Dr. Matt Selensky

high-performance computing // microbial ecology 👨‍💻🏳️‍🌈 (he/him)

[Dr. Matt Selensky @microbial_matt]

I'm proud to have contributed to this study with @ProfMaggie @PatriciaBeddows, A. Jacobson, K. DeFranco (both @NU_EARTHSCI at the time), and Gonzalo Merediz Alonso of @AmigosSianKaan!

Thank you to @MongabayLatam for a wonderful summary of our work!

#microbiome #Yucatán #karst

[Mongabay Latam @MongabayLatam]

🇲🇽 Científicos de la Universidad Northwestern lideraron una serie de expediciones subacuáticas en la península de Yucatán, en #México. Buzos recolectaron muestras de agua del complejo entramado de cuevas y cenotes y lo que encontraron es asombroso. Los hallazgos aquí. 1/9 🧵⬇️

[Dr. Matt Selensky @microbial_matt]

@MongabayLatam article written by @astridarellanoo here: https://t.co/f0f2XAJ979

[Dr. Matt Selensky @microbial_matt]

I'm proud to have contributed to this study with @ProfMaggie @PatriciaBeddows, A. Jacobson, K. DeFranco (both @NU_EARTHSCI at the time), and Gonzalo Merediz Alonso of @AmigosSianKaan!

Thank you to @MongabayLatam for a wonderful summary of our work!

#microbiome #Yucatán #karst

[Mongabay Latam @MongabayLatam]

🇲🇽 Científicos de la Universidad Northwestern lideraron una serie de expediciones subacuáticas en la península de Yucatán, en #México. Buzos recolectaron muestras de agua del complejo entramado de cuevas y cenotes y lo que encontraron es asombroso. Los hallazgos aquí. 1/9 🧵⬇️

[Dr. Matt Selensky @microbial_matt]

@ProfMaggie @PatriciaBeddows @NU_EARTHSCI @AmigosSianKaan @MongabayLatam our microbiome study: https://t.co/g6AoecLzrQ

[Dr. Matt Selensky @microbial_matt]

Currently living for the irony of someone listing two titles after their name on a silly little social media site and then tweeting this

[Daniel Gould, MD, PhD @DJGould94]

Always find it funny when PhDs insist on being referred to as 'Dr' in every setting because "I worked hard for it".
Ok, but did you work hard for it so that people would call you 'doctor' all the time? Because that's pathetic

[Dr. Matt Selensky @microbial_matt]

@ProfMaggie Absolutely tragic news, I am very sorry for your loss, Maggie 🫂

[Dr. Matt Selensky @microbial_matt]

@AstrobioMike @OsburnLab Thanks Mike! And thank you for all your amazing online tutorials...at least one of my chapters would've been impossible without them!

[Dr. Matt Selensky @microbial_matt]

I guess I am "not that kind of doctor" now??? Thank you to all who attended my defense, in-person or over Zoom. Very thankful for my time in the @OsburnLab and so excited for the future! But for now, I think I will take a nap...

[Dr. Matt Selensky @microbial_matt]

@mantarayo @OsburnLab Thanks Emiliano!!

[Dr. Matt Selensky @microbial_matt]

@baileycnash Congrats Bailey!! very well-deserved :)

[Dr. Matt Selensky @microbial_matt]

@UrFreundHannah np! luck also seems to be heavily involved with soil extractions lol. I love the dirt 'crobes but if I had a dollar for every time one of my soil extractions failed...😭

[Dr. Matt Selensky @microbial_matt]

@UrFreundHannah probably clay sorption/inhibitors in the soil as others have said! one thing that is relatively cheap and can work weirdly well is adding sterile skim milk solution to the extraction mix. would also recommend lots of bead beating if u don't do so already! https://t.co/mESsENG9je

[Dr. Matt Selensky @microbial_matt]

@StacyAtEarth @niloulsarvian ok fair, I should clarify that I alternate between stress dreams and cave/microbe dreams, there is really nothing in between these days 😂

[Dr. Matt Selensky @microbial_matt]

one thing that no one warned me about doing a PhD is that I now regularly dream about niche and abstract things like “ammonia in caves”…what have I become
#phdchat

[Dr. Matt Selensky @microbial_matt]

@taylorprice321 nitrogen has the dreamiest biogeochemistry 😶‍🌫️😇

[Dr. Matt Selensky @microbial_matt]

I truly enjoy the sheer number of microorganisms that are known to science because people keep growing weird new bacteria from sea sponges

[Dr. Matt Selensky @microbial_matt]

Reminiscing about that time when the front page of my hometown's newspaper was plastered with a story about a cow that got loose downtown and had to be like sniped by a full-on SWAT team because no one could catch it while it was 'disrupting traffic'

[Dr. Matt Selensky @microbial_matt]

Feeling pretty homesick today for the first time in years tbh. I love Chicago, but I miss (aspects of) Montana so damn much. I miss my family, the community I grew up with and found there, the near-constant sunshine, the endless wide open spaces.

[Dr. Matt Selensky @microbial_matt]

the plain-language Montanan in me cringes as I edit "underwater caves" to "submerged horizontal conduits", but it must be done because it is more correct in this context and details matter!

I get it, but jeez...writing with scientific precision can feel so...pretentious lol

[Dr. Matt Selensky @microbial_matt]

Scientists are not islands - #collaboration is, and always has been, key to doing good science. I suspect that folks who disagree with this statement are the same ones who would argue that James Watson and Francis Crick are who discovered DNA's structure...

[Dr. Matt Selensky @microbial_matt]

Tell me people don't like working with you without telling me people don't like working with you:

"...maybe it has become too easy to collaborate. Great ideas rarely come from teams."

#AcademicChatter

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