Are you a recent PhD interested in a postdoc in Canada? Up to 20% of NSERC Postdoc Fellowships (70k/y for 2y) will be awarded to International applicants, who did their PhD outside of Canada. Deadline is 17 October. See: www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etu...

'A Bacterium in Bangladesh' is now available in multiple formats: www.lulu.com/search?contr... With Appendix: US30, EU29 Appendix-Free: US20, EU19 e-Appendix Only: few $ Posters (US site; EU site pending): sci-hustle.myspreadshop.com

Vibrio natriegens cultures are known to grow fast, but fermentative cultures also die fast, reaching extinction in < 12 h. A lack of acid tolerance mechanisms is likely the cause. Preprint now available. Congrats to grad student first-author Nick Haas! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I am recruiting a Ph.D. student in microbial ecology, evolution, and systems biology for fall 2026. Please share! Details: qevomicrolab.org/Documents/Gr... Apply by October 1 here: forms.gle/38pPS1Ky84HB...

An updated view of metabolic handoffs in microbiomes @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social from @karthik-a.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/micro...

www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm... IMPEACH AND REMOVE RFK JR. SIGN HERE. SHARE WITH EVERYONE YOU KNOW.

I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group. The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects. Please RT. Details 👇: shorturl.at/iiiOv

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...

New Independent Fellowship position in Microbiology to launch your lab in our department @johninnescentre.bsky.social (UK). We are conducting a broad search in the area of plant-associated microbial interactions. Message me if you have any questions. Apply here: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in...

🌟 Exciting news! We’re launching three fully-funded postdoc positions for "New Horizons for Synthetic Phages” Join us in tackling antimicrobial resistance with cutting-edge synthetic biology + AI bioinformatics. Based at Flinders Uni in vibrant Adelaide. 👇 Read on for details! #Phage

There is also a version for early career scientists who are seeking postdoc positions: go.bsky.app/8zZNEGV

This #EarthDay we are highlighting Rockefeller's Avi Flamholz, who is dedicated to leveraging microbial forces to combat climate change. Understanding how communities of microbes release and absorb carbon will help lead to more accurate climate models. www.rockefeller.edu/news/36919-n...

As Requested - A Starter Pack of PIs in Biology (or adjacent) fields who are recruiting POSTDOCS! Please don't hesitate to reach out if you wish to be added! go.bsky.app/4gbXXR3

✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨ Please spread the word! www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us #CSEE2025

So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...

This project always needed the right person: Congrats to Dr. @ofsheff.bsky.social for taking it on and seeing it through. Thanks also to our excellent collaborator and co-corresponding author Prof. Sima Setayeshgar.

Well this is f’in sad #ASMicrobe

‼️I'm looking for a postdoc‼️ Come join effort in using metagenomes to quantify microbial catabolic potential and carbon substrate availability at the ecosystem level. We seek to understand evolutionary forces shaping the carbon cycle. Part of ccomp-stc.org careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

Some advance copies of my next book "When Trees Testify" have gone out into the world. Release date: January 20, 2026 What a journey it has been thus far, and looking forward to the continuing journey ahead. #WhenTreesTestify #WhenTreesTestifyTheBook

This is a great opportunity to pursue a PhD in marine virology, at a wonderful location, and terrific supervisors. Not to mention that it includes opportunities to do part of the work at UBC.

Last February, I led a proposal submission that encompassed six months, hundreds of hours, four institutions, a massive team, and and 256 pages. NSF just informed us that the entire Biology Integration Institute program was archived and our proposal would not even be reviewed. With a form email.

Do ghosts exist? They do for cable bacteria: enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our paper in @science.org 👉🏽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... is accompanied by an especially thoughtful perspective by Carey Nadell and Chris Marx 👉🏽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Are you a recent PhD (or soon to be PhD) from outside Canada looking to do a postdoc in Quebec? Get in touch if you are excited about microbes, evolution, ecology, genomics (or all of the above!) and I'd be happy to help develop a project together! www.mcgill.ca/gps/funding/...

TODAY is the LAST DAY to comment on 'a plan to reclassify tens of thousands of government jobs as “policymaking positions” and therefore subject to presidential appointment and removal of NSF and NIH leaders who occupy these positions.'

Thrilled to share our collaborative work with the Kearns Lab at Indiana University. Dan Foust quantified patterning and mobility of flagella on the bacterial surface! Caroline Dunn et al. "Nascent flagellar basal bodies are immobilized by rod assembly in Bacillus subtilis" doi.org/10.1128/mbio...

