If you'd like to celebrate the biology of viruses - or the fight against viral diseases - this winter, try out our free and updated #VirusSnowflake designs. Please share, and if you have any photos of Virus Snowflakes in your area it would be lovely to see them! cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl...

Just 4 days until the start of I2K and its 33 totally free image analysis tutorials and events! Please share with your "home networks", especially early career researchers - the videos will be amazing and high-impact no matter how many people attend live, BUT (1/x)

What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure. A really informative article, perfect for a weekend coffee read. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New on Think Like a Microbe! 🧫🧪 #philsci open.substack.com/pub/thinkmic...

#microsky oral #microbiome goes supersize www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Come join us in Knoxville! The Dept. of Microbiology 🧫🦠 at the University of Tennessee is hiring 2 Assistant Professors (tenure track, 9-month appt.). Microbial Drivers of Chronic Disease: apply.interfolio.com/173153Quantitative Microbe-Plant-Environment Interactions: apply.interfolio.com/173345

Mark your calendars! #mmpc2026 The 2026 Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference will be take place September 25-27, 2026 at the University of Minnesota! We are excited to welcome keynote speaker Dr. Andy Camilli. Give us a follow and watch for important information here ➡️ mmpc2026.umn.edu

This is your daily reminder that registration is open and *FREE* for #BiM2025 #BlackInMicro Week. Get ready to join our online celebration: linktr.ee/BlackInMicro#BiM2025#BlackInMicroor see link in bio)

Please repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist Applications due Dec 1 Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339 Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)

Excited to share our latest preprint is up: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... led by @aanuoluwaduro.bsky.social ! 🧪🧫

A substantial part (but not all) of this increased investment is multi-year funded grants. My current estimate is that multi-year funding has been used in lieu of ~2400 annually funded grants that could have been made. 2/2

Today, courageous FEMA staff members sent the Katrina Declaration to the FEMA "leadership" and others. Sign on it support of these folks committed to the FEMA mission for all of us. www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina... @standupforscience.bsky.social

Over a third of people say they’re going days without eating in Gaza. For now, the confirmed famine is centered in the governorate of Gaza, one of five in the strip. Our maps show where it’s expected to spread by the end of September www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Video OpEd via @nytimes.com on drastic cuts to the pipeline of federally funded medical research that drives diagnostics, drugs, and treatments for Cancer HIV Diabetes Alzheimer's + more & helps patients, enables patents, and advances soft power. 5 mins 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Excited to have our new mini review on Microbiome Metabolism out today in I&I as part of the @asm.org New Voices in Microbiology collection! Check it out! 🧫🧪 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Super excited to share our paper online 🚨today🚨 in Cell Host & Microbe‬! Xiaomei Ren @xiaomeiren.bsky.social and Mason Clark @rmasonclark.bsky.social‬ co-led discovery of ecological factors for Acinetobacter baumannii carriage in the gut, a reservoir for pathogen spread. 🎉 tinyurl.com/443kfefk

Microbiology professor, want to join a slack for microbiology professors, any career stage, diverse career types (pure teaching, med school, R1, community college, pure research fed PIs, ...) Message me for an invite link if you are interested. No imposter syndrome, if you are 1% micro, join!

The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601

Reading this tonight, and holding my family a little extra tight, heartbroken for all who cannot

Lovely time with new and old friends at microbiology population biology camp. Leaving with lots of new ideas (and lots of new bug bites) @cbibberson.bsky.social @peachypotato.bsky.social @jamesgurney.bsky.social

Dear Science Journalists, Please mention when your write-ups covers work that was funded by federal agencies that are now being dismantled, defunded, and censored. The public needs to know what is being lost, and if you don't tell them in the context of Cool New Science, who will?

Happy to help fill some bubbles in Ohio and support @skypeascientist.bsky.social, which is doing lots of awesome work to connect people with science!

