Bradley Tolar (he/him)
@tolarchaeota.bsky.social
I'm a microbial oceanographer with broad interests in ecology, physiology, and taxonomy of Archaea. Mentorship, teaching, & JEDI. Asst Prof at UNCW 🔬🌊🏳️🌈
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Here's where we are at: federal agents shot and killed a 37-year-old white man, a US citizen and ICU nurse at the VA who appears in multiple videos to have done absolutely nothing violent or even remotely illegal.
January 24, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Here's where we are at: federal agents shot and killed a 37-year-old white man, a US citizen and ICU nurse at the VA who appears in multiple videos to have done absolutely nothing violent or even remotely illegal.
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ICE killed a mother of 3 and and ICU nurse
BREAKING:
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minneapolis protester fatally shot by a federal officer was ICU nurse Alex Pretti, his parents say.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minneapolis protester fatally shot by a federal officer was ICU nurse Alex Pretti, his parents say.
January 24, 2026 at 8:43 PM
ICE killed a mother of 3 and and ICU nurse
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Kristi Noem must be impeached. ICE must be abolished. Democrats in the Senate cannot fund DHS.
Trump has created a militarized police force accountable only to him. These agents need to leave our cities NOW.
Trump has created a militarized police force accountable only to him. These agents need to leave our cities NOW.
January 24, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Kristi Noem must be impeached. ICE must be abolished. Democrats in the Senate cannot fund DHS.
Trump has created a militarized police force accountable only to him. These agents need to leave our cities NOW.
Trump has created a militarized police force accountable only to him. These agents need to leave our cities NOW.
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Who in their right mind believes statements from the Department of Homeland Security?
Who believes anything Kristi Noem or Stephen Miller or Trump might say about what has just happened in Minneapolis?
They no longer have any credibility. That should be clear by now.
They lie like they breathe.
Who believes anything Kristi Noem or Stephen Miller or Trump might say about what has just happened in Minneapolis?
They no longer have any credibility. That should be clear by now.
They lie like they breathe.
January 24, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Who in their right mind believes statements from the Department of Homeland Security?
Who believes anything Kristi Noem or Stephen Miller or Trump might say about what has just happened in Minneapolis?
They no longer have any credibility. That should be clear by now.
They lie like they breathe.
Who believes anything Kristi Noem or Stephen Miller or Trump might say about what has just happened in Minneapolis?
They no longer have any credibility. That should be clear by now.
They lie like they breathe.
I will not be gaslit.
Federal agents executing US citizens in cold blood is unacceptable.
Don’t let the lies work for you. This needs to end. Now.
Federal agents executing US citizens in cold blood is unacceptable.
Don’t let the lies work for you. This needs to end. Now.
January 24, 2026 at 7:56 PM
I will not be gaslit.
Federal agents executing US citizens in cold blood is unacceptable.
Don’t let the lies work for you. This needs to end. Now.
Federal agents executing US citizens in cold blood is unacceptable.
Don’t let the lies work for you. This needs to end. Now.
ASLO Early Career Committee wishes our global aquatic science community a joyful, restful holiday season. 💙
Looking for a supportive, international home for your research? Join ASLO and grow with us. aslo.org/membership-opt…#ASLO_ECCC#JoinASLOL#ECRC#AquaticScienceses
Looking for a supportive, international home for your research? Join ASLO and grow with us. aslo.org/membership-opt…#ASLO_ECCC#JoinASLOL#ECRC#AquaticScienceses
December 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
ASLO Early Career Committee wishes our global aquatic science community a joyful, restful holiday season. 💙
Looking for a supportive, international home for your research? Join ASLO and grow with us. aslo.org/membership-opt…#ASLO_ECCC#JoinASLOL#ECRC#AquaticScienceses
Looking for a supportive, international home for your research? Join ASLO and grow with us. aslo.org/membership-opt…#ASLO_ECCC#JoinASLOL#ECRC#AquaticScienceses
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We have a date for the free-to-attend #anvio workshop and ECR Symposium for 2026, and we look forward to meeting you at the @hifmb.de in Oldenburg, Germany!
