MicrobeGoogling

POV: You're at a gender reveal party and the couple tells you they've baked a cake to look like the baby's chromosomes. You expect X or Y. They bring it out. It is a circle. Their child is an engineered strain of E. coli K12. You are ecstatic.

Given the abundance of the kingdoms of life, we propose classifying Eukaryotes as "probacteria" to emphasize the fact that they are simply not bacteria.

Escherichia coli, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Vibrio fischeri, Methanosarcina barkeri

Where is the NIST hard seltzer standard?? @NIST

BORG me up, (BORG me up inside) I can't BORG up, (BORG me up inside) BORG me, Call my BORG and save me from the BORG (Evanescence et al. 2003)

The electroporations will continue until morale improves

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You're in their DMs, I'm in their CV. We are not the same.

Sometimes the microbe grows, sometimes the microbe sleeps. Why do you expect microbe to grow every time?Does microbe expect you to wake up at 6am every day? No! That's now how this works, buddy. The microbe can do what it wants, your OD readings be damned.

to an organic compound, an LC-MS is just a water slide with a fun surprise at the end

Ever think about how the Mountain Dew Baja Blast is a completely sterile environment?

And @microgoogling is proud to be a eukaryotic member of the "queer and lives in rocks" demographic

The vast majority of life on Earth is microbial and the largest reservoir of microbial life exists in the Earth's subsurface. All bacteria and archaea are queer. The vast majority of Earth life is queer and lives in rocks. Happy pride.

@tylermappe see our cover photo

NSF is once again soliciting research proposals for projects related to the creation of a yeast strain the size of a house.

Damn, you transcribe with that polymerase? 👀

New COVID strains:

The @ channel slack messages will continue until morale improves

The zodiac signs as unnecessary latin phrases: Aries: In silico Taurus: In situ Gemini: Ex situ Cancer: A priori Leo: In vivo Virgo: Post priori Libra: In vitro Scorpio: Ergo Sag: De facto Capricorn: Ad hoc Aquarius: Modus operandi Pisces: Terra firma

microbes, they're just like us 😌

@ImmunoGoogling anything can be a QR code if you believe