Please share - an Assist Prof position in microbiology employmentopportunities.umb.edu/mob/cw/en-us... @asm.org

We have an open post-doc position in my group to study mRNA cleavage and polyadenylation using biochemical reconstitution and cryoEM. Please get in touch if you are interested in joining this amazing team! 🔬🧬🤩 #RNA #cryoEM

Nice writeup of our discovery of the first Legionella phage from @uoftmedicine.bsky.social. A special thanks to Betty Zou for being interested in our latest work. temertymedicine.utoronto.ca/news/scienti...

The boat and dock are out of the water :( but had a nice weekend in Michigan. Thanks to @farmgirlphd.bsky.social, expert boat driver.

hey bluesky 👋 visa hurdles mean I’m looking for opportunities outside the US. I’m a computational biologist (bacterial + phage genomics, postdoc in Koonin’s group @ NIH). I am interested in teaming up on funding apps. reach out if this resonates!

I can't say enough about how amazing the #peerreview program truly is. If you're an #earlycareer researcher - this is an incredible opportunity. #genetics

Congrats to my better half @legionella.bsky.social and his lab and collaborators on this cool discovery! TLDR, they've identified and re-animated a bacteriophage of Legionella pneumophila, a bacteria long thought to not be susceptible to phage attack. Check it out! 🦠

Sorry for the late reply ‪@superbug-slayer.bsky.social ‪@roblavigne.bsky.social‬. Here's a Legionella phage & it likely shaped the emergence of Legionnaires' in the first place! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (cryoEM w/ @smlea.bsky.social @justindeme.bsky.social). #phage #legionella #legionnaires

From outside the Isberg lab, circa 2010. Artist unknown.

Independence Lake, Michigan - Aug 26, 2025.

+1 here. Reach us out early enough ! Getting funding and personal timelines aligned rarely happens over night !

My Department (Biology) at @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social is hiring this year! We have an opening for a Tenure Track Cell and/or Molecular biologist (broadly defined). Please share with your trainees/labmates/friends and reach out if you have questions. apply.interfolio.com/171625

From former PhD Student Jordan Lin (now a postdoc w/ Ami Bhatt), in which we describe a contact-dependent, cell-extrinsic response to genotoxic stress. #MicroSky. A bacterial toxin-antitoxin system involved in an unusual response to genotoxic stress | EMBO reports www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Elio Schaechter was one of my heroes. His 1958 paper with Ole Maaløe and Niels Kjeldgaard (fondly known as “SMK”) is a North Star for so much work in my group. A wonderful scientist, great communicator, and a very kind person. May his memory be a blessing.

Adventures in owning a 32-yo Malibu Flightcraft... You don't need to be a boat mechanic to guess which of these water pump impellers was old, which is new, and why the engine was overheating last week. Also, thanks to Amazon.com and youtube, I had the boat running again in less than 24 hours.

Saddened to learn of the passing of Moselio "Elio" Schaechter—Distinguished Professor at Tufts, SDSU and UCSD—humanist and visionary leader in the fields of microbiology and scientific communication—mentor, friend, and inspiration to me and so many others Small Things Considered Big Things Achieved

The only time I diagnosed legionella pneumonia is when I was a resident in NYC, a man came in with cough/fever, said he was an AC repairman, and that his boss told him to go get checked for legionnaires. It was like a test question walked in as a patient and then also gave me the right answer.

#Review A discussion on the processes driving bacterial evolution and emergence of pathogenesis within hosts, the importance of understanding within-host genetic diversity, and the implications for transmission analysis and infectious disease control. #MicroSky 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The #CIHR Microbiology and Infectious Disease panel had a 13% success rate in Project Grant decisions released last week. Overall success was just over 15% across all panels. Worst success rate in recent memory. This is not what seizing the moment or investing in the future looks like.🇨🇦📉 #canpoli.

But better than an AI image generator's default response to reviewers - lots of extra fingers.

The preliminary program for Legionella 2026 (Zurich, Sept 7-11) is now online! legionella2026.com. Thanks to Carmen Buchrieser and Hubert Hilbi for organizing. Looking forward to seeing everyone there and celebrating 50 yrs of Legionella research. #MicroSky #Legionella2026

The 74th Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Microbiologists (CSM 2025) has officially started on the @umontreal-en.bsky.social campus! Lots of great talks lined up for the next four days on all things related to microbes. Super excited to be here. #microsky

Newest data from the lab. In a blind taste test between Arnott's TimTam from Australia and Trader Joe's "Aussie-style chocolate creme sandwich cookies" made in the Netherlands, the TJ ones were preferred 7 to 1 with myself as the lone dissent.

