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Taylor Burke
@taylorburke.bsky.social
UNMC MD-PhD student. Lover of all things microbiology 🦠 She/her
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Vaccines stopped polio.
December 23, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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We developed a microscopy-based technique🔬 to measure attachment of viruses #phages to host cells. 🦠

The paper was posted online today:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#phagesky #microsky
December 19, 2024 at 10:10 PM
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Food deserts "didn’t materialize around the country for no reason," Stacy Mitchell writes. "Something happened. That something was a specific federal policy change in the 1980s."
The Great Grocery Squeeze
How a federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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I just made a first release of TNA - new tool to compare 2 bacterial genomes. Is shamelessly inspired by ACT, but should be simpler to use. Drag-n-drop two genomes: it runs BLAST for you and then you can visualize. For Mac, Windows 11, Linux tna.readthedocs.io
TNA documentation — TNA 0.0.1 documentation
tna.readthedocs.io
November 29, 2024 at 11:38 AM
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The never before seen Borrelia burgdorferi caught in the act of making trouble in our mouse model of borrelia infection-associated chronic illness. I feel so grateful to get to collaborate with Kunzan Liu (who took these sunning images), and Sixian You who makes the invisible visible.
November 28, 2024 at 1:59 AM
Elegantly put Dr. Liu, thank you for sharing this message.
As many are gathering for #Thanksgiving, it’s a reminder that some precious seats are empty.

Loss is often amplified on holidays, anniversaries, etc.

If you find yourself struggling, don’t worry alone.

Reach out to a friend. Schedule time with a therapist or psychiatrist.

You are worth it! 🌱
November 27, 2024 at 11:35 PM
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Now is the age of #AMR burden estimates - join us to hear from the expert @bugwonk.bsky.social next Thursday at 12.50 for

"Rethinking how to understand the burden of antibiotic resistance bacteria (RHUBARB)"

@lshtmamrcentre.bsky.social @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social

www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
Rethinking how to understand the burden of antibiotic resistance bacteria (RHUBARB) | LSHTM
A joint seminar between CMMID and the AMR Centre. Speaker will present their research, focusing on evaluating the burden of AMR.
www.lshtm.ac.uk
November 27, 2024 at 10:42 AM
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A reminder to publish in and support society journals with your limited (volunteer) time as authors, editors, and reviewers.
The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on?

direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

A 🧵 1/n
#AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub
November 26, 2024 at 3:56 PM