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Primrose Boynton@pjboynton.bsky.social |
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Environmental yeast ecology and evolution! I love model and non-model organisms, and single-celled and filamentous fungi alike. Assistant Professor at Wheaton College, Massachusetts (USA) and senior editor of Yeast, but my posts are my own. she/her
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Primrose Boynton
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Have you seen what might be the best tribute ever to the show?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wijp...
I loved this song so much in my teens...still do!
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Primrose Boynton
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Primrose Boynton
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Special issue editors include @khowell.bsky.social, Jason Tsai, Florian Bauer, and Carla Gonçalves! It's a great team!
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Primrose Boynton
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I want to let you all know about the next special issue in the journal Yeast! It's on yeasts in the microbiome. If you work on yeasts in ANY kind of microbiome (animal, plant, fungal, other), consider submitting!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
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Primrose Boynton
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Yes! When teaching R and ggplot! The only way you can figure out how to do whatever the hell it is you want to do is to fuck around and find out :)
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Primrose Boynton
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One thing I've noticed is that if I actually want science content, I read my "Quiet Posters" feed. Turns out, most of the scientists I follow post rarely, and most of the non-scientists I follow post a BUNCH. I'm not 100% sure what this is a symptom of (scientists? Or my ability to discover them?)
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Primrose Boynton
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A lot of irony packed in there in the "integrity modules" demand. As though students--whether you agree with you or not--were not participating in protesting specifically to maintain integrity in the first place.
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Primrose Boynton
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This got such an audible laugh out of me. Well done!
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Blitzy 🩺 ⚡️
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What did amoxicillin say to the bacterial wall? I need you to be less peptidoglycan and more peptidoglycant
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Primrose Boynton
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Yikes! It would make me not want to trust editors from that journal, or to ever publish in their journal again.
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Carl T. Bergstrom
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Today’s spam: “This 2-day workshop is aimed at non-statisticians who have to perform data analysis in their work or research. It teaches how to use ChatGPT for statistical analysis without having to know a statistics program or writing a single line of code.” What could possibly go wrong?
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Primrose Boynton
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I'm not sure if it's still true, but YEARS ago when I was getting an APHIS permit for "soil" samples (really, water taken from pitcher plants), I found it helpful to call them on the phone
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Primrose Boynton
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This seems like some weird side-effect of using plagiarism-detecting software during the editorial process. Like, they're advertising the parameters they use for their software? I mean, defs looks like a scam journal, though
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christoph_STCmicrobeblog
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tagging #MicroSky #FungiFriends (!)
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the Mountain Goats
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remarkably dangerous and bad
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Primrose Boynton
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Honestly, this would be enough for me to not renew/use a membership anymore.
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Primrose Boynton
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Spreading the news about Wheaton College's Outstanding STEM Scholars Summer Program! This is a chance for students to get a jump-start on their college experience in STEM. Spend four weeks in the summer connecting with peers and doing scientific research!
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Primrose Boynton
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Looks like the season has hit the NorthEast! Looking forward to some rain later this week to see its full glory!
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Primrose Boynton
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That's really great to hear! I remember the point in my submission where I was asked to choose an editor, and having trouble finding one with the expertise in my field. How wonderful that the journal's success is making this easier!
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Primrose Boynton
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This is rad! I have a paper with FOUR undergraduate co-authors in microPublications Biology--would've submitted to microPublications in Ecology and Evolution if it were available at the time.
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Primrose Boynton
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I'd been thinking about hydrogenotrophic methanogens with the question, but this is a good point; I should've said "autotrophic methanogens" or something similar.
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Primrose Boynton
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I'd thought so! But because no carbohydrates are produced, I though maybe I'd gotten it wrong. Thanks so much for this clarification!!
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schnail70
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There sure are! Both natural and synthetic pathways: "To date, five natural metabolic pathways that perform carbon fixation in place of the classic rPP cycle have been identified."
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Primrose Boynton
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Thank you!!! This is exactly what I was wondering. The paper in the link is very cool.
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Primrose Boynton
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That name rings a bell, and I think you're right that it fits the criteria. This is very cool! I'd been trying to figure out if I could get away with saying, "all fixed carbon is RuBisCO", and it looks like the answer is "no". Most, maybe.. Thank you so much for this! You're kind to share knowledge
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Primrose Boynton
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Hah! I had to look it up too, and go "right! now I remember this from my plant physiology class! C4 photosynthesis, rad!"
