Writing proposals (for NSF) in 2025:

This conference on EcoFABs looks awesome! Registration ends soon! eco-fab.org/ecofab-2025-... Some awesome speakers, including: @maggiesogin.bsky.social @elizabethshank.bsky.social @jackgilbertt.bsky.social

Started a starter pack for the presenters and attendees of the 2025 Animal-Microbe Symbiosis Gordon Research Conference. Let me know if I should add (or remove) you! go.bsky.app/Pnzz1R9

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Overheard last night at dinner: “My daughter can’t go to HS bc she isn’t vaccinated- it’s ridiculous bc everyone else is vaccinated so there is no chance of her getting sick” 🤦‍♀️

Do not treat this as fait accompli. We are winning in courts and public opinion. Nominees are being withdrawn. Congress is shook. Musk is leaving. Organize. Call. Appeal. Sue. Keep the pressure on your bosses. Do the same for trans and immigrant rights, public health, and more. Solidarity forever.

YES! These NIH cuts to training grants are especially harmful at lower research active universities. SJSU had our U-RISE program (which we've had since 1988) cut, leaving students w 4 days notice of no stipend and cutting off an important way to get the research experience needed for PhD programs.

Two undergrads in my lab were URISE scholars. One is graduating, but the other was counting on the funds to support her tuition next year (as well as a paycheck). Accepting any recommendations for fellowships she can apply for. She is hispanic if that helps and interested in viral ecology.

Bitter sweet emotions for the two current and one former trainees in my lab who received honorable mentions this year...

🧪 NSF GRFP update! New graduate NSF fellowships will likely be announced this week for the GRFP (see bottom of 🧵 for why). First off, I'm *very* glad to hear of those going forward, given the otherwise bleak year so far for graduate training. Some observations... 1/12

Excited about microbiomes and want to study them at the single-cell level? Join our team to pioneer research using microfluidics paired with automated timelapse microscopy. We're hiring motivated postdocs to push the boundaries of microbial ecology! Apply now: apply.interfolio.com/165601

If you know undergrads who are still looking for a summer research opportunity (esp with the cancellation of so many REUs) - Our NSF BII INSITE is still taking applications for our summer internship program.

Excited to work alongside the JGI and members of the User community!

Stand up for Science 🧪💪

Quote post with a picture you took in a National Park. Yosemite National Park Fall 2024

🤿 HIRING POSTDOC 🤿 🌊 We are hiring a full time postdoc in ecological oceanography (2 yr) at University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. Seeking excellent candidates w/ experience in coral reef ecology & oceanography to develop research projects in Hawai'i & Okinawa, Japan. ID# 225109 www.rcuh.com/work/careers/

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

The GEOMAR seagrass team is hiring. Time to make coastal restoration long-term sustainable. A fully funded 4-yr PhD position on eelgrass seascape genomics in the Baltic Sea, further details see here www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... @geomarkiel.bsky.social DM me for inquiries

We are calling for a nationwide and international boycott of all Elon Musk-related products and services. Sell your Tesla shares, avoid buying Tesla vehicles, cancel Starlink, and delete your X accounts.

📣 JOB ALERT📣 The Silbiger Lab is hiring a full time research tech @ University of Hawai’i at Mānoa to support research on intertidal ecology in Hawai’i & coral reef/coastal oceanography in Okinawa, Japan. RCUH ID: 225085 application link below. 1 year to start, but have several years of funding.

The team science grant I'm a CO-PI on is on this list 🤢 www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...

Super Bowl USAID Save Foreign Aid

This is how you do it. Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social Read their whole email to membership here mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...

The National Science foundation has just updated their FAQ to say they are complying with the court order and has restored access to funds and the ACM$ platform new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

What it’s like being a PI right now…

Please repost! and Save the date for the 13th Annual Yosemite Symbiosis Workshop (April 18-20, 2025). More info at the registration page. REGISTRATION WILL OPEN SOON www.sachslab.com/symbiosis-20...

Seems a good time to reiterate that trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️

In case you, like me, are in need of a doomscrolling break, my lab slack is finding out what kind of veggies we’d be: sophie006liu.github.io/vegetal/

Brc-bio helped me get my foot in the door. It was the first grant to my lab and really helped encourage me to go for it. This is disheartening to say the least.

Gentle reminder that if you truly value diversity in the workforce, top down executive orders may/will change implementation but it shouldn’t change your dedication to building the best possible team/group/cohort/generation of researchers

UC Merceds new MedEd building is going to be surrounded by a mote.

Recruiting NOW!

I think all new assistant professors (and maybe all professors?) need a class in university and funding agency finances. I don't understand how money works at my institution! #AcademicSky

Hey #Microbiome peps - has anyone generated ONT (10.4) data for full length 16s rRNA analysis and has a data analysis/OTU clustering pipeline they are happy with and are willing to share? TIA! #nanopore #MicrobiomeSky

Kelly Wrighton & colleagues out in Nature today "A functional #microbiome catalogue crowdsourced from North American rivers" www.nature.com/articles/s41... commentary: agsci.source.colostate.edu/researchers-... @csusoilcropsci.bsky.social on #environment #microsky 🧬 🦠🧪

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🙋‍♀️ We have an NSF award for a new mass spec ❤️ but the funds can’t be delivered until FY25… which is contingent on congress passing a spending bill. Anyone else gone through this? Did you get help from your institution to start the project? Or did you just have to wait for the funds? #academicsky

The Quantitative and Systems Biology Graduate Program at UC Merced is holding an informational webinar on Monday Nov 18 at 10 AM (Pacific). Links to register and apply: qsb.ucmerced.edu. QSB is a large umbrella program in all areas of Biology. Come join us!

Some thoughts on this call to action: I am very optimistic on future applications of industrial and environmental microbiology for environmental remediation and sustainable bioproduction - it's a big interest of mine! - but some caveats to be realistic about: 1/n academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa

not sure why it took so long (ie after results were in) for me (and others) to abandon twitter - but this article captures the sentiment well. Also - I think - the loss of hope for the return to before times How Elon Musk stands to benefit from Trump's 2024 election www.npr.org/2024/11/07/n...

Endorse this outstanding essay by @hormiga.bsky.social written in 2016, republished here: TLDR: 1. Keep up our research. 2. Teach critical thinking. 3. Advocate publicly for evidence-based decision making. 4. Build diverse and inclusive academic communities open.substack.com/pub/sciencef...

At least it felt good to deactivate my twitter account (finally).

My incredibly brilliant and kind colleague is searching for a funded 1) master's student and 2) postdoc in microbial ecology at Cal Poly Humboldt (Northern California). Catalina is an incredible mentor and her projects are super cool:

POV: you run a research lab, currently breastfeeding, and forgot the milkbags 😳

Anyone going to #LAMG2024 next week and want to find some rock climbs during the afternoon break? Send me a DM!

Just under 2 weeks left to submit an abstract for an oral presentation at the always amazing Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomics meeting #LAMG2024. Registration will open soon as well. Thanks for your patience as we navigate a new registration portal. See www.lamg.info/abstracts

We have an open position in studying the metabolomics of the marine rhizosphere @ucmerced.bsky.social Come work with me, @phylogenomics.bsky.social Jay Stachowicz, and Gina Chaput on a #NSF funded project: chemical ecology of seagrass-microbe interactions! Apply @ aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF01758

I think this seedling is a little confused…

Reviewing papers is the sort of thing we’re not really taught, but learn by intuition, reviews we receive (good, bad, and ugly), and the philosophy we develop over time. I'm thinking through mine - here are some components. What would you add?