Hey @rbreich.bsky.social it’s not flying under our radar! This impacts ALL DISCRETIONARY FED FUNDS…by the @standupforscience.net team’s estimate: $1.5 TRILLION annually. That’s a big ass slush fund. Folks can take action here: fight2win.standupforscience.net

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Jane Coffin Childs Fellow Dr. Marlis Denk-Lobnig studies bacterial neighborhoods. Bacteria usually live in tight communities, where they interact all the time. These communities are diverse, comprised of antibiotic resistant and antibiotic sensitive community members. @marlis.bsky.social 1/

Several people have asked for possible content and structure for comments regarding the proposed OMB regulations. With some suggestions from others, I have posted on example (as a Word document) for downloading). jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... I hope this is helpful.

We made it to the front of @natmicrobiol.nature.com 🤯 In this case, judging by the cover is encouraged Spatial transcriptomics maps host–gut microbiome biogeography at high resolution

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Interested in teaching your kids or students about bacteria and how they interact to collectively respond to antibiotics? The @sj4k.bsky.social worked with us to adapt our recent paper into an article to help teens think about social interactions in bacterial communities:

Excited to share our new preprint! In honor of May the 4th: a story about bacterial Clone Wars in space! Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our last session of research talks by 3rd year Fellows is focused on microbiology and immunology. Marlis Denk-Lobnig discussed her research on microbial social relationships. Microscopy images from Denk-Lobnig and Wood, 2025 @pnas.org 1/3

Our work with Lena Takayasu and @dwmckellar.bsky.social in Iwijn De Vlaminck's lab is now out in @natmicrobiol.nature.com ! 🎉 Spatial transcriptomics maps host–gut microbiome biogeography at high resolution rdcu.be/e7i7o

Science + Art appreciators, we need your help! We're working with the E. Kensington Neighbors Assn & H.A Brown school to create a community-driven mural on the biodiversity of our Philly neighborhood! We need your help to fund this project givebutter.com/KenzoMural Here's why this is important ⬇️

A quorum-sensing molecule from Pseudomonas aeruginosa induces defensive multicellularity in a coinfecting pathogen -in PNAS from @anukharelab.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

No journal will take this commentary I wrote In October so fuck it, here it is on medium. 🍉

Interested in cell adhesion, evolution of multicellularity, or developing tools for emerging marine models? My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open: 🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!

With ICE activity ramping up across the country, it is helpful to include as much info as possible when sharing within your community. S.A.L.U.T.E. ​Size/Strength ​Actions/Activity ​Location & Direction ​Uniform/Clothes ​Time & Date of Observation ​Equipment & Weapons #SALUTEICE 🖕

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Please please please, if you are able, consider supporting Flybase fiscally. They need our help! I donated this evening. They are in danger of closing and any amount will help. We cannot allow this critical pillar of science to collapse!

We need about 300 more scientists before we let teachers loose on the database! Tell your colleagues, we need ya!

#NearbyNature2025 June drawing, because I almost tripped over a skunk last night in my neighborhood🦨

🧪 Attention those with terminated grants, including for NSF, NASA, EPA, NIH, etc: Let Congress know about the impact of terminations via this form: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela... Only Dem staff on the House Science Committee will have access (unless if you explicitly state otherwise).

#NearbyNature2025 tried to draw a silly (creepy?) firefly for May

🚨 Action alert: Two days left!! Help protect NSF/NIH from political interference. 👎 A new rule (Sched. F) would allow for replacing career program officers with political appointees. ➡️ Action: Object here by THIS FRIDAY. Comments can be brief and/or anonymous. Helps future litigation.

Analysis of gene expression within individual cells reveals spatiotemporal patterns underlying Vibrio cholerae biofilm development @plosbiology.org from Bonnie Bassler journals.plos.org/Plosbiology/...

