Amber Reed

Microbiologist with a strong interest in the gut microbiome. I am an avid animal lover and I dabble in metalwork. She/her

[Amber Reed @MicroBioChic]

@CAwkward Your advice is amazing, and just what I needed to firm my resolve given that my mother will likely pass before the end of the year.

[Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire]

TL;DR: The new Little Mermaid is exactly as "scientifically accurate" as any other mermaid movie that presents mermaids as skinny mammals living in the aphotic zone without blood dripping from their daggered teeth at every moment of the day.

[Ryan Broderick @broderick]

idk man, I feel like "74% of American workers don't regret completely upending their careers during a pandemic" is actually a bigger story than "26% of people who changed jobs regret it"

[Amber Reed @MicroBioChic]

@CAwkward Mine always involved somehow double or triple booking myself. I find out that I am supposed to be attending a class or going to a job at a certain time, but surprise I have a commitment also at that time and I need to do both and I can’t.

[hannah s. f. ♿️ @HannahntheWolf]

I wish we lived in a society where the *wants* of the loudest (not the majority) didn’t supercede the literal lives of the most marginalized. I get it. You’re tired of zoom. You want to see people. You miss bars or hockey games.

I want to simply be alive at the end of this.

[Plague Poems @PlaguePoems]

How annoying are those
who still insist
on wearing masks
on staying in
on minimizing contact
on taking precautions
how dare those insufferable worriers
with their unacceptable audacity
remind the rest of us
that the pandemic has not ended.

[Kevin Mitchell @WiringTheBrain]

Autism-related dietary preferences mediate autism-gut microbiome associations https://t.co/icHxGArJb2 - important study refuting naive idea that gut microbiome somehow causes autism - arrow of causation goes the other way

[nature @Nature]

A study in Nature profiles the effects of several classes of antibiotics on the gut microbiome and identifies drugs that mitigate these adverse effects without compromising their efficacy against pathogens. https://t.co/8fG174DUHZ

[Amber Reed @MicroBioChic]

@HannahntheWolf I really want to read it! I’m sure the scholarship is brilliant.