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Jennifer Tsang@jtsangwrites.bsky.social |
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Freelance science writer, microbiologist.
Blogging at The Microbial Menagerie microbialmenagerie.com
Content marketing for life science companies
Knitting. Baking. Running.
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Ran Blekhman
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❗️"Sample collection times as short as only 4 hours apart can lead to vastly different conclusions"
Time of sample collection is critical for the replicability of microbiome analyses:
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Doug!
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Alt text isn’t just for non-sighted people with screen readers Good alt text can also provide context for an image to those that might not fully understand what they’re seeing Using Alt Text in images (like most disability accommodations) are a net positive for everyone
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Jennifer Tsang
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What a cool list of microbiology-related museums to visit around the world. I admit I've only been to one 😬
www.pda.org/pda-letter-p...
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Jennifer Tsang
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Microbiome-based drug delivery to the skin? It could be possible one day. Researcher from Georgia Tech tested the ability of bacteria to deliver drugs to the skin.
My latest: www.drugdiscoverynews.com/engineering-...
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Jennifer Tsang
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I had a great time working on these guides for Geneious
to support their bioinformatics software Geneious Prime. These introductory tutorials walks you through the basics of DNA sequencing, alignment, assembly, phylogenetics, and cloning.
🔗 www.geneious.com/academy#acad...
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Jennifer Tsang
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How many microbes can be co-cultured together, transferred into a host together, stably colonize the host, and protect the host from infection? A few? Tens? Dozens?
Over a hundred.
My latest for SynBioBeta below!
www.synbiobeta.com/read/buildin...
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Jennifer Tsang
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The Myers' lab at Harvard University used a completely synthetic approach to better manipulate the internal structures of existing antibiotics to make them even.
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Jennifer Tsang
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While many approaches to designing new antibiotics use semi-synthesis, it limits the number of structures you can make because you can only modify the more external components.
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Jennifer Tsang
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Loved going back to my science roots and writing about antimicrobials for @DrugDiscovNews. This article summarizes the design of the fully synthetic antibiotic called cresomycin. 🔗 buff.ly/3XdbVyT #AMR #AntibioticResistance #DrugDevelopment
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Jennifer Tsang
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Source request! I'm looking for someone who can speak on either #epigenetics in general or even better, epigenetics in #autoimmunity for an explainer article I'm writing for a client. LMK if this is you or if you know someone who would be interested!
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c0nc0rdance
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On a related note, different species of bacteria have distinctive smells when grown on optimal culture media. E. coli has that distinctive sewer smell, Salmonella always reminded me of stale corn chips, and Bacillus subtilis smell like gym socks left in a bag for a week.
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Jennifer Tsang
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Ahh haha It was so satisfying when I finally got a SDSPAGE gel to not leak. And I liked the smell of Coomassie too
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Jennifer Tsang
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I loved the smell of E. coli cultures. I'd have to say the frustration of troubleshooting experiments totally outweighs the satisfaction of them finally working. 😫
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Jennifer Tsang
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OMG yes! I forgot about the satisfaction of a smoothly streaked plate.
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Jennifer Tsang
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If you've left the lab, what do you miss most? For me it's the small things. 🧫 Pouring agar plates and the satisfaction of popping those bubbles that form with a flame. 🧪 Prepping plasmids 💧 Pipetting
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Jennifer Tsang
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Finally finished my first sweater! What should I make next?
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Jennifer Tsang
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Thanks for the incredible insights Michael Kamdar, Erfan Arwani, Emily Leproust, Biomemory, Twist Bioscience, Molecular Assemblies, Inc. #DNA #DigitalData #SynBioBeta24 #Sustainability #Biotech
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Jennifer Tsang
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While DNA itself reduce the energy costs and environmental impacts to maintain data (it's stable, doesn't require electricity, etc.), innovations that streamlines the DNA synthesis process itself also helps tremendously (ex: reduce chemicals and reagents, increase scalability).
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Jennifer Tsang
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🌎 Just in time for Earth Day! In writing my latest article for SynBioBeta, I got to learn from those pioneering DNA as a digital data storage medium.
www.synbiobeta.com/read/shrinki...
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Laura Helmuth
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A meta-analysis of anger research shows that cooling off is more effective than venting, jogging, screaming, or other get-it-off-your-chest activities, which can increase anger and aggression 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/feel...
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Steve Diggle
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Latest ‘Microbial Primer’ on ‘Cooperation in Bacteria’ is now available to read www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...
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Jennifer Tsang
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My toddler's favorite part of his first international trip last week: playing with a door for 30 minutes.
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shauna
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if you were looking for the perfect eclipse post, lemme save you some time
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Jennifer Tsang
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Today's workday is powered by this Total Solar Eclipse playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/4W1...
Happy eclipsing!
