Pete Buttigieg is speaking in Sacramento on Wednesday! Tickets are here: ci.ovationtix.com/36629/pr/125...

Also, a Nature paper is literally the summary of the paper already, with all the nitty-gritty shoved into appendices like "Methods"....

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

#inktober day 15 with Ragged It made me thought about the ragged edges observed on swarming motility plates. Swarming bacteria form beautiful patterns, worth of an art exhibition 🖼️ #microbesky #sciart #inktober2025

This is heartbreaking but also a good example of what the national guard is for and should be doing… not invading America cities.

The revolution will not be on the app of an oligarch.

On one hand, I appreciate it when prospective undergrad researchers don't realize they forgot to delete "chatGPT said..." from their answers to questions...

The important thing is that we can rebuild something fully new and better, which is why facing the severity of this moment can be a source of hope rather than paralysis.

For the Sacramento Speaker Series, you usually have to buy a subscription to the whole series. But last night, it looks like they started selling tickets specifically for Pete Buttigieg's talk on October 22nd. If you're in Sacramento & want to see Pete: ci.ovationtix.com/36629/pr/125...

So weird to claim it's a world record when it's a metric about a system of a dozen unis. (No shade to the winners, but this sort of prestige metric chasing is silly. But, probably helps get donations from the oligarchs, so I understand why upper admin would do it...)

Reminder, we’re hiring 2 PhD students for next year!! I’m extending the deadline to Nov 1, but please get your app in soon if you’re interested in joining us! More info is on our webpage. 🦠🦑 Please share with ECRs you know as well and check out our other open positio. (Postdoc!)

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Remember -- it's easy to speculate that trait X imposes a fitness cost (but that's basically the biologist's version of drunk-uncle-whinging). Attacking with the T6SS doesn't impose a fitness cost.

Several of my papers were motivated because I had been unable to find an accurate citation for statements in most introductions of papers in my field.

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)

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

I think this is a positive way for institutions to celebrate Postdoc Appreciation week. When I was a PD, I felt like the extent of my institution's appreciation was a free sandwich.

National protest day

Troop deployment in Portland could still end up in history books as among the most tragic events in modern American political history, or a bright, colorful, musical turning point in America's march towards authoritarianism. Keep it weird PDX. For all of us, just keep it very, very weird.

Our paper, describing how the T6SSs of P. putida shape the tomato rhizosphere, is now in its final format in @isme-microbes.bsky.social ISME Communications. If you'd like to learn more, here is a thread (1/11) or read the Article doi.org/10.1093/isme....

When will we officially create a department of propaganda?

Understanding how each vertebrate organism creates a population of T-cells with potential to recognize unpredictable threats, and how the body screens this population of T-cells to minimize the auto-immune receptors is so, so cool. The layman's description is 👌 www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

Day 3, Soft. Soft agar is used to visualise phages - plaque assay: bacteria infected with phages are mixed with soft agar, poured over an agar plate. A bacterial lawn grows & plaques appear - as phages infect bacteria, multiply, kill & repeat to form an expanding hole. #drawtober #SciArt #Phagesky

Just pointing out that Universities signing the Faustian deal are still allowed to discriminate on admissions or hiring in a couple of very specific ways

I said this was the new policy as a sarcastic joke when we were told there would no longer be custodial services for trash cans at work. I can't believe this is a real marketing flyer

Hi all! What does your department pay biology teaching faculty. Very curious! If you’d rather message me, please do!

"We all learned long ago on the playground that trying to appease a bully only makes things worse. It’s equally hard to imagine how higher education will recover if colleges and universities begin conceding to Mr. Trump’s illegal compact." via UC-Berkeley Law Dean 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Anyone have any literature on how yeast or other fungi detect plant phytohormones? I know they respond to them but am struggling with the search terms to find the genes that allow fungi to respond to plant compounds.

TONIGHT AT 6 PM: I’m going live on Zoom with Rep. Lauren Underwood @underwood.house.gov to answer your questions about how the government shutdown is affecting you and your healthcare. To join, RSVP here or scan the QR code below: bit.ly/RSVPTownHall... I hope to see you tonight!

If Harvard bows down to this lawless president, it will cover itself in shame and betray its motto “Veritas.” Don’t pretend to stand for truth if you’re going to surrender to this bully. Appeasement only feeds the beast and puts us all at greater risk.

The fine folks at @nukit.bsky.social sent me this new excimer lamp (222nm deep UVC) to test in my mutagenesis experiments! Stay tuned for more spicy light advenutres. 🌶🔦🦠🌱🧬

"What is happening in this country is happening because science is bad for tyrants, and always has been"

Everyone should read this devastating report: Trump’s sabotage of USAID stranded lifesaving medicines — fueling chaos and leaving children to die. His policies are destroying our reputation and influence overseas and literally killing kids. No words.

Advice: download PDFs of any documents you might need from government websites. The NIFA website went offline during the government shutdown during my PhD

I am deeply grateful for the work of NSF staff this year to keep research & grants moving in a difficult environment. I view this petition as a means to demonstrate impact & interest in ensuring access to a vital grad research program. 450+ signees and counting: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

That atomic force microscopy is awesome! Learning a lot reading this paper

Who, specifically, advised this? Is this in writing? I ask as a white American of eastern European ancestry and a proud SACNAS member. It is a great organization.

Anyone have recs for an Illumina library prep kit directly from single-strand cDNA? I see ssDNA kits but they require pre-fragmentation of the cDNA and it would be cool to skip that step because reasons.

Today is a good day to download PDFs that you want to reference in the next week or month. During the 2013 or 2014 shutdown, I had to email folks to luckily receive an old copy of the USDA graduate fellowship solicitation.

First, first-author publication from undergrad Tabitha Cowell is live! She did some very cool comparisons of putative conjugative T4SS gene clusters and found neat eco evolutionary differences between the wilt pathogen and more environmental species! I'll make an explainer sometime this week.

It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University

My department at UTK is hiring! 🧪🧫 We are hiring two Assistant Professors, one in Microbial Drivers of Chronic Disease and one in Quantitative Microbe-Plant-Environment Interactions! Come join our growing department of microbiologists. Knoxville is a great place to live!

Very excited to announce that our department is now accepting applications for a tenure track faculty position in Cell Biology: uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UASYS/... Come join our wonderful department!

@mikethompson.house.gov Research funding is important for your district. Please have your staff help remove red tape so that the most prestigious science PhD fellowship has an application that is open to the next generation of talent

Maybe I am old, but I don't like the idea of researchers engaging with the literature by having AI make a podcast out of papers. It's so important to critically analyze the results yourself. If you don't do that, just read the abstract...

Very important paper and resource. Bryophyte genomes expanded by one order of magnitude. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... There's a comparison

I don't normally watch Jimmy Kimmel, but I will definitely watch his show tonight in order to exercise my support for the First Amendment in this consumerist capitalism

I can’t quite wrap my head around seeing people suggest tetanus is safer than Tdap because “toxins.” According to them, the safe way to avoid “toxins” in vaccines means exposure to a literal neurotoxin instead.

I think the update to Microsoft word is hallucinating misspelled niche jargon. The u and r are in the wrong position in this suggestion... It would be embarrassing to spell my organism incorrectly in papers and grants...

No Kings protest on Oct 18 seems like a great way to practice your First Amendment right to Freedom of Speech. Find your rally location, nationwide: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=5...