Very cool new work by @megbehri.bsky.social and William F. McLaughlin: Starvation drives co-existence in cross-feeding bacterial populations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy to share a new publication on a collaboration with Xindan Wang and @fuquaclay.bsky.social labs. We identified and characterized naturally occurring Agrobacterium strains with fused chromosomes. Did mobile genetic elements play a role in fusion? journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

More horrifying news from @policyhound.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Biofilm architecture determines the dissemination of conjugative plasmids: We measured the spatiotemporal spread of plasmids in biofilms and found that plasmids only spread in some biofilm regions! Collab with lab of @sbigot.bsky.social & Christian Lesterlin www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Join the Blokesch lab (@EPFL) as a postdoc in Molecular Microbiology 🤩 Study Vibrio cholerae defense systems (phage/plasmid) in a dynamic, collaborative environment in Lausanne close to Lake Geneva in 🇨🇭! Please visit my lab's webpage for details about the position and how to formally apply.

Our preprint on evolved formate assimilation by recent-grad Dr. Brittany Mazny. How is the CO2 intermediate retained to prime the Calvin cycle? The answer includes pigment production as an overlooked CO2 concentrating mechanism. w @blasarre.bsky.social + A Govindaraju www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congrats to Dr. Brittany Mazny who successfully defended her PhD (last Friday)!

We have openings for motivated and curious individuals to join our team @arizonastateuni.bsky.social microbialeco.systems #MicroSky

Striking new study from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social's lab just out in @science.org on multicellular development induced by compression in Archaea: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congrats to Dr. Olivia Schakel @ofsheff.bsky.social on a successful PhD defense last Friday! Read about Olivia's work at: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Spread the word to support science communication through illustrated storytelling. And if you want your own copy of this microbial adventure comic, 5 days remain at 20% off. www.lulu.com/shop/james-m...

A Bacterium in Bangladesh is available today at Lulu.com! 20%-off launch sale until March 31. 42 pages of microbial adventure + 20-page appendix. Normal price: $30 USD, $43 CAD, $29 EUR, $46 AUD www.lulu.com/shop/james-m... Low-cost PDF available for educational use on request.

Please repost: Postdoc position in antibiotic discovery in a large multidisciplinary project combining high-throughput approaches, microscopy, AI, and hit-to-lead optimization at @umontreal.ca and @mila-quebec.bsky.social. Apply to [email protected]. See lnkd.in/dVVk4N3s. #microsky

Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.

Comic release date set for March 22, 2025! 42 pages of microbial adventure + 20-page appendix. Normal price: $30 USD, $43 CAD, $29 EUR, $46 AUD 20%-off launch sale March 22-31. Vendor site to follow. Low-cost PDF available for educational use on request. #NSF #scicomm

Here is UW - Madison's budget. Our <largest> funder is the federal government. 25%. It used to be the state. Either way, the university in its current form ceases to exist if these federal cuts really happen. But The. Public. Doesn't. Know. This. And our leaders are absent from the public debate.

Again, the head-down, quiet strategy is bound to fail. It always does. We know this in WI from the Scott Walker years. R1 presidents need to get over their collective action problems & get out, in DC, right now, & engage Congress & the public, before it's too late.

Proud of IU Micro for showing up in force at the Stand Up for Science rally yesterday (03/07) on a gray and chilly day in front of the statehouse in Indianapolis. Our pro-science, pro-research, pro-people, pro-fairness messsage was delivered loud and clear.

Standing up for science in Indy with colleagues at all levels. Many of us came to the US for its excellent reputation in the sciences. 25 years on it still stuns me that prominent US politicians undermine and villainize their scientists. The cost to the economy, health, and nat'l security is real.

Available soon. #scicomm #NSF

Thanks for the Signal Boost, Ákos! We’re so happy to see our review discussing Rho as an evolutionary capacitor out in Transcription! It’s an exciting follow up to our recent research article & opens up a discussion of where we expect evolutionary capacitors to exist b/w the genotype/phenotype gap.

Lots of us participating in Indianapolis tomorrow.

Nitrogenase loss-of-function mutants are more likely to arise if they can escape their competitive ancestor rather than reaping a fitness advantage from cross-fed ammonium. Proud of all the hard work from grad student @ofsheff.bsky.social. and other collaborators. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals. julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...