Martin Hoyt
@martinhoyt.bsky.social
Mostly molecular biology, microbes, music, and baseball
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Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪
From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
September 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪
From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
Bacterial defense systems are fascinating and their characterization has led to to the development of new genetic engineering tools. This is a nice summary of new research.
Just as our bodies have evolved to defend us against bacterial and viral pathogens, bacteria face the same challenges. They must deter their own viruses, chemically compete with other microbes, and deal with challenges from eukaryotic hosts 1/n 🧪
June 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Bacterial defense systems are fascinating and their characterization has led to to the development of new genetic engineering tools. This is a nice summary of new research.
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Just as our bodies have evolved to defend us against bacterial and viral pathogens, bacteria face the same challenges. They must deter their own viruses, chemically compete with other microbes, and deal with challenges from eukaryotic hosts 1/n 🧪
June 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Just as our bodies have evolved to defend us against bacterial and viral pathogens, bacteria face the same challenges. They must deter their own viruses, chemically compete with other microbes, and deal with challenges from eukaryotic hosts 1/n 🧪
Love this. The universe is amazing vast and beautiful.
Yesterday we released our cosmic treasure chest...and now it's yours to explore! With ✨~10 million galaxies✨ in the image, there's plenty to find.
Pan, zoom, and hunt for gems in this treasure chest using Skyviewer - and be sure to share your favorites with us! 🔭🧪
➡️ skyviewer.app/explorer
Pan, zoom, and hunt for gems in this treasure chest using Skyviewer - and be sure to share your favorites with us! 🔭🧪
➡️ skyviewer.app/explorer
June 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Love this. The universe is amazing vast and beautiful.
The National Institutes of Health websites are all down at the moment.
March 2, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The National Institutes of Health websites are all down at the moment.
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Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
February 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
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BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies
Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
www.npr.org
January 31, 2025 at 9:58 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
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Naval officer, hero, peanut farmer, dad, husband, President, humanitarian who has built homes for the homeless and almost eradicated Guinea worm, a peacemaker, a brilliant and good man. 🙏🏽
December 29, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Naval officer, hero, peanut farmer, dad, husband, President, humanitarian who has built homes for the homeless and almost eradicated Guinea worm, a peacemaker, a brilliant and good man. 🙏🏽
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Sadly, it’s a good time to once again share this amazing infographic that we ran at @science.org more than 7 years ago
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...
Here's the visual proof of why vaccines do more good than harm
See year by year how vaccines beat back nine dangerous infectious diseases
www.science.org
December 14, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Sadly, it’s a good time to once again share this amazing infographic that we ran at @science.org more than 7 years ago
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...
This is fantastic work and a really interesting finding.
Excited to share our new study with the Müller and @SchullerJm labs, online @nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04971-z
This is T. kivui, an anaerobic bacterium. It uses hydrogen energy to store #CO2. How does it do it? #CryoET revealed membrane-anchored bundles of...
This is T. kivui, an anaerobic bacterium. It uses hydrogen energy to store #CO2. How does it do it? #CryoET revealed membrane-anchored bundles of...
November 24, 2024 at 12:34 AM
This is fantastic work and a really interesting finding.
Post an album that has emotionally damaged/healed you
October 29, 2023 at 4:18 AM
Post an album that has emotionally damaged/healed you
This is a nice, concise description of a classic experiment.
I want to describe the 1952 Hershey-Chase experiment in such a way that it's accessible to anyone. Why?
1. It's an easy experiment to grasp, but elegant in design.
2. It confirmed the role of DNA as the genetic material of life in a definitive way.
1. It's an easy experiment to grasp, but elegant in design.
2. It confirmed the role of DNA as the genetic material of life in a definitive way.
October 24, 2023 at 1:11 AM
This is a nice, concise description of a classic experiment.
This is a great thread explaining the theory underlying a recent Nature paper on Assembly Theory and evolution that’s been getting a lot of discussion.
1. Imagine we land a space probe on one of Jupiters’ moons, take up a sample of material, and find it is full of organic molecules. How can we tell whether those molecules are just randomly assembled goo or the outcome of some evolutionary process taking place there? 🧪
October 13, 2023 at 3:54 PM
This is a great thread explaining the theory underlying a recent Nature paper on Assembly Theory and evolution that’s been getting a lot of discussion.
One of the things I did for my new venture was to buy some reference texts.
October 9, 2023 at 10:06 PM
One of the things I did for my new venture was to buy some reference texts.
I left my position at a biotech company to do something new, so I’m heartened to see so many science folks on here.
Likewise for some people I followed at the other place to keep with new and interesting music.
Likewise for some people I followed at the other place to keep with new and interesting music.
October 9, 2023 at 10:02 PM
I left my position at a biotech company to do something new, so I’m heartened to see so many science folks on here.
Likewise for some people I followed at the other place to keep with new and interesting music.
Likewise for some people I followed at the other place to keep with new and interesting music.