Oh good. Age verified for a site 3 people look at. Good thing I put I put in the work

Sometimes you need a scapula to flip a pancake. Thank goodness we have at least 4 per body

@breakliquid.bsky.social and I are delighted to say our OpenEVO preprint is finally live! An open source hand-made turbidostat that's modular, affordable, and made to be customized. Designed with love for the research community. Enjoy!!!💚 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Lift weights for 35 minutes, do 15 min cardio and walk 10K (in addition to all other things a person does in a day) & Fitbit tells me it is good I took it easy today! Seriously, going to throw this thing in the garbage disposal

Check out the F99/K00 Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Transition Award, to support promising graduate students as they complete their doctoral research training and transition into mentored postdoctoral career development opportunities (please share) 1/n files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...

Very cool findings!

'Furthermore, we demonstrate that, in RNAi mutants, an oxygen-sensing neural circuit, modulated by neuropeptide signaling, antagonizes germline maintenance, likely reflecting the nematode’s innate association of reduced oxygen levels with food availability and reproductive permissive environments.'

Gustav Klimt - "Country House on Attersee Lake, Upper Austria," 1914

👍 win-win-win share.google/5IJddr716rfR...

We’re happy to introduce phageFACTor (Functional Annotation and Curation Tool) 👩‍💻Developed by Tanaïs Moreau, our most recent PhD candidate, and building on Phold, we were able to improve annotation of prophage genes by as much as 50% 🧬 You should check it out github.com/TMs-code/pha...

Who would've thought YjlC-Ndh will be a hot topic in 2026!?! 🔥 Here is our preprint (mostly genetics): pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41928947/ Shedding light on YfhS and YjlC: novel effectors of the NADH dehydrogenase activity of the electron transport chain in Bacillus subtilis #MicroSky #SubtiWiki

📢 We're hiring! The Department of Microbiology & Cell Biology at Montana State University is hiring an Assistant Professor of Microbiology. We welcome applicants working in microbial pathogenesis, immunology, genetics, microbial evolution, and related areas. Apply: jobs.montana.edu/postings/52009

The Kaplan Lab at the University of Pittsburgh has received funds to recruit a postdoctoral fellow to establish a multiplexed assay of variant effect for a disease gene. This relates to our studies on RNA Polymerase II. This project requires experience with human cell lines and genomics 1/

Have fun at bacterial cell surfaces everyone! I wish I could be there so much

Trying to manage my feelings about Russell. It is not going great

Have so much data I would like to share

Microbes that have the greatest genomic potential for secondary metabolism tend to be multicellular. Here, we show that signatures of ancestral BGC expansions within 3 bacterial phyla and 2 fungal lineages coincide with origins of complex multicellularity [1/12] 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

💡 The laser was a solution that preceded every problem it would solve. Nobody in 1953 could list its applications, because those applications did not yet exist. That is what foundational research looks like before anyone knows what it is for.

#PhageSky, prophage dept.

Efficient septum formation is essential for chromosome segregation in Bacillus subtilis when SMC function is impaired www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs

This is more money than was spent on cancer research at the National Cancer Institute since 2014.

Our Dept of Microbiology & Immunology @Geisel School of Medicine @Dartmouth has an opening for an Assistant Professor. Looking for programs bridging multiple areas in Micro & Immuno. A great place to be! Programs: www.M2P2.org www.dartmouthbiofilm.org Job ad: apply.interfolio.com/187637

just thought i'd share the observation that dipping your feet in the ocean is very much like touching grass, but even better

tech capture of the NSF: “it allows NSF to make awards to nontraditional recipients such as a limited partnership or a venture capital firm, some of which might have been created solely for the purpose of receiving the NSF award.”

Exclusive: The National Science Foundation is trimming this year’s budgets for hundreds of its traditional basic science programs by roughly 20% to 30%, even though its overall budget is down just 3%. https://scim.ag/4xY2KCm

We have this existential sign near the river here.

We've been learning a lot about how Enterococcus faecalis interacts with neutrophils lately. In our latest preprint, @harisantypas.bsky.social describes how lactic acid from E. faecalis dampens neutrophil metabolism leading to NETosis and phagoytosis suppression. #microsky

Are you Interested in TetR family regulators in the Gram-positive model bacterium Bacillus subtilis? Schau hier: 👇👇👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #subtiwiki

👉 A Bacillales-specific tubular scaffold essential for NADH dehydrogenase activity! 👇 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42315832/ #subtiwiki

1/ Out today in Science (@science.org): a result a decade in the making, and one that changed how I think about what cells are doing when they grow. We found a bacterium that grows slower than it could. And we found the molecular switch that lets us reverse it.

The glycolytic enzyme ENO1 (enolase) is a moonlighting enzyme in mammalian cells: Schaut Ihr: 👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

It is a cool study but I hate this press-releasey type framing Cell division solved guys - stop working on those projects now!

Well, that was a fucking ride.

Does media matter? Growth environment influence antimicrobial tolerance and expression of virulence and transmembrane ion transport-associated genes in MRSA https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.15.732343v1

Wow! 👇 Purine bias in bacterial genes is driven by runaway transcription: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Somatic cells compartmentalise their carbohydrate metabolism to sustain germ cell survival @diegosainzdelamaza.bsky.social, Marc Amoyel et al link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Reminder — UW #Microbiology has an open search for an Assistant Professor, focusing on fundamental problems in #bacteriology! If you or someone you know would be suitable, here's the ad: apply.interfolio.com/185622

Revolutionary British artist David Hockney dies aged 88

Bacterial cell division protein FtsZ complexes with a phage protein to activate bacterial immunity @natmicrobiol.nature.com from Michael Laub & Abel Garcia-Pino www.nature.com/articles/s41...

EMBO Symposium alert: Save the date: 9–12 March 2027 Join us in scenic Heidelberg for this unique meeting, covering everything about drug resistance and tolerance. Mechanisms of drug resistance and tolerance in bacteria, fungi, and cancer www.embl.org/about/info/c...

unlike cars (and many motor boats), no two sailboats are the same. i just love that so much. they tell the stories of the sailors, their choices, the lives lived, the adventures (and mishaps) had, the care, the neglect, the love, the pains, the triumphs,... they're very much like faces.

There are so many neat people here. Makes me feel better about the state of things

In the future, everyone will be tenured for 15 minutes

Published in Infection and Immunity, Gracious Donkor and I explore the diverse mechanisms microbes employ to withstand ROS-mediated stress and discuss recent efforts to harness oxidative stress responses as a potential strategy for developing new antimicrobials. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Loons Protect the Owls Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk 2002

My mom, showing every symptom of Lewy Body. Brother's response is to relocate the lawn ornaments that were communicating with her. My dad decides to take her on a road trip. Sometimes it is hard to live far away.

outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) of 𝘝𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪 are apparently piñatas full of goodies for its host, 𝘌. 𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘴. earlier we featured SsrA (tmRNA), now comes SypC protein - both required for proper ldevelopment of the squid's light organ. #SymbioSky

Rhododendron azalea garden, Japan