nobody will remember: - your salary - how “busy you were” - how many hours you worked people will remember: - how many squid facts you knew - if you offered others squid facts - how you made people feel when you told them a squid fact

Congratulations to Dist. Professor Gavin Martin for services to education and mathematics!!! amp.rnz.co.nz/article/c279...

Christmas morning sunrise, and seagull posing, from Makorori Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand. Meri Kirihimete / Merry Christmas 🎄

I always try to uphold the annual New Zealand tradition of the Nativicado.

Appreciating the pōhutukawa this morning 🌺

Hendrickson lab and friends at the beach today for a BBQ. We celebrated our southern hemisphere holidays in the sun!

indeed, 𝘙𝘶𝘨𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘢 𝘰𝘳𝘺𝘻𝘢𝘦 looke like fusilli, which are notably better at holding on salsa di pomodoro than spaghetti... and as pasta addicts, we fell instantly in love with the shape of this newly described alphaproteo from the Rhizobiales 🤭 #MicroSky

It’s officially happening folks! The Microbial Population Biology Gordon Research Conference is back in Andover, New Hampshire starting June 27th of 2027! See you there!! @wcratcliff.bsky.social @ksbakes.bsky.social @surtlab.bsky.social #microsky #mevosky

{Mariah Carey voice}: 🎶All I want for Christmas... ...Is yooooooooooooouuuuuuuu... ...r review of this manuscript submission even though I know you are burnt out and ready for break 🎶

Happy to share our most recent work www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/.... Here we describe how efficient DNA replication in E. coli is dependent on an interaction between SSB-ssDNA and the DNA polymerase (Pol III). Thanks to all the co-authors for their hard work!

Up at sunrise and photographing McLeans Grassland Reserve for Wikipedia. One of the last surviving fragments of the original Canterbury Plains dryland ecosystem, it became a reserve in 2021 and is being restored with native plants, but the mayor thinks it should be covered in solar panels instead.

Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on. (Please repost to reach a broad audience.)

I am happy to share that we have been awarded a Marsden grant to study the molecular details of a fascinating hitchhiking element found in some of our P. larvae phages. Exciting work ahead! Thanks John :) www.canterbury.ac.nz/news-and-eve...

If you're looking for a faculty position at the intersection of ecology and computing (both broadly defined), please apply to this joint search between the CEE Department and the College of Computing at MIT: cee.mit.edu/people/share...

Pre-sunrise, Monday, 3 November, from Wainui Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand. Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️ (it’s hard to accurately capture the brilliance of the colors and the hues with a phone camera. But no saturation adjustments were made for this video)

Happy Halloween from Aotearoa, New Zealand!

Yesterday I helped a friend capture her swarm of bees after her hive split. The swarm had followed a new queen and settled on a tree and we collected the bees and put them in a new hive. Incredible to watch these cool creatures! #bees #swarm

Happy international phage week! #phages are the viruses of bacteria and they are a powerful potential weapon in our arsenal against pathogens, including antibiotic resistant superbugs! ageofthephage.com/world-phage-...

#microsky #mevosky The UNC Chapel Hill Biology Department is hiring 2 Teaching Assistant/Associate Professors with expertise from any area of biology. Individuals with expertise in microbiology are particularly encouraged to apply. Read more and apply at unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

I see #phages.

microbiologist here…. Screenshot checks out✅ Linked article actually pretty good (but bunch of arguable points like anything.)

I have been at the aquacultureNZ conference for the past two days talking to the industry about phages to keep animals and people safe. Today we visited an oyster flip farm! Amazing and gorgeous! #micro #phage #NZLabLife

Love this! So talented and creative. It’s the soundtrack to the scientific apocalypse we are living in! I follow @ellecordova.bsky.social here but this wasn’t posted. This was from TikTok! Enjoy!

Just heard a great talk from Pieter Pelser and Julie Barcelona about Rafflesia, the world's biggest flower. They've been researching them in the Philippines for 21 years, and species numbers have gone from 2 to about 14. They smell, "like a dead rat", to attract pollinating flies.

If you've been wondering what being a Wikimedian is all about, then this webinar is for you! Join Wiki experts Siobhan and Heidi for this introduction to contributing to three key Wikimedia platforms: Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata. Tuesday 14 Oct, 3pm NZST Register here ➡️ w.wiki/FWQM

NZ academics... please take a moment to read this. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🚨 Microbiologists! We are recruiting Assistant / Associate Professors in 3 collaborative areas of our U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine. 1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro 2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute 3) Center for Vaccine Research 🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...

Please repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist Applications due Dec 1 Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339 Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)

This morning's #SolarEclipse as seen from up on Muaūpoko Otago Peninsula, Dunedin NZ. The cloud prevented the full set of images & at regular intervals, but this is kinda fun. (click for full image) #Nikon #Dunedin #DunnerStunner

Tūmeke! #nzpol Thousands protest against pay equity changes www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

There’s a leak - and a conceptual artist - at the Max Planck 👌

This year I have the pleasure of watching stick insect hatch from their tiny eggs! These are native species Acanthoxyla inermis according to @morganemerien.bsky.social very cute! #NZLabLife #Insects en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acantho...

Excellent #LuxArt from my #Bio350 #Micronauts this semester! Attention University of Puget Sound. @univpugetsound @ASMicrobiology @microbe.tv

For much of this year depression has burgled almost everything about me. I’ve made this photo to show that I’m still here, even if I’m in tiny bits: old marbles, Roman beads, a tiny 17th C fox, 1930s toy flowers, a medieval key. Making this helped my brain, looking at the details might help yours…

It’s free and it’s here: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/tylenol-ha...

Reminder that we are recruiting an Assistant Professor Bacterial Genomics @imibirmingham.bsky.social. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a... Deadline 24 Sept.

We have a position for an Assist Prof in Microbial Genomics in our School of III. Hod Joan Geoghegan will be happy to field questions if you are interested. No specific area of microbial genomics preferred so please do consider it www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Congratulations to my awesome colleague Matt Stott, who has been awarded the University Research Medal; the Indiana Jones of New Zealand microbiology. Matthew self-describes as a research bower bird, flitting from one shiny idea to the next. Adventure microbiology at its finest!!

What a wonderful honeybee research symposium we have just had in Wellington! Really interesting talks from around the country and interested Apiarists asking great questions. So glad I came along this year! Many thanks to the organisers and sponsors! #NZLabLife #phages

We are hiring! The Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics is looking for faculty at the Assistant or Associate professor level (tenure track). Please consider joining our vibrant microbiology and immunology community at the University of Pittsburgh School of medicine

Are you an educator looking for ways to motivate your students? I really enjoyed this podcast about how our brains learn from @hiddenbrain.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/h...

1. The philosophy of science sometimes gets an unearned reputation as a purely academic exercise that offers little by way of concrete tools for advancing research. This is wrong. And today, as we grapple with how AI is changing the nature of scientific activity, it's desperately wrong.

New Zealand is looking forward to hosting the 20th ISME meeting for microbial Ecology! See you there? It’s going to be … extreme. 16-21 August 2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrCE...

Come be my colleague! We have three open positions at the Assistant/Associate Professor level for candidates in all areas of the biological sciences. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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

Today was such a delight at the University of Canterbury. Robot competitions in engineering, our beautiful creek on campus, and a lakeside pop-up fairground in Hagley park were highlights in Christchurch today!

Defending US democracy: the role of scientists @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.