Absolutely!

Baltimore Art. Alive, thriving, and waiting for you. baltimorebeat.com/whats-poppin...

WSJ op-ed from leaders at Johns Hopkins and the University of Kansas about slow grant-making. [Gift Link] www.wsj.com/opinion/get-...

NIGMS May council meeting is this morning. Discussion topics and link to watch the open session can be found here. www.nigms.nih.gov/about/counci...

for those of you who've been following the Wisconsin story of a Watertown school board censoring a school band's instrumental tribute to Marsha P. Johnson, the students are now playing it at multiple sold-out events around WI, one conducted by the piece's literal composer:

Many apply to grant writing: Writing tip #12: Economy of expression. Strunk and White said, “Omit needless words.” Blaise Pascal wrote to a friend: “I’m sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn’t have time to write a short one.” Use 3 words rather than 4; be ruthless. Shorter = more powerful.

Today is World Bee Day! The 12yo prefers specificity so he’s humouring me by choosing one of my favourites and declaring it Eastern Snail Shell Mason Bee Awareness Day! Osmia conjuncta, an adorable little blue bee, native to eastern N America makes its nest in empty snail shells!

Hey @jhu.edu I heard you like #sciart

just a heads up! it looks like the guidance from these FAQs supersedes the NOFO: "The only hyperlinks currently allowable are the ones generate by SciENcv for the ORCID iD and the product citations of the Biographical Sketch Common Form." I am removing the link to MyBibliography from my biosketch

Baltimore! Artscape is this weekend and I will be there in the Artist Market #sciart

We have an open-rank professorship position open @unileiden.bsky.social Institute of Biology: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan... welcome to apply! due: 7 June

“Instead of student loan forgiveness we’re doing a coup forgiveness program”

I need your help. When I'm making projects happen, I don't have as much time to remind people to buy merch/donate to Skype a Scientist. SO our balance sheet is...oh dear 😅 If you're able, becoming a monthly donor, even a couple bucks a month, would be really amazing. givebutter.com/SupportSAS26

Some of you have internalized austerity. Free yourselves.

Well. This is startling. “At least one of the NIH’s 27 institutes and centres has lost so many GMSs that it has asked early-career researchers, including postdocs and graduate students, who work in the NIH’s own labs to consider working temporarily as a GMS on a volunteer basis”

New preprint from our collaboration with John Brooks’ lab: Viral loads can vary by more than 100-fold depending on the time of day mice are infected. And we figured out why. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I feel like I can hear it saying “wheeee!”

📢 JOB KLAXON! The Yale Peabody Museum is hiring a permanent, full-time Museum Assistant in #Entomology 🦋 Full details & how to apply: sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear... #EntoJobs #InsectCollections

Ending the week with a moment of gratitude that I could cut this bouquet from my garden for us all to enjoy with dinner tonight.

Stark, dark, but that’s it. I would say support your friends and colleagues and preserve what we can

Excited to announce our new journal from @isme-microbes.bsky.social ISME Host Microbe is live and now accepting submissions. Look forward to receiving your papers! #Microsky 🧫 🦠

Cool, so NSF is now going to be used to essentially launder money to tech bros because universities are just too cumbersome and disciplinary oversight and regulations and accountability are all just too stifling for innovation. $1.5B for “X-Labs.”

NEW: A serious staffing shortage — of the Trump admin's own making — is delaying the agency's ability to send billions to universities around the country, leaving labs reeling in the meantime. “I thought we were at rock bottom”, a senior NIH official said. “We are below rock bottom now.”

This tracks….

We also have an opening for a #researchtech job in #spacebiology #microbiome research using #Celegans. Help us analyze our recent #CBIOMES spaceflight experiment to the ISS! DETAILS: jobrxiv.org/job/baylor-c... #AcademicJobs #microSky #genetics #NASA #wormsInSpace 🧪 🧬 🦠 🪱 🚀

It’s gardening season! Do your friends and neighbors know about the positive ecological impact we can have by planting native plants?? Help get the conversation started with our Native Plants t shirt! (Modeled by our buddy @wowthanks.bsky.social) Get one at squidfacts.net

Agreed- it is super soft and fun.

The tech industry is gutting our public science infrastructure and hijacking the NSF to be their own R&D department. Not paying taxes is apparently not enough; they need both hands in our pockets. (There’s nothing wrong with funding those fields; it’s funding them only at the expense of others).

The entrepreneurial postdocs funds early career students “so they can participate in innovative entrepreneurial activities at some of the nation’s most promising startup companies.” You know, the ones with millions in venture capital.

On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people. www.nsf.gov/funding/post...

POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY!!! The Rutgers IRACDA program is phenomenal: 70% of postdoctoral fellows land faculty positions. Martha Soto (LinkedIn below) is the amazing director and leader of this program. Please apply or reach out if you have questions. www.linkedin.com/posts/martha...

Please share widely. The new (simpler) MIRA R35 for Early Stage Investigators (ESI) NOFO is published. First due date is 10/2/2026. files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...

The rule appears to be that redistricting is always legal when it benefits Republicans and never legal when it benefits Democrats.

Join our institute in Leiden as Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Plant Molecular (and Cell) Biology at Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) @leidenscience.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social Applying is possible until: 7 juni 2026 careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan...

"With limits on its ability to conduct oversight, the [NSB] turned to its responsibility of advising Congress on science policy" but before they could begin advising Congress on FY27 funding levels for the NSF "they were dismissed." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u...

So…who? How?

Opening for a #postdocjob in modeling of #genetics of host- #microbiome interactions in #Celegans at @bcmhouston.bsky.social — take a look here: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44... Questions or apply via cover letter, CV, and references to bucks [at] bcm.edu . Hiring ASAP! #microsky #jobs 🦠🪱🧬

Kash lab at UNC is hiring a new technician (our current two are off to grad school!!) posting will go live soon, email me CV and names of references if interested.

I feel a lot of David Attenborough's hard work with nature preservation is to cover for how much of a mess his brother made of that dinosaur theme park.

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

Hi folks! @bu-biology.bsky.social is hiring two (!!) lecturers in Cell and Molecular Biology. It is a sweet gig in an awesome department. Come join us! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32034

They hacked Canvas during finals week. This is why the faculty need a secure ballroom.

The Democrats had a 50 state strategy under Howard Dean until 2009 when new leadership came in. I think about this a lot. State houses are where voting rights are made or broken.

I can’t emphasize enough that swapping back to on-paper exams and daily quizzes (for, so far, a single upper-division lab-lecture course with 23 enrolled) has if anything turned out to be less work than running them all through Canvas

I’m happy to write that our paper on complex anionic/zwitterionic glycans (180 annotated structures) from #Drosophila (GlcA, PE and/or sulphate modifications) will be coming out as part of the special Schachter/glycosyltransferase issue of BBA!

Dr. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social is GOAT at global comm AND works her ass off on local, like offering native seed packets + murals in Philly. So passionate, and has to fundraise all year long. Help @skypeascientist.bsky.social out! Buy her a coffee! givebutter.com/SupportSAS26

🌱 We’re hiring in Plant Biology at Penn State! The Department of Biology at Penn State University Park is searching for a tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor in any area of plant biology.

🚨Faculty job search: University of Illinois Chicago Micro & Immuno department is hiring! Open rank and open area within host-pathogen interactions. Apply by May 31 to join us in UI College of Medicine in the heart of Chicago! uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

As one of the postdocs in my lab will be leaving to take a faculty position soon I will likely be placing a new ad in the coming week for someone with experience mapping C. elegans mutants from screens or doing bacterial genetics. If anyone knows/has candidates #Celegans #worms #bacteria #genetics