Tiffany Lowe-Power 🌱🦠
@tlowepower.bsky.social
I study how bacteria kill plants. Interested across biological scales: molecular 🧬, cellular🦠, organismal 🧫, ecological 🥀🌍, and evolutionary 🧬.
Optimistic pessimist: The world is dark, so how can we slow the decline?
Optimistic pessimist: The world is dark, so how can we slow the decline?
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Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
December 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
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Reminder - a great job opportunity at @ucdavis.bsky.social
Dean, College of Biological Sciences jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/676649/d...
Dean, College of Biological Sciences jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/676649/d...
Dean, College of Biological Sciences - Davis job with University of California, Davis | 676649
University of California, Davis Dean, College of Biological Sciences The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) seeks a dynamic, effective, and
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December 24, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Reminder - a great job opportunity at @ucdavis.bsky.social
Dean, College of Biological Sciences jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/676649/d...
Dean, College of Biological Sciences jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/676649/d...
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Really need more sales before the end of the month! Bills are due soon. Boosts also super appreciated <3
Check out my work → cvkvlv.com
Earrings pictured → cvkvlv.com/products/hvr...
Goal for December: $937/$3500
Mvto!! (Thank you!)
#Beadwork #Art #Jewelry #Mvskoke #Indigenous #IndigenousArt
Check out my work → cvkvlv.com
Earrings pictured → cvkvlv.com/products/hvr...
Goal for December: $937/$3500
Mvto!! (Thank you!)
#Beadwork #Art #Jewelry #Mvskoke #Indigenous #IndigenousArt
December 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Really need more sales before the end of the month! Bills are due soon. Boosts also super appreciated <3
Check out my work → cvkvlv.com
Earrings pictured → cvkvlv.com/products/hvr...
Goal for December: $937/$3500
Mvto!! (Thank you!)
#Beadwork #Art #Jewelry #Mvskoke #Indigenous #IndigenousArt
Check out my work → cvkvlv.com
Earrings pictured → cvkvlv.com/products/hvr...
Goal for December: $937/$3500
Mvto!! (Thank you!)
#Beadwork #Art #Jewelry #Mvskoke #Indigenous #IndigenousArt
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Must say, while interviews with established PIs with deep cuts to their funding are important, the principal and longest term effects are on the trainees. An entire generation wiped of confidence.
December 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Must say, while interviews with established PIs with deep cuts to their funding are important, the principal and longest term effects are on the trainees. An entire generation wiped of confidence.
academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
Question for the #microsky nerds -- Would you expect to see the same trends for environmentally transmitted plant pathogens?
(Also if you have any papers on this topic, please share!)
Question for the #microsky nerds -- Would you expect to see the same trends for environmentally transmitted plant pathogens?
(Also if you have any papers on this topic, please share!)
Genome Reduction Is Associated with Bacterial Pathogenicity across Different Scales of Temporal and Ecological Divergence
Abstract. Emerging bacterial pathogens threaten global health and food security, and so it is important to ask whether these transitions to pathogenicity h
academic.oup.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
Question for the #microsky nerds -- Would you expect to see the same trends for environmentally transmitted plant pathogens?
(Also if you have any papers on this topic, please share!)
Question for the #microsky nerds -- Would you expect to see the same trends for environmentally transmitted plant pathogens?
(Also if you have any papers on this topic, please share!)
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I had multiple papers from my classes with hallucinated citations this semester. Reviewers and journal QC protocols need to be absolutely vigilant about this. This issue is ruining the literature even more than we realize, per this 🧵:
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I had multiple papers from my classes with hallucinated citations this semester. Reviewers and journal QC protocols need to be absolutely vigilant about this. This issue is ruining the literature even more than we realize, per this 🧵:
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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
m.youtube.com/watch?v=xGMF...
I appreciate Pete Buttigieg
- understands and values basic science
- wants government to be efficient while advancing society
- does not put up with shenanigans. He did not allow the Silicon Valley podcasters to pose disingenuous arguments.
I appreciate Pete Buttigieg
- understands and values basic science
- wants government to be efficient while advancing society
- does not put up with shenanigans. He did not allow the Silicon Valley podcasters to pose disingenuous arguments.
Pete Buttigieg: The Left's Identity Crisis, Wealth Tax, 2024 Mistakes, Plans for 2028
YouTube video by All-In Podcast
m.youtube.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:12 AM
m.youtube.com/watch?v=xGMF...
I appreciate Pete Buttigieg
- understands and values basic science
- wants government to be efficient while advancing society
- does not put up with shenanigans. He did not allow the Silicon Valley podcasters to pose disingenuous arguments.
I appreciate Pete Buttigieg
- understands and values basic science
- wants government to be efficient while advancing society
- does not put up with shenanigans. He did not allow the Silicon Valley podcasters to pose disingenuous arguments.
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Reupping this perennial #MPMI question, has an apoplastic Superoxide dismutase been cloned and proven to take RBOHD O2-• into H2O2? Or are all the models still assuming?
December 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Reupping this perennial #MPMI question, has an apoplastic Superoxide dismutase been cloned and proven to take RBOHD O2-• into H2O2? Or are all the models still assuming?
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If you were to choose a new postdoc advisor to launch yourself for a faculty position in some realm of bacterial physiology/genetics, who would you consider?
(Asking for a thesis committee mentee of mine)
#microSky
If you were to choose a new postdoc advisor to launch yourself for a faculty position in some realm of bacterial physiology/genetics, who would you consider?
(Asking for a thesis committee mentee of mine)
#microSky
December 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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If you were to choose a new postdoc advisor to launch yourself for a faculty position in some realm of bacterial physiology/genetics, who would you consider?
(Asking for a thesis committee mentee of mine)
#microSky
If you were to choose a new postdoc advisor to launch yourself for a faculty position in some realm of bacterial physiology/genetics, who would you consider?
(Asking for a thesis committee mentee of mine)
#microSky
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Absolutely stoked to have this published in @plosbiology.org
We looked at the metabolism of #Klebsiella pneumoniae 🦠🧫. We not only demonstrated lineage-specific #metabolism, but that lineages can cross-feed and support each other.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
#MicroSky #microbiology 🧬 🧪 💊
We looked at the metabolism of #Klebsiella pneumoniae 🦠🧫. We not only demonstrated lineage-specific #metabolism, but that lineages can cross-feed and support each other.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
#MicroSky #microbiology 🧬 🧪 💊
A metabolic atlas of the Klebsiella pneumoniae species complex reveals lineage-specific metabolism and capacity for intra-species co-operation
Why are there so many co-circulating Klebsiella pneumoniae clones? Using genomics and large-scale metabolic modelling of >7000 isolates, this study identifies structured, clone-specific metabolic spec...
journals.plos.org
December 13, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Absolutely stoked to have this published in @plosbiology.org
We looked at the metabolism of #Klebsiella pneumoniae 🦠🧫. We not only demonstrated lineage-specific #metabolism, but that lineages can cross-feed and support each other.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
#MicroSky #microbiology 🧬 🧪 💊
We looked at the metabolism of #Klebsiella pneumoniae 🦠🧫. We not only demonstrated lineage-specific #metabolism, but that lineages can cross-feed and support each other.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
#MicroSky #microbiology 🧬 🧪 💊
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The clear takeaway from today is that Donald Trump is not unstoppable and you are not powerless.
December 12, 2025 at 1:58 AM
The clear takeaway from today is that Donald Trump is not unstoppable and you are not powerless.
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Undergraduates (globally) can receive free membership in the professional scientific society for plant pathogens, the American Phytopathological Society (APS).
This society provides excellent professional development.
www.apsnet.org/members/comm...
Undergraduates (globally) can receive free membership in the professional scientific society for plant pathogens, the American Phytopathological Society (APS).
This society provides excellent professional development.
www.apsnet.org/members/comm...
