Jennifer Biddle
@jenbiddle.bsky.social
Taking over the world one microbe at a time.
Taking myself not too seriously.
Taking myself not too seriously.
A belt broke in my dads car and the engine may be toast. So while he waits for parts/to see if it can be fixed I dropped off my extra car to him. He had the nerve to look at the odometer and say “this has 175K miles?!”. Yes, this is why I will loan it out! It’s a 2012, just broke it in.
December 29, 2025 at 2:14 AM
A belt broke in my dads car and the engine may be toast. So while he waits for parts/to see if it can be fixed I dropped off my extra car to him. He had the nerve to look at the odometer and say “this has 175K miles?!”. Yes, this is why I will loan it out! It’s a 2012, just broke it in.
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Thanks to Jim Moylan, who pulled a borrowed car into a filling station on the wrong side on a rainy day & vowed to protect the rest of us from that annoying fate.
What are some of your favorite inventions that make life just a smidge better?
What are some of your favorite inventions that make life just a smidge better?
December 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Thanks to Jim Moylan, who pulled a borrowed car into a filling station on the wrong side on a rainy day & vowed to protect the rest of us from that annoying fate.
What are some of your favorite inventions that make life just a smidge better?
What are some of your favorite inventions that make life just a smidge better?
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God I love this.
This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.
December 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
God I love this.
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Read this. Merry Christmas indeed
December 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Read this. Merry Christmas indeed
Your brain must move so fast to be able to make the words come out of your mouth at that speed. 😜
What's a compliment you'll never forget?
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Your brain must move so fast to be able to make the words come out of your mouth at that speed. 😜
Went shopping for christmas eve dinner....
Neglected to realize I should make dinner tonight also....
I think I'll order pizza.
Neglected to realize I should make dinner tonight also....
I think I'll order pizza.
December 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Went shopping for christmas eve dinner....
Neglected to realize I should make dinner tonight also....
I think I'll order pizza.
Neglected to realize I should make dinner tonight also....
I think I'll order pizza.
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Even at research intensive (R1) universities in the US, "tenure density" is already below 50%.
December 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Even at research intensive (R1) universities in the US, "tenure density" is already below 50%.
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Universities are combining departments, eliminating programs, pushing AI, buying out tenured profs and moving from cheap labor to the cheapest most exploited labor imaginable
December 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Universities are combining departments, eliminating programs, pushing AI, buying out tenured profs and moving from cheap labor to the cheapest most exploited labor imaginable
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Announcing our next #NSFfunded workshop on "Telling Stories Through Data", co-lead by myself + @vgwschutte.bsky.social! It’s half bioinformatics data viz & half #SciComm - this year’s focus is host-associated microbiome datasets. Apply here to join us (form closes 1/10) bit.ly/TSTD2026 #symbiosky
December 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Announcing our next #NSFfunded workshop on "Telling Stories Through Data", co-lead by myself + @vgwschutte.bsky.social! It’s half bioinformatics data viz & half #SciComm - this year’s focus is host-associated microbiome datasets. Apply here to join us (form closes 1/10) bit.ly/TSTD2026 #symbiosky
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ICYMI - applications now open for our FREE #SciComm and #DataViz virtual workshop. Targeted towards grad students & postdocs!
Announcing our next #NSFfunded workshop on "Telling Stories Through Data", co-lead by myself + @vgwschutte.bsky.social! It’s half bioinformatics data viz & half #SciComm - this year’s focus is host-associated microbiome datasets. Apply here to join us (form closes 1/10) bit.ly/TSTD2026 #symbiosky
December 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Abstract portal is open for ASM Microbe 2026. New meeting format, same great science. Hope to see you in DC!
ASM Microbe | Abstracts
ASM Microbe showcases the best microbial sciences in the world and provides a one-of-a-kind forum to explore everything from basic microbiology to translation and application.
asm.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Abstract portal is open for ASM Microbe 2026. New meeting format, same great science. Hope to see you in DC!
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Key findings on vitamins and dementia everyone needs to know
This just published large-scale review suggests that vitamin B complex and C could help prevent cognitive decline. The world needs personalized nutrition in dementia prevention.
ht*tps://buff.ly/GYWjL8X
This just published large-scale review suggests that vitamin B complex and C could help prevent cognitive decline. The world needs personalized nutrition in dementia prevention.
ht*tps://buff.ly/GYWjL8X
December 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Key findings on vitamins and dementia everyone needs to know
This just published large-scale review suggests that vitamin B complex and C could help prevent cognitive decline. The world needs personalized nutrition in dementia prevention.
ht*tps://buff.ly/GYWjL8X
This just published large-scale review suggests that vitamin B complex and C could help prevent cognitive decline. The world needs personalized nutrition in dementia prevention.
ht*tps://buff.ly/GYWjL8X
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For those of us warning about democracy's potential disintegration, the decision by CBS to pull an exhaustively researched 60 Minutes piece, critical of Trump, is another red alert moment.
When truth disappears as the media gets coopted by the regime, there's little left.
When truth disappears as the media gets coopted by the regime, there's little left.
