Our article on equitable reuse of public sequencing data is out! Led by @alexjprobst.bsky.social, @lhug.bsky.social, Cristina Moraru, @geomicrosoares.bsky.social, @folker.bsky.social and myself -, co-authored by Anke Heyder, and developed in consultation with 167 scientists. tinyurl.com/n6yeanmk

🧪The NSF has made changes to the GRFP solicitation and eligibility TODAY that may change your eligibility! PLEASE read through the solicitation if you were planning to apply and speak to your mentors about the merits of applying: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

And for my perimenopausal science friends, keep on doing all 3 at once. I've gotten really good at it.

A roadmap for equitable reuse of public microbiome data www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Thrilled to have contributed as part of the Data Reuse Consortium behind this new @natmicrobiol.nature.com article 'A roadmap for equitable reuse of public microbiome data' www.nature.com/articles/s41... If you work with microbiome, metagenomic, or ‘omics data more broadly, check out the paper.

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

Today we found out the executive search committee is ONLY INTERVIEWING the interim president of the university for the real job. Only if she somehow screws that up will they do a real search.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Has anyone else’s department ever asked professors to pony up $$ for replacing a general use autoclave? 🦠 Yes they are expensive but they are basic safety equipment.

#ASLO is seeking an Editor-in-Chief for Limnology & Oceanography Letters! Join a Gold Open Access journal of cutting-edge research in #limnology and #oceanography. As EIC of #ASLO_Letters, you'll be shaping the future of #aquaticscience! 🚨 Deadline: Oct 15, 2025 www.aslo.org/call-for-app...

🚨 Microbiologists! We are recruiting Assistant / Associate Professors in 3 collaborative areas of our U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine. 1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro 2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute 3) Center for Vaccine Research 🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...

People often say that academic research is like a marathon rather than a sprint, usually to emphasize pacing. But in my experience as both a runner and a researcher, I found its deeper commonality to be learning to embrace pain.

So you're a scientist about to face a government shutdown? Have you considered becoming a rock star? It's easy AND profitable! 🎸🧪 Let's list off five scientists who turned rockers:

Every accusation is actually a confession.

We are hiring! The Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics is looking for faculty at the Assistant or Associate professor level (tenure track). Please consider joining our vibrant microbiology and immunology community at the University of Pittsburgh School of medicine

New #eldercare experience. Mom's roommate passed away. No idea if Mom realizes or comprehends. Will actually miss the roommate and especially her family, whom we spent last mother's day with. Thankful her roommate is no longer in pain.

The U.S. has done this 46 times in 50 years

📢 24-month postdoc starting Jan 2026 at Mercator Ocean & Laboratoire d’Océanographie. Focus: modeling MCDr, ocean alkalinization & CO₂ using BGC-Argo data. PhD in oceanography/climate science required. 🔗 Details & apply : emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

From the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. If you are pregnant, listen to your obstetrician for guidance on what's safe and recommended.

Giving a webinar on #BlueSoup this Friday, in case anyone wants to pop in during their lunch!

This message is very important to remind ourselves of and to share with other people.

My team is hiring again! 📣 springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

Should read. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

My nephew is in a research lab and we spent our Saturday night face timing to discuss sequencing and he said he’s so happy to talk to someone who understands and I’m just having all the feels as a first gen scientist.

www.axios.com/2025/09/20/t... New H-1B visa fee will not apply to existing holders, official says

Click on the green "SUBMIT A PUBLIC COMMENT" button and have your say. 2/2

ADD YOUR THOUGHTS ON LIMITING STUDENT VISA TO FOUR YEARS Comment period ends September 29th www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... 1/2

Universities. Rural hospitals. Tech companies. Several sectors are going to be profoundly hurt by this. Not to mention the chaos of the moment as current H1-B owners scramble to get back to the U.S., cancel travel, etc. due to the uncertainty. An absolute mess. As intended.

With this new H1B news, I am just so glad that all of my foreign postdocs who have since left my group were able to get green cards already.

No more postdocs on H1B visas, that would seem to be an obvious outcome. Probably not at the professor level either. m.economictimes.com/nri/work/tru...

This is amazing.

The sad truth is that vaccines and vaccination are a feedback loop. We take them for granted because they work well for the most part. Then we take them away because of concerns or downright quackery. Then the diseases come roaring back, making vaccines cool again. In the interim, people die.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

It has happened numerous times now that I come across a Charlie Kirk quote that is so extreme I'm convinced it's fake, then I check and it's real. ca.news.yahoo.com/fact-check-c...

Finally www.billboard.com/music/music-...

New frontiers in short-chain alkyl-coenzyme M reductases #methane #anme #methanogenesis www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It’s telling that Trump has already discarded the idea that the Kimmel firing was about Kirk and says the problem is that he was mean to Trump

This is now a red-shouldered hawk stan account 😍🪶🌿

This is my new Tom Holland "Umbrella" video.

Tired: The biodiversity of the deep sea rivals the biodiversity of tropical rainforests. Wired: The biodiversity of the deep sea rivals the combined biodiversity of the entire rest of the planet.

Anyone out here have experience with hearing aids? My dad seems to be losing the aid efficiency in about 1-2 years. He has to get new/better pairs. Is this normal? It's not like battery gives out, they still charge, they just don't seem to work no matter what the adjustment is.

I wanna signal boost this - I am looking to recruit a prospective PhD student to join my Stress and Health Equity lab at the University of Delaware in HDFS. My research concerns biopsychosocial mechanisms of health across the life course with an emphasis on stress and coping.

Shout out to the American Federation of Musicians

I’m starting to see how the citizens of a country can be told (and believe) that their leader doesn’t 💩 I think we need a first amendment protest.

Opportunity for Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Biochemistry/Microbiology at RMIT University (Melbourne Australia) ref: JR41993 | closing: 12-Oct-2025 #biochem #chemsky 🧪 rmit.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/RMIT_C...

Have you ever looked at some differentially occurring gene clusters in a microbial #pangenome and thought to yourself "I wonder if they contribute to any metabolic modules"? With the most recent changes, the answer is a few clicks away in #anvio 😇

Really glad to announce a new preprint from our lab: Global distribution of quinones in Bacteria! We here combine comparative genomics and text mining to leverage information on quinones distribution from thousands of articles describing new species and from dozens of thousands of genomes! 1/5