The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget. Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide. Interactive map and shareable report: scienceimpacts.org/fy26 a 🧵

Today's heat wave was made FIVE TIMES more likely by fossil fueled climate change Yet Republicans are trying this week to pass a bill that would decimate the energy transition and sell off swaths of public lands to fossil fuel companies

Great crowd today #NoKings #ScienceNotSilence

I wanted to show support for these brave public servants and to allow others, including the scientific community, to join me. In partnership with @standupforscience.bsky.social‬, we have a way for you to do that... www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

This is so cool, @vscooper.micropopbio.org 👏 #EvolvingSTEM at its best!

🚨ATTENTION MOMS🚨 Friday, May 30th at 3pm Meet me outside of the CDC with your pregnant bellies, your babies, your toddlers, your strollers, your signs, and your baby gear. We are standing up for science and vaccines! @standupforscience.bsky.social RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/moms-...

🚨 I’m hiring a postdoc for Fall 2025 with experience in microbial ‘omics data analysis and phylogenetics/genomics. Projects will be centered around ancient microbial ecology & evolution. Click here for more information: bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/wp.txstate.e... Please share, thank you 🙏🏻

Major update to #SCIMaP visualization of impacts of cuts to federally supported health research. Map now includes information on future economic losses (impact of proposed reduction of NIH IDC to 15%) and current economic losses (impact of terminated NIH grants). scienceimpacts.org

🔔BREAKING🔔 The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding. This is censorship disguised as oversight. Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3): www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Are you able to mentor a summer student and have a good project that can be virtually administered, sign up to be an NSURP mentor today! If you can't, hit that share button please and thank you! #NoLabNoProblem #NSURP uarizona.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The devastating blows to American science during Trump's first 100 days, in numbers. And the end is nowhere in sight. www.science.org/content/arti...

My lab & I had a lovely time sharing our love of oral bacteria at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History this weekend. 🦷🧫 And learned that little kids are very passionate about the color of their toothbrushes. 😂🪥

Microbiology Outlooks is the latest title to join our portfolio and will disseminate pioneering reviews and perspectives across the breadth of microbiology. Find out more: microb.io/Mout

Lovely to attend the @asm.org Ohio Branch meeting this weekend with almost my whole lab! Was a great day with lots of fun science, including poster awards to @asuddaby.bsky.social and Brynn Connors!

Quick soggy conference lunch break #handsoff #handsoffscience

HEY DORKS, GET YOUR SIGNS READY! *Two* upcoming opportunities to Stand Up for Science, together. 🚨TOMORROW APRIL 5TH🚨 In partnership with @indivisible.org we say: HANDS OFF OUR SCIENCE Find an event near you and register here: handsoff2025.com?utm_source=s... #standupforscience #handsoff

Tariffs get all the attention, but ask economists what they're really worried about and many will point to the Trump administration's cuts to federal support for the sciences, including canceling grants and revoking student visas. #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...

Cleveland! Time to stand up! Find more info and local events all over the country: standupforscience2025.org/local-event-... #ScienceForAll #StandUpForScience2025 #ScienceNotSilence

Happy to see two local Stand Up for Science events in the Cleveland area. Huge thanks to those who are taking the initative to organize these events. #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall standupforscience2025.org/local-event-...

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!? Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one! #standupforscience2025

Last weekend I wrote a letter to the editor to my hometown newspaper as part of the Sciencehomecoming.com movement. I will share my letter in this thread, and share my approach to lower the activation energy for y'all to join me. 🧪 #microsky

Although we are not federally funded for this summer, WE WILL STILL RUN The National Summer Undergraduate Research Project (NSURP) in 2025. We remain committed to the work that needs to be done and will continue to meet people where they are. 1/4 nsurp.org

I created a brief spreadsheet of reductions I've heard of so far. Any additions you know of (especially if you have the links/receipts) would be great: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Happy Black History Month! I’m not sure if ASM is celebrating this year, so I’ll share some links to ASM resources I had previously collated on black women in microbiology that are now deleted (or at risk of being deleted). Deleted content can be viewed via the internet archive (links provided).

“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO

Ordered! How can I resist two of my favorite things: insect facts and supporting science outreach

Hello world! I'm starting out on bluesky with a job posting - we're looking for lab research tech who shares our love of bugs. More info here brownlab.biology.gatech.edu/opportunities/