As a part of the @standupforscience.bsky.social Summer Fight for Science campaign, we want to host 1000 teach ins across the US between now and Sept 30th. Yeah, it’s a big, hairy, audacious goal. I know. Here is a running list of ideas, please scoop and do! 🧵🪡

As our intestinal microbiomes chew away at our lunch, Dr. Marlis Denk-Lobnig @marlis.bsky.social from Dr. Kevin Wood's lab at the University of Michigan tells us about bacterial communities and their social lives. These relationships are quite important in acquired drug resistance, for example. 26/

#NearbyNature a chunky groundhog for April

This is why I think it's so important and powerful for faculty and staff and leaders of colleges and universities to stand up for our work, our values, our students, and ultimately our democracy. Faculty can do a lot: 1) write a campus letter to your leaders bit.ly/CampusLetters2025 2) (cont.)

Time to throw up a bat signal for a specific skillset for @skypeascientist.bsky.social We have a classroom that is looking for a scientist who can do a session with them in ASL. Do we know any scientists who would be willing to do a Q&A with a deaf classroom in ASL?

Great news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost. www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...

Another day, more news of colleagues whose research grants have been terminated. I work in public health; these aren't studies that can just be paused and resumed where they were. These things affect people's lives and well-being, in a fairly proximal way.

Mentoring REU students has been one of my favorite aspects of being a postdoc. This is so sad and unjustifiable.

The next deadline for the JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants is Friday 7 March 2025. These grants are open to ECRs that otherwise wouldn’t have sufficient funding to attend a microscopy or bioimage analysis course to support their research in cell biology. www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...

Exciting to see this story out! We explored how cooperation (antibiotic-resistant bacteria protect their antibiotic-sensitive neighbors by degrading the antibiotic) drives spatial organization of E. faecalis colonies (a bacterium that causes many antibiotic-resistant, hospital-acquired infections)

Department of Education FAFSA changes are open for public comment. The changes include requiring trans students to misgender themselves and removes the nonbinary option on forms. Note: comment period is 60 days, and comments are publicly visible. Form here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

My new one is up. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

A tufted titmouse for February's #NearbyNature2025, because I recently learned about them when I saw one in my backyard in Michigan.

A new issue of Cell is out, featuring the 4 winners of the Rising Black Scientists Awards. Their essays bring hope, inspiration and reinforce the importance of equity in science. Do take a moment to check them out: www.cell.com/cell/current @cp-cell.bsky.social

Other articles that are now deleted: Black Women in Microbiology: web.archive.org/web/20241210... Ruth E. Moore: web.archive.org/web/20240719... Women in the History of Antimicrobial Development (Jane Hinton, Ruth E. Moore, Mattiedna Johnson): web.archive.org/web/20250114...

Reminder! Science IRL mini-grant applications are due February 14! These grants are to support IN PERSON science communication projects in the US that reach science disinterested people, and ideally encourage concrete action in the audience. Apply here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

NSF Career Award supported invention of Foldscope - now reached 3 million kids globally with ~1 million kids in US - bringing joy of science to grassroots & communities with very little support. It’s brought communities working together on global problems. www.goldengooseaward.org/01awardees/f...

I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪 My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...

Evolution of antibiotic resistance #AMR can lead to collateral resistance/sensitivity to other drugs; @jeffmaltas.bsky.social &co show that these effects can fluctuate over time, needing precise timing & stochastic control models to optimize treatment strategies 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3C2Ao1y

See the work of Marlis presented today in bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Published version coming soon... #MultiBac2025

Less than 2 months left to submit applications for this round of Jane Coffin Childs postdoctoral fellowships. Please share with outstanding postdocs and soon-to-be postdocs in your network! jccfund.org/eligibilty-c... 1/

Just made the forms for Skype a Scientist enrollment for 2025. Wanna get added to our scientist volunteer database? Fill out this form! forms.gle/6c8F9uVEDzvB...

Happy Giving Tuesday! ⭐ Join us in supporting @blackinmicro’s mission by donating here: blackinmicrobiology..... Your generosity makes a difference! Thank you!

Bacterial colony or cake (pie crust)?

I’m delighted to share that I will be starting my lab @univmiami.bsky.social in Spring 2025! We will study cellular and developmental biology in non-bilaterian animals – cnidarians, ctenophores, placozoans, and sponges – to explore early animal evolution.