Matt Taylor, Ph.D.
@dr-mptaylor.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Montana State University. Really into beer, viruses, fluorescent microscopy, the outdoors, and beer. All opinions are my own.
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Front yard in Bozeman. Amazing everytime.
November 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Front yard in Bozeman. Amazing everytime.
Northern lights report from Bozeman, MT. So red, easily visible without camera.
November 12, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Northern lights report from Bozeman, MT. So red, easily visible without camera.
If only the universe would give me a sign to tell me what I need....
November 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
If only the universe would give me a sign to tell me what I need....
This is the fire and truth we need to hear every day.
November 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This is the fire and truth we need to hear every day.
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Today we raise a glass to American-made beer — bold, refreshing, and brewed with pride! #NationalAmericanBeerDay
https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day/national-american-beer-day-october-27 #NationalDayCalendar #CelebrateEveryDay
https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day/national-american-beer-day-october-27 #NationalDayCalendar #CelebrateEveryDay
October 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Today we raise a glass to American-made beer — bold, refreshing, and brewed with pride! #NationalAmericanBeerDay
https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day/national-american-beer-day-october-27 #NationalDayCalendar #CelebrateEveryDay
https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day/national-american-beer-day-october-27 #NationalDayCalendar #CelebrateEveryDay
Nothing like a late night call about a leak in the scope room to really change the course of an evening.
October 17, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Nothing like a late night call about a leak in the scope room to really change the course of an evening.
Nice write-up about our work by the MSU news service. I don't remember saying the opening quote.... but sounds like something I would say.
www.montana.edu/news/24830/i...
www.montana.edu/news/24830/i...
In new research, Montana State scientists explore how viruses replicate and infect
Matthew Taylor and Gary Dunn examined how different producer cells can result in differences in the viruses they are used to cultivate.
www.montana.edu
October 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Nice write-up about our work by the MSU news service. I don't remember saying the opening quote.... but sounds like something I would say.
www.montana.edu/news/24830/i...
www.montana.edu/news/24830/i...
What separates freedom of speech from professional conduct? Can’t assume the line is the office or classroom door.
Montana State University-Northern placed a professor on leave in response to social media comments she made about the assassination of the conservative figure Charlie Kirk. The school said it will evaluate the situation, but it's unclear what that evaluation will include.
Questions of protected speech persist as MSU-Northern professor remains on leave for social media comments
Amid national calls for Charlie Kirk supporters to publicize people who make negative comments, a professor in Havre found her job in jeopardy despite a state law that protects social media speech.
montanafreepress.org
September 25, 2025 at 12:04 AM
What separates freedom of speech from professional conduct? Can’t assume the line is the office or classroom door.
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Partial Inhibition of Viral Replication Machinery Enhances Recombination in Herpes Simplex Viruses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.15.676234v1
September 16, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Partial Inhibition of Viral Replication Machinery Enhances Recombination in Herpes Simplex Viruses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.15.676234v1
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Vincent's new paper, describing the vast heterogeneity in HSV-1 progeny production by individual human keratinocytes, is now on line! (and recieved the Editor's pick). Check it out here: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
HSV-1 progeny production by individual human keratinocytes spans three orders of magnitude | Journal of Virology
Viruses are defined by their ability to take over host cells and turn them into factories
that produce new progeny. Recent advances in Biology allowed us to study viral infections
at the single-cell l...
journals.asm.org
August 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Vincent's new paper, describing the vast heterogeneity in HSV-1 progeny production by individual human keratinocytes, is now on line! (and recieved the Editor's pick). Check it out here: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Really excited to share the latest story out of the lab today. the culmination of lots of hard work by the first author, Dr. Gary Dunn.
The producer cell type of HSV-1 alters the proteomic contents and infectious capacity of virions | Journal of Virology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
The producer cell type of HSV-1 alters the proteomic contents and infectious capacity of virions | Journal of Virology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
The producer cell type of HSV-1 alters the proteomic contents and infectious capacity of virions | Journal of Virology
Approximately 67% of the human population harbors herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1)
infection. To study HSV-1, laboratories utilize several different cell lines to propagate
HSV-1 for downstream exp...
journals.asm.org
August 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Really excited to share the latest story out of the lab today. the culmination of lots of hard work by the first author, Dr. Gary Dunn.
