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It was so great to chat with Dr. Sommers! Dr. Pacifica Sommers was our guest speaker on Tuesday February 5th! She spoke about her research on cryoconite holes--microenvironments that contain tons of microbial diversity in Antarctica. She also shared more about her career path, what life in the field is like, and answered student questions!  She skyped with us from Antarctica, with McMurdo Station… Continue reading Chatting with Antarctica

Create your own multi-layer bacterial community in a Microbe Manor AKA the Winogradsky Column. This is a new project, and it's a work in progress. I'm pulling from different educational and web-based sources (HHMI's Biointeractive Materials are a great place to start). Will update as I go 😀 Assemble your collection team. Drs. Sporn and Milewski joined me to collect… Continue reading Making a Microbe Manor

Growing up in Nebraska, aside from exploring the prairie, I spent a surprising amount of time adventuring the Great Wall of China, sailing the Arctic Sea, and visiting the hot springs of Japan—all because PBS was one of the only channels that came in on our TV. I was a public TV kid, and I… Continue reading An Adventure into Science Filmmaking

"Meet the WiSE woman behind the SciComm Symposium" By Gretchen Geibel and Aggie Mika Original post can be found at the Science Buffs Website. From roaming through Montana while dabbling in documentary filmmaking to singing and writing science-y songs in a two-man band with her husband Derek, Tess Eidem is not your typical postdoctoral fellow.… Continue reading Featured in Science Buffs: “Meet the WiSE woman behind the SciComm Symposium”

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Anna Nowogrodzki on the topic of postdoc wages. Read the original post in Nature News here. An ongoing fight over overtime pay rules has left many US postdocs in financial limbo. Labour regulations set to take effect on 1 December would have effectively increased wages for many of these… Continue reading Interviewed in Nature News