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Tatiana Dimitriu
@tatianadimitriu.bsky.social
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@royalsociety University Research Fellow in St Andrews. Bacterial evolution, mobile genetic elements & defence systems, antibiotic resistance, social interactions. 🇫🇷 with some 🇷🇴 and 🇺🇦 roots. She/her
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Cats have finally joined me in Scotland and seem to be settling well. Although they still don't trust us to not impose a 12h drive on them again soon.
Two black-and-white cats on a pile of cushions, one of them looking suspiciously at the camera.
November 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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only a microbiologist can be happy she left home in a rush three weeks ago and did not empty her tea mug @contamclub.bsky.social
Photo of the bottom of a mug covered in fungal contamination, in blue-gray tones with some blue and white more distinct outgrowths
September 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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This is my happy place and I'm not sure I want to leave ever
Various views of Provence countryside with dark green and yellow-green vegetation, blue sky and white clouds
August 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Working from Cornwall for a few days ... and I remember why I bought a tablet with which I can read in the sun :)
View from sitting on the stone steps in the harbour with the sea at my feet, coffee and tablet on my knees , and a lot of sun
June 20, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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My romanian knowledge is sketchy at best so didn't realize earlier your name (or even Palade) was romanian, but the writing at the back of the photos did it! I have similar old sepia photos with weirdly similar handwriting from my grandmum ...
April 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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I am back at work but my cats are in Cornwall and it's bank holiday for them so they send me updates
A confusing picture of two cats, one on top of the other (I thought first it was one single cat standing up and showing her belly), surrounded by some golden gift ribbon they have claimed. My cats are silly and I miss them.
April 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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So … today I’m thinking about my great-grandmum, who was a fierce Ukrainian woman I didn't know well enough, and made her own choices.
Photo of an old sepia photo taped on a black album page, of a woman standing tall looking at the camera, holding a handbag and flowers, on a woollen carpet with eastern european patterns Another photo of a damaged black-and-white family photo: my great-great grandmum as a young woman holding the youngest son in her arms, her husband wearing black with a cross around his neck (he was an orthodox priest), and the three daughters standing around them. My grandmum is either in the middle or on the right.
March 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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and the dessicated plates after the break then yield pretty contaminants .. @contamclub.bsky.social

it is telling that I have been back for two weeks and only now look for any surprises waiting for me on the bench #newPI
Dark brown fungal contamination on a Petri dish, with a lighter colored ring interrupted by a few small circles (maybe traces of the initial bacterial colonies) Yellow spreading fungal contamination, surrounding another contaminant red colony One orange and one white fungal contaminations with concentric rings on a very dessicated plate, viewed from the inside One orange and one white fungal contaminations with concentric rings on a very dessicated plate
January 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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When a rapid proof-of-concept try for a new experiment works even better than I hoped .. the amplitude of variations is just right to easily test the effect of a number of things :) I almost don't want to leave for the Christmas break so I can play with these now.
Photo of 3 Petri dishes - one annotated K/C with nothing growing, one annotated K/Co with a few (5) white colonies, and one annotated K/CF with hundreds of white colonies. Some of the white might actually turn red over the break.
December 16, 2024 at 12:44 PM
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sorry what did I just read
Screenshot of a journal article's results saying "The result seems to suggest the possibity of transferring resistance from Escherichia to Shigella or vice versa. They also observed that out of 7 patients who had excreted resistant E. coli and sensitive Shigella at the beginning of hospitalization, resistant strains of Shigella were isolated from 6 cases two to five days following the treatment with one kind of antibiotics. Furthermore, they injected peranaly the broth culture of resistant Escherichia into patients who had been excreting sensitive Shigella, and they succeded in obtaining triple resistant Shigella culture from 3 out of 24 patients tested. From such results, Kagiwada and Kato concluded that the results obtained suggested the transfer of resistance between Escherichia and Shigella in the human intestinal canal."
December 6, 2024 at 10:59 AM
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Well I never had near that number of followers on Twitter! I mostly use this for science, with occasional landscapes, short moans about french politics (mostly when I don't find french people around), and photos of my cats because they are objectively the cutest things in the world - proof attached
Two black and white cats (mostly black) snuggling on a chair looking at the camera. They look like they have different eye colors, yellow and green, but that's a camera or light artefact.
November 18, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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Took this photo of my new neighbours yesterday night, it felt peaceful and hopeful at the time. Now in a different context it looks kind of ominous and dark.
A green field with a herd of sheep, in the sunset with hills and trees in the background
November 6, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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The Brancuși exhibition in Centre Pompidou combined many many things close to my heart
photo of Constantin Brancusi's sculptures on the top floor of Centre Pompidou, with a view of Paris in the background photo of Constantin Brancusi's sculptures (bird in space) on the top floor of Centre Pompidou, with a view of Paris in the background
June 5, 2024 at 9:18 AM
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working to make friends with these two little ones
Two young rabbits in a garden
April 17, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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Well this is a nice start 😍 if only there were a few more hours of daylight to enjoy the views
View of St Andrews from the West Sands with a blue sky reflected in the sand
January 9, 2024 at 10:11 AM