Miriam Markum (Dr. M)
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Miriam Markum (Dr. M)
@microbialgrrl.bsky.social
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Assoc Prof of Teaching at UC Davis. Hypermicrobiophile (impossible to pick a favorite!) and learning enthusiast. Opinions are my own and updated with new data. she/her/hers
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Fern Canyon is the most beautiful place I’ve yet been on the planet 🤩
July 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Pics from last weekend’d hike in Marin. I can’t wait to visit with even more tall friends in Redwood NP next week! 🥾🌲
Top-to-bottom view of a very tall redwood tree and neighboring trees appearing to bow out due to the panoramic nature of the photo I’m wearing glasses, a bright magenta-colored sleeveless shirt and some wild yoga pants with green and purple blotches. I’m holding a much-appreciated hiking pole and standing on a wooden bridge over a trickling stream in the woods
July 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Ready for the March for Science in Sacramento! 🦠 🧪 💉 ❤️

(Thanks to the clever poster & protester that I borrowed the words from! 💪 ❤️ )
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A protest sign with colorful letters that say “Vaccines cause adults” and an image of a vaccination needle filled with “future” and releasing drops in the shape of valentines
March 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Ready for the March for Science in Sacramento! 🦠 🧪 💉 ❤️
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Protest sign with colorful letters that say “Vaccines cause adults” and shows a vaccination needle filled with the “future” and squirting out drops in the shape of valentines
March 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Met up with my awesome kiddo from Portland this weekend & had a lovely time hiking in the Oakland hills visiting the MoMA SF. Their “The Visitors” exhibit is an audiovisual masterpiece to experience. And Amy Sherald’s “American Sublime” is genius.
Me in a fluorescent yellow rain jacket and green and black workout pants with my kiddo wearing a green and gray rain jacket and red, gray, and white cargo pants. We’re on a path in woods, side-hugging, and smiling. Two Black men are kissing, with one in a while sailor outfit dipping another in a black-and-white striped t-shirt and bright yellow pants. The scene is a re-creation of the (in)famous “V-J Day in Times Square” photo of a sailor kissing a woman from the cover of Life magazine in 1945
March 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Nothing like a weekend hike on the Blue Ridge trail in Stebbins Canyon to help me reset so I can continue to resistant the evil empire during the week.
February 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Had a fabulous time at SABER West! Met old friends and new potential collaborators. Learned lots, inspired even more. Briefly shared my test run of the much-faster data-retrieval quiz method of notebook grading with other folks in poster format.
Me pointing at a panel on my conference poster. I’m smiling (‘cause science!) and wearing my favorite travel shirt that says, “May the microbes be ever in your favor!” in glittery letters on black.
January 23, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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From the ASM CUE to the TSA queue!
#asmcue
November 17, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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Great weekend of learning and refilling my teaching cup at #asmcue! Of course I had to get a photo of me with the Super Staph!
November 17, 2024 at 4:22 PM