Dr Geertje van Keulen

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Swimming🏊‍♀️ sewciophilic🧵🪡microbial 🧫biochemist🧪🧬/biomaterials⚒️scientist; interested in chemistry, biology, materials and ecology of actinos/natural products, plus microbiology/chemistry in hot tubs; champions Outreach and EDI

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@paulhoskisson.bsky.social I think I picked up the noncovid thing you had during Council! Started with a sore throat, bad cough and now voice weird too! How long did it take for you to recover and have your regular voice back?

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Physiology, fast and slow: bacterial response to variable resource stoichiometry and dilution rate -in #mSystemsJ journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Also important for non-medical subjects! 🧫🧪🩺🧬🔬⚙️ www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1....

Can ChatGPT-4o really pass medical science exams? A pragmatic analysis using novel questionswww.medrxiv.org medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences

Dear people of the UK with Westminster voting rights: You know what to do today, please do not disappoint me!

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A fully funded (3 year) PhD position is available in my group. The project will focus on analysing how synergistically interacting bacteria coevolve. Join my vibrant group at @UniOsnabrueck. Please RT Deadline: 28.07.2024 More information👇 shorturl.at/5ZP7R

142 FB 5 Research Assistant (m/f/d) - Universität Osnabrückshorturl.at

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The landmark reversal nullifies all previously lawful forms of right and makes it very difficult for Americans to make ethical decisions or be generally decent human beings without facing criminal charges.

Supreme Court Overturns 'Right v. Wrong'www.theonion.com WASHINGTON—Striking down the judicial precedent that established the legal supremacy of right over wrong more than two centuries ago, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned Right v. Wrong.

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Seed coating with phages for sustainable plant biocontrol of plant pathogens and influence of the seed coat mucilage #MicrobialBiotech from Arsova and Frunzke labs at FZ Juelich enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#natprod 🧫🦠🧪

Parasitism demands the work of specialists. We defined the weird and wonderful secondary metabolism of Escovopsis, fungal parasites of fungus-farming ants. Out today in @mSystemsJ! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... 🦠 🧪 🧫

We was robbed! #nedfra #euro24 ⚽️

Hup #Ned #nedfra #euro24 ⚽️

‘Interesting developments’ in publishing land👇

Thanks to this shit, which returns often useless "corrections"&obv cannot address issues of content/stats pitfalls/scientific relevance, I have lost a huge chunk of income that had previously been a steady source for 20 years. This journal also sells ITS OWN services to authors submitting papers. 🧪

Cool 🧫🦠 Engineering plasmid copy number heterogeneity for dynamic microbial adaptation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Engineering plasmid copy number heterogeneity for dynamic microbial adaptation - Nature Microbiologywww.nature.com Plasmid copy number heterogeneity can be used as a tool to build synthetic microbial populations that adapt to changing environments due to specific plasmid-encoded fitness effects.

Hup #Ned #polned #euro24 ⚽️

Of course💪 🧫 #microsky

Nicole sees both bacteria and archaea sampling 5-6 states for decisions. Ai usually only uses 3-4! Biology is more complex than artificial systems #ASMicrobe

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This is shameful- why was such a critical resource privatised as clearly the lack of external monitoring of standards and poor infrastructure investment has left our waterways a disgrace 🧪

BBC uncovers 6,000 possible illegal sewage spills in one yearwww.bbc.co.uk Data from English water firms suggests thousands more sewage spills took place on dry days, including during record 2022 heatwave.

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It's not harmless. It's not "just an innocent thing" to be fooled by AI. You NEED to be able to discern and differentiate reality. You NEED to know how the world works on a basic level. Because fooling you with baby animals and flowers is just the start of something much worse.

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How silly. Rich people are not going to stop sending their kids to private schools because it costs 20% more. We know this, because private school fees went up by 550% between 1991-2016, they’ve gone up even more since then, and they’re still oversubscribed www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Just f*** right off Daily Telegraph.

The charts that shows how private school fees have explodedwww.independent.co.uk Over the past 25 years private school fees have risen by 550 per cent. But consumer prices in that time are up only 200 per cent

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Looking for recommendations for relatively short online or in person metagenomic informatics workshops

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physicsworld.com/a/white-hete... 👀

Today the one thing I’m going to say about academia is it would be cool if white men academics consider the possibility their WOC colleagues have qualitatively different experiences w/ labor demands and pay, and it would be great for them to listen and pushback against any norms that overburden them

White heterosexual men have systematic advantages in science, finds study – Physics Worldphysicsworld.com An analysis of survey data has found that white able-bodied heterosexual men are uniquely privileged and experience a wide range of advantages at work

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Marc Veldhoen

The HPV vaccine not only prevents cervical cancer but reduces the risk of multiple other cancers and even pre-malignant lesions It needs to be spelled out, these are the facts in our shared reality. Vaccinations prevent disease and death and cause long healthy lives. 2/2

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Prof Chris Jackson

It 100% shouldn't be needed, hate that I'm recommending this, but we saw a change in driver behaviour when we got PassPixi signs. There are still idiots who get reported, but it does feel we have fewer close passes now. It doesn't matter if you don't have a camera, they don't know that. passpixi.com

PassPixipasspixi.com Warn drivers you’re watching

Dinner venue for tonight, not to crappy I suppose! #ExternalExaminerPerks 🧪🧫

next @SwanseaBioMaths Colloquium Wed June 5 by @mikegravenor &Gabriella Santiago: Post-Pandemic Respiratory Syncytial Virus Seasonality and Susceptibility–A Welsh Modelling Perspective Wallace Bld rm218 12.45pm ☕️🍪 for 1pm BST start 🦠🩺💻📈 Zoom for online att: swanseauniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Centre for Biomaths Colloquium - Mike Gravenor & Gabriella Santiago. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.swanseauniversity.zoom.us Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Centre for Biomaths Colloquium - Mike Gravenor & Gabriella Santiago. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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#CryoEM pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/294

PDB101: Molecule of the Month: Injectisomepdb101.rcsb.org Salmonella bacteria inject a cocktail of effector proteins into cells to disable their defenses.

#science #funding 😳

Think about this next time you work on that Case for Support 'We report on a field experiment (and) find that withholding proposal texts from panellists did not detectibly impact their proposal rankings' link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment - Scientometricslink.springer.com Scientists and funding agencies invest considerable resources in writing and evaluating grant proposals. But do grant proposal texts noticeably change panel decisions in single blind review? We report...

show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie

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#AcademicSky

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Inside the microbial black box: a redox-centric framework for deciphering microbial metabolism #TrendsMicrobiol Opinion www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Inside the microbial black box: a redox-centric framework for deciphering microbial metabolismwww.sciencedirect.com Microbial metabolism influences the global climate and human health and is governed by the balance between NADH and NAD+ through redox reactions. Hist…

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Does anyone know of (or have) a bacterial strain with all of the PTS sugar transporters knocked out?

Lovely view from the office (and lab too) over Swansea Bay today! #academicviews