Marlis Denk-Lobnig
@marlis.bsky.social
Currently a postdoc with Kevin Wood at UMich studying collective spatial organization of bacteria in the context of antibiotic resistance. PhD work with Adam Martin at MIT on Drosophila morphogenesis. 2022 @jcchildsfund.bsky.social fellow 🦠🪰🔬
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Interested in cell adhesion, evolution of multicellularity, or developing tools for emerging marine models?
My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open:
🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa
If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!
My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open:
🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa
If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!
December 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Interested in cell adhesion, evolution of multicellularity, or developing tools for emerging marine models?
My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open:
🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa
If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!
My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open:
🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa
If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!
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With ICE activity ramping up across the country, it is helpful to include as much info as possible when sharing within your community.
S.A.L.U.T.E.
Size/Strength
Actions/Activity
Location & Direction
Uniform/Clothes
Time & Date of Observation
Equipment & Weapons
#SALUTEICE 🖕
S.A.L.U.T.E.
Size/Strength
Actions/Activity
Location & Direction
Uniform/Clothes
Time & Date of Observation
Equipment & Weapons
#SALUTEICE 🖕
November 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
With ICE activity ramping up across the country, it is helpful to include as much info as possible when sharing within your community.
S.A.L.U.T.E.
Size/Strength
Actions/Activity
Location & Direction
Uniform/Clothes
Time & Date of Observation
Equipment & Weapons
#SALUTEICE 🖕
S.A.L.U.T.E.
Size/Strength
Actions/Activity
Location & Direction
Uniform/Clothes
Time & Date of Observation
Equipment & Weapons
#SALUTEICE 🖕
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Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.
Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.
For a new series, Times journalists are speaking with scientists whose research has ended as a result of policy changes by the Trump administration.
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.
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Please please please, if you are able, consider supporting Flybase fiscally. They need our help! I donated this evening. They are in danger of closing and any amount will help. We cannot allow this critical pillar of science to collapse!
FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki
wiki.flybase.org
August 23, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Please please please, if you are able, consider supporting Flybase fiscally. They need our help! I donated this evening. They are in danger of closing and any amount will help. We cannot allow this critical pillar of science to collapse!
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We need about 300 more scientists before we let teachers loose on the database!
Tell your colleagues, we need ya!
Tell your colleagues, we need ya!
Scientists!
@skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun!
We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15
If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
@skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun!
We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15
If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
August 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
We need about 300 more scientists before we let teachers loose on the database!
Tell your colleagues, we need ya!
Tell your colleagues, we need ya!
#NearbyNature2025 June drawing, because I almost tripped over a skunk last night in my neighborhood🦨
June 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
#NearbyNature2025 June drawing, because I almost tripped over a skunk last night in my neighborhood🦨
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🧪 Attention those with terminated grants, including for NSF, NASA, EPA, NIH, etc:
Let Congress know about the impact of terminations via this form: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela...
Only Dem staff on the House Science Committee will have access (unless if you explicitly state otherwise).
Let Congress know about the impact of terminations via this form: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela...
Only Dem staff on the House Science Committee will have access (unless if you explicitly state otherwise).
May 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
🧪 Attention those with terminated grants, including for NSF, NASA, EPA, NIH, etc:
Let Congress know about the impact of terminations via this form: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela...
Only Dem staff on the House Science Committee will have access (unless if you explicitly state otherwise).
Let Congress know about the impact of terminations via this form: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela...
Only Dem staff on the House Science Committee will have access (unless if you explicitly state otherwise).
#NearbyNature2025 tried to draw a silly (creepy?) firefly for May
May 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
#NearbyNature2025 tried to draw a silly (creepy?) firefly for May
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🚨 Action alert: Two days left!!
Help protect NSF/NIH from political interference.
👎 A new rule (Sched. F) would allow for replacing career program officers with political appointees.
➡️ Action: Object here by THIS FRIDAY. Comments can be brief and/or anonymous. Helps future litigation.
Help protect NSF/NIH from political interference.
👎 A new rule (Sched. F) would allow for replacing career program officers with political appointees.
➡️ Action: Object here by THIS FRIDAY. Comments can be brief and/or anonymous. Helps future litigation.
Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduc...
www.federalregister.gov
May 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
🚨 Action alert: Two days left!!
Help protect NSF/NIH from political interference.
👎 A new rule (Sched. F) would allow for replacing career program officers with political appointees.
➡️ Action: Object here by THIS FRIDAY. Comments can be brief and/or anonymous. Helps future litigation.
