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.

Best in-text citation format?.

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.

Damn, you transcribe with that polymerase? 👀.

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

RT @MicroGoogling: 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 😌.

benzene but pronounced italian.

if. slack. replace email. why . slack . send emails???.