Anne Estes
@mostlymicrobes.bsky.social
#scimom #scicomm sharing stories of our #microbe world. Associate Professor @TowsonU! @microbialTowson @craftymicrobiology #microbiome #microbiology #GirlScoutAlum www.mostlymicrobes.com
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Anne Estes
@mostlymicrobes.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Challenged my students to create "Thank a Microbe" flyers. Here's the example I made, we'll see what they come up with.
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5/6 For anyone worried about synthetic vs "natural" compounds, synthetics are often purer, more stable, & engineered to be more effective and SAFER than "natural" compounds. So do what's right for your baby, get them the vitamin K they need, prevent VKDB, and avoid risk of fatal brain bleeds. 🍎⚛️🧪🧬👩🔬🥽
February 8, 2026 at 10:05 PM
5/6 For anyone worried about synthetic vs "natural" compounds, synthetics are often purer, more stable, & engineered to be more effective and SAFER than "natural" compounds. So do what's right for your baby, get them the vitamin K they need, prevent VKDB, and avoid risk of fatal brain bleeds. 🍎⚛️🧪🧬👩🔬🥽
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6/6 here's a helpful resource:
Oh and talk to your doctor about the hepatitis B vaccine for your baby as well. The fact I had to sign a waiver in order to get the vaccine for my baby because of the current misinformation is sad. 🥽👩🔬🧬🧪⚛️🍎
health.ucdavis.edu/blog/cultiva...
Oh and talk to your doctor about the hepatitis B vaccine for your baby as well. The fact I had to sign a waiver in order to get the vaccine for my baby because of the current misinformation is sad. 🥽👩🔬🧬🧪⚛️🍎
health.ucdavis.edu/blog/cultiva...
Facts and myths parents should know about vitamin K shots for newborns | Cultivating Health
Vitamin K shots are part of routine care for newborns. However, there are many myths about vitamin K injections. Our experts give you the facts about this potentially life-saving vaccine.
health.ucdavis.edu
February 8, 2026 at 10:05 PM
6/6 here's a helpful resource:
Oh and talk to your doctor about the hepatitis B vaccine for your baby as well. The fact I had to sign a waiver in order to get the vaccine for my baby because of the current misinformation is sad. 🥽👩🔬🧬🧪⚛️🍎
health.ucdavis.edu/blog/cultiva...
Oh and talk to your doctor about the hepatitis B vaccine for your baby as well. The fact I had to sign a waiver in order to get the vaccine for my baby because of the current misinformation is sad. 🥽👩🔬🧬🧪⚛️🍎
health.ucdavis.edu/blog/cultiva...
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This is the sort of strategic planning that should go into #vaccine design 💉
They analysed 1,930 #Klebsiella pneumoniae 🦠🧫🧬 neonate blood isolates from 13 countries and estimate that 20 antigens 🧪 could cover 72.9% of all infections for 5–10 years
#IDSky #EpiSky
journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...
They analysed 1,930 #Klebsiella pneumoniae 🦠🧫🧬 neonate blood isolates from 13 countries and estimate that 20 antigens 🧪 could cover 72.9% of all infections for 5–10 years
#IDSky #EpiSky
journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...
Distribution of capsule and O types in Klebsiella pneumoniae causing neonatal sepsis in Africa and South Asia: A meta-analysis of genome-predicted serotype prevalence to inform potential vaccine cover...
Thomas Stanton and colleagues use whole genome sequencing to evaluate the prevalence of Klebsiella pneumoniae K and O antigen types in 13 countries in Africa and South Asia to help inform vaccine desi...
journals.plos.org
January 29, 2026 at 11:36 AM
This is the sort of strategic planning that should go into #vaccine design 💉
They analysed 1,930 #Klebsiella pneumoniae 🦠🧫🧬 neonate blood isolates from 13 countries and estimate that 20 antigens 🧪 could cover 72.9% of all infections for 5–10 years
#IDSky #EpiSky
journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...
