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So it begins.

My Jennifer Quinn is clever. This filament includes red, but the glow is fainter than the blue and green.

I have long adored this creation, and its creator Dave Moore sent me one! I am very grateful.

This is such a fun plate from soil isolations. A little bit of Bacillus mycoides made it onto a master plate. Notice how isolate C2 makes something that B. mycoides REALLY doesn't like! The curvature of inhibition is awesome.

Starting to send out requests to possible #MattersMicrobial guests. Please let me know if there is someone from whom you would like to hear, or if you would like to visit the podcast and share your microbial enthusiasms.

I believe that there is a fundamental difference between “X is horrible” and “I don’t like X.” The former is absolutist. The latter is one’s opinion. And opinions are personal, not cosmic truths. We all seem drawn to absolutist rhetoric these days. It saddens me.

A moment of Zen in my office.

The future can be scary and also exciting. I hope it is the same for me.

Welp, it is no mistake or quirk. I am allergic to something in the nose pads of these glasses. Itchy red streaks on either side of my nose.

Following the Tiny Earth protocol, some weird results. R2A medium. Swabbed Pseudomonas putida (1:50) onto plate. Challenged with various isolates. C2, MM1, H2 seem postiive. But what is with the "build up" at the edges of inhibition by C2 and MM1? Hmmm. Tiny Earth

My brilliant and beautiful Jennifer Quinn made it happen with this #TardiDoc

I adore this art I commissioned from Kaitlin Reiss, now as a pin.  It's based on what Dean Martin said about Frank Sinatra:  "It's Frank's world; we just live in it."  #MicrobialCentricity

Hey all Laura R. and Ethan published a review covering advances in MALDI #MSImaging for microbe cocultures and systems. Specifically focused on technical advances and mod to sample prep for noted advances sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

And our F1-B is off to graduate school in mathematics with Jennifer Quinn to get him settled. I miss them both. #EmptyNest

IFKYK

Those were the days. Thank you, Jennifer Quinn, for bringing light and laughter to my life.

Before the sun became an implacable enemy of mine. I wish my DNA repair enzymes worked better.

I’m writing up an application for an opportunity. It was never easy for me to say anything positive about myself, and it’s still difficult. I’m psychologically Amish, I think. But I need to try. I think I have skills and ideas to offer others. Opportunities will not come to me.

I genuinely believe this. It’s not a Hallmark card. It’s the genesis of wisdom.

My family is far away.