Carolyn Ibberson
Microbiologist 🧫🧪 | Microbe-Microbe interactions in infection | Mom of 👧🏼👦🏼🐶| Asst. Professor at UTK | Views my own
- Second snow day tomorrow for K-12 in my Tennessee town based on this weekend's weather. This was what it looked like outside when they canceled school for tomorrow; no new snow predicted. [it'll be very cold, staff drive in from icy places, etc., so it makes sense, but it's not like a MA snow day]
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View full threadWe got off lucky in Oak Ridge (at least the parts I've seen -- it's a wide town). I am glad they're being careful; in a different TN place we lived, school buses wouldn't start and they'd just leave kids waiting outside. But still a contrast from snow days in Boston.
- A bit more here in West Knoxville, but roads were clear when they cancelled KCS and moved UTK to remote. Thankful for emergency camps for my 1st grader and that preschool will still open tomorrow. But definitely a contrast from home in MN and WI
- Re-boosting! The Dept. of Microbiology 🧫 at the University of Tennessee is hiring two 9-month faculty! Come join a vibrant and growing department located in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains! #microsky
- Come join us in Knoxville! The Dept. of Microbiology 🧫🦠 at the University of Tennessee is hiring 2 Assistant Professors (tenure track, 9-month appt.). Microbial Drivers of Chronic Disease: apply.interfolio.com/173153Quantitative Microbe-Plant-Environment Interactions: apply.interfolio.com/173345
- Come join us in Knoxville! The Dept. of Microbiology 🧫🦠 at the University of Tennessee is hiring 2 Assistant Professors (tenure track, 9-month appt.). Microbial Drivers of Chronic Disease: apply.interfolio.com/173153Quantitative Microbe-Plant-Environment Interactions: apply.interfolio.com/173345
- Quite the variety of 🦠 🧫 my son’s homemade play dough generated!
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- Ligation based RNA-seq prep kits? Like the NEB kits: www.neb.com/en-us/produc...
- Come join us in Knoxville! 🧫🧪🦠
- My department at UTK is hiring! 🧪🧫 We are hiring two Assistant Professors, one in Microbial Drivers of Chronic Disease and one in Quantitative Microbe-Plant-Environment Interactions! Come join our growing department of microbiologists. Knoxville is a great place to live!
- Excited to share our latest preprint is up: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... led by @aanuoluwaduro.bsky.social ! 🧪🧫
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View full threadInterestingly, we found this framework allowed us to validate if known microbe-microbe interactions were occurring in situ & build a highly accurate polymicrobial synthetic community.
- Further, we think this approach can be applied to any system to build improved experimental models that allow for improved translation of lab findings. Check it out and we welcome feedback!
- We set out to ask the question: how accurate are our polymicrobial experimental models in capturing microbial in situ physiology? This was inspired by work led by @ginalewin.bsky.social , Marvin Whiteley, and Dan Cornforth. We expanded their framework to look at overall community function.
- We made iterative improvements to a polymicrobial wound model along two axes: community composition and host environment and gained key insights into the microbial dynamics of our system.
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- I had an August 1 start date and August 4 NOA
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- But also Ive been plotting it by week and it’s not just that the newest NOAs get added to the end. Usually it is the most recent couple weeks, but there are some weeks where a small number appear from a few weeks before. Mine was MYF so I haven’t looked closely enough to see if that’s the quirk.
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- I originally noticed because mine didn’t post with a few others with the same early Aug NOA dates, but then came in a later update.
- Yeah, not a huge portion but a few from the end of July and a lot from August that post in batches. Where some show up right away from the previous week on reporter but some much later.
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- At least with MIRAs which we’ve been tracking pretty closely grants have been added to Reporter unevenly. Where some seem to post right away and then some post weeks later (like some from the end of July just posted in the last 2 weeks)
- Absolutely gutted that this happened again, this time in a place I know and love. We have the power to stop this. www.startribune.com/minneapolis-... #EndGunViolence
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- Congrats!!! 🍾🎉
- NOA!!! 🎉🍾
- Excited to have our new mini review on Microbiome Metabolism out today in I&I as part of the @asm.org New Voices in Microbiology collection! Check it out! 🧫🧪 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
- Feeling tired but inspired after a great week at the #MicrobialPopBioGRC. Great to see old friends and make some new ones! 🦞🗻🧫 @ginalewin.bsky.social @peachypotato.bsky.social @jamesgurney.bsky.social @stephenkdolan.bsky.social
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- Pie and Orange wine on this beautiful spring day #PiDay
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- We would love feedback on a new NCBI-BLAST service we are launching today: sky-blast.com Under the hood it's the same BLAST executable and databases provided by NCBI, with a replica of the NIH's interface - providing an alternative to the US gov service that's less congested, faster & more reliable
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- So much this.
- #standupforscience Knoxville, TN showing up! 🧫🧪
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- Are there any mechanisms to bypass the requirement for council meetings? Like scores below a threshold with an alternative approval mechanism?
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- Yeah, but the response needs to be an adjustment to expectations, not blanket pauses as these rarely actually help and in many ways harm faculty. See our previous discussion of clock extensions here: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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- The best guy at the lake
- We are crowd sourcing reductions in graduate admissions and hiring freezes across biomedical research and higher ed in response to pauses in NIH funding and EO’s. If you have information if you could add to this spreadsheet, it would be greatly appreciated!: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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- I am verifying and modifying information as more announcements,emails, memos etc happen. It is fluid with changing numbers and therefore have modified permissions and split into those where I’ve directly received verification (Verified) and those without. It’s a balance.
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- Unfortunately the normal vaccine schedule doesn’t have most kids getting their first dose of MMR until 12-15 months, so you could be up to date on recommended vaccines and still many young kids will be vulnerable.
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- Done ✅
- NIH and NSF funded research has a huge impact on the State of Tennessee. This important research is currently under treat. @500womensci.bsky.social @marshablackburntn.bsky.social
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View full threadCitizen science 🧪 🧫 projects? During COVID shutdowns there were some projects like measuring/tracking sourdough that may be accessible. @atinygreencell.bsky.social also often has great accessible ideas
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- This kind of feedback is great, it’s often challenging to know how targeted/widespread these reductions are
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- That entry only references the Health Policy & Management Division
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- In the school of public health, health policy & management division?
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- I haven’t heard yet of reductions in professional schools, including PA schools
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- Do you have a link/email to verify BU?
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- Not entirely, but was generated to ID responses to the NIH pauses and EOs, so is focused there
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- Yes, we are looking mostly for cuts related to federal funding pauses (& threats of pauses)
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- The pause at Pitt is not at the med school. I’m not sure if Biomedical engineering is in the school of medicine. I do think it’s valid for them to reach out to departmental admissions citing the article. The pause at Pitt does not seem to be all units though.
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- However I will note that some of the “personal communications” have been verified by other means (forwarded emails, screen shots, non-public groups)
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- Yes, this. I think about this as an early career researcher a lot. If the tenure requirements are an R01 equivalent and graduating one student for example, what does that look like with these NIH pauses and reductions in admissions?
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- Thanks! Updated. This info has been very fluid so modifying as we hear more.
- Graduate admissions being put on hold because of the chaos...
- I created a brief spreadsheet of reductions I've heard of so far. Any additions you know of (especially if you have the links/receipts) would be great: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
- We’re also now tracking hiring freezes as well.