Help protect NSF/NIH from political interference.
👎 A new rule (Sched. F) would allow for replacing career program officers with political appointees.
➡️ Action: Object here by THIS FRIDAY. Comments can be brief and/or anonymous. Helps future litigation.
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Analysis of gene expression within individual cells reveals spatiotemporal patterns underlying Vibrio cholerae biofilm development
@plosbiology.org from Bonnie Bassler
journals.plos.org/Plosbiology/...
@plosbiology.org from Bonnie Bassler
journals.plos.org/Plosbiology/...
Analysis of gene expression within individual cells reveals spatiotemporal patterns underlying Vibrio cholerae biofilm development
Biofilms are bacterial communities that live attached to surfaces and are important for disease development. This study develops imaging technology to probe spatiotemporal patterns of Vibrio cholerae ...
journals.plos.org
May 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Analysis of gene expression within individual cells reveals spatiotemporal patterns underlying Vibrio cholerae biofilm development
@plosbiology.org from Bonnie Bassler
journals.plos.org/Plosbiology/...
@plosbiology.org from Bonnie Bassler
journals.plos.org/Plosbiology/...
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As a part of the @standupforscience.bsky.social Summer Fight for Science campaign, we want to host 1000 teach ins across the US between now and Sept 30th.
Yeah, it’s a big, hairy, audacious goal. I know.
Here is a running list of ideas, please scoop and do! 🧵🪡
Yeah, it’s a big, hairy, audacious goal. I know.
Here is a running list of ideas, please scoop and do! 🧵🪡
May 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
As a part of the @standupforscience.bsky.social Summer Fight for Science campaign, we want to host 1000 teach ins across the US between now and Sept 30th.
Yeah, it’s a big, hairy, audacious goal. I know.
Here is a running list of ideas, please scoop and do! 🧵🪡
Yeah, it’s a big, hairy, audacious goal. I know.
Here is a running list of ideas, please scoop and do! 🧵🪡
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As our intestinal microbiomes chew away at our lunch, Dr. Marlis Denk-Lobnig @marlis.bsky.social from Dr. Kevin Wood's lab at the University of Michigan tells us about bacterial communities and their social lives. These relationships are quite important in acquired drug resistance, for example. 26/
May 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
As our intestinal microbiomes chew away at our lunch, Dr. Marlis Denk-Lobnig @marlis.bsky.social from Dr. Kevin Wood's lab at the University of Michigan tells us about bacterial communities and their social lives. These relationships are quite important in acquired drug resistance, for example. 26/
#NearbyNature a chunky groundhog for April
April 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
#NearbyNature a chunky groundhog for April
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This is why I think it's so important and powerful for faculty and staff and leaders of colleges and universities to stand up for our work, our values, our students, and ultimately our democracy.
Faculty can do a lot:
1) write a campus letter to your leaders bit.ly/CampusLetters2025
2) (cont.)
Faculty can do a lot:
1) write a campus letter to your leaders bit.ly/CampusLetters2025
2) (cont.)
April 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This is why I think it's so important and powerful for faculty and staff and leaders of colleges and universities to stand up for our work, our values, our students, and ultimately our democracy.
Faculty can do a lot:
1) write a campus letter to your leaders bit.ly/CampusLetters2025
2) (cont.)
Faculty can do a lot:
1) write a campus letter to your leaders bit.ly/CampusLetters2025
2) (cont.)
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Time to throw up a bat signal for a specific skillset for @skypeascientist.bsky.social
We have a classroom that is looking for a scientist who can do a session with them in ASL.
Do we know any scientists who would be willing to do a Q&A with a deaf classroom in ASL?
We have a classroom that is looking for a scientist who can do a session with them in ASL.
Do we know any scientists who would be willing to do a Q&A with a deaf classroom in ASL?
April 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Time to throw up a bat signal for a specific skillset for @skypeascientist.bsky.social
We have a classroom that is looking for a scientist who can do a session with them in ASL.
Do we know any scientists who would be willing to do a Q&A with a deaf classroom in ASL?
We have a classroom that is looking for a scientist who can do a session with them in ASL.
Do we know any scientists who would be willing to do a Q&A with a deaf classroom in ASL?
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Great news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost.
www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...
www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...
www.training.nih.gov
April 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Great news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost.
www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...
www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...
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Another day, more news of colleagues whose research grants have been terminated. I work in public health; these aren't studies that can just be paused and resumed where they were. These things affect people's lives and well-being, in a fairly proximal way.
