Nichole Broderick, PhD

@nabroderick.bsky.social

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microbiologist. entomologist. immunologist. Lover of science, especially at its intersections. Asst Prof of Biology at Johns Hopkins. @nabroderick elsewhere.

Image of an Aegean coastal town advertising a scientific conference on model hosts.
Monarch butterfly perched on milkweed plant.
screenshot from ncbi showing how to make a reviewer link for manuscript.
Sign for the Bascom Ugrad Teaching Labs (UTL) from Mudd Hall Biology Dept JHU. Below a picture of the plaque about Florence Bascom and the challenges she faced as the 1st woman to earn a PhD from Johns Hopkins.
7/11 ad for slurpee day 2026, 60th anniversary of the slurpee!!
Downy or hairy woodpecker at a hummingbird feeder.
Two golden girls cozy mysteries- Murder by cheesecake and Death on the Lanai.
Two reusable #sciswag totes (zeiss, plasmidsaurus), one with beach hat peeking out.
A girl designs a bug mural at the math museum, a stylish man in his turban, wall graffiti, a young girl drinks a cup of hot cocoa. Tv
Girl with a red umbrella dances down a rainy street. Poster for the Sheep Detectives film Hugh Jackman, Emma Thompson and a bunch of sheep.
Pint of Taharka brothers matcha mochi. Employees owned made in Baltimore. Matcha green tea ice cream with mini mochi cakes mixed in.
A beautiful bouquet of peonies- magenta and pink, with some white sprays.
Image of an Aegean seaside village advertising the 8th International Conference on Model Hosts. Oct 3-8 in Sissi Crete. Submission and travel award deadline June 15. Additional details can be found linked to the QR code or at https://aegeanconferences.org/conferences/202
A black void sits in a kids chair, a sweet black and white kitty, and a nice grey tabby.
Image of the cover of the 1st volume of ISME Host Microbe a new official journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology. Cover images shows a plant stomata with bacteria around and entering.
Fly scientists watching other fly scientists perform a song about flies with some fun art
Poster 382 announcement, titled ‘Interactions between host genetics. Diet, and pathogen infection in drosophila’
Reflection of a person in a train window overlooking a foggy city scene.
Phot of a cute crocheted pickle holding a wee sign that reads- « big fan pickle- I’m Your big fan and will Wlways be around to let you are know that you are a bd doll! »
A lovely warm plum torte sits fresh out of the oven.
A tree with a Heart-Shaped knot hole. Happy Valentine’s Day!
A child sits in a dragon costume and Waits for the tone
Album cover for Suede’s 2nd album Dog Man Star.
Interior of Baltimore Penn station with its lovely glass ceiling and a decorated Christmas tree next to a menorah.
A child in a green sweater with red trim (missing the right sleeve) a felt reindeer decorated with colorful light bulbs and a sprig of holly is featured.
Clockwise from top left: Mt Vernon Washington Monument lit with festive lights; the German Christmas Village in Inner Harbor; lighted boats parading through the inner harbor, including one with a bunch loraxes and Bar-ba-loots; a rocket smoking ready to take off at the Scottish Rite Train Garden.
Top left: papier mâché Derpy cat mask and felt sussy bird. Right: costumed child as K-pop demon tigger playing with her flower pot. Bottom left: child dressed as derpy cat enjoying trick or treating.
A dragonfly sits on someone’s finger
Baltimore made Taharka Brothers Ice Cream- flavor Cup of Joe!
Dialogue from Barney Miller first season: Hey where’s my sashimi and cream cheese on a bagel? Murray Grossman: Here it’s called lox. Det Sgt Nick Yemana: The hell it is. We had it before you did.
A monarch perched on a native milkweed plant in a Baltimore garden.
Hummingbird feeder with a very obviously not hummer Downy Woodpecker perched on it.
Book cover for Greenwitch by Susan Cooper
Brown and white tabby kit licking his adorable nose
Image of nearly a dozen large pink swamp mallow flowers, red bee balm, and blooming milkweed nearby.
Text from Barney Miller episode
Photo of an native plant garden- blooming milkweed, red bee balm, purple phlox, and pink swamp mallow.
A photo from Charm City slicker @sprawlhater.bsky.social of a building mural from Baltimore’s reservoir hill depicting cone flowers and sun flowers behind two hands holding a jar with fireflies.
A soap fashioned to look like a Petri dish of microbial colonies. Different microtypes are seen- small red colonies, small back colonies, a filamentous looking red and black colonies.
A child’s drawing of insects with flower between them- a butterfly says ‘Hi friend let’s go’ the fly replies ‘I can’t wait!’
An amazing scientist holding a print of lightening bugs, same amazing scientists with her undergraduate mentees.
Photo of a sign that reads “We are each of us responsible for the evil we might have prevented- James Martineau”
Posting about the details of a session at the Dan Diego drosophila meeting focused on impacts of bias in STEM. Pacific ballroom d. Will be awesome!
Program note on poster number 816T and the annual fly meeting. The title is the interplay of the gut microbiome and diet on oogenesis.
Tow agar plates with contamination- a bright yellow and ruffle pink colony on the left. A grey powdery colony on the right most plate.
A kid holding a colorful two sided art project with blanket knitting around the edge.
A collection of heart shaped and rectangular decorated cards with colorful patterns and drawings many science-themed.
A barred owl sits on a tree branch in a wooded backyard.
A large blooming swamp mallow
A group of lighted trees floating on a pond, silhouettes of geese in the foreground.
Post from the bad place indicating a water main break was cause of subway service disruption.
Picture of Peppa pig, next to Pinky Malinky- an anthropomorphic hot dog.
Young girl in a cat mask (DJ Katty) at her turntable mixing some dope beats.
Glasses on a kitchen counter hold a variety of fresh cut herbs. A lovely maple in fall colors. An impish face peers out from a leaf pile.
A collage of decoupage prints and paintings and drawing show a person in green pants holding an orange package with colorful flooring, and wall art.
Tray with small colorful Lego pieces, small hands putting together a garden of Lego
Woman wearing an I Voted sticker from the state of MD with vote received confirmation.
A lovely sunset- orange, purples- seen through fall trees.
Two Christmas cactus blooming- one with a mix of white and magenta flowers, the other with pink flowers.