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Primrose Boynton
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I think you're right. But I'm wondering if it "counts" (if that's something that makes sense), because don't the carbons eventually get shunted off to the Calvin cycle?
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Primrose Boynton
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Hey science-sky, here's a metabolism question that's been bugging me: In the vast diversity of bacteria and archaea, is there anything that fixes carbon without RuBisCO? Related: Does methanogenesis count as carbon fixation? (pls excuse my amateur biochem!) 🧪
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Primrose Boynton
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@benwolfe.bsky.social She's not wrong!
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Primrose Boynton
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Shouting out my buddy Amine Hassani's new paper on bacteria interactions and fire blight! Community members reduce disease, but not by excluding the blight bacterium. Instead, they change blight bact's gene expression and environmental pH, synergistically (2 community & 1 blight bacteria together)
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Primrose Boynton
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Bkoskella
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One week left to apply! Please share with any recently graduated students who are looking for a postbac full-time, paid research experience in Microbiome sciences in the Bay Area!
Questions? We are hosting a Q&A session this coming Monday. Register here: forms.gle/7pjHyySm2iEi...
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Primrose Boynton
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I do, and I plan to apply it to my own work!
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Remco Stam
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Looking for an exciting highly relevant MSc course? Applications for our international MSc course Agrigenomics close soon!
Modules cover applied and computational genomics and allow to focus on plant, animal or soil science.
Open to all nationalities.
www.agrigenomics.de/en
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Primrose Boynton
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Wild! To think that origins of replication are so flexible. Also, thanks for the tag--I wasn't aware of it, and will use it in the future! Great to have such a great community!
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Primrose Boynton
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Cool! It's so neat to first learn about something that others have been working on for such a long time.
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Primrose Boynton
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Thanks so much for this kind explanation! This kind of reinforces the idea that there's a LOT of grey area in all our definitions, and nature throws us curve balls.
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Lars Brudvig
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Nepenthes and Sarracenia, the tropical and N American pitcher plants These genera (in different families) independently evolved a strategy to survive in nutrient-poor environments: a "pitcher" made from a specialized leaf, to catch bugs Textbook example of convergent evolution
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
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Anyone aware of postdoc fellowship programs supporting students coming from Africa?
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Primrose Boynton
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Woa, TIL about "episomal maintenance" as well! It's not a term that comes up so often in my environmental fungi work. Saccharomyces have plasmids--are these the same thing, and we're just using different terms? (Thanks for the new term! This is what social media is good for!)
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Primrose Boynton
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(in addition to the obvious, "Certainly..." response, which screams "I Chat-GPT-ed this thing and didn't bother to read the response before submission")
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Primrose Boynton
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This looks like the reviewer used a bot designed to help writers while writing, but not a bot that was able to respond to scientific information. It's not that I wouldn't expect a reviewer to comment on language/figures/etc., but I would also expect comments on the science, which are absent.
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Primrose Boynton
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Thanks for posting/producing this!
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Geoff Zahn
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Happy to share a fun and hopefully useful paper written with my former student, @kjehickman.bsky.social with advice for running a successful undergraduate research lab!
Please share with PUI folks and anyone who has undergrads in their lab.
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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Primrose Boynton
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TIL about phage-plasmids! Lysogenic phage that hang out in the cell as plasmids instead of integrating into the genome!
Seems obvious in retrospect that something like this would exist, but today's the first I heard of them. Here's a paper:
academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
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Primrose Boynton
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This looks so cool! And timely--I was just looking for citations about virophages :)
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Primrose Boynton
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I'm a little bit farther north, but am looking forward to finding these weird little guys soon!
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Hanna Kokko
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Our brand new 2-year international Evolutionary Biology MSc program here in Mainz*) starts in October. Apply by May 15th ...or why not today or tomorrow?
www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-biologi...
*) a city that our today's visitor Audrey Proenca called "adorable". See how happy she looks with us!
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Imani Gandy
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I know we're all mad about the Arizona abortion ruling, but please don't joke about mandatory vasectomies. The answer to the state stripping people of their bodily autonomy is not to suggest stripping other people of their bodily autonomy particularly when those most affected won't be white men
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Kinsey Brock
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Paid salamander research opportunity 🦎🧪 Apply by April 14!
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