I think, at least in the EU, people should HAVE to answer an, "Is this sexual assault" quiz with 20+ Q's at the start of the job. And during University. Just having a sexual harrasment representative and committee at an institution means nothing, if predators and society gaslight the victims

In a postdoc workshop, they advised to tailor documents for reading on the train. "Your peers/PIs are probably reading the manuscripts and grants on trains, in conference breaks, and generally anywhere but on their desks." I see now how true this is! I will write train-travel appropriate docs! 😃🚅

New preprint! Ever wondered why only a fraction of genomes encode CRISPR immunity? 🧬 🦠 Turns out CRISPR is rarely beneficial against virulent phages, being most beneficial against those for which resistance mutations are rare! An epic effort by Rosanna Wright www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My boss is so nice, I got two tiny grants and she says it's "a lot of money" 😊 She's such an encouraging person I should just make a thread; I can link it when we have vacancies 😆😆

My favourite mentor once told me to celebrate after writing/submitting a grant. Don't wait for the results! 😃 I appreciate it more now because I now LIKE applying for grants! Crazy Today I took it one step further, went bouldering (1st time) to "enjoy the journey not the destination" 😄😆 🎉

Phage bacteria folks, protocol question: For prophage assays, e.g. lysis time, burst size, do you start with lysogens or naive bacteria? I started with a lysogen (++ mitomycin C) for measuring lysis time/burst... Should I start with phages adsorbed to naive host? Thanks! #microsky #phagesky #Mevosky

We're hiring a DFG-funded PhD student (TVöD E13, 65%) at Max Planck Institute, Marburg to study quorum sensing in Klebsiella & host–pathogen interplay. 3 yrs, start flexible. Apply by Sep 30, 2025 (rolling). Send 1 PDF to [email protected]

Going home full of inspiration and ideas after the September Science Academy by @mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social First event of its kind for me, and it was SO. Much. Fun. Diverse talks, engaging discussions, and an especially helpful grant writing workshop! If they organise it again, do apply!! 😊

The @mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social September Science Academy organisers are so sweet! A DETAILED welcome package was waiting for us at the hotel! Even with the faces of who will join us for dinner! My heart is melting, this booklet helped me relax and be excited for tomorrow!! 😊👩‍🔬💜🥹

Who's coming to the September Science Academy? I'm on my way, see you there 😊😊 #microsky 👩‍🔬

Are you a theoretical biologist that is intererested in the ecology and evolution of metabolic interactions among microorganisms? Do you like to cooperate with experimentalists? Do you have a PhD and experience in modelling and statistics? Then this position might be for you👇: shorturl.at/iiiOv

Check out our new paper led by brilliant @jhuisman.bsky.social about how microbial communities cope with stress due to increasing salinity in their environment. We have all your favorites: isolate phenotyping, pairwise competitions, community propagations, and theory. #microsky #mevosky #ecosky

Have you ever wondered what increasing environmental stress will do to microbial communities? In our new preprint, @martinadalbello.bsky.social, Jeff Gore and I studied the impact of salinity on microbial community composition and function. 🧵 (1/5) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The help I'd like: I already wrote rough objectives and got feedback from two scientists. When addressing comments, the imposter messaging kicks in and says my grant's not worth it. What do you do #mevosky and #phagesky ? I had overcome the extreme self doubt to a nice reviewer 2...

Please help me 😭 While fearing the big postdoc grant application (and procrastinating), I've been productive: I started new weekly troubleshooting meetings for PhD students I applied for a different smaller grant I edited a manuscript I'd been fearing but feared less than the grant... Help please🥺

#phagesky I am looking for phages infecting Streptococcus pneumoniae to test a phenotype - does anyone have some and willing to share ? Repost appreciated :)

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper! We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media. Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑 doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group. The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects. Please RT. Details 👇: shorturl.at/iiiOv

My boss is always praising me in public and uplifting me when alone, it's so cute 🥰 🥰 She's a proper hype-woman, and we need more in academia 😊😊 Just saying, if there's vacancies in the future, be sure to apply 😉

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Fold first, ask later: structure-informed function annotation of Pseudomonas phage proteins Structural predictions to improve #phage genome annotation! @hannelorelongin.bsky.social @gbouras13.bsky.social y.social @susiegriggo.bsky.social @veravannoort.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🌟 Exciting news! We’re launching three fully-funded postdoc positions for "New Horizons for Synthetic Phages” Join us in tackling antimicrobial resistance with cutting-edge synthetic biology + AI bioinformatics. Based at Flinders Uni in vibrant Adelaide. 👇 Read on for details! #Phage

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#phage #phagesky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper with @rwheatley8.bsky.social and Cedric Lood Actual title: Chromosomal capture of beneficial genes drives plasmids towards ecological redundancy. Sensationalist title: Plasmids carry useless genes academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Phages play a key role in spreading virulence genes among Salmonella, while a bacterial gene, csrA, can limit this process, offering new insights for safer phage therapies and food safety strategies. doi.org/g9k9d9

1/27 We have a new paper out! Turns out that snowflake yeast have been hiding a secret from us - they've evolved a (very!) crude circulatory system. Not with blood vessels or a heart, but through spontaneous fluid flows powered by their metabolism. 🧪🔬 www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Our paper demonstrating that within-species warfare interactions are ecologically important on human skin is now published in Nature Micro! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Welcome to bluesky 🤗 @karinakrammer.bsky.social @joyeuse24.bsky.social They're both members of the Carolin Wendling group at LMU Munich, working on prophages in populations or microbiomes 🦠 🧫 💩 @ccwendling.bsky.social

I wrote an application to a summer school in three days 😅 This is the fastest I've ever written anything 😆 Research summary (1 page), motivation (1 page), and CV (2 pages). I don't know if it was good or bad but if it was good then I guess time pressure really does work amazingly for me (n=~5 now) 😆

‼️I'm looking for a postdoc‼️ Come join effort in using metagenomes to quantify microbial catabolic potential and carbon substrate availability at the ecosystem level. We seek to understand evolutionary forces shaping the carbon cycle. Part of ccomp-stc.org careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

This meeting was so fun! My first time. Had a lot of nice discussions and so much excitement that I forgot to take a picture of me with my poster!!

I have an opportunity to hire a staff scientist for my lab. Looking for someone with outstanding skillset in ML/statistics, genomics applications; interest in mentoring, strong publication record, PD experience required. Email CV to me+cc my assistant (see 'contact' on my website). Ad to follow.

Hi, pipette question, especially for people with tiny hands with little thumb/wrist strength Do you prefer either Acura or Rainin manual pipettes over eppendorf? And why? Thanks! I do a lot of microbiology, phage and evolution related experiments. #Mevosky

#mevosky still searching for a nice protocol to measure spontaneous (phage) induction rates 😊😊

Someone was asking me about women's labour in academia and I keep sending this article and the study by Jarvinen and Meyer 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

PhD: eco-evo drivers of prophage distribution in common gut commensals/pathogens (high-throughput bioinformatics, RNA-seq, and microbiology) PhD 2: phage therapy; in vitro+ in Vivo infections to test phages Postdoc: prophage-engineering (mol bio/cloning) Deadline April 15 #Mevosky

2 PhD and 1 postdoc positions, deadline April 15. Will shortly add the third advertisement. #phage #microsky #Mevosky #STEMjobs

A happy Friday seeing this out! I lucked out and got to work with a couple of really great students on this, Shalini and Jacob, and I’m super proud to see their hard work rewarded #microsky www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

I have news — I really like my new boss at LMU Munich and she likes me too! 😁 Frederic & Jenna were so integral to my life/growth and (also Paul for) the way of scientific thinking, so I was nervous. It's been a month of phage postdoc-ing and I'm thankful for those of you that recommended her 💜🥹

PhD and postdoc positions in our group at LMU Munich; topics: phage therapy as well as ecology and evolution. Open to international applicants as well so please consider applying Deadline April 15! Please repost and share with your networks because of the close deadline

In that context, does anyone have a nice protocol of measuring spontaneous prophage induction rates? The current one I have is a bit tedious to do for many samples at once.

So in the past weeks, I helped people with phage protocols, improved lab setups, explained concepts or bioinformatics stuff to labmates... And a voice says, "who are you to do this! You're not a bioinformatician, you're not a mathematical modeller" But Mr., see, I set up the IT, I'm explaining math!

I am, for ~ the first time in my academic life, not the youngest person in the group, and I'm loving it!! Everyone except my boss is younger! I am also nicely settling into a "postdoc" role, thanks to all the troubleshooting meetings we had at the MPB in Plön. Imposter syndrome hard!!!

Kristin Sainani is now on bluesky! @kristinsainani.bsky.social She unknowingly mentored me early in my PhD through her tips on how to go good science in her writing course. So I was only happy to return the favour by helping her onboard to bluesky! 😁😁 (If you know her, please suggest starter packs)

Been enjoying this new fun podcast on (weird) statistics in science, especially biology. They start with famous ideas like pheromones linked with HLA or vitamin D deficiency! Normal Curves. Hosted by Kristin Sainani @kristinsainani.bsky.social and @reginanuzzo.bsky.social www.normalcurves.com

Excited to share the first preprint from my PhD at @binfutrecht.bsky.social ! 1.5 years ago, @bramvandijk.bsky.social hired me to investigate: why do prophages preferentially carry virulence genes? Using mathematical models, we propose that spatial structure plays a key role. Here's a summary: 1/15

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @sultannazir.bsky.social’s first preprint is on bioRxiv. He finds that regulated prophage induction and virion dispersal play a key role in understanding the accessory genes they carry as cargo. This can explain the prevalence of virulence genes on prophages.