Borlaug’s Army: an undergraduate membership initiative of the American Phytopathology
Borlaug’s Army: an undergraduate membership initiative of APS....Welcome to Borlaug’s Army —a recruitment, engagement, and outreach initiative of the American Phytopathological Society. Free membersh...
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December 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Please repost:
Undergraduates (globally) can receive free membership in the professional scientific society for plant pathogens, the American Phytopathological Society (APS).
This society provides excellent professional development.
www.apsnet.org/members/comm...
Undergraduates (globally) can receive free membership in the professional scientific society for plant pathogens, the American Phytopathological Society (APS).
This society provides excellent professional development.
www.apsnet.org/members/comm...
This is what systematic racism looks like.
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This is what systematic racism looks like.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/09/p...
My home state has been net moving in good political directions for a decade.
Keep up the good work, and a major thank you to Stacey Abrams for her major catalyzing efforts.
My home state has been net moving in good political directions for a decade.
Keep up the good work, and a major thank you to Stacey Abrams for her major catalyzing efforts.
Georgia Democrat flips a state House seat in district Trump won by double digits, CNN projects | CNN Politics
Democrats continued their run of successes in special elections by flipping a state House seat in Georgia Tuesday, according to a projection from the CNN Decision Desk.
www.cnn.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:04 AM
www.cnn.com/2025/12/09/p...
My home state has been net moving in good political directions for a decade.
Keep up the good work, and a major thank you to Stacey Abrams for her major catalyzing efforts.
My home state has been net moving in good political directions for a decade.
Keep up the good work, and a major thank you to Stacey Abrams for her major catalyzing efforts.
*sigh*
I'm sorry that my country is a hostile, fascist location.
I'm sorry that my country is a hostile, fascist location.
You know the story of the scientist denied entry to USA for having expressed his [critical] opinion about Trump admin's policy on research, right?↩️ Well, it may become soon the rule, not an exception. 😰
🗒️Note to myself: do not apply to US conferences
www.france24.com/en/americas/...
🗒️Note to myself: do not apply to US conferences
www.france24.com/en/americas/...
December 10, 2025 at 3:57 AM
*sigh*
I'm sorry that my country is a hostile, fascist location.
I'm sorry that my country is a hostile, fascist location.
Calibri as a respectable font is a molehill that I might die on.
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Calibri as a respectable font is a molehill that I might die on.
Did Microsoft office push an update that means my word and files do open after I ask? Or is this the spyware that IT put on my work computer?
Anyone experience this too?
Anyone experience this too?
December 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Did Microsoft office push an update that means my word and files do open after I ask? Or is this the spyware that IT put on my work computer?
Anyone experience this too?
Anyone experience this too?
This paper solves the puzzle that I wrote about in my chapter 5 / future directions of my PhD thesis!
It's really interesting what comes out of these in planta experimental evolution studies
journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....
It's really interesting what comes out of these in planta experimental evolution studies
journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....
Disruption of putrescine export in experimentally evolved Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum enhances symbiosis with Mimosa pudica | mBio
Rhizobia, the nitrogen-fixing symbionts of legumes, emerged through repeated and independent
horizontal transfers of some essential symbiotic genes. However, these transfers alone
are often insufficie...
journals.asm.org
December 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This paper solves the puzzle that I wrote about in my chapter 5 / future directions of my PhD thesis!
It's really interesting what comes out of these in planta experimental evolution studies
journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....
It's really interesting what comes out of these in planta experimental evolution studies
journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....
Wisconsin is recruiting a plant bacteriologist. wisconsin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UW_Mad...
Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor - Ethel and O.N. Allen Chair of Phytobacteriology
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process. Job Category: Faculty Employment Type: Re...
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December 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Wisconsin is recruiting a plant bacteriologist. wisconsin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UW_Mad...
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This is how you write a headline
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.
gizmodo.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This is how you write a headline
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If you're looking for someone to use large-scale genetic data to understand how the ecology of the microbiome impacts it's function I would love to talk!
November 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
If you're looking for someone to use large-scale genetic data to understand how the ecology of the microbiome impacts it's function I would love to talk!