Please find more information on the venue, program, and the application form here, and spread the word 😇
anvio.org/workshops/20...
Please find more information on the venue, program, and the application form here, and spread the word 😇
anvio.org/workshops/20...
November 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
We have a date for the free-to-attend #anvio workshop and ECR Symposium for 2026, and we look forward to meeting you at the @hifmb.de in Oldenburg, Germany!
Please find more information on the venue, program, and the application form here, and spread the word 😇
anvio.org/workshops/20...
Please find more information on the venue, program, and the application form here, and spread the word 😇
anvio.org/workshops/20...
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#SciComm early career folks, this is an excellent opportunity
10 days left to apply to our 2026 cohort! If you want writing and editing experience and the chance to dive deeper into science communication research, this opportunity is for you! ⭐️
Exciting news! SciCommBites is officially accepting applications for authors for our 2026 cohort. Learn more below and apply by November 30! scicommbites.org/applications...
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
#SciComm early career folks, this is an excellent opportunity
Hoping to attend the #ASLO-SIL Meeting in Montreal next year but not sure if you can make it in-person? Check out the #ASLOECC hosted #AmplifyingVoices session and consider submitting!! @aslo.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Hoping to attend the #ASLO-SIL Meeting in Montreal next year but not sure if you can make it in-person? Check out the #ASLOECC hosted #AmplifyingVoices session and consider submitting!! @aslo.org
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Call for Abstracts: The #ASLO_ECC invites #ECR to apply for the next "Amplifying Voices" webinar on interdisciplinary approaches to enhance understanding of aquatic systems. Share your work globally!
🗓️ Webinar: 20 Nov (10 AM / 6 PM EST)
Abstracts due Oct 20: www.aslo.org/amplifying-v...
#ASLO
🗓️ Webinar: 20 Nov (10 AM / 6 PM EST)
Abstracts due Oct 20: www.aslo.org/amplifying-v...
#ASLO
October 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Call for Abstracts: The #ASLO_ECC invites #ECR to apply for the next "Amplifying Voices" webinar on interdisciplinary approaches to enhance understanding of aquatic systems. Share your work globally!
🗓️ Webinar: 20 Nov (10 AM / 6 PM EST)
Abstracts due Oct 20: www.aslo.org/amplifying-v...
#ASLO
🗓️ Webinar: 20 Nov (10 AM / 6 PM EST)
Abstracts due Oct 20: www.aslo.org/amplifying-v...
#ASLO
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#TEALSHIPS Expedition #2! @tolarchaeota.bsky.social is at the forefront of research of the critical habitats that span from the NC coastal shelf to the Gulf Stream, ~50 miles. 🌊 Gulfstream
🐙 collected samples from 1400m below
🔬interdisciplinary science - multi-institutes & programs
bit.ly/TolarTEAL
🐙 collected samples from 1400m below
🔬interdisciplinary science - multi-institutes & programs
bit.ly/TolarTEAL
June 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
#TEALSHIPS Expedition #2! @tolarchaeota.bsky.social is at the forefront of research of the critical habitats that span from the NC coastal shelf to the Gulf Stream, ~50 miles. 🌊 Gulfstream
🐙 collected samples from 1400m below
🔬interdisciplinary science - multi-institutes & programs
bit.ly/TolarTEAL
🐙 collected samples from 1400m below
🔬interdisciplinary science - multi-institutes & programs
bit.ly/TolarTEAL
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Tune in for our last (😭) APH session of this semester next WEDNESDAY, May 14th, at 10 AM EST / 4 PM CET!!! Check your email soon for the Zoom link or sign up to join our mailing list here: t.co/b17JFAaZQ6. Check out the exciting talks we have planned for you:
May 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Tune in for our last (😭) APH session of this semester next WEDNESDAY, May 14th, at 10 AM EST / 4 PM CET!!! Check your email soon for the Zoom link or sign up to join our mailing list here: t.co/b17JFAaZQ6. Check out the exciting talks we have planned for you:
Super fun times when you see a $4000 shipping charge on FedEx that turns out to be a tariff/customs surcharge (of close to 100% of the item's value...). Gotta love it. 🤬
May 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Super fun times when you see a $4000 shipping charge on FedEx that turns out to be a tariff/customs surcharge (of close to 100% of the item's value...). Gotta love it. 🤬
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Once in grad school my advisor said she liked pouring agar plates (for growing bacterial colonies), because it's relaxing. I think I must looked at her like she was crazy. Now, I completely understand.