Two tenure-track positions at Amherst College www.amherst.edu. apply.interfolio.com/168795 (molecular genetics and biochemistry) apply.interfolio.com/168794 (molecular/cellular neurobiology)

New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

Because getting an A(+) in this one particular course will determine whether it gets to be a Doctorbot and it feels like it has worked really hard this semester.

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

our lab is blessed to have 3 new postdoctoral fellow positions. we would welcome scientists interested in...

My dad's solution would have been to put a piece of yellow tape over it.

That feeling when you dig up a piece of data you generated and send it to someone in your lab, only to realize it was 17 years ago (2008) that you took the image...

Hello out there! Are you looking for a friendly community to share your RNA research and hear about some cool RNA biology? Register for @trendrna.bsky.social on July 10-11 now! Oral abstract deadline is May 30th! Co sponsored by @rnacanada.bsky.social!

Today's Darwin award goes to Monster Truck Snail*. (* No snails were crushed in the end, I carefully removed it).

Hey y'all! My department is conducting a search for an assistant or associate professor in bacteriology. It's pretty broadly defined. If you know anyone who's looking for a great department that does awesome science - please send them our way! You can DM me with any questions you have 😀

Two Postdocs (Lausanne, Switzerland) Bacterial genomics in the context of evolutionary epidemiology, with potential projects including antibiotic resistance, HGT and plasmid dynamics. with @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social at University of... More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2309

Come join us at @mcgill.ca as an assistant professor in virus-host interactions! Please share widely. mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...

Hong Kong leads Singapore again in the number of Legionnaires Disease cases so far in 2025 #legionella #legionnairesdisease #singapore #hongkong

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 Exciting opportunity for a Cryo-EM Senior Research Associate at the University of Toronto! Join a cutting-edge facility supporting groundbreaking, cross-disciplinary research. 🧬🦠🔬 📍 Toronto 🔗 jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... #CryoEM #ElectronMicroscopy #Hiring #UofT #AcademicJobs

I unscrewed and then screwed in a bunch of little screws at work on Friday, but I am a Principal Investigator and this was to fix a piece of lab equipment. I also measure boxes and weigh them for shipping. All kinds of random stuff. Who said a PhD doesn't prepare you for the real world? Bring it on!

www.nature.com/naturecareer... UBC LSI Job!!

Fantastic opportunity if you are interested in moving your lab to Montreal, Canada! Through this program, Chairholders will be awarded up to $1 million per year for a period of 8 years. Contact me if you are interested. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

May we return to a time in which we celebrate science and lift up those who inspire the best in others.

The Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Guelph is at it again! Continuing our cluster hires with tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in Immunology and Virology (1 position each)! careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A... careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

Early registration for the Banff Conference on Infectious Diseases ends March 31st. I registered last week. Hope to see you and/or your trainees there. Check out the schedule and speakers: cumming.ucalgary.ca/events/banff...

Please spread the word! We have an opening in the Atkinson lab for a post-doc with a focus on the molecular mechanisms of microbial immune systems. Can be a fully computational or experimental or hybrid project. Read more and apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... #phage #bioinformatics

Ambitious students interested in our attractive joint Master program "Evolutionary Genomics and Systems Biology" at the University of Vienna and the VetMed Uni should apply: studieren.univie.ac.at/en/degree-pr... Deadline April 7! The Bachelor only needs to be completed by September. Spread the word

This has been in the works for a while, and is not a response to recent events, but the timing couldn't be better: Canada now allows foreign students and postdocs to apply for more doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships! www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...

We have a 2-year postdoc position available in the Lind Lab at Umeå University, Sweden! Predicting and steering experimental evolution of antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Reposts appreciated. umu.varbi.com/en/?jobtoken...

Please repost: Postdoc position in antibiotic discovery in a large multidisciplinary project combining high-throughput approaches, microscopy, AI, and hit-to-lead optimization at @umontreal.ca and @mila-quebec.bsky.social. Apply to [email protected]. See lnkd.in/dVVk4N3s. #microsky