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Mirna Vazquez Rosas Landa
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A very curious and charismatic microbiologist
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Mirna Vazquez Rosas Landa @mirnavrl.bsky.social · May 5
🌿 Big news! Our first mangrove paper just dropped in PeerJ!
We looked at how water flow shapes microbial life in Gulf of Mexico sediments.
It’s been a journey — and there's more coming soon!
📖 peerj.com/articles/193...
#Mangroves #Microbes #ScienceLife
Impact of seasonal flooding and hydrological connectivity loss on microbial community dynamics in mangrove sediments of the southern Gulf of Mexico
Background Mangrove ecosystems play essential roles in coastal resilience, carbon sequestration, and biodiversity but are under increasing threat from anthropogenic pressures. This study explores the ...
peerj.com
mirnavrl.bsky.social
🌿 Big news! Our first mangrove paper just dropped in PeerJ!
We looked at how water flow shapes microbial life in Gulf of Mexico sediments.
It’s been a journey — and there's more coming soon!
📖 peerj.com/articles/193...
#Mangroves #Microbes #ScienceLife
Impact of seasonal flooding and hydrological connectivity loss on microbial community dynamics in mangrove sediments of the southern Gulf of Mexico
Background Mangrove ecosystems play essential roles in coastal resilience, carbon sequestration, and biodiversity but are under increasing threat from anthropogenic pressures. This study explores the ...
peerj.com
May 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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To all my American friends, how do you feel lately with things happening there? I feel pretty anxious.
January 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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One of my favorite parts of Ministry for the Future was the abolition of the billionaires. Just to be that rich makes you an enemy of democracy. Wrote early this year:
Let me put it this way: if you made $10,000 a week – a princely sum by the standards of most people – you would have to work every week from the year of Jesus’s birth until this week to earn over a billion dollars. To earn as much as Elon Musk’s net worth at that rate – currently $180bn, according to Forbes – you’d have to work every week for more than a third of a million years – that is, since before Homo sapiens first emerged in Africa. Being a billionaire is arguably a disqualification for participating in the affairs of ordinary people Another way to put it is: one day last year, walking on San Francisco’s western edge, overlooking the Pacific Ocean, I saw whales spouting, and then I came home and rescued a bee buzzing at my window. The extremely disparate scale of these two wild creatures impressed me, and so I did the sums: a honeybee weighs about 0.11 grams and 4,000 bees weigh a pound; a grey whale weighs between 60,000 and 90,000 pounds, meaning that, even at the lower weight, it weighs about as much as a quarter of a billion bees. According to Oxfam, 81 billionaires hold more wealth than the poorest half of all humanity, meaning that in monetary terms 81 people are bigger than 4 billion people. So when it comes to wealth and impact, billionaires are whales and poor people are bees. Except that whales aren’t a menace to bees.
December 18, 2024 at 12:29 AM
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Valeria Souza and other leading women microbial ecologists examine gender inequities from a Mexican perspective, highlighting the continued double glass ceiling that these researchers face (being from Latin America and a woman)🧵(2/3)

www.cell.com/trends/micro...
Challenges of female microbial ecologists at different stages of their academic life: a Mexican perspective
Latin American women scientists face a double glass ceiling because of cultural, institutional, and geographic biases, including those from international journal editors. Despite under-representation, they advance in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), particularly microbiology. In Mexico, more efforts are needed to create an inclusive community, driving progress enriched by women’s perspectives in science.
www.cell.com
December 13, 2024 at 10:42 AM
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If you ever wonder what it's like to be an early-career microbiologist in Mexico, check this out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Challenges of female microbial ecologists at different stages of their academic life: a Mexican perspective
Latin American women scientists face a double glass ceiling because of cultural, institutional, and geographic biases, including those from internatio…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 14, 2024 at 5:02 AM
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Happy coding friends! 🚀
December 6, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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:)
December 6, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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Got a visual
December 6, 2024 at 3:07 AM
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My writing process is usually:

a) I got this
b) well, fuck
c) wait that part was real good
d) wait no that part sucks
e) I am a god of this place
f) the fuck is this shit, who do I think I am, why am I here
g) oh man I just figured it all out
h) mistakes were made
I) existential dread
December 4, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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Magic moments :p
November 25, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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Yesterday at UNAM we had a symposium on different ways of studying bacteria :)
November 22, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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Stromatolite #microbes
November 18, 2024 at 12:00 AM
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Sunday
November 17, 2024 at 11:58 PM
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Send good vibes, I am trying to submit a book chapter today 🧬🦠📝📚🤓
November 13, 2024 at 1:01 PM
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Hi, for you a beutiful sky! Sampling in Cozumel #nature #marinebiology
November 12, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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Hi there! Sharing with you folks the lab team :) We went sampling mangroves in the Gulf of Mexico. #nature #microbes #mangroves #science @academic-chatter.bsky.social
November 11, 2024 at 2:16 PM
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Morning #life #happiness #nature #camping
November 10, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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Seeking microbes with the ability to fix nitrogen @academic-chatter.bsky.social #microbes #microbiomes
November 10, 2024 at 12:30 AM