Canadian Premier Soccer final is the most bad ass soccer game I've seen.

Friday means a new #MattersMicrobial podcast. This week, Dr. Hannah Ledvina joins the #QualityQuorum to chat about how bacteria can shield themselves against Bdellovibrio attack! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord. @univpugetsound @ASMicrobiology @microbe.tv youtu.be/n31kkw576GE?...

One of the most useful resources for anyone who uses fluorescence methods.

Right now this is my favorite @inaturalist.bsky.social observation www.inaturalist.org/observations...

I had the most awesome time recording next week's #MattersMicrobial podcast session with Dr. Hannah Ledvina of the University of Michigan. Her work on the "shield" that E. coli can make against Bdellovibrio attack was amazing. Plus, we share many common enthusiasms. It was a proper nerdfest.

LA Dodger’s Freddie Freedom speaks about his Canadian Mom. He seems like a really nice guy, I hope his team comes in 2nd place. #Canada #TorontoBlueJays #LADodgers #WorldSeries

Complete nonsense. My advice to post-graduate researchers is to always preprint their work, as it will improve their visibility while the manuscript is going through a (frequently very long) peer review process.

Always read @jtemple.bsky.social, especially when he quotes me. 😆 R&D on CO₂ removal (CDR) should be funded and led by governments, like the Manhattan Project minus the nuclear bomb. That way we can figure out what works and what doesn't technologically, environmentally, socially, etc.

Thrilled to share our multidisiplinary work on how genome-wide DNA bridging by H-NS reshapes the stationary phase bacterial nucleoid and affects the transcriptional landscape. With Xindan Wang and @meyerroc.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Bacteria use paralog teamwork to survive stress. H-NS forms fluid condensates; its partner StpA forms rigid fibrils. Together, they balance flexibility & stability to keep genes properly regulated under pressure. #PhaseSeparation #Bacteria www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hello! The Jacobs-Wagner lab is finally on Bluesky. We’re excited to celebrate science (and scientists!), share our research, and interact with the community. We look forward to connecting with friends and colleagues across the world.

We’re excited to announce the incredible speaker line-up for the Prokaryotic Cell Biology Conference! Join the leading researchers as they explore the latest advances in Nanoimaging, Cell Growth and Cellular Structures. Join our speakers & register today! ➡️https://bit.ly/47rtkbw #ProkaryoticCellBio

Our paper on chromosome segregation in the archaeon Sulfolobus Acidocaldarius has been published in PNAS! This has been a great collaboration with @joeparham19.bsky.social and the rest of @buzzbaum.bsky.social's team. Stay tuned for more to come!😉 @istaresearch.bsky.social doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Interested in bacterial sensing, signaling and regulation? Come join us in January at the GRC in sunny California! www.grc.org/sensory-tran...

We have a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in Microbiology available! Come and join great students and colleagues at Hofstra Biology. Please apply using the link below and/or spread the word! hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/6542

MCDB Assistant Professor Faculty Search. Please Repost! Applications Due Oct 15th (TOMORROW!) We welcome applications from all areas of physiology and neuroscience - spanning molecular, cellular, systems, and organismal levels. More information can be found HERE: lsa.umich.edu/mcdb/news-ev...

Made some mugs Word cloud made from 100+ different obituaries of exemplary scientists Obituaries were submitted by 1st yr grad students for a course I teach on scientific values (5 yrs total) No menchie indirects, awards, or impact factor...

new preprint from our group & Antoine Hocher: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A fantastic collaboration with Antoine, with Jovana Kaljevic' initiated the collaboration and drives the project.

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Hey Americans! How’s that baseball series going?

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events. Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... 1/14

Interested in a tenure track position teaching and doing research with undergrads at a PUI? We are looking for a broadly-defined microbiologist who can teach Med Micro and Immunology. Apply at universityofscrantonjobs.com/postings/8308. Pls share widely to feeds (& on twitter if you still tweet)! 🦠

New PrePrint from the Vecchiarelli and Mosalaganti (@shyamalm.bsky.social) labs! 🧵 Collaboration with the Giessen and Pi labs Congratulations to co-first authors Y Hoang (@hoanghamyy.bsky.social) and Pankaj Jadhav! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre. Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Invited to give a talk by graduate students-who DRIVE research nationwide-is easily one of the greatest honors for a PI. It’s even better when one of your former mentees is the host! Thank you Tanner and @harvard.edu Micro for being a bright light in these dark times. 🙏 Science will prevail 💪

We kicked off the new school year with the launch of the BioFoundry for Extreme and Exceptional Fungi, Archaea and Bacteria (ExFAB). The new facility will allow researchers to make novel discoveries using previously unstudied microbes that could generate advances in biotechnology & biomanufacturing.

