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microbialminutes · 13 days ago

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[🔬 Microscope equipped.]

🧫 e-colin Follow Another day, another dollar trying to infect this host! Rise and grind pathogens 💸

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🦠 cell287776540923 Follow might fuck around and reactivate my oncogenes later

💊 mr-t-cell1989 grins at you violently

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🦠 natkiller28937 Follow Who up patrolling the body for cells without MHC Class I molecules 😎😎

🧬 nora-virus Follow You know what? This isn't okay. Pathogens work hard to infect host cells and reproduce. It's the only way for them to perpetuate their own existence. Letting pathogens infect host cells is absolutely necessary to prevent their total extermination. Killing is wrong! Immune cells need to learn to be tolerant of other microbes instead of destroying us just because we want to seize and consume this body's resources.

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🩸 neutro-phil2

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microbialminutes · 14 days ago

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wore my diatom print socks for the first time in a while and got my first interview invite...maybe the bad bitches im pulling are microbiology phd programs...

me and the bad bitch i pulled with my diatom print socks

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microbialminutes · 14 days ago

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Being in microbiology is so stupid like fuuuuuck man. I have Mold due for tomorrow

#me praying my cells are ready: oh shit i got infectious disease due in [redacted doubling times]#meanwhile the ecoli overnights im growing up for minipreps: oh shit i got DNA due tomorrow

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microbialminutes · 14 days ago

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in my last botany lab the professor had a prepared slide of diatoms set up for us to look at and i was not prepared for how delightful the slide looked

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microbialminutes · 14 days ago

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ugh i am so cringe *didnt realize that firmicutes are now called bacilliota*

#actually was embarassing i said oh is that the family bacillus are in? and with great disdain they were like no. thats the phyla name.#why do we keep changing phyla names. killing myself now.#i studied very hard for that exam of bacterial diversity in school #and yet.#meanwhile instead of studying for my eukaryotic microbial diversity exam i bought diatom socks. and have yet to experience consequences #microbiology

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microbialminutes · 15 days ago

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i have met a minimum of 3-4 microbiologists who overuse the word "cute" in a variety of different ways...what is this universality yet diversity...divergent evolution perhaps...

#its not even just. oh this microbe looks cute #its like 'well this is a cute hypothesis'#but also we get 'this bacteria is cute' of course #when i gave a presentation this week i think the word cute was used at least 15 times when people commented/asked questions

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microbialminutes · 20 days ago

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everyone has dreams about being lost at school, late to work, cant find bathroom etc but whats yalls most common Uncommon stress dream. ill always have dreams about having various problems with my fish tank

#work stress dreams but i do microbiology for work #so the night before a big experiment i always have stress dreams about ridiculous things happening in my protocol #once i walked into our tissue culture room and the entire biosafety cabinet was missing. just gone.#(its like. installed physically into the room absolutely not removeable)

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microbialminutes · 1 month ago

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From “Evolution of human endogenous retroviral sequences: a conceptual account” (Blikstad et al. 2008)

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microbialminutes · 2 months ago

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generative AI? sorry, the only AI i know is autoinducer

#rejoice! glowing squids be upon ye #i feel like quorum sensing is cool regardless but it gets unfairly cool association bc of bioluminescence #microbiology #bacteriology

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microbialminutes · 3 months ago

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working on making a grad school virtual info session drinking game/bingo to keep myself sane during all the stupid shit that gets asked at every single session that's either incredibly specific and personal to the person or is literally the first thing on the application webpage

#please if you cannot do enough research to find out if a school requires GRE then you are not ready for phd research #i need to explode people w my mind. anyway.#if you need to ask a personal questiont that takes five min to explain perhaps that could be an email #my coworker and i sat thru one together today and we had to keep turning off camera to laugh

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microbialminutes · 3 months ago

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was going through an application portal and this school requires certain vaccinations to apply??? they said dont even fucking consider a biology doctorate unless you are into vaccination

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microbialminutes · 3 months ago

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