Jen Herman 🌪️
@jukebarosh.bsky.social
Mostly Bacillus | unpublished data | hypotheses | wild ideas | sand-outta-box | who wants 2 bet? | 🧠🔥🐳 | Zinc ♡ | No one important | pls pass the puns | www.hermanlab.com |
Asked cakelady to write message for me. Was so confused when I read it #cursedopenmind
December 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Asked cakelady to write message for me. Was so confused when I read it #cursedopenmind
Merry Christmas all!
December 26, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Merry Christmas all!
Is this level of pen enrichment w/in the bounds of normal?
December 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Is this level of pen enrichment w/in the bounds of normal?
I don't even know what freak folk is & oldies??? Wait! - does this now mean songs I liked as a teenager not my parent's music?!? 😭😭
December 5, 2025 at 4:48 AM
I don't even know what freak folk is & oldies??? Wait! - does this now mean songs I liked as a teenager not my parent's music?!? 😭😭
A post-doc at Pasteur sent me this AF prediction of 2RefZ/RBM/2FtsZ/2GTP
Don't work on RefZ now, but pretty cool to see the predicted RefZ-FtsZ interface matches what we inferred from genetics
Looks like R116/E117 interact with the GTP bound to FtsZ. Those R "fingers" are oft seen in Z modulators
Don't work on RefZ now, but pretty cool to see the predicted RefZ-FtsZ interface matches what we inferred from genetics
Looks like R116/E117 interact with the GTP bound to FtsZ. Those R "fingers" are oft seen in Z modulators
December 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
A post-doc at Pasteur sent me this AF prediction of 2RefZ/RBM/2FtsZ/2GTP
Don't work on RefZ now, but pretty cool to see the predicted RefZ-FtsZ interface matches what we inferred from genetics
Looks like R116/E117 interact with the GTP bound to FtsZ. Those R "fingers" are oft seen in Z modulators
Don't work on RefZ now, but pretty cool to see the predicted RefZ-FtsZ interface matches what we inferred from genetics
Looks like R116/E117 interact with the GTP bound to FtsZ. Those R "fingers" are oft seen in Z modulators
Made some mugs
Word cloud made from 100+ different obituaries of exemplary scientists
Obituaries were submitted by 1st yr grad students for a course I teach on scientific values (5 yrs total)
No menchie indirects, awards, or impact factor...
Word cloud made from 100+ different obituaries of exemplary scientists
Obituaries were submitted by 1st yr grad students for a course I teach on scientific values (5 yrs total)
No menchie indirects, awards, or impact factor...
October 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Made some mugs
Word cloud made from 100+ different obituaries of exemplary scientists
Obituaries were submitted by 1st yr grad students for a course I teach on scientific values (5 yrs total)
No menchie indirects, awards, or impact factor...
Word cloud made from 100+ different obituaries of exemplary scientists
Obituaries were submitted by 1st yr grad students for a course I teach on scientific values (5 yrs total)
No menchie indirects, awards, or impact factor...
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September 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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One thing most of non applied people don't understand about the process of discovery is that a scientist might work obsessively on a problem for wks, months, even yrs (!) just for the *chance* it might go somewhere. We spend a lot of time in the dark, uncertain where we're going. Not unlike moles
August 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
One thing most of non applied people don't understand about the process of discovery is that a scientist might work obsessively on a problem for wks, months, even yrs (!) just for the *chance* it might go somewhere. We spend a lot of time in the dark, uncertain where we're going. Not unlike moles
Work right next door & this is the 1st I've heard about his case - not in school or town paper. This is a dishonorable way to treat another human being.
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July 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Work right next door & this is the 1st I've heard about his case - not in school or town paper. This is a dishonorable way to treat another human being.
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Original if you mean Freese pHd mops w/NaOH and Glutamate with KOH. If you mean Branda - no one knows 😭 does not say. wouldn't say there was huge difference any combo. Slight. Less ridges with Na included in anything - but slight and would need repeating
July 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Original if you mean Freese pHd mops w/NaOH and Glutamate with KOH. If you mean Branda - no one knows 😭 does not say. wouldn't say there was huge difference any combo. Slight. Less ridges with Na included in anything - but slight and would need repeating
And the aggregate - accumulates when higher PA & higher Fe3+. Nondiffusable aggregate, requires strong base to re-solubilize. Pigment appears more pink to eye. Hard to imagine context this form would accumulate much in nature.
July 22, 2025 at 3:15 AM
And the aggregate - accumulates when higher PA & higher Fe3+. Nondiffusable aggregate, requires strong base to re-solubilize. Pigment appears more pink to eye. Hard to imagine context this form would accumulate much in nature.
I think there are two kinds of pulcherrimin. Low density/lower Fe3+ bound (diffusible, color twd reddish orange) - goes soluble with mild basic pH>7.5
July 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I think there are two kinds of pulcherrimin. Low density/lower Fe3+ bound (diffusible, color twd reddish orange) - goes soluble with mild basic pH>7.5
Is NIGMS going to reissue the R35 mechanism? It expired for established/NI after May 2025 & there doesn't seem to be a (?) new call
July 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Is NIGMS going to reissue the R35 mechanism? It expired for established/NI after May 2025 & there doesn't seem to be a (?) new call
2 yrs to get here then one day: beep-boop
Hello World
Hello World
July 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
2 yrs to get here then one day: beep-boop
Hello World
Hello World
After making all these flavors of MSgg, I appreciate why people don't make like 10 iterations of a minimal medium just to see what happens. Pouring all the plates is a pain in the ass. Still, I have like 50 more things I want to test. I need a minion.
July 17, 2025 at 1:25 AM
After making all these flavors of MSgg, I appreciate why people don't make like 10 iterations of a minimal medium just to see what happens. Pouring all the plates is a pain in the ass. Still, I have like 50 more things I want to test. I need a minion.
Lights are still - just barely. Ironically all the ballasts have started going out the last few months
July 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Lights are still - just barely. Ironically all the ballasts have started going out the last few months
I messed up the MOPS/KOH, Glutamate/NaOH plates by adding too much Mg (4 mM instead of 2 mM) so not showing those
July 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I messed up the MOPS/KOH, Glutamate/NaOH plates by adding too much Mg (4 mM instead of 2 mM) so not showing those
