🚨 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.

Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them www.nature.com/articles/d41...

With the article link: natsci.msu.edu/news/2025/20... (The tinyurl wasn't clickable for me.)

Moreno, @lionelguy.bsky.social et al. applied experimental evolution to identify genes conferring host specificity to L. pneumophila, highlighting the importance of mutations targeting the LerC protein and the LPS synthesis cluster. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf161 #evolbio #molbio #legionella

In the @newscientist.com article, Colossal CEO Ben Lamm said "...our goal is to inspire scientists, not tear scientists down". Yet this is what Colossal is doing when Ben tweets the following. Not very inspiring at all! Hint: the headline was tongue in cheek 😜 (theconversation.com/first-the-di...).

One of the most memorable talks at the 2011 Joint Evolution Meeting in Ottawa was Rosie Redfield describing her attempts to replicate this work, chronicled in her epic blog (which deserves to be preserved in the internet history books): rrresearch.fieldofscience.com/2010/12/arse...

Here's our new broad review on the extended mobility of plasmids, about all mechanisms driving and limiting their transfer. From conjugation to conduction, phage-plasmids to hitchers, molecular to evolutionary dynamics, ecology to biotech. The state of affairs. 1/9 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

👇 Contact me if you're interested!

Episode 100 of #MattersMicrobial! @drhhnz.bsky.social joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss phage therapy against honeybee disease and our Wu-Tang Clan names. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord! microbe.tv.. Thanks to Vincent Racaniello for making this podcast happen. youtu.be/tX-p4K_3vMs?...

Check out the latest episode of #mattersmicrobial podcast to learn all about the work we are doing with phages for honeybees! Great time chatting with Mark about NZ, bees, John Roth and how phages can protect honeybees against AFB! www.google.com/gasearch?q=m...

Still evolving after all these years. Thanks for making this an amazing meeting - outstanding science and incredible people. Awesome. @lcatherines.bsky.social @mikeblazanin.bsky.social @drhhnz.bsky.social and Christina Burch.

Congrats Dave!! I am really excited about putting this together and it is great to have you and Kate on board!

This week I am at the #GRC meeting for Microbial Population Biology. It is my favourite meeting. There is nothing like these small meetings for gathering a community together, and I learn a huge amount here every time. Here is to 40 more years of this incredible conference!

En route to the GRC for Microbial Population Biology, my conference home for 30🤯 years. In this spirit, gladly sharing this new paper led by Henriette Roder who visited us a few years back, featuring an innovative new biofilm passage + microscopy system www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy Fourth of July from Morgan Hill California!!

MM 100 pins 👇🔗👇🔗👇🔗 congratulations @markowenmartin.bsky.social give him a follow!

🦠🎉 Episode 100 is almost here! We're approaching a major milestone on Matters Microbial — 100 episodes!🤯 To celebrate, we’re giving away a limited number of MM100 enamel pins! Want one? Fill out the form below👇 Pins are free — while they last! @markowenmartin.bsky.social

Well gosh Ed, as it turns out, I also make paintings of viruses artologica.etsy.com

He has a RACING STRIPE I love him so much 🥹

Today I record my 100th episode of #MattersMicrobial. I never thought it possible. Thanks to @profvrr for the opportunity. @univpugetsound @ASMicrobiology @microbe.tv

Awesome #ASMicrobe meeting! I learned a lot and loved seeing old friends and meeting new people! There is nothing quite like a big meeting to generate random new ideas! Last session on symbiosis was one of my faves! @napaaqtuk.bsky.social @markjmandel.bsky.social @markowenmartin.bsky.social

@drhhnz.bsky.social has an interesting poster at #ASMicrobe about phages that could be used to control invasive honey bees in New Zealand. I've been following stories of bee control in New Zealand for a while, cool to see that her work may be useful in controlling them! Poster 1117

#ASMicrobe Attending Hot Topics in Microbial Diversity & Systematics. If you aren't into this, you should mute me for a few days. I live skeet the meetings I attend. I'll be done Monday by 12. In this session: Justus Wilhelm Fink, Peter Laurin, Samuel Degregori, Eric Olo Ndela, and Natalie Sarno

We absolutely ❤️❤️❤️ this design by @johnjames77.bsky.social! #ASMicrobe 🦠 🧪 #MicroSky bsky.app/profile/binn...

ASM’s Agar Art Exhibit is live tonight at E2Art Gallery in LA! Guests are exploring artwork created with living microbes by scientists and artists from around the world. Thanks for joining us to celebrate where art meets science. View the collection: asm.social/2tc

I am at ASM Microbe this year in Los Angeles. Let me know if you are around so we can say hi! #Microbe25 #microsky #microbiology #ASMMicrobe