March 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Another day, more news of colleagues whose research grants have been terminated. I work in public health; these aren't studies that can just be paused and resumed where they were. These things affect people's lives and well-being, in a fairly proximal way.
Mentoring REU students has been one of my favorite aspects of being a postdoc. This is so sad and unjustifiable.
February 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Mentoring REU students has been one of my favorite aspects of being a postdoc. This is so sad and unjustifiable.
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The next deadline for the JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants is Friday 7 March 2025.
These grants are open to ECRs that otherwise wouldn’t have sufficient funding to attend a microscopy or bioimage analysis course to support their research in cell biology.
www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...
These grants are open to ECRs that otherwise wouldn’t have sufficient funding to attend a microscopy or bioimage analysis course to support their research in cell biology.
www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...
February 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The next deadline for the JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants is Friday 7 March 2025.
These grants are open to ECRs that otherwise wouldn’t have sufficient funding to attend a microscopy or bioimage analysis course to support their research in cell biology.
www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...
These grants are open to ECRs that otherwise wouldn’t have sufficient funding to attend a microscopy or bioimage analysis course to support their research in cell biology.
www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...
Exciting to see this story out! We explored how cooperation (antibiotic-resistant bacteria protect their antibiotic-sensitive neighbors by degrading the antibiotic) drives spatial organization of E. faecalis colonies (a bacterium that causes many antibiotic-resistant, hospital-acquired infections)
Spatial population dynamics of bacterial colonies with social antibiotic resistance
#PNAS by @marlis.bsky.social and late Kevin B. Wood
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#PNAS by @marlis.bsky.social and late Kevin B. Wood
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
February 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Exciting to see this story out! We explored how cooperation (antibiotic-resistant bacteria protect their antibiotic-sensitive neighbors by degrading the antibiotic) drives spatial organization of E. faecalis colonies (a bacterium that causes many antibiotic-resistant, hospital-acquired infections)
Reposted by Marlis Denk-Lobnig
Department of Education FAFSA changes are open for public comment. The changes include requiring trans students to misgender themselves and removes the nonbinary option on forms. Note: comment period is 60 days, and comments are publicly visible.
Form here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Form here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
February 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Department of Education FAFSA changes are open for public comment. The changes include requiring trans students to misgender themselves and removes the nonbinary option on forms. Note: comment period is 60 days, and comments are publicly visible.
Form here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Form here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything?
Yes. And You Can Too.
open.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
A tufted titmouse for February's #NearbyNature2025, because I recently learned about them when I saw one in my backyard in Michigan.
February 9, 2025 at 4:17 AM
A tufted titmouse for February's #NearbyNature2025, because I recently learned about them when I saw one in my backyard in Michigan.
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A new issue of Cell is out, featuring the 4 winners of the Rising Black Scientists Awards. Their essays bring hope, inspiration and reinforce the importance of equity in science. Do take a moment to check them out: www.cell.com/cell/current
@cp-cell.bsky.social
@cp-cell.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
A new issue of Cell is out, featuring the 4 winners of the Rising Black Scientists Awards. Their essays bring hope, inspiration and reinforce the importance of equity in science. Do take a moment to check them out: www.cell.com/cell/current
@cp-cell.bsky.social
@cp-cell.bsky.social
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Other articles that are now deleted:
Black Women in Microbiology: web.archive.org/web/20241210...
Ruth E. Moore: web.archive.org/web/20240719...
Women in the History of Antimicrobial Development (Jane Hinton, Ruth E. Moore, Mattiedna Johnson): web.archive.org/web/20250114...
Black Women in Microbiology: web.archive.org/web/20241210...
Ruth E. Moore: web.archive.org/web/20240719...
Women in the History of Antimicrobial Development (Jane Hinton, Ruth E. Moore, Mattiedna Johnson): web.archive.org/web/20250114...
Iconic Black Women in the History of Microbiology Research | ASM.org
Recognize the ground-breaking achievements of Black women researchers by exploring highlights of their contributions in the history of microbiology.
web.archive.org
February 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Other articles that are now deleted:
Black Women in Microbiology: web.archive.org/web/20241210...
Ruth E. Moore: web.archive.org/web/20240719...
Women in the History of Antimicrobial Development (Jane Hinton, Ruth E. Moore, Mattiedna Johnson): web.archive.org/web/20250114...
Black Women in Microbiology: web.archive.org/web/20241210...
Ruth E. Moore: web.archive.org/web/20240719...
Women in the History of Antimicrobial Development (Jane Hinton, Ruth E. Moore, Mattiedna Johnson): web.archive.org/web/20250114...