December 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
For those of us warning about democracy's potential disintegration, the decision by CBS to pull an exhaustively researched 60 Minutes piece, critical of Trump, is another red alert moment.
When truth disappears as the media gets coopted by the regime, there's little left.
When truth disappears as the media gets coopted by the regime, there's little left.
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I love the fact that some of the seemingly mundane observations you record as part of your job might prove to be useful for someone else someday in the future
NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
Church organ tuning records mirror our warming climate
The records appear to reflect climate change, as well as the increased heating of churches in winter
www.thereengineer.pro
December 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I love the fact that some of the seemingly mundane observations you record as part of your job might prove to be useful for someone else someday in the future
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The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"
December 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"
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Multidisciplinary training, over time, produces the highest impact people
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance
Scientists have long debated the origins of exceptional human achievements. This literature review summarizes recent evidence from multiple domains on the acquisition of world-class performance. We re...
www.science.org
December 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Multidisciplinary training, over time, produces the highest impact people
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Our first direct hit. Oddly our oyster work is the most popular thing we do. Great return on investment for taxpayers funding bay restoration.
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Horn Point Confirms Deep NOAA Cuts
A nearly 50 percent reduction in federal funding for oyster restoration threatens to sharply reduce oyster production in the Chesapeake Bay, jeopardizing one of the region’s most successful environmen...
cambridgespy.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Our first direct hit. Oddly our oyster work is the most popular thing we do. Great return on investment for taxpayers funding bay restoration.
cambridgespy.substack.com/p/horn-point...
cambridgespy.substack.com/p/horn-point...
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Happy solstice peeps!
December 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Happy solstice peeps!
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Dang it. There go all my self citations.
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
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December 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Dang it. There go all my self citations.
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Preprint now, submit to journal in January
December 19, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Preprint now, submit to journal in January
More #eldercare issues of late. Dad is feeling his age more and more so in past 3 weeks we’ve toured independent living apartments. Live in apt but access common meals. Cost is $3K to $7K. Most are like cruise ships on land. Now to make decisions.
December 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
More #eldercare issues of late. Dad is feeling his age more and more so in past 3 weeks we’ve toured independent living apartments. Live in apt but access common meals. Cost is $3K to $7K. Most are like cruise ships on land. Now to make decisions.
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🚨 Postdoctoral Opportunity for Female Scientists🚨
The University of Vienna is awarding at least 20 fully funded 4 year postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists
Interested? Get in touch via direct message
careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...
#MicroSky 🧪
#PostDoc @univie.ac.at
The University of Vienna is awarding at least 20 fully funded 4 year postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists
Interested? Get in touch via direct message
careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...
#MicroSky 🧪
#PostDoc @univie.ac.at
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
🚨 Postdoctoral Opportunity for Female Scientists🚨
The University of Vienna is awarding at least 20 fully funded 4 year postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists
Interested? Get in touch via direct message
careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...
#MicroSky 🧪
#PostDoc @univie.ac.at
The University of Vienna is awarding at least 20 fully funded 4 year postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists
Interested? Get in touch via direct message
careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...
#MicroSky 🧪
#PostDoc @univie.ac.at
For the past few years, a good friend and I have written "very honest Christmas letters" about our lives and shared them with each other.
I just wrote mine and fuck.... I need a nap. 2024-5 have been a total doozy for me.
I just wrote mine and fuck.... I need a nap. 2024-5 have been a total doozy for me.
December 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
For the past few years, a good friend and I have written "very honest Christmas letters" about our lives and shared them with each other.
I just wrote mine and fuck.... I need a nap. 2024-5 have been a total doozy for me.
I just wrote mine and fuck.... I need a nap. 2024-5 have been a total doozy for me.
My colleague is getting email harassed by a student regarding their grade.
Students - this isn't helping you. Write a draft and sit on it if needed. Wait a day between emails. Sending 6 within an hour isn't helping your case.
And now colleague thinks she has to lock herself in office for safety.
Students - this isn't helping you. Write a draft and sit on it if needed. Wait a day between emails. Sending 6 within an hour isn't helping your case.
And now colleague thinks she has to lock herself in office for safety.
December 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
My colleague is getting email harassed by a student regarding their grade.
Students - this isn't helping you. Write a draft and sit on it if needed. Wait a day between emails. Sending 6 within an hour isn't helping your case.
And now colleague thinks she has to lock herself in office for safety.
Students - this isn't helping you. Write a draft and sit on it if needed. Wait a day between emails. Sending 6 within an hour isn't helping your case.
And now colleague thinks she has to lock herself in office for safety.
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"The response on this community makes one thing clear we are not facing this moment alone. In just 24 hours, our members have sent over 7,000 emails and counting." AGU President Brandon Jones.
Join us here: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...
Join us here: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...
Save NCAR from being dismantled today!
The Trump Administration has vowed to dissolve the center that provides critical extreme weather and climate data for our nation.
agu.quorum.us
December 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
"The response on this community makes one thing clear we are not facing this moment alone. In just 24 hours, our members have sent over 7,000 emails and counting." AGU President Brandon Jones.
Join us here: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...
Join us here: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...