Microbes know no borders, nor should efforts to harness their potential for climate solutions. ASM & 9 other partners have launched a global strategy to position microbial science as a pillar of climate action. 🔗Read the press release & #mbio editorial: asm.org/climatestrat... #ClimateAction

Awesome faculty position alert! Tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please help spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/173889

link with further details: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/372103

Congratulations to @emmiamueller.bsky.social on recently defending her Ph.D. thesis: "Currents of life: how flow and metabolism structure microbial communities" @iubiology.bsky.social

I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.

Did you know that @ASMicrobiology Academy is accepting 2026 fellowship nominations? Individuals are elected based on scientific excellence, originality and leadership. If you think you might qualify for fellowship, check out the criteria and ask someone to nominate you!🦠 asm.org/Academy/Crit...

Requiring grant review by political appointees will continue to delay and disrupt critical research and interferes with scientists’ ability to help protect the nation’s health and security. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...

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

Diversify Microbiology is now open to all professionals working in the microbiology field. Nominate yourself at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Applied & environmental microbial scientists are central to addressing today’s global challenges. Submit your session proposal for the ASM Applied & Environmental Microbiology Meeting at #ASMicrobe 2026 by 2 p.m. ET on Aug. 5. Learn more: asm.social/2wC

US senators poised to reject Trump’s proposed massive science cuts www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Funded postdoc + PhD opportunities in marine microbial ecology! Please share with folks that might be interested. Start date is flexible (fall 2025 to summer 2026) More about the lab + applying (Postdoc rolling, PhD apps due Oct/Jan): sites.google.com/uncc.edu/mic...

Microbial cross-feeding stabilized by segregation of a dependent mutant from its independent ancestor academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs

Microbial cross-feeding stabilized by segregation of a dependent mutant from its independent ancestor #ISMEJournal by @ofsheff.bsky.social et al from @jakemckinlay.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Exciting news from the IU Biology Greenhouse! Wally, our corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum), is officially preparing to bloom! 🪴🌸 🎥You can watch the livestream: go.iu.edu/8tM8 📷: Jessica L. Hooten, Department of Biology

Interested in biodiversity, macroecology, spatial ecology, conservation? @nmouquet.bsky.social put together a global ecology starter pack, two volumes are already full but you can DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join the Vol_3. Let’s keep the community growing 🌐

HUD has been touring the building for months. NSF says nothing…”nothing to see here”. I’m quite sick of gaslighting, bullying, and lack of respect for science and academia. It’s getting harder and harder to take.

Our paper in @science.org 👉🏽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... is accompanied by an especially thoughtful perspective by Carey Nadell and Chris Marx 👉🏽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Water is essential, but 1 in 3 people still lack access to safe drinking water. ASLO recently supported @agu.org and @asm.org in producing a report on how climate change fuels waterborne infections and how science can help. Check it out now: asm.org/reports/wate...

Do you like podcasts? Learn about Binning Singletons and founder @tallcuppajoe.bsky.social on @asm.org “Meet the Microbiologist” and register for this year's #BinningSingletons @ #ASMicro event! binningsingletons.com/singleton/bi... 🧪

I am working with ASM to re-launch the Central NY ASM Branch! 🧫🦠 We have funds allocated for us and now just need 25 signatures from ASM members in the geographic region in support of this branch. More info is in the form and also I’ve attached a FAQ sheet. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

“The damage that the Trump administration is doing is absolutely beyond the pale and has never, never been equaled in American life with regard to higher education.”

Trump administration cuts to NSF will result in more than 200,000 FEWER people per year involved in basic science, training, and education - what should have been the next generation of US scientists. This isn't even eating your seed corn, it is setting your seed corn on fire and salting the earth.

The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

Friday PM attempted massacre... of science. The fight is not over. There are things to do. Organize with @standupforscience.bsky.social Get informed: scienceimpacts.org Call your representative & ask: what are they doing to stop the self-destruction of American's innovation economy?

"Stabilisation of Fluctuating Population Dynamics via the Evolution of Dormancy" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Read the May summary of science on climate change and microbes via @asm.org: tinyurl.com/44a998e5 And learn more about the American Academy of Microbiology's (AAM) "Climate Change & Microbes" scientific portfolio: tinyurl.com/ysyv5scj

Working link: microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...

🆕 in Ecological Monographs' "Method" section: A new framework maps how, where & what we measure in biodiversity research, uniting 130 metrics and clear guidelines so ecologists pick the right tools for the right questions 📄The units of biodiversity doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

Join us for an Evolution workshop at the beautiful Mountain Lake Biological Station this July.

Our preprint on evolved formate assimilation by recent-grad Dr. Brittany Mazny. How is the CO2 intermediate retained to prime the Calvin cycle? The answer includes pigment production as an overlooked CO2 concentrating mechanism. w @blasarre.bsky.social + A Govindaraju www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The comms working at the NSF on X had this to say. Americans should know that for 75 years NSF has supported science and technology in the nation's service & helped to secure the national defense. Breaking it will have consequences for decades to come. We need an *independent* NSF now.

Together with leading science organizations, ASM filed an amicus brief calling for immediate restoration of NIH grants supporting early-career scientists. Read the press release: asm.org/press-releas...

About NSF’s new(est) bulletin - 15% indirect cost rates will kill universities. Apparently that’s the point. I am sick.

"Resuscitation-promoting factor (Rpf) terminates dormancy among diverse soil bacteria" in @asm.org #mSystems with @mmuscarella.bsky.social and others: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Congrats to Dr. Brittany Mazny who successfully defended her PhD (last Friday)!

Many data sets held by NOAA are being "retired" in may, including datasets relevant to ocean sciences and climate. If you have need for these data, or are an archivist, it would be good to download this now. PLEASE SHARE WIDELY. www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...

President Trump on Thursday said he was allowing commercial fishing in one of the world’s largest ocean reserves, introducing industrial operations for the first time in more than a decade to a vast area of the Pacific dotted with coral atolls and populated by endangered sea turtles and whales.

Resuscitation-promoting factor (Rpf) terminates dormancy among diverse soil bacteria #mSystems by @jaytlennon.bsky.social et al journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

📢 Call for papers! Submit your research to #mSystems' new collection on Microbial Ecology and Evolution. Contribute systems-level insights into microbial communities, evolution and ecosystems. Submit now: asm.social/2mq

The current consensus, though, is that this DNA is intact in living microbes. The question is open as to whether these microbes are 'alive' in the same sense that we consider other living organisms. On this topic, I recommend @jaytlennon.bsky.social's work: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

In the world of marine sediment, there has been some reports of ancient DNA as old as 1.3 million years old. www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic...

Microbial solutions for climate change require global partnership journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

"Microbial solutions for climate change require global partnership" Goal: identify microbial solutions that are technologically and economically feasible, and safe. Advisory group: @asm.org and International Union of Microbiological Societies. journals.asm.org/eprint/F5BQS...