Laura Hug
Environmental microbiologist and CRC at UWaterloo. Tangent-prone story teller and compulsive frisbee chaser. Views are my own.
- Reposted by Laura HugCovers of the 2 leading science journals this week @science.org and @nature.com www.science.org/content/arti... www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
- If you manage people, and you don't read @rawsignal.ca's newsletter... well, that's probably fine but you definitely should start. On managing teams when you don't have the relevant expertise: "The tools are getting faster but the core issue was never that you were bullshitting slowly."
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- The classic academic urge to write a book… #IDontHaveTimeForThis
- I’m running a social experiment on my family. This fall, I’ve taken up a new hobby. I’ve mentioned it to everyone at least twice, with appropriately nerdy enthusiasm. Will holiday gifts be overwhelmingly this-hobby-related, or has it not percolated into their view of me yet?
- Reposted by Laura HugWith current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels. 10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C 20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
- Not *quite* the attitude I’m looking for..
- New paper from our group - megaphages, compact CRISPR-Cas effectors, and more from landfill phage, led by the talented Dr. Nikhil George (not on bsky). rdcu.be/ePo8o
- Reposted by Laura HugI love kids. I have two of them. They’re amazing. However, kids are the absolute least self aware, clumsiest little puffins on the planet. Please don’t drive tonight unless you have to, and if you do drive, drive super slow and pay 100% attention at all times. Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 💀 #PublicHealth
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- @planetmoney.bsky.social AI hosts in the Trojan Horse episode? Or sound mixing gone overboard? Really hard to listen to Kenny when interspersed with the interviews, then back to “human” for the wrappers, just obviously robotic in some way
- First two (of five) carved. Now to see if the squirrels eat them before Friday…
- “I asked them to, if they have a chance, call me back,” said Thomas Perlmann, secretary-general of the Nobel committee Probably a call that you’d return… www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
- If you aren't knowledgable, you are impressionable.
- “Many young extremists now believe in a much simpler binary: Order and chaos. And if you are spending any time at all trying to derive meaning from violent acts like this then you are, by definition, their enemy.”
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- Walked someone through reading a COVID test correctly after they texted me a pic of a perfectly negative test saying “sorry I can’t come”…. No the C does not stand for COVID. #ItsBeenFiveYears #TwoLinesNotOne
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- 14 yo nephew is playing Cities Skylines and his mishaps are legendary. He built a neighbourhood that only had subway access to improve ridership He forgot to build a cemetery so the bodies piled up for a while. Later, discovered more piles of bodies - turns out you can’t take corpses on the subway
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- And in the meantime Canada (checks notes), right, Canada hamstrings research by bankrupting universities
- Europe steps up as US science funding shrinks. Aix-Marseille’s $16M “Safe Place for Science” drew an unexpected 300+ US applicants in 2 weeks, while the EU launches a $500M “Choose Europe for Science” push to attract top researchers. 🧪🧬🔬 #SciComm
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- at the "must actually write the grant" stage of procrastinating writing a grant. worst stage. only mitigated by my established candy reward structure
- my capacity to lose receipts* is astonishing. * notice a receipt in my bag/wallet, think "ew, why do I have this?" and throw it out...
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- My sister: are you having an Icarus moment? ☀️🪽🪽 Me, yes and-ing my way to over commitment: probably? But I know how to swim! 🏊♀️
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- Reposted by Laura Hug@gilbertjacka.bsky.social does a karaoke version of Microbe Microbe with @lhug.bsky.social and @kuesellab.bsky.social and the 2025 AEM GRC group meet the challenge?
- Shameless plug for this beautiful and free course on communicating with people with dementia. Based on clinical trial data, building from a critically acclaimed movie, designed and built by (disclaimer) my talented brother in law. howyouaretome.com
- This week in bad graphs, the 5 yo learned about bar charts. Asked everyone in her class their favourite ice cream flavour, and then “went back to the people I needed to fill it up”.
- This snow day forecast… the categories! 😂
- 5yo, instead of going to sleep: “we play Santa and reindeer at recess and you can choose which reindeer. There’s Dancer and Dasher and Frances and Rudolph”
- I’ve occasionally been lurking on Twitter but now every time I spend five minutes there I am unwillingly subjected to a video of someone dying (crashes, accidents, security cam footage). I don’t want to see deaths, I don’t know who does, but I am Done over there.
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- The first COVID case in Canada was January 25, 2020. I broke my 1,751-day streak yesterday with my first positive test. We’re abroad and away from our usual tools (HEPA, multiple bathrooms) so wish us luck in keeping this from the kids.
- Double vaxxed (COVID + flu) my family of four on Friday and we had a very weird set of non-simultaneous side effects, which were much milder than either of those diseases
- Out at a landfill for a unique reason yesterday - celestial sightseeing instead of microbes!
- Aurora sighting! We dragged the kids out with us to find a dark(er) park
- I set my alarm for 2:45 am today to attend a cool symposium in France (online), so a kid threw up hourly from midnight til (checks watch at 1 pm)… on-going. At least I wasn’t planning on being rested today?
