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

#Wolbachia has puzzled scientists with its power to rewire insect reproduction. What if I tell you that we found one of the keys Wolbachia use to rewire its host AND a small molecule inhibitor uses this key to mimic what this microbe has mastered for millions of years. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Announcing such a major change to NSF GRFP this late in the cycle is incredibly cruel. 2nd yr students (mine included) have been working so hard on their proposals despite ongoing uncertainty. They are driven and passionate about being outstanding scientists and helping those coming up behind them.

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

Giving a webinar on #BlueSoup this Friday, in case anyone wants to pop in during their lunch!

Job opening - pls share: The Biology Department at Worcester State University has been approved to hire TWO new tenure-track faculty members to begin September 1, 2026! Here is a link to the job ad and application site: worcester.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta... .

Good news! KU's IRACDA program was reinstated! We are now taking applications for postdocs. Please spread the word. sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

The best part of getting a PhD alongside your sister is you get to send silly emails like this to each other

Did you miss the opportunity to submit an abstract to MMPC? We have extended the deadline to August 25! Please consider sharing your latest and greatest research! www.mmpconference2025.com/submit-an-ab...

I suppose this is a good time to let y'all know @jlewillett.bsky.social and I have a new preprint out! I had a lot of fun giving a talk about this work at #Phages25 🧬🦠

@ruthlessruth15.bsky.social: #Streptococcus mutants can kill #Enterococcus and other G(+)’s with mutanobactin, a cyclic lipopeptide that increases cell membrane permeability #phages2025 🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Parker Lab at UNC Biology is hiring a postdoc to work on insect–microbe interactions. Support available for multiple years from startup; we are open to a range of project ideas. Come join us to study symbiosis in a supportive, collaborative environment! unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/303...

Kenyon is hiring a TT microbiologist! Please share widely. I’m the search chair & am happy to answer any questions. careers.pageuppeople.com/695/cw/en-us...

One of the first #LuxSelfies (people illuminated by bacterial bioluminescence) I successfully photographed. #Micronaut and #DocMartian Ruth Isenberg...and I did not retouch her eyes. So: camera glitch or demonic entity? You decide. @ruthlessruth15.bsky.social

Okay but for real, what are people actually looking for when they ask you to identify your ethnicity/race? Whenever I can only select one (which is silly) I at least want to select the option that is closest to what the asker is looking for.

We found that many bacterial species use exogenous peptidoglycan fragments - released by lysis of neighboring cells - as a general danger signal, triggering a danger response that protects bacteria against many dangers: biofilm formation. Details here 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today I learned how to wrangle C. elegans! I can confirm that they do a lot of wiggling back and forth. But I love them ❤️🪱

🚨 Attention #teamtomo PhD students! 🚨 12-week paid internship opportunity at Genentech. Want to see how we use cryoET in pharma? And spend the summer 2025 in the Bay Area? Details and application link here: roche.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/ROG-A2O-GENE...

Hi BlueSky friends! Postdoc(s) available in my lab! Multiple projects on how bacterial genomic and functional diversity impacts microbial interactions & disease. 🦠🧫 See www.thelewinlab.com/join-us/post... for more information. Please RT & share. #Postdoc #Microbiology #OralMicro #VaginalMicro

I'm so happy that this paper is finally published! This one was a long time coming: 9 years, 3 pairs of hands, 270 strains, 93 plasmids, and a lot of hard work. It started as a side project that eventually led to my entire dissertation, and I'm glad it did.

Thank you Delta for canceling my flight 3 hours before take-off and having no alternatives. Guess I'm driving to Madion! See y'all at #Phages2024 😅

Thursday: another episode of #MattersMicrobial! Episode #48 is with the great Mark Mandel. He discusses the work he and his colleagues do with the beautiful squid-Vibrio sysmbiosis. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord! @microbe.tv @univpugetsound @asmicrobiology youtu.be/6V61a92LoGs?...

A Label-Free Approach for Relative Spatial Quantitation of c-di-GMP in Microbial Biofilms Anal Chem from Laura Sanchez with @ruthlessruth15.bsky.social @markjmandel.bsky.social, Fitnat Yildiz and more pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Coming to the Minnesota State Fair this year? Stop by the UMN Driven 2 Discover tent & help my lab collect Enterococcus isolates from the oral cavity! Very excited our proposal for this great outreach opportunity was just approved! 🧪🧫🧬👩‍🔬 Big thanks to @ruthlessruth15.bsky.social & Amanda Haeberle!

Surprised the lab with pre-lab meeting brunch 👩‍🍳

This is WILD. I love science.

Come be my colleague! UMN Micro & Immuno is hiring 2 faculty with broad interests in bacteriology and antimicrobial resistance/drug discovery. Great campus, awesome colleagues & collaborators, lovely cities, reasonable cost of living!

Microbiology Barbie 💖

Please RT, to support #BLACKandSTEM scientists. 🧪 One of the Fall #CrowdfundUCDavis projects is a fellowship for HBCU students to participate in mentored summer research @ucdavis and build a peer cohort through @CaroleHom's professional dev workshops. crowdfund.ucdavis.edu/project/38402

Ok @skypeascientist.bsky.social is doing alright. 1,130 classrooms signed up this fall. That's...ok! Buuuut we have so many scientists twiddling their thumbs waiting to get matched. SO! Do the thing humans are built to do. Connect with people! Tell an educator you know we exist! Tag 'em!

Measuring undergraduates’ understanding of the culture of scientific research as an outcome variable in research on CUREs journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs