A blog that aims to share appreciation for the width and depth of microbial activities on the planet.
Writings on the weird and wonderful in microbiology, every Monday and Thursday since its founding in 2006 by Elio Schaechter.
2022
Primo Levi’s periodic table, and when scientists write fiction
Psittacofulvin: Polly’s Peculiar Plumage Pigment
A Revisionist History of Science
Otherlands’ Tour of Microbes Through Prehistory
A Women’s-History-Month Read: Her Hidden Genius
Science Poetry: The Universe in Verse
2021
Kimchi-Making and Microbiology
Goodbye Sandcastle, Hello Microbial Bio-Brick
On Stories and Science, Plus Fish
A Paramecium, a Purple Bacterium, and a Green Alga Walk into a Bar…
The Life of an RNA Molecule, Through a Phase-Separation Lens
Color is in the Eye of the Bacteria-Beholder