#SolarEclipse #TotalSolarEclipse #Eclipse2024
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Janet Hill
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When I saw one fox approaching another, I wondered what would happen next. I don't speak fox, but I think they know each other 🧡🧡
#mammals
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Jennifer Tsang
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Yes please!
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Jennifer Tsang
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Nooo! Hope you feel better soon
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Jennifer Tsang
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Workday, while child is in daycare: I can't wait to pick him up! Child home, first hour: This is so wonderful! Next two hours: It needs to be his bedtime now. I'm so tired. After kid's bedtime: I miss him so much! [spends all night looking through his photos and videos]
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Rob Edwards
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Plasmids are just wannabe #phage
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Laura Helmuth
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I'm an editor, so a lot of what I do is help people find the right words. One problem even the best writers struggle with is ableist language. We're so pickled in ableism that it can be hard to spot. Here are some examples & solutions, and please share your own 🧵 a thread
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c0nc0rdance
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If someone at the CDC offers you a muffin, SAY NO.
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Jennifer Tsang
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My favorite sciencey podcasts right now:
🐌 Gastropod: food + history + science. Yes please. I especially like how often they feature microbes on the show
🧪 This Podcast Will Kill You: history and the biology of diseases
What are you currently listening to?
#SciComm #Podcast #SciencePodcast
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Jennifer Tsang
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Pretty sure I am getting eye strain from knitting too much. 😭
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@pleunipennings.bsky.social
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I got to interview amazing scientist Dr Paul Turned from @yaleuniversity.bsky.social for a book chapter. The book may never get published but happy to share the interview here!
abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2024/02/12/d...
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Jennifer Tsang
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🦆 This week I learned that mallard ducks have 360 degree vision. 😲 How cool is that?
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Jennifer Tsang
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Oh no! I hope your 2 yo feels better. I was sick pretty much from September through December with two 1-week breaks with no symptoms. We started daycare in August.
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Jennifer Tsang
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I remember someone during my postdoc telling me they were sick all the time when their kids were young and then never got sick again. I'm ready.
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Jennifer Tsang
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I hope your kid feels better and you don't get it! For me, it's been about a month and half since my last respiratory thing and 2 weeks since my last GI thing so I'm probably due for my next one. 😬
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Jennifer Tsang
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I am hoping things look up in the spring. In April, we'll be around the nine month mark since we started which is what the first study indicates that things should calm down.
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Jennifer Tsang
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As a microbiologist mom, I dug up some studies on respiratory illness transmission in daycares after my son started daycare and brought home illness after illness. #MicroSky
Here's what I found: microbialmenagerie.com/respiratory-...
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Jennifer Tsang
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I have no problem admitting this :)
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Jennifer Tsang
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What are 5 topics you can talk about unprepared for 5 minutes? 1. Gilmore Girls 2. How to make fermented foods 3. Running routes in Boston 4. Vegetarian cooking and meal prep 5. Content marketing / SEO
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Rachel M. Wheatley
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Working on AMR and the microbiome? 🦠🧫 I am organising a one-day workshop at Magdalen in May. The aim is to bring together a small group of researchers for a day of talks and discussions, ft mix of research topics & career stages.
Are you interested?
forms.gle/26hx1UhvBBfh...
#MicroSky
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Jennifer Tsang
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🧬 I got curious about long DNA synthesis, so I was excited to chat with Jodi Barrientos, CEO and CBO of Ribbon Biolabs, about it.
🔗 Read this Q&A in SynBioBeta on long DNA synthesis and how Ribbon assembles DNA up to 20 kb in length.
www.synbiobeta.com/read/advanci...
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Jennifer Tsang
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me right now. I have a tiny little couch corner. when my dog is on the couch, she likes to basically sit on my leg before lying down
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Jennifer Tsang
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I'm finally making my first ChatGPT. I just asked it for a #sourdough recipe with some add-in ingredients I had and told it when I wanted to start the levain and bake the bread. Recipe seems pretty accurate to me.
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Jennifer Tsang
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I'm giving Zapier a try and it took me 1.5 hours to set up two automations. I'm not really sure automating tasks is going to save me any time. 😂
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Jennifer Tsang
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Happy Friday! I'm pretty excited for what I've got on my plate today. I'm finalizing a few outlines for genomics and cloning articles, brainstorming a synbio piece, and working on my blog, The Microbial Menagerie. I'm also heading to Trader Joes and I'm weirdly excited about that.
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Aris Katzourakis
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One thing that studying the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 has taught us, is how little we know about its current and future evolutionary trajectories. It is a virus that is full of surprises and has challenged popular assumptions many times already. 1/n
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️
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I will be giving a talk via Zoom Wednesday, January 24 at 1:00 CST titled Finding Purpose in Research from an Indigenous Perspective. I'm excited because this is the first time I am giving this talk, and it's paired with Braiding Sweetgrass.
For more information visit doorcountylibrary.org
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