I had such a great time doing this podcast! Thanks @markowenmartin.bsky.social for the chance to talk about snails and their microbial friends.

Bon voyage to our lab member Katie Stone on the very last @urigso.bsky.social R/V Endeavor cruise! As the sole URI scientist aboard, Katie is the last URI scientist to sail on this historic vessel that began its work in 1976.

Happy to share a new preprint from my lab about intraspecific variability in anaerobic ciliate-methanogen symbioses with pop. gen. of single cells! Led by @micrott.bsky.social and Corinna Breusing, in collaboration with Ivan Cepicka. Funded by @simonsfoundation.org. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Stoke to announce that I will be joining the Department of Biology @txst.edu this coming Fall semester as an Assistant Professor! Looking for grad students with interests in #Symbiodiniaceae, #corals 🪸, microbial #symbiosis 🦠, comparative #genomics 🧬 and #phylogenomics soon. Feel free to reach out!

🚨 I’m hiring a postdoc for Fall 2025 with experience in microbial ‘omics data analysis and phylogenetics/genomics. Projects will be centered around ancient microbial ecology & evolution. Click here for more information: bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/wp.txstate.e... Please share, thank you 🙏🏻

Multiple-omics analyses of the Alviniconcha #holobiont reveal multi-faceted adaptations to deep-sea hydrothermal vents www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Question for #protistsonsky #SymbioSky: what are examples of prokaryotic genera which form mutualistic symbioses with both animals and free-living protists? i know about methanogenic endosymbionts of protists/animals, and examples of pathogenic microbes e.g. with amoeba, looking for more examples!

The Molecular and Cell Bio department here at UConn is hiring an Assistant Professor in Residence - teaching track (not tenured, but promotion is part of the position). Courses to be taught are in areas of microbio/biochem jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49...

🎉 Join us in congratulating #URIGSO's @annaschreck.bsky.social as the recipient of a 2025 URI Research & Scholarship Excellence Award! She is a Ph.D. candidate in biological oceanography in the Beinart Lab @symbiosisrox.bsky.social, studying marine anaerobic ciliates & their prokaryotic symbionts. 🌊

🚨 Schmidt Ocean Institute Job Alert 🚨 Are you a scientific programmer, full-stack data wrangler, or technical solutions builder who loves ocean data? Join our team as our new data solutions engineer! Apply now: jobs.lever.co/schmidt-enti...

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

🧪 The NSF director is lying to you. Let’s fact check 7 claims from yesterday’s letter to the community, while pointing out 3 critical omissions. 🧵

It’s illegal for government employees to do personal business on gvmt property. People get fired for this. But this Trump-Musk employee is firing thousands at SSA & VA who’ve done nothing wrong—while illegally doing her side hustle on the taxpayer dime. www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/p...

People—don’t fall for it The smackdown on Columbia is NOT about what happened with those protestors (which I abhor) Trump is using it as an excuse to start his campaign against universities, teachers, students, and ideas

Thrilled that CoE Key Researcher @jillianmpetersen.bsky.social was appointed Full Professor @cemess.bsky.social @univie.ac.at. Jill is a double ERC awardee, @fwf-at.bsky.social Board Member and Editor-in-Chief of @isme-microbes.bsky.social Journal. Congrats on this well-deserved achievement!

📢 Sign up now for the 2025 @ooifacilityboard.bsky.social Summer School on #Acoustics! 🧪 🌊 Participants will access, analyze & interpret complementary oceanographic data made available through the #NSFfunded OOI. 🗓️ July 14-18, 2025 📍 University of Washington, Seattle Apply now! 🔗 bit.ly/42NFYQp

Stand up for Science Rally Providence State House March 7, 2025! See you there

Amidst all the bad news, I still want to share two new preprints from our lab group. The first is led by newly minted Dr. Michelle Hauer, in collaboration with @karthik-a.bsky.social @katiekliermicrobe.bsky.social and @maggielangwig.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

NEW: NSF is REINSTATING the 84 probationary staff who were terminated last month, in response to Friday's Federal court order. The 84 "intermittent experts" are still fired.

There it is. DOGE is coming for our existing grants. Based on their careless gutting of agencies, I’m going to go ahead and assume this will be just as careless www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Bad news: purple district Republicans like Juan Ciscomani talking more positively about the budget GOOD news: as of right now there are four on the far right saying they'll vote no - and it only takes two to tank it. ESPECIALLY if you have a Republican rep, please squeeze in one more call today!

