Applying to the NSF-GRFP (or another fellowship) on a tight deadline? We built a 7-week guide + timeline to get you from draft to submission. It’s not too late — you’ve got this! ✨ 🔗 cientificolatino.com/apply-in-7-weeks #NSFGRFP #GradSchool #Fellowship

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

The team is all here! Faith, DiemQuynh and Bianca (PhD students), Lashon (undergrad), Lily (PI) and Ian (postdoc). Excited for a lot of great science from a group of excellent people.

My lab is moving! 🍄 Starting Jan 2026, we'll be at @ucriverside.bsky.social in the Dept of EEOB! We will keep investing #microbes (fungi and sometimes bacteria) under global change and looking at ecosystem-scale consequences 🍄🧫🦠🌎🧬 I'm grateful to my friends, colleagues, and students at NMSU 🌟

Press release out today on our new paper detailing the convergent origins of obligate ant and termite eating in mammals!

New bird tree who dis. www.cell.com/current-biol...

We've learned that if we play sad music, we're more likely to find repletes

We study novel symbioses that we aren’t always sure if they are good or bad for each partner (and is likely context dependent). It may sound strange, but it’s kind of hard to tell sometimes when you first find them 🤷🏻‍♀️ We need the term symbiosis for that without lumping them in with mutualisms.

Packing for #Evol2025? Bring your new and gently used field gear and clothes that you no longer use to donate to the Field Gear Swap! Hosted by the tri-society Diversity Committees - drop by their booth to donate or pick up! www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display... @evolmtg.bsky.social

We have a new 3-year postdoc position in our group at the @hifmb.de to study plasmids and plasmids systems of the marine environment to survey their utility in microbial responses to environmental change. Please see the official job ad here, and spread the word: jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20...

🚨Anyone want a job?🚨 We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪 - cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo - bioinformatics and molecular biology Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n

#Evol2025 starts next week with virtual talks and workshops! Everyone eligible for our Global Membership Assistance program is eligible for free virtual meeting registration - request your discount code here: www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

New preprint collab with the Zhou lab! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Learning gene interactions and functional landscapes from entire bacterial proteomes

🎉microPublications EEB is looking for new editors! -Editorial load is extremely light (but we work quickly) -Awesome format and journal, serves the EEB community well IMO -We cover all of EEB so we're looking for breath/generalists/complimentary expertise -DM me if interested (or suggest someone)!

A little summary of @arthurmatte.bsky.social and my recent paper 🐜🍼👶 www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/news/how-ant...

🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 🐜 How did ants evolve their highly specialized queens and workers? With @adriatica.bsky.social, we reveal a key evolutionary innovation: adult control over larval feeding unlocked extreme caste dimorphism and complex societies. 🧵👇 🔗 Read in @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Just ordered some COVID tests, so we can do our best to protect my mother. #Mesothelioma #Caregiving

Does anyone on here have suggestions for math-y enrichment resources for a (UK-based) 5-year-old *incredibly* good at mathematical pattern spotting? I only really know about this world for teenagers.

Graduating college seniors - looking for a year long research experience? Apply for the RAMP program @uconn.bsky.social @uconnramp.bsky.social in genomics. Please RT

The first review article from my lab, helmed by @celiasouque.bsky.social, "From Petri Dishes to Patients to Populations: Scales and Evolutionary Mechanisms Driving Antibiotic Resistance" is now online and open access at Annual Reviews Microbiology: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

🧪Looking to follow other New PIs who also don't know what we're doing? We've just started a second starter pack - check it out (and the link to the first one) here! go.bsky.app/FcYEbs9

Reposting this since suddenly everyone's on Bluesky now - We are looking for a postdoc to study the physiology, evolution, and cell biology of anaerobic ciliate-methanogen symbioses using 'omics, experiments, and/or microscopy. Please share widely and send inquiries by Dec.1!

Another starter pack of fine fine folks - New PIs! We're all figuring it out together! Please do (self-)nominate go.bsky.app/KJXNgfZ

Hi BlueSky friends! Postdoc(s) available in my lab! Multiple projects on how bacterial genomic and functional diversity impacts microbial interactions & disease. 🦠🧫 See www.thelewinlab.com/join-us/post... for more information. Please RT & share. #Postdoc #Microbiology #OralMicro #VaginalMicro

This is both a compelling history of a field and an important argument for highlighting complexity in our experiments and discussion of our experiments in a world that seems to demand simplicity, particularly from genetics 🧪 journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

What is the best scientific meeting in ecology and evolution? I nominate the @asn-amnat.bsky.social meeting in Asilomar, California. Intimate venue. Lots of interaction. Nice beach! Sea otters! Sign up for the 2025 edition now: asnasilomar2025.org/default.html

The 2024 edition of #EEBMentorMatch is now live. The program provides support to grad school applicants in the US with their applications for fellowships and grad programs. Signup forms for both mentors and mentees are here: eebmentormatch.com

We're having a contest!!! Are you attending the upcoming #ESA2024 meeting at Long Beach? Do you like to draw? Wanna win some money? If so, enter our @esamicrobe.bsky.social T-Shirt Design Contest!! The winner gets $100 and a print of their shirt! Please share widely!

Things have taken a turn for the crappy on the #SabbaticalRoadtrip. Our beloved RV Bernie finally bit the dust and we've left it behind in Barstow, CA. We will make the rest of our trip with rental cars. But just as we arrived in Vegas, we were rear-ended. Everyone is ok but frustrated AF.

We reached the westernmost point of our #SabbaticalRoadtrip with a stop in LA. Got to spend some lovely time with @ecoevolab.bsky.social and @octopiedpiper.bsky.social who were wonderful hosts. And then I dug a honeypot ant colony with help from Alex, one of Casey's students.

Hello Bluesky! Heard y'all needed more microbes, and we at the ESA Microbial Ecology Section got 'em. Give us a follow and stay tuned for Long Beach 2024 updates! 🦠

Once we were finally able to leave Tucson, we traveled to Indio, CA where we spent a bit of time with my brother and his family who were vacationing there. #SabbaticalRoadtrip

Our paper on new, very old ants is out in Current Biology today! ~77 million year old amber from North Carolina preserves evidence of a prolonged extinction of the earliest ants. Free link here to learn more about these doomed ats! @currentbiology.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/c/1ioZf3QW8S...

We finally hit the road again on our #SabbaticalRoadtrip after Matt rebuilt our engine at Michele and Andrew's house in Tucson! California, here we come!

Please share: Our 2024-25 RaMP postbac scholars program is now open for applications. If you (or anyone you know) recently graduated and are interested in microbiome research but didn’t have the opportunity to engage in meaningful research during your degree, check us out!!

We stopped in Portal, AZ to visit friend/collaborator Michele Lanan on the #SabbaticalRoadtrip. But then we didn't get far. We've had to stop at Michele's other place in Tucson for some much-needed engine repairs 😬

I am recruiting a PhD student to work on microbial communities in Arctic ecosystems. This is a great opportunity for someone interested in combining field, lab, and computational approaches. If you are interested, message me for more information.

Next stop on the #SabbaticalRoadtrip is to see @fungi-lover.bsky.social in Las Cruces, NM! Also a pit stop to make some repairs to our RV. Now we're ready to hit the road again.

The #SabbaticalRoadtrip continues. Had a lovely time in New Orleans for several days and then Austin. Excellent music, food and company were enjoyed. And now we're back to inching our way west! And of course, the cats are staying cute.

The second stop on the #SabbaticalRoadtrip was the Jones Center at Ichauway, in Southern Georgia, to visit Kier Klepzig. What a lovely place full of good forest management, research, and horses.

First stop on my #SabbaticalRoadtrip was at Emory, to give a talk to the PBEE folks. It was an absolutely amazing visit! So good to be around so many folks studying different aspects of symbiosis. Thankful to my lovely host Nicole Gerardo

Please share: The Stubbendieck Lab is hiring a postdoc to study microbial competition & secondary metabolism in human microbiomes. Experience in natural product chemistry or BGCs preferred. For more info and to apply: apply.interfolio.com/141377

Wonderful BlueSky: We are looking for graduate students and postdocs who could benefit from intense exposure to all-things-microbial at the 2024 Microbial Diversity Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. Consider applying / reposting. www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

Please add microbiome-related conferences for 2024 in this thread. Thanks.