The producer cell type of HSV-1 alters the proteomic contents and infectious capacity of virions | Journal of Virology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
The producer cell type of HSV-1 alters the proteomic contents and infectious capacity of virions | Journal of Virology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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A simple design framework that will massively improve your slides and your public speaking
clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...
clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...
Slide designs that present themselves: The assertion–evidence template
Your slides are not your talk.
clauswilke.substack.com
August 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
A simple design framework that will massively improve your slides and your public speaking
clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...
clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...
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The creative process in science has a set of thinking tools that we could do a better job teaching. Here are the 12 articles that Martin and I wrote about them, including "It takes two to think", "A hypothesis is a liability" and "The two languages of science". night-science.org/home/learn/r...
August 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The creative process in science has a set of thinking tools that we could do a better job teaching. Here are the 12 articles that Martin and I wrote about them, including "It takes two to think", "A hypothesis is a liability" and "The two languages of science". night-science.org/home/learn/r...
Had the chance to visit the Museum of Illusion and took this image that can only be described as #nightmarefuel
August 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Had the chance to visit the Museum of Illusion and took this image that can only be described as #nightmarefuel
This government is dragging us back to the 19th Century whether we want it or not!
www.npr.org/2025/08/05/n...
www.npr.org/2025/08/05/n...
RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccine contracts
The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.
www.npr.org
August 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This government is dragging us back to the 19th Century whether we want it or not!
www.npr.org/2025/08/05/n...
www.npr.org/2025/08/05/n...
Beauty can still be found in this world. Today was a good day.
June 27, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Beauty can still be found in this world. Today was a good day.
I cannot believe the utter contempt this administration has for professionals and science. If they weren’t so blatant I would chalk it up to incompetence. And why is the Governor of Virginia involved in federal agency location selection?
www.eenews.net/articles/sci...
www.eenews.net/articles/sci...
Science agency booted from HQ with no clue what’s next
National Science Foundation staffers were told Wednesday that the Department of Housing and Urban Development is taking over their headquarters.
www.eenews.net
June 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I cannot believe the utter contempt this administration has for professionals and science. If they weren’t so blatant I would chalk it up to incompetence. And why is the Governor of Virginia involved in federal agency location selection?
www.eenews.net/articles/sci...
www.eenews.net/articles/sci...
Montana knows it is supposed to be summer. Montana does not care and greeted me with an icy truck this morning.
June 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Montana knows it is supposed to be summer. Montana does not care and greeted me with an icy truck this morning.
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New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
June 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
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Have you seen two terrible people fighting online? You have?
I've got a song for you.
I've got a song for you.
June 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Have you seen two terrible people fighting online? You have?
I've got a song for you.
I've got a song for you.
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New data finds Americans are more likely to support labor unions over Big Business than at any time in the past 60 years.
We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power.
If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.
We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power.
If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.
May 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
New data finds Americans are more likely to support labor unions over Big Business than at any time in the past 60 years.
We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power.
If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.
We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power.
If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.
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The Trump regime’s Executive Order about “Gold Standard Science” distorts & weaponizes the principles of open science to intimidate scientists and reshape scientific production to support the political goals of Trumpism. Stand Up for Science is asking scientists to sign an open letter pushing back.
🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨
Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.
We’ve launched an open letter.
SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.
We’ve launched an open letter.
SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
Sign The Open Letter to Stand Up For Science Now!
Science is under siege. Trump’s latest Executive Order calls for politically appointed science commissars to evaluate research. Join us in adding your name to our open letter condemning Trump’s escala...
actionnetwork.org
May 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The Trump regime’s Executive Order about “Gold Standard Science” distorts & weaponizes the principles of open science to intimidate scientists and reshape scientific production to support the political goals of Trumpism. Stand Up for Science is asking scientists to sign an open letter pushing back.
Words are hard and can mean different things. To help everyone understand what a word means we have dictionaries.
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/f...
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/f...
Definition of FASCISM
a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government ...
www.merriam-webster.com
May 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Words are hard and can mean different things. To help everyone understand what a word means we have dictionaries.
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/f...
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/f...
Here’s my penny of insight. The republicans want the majority of citizens to be poor, sick, and uneducated so that we are easier to be victimized by corporations and oligarchs. Strong unions, universities, and public schools help people and thus impede this plan.
May 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Here’s my penny of insight. The republicans want the majority of citizens to be poor, sick, and uneducated so that we are easier to be victimized by corporations and oligarchs. Strong unions, universities, and public schools help people and thus impede this plan.