📢 We're hiring! The Department of Microbiology & Cell Biology at Montana State University is hiring an Assistant Professor of Microbiology. We welcome applicants working in microbial pathogenesis, immunology, genetics, microbial evolution, and related areas. Apply: jobs.montana.edu/postings/52009

This whole @natrevgenet.nature.com focus issue on evolutionary innovation is 🔥

1/3 🚨New Perspective🚨 (@genetics-gsa.bsky.social) "When evolvability meets constraint: reflections on empirical fitness landscapes after Weinreich et al. (2006)" 20 years after a seminal study, I discuss the forces that both constrain evolution + make it possible academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

Wow! This is fascinating. Also, what a can of worms this opens when it comes to antimicrobials…

A 'megacluster' of genes found in a common soil bacterium can produce a range of antibiotics that can act against multi-drug-resistant bacteria go.nature.com/4aRR6ii

These jellyfish larvae: * . * . * . * . * * . * . * * . *

Our latest issue is online. There's something to suit every taste.

Reminder — UW #Microbiology has an open search for an Assistant Professor, focusing on fundamental problems in #bacteriology! If you or someone you know would be suitable, here's the ad: apply.interfolio.com/185622

The deadline for abstracts to be considered for oral presentations is only 5 days away. Register soon! event.fourwaves.com/vibrio2026/r...

A great opportunity! www.linkedin.com/pulse/join-u...

Vibriophiles! Come join us in Berlin this September! Still time to register and submit your abstract

Vibrio2026 - Submit your abstract by June 15, and join us in Berlin for this wonderful conference in September!! event.fourwaves.com/vibrio2026

The current moment is one of the most consequential for science since World War II. Join us this afternoon. I have the privilege of moderating the panel that follows.

Thrilled to announce that the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington, School of Medicine is hiring at the Assistant Professor level (tenure-track)! The Pacific Northwest is an awesome place to live and do science 🧪🦠. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/185622 Applications due 8/1