Michael Cory, PhD
@mcory.bsky.social
SynBio HIVE Fellow @ Harvard Medical School
Engineering microbes for sustainability
PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
He/Him
Engineering microbes for sustainability
PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
He/Him
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We’re starting to look for postdocs for 2026 and beyond. Nothing official yet, but if you want to use your synbio skills and the growing Microbe-Mineral Atlas to build cutting-edge biomining technologies read more below:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Microbe-Mineral Atlas Engineering
The Barstow lab at Cornell University is looking for a new postdoc for 2026 and beyond to help us with the next phase of our Microbe-Mineral Atlas project. We plan on going from basic scientific disco...
docs.google.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
We’re starting to look for postdocs for 2026 and beyond. Nothing official yet, but if you want to use your synbio skills and the growing Microbe-Mineral Atlas to build cutting-edge biomining technologies read more below:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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1/ Happy to share our preprint from the Greenleaf Lab: beCasKAS, our method to directly detect CRISPR base editor off-targets in primary cells. We additionally show how non-coding edits can be triaged for epigenetic dysregulation using deep learning.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
1/ Happy to share our preprint from the Greenleaf Lab: beCasKAS, our method to directly detect CRISPR base editor off-targets in primary cells. We additionally show how non-coding edits can be triaged for epigenetic dysregulation using deep learning.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This is NOT cute. Ph.D. level experts only cram in your pocket when they're really stressed.
OpenAI releases the newest version of the AI model that powers its popular ChatGPT chatbot, with CEO Sam Altman promoting it as like having a “team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket.”
OpenAI releases GPT-5, calling it a ‘team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket’
OpenAI says its latest version of the popular AI model is better at coding, more accurate and less deceptive than previous versions.
nbcnews.to
August 8, 2025 at 1:08 AM
This is NOT cute. Ph.D. level experts only cram in your pocket when they're really stressed.
That is a cosmic dog nose
"Ripples in space-time from collision recorded by gravitational wave detector forces a rethink of how the objects form"
www.theguardian.com/science/2025... by @iansample.bsky.social reports on our discovery of #GW231123
☄️🧪🔭⚛️
www.theguardian.com/science/2025... by @iansample.bsky.social reports on our discovery of #GW231123
☄️🧪🔭⚛️
Scientists detect biggest ever merger of two massive black holes
Ripples in space-time from collision recorded by gravitational wave detector forces a rethink of how the objects form
www.theguardian.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
That is a cosmic dog nose
The Trump administration covers the whole spectrum of sufficiently advanced stupidity to pure malice - and the end result in all cases is just an endless stream of evil.
"At FDA we're accelerating drug approvals so that you don't need to use primates or even animal models. You can do the drug approvals very, very quickly with AI."
July 2, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The Trump administration covers the whole spectrum of sufficiently advanced stupidity to pure malice - and the end result in all cases is just an endless stream of evil.
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New preprint is out where we report a new obligate (?) methylotrophic bacteria with diel cycle of methanol dehydrogenase transcription in surface seawater, with implications for marine lanthanide and carbon cycling. Where the methanol comes from is a mystery! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
June 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
New preprint is out where we report a new obligate (?) methylotrophic bacteria with diel cycle of methanol dehydrogenase transcription in surface seawater, with implications for marine lanthanide and carbon cycling. Where the methanol comes from is a mystery! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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I am calling for the immediate removal of an HHS Secretary that does not believe in *GERM THEORY*.
If we scientists and healthcare professionals cannot bring enough muscle to push the government into ousting him, we are lost as professions.
If we scientists and healthcare professionals cannot bring enough muscle to push the government into ousting him, we are lost as professions.
Kennedy's thoughts and actions make a lot more sense when you realize he doesn't believe in a foundational scientific principle.
RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory
In his 2021 book vilifying Anthony Fauci, RFK Jr. lays out support for an alternate theory.
arstechnica.com
May 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I am calling for the immediate removal of an HHS Secretary that does not believe in *GERM THEORY*.
If we scientists and healthcare professionals cannot bring enough muscle to push the government into ousting him, we are lost as professions.
If we scientists and healthcare professionals cannot bring enough muscle to push the government into ousting him, we are lost as professions.
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Our work on biological rock weathering for CO2 sequestration is online as a pre-print: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I am new to Bluesky - check out our paper and lets exchange follows if you are one of the following!
I am new to Bluesky - check out our paper and lets exchange follows if you are one of the following!
April 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Our work on biological rock weathering for CO2 sequestration is online as a pre-print: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I am new to Bluesky - check out our paper and lets exchange follows if you are one of the following!
I am new to Bluesky - check out our paper and lets exchange follows if you are one of the following!
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HEY BOSTON! 📣☀️
MARCH 7TH, MASSACHUSETTS STATE CAPITOL!
Join us to #standupforscience2025 and make your voice heard!
