute loss of coral tissue, SCTLD has impacted over 22 st...
www.frontiersin.org
January 27, 2024 at 2:37 AM
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Happy to share our latest research!
Over nearly a decade, we monitored two species of coral in Kāne‘ohe Bay, Hawai‘i to reveal that repetitive exposure to heatwaves leads to divergent coral bleaching and recovery trajectories #coralsky 🪸🐠🧪👩🏻‍🔬 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
January 16, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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New opinion piece in @TrendsMicrobiol @CellPressNews

A microbial matter close to my heart: the role of #Endozoicomonas in #corals. @marenziegler.bsky.social and I synthesized evidence from diverse studies, concluding corals and Endoz may not be the dream team we make them out to be 🧫🪸

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January 12, 2024 at 8:29 AM
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January 8, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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For grad students and postdocs interested in the Molecular and Cell biology of Symbiosis, come join us at MBL this summer! 4 week course spanning lots of cool organisms and topics. Application deadline Feb 21
🦠🦑🧽🪰🌱🪸🪼🧪
January 4, 2024 at 9:30 PM