Thanks for posting this gem. We have disappearing coffee mugs that threatens their population and the entire fork collection went extinct in one unchronicled event.

Yeah I don’t know Hassan. I’m Not sure upper management signed off on this “leaving” idea of yours

He’s the best!

#MicrobiologyMonday: The bacterial flagellum is built through a hierarchical assembly process and powered by a dynamic motor capable of astonishing speeds. What's new in our understanding of these complex nanomachines? Find out in #MMBRJournal: asm.social/2HB

Thank you ASU News for covering our recent paper! news.asu.edu/20251119-hea... @microbiome.bsky.social @asuhealthsolutions.bsky.social

NEW pub in @science.org 🥳 Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life? For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided. We provide new evidence suggesting that... 🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In mice yes: this type of “one-sided” selection experiment has been done in plants (with positive outcomes) and was tried in flies (no effect). So this is the second time it’s been tried in an animal and first time in a mammal @suzukilab.bsky.social 🦠🧫

www.the-scientist.com/gut-microbes... Thank you to The Scientist 🧫🦠

Nice write up of our paper here, thanks! 🧫🦠 dailyneuron.com/how-gut-micr...

Yes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.

We selected the laziest mouse at each round to inoculate the next batch of germfree mice: over rounds of selection and passaging, behavior shifted without changes to the mouse genome: rdcu.be/eM3rO 🦠🧫

I was working on the story and he just came out and said it

THESE PAGAN LIBTARD WAR DANCES CAN ONLY PRESAGE CALAMITY!! MEIN LEADER PRÄSIDENT TRUMP, HERR REICHSCOUCHVUCKER VON VANCE, HERR VERRÜCKTPSYCHO STEPHANMÜLLER, DER VOLK DEMAND YOU DEPLOY DIE PANZERBRIGADEN NOW!!! Vielen Damk für your attention to this matter

Thinking about a postdoc in microbiome science? Our lab at the MPI for Biology (Tübingen) builds on the culture I established at Cornell: collaborative, creative, and internationally diverse. Postdocs lead their own projects with secure funding. Join us! #PostdocJobs #HostMicrobe #AcademicJobs

Open Call for Expressions of Interest: become a Max Planck Director & redefine what’s possible in science! We offer scientific independence, long-term stable funding & exceptional infrastructure. Lead your own department & open new frontiers of research. Apply by 31 Oct 2025 → www.mpg.de/directors

Happy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social

The 'free-floaters' call to start your lab in the Max Planck Society is now open! Deadline Oct 14th.

Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!

Springboard for an international scientific career! 🧬🧪🔭⚛️🧠🌱 Call for #MaxPlanckResearchGroups launched; applications are possible until October 14, 2025 www.mpg.de/max-planck-r... #ScienceCareer

Reminder that we are recruiting an Assistant Professor Bacterial Genomics @imibirmingham.bsky.social. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a... Deadline 24 Sept.

The University of California system is publicly mobilizing against federal attacks. That’s historic. It's time for ALL of us in US #highered to act. Join our movement at standtogetherhighered.org. #academicsky #highered #standtogether 🔗 universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved/stand-up-for-uc

Another self-own. How can the US and the world survive this administration? futurism.com/white-house-...

Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.

Laws matter. jamanetwork-com.laneproxy.stanford.edu/journals/jam...

Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages. ki.se/en/about-ki/...

The Genetic Basis of Bacterial Adaptation to Hosts https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.19.665706v1

I reviewed this paper a bit ago and have been waiting for it to come out. A great resource for us Bifidobacteria researchers!

The Max Planck Society @maxplanck.de today launched its Transatlantic Program, aimed at strengthening scientific collaboration with US partners, while at same time creating new opportunities for talented researchers at multiple career stages, from PhD through to group-heads & directors. More info 👇🧪

The MPI for Biological Cybernetics is seeking two independent Max Planck Research Groups working in scientific disciplines relevant to the institute. Applications should be sent no later than 15th August 2025. Visit our call for applications on the website of the institute for detailed information!

Ever needed to analyze flagellomes? @anya-bogdanova.bsky.social and @atyakht.bsky.social developed FlaPro to sort flagellins into how they are predicted to interact with TLR5: silent or stimulatory. The ratio changes with IBD! 🧫🦠

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions. GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc. This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth. www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...

Corey Allard and Amy Lee discuss curious "solar-powered" animals that steal and maintain foreign chloroplasts for photosynthesis and starvation resistance. @harvardcellbio.bsky.social, @danafarbernews.bsky.social. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

NONE in Life science?! NONE?!

A major KI initiative to recruit new assistant professors with outstanding proposals in all areas of medicine, biomedicine and public health. We offer an amazing research environment, great colleagues and generous startup packages. Check it out and get working on your applications! (repost please!)

Journalists keep asking me, baffled, “What’s the Trump administration really trying to do to the science agencies?” So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.” It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.

If this is the case, that it’s pressure on the Israeli government over Gaza, then they need to come out and post that on their website 🧫🦠

Sorry @benmicrobesmtg.bsky.social this wasn’t you! It’s this other “beneficial” one that’s starting to ban scientists based on nationality. I can’t wait to see what the good nationalities are. 🧫🦠

Yes, if we're punishing nations for their actions by sanctioning their citizens, then conferences should dis-invite Americans. Honestly, I'm not sure where I stand. I'd welcome sanctions on myself, if it could put some pressure on the criminal regime running my country. Slippery slope, though...

Why is Omry canceled? Because he has Druze and Bedouin lab members? 🧫🦠

Beneficial Microbes meeting in Amsterdam beneficialmicrobes.events/index.html just canceled Omry Koren for being Israeli. I hope you’re also canceling all the Americans too, right?

Congratulations Detlef! @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

We are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor in molecular microbiology in our department in Lausanne! Do consider appyling!!

Looking for a postdoc on bacterial-insect symbiosis, combining evolution and molecular mechanisms? I'll have one open in my lab starting Sept 2025. If interested contact me (or find me at the GRC on Animal-microbe symbiosis if you'll be there). #SymbioSky

My father worked in a tire factory in Appalachia. Friends and family in the military. Used to vote Republican. Got into college on a diversity program for the underprivileged. Ended up a Harvard professor. And now my funding is terminated because we're trying to stick it to the elites.

NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.

US brain drain: Nature’s guide to the initiatives drawing scientists abroad www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“Deeply creepy” indeed: 1932, say hello to 2025.