SEE YOU THERE!
www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience20225
MARCH 7TH, MASSACHUSETTS STATE CAPITOL!
Join us to #standupforscience2025 and make your voice heard!
SEE YOU THERE!
www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience20225
February 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
HEY BOSTON! 📣☀️
MARCH 7TH, MASSACHUSETTS STATE CAPITOL!
Join us to #standupforscience2025 and make your voice heard!
SEE YOU THERE!
www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience20225
MARCH 7TH, MASSACHUSETTS STATE CAPITOL!
Join us to #standupforscience2025 and make your voice heard!
SEE YOU THERE!
www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience20225
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Get in dorks, we're going protesting!
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL
Because science is for everyone!
Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL
Because science is for everyone!
Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
February 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Get in dorks, we're going protesting!
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL
Because science is for everyone!
Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL
Because science is for everyone!
Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap.
Sign and Circulate.
Mobilize. Organize.
chng.it/LS57Nk7r6k
Sign and Circulate.
Mobilize. Organize.
chng.it/LS57Nk7r6k
This campaign needs you now
Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap (NOT-OD-25-068)
chng.it
February 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap.
Sign and Circulate.
Mobilize. Organize.
chng.it/LS57Nk7r6k
Sign and Circulate.
Mobilize. Organize.
chng.it/LS57Nk7r6k
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I’ve unfortunately needed to add more material to my post from yesterday. The re-election of Donald Trump is looking like the biggest act of American self-destruction since the Civil War.
Same link, new title and some updates.
Same link, new title and some updates.
Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
www.science.org
February 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I’ve unfortunately needed to add more material to my post from yesterday. The re-election of Donald Trump is looking like the biggest act of American self-destruction since the Civil War.
Same link, new title and some updates.
Same link, new title and some updates.
Reposted by Michael Cory, PhD
I am a biologist working on organizing rn. Even I was not aware until recently that RFK Jr literally does not believe in germ theory. He believes in miasma or "terrain" theory. Openly. In 2025.
He rejects vaccines and he rejects medicine based on germ theory.
That will kill untold numbers.
He rejects vaccines and he rejects medicine based on germ theory.
That will kill untold numbers.
RFK Jr is a zealot. His zeal may be attractive to those who share his views, but by definition it means he is uncompromising, cherry picking, and dismissive of good data and science that is contrary to his views. That’s not someone you put in charge of a scientific agency.
January 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I am a biologist working on organizing rn. Even I was not aware until recently that RFK Jr literally does not believe in germ theory. He believes in miasma or "terrain" theory. Openly. In 2025.
He rejects vaccines and he rejects medicine based on germ theory.
That will kill untold numbers.
He rejects vaccines and he rejects medicine based on germ theory.
That will kill untold numbers.
Reposted by Michael Cory, PhD
58 Democrats helped Republicans pass the Laken Riley Act, which will enable Trump's ICE to put migrants *accused* of shoplifting in detention, without due process.
As in, with Trump's new call to detain 30,000 migrants in Guantanamo, these Democrats may help put them there:
As in, with Trump's new call to detain 30,000 migrants in Guantanamo, these Democrats may help put them there:
January 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
58 Democrats helped Republicans pass the Laken Riley Act, which will enable Trump's ICE to put migrants *accused* of shoplifting in detention, without due process.
As in, with Trump's new call to detain 30,000 migrants in Guantanamo, these Democrats may help put them there:
As in, with Trump's new call to detain 30,000 migrants in Guantanamo, these Democrats may help put them there:
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Hi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able.
#academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social
#academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social
January 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Hi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able.
#academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social
#academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social
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Ten species comprise half of the bacteriology literature, leaving most species unstudied https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.04.631297v1
January 5, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Ten species comprise half of the bacteriology literature, leaving most species unstudied https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.04.631297v1
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Our review on bacterial metallostasis is now online in Chemical Reviews! This collaboration by the Giedroc (@betainverse.bsky.social and @jsrocchio.bsky.social) and Capdevila labs delves into bacterial metal regulation. 🦠 #Microbiology #ChemicalReviews #BacterialMetallostasis doi.org/10.1021/acs....
December 15, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Our review on bacterial metallostasis is now online in Chemical Reviews! This collaboration by the Giedroc (@betainverse.bsky.social and @jsrocchio.bsky.social) and Capdevila labs delves into bacterial metal regulation. 🦠 #Microbiology #ChemicalReviews #BacterialMetallostasis doi.org/10.1021/acs....
Reposted by Michael Cory, PhD
Reposted by Michael Cory, PhD
Lanthanum and cerium added to soil influence microbial carbon and #nitrogen cycling genes
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Lanthanum and cerium added to soil influence microbial carbon and nitrogen cycling genes
The soil microbiome plays an important role in carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) processing and storage and is influenced by rare earth elements (REEs), whi…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 2, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Lanthanum and cerium added to soil influence microbial carbon and #nitrogen cycling genes
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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