Please share: @delauro.house.gov is cochair of the US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group. They are looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here delauro.house.gov/constituent-...

This is a red alert for US science, for new cures & treatments for diseases that afflict everyone in this country. This isn't "oh, it will blow over." Soon we will have reached the point of no return destroying what it has taken decades to build. WE NEED TO BE BANGING DOWN THE DOORS IN CONGRESS.

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

I’m hosting a virtual assembly tonight at 8 p.m. to answer Rhode Islanders’ questions about what’s happening in DC. Join our livestream on YouTube to follow along. www.youtube.com/@SenatorWhit...

Please share: The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Democratic Staff, is surveying the impact of the Trump Admin’s mass firings of federal employees from science agencies. If you were terminated since 20 Jan 2025 please fill out this survey: democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

I'm starting to hear that NSF firings have begun. If you're affected and want to talk, please reach out via signal @jonlambert.12

📣 JOB ALERT📣 The Silbiger Lab is hiring a full time research tech @ University of Hawai’i at Mānoa to support research on intertidal ecology in Hawai’i & coral reef/coastal oceanography in Okinawa, Japan. RCUH ID: 225085 application link below. 1 year to start, but have several years of funding.

#URIGSO is advancing knowledge of our changing ocean planet and developing solutions to the world's most important challenges. With the ocean as our ally, we empower world-class educators, students, and scientists. You can follow them with the #URIGSO starter pack ⬇️ 🌊https://go.bsky.app/CKWbDGC

Dear US scientists, We've been hearing a lot of questions of the form "Why aren't universities doing anything!? They need to speak out!" We can explain. It's bad news. We're on our own. But understanding why can help us all figure out our plan. Read along in thread 1/x 🧪

🌊 #URIGSO's @erinkpeck.bsky.social, a coastal geomorphologist, studies the physical features of coastal areas & how they change over time. Her work focuses on the impacts of episodic sediment delivery events, sea-level rise, and human land-use change on salt marsh morphodynamics & biogeochemistry.

🧵: I am getting texts on what scientists should do in this perilous and scary moment. My advice: your biggest power is to organize through your professional societies. A few ideas -

Reposting this again - We are looking for a postdoc to study the physiology, evolution, and cell biology of anaerobic ciliate-methanogen symbioses using 'omics, experiments, and/or microscopy. Still accepting inquiries, and I would love to hear from interested candidates.

Ever wonder how to count very rare and unculturable #microbes? Our new #preprint 🥳 shows that we can use #ddPCR to count as few as 12 #endosymbiont genomes in a 20 uL reaction!🤯 Yes, this is a teaser for things to come.😉 #Wolbachia #Drosophila #SymbioSky #Entomology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Reposting this again - We are looking for a postdoc to study the physiology, evolution, and cell biology of anaerobic ciliate-methanogen symbioses using 'omics, experiments, and/or microscopy. Still accepting inquiries, and I would love to hear from interested candidates.

🧪🦠 #SciJobs

Reposting this since suddenly everyone's on Bluesky now - We are looking for a postdoc to study the physiology, evolution, and cell biology of anaerobic ciliate-methanogen symbioses using 'omics, experiments, and/or microscopy. Please share widely and send inquiries by Dec.1!

Reposting this since suddenly everyone's on Bluesky now - We are looking for a postdoc to study the physiology, evolution, and cell biology of anaerobic ciliate-methanogen symbioses using 'omics, experiments, and/or microscopy. Please share widely and send inquiries by Dec.1!

Looking for a distraction today? Join my InterRidge talk at noon ET. ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We are searching for a postdoc to join our team, focused on anaerobic ciliate-methanogen symbiosis. Please share widely!

Excited to share our new paper showing the unfortunate spread of scuticociliatosis to Diadema setosum in the Sea of Oman. #urchin #USFCMS 🦑🧪 #protistsonsky @bellathebiologist.bsky.social @brayan-vilanova.bsky.social @drchriskellogg.bsky.social @ianhewson.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Happy to offer 2 PhD positions on sponge-microbe interactions (deadline Feb 16th, 2024) that are funded within the CRC 1182 Origin and Function of Metaorganisms. The link is now live: www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... www.metaorganism-research.com/about/

Excited to see this paper out! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

I'm looking to hire a postdoc in coral genomics - $66k/yr plus benefits - follow link for more info - review of apps begins Nov 10 usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...