April 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Once in grad school my advisor said she liked pouring agar plates (for growing bacterial colonies), because it's relaxing. I think I must looked at her like she was crazy. Now, I completely understand.
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Bradley Tolar, UNCW Biology & Marine Biology, is PI on a $1.5M Grant Award for Coastal Research to lead TEAL-SHIPS! Funding supports an interdisciplinary research initiative focused on coastal marine sciences. Co-PI's: Christian Briseño-Avena, Winifred Johnson, Matthew McLean, and Ata Suanda.
February 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Bradley Tolar, UNCW Biology & Marine Biology, is PI on a $1.5M Grant Award for Coastal Research to lead TEAL-SHIPS! Funding supports an interdisciplinary research initiative focused on coastal marine sciences. Co-PI's: Christian Briseño-Avena, Winifred Johnson, Matthew McLean, and Ata Suanda.
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UNCW Team Won the Coastal Resilience Team Competition Funding Award from NC Sea Grant! $20,000 for a 2-year project, leading to more resilient habitats & communities on NC’s coastal plain. Christie shares, "Ghost forests offer a visually stark example of sea-level rise."
bit.ly/ResStudentTeam
bit.ly/ResStudentTeam
UNCW Student Team Wins Coastal Resilience Team Competition Funding - North Carolina Sea Grant
Students from the University of North Carolina Wilmington are winners of North Carolina Sea Grant’s Resilience Team Competition funding. This award provides up to $20,000 to conduct a two-year project...
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February 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
UNCW Team Won the Coastal Resilience Team Competition Funding Award from NC Sea Grant! $20,000 for a 2-year project, leading to more resilient habitats & communities on NC’s coastal plain. Christie shares, "Ghost forests offer a visually stark example of sea-level rise."
bit.ly/ResStudentTeam
bit.ly/ResStudentTeam
You can’t stop what I believe in.
You can’t silence my community within or outside science.
You can’t keep us from persevering and continuing to make places better and more accessible.
You can’t make me change. I’m not going to stop. I dedicated my life to this, so buckle up.
You can’t silence my community within or outside science.
You can’t keep us from persevering and continuing to make places better and more accessible.
You can’t make me change. I’m not going to stop. I dedicated my life to this, so buckle up.
February 5, 2025 at 1:47 AM
You can’t stop what I believe in.
You can’t silence my community within or outside science.
You can’t keep us from persevering and continuing to make places better and more accessible.
You can’t make me change. I’m not going to stop. I dedicated my life to this, so buckle up.
You can’t silence my community within or outside science.
You can’t keep us from persevering and continuing to make places better and more accessible.
You can’t make me change. I’m not going to stop. I dedicated my life to this, so buckle up.
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There's a lot of organizations declaring "we're doing this based on legal advice about EOs" going around. As an administrator I always knew that advice is not a mandate. It takes a leader's directive to convert advice to action. Leaders need to be prepared to own that directive AND its consequences.
mandate.it
February 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
There's a lot of organizations declaring "we're doing this based on legal advice about EOs" going around. As an administrator I always knew that advice is not a mandate. It takes a leader's directive to convert advice to action. Leaders need to be prepared to own that directive AND its consequences.
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I was going to respond to the ASM press release after having my coffee, but this is such a better response. ASMs last email was Jan 30 and does not mention taking down IDEAA sites or spotlights on Black, Indigenous, or other underrepresented microbiologists, or anything about DEI. Disappointed.
1. Our questjons were not about executive ordere but about ASM doing things wihtout any communication of memebrship
asm.org/press-releas...
asm.org/press-releas...
ASM Responds to Member Questions About Executive Orders
Our modified pages are back up or in the process of being restored. ASM has not retracted or altered any research articles, scientific papers or peer reviewed articles on our website.
asm.org
February 4, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I was going to respond to the ASM press release after having my coffee, but this is such a better response. ASMs last email was Jan 30 and does not mention taking down IDEAA sites or spotlights on Black, Indigenous, or other underrepresented microbiologists, or anything about DEI. Disappointed.
So, I study microbial “community diversity” and that means I’ll get flagged. Didn’t think I’d end up in a career/country where my work got censored.
(We aren’t even going to get started on how this list and EOs are against my personal beliefs and how I run my lab and envision future science)
(We aren’t even going to get started on how this list and EOs are against my personal beliefs and how I run my lab and envision future science)
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
So, I study microbial “community diversity” and that means I’ll get flagged. Didn’t think I’d end up in a career/country where my work got censored.
(We aren’t even going to get started on how this list and EOs are against my personal beliefs and how I run my lab and envision future science)
(We aren’t even going to get started on how this list and EOs are against my personal beliefs and how I run my lab and envision future science)
Some good news today: our #TEAL-SHIPS project is officially announced! Read more from #UNCW here: uncw.edu/news/2025/01...
Thanks to the #UNC System and our state for investing in interdisciplinary #MarineResearch including #biology #chemistry and #physics within the ocean.
Thanks to the #UNC System and our state for investing in interdisciplinary #MarineResearch including #biology #chemistry and #physics within the ocean.
UNCW Awarded $1.5M for Coastal Research
UNCW has received $1.5 million in grant funding to lead the TEAL-SHIPS Transect Expedition, a groundbreaking project aimed at studying coastal land-to-sea habitats.
uncw.edu
January 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Some good news today: our #TEAL-SHIPS project is officially announced! Read more from #UNCW here: uncw.edu/news/2025/01...
Thanks to the #UNC System and our state for investing in interdisciplinary #MarineResearch including #biology #chemistry and #physics within the ocean.
Thanks to the #UNC System and our state for investing in interdisciplinary #MarineResearch including #biology #chemistry and #physics within the ocean.
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I think fetch is finally going to happen in 2025
January 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I think fetch is finally going to happen in 2025
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BIOS313 (Intro. microbiology) Students created “microbial wiki” pages on an organism of their choosing n presented their findings in a poster session. So proud of how awesome the students did n the effort n fun they had (thanks @tolarchaeota.bsky.social for the idea). #academicSky #newpi 🦠🌊🧬🧫🪸🧪
December 5, 2024 at 5:06 PM
BIOS313 (Intro. microbiology) Students created “microbial wiki” pages on an organism of their choosing n presented their findings in a poster session. So proud of how awesome the students did n the effort n fun they had (thanks @tolarchaeota.bsky.social for the idea). #academicSky #newpi 🦠🌊🧬🧫🪸🧪
Even if it consumes a lot of time, one of my favorite parts being a #NewPI is working with students to refine their personal and research statements. Often these students under-sell or dilute their achievements, and it feels great to see their application truly shine for the next stage. #ProudMentor
December 3, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Even if it consumes a lot of time, one of my favorite parts being a #NewPI is working with students to refine their personal and research statements. Often these students under-sell or dilute their achievements, and it feels great to see their application truly shine for the next stage. #ProudMentor
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Great article detailing the work of Colorado State Microbiome (CoSMic) Network Research Professor Mikayla Borton, #CoSMic Co-Director Kelly Wrighton, and collaborators.
In addition to the article below, check out the publication here in Nature:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#GRAM #Microbiome
In addition to the article below, check out the publication here in Nature:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#GRAM #Microbiome
November 25, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Great article detailing the work of Colorado State Microbiome (CoSMic) Network Research Professor Mikayla Borton, #CoSMic Co-Director Kelly Wrighton, and collaborators.
In addition to the article below, check out the publication here in Nature:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#GRAM #Microbiome
In addition to the article below, check out the publication here in Nature:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#GRAM #Microbiome