They analysed 1,930 #Klebsiella pneumoniae 🦠🧫🧬 neonate blood isolates from 13 countries and estimate that 20 antigens 🧪 could cover 72.9% of all infections for 5–10 years
#IDSky #EpiSky
journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...
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A rescue puppy is to become one of only a handful of dogs in the world able to detect a multi-drug resistant lung infection.
Chilli is being trained to identify the scent of pseudomonas aeruginosa, a major cause of lung damage in cystic fibrosis.
🧪🐕🦠
@medsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Chilli is being trained to identify the scent of pseudomonas aeruginosa, a major cause of lung damage in cystic fibrosis.
🧪🐕🦠
@medsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Battersea rescue dog trained to detect lung infection
Chilli will be able to identify the scent of pseudomonas aeruginosa in people with cystic fibrosis.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 6:43 AM
A rescue puppy is to become one of only a handful of dogs in the world able to detect a multi-drug resistant lung infection.
Chilli is being trained to identify the scent of pseudomonas aeruginosa, a major cause of lung damage in cystic fibrosis.
🧪🐕🦠
@medsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Chilli is being trained to identify the scent of pseudomonas aeruginosa, a major cause of lung damage in cystic fibrosis.
🧪🐕🦠
@medsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...
January 27, 2026 at 4:01 AM
Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...
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Join #MVIF 46 cassyni.com/s/mvif-46
and #MeetTheSpeakers
@jeremyjbarr.bsky.social will discuss isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut!
and #MeetTheSpeakers
@jeremyjbarr.bsky.social will discuss isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut!
January 27, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Join #MVIF 46 cassyni.com/s/mvif-46
and #MeetTheSpeakers
@jeremyjbarr.bsky.social will discuss isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut!
and #MeetTheSpeakers
@jeremyjbarr.bsky.social will discuss isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut!
Let's start a virus snowflake blizzard! Snip out some viral snowflakes this weekend - using the great templates by @socialinfluenza.bsky.social See new blog post here: wp.me/p5dMJb-Rg
wp.me
January 24, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Let's start a virus snowflake blizzard! Snip out some viral snowflakes this weekend - using the great templates by @socialinfluenza.bsky.social See new blog post here: wp.me/p5dMJb-Rg
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Breast milk isn't just nutrition – it delivers live bacterial strains that colonize the infant gut and persist for months.
Happy to share our new paper, where we used metagenomics to track bacterial strains between 195 mother-infant pairs over the first 6 months of life:
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Happy to share our new paper, where we used metagenomics to track bacterial strains between 195 mother-infant pairs over the first 6 months of life:
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Assembly of the infant gut microbiome and resistome are linked to bacterial strains in mother’s milk - Nature Communications
Here, with metagenomic analyses on longitudinal samples collected from 195 mother-infant pairs, the authors show that the breast milk microbiome contributes to infant gut assembly through bacterial st...
doi.org
January 18, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Breast milk isn't just nutrition – it delivers live bacterial strains that colonize the infant gut and persist for months.
Happy to share our new paper, where we used metagenomics to track bacterial strains between 195 mother-infant pairs over the first 6 months of life:
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Happy to share our new paper, where we used metagenomics to track bacterial strains between 195 mother-infant pairs over the first 6 months of life:
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Book review of Microbes:The Unseen Agents of Climate Change is up on the blog - rb.gy/wchw8f. Really love this book and will use for Environmental Microbiology!
Book Review: Microbes: The Unseen Agents of Climate Change - Mostly Microbes
. This review was first published in American Biology Teacher 2025 Vol. 87, No. 2, pp. 147–150, ISSN 0002-7685. Microbes: The Unseen Agents of Climate Change. By David L. Kirchman. 2024. Oxford Univer...
rb.gy
January 17, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Book review of Microbes:The Unseen Agents of Climate Change is up on the blog - rb.gy/wchw8f. Really love this book and will use for Environmental Microbiology!
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🧵 1/7 #AltComms
MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) this week on a Zika outbreak in Bangladesh in 2024
This is classic, boots-on-the-ground epidemiology—and exactly why it still matters. Let’s dig in.
MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) this week on a Zika outbreak in Bangladesh in 2024
This is classic, boots-on-the-ground epidemiology—and exactly why it still matters. Let’s dig in.
Zika Virus Outbreak ...
This report describes a Zika outbreak in Dhaka, Bangladesh, during September-December 2024.
www.cdc.gov
January 9, 2026 at 9:26 PM
🧵 1/7 #AltComms
MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) this week on a Zika outbreak in Bangladesh in 2024
This is classic, boots-on-the-ground epidemiology—and exactly why it still matters. Let’s dig in.
MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) this week on a Zika outbreak in Bangladesh in 2024
This is classic, boots-on-the-ground epidemiology—and exactly why it still matters. Let’s dig in.
As you partake of bread and beer - give thanks for Saccharomyces cerevisiae! Yeast ferments sugar into alcohol. The CO2 given off is what helps bread rise.
Each semester we do a Fermentation Feast in class to "taste the diversity of cultures". Microbiology - the field full of sensory delights :)
Each semester we do a Fermentation Feast in class to "taste the diversity of cultures". Microbiology - the field full of sensory delights :)
November 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
As you partake of bread and beer - give thanks for Saccharomyces cerevisiae! Yeast ferments sugar into alcohol. The CO2 given off is what helps bread rise.
Each semester we do a Fermentation Feast in class to "taste the diversity of cultures". Microbiology - the field full of sensory delights :)
Each semester we do a Fermentation Feast in class to "taste the diversity of cultures". Microbiology - the field full of sensory delights :)
This student for "Thank a Microbe" really loved Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. Predatory bacteria are easy to love! It bores its way into another bacterium, digests the bacterium, then reproduces, with its babies breaking out of the empty shell of the bacterial prey.
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This student for "Thank a Microbe" really loved Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. Predatory bacteria are easy to love! It bores its way into another bacterium, digests the bacterium, then reproduces, with its babies breaking out of the empty shell of the bacterial prey.
Today's student Thank a Microbe post features Pseudomonas putida! Need to clean up oil spills and other toxic hydrocarbons? Call in P. putida.
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Today's student Thank a Microbe post features Pseudomonas putida! Need to clean up oil spills and other toxic hydrocarbons? Call in P. putida.
For the Thank a Microbe project, Lactobacillus sp. were a favorite genera of bacteria to thank.
Lactobacillus acidophilus is what digests milk sugars into acetic acid, which gives yogurt its tangy taste!
Lactobacillus acidophilus is what digests milk sugars into acetic acid, which gives yogurt its tangy taste!
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
For the Thank a Microbe project, Lactobacillus sp. were a favorite genera of bacteria to thank.
Lactobacillus acidophilus is what digests milk sugars into acetic acid, which gives yogurt its tangy taste!
Lactobacillus acidophilus is what digests milk sugars into acetic acid, which gives yogurt its tangy taste!
It's the season for being thankful - THANK A MICROBE returns! Here's the first of several student flyers appreciating the wonders of our microbial world!
November 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
It's the season for being thankful - THANK A MICROBE returns! Here's the first of several student flyers appreciating the wonders of our microbial world!
that time of year when as soon as you finish writing 2 letters of recommendation, 2 more requests come in....
November 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
that time of year when as soon as you finish writing 2 letters of recommendation, 2 more requests come in....
#WomenInScience inspired Halloween costume this year is Fanny Hess! In Koch's lab in the hot German summers, the gelatin used for bacterial cultures would melt. Fanny learned of agar - used to stiffen gelatin desserts - and brought that into the lab. Her ingenuity changed #microbiology forever! 🧪🔬🦠
October 31, 2025 at 7:33 PM
#WomenInScience inspired Halloween costume this year is Fanny Hess! In Koch's lab in the hot German summers, the gelatin used for bacterial cultures would melt. Fanny learned of agar - used to stiffen gelatin desserts - and brought that into the lab. Her ingenuity changed #microbiology forever! 🧪🔬🦠
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Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.”
Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment.
No questions asked.
No proof required.
Pass it on.
Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment.
No questions asked.
No proof required.
Pass it on.
August 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.”
Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment.
No questions asked.
No proof required.
Pass it on.
Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment.
No questions asked.
No proof required.
Pass it on.
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BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout.
They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.
(🎥 AP)
They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.
(🎥 AP)
August 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout.
They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.
(🎥 AP)
They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.
(🎥 AP)
I just supported Toni Harmon's/Alto Films latest documentary about #microbiome of #birth and first foods. Please join me in supporting this important film. 🤱🤰👶🧪 #microbiome
igg.me/at/themicrob...
igg.me/at/themicrob...
The Microbirth Plan - Documentary
More than a documentary. It’s a plan to protect the future of our species. | Check out 'The Microbirth Plan - Documentary' on Indiegogo.
igg.me
August 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I just supported Toni Harmon's/Alto Films latest documentary about #microbiome of #birth and first foods. Please join me in supporting this important film. 🤱🤰👶🧪 #microbiome
igg.me/at/themicrob...
igg.me/at/themicrob...
Using this resource on AI vs human capable Bloom's Taxonomy from @oregonstate.edu as I write learning objectives! #STEMEdu 🍎🧪
ecampus.oregonstate.edu/faculty/arti...
ecampus.oregonstate.edu/faculty/arti...
August 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Using this resource on AI vs human capable Bloom's Taxonomy from @oregonstate.edu as I write learning objectives! #STEMEdu 🍎🧪
ecampus.oregonstate.edu/faculty/arti...
ecampus.oregonstate.edu/faculty/arti...
How to write a Symbiosis class syllabus. 😆 Loving working at Ovenbird coffee shop these last few weeks while our youngest is at a synthetic biology camp. #Baltimore
August 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
How to write a Symbiosis class syllabus. 😆 Loving working at Ovenbird coffee shop these last few weeks while our youngest is at a synthetic biology camp. #Baltimore
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A new study shows that vaccinating pregnant women against RSV led to a 72% drop in hospitalizations for babies with the virus in the UK, highlighting the real-world effectiveness of the vaccine in protecting infants.
www.technologynetworks.com/tn/news/resp...
www.technologynetworks.com/tn/news/resp...
Respiratory Virus Vaccine Reduced Number of Babies Hospitalized by 72%
The respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine, introduced across the UK in late summer 2024, led to a 72% reduction in babies hospitalised with the virus if mothers were vaccinated, a new study has…
www.technologynetworks.com
July 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
A new study shows that vaccinating pregnant women against RSV led to a 72% drop in hospitalizations for babies with the virus in the UK, highlighting the real-world effectiveness of the vaccine in protecting infants.
www.technologynetworks.com/tn/news/resp...
www.technologynetworks.com/tn/news/resp...
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My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman@bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵
June 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman@bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵
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Whooping cough (pertussis) is also known as “100 day cough” bc it can cause 100 days of coughing so severe that rib fractures are common. It also makes small children stop breathing without warning, often fatally.
Vaccination can prevent up to 89% of infections but requires boosting every few years
Vaccination can prevent up to 89% of infections but requires boosting every few years
Whooping cough cases rise in Iowa.
Statewide, there were 114 cases of whooping cough from January through April this year, compared to just 14 at this same time in 2024.
www.axios.com/local/des-mo...
Statewide, there were 114 cases of whooping cough from January through April this year, compared to just 14 at this same time in 2024.
www.axios.com/local/des-mo...
Whooping cough cases rise in Iowa
It's a highly contagious bacterial infection that can leave people coughing for two to three weeks.
www.axios.com
June 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Whooping cough (pertussis) is also known as “100 day cough” bc it can cause 100 days of coughing so severe that rib fractures are common. It also makes small children stop breathing without warning, often fatally.
Vaccination can prevent up to 89% of infections but requires boosting every few years
Vaccination can prevent up to 89% of infections but requires boosting every few years