Marie Turner

Mama, PhD, plant genetics, MFA Creative Writing. Thinking science, art, and microbial worlds; trying to be careful with other transient gatherings of molecules.

[Marie Turner @anewscience]

My first published lyric essay is up @ProjectMUSE (link below). It is (I think?) about the brokenness of time. There seem to be whole books in me about this, leaking out in little essays.

Please subscribe to @fourthgenre if you can. If not, DM me and I'll share the PDF.

🫀

[Marie Turner @anewscience]

https://t.co/XpSvu7Ytho

[Marie Turner @anewscience]

My first published lyric essay is up @ProjectMUSE (link below). It is (I think?) about the brokenness of time. There seem to be whole books in me about this, leaking out in little essays.

Please subscribe to @fourthgenre if you can. If not, DM me and I'll share the PDF.

🫀

[Marie Turner @anewscience]

Hey Friends! If you are lucky enough to be at AWP this week, I've just learned if you stop by the @FourthGenre booth, you can pick up the new issue and read my debut CNF essay contained therein (!!!!) So grateful for all the people and work that went into making this happen. 🫀🔥

[Katie Naughton @k_e_naughton]

Finally caught up with my new chapbook in Brooklyn after a period of itinerancy. Cover photo is from a few days before the last time I left Buffalo.

It's available now from Dancing Girl Press:https://t.co/yJnU9ep4vH

[Science & Technology Studies @STS_Journal]

Interested in STS viewpoints on microbes? See this paper by @anewscience Marie Turner and @ErikaSzymanski https://t.co/YvgcquK8I9

[Marie Turner @anewscience]

Another paper! This one was a long time in gestation, but I am very proud of the work that I and @ErikaSzymanski have done to get it there. Also, It was an absolute joy to work with the amazing folks at @STS_Journal. We are grateful!

https://t.co/bCPNgeyGwr

[Marie Turner @anewscience]

A new paper from us about the way language -in particular metaphor- shape microbial research.

Metaphors as design tools for microbial consortia: An analysis of recent peer‐reviewed literature - Szymanski - Microbial Biotechnology - Wiley Online Library https://t.co/hkPntKGVrz

[Marie Turner @anewscience]

@ErikaSzymanski

[Marie Turner @anewscience]

A new paper from us about the way language -in particular metaphor- shape microbial research.

Metaphors as design tools for microbial consortia: An analysis of recent peer‐reviewed literature - Szymanski - Microbial Biotechnology - Wiley Online Library https://t.co/hkPntKGVrz

[Marie Turner @anewscience]

@SarahWolfson1 @breadloafwriter Thanks, @SarahWolfson1 !

[Juan Díaz-Colunga @jdiazc9.bsky.social @jdiazc9]

Really interesting piece by @ErikaSzymanski & @anewscience. We often describe microbial communities through metaphors (explicit or implicit). How do these metaphors shape the way we think about these systems & the potential ways to engineer them?

https://t.co/rM57zxjPp6

[Marie Turner @anewscience]

Well here is a lovely little thing that happened. I feel so warm and fuzzy. Thank you to Kristy Beachy-Quick, the current maker-in-residence! for the nomination and thank you @wolverinefarm for the opportunity! Looking forward to nesting and writing with you.

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Amazing footage of the extremely rare Glass Octopus (Vitreledonella richardi) filmed 651m (2135 ft) beneath the waves near the Phoenix Islands Archipelago.

[Marie Turner @anewscience]

not giving up yet...

[Marie Turner @anewscience]

Remember: though we have made the glow here on earth very intense, it is such a small part of what is.

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

A universe in motion seen from the International Space Station during a night pass over Earth (view fullscreen).

[Marie Turner @anewscience]

All around us, that which we do not see.

[James Weiss @jam_and_germs]

Gia the Water Bear! She is adorable, isn’t she? 🥹

[Marie Turner @anewscience]

reminder: we need each other.

[Marie Turner @anewscience]

Could aging evolve as a pathogen control strategy? https://t.co/548yhH5GbF @PeterAttiaMD

[Marie Turner @anewscience]

And equally amazing, listening to my six-year-old narrate this video.

[Marie Turner @anewscience]

Underneaths

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Fascinating footage of a human white blood cell chasing a bacterium captured through a microscope. Credit: David Rogers