THE Erwin Frey, talking about self-organization in biological systems. Title of the seminar serie suggests it might be intended for physicists.

thank you to all the NIH staff who stand by their duty and put in heroic efforts to get it done. I'll never forget it and will be eternally grateful.

We've already got hundreds of students and mentors here, sharing how the sudden policy change has derailed plans. We're looking at formally "delivering" results to NSF leadership tomorrow, please do keep sharing and spreading the word: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

Unannotated translation products are widespread in model E. coli https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.25.678689v1

www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky

📝New preprint! #MicroSky 🕰️We chart the full, synchronized lifecycle of a predatory bacterium using Hi-C, RNA-seq, ChIP-seq & microscopy. 🧬We uncover dramatic shifts in nucleoid architecture & transcription, tightly coordinated with predation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My MCDB dept is accepting applications for a faculty position at the Assistant Professor level! Applications Due by October 15, 2025 We welcome applications from all areas of physiology and neuroscience, spanning molecular, cellular, systems, and organismal levels. lsa.umich.edu/mcdb/news-ev...

🚨New paper out! #MicroSky Studying obligate predators like Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus is tricky—essential genes for predation are also essential for survival. We expanded its genetic toolbox: 🧬promoters to fine-tune expression 🧬IPTG-inducible system 🧬CRISPRi for rapid knockdown bit.ly/46GUn2c 1/4

Ever wondered how to position organelles in bacteria? Wonder no more! Happy to have contributed to this fantastic story from @cellforganized.bsky.social' lab. The avenues this opens in the synthetic biology space are enormous! Movie: Carboxysomes positioned in E. coli! Preprint: shorturl.at/D6xVg

New PrePrint from the Vecchiarelli and Mosalaganti (@shyamalm.bsky.social) labs! 🧵 Collaboration with the Giessen and Pi labs Congratulations to co-first authors Y Hoang (@hoanghamyy.bsky.social) and Pankaj Jadhav! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A must read. It takes years to see a spark transformed to a groundbreaking treatment. It all begins with basic research. Due to sustained #NIH funding, we have better therapeutics, cancer detection, vaccines. We are like 1930s Germany. 🧪 www.infotimes.us/basic-scienc... via @markhisted.org

A new #CryoET study shows that the protein ZapD helps organise FtsZ filaments into stable ring-like structures in building bacterial division machinery. buff.ly/saLPqJM

🚨🚨🚨Calling all Caulophiles and Alpha aficionados - stayed tuned for a virtual CauloCon in early 2026. And HOPEFULLY an in person alpha meeting in 2027!! DM me or @chienlab.bsky.social w questions or to stay in the know.

‪@laskerfdn.bsky.social‬‬ 2025 #LaskerAward winner Lucy Shapiro asked: How do organisms translate information from a linear genetic code into 3D structures? With that, she opened a new field. Also studied bacterial DNA methylation & gene expression. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2519777122

So proud to have trained with Lucy. She is an exceptional scientist, exceptional person, and exceptional mentor. Huge congrats and so well-deserved. laskerfoundation.org/winners/pion...

Looking for a new approach to studying or eliminating phages? Check out our study introducing anti-phage ASOs (antisense oligos) out in @Nature today. nature.com/articles/s4158…

So happy to see this publication finally out! Congratulations and thank you to all the authors! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

we fully endorse this statement by @asm.org . period

Yesterday the president demanded that evidence about Covid vaccines be shown to the public. Today @apoorvanyt.bsky.social & I run through some of the studies made public over the past 4+ years that show that the vaccines work. Gift link: nyti.ms/46k17Tq

My quote of the day Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get. William Foege

More foundations should do this: "Funding is exclusively available to applicants who have already received federal funding (e.g., from the NIH, CDC, NSF) for their health equity research, but have since had their funding rescinded due to federal administrative actions" www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...

AND NOW THE SENIOR CDC LEADERS HAVE JOINED THE WALK OUT! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...