What @markowenmartin said: "You can get extra credit for tweeting a #MicroMeme."
What I heard: "Summarize the entire reading assignment in a meme, then make three more just for fun."
(Sorry for the violence in the antibiotics one, but that one made even my non-bio friends laugh.)
Give 1st year students a direct connection between something familiar and unfamiliar: "...the extinction of every animal species results in the extinction of an unknown number of bacterial lineages that have evolved along with it." @markowenmartin#Bio350#GivingMicrobesTheirDue
I love this article because the writer takes the time to mention that the cars were "swabbed using agar filled petri dishes," but then fails to include any details whatsoever about what bacteria were found. @markowenmartin#Bio350#SwabStories https://t.co/ri6r1FwRsV
.@markowenmartin ...And in contrast, here's an article about how extremophile bacteria will save humanity (admittedly from other bacteria, but still). https://t.co/WPIJFmwhXb #AngelMicrobes#Bio350#mbionet