The train writing effect is real even on warm trains! I do my personal best writing/editing/reviewing on trains because my thoughts just flowww. 🚄🚇✍️👩‍💻 Anyone else? #WomenInSTEM

Our preprint on using waxmoth larvae as a model for in vivo evolution experiments studying the microbiome is out! We'll write a bsky thread soon once we update the figures with new data, and early feedback is appreciated!

My boss is such a cheerleader! She's happier than I am when I have good news or small successes, or I do something well that I wanted to/tried. + finds the positive learning in many mistakes She's the happiest to see her mentees grow. And says thanks for every little thing I/we do. (Wendling)

Want to make one more my boss is so nice post but can't find the previous ones to continue the thread Anyway, she and I are very excited about something and it's very lovely to find someone to be excited with 😊

Presenting our latest prophage evolution work @ the Women in Evolutionary Biology workshop @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social Meeting all these inspiring incisive women and then popping home in time for my birthday cake 🎂 Best of both worlds I dare say! I'm happy Thanks to the workshop organisers!

🚨 We’re looking for a PhD student to join @phimresearch.bsky.social and explore phages in emerging rice epidemics 🌾 We will investigate phage–bacteria interactions and the seed microbiome/phageome. #phd #phage #plantscience #microbiome #scijobs ‪ 👉 More info: tinyurl.com/yhc2fa7

As a train nerd, I'm proud to announce to the void that I'm now a gold member of the Deutsche Bahn. I also possess so much train information, esp. about Deutsche Bahn, that my partner, a German and part train nerd, asks ME for DB help. Also to explain what the messages in *German* really mean.

Hi #microbiomesky and #mevosky and also #phagesky maybe? Some of us want a microbiome journal club to catch up on microbiology/evolution related microbiome research. Monthly@15:00 CET/09:00 EST/18:30 IST or so Please text my LMU email address if you're interested (not typing it here to avoid spam)

After Eurovision 2019 I thought world peace was here! I was in Plön, my first trip to Europe. Told everyone I knew how "Europe made wars obsolete & replaced them with Eurovision and football"😊 Did I never see the wars inside Eurovision or has it ceased to bring people together? Or did I grow up?😅

Less than 1 week to apply for this postdoc! If you want to find out more about the project have a look at our recent preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #mevosky

Does anyone know of an online microbiome journal club? I'm interested in joining one. More along the lines of evolution and microbiology than immunology or human effects #mevosky #microbiomesky

I'm not even going to ASM microbe and I want to be a binned singleton now 😛 #microsky

I submitted my first big grant application! 😀 First one above 12000 euros Then I went to get biryani to celebrate and locked myself out of my house 😅

Connected our lovely woman-owned Plön bookstore as a partner with an audiobook purchasing platform and I feel so happy I could conquer the world 😃🏃‍♀️‍➡️. So now I'm working on a manuscript I was procrastinating 😛

ggdogs already exists: r-charts.com/miscellaneou...

Reposting for the parents

If a teen is interested in losing weight, chances are they may turn to artificial intelligence platforms to get advice. The AI advice they get may be to keep their calories and nutrients drastically below their daily needs, according to a new study by Frontiers in Nutrition. https://cnn.it/41clD52

Dear letter writers, study sections, grant panels, etc…..(though expecting little will resonate)….

Okay now I'm on her 2025 episode on Night Science podcast and my god I need to listen to this woman every time I momentarily forget my love of research! And writing for whatever purpose! Gonna search for her name and update here which one's the best episode for the one person who saved this post.

Listening to Maria Leptin (ERC president) talk about science, arts, research and grants. She is so wholesome and refreshing. Talks about funding from the perspective of the public, scientists, and government responsibility in such a lovely way! working scientist podcast 31.08.2023 (great podcast)

My style of training people in the lab is increasingly, "10 ways to avoid accidents and cross contamination." Or, "how to know you're adding the right thing to the right tube. And to know this one year later, note everything down RIGHT NOW!!" Anyone else?

PhD students I know at this department are happy, so I recommend this position!

Are you looking for a PhD position, hoping to learn sexual selection theory from one of the true experts in the field? Lehtonen's work is awesome - Look at this and apply! ats.talentadore.com/apply/doctor...

Phd Position alert 🚨 Join our project ASTRAfun (Adaptation and Starship Traffic in Root-Associated fungi), in which we will use computational models to unveil the hidden dynamics of fungal evolution. It’s not going to be just regular fun. It’s going to ASTRAfun. 🤓 www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

How can we tap into the enormous functional diversity of microbes on this planet? Join us at EMBL Heidelberg (8–10 Dec 2026) to learn about ongoing efforts to decode gene function and organisation in human gut microbes, and present your science.

Annual reminder: if you’ve been accepted to multiple graduate programs and are still deciding, please let the ones you’re definitely not going to know as soon as possible! -Someone who got into his PhD off the waitlist the day after the deadline

This is kinda bonkers. In addition, 20 amino acids were found on Ryugu, along with uracil and vitamin B3. These have been found in other instances, but since the samples from Ryugu were collected directly from the asteroid and delivered in sealed capsules, contamination on Earth could be ruled out.

Associate Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor position in Molecular Microbiology available at Lund University, Sweden: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

The Guerrero Lab at NC State University seeks a postdoc in computational evolutionary genetics. Ideal candidates have quantitative skills. Apply by March 10, 2026, via [email protected]. More info: rguerrer.org #postdoc

We have an exciting 3-year postdoc position available to study how Salmonella remodels host membrane dynamics. If you have a background in cell biology and are interested in working on an infection project this could be for you! Application deadline - 24th February. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

I haven't made a "my boss is so nice" post in a while, but just updating you all that she is still very good and a great mentor, and keeps encouraging me and giving me the right advice at the right time We're just busy solving the mystery of our evolution experiment! 😊

I love that Munich is so sunny! Especially in the winter! No one told me, or I'd have moved here long ago, even changed my PhD direction and applied to all the Max Planck's here hahaha 😆 instead of Plön Plön was amazing in the summer, the sun is how you recruit me 😛

1/n New paper alert! Bottlenecks are common in life cycles, but how do they shape the evolution of multiple cooperative traits at once? We tested this in M. xanthus under stringent vs relaxed bottlenecks.

🧪🦠🧫 #microsky #MEvoSky #UTISky #AMR

#phagesky #microsky forgot to tag

I've been wondering about putting out a preprint without making it perfect and tying all loose ends. Would feel better getting feedback from people before submitting for review. What is #Mevosky field thinking of this approach?

Was so fun! Got so much feedback and tips for troubleshooting. Always a pleasure meeting MerMAN folx, I come back feeling appreciated 😊

We had two fantastic visiting speakers today MERMan alumnus @rowancallumg.bsky.social spoke about his current work with viral cheating in influenza with @asherleeks.bsky.social And @lavishaparab.bsky.social talked about phage infection trade-offs Thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social for our snacks!

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 👩‍🔬