Blake Downing
@blkdwnng
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Fascinated by microbes. Wannabe PhD in @lab_nayak at UC Berkeley. Thoughts, views, and tweets are my own. He/Him. 🏳️🌈
OK ➡️ MN ➡️ CA
Joined May 2012
The case for subspecies – the neglected unit of conservation – https://t.co/geFG8zZ3Bq via @aeonmag
aeon.co
To lump or to split? Deciding whether an animal is a species or subspecies profoundly influences our conservation priorities
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Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway.
science.org
Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review
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it’s workinggggggg
They’re trying to activate your nervous system by flooding you with negative news.
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Neurospora crassa as a model system for fungal immunity! 🍄🦠New pre-print and my first, first author paper from the @kseniakrasileva lab where I dissect N.crassa’s interaction with Pseudomonas https://t.co/YF18oUp8nb (A 🧵)
biorxiv.org
Recent comparative genomics and mechanistic analyses support the existence of a fungal immune system. Fungi encode genes with features similar to non-self recognition systems in plants, animals, and...
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If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.
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every politics tweet on here now is like "trump signs executive order shutting down electrical grid" and all the replies under it are just thank you jesus we have prayed for this
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Pls share: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Hofstra University, NY Full ad and application link:
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Pls share: Penn State Berks, a college of Penn State University in suburban Reading, has a Tenure-track appointment in biology with a focus in prokaryotic microbiology starting August 2025. A Ph.D. in microbiology or a related field is required.
berks.psu.edu
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Living in America is starting to feel like the final act of Revenge of the Sith
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https://t.co/8XK2ZfhrEy Shoutout to @anaerobicemily. Everyone take a look for inspiration for being a great person while also merging being a talented scientist & artist.
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Two exciting papers about the the protection of nitrogenases from O2 by the ferredoxin Shethna protein II from the Tezcan https://t.co/eTrdlbNFDx and Einsle https://t.co/8AG7FmKCHM labs were published today by @Nature. Surprisingly both papers reveal superstructures of filaments.
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🦠EARLY BIRD DEADLINE EXTENDED🦠 It’s not too late to register for Geobiology 2025 - we have extended our early bird deadline to 31st January 2025! #Geobiology2025
🏔️GEOBIOLOGY 2025🏔️ Registration is now open at: https://t.co/O8tj8oY6O4 Students & PDFs: $300 CAD Professors & Professionals: $450 CAD Early Bird Deadline: 31st December 2024
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i'm so tired, man
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It turns out that when you actually make moves that materially improve ppl’s lives, they will vote for you!!!!
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Cool lessons to be learned from Mexico. A leftist party centered around eliminating neoliberal corruption and making gov’t actually work for the working class. https://t.co/vq9KkRU4UW
jacobin.com
How AMLO turned an anti-corruption campaign into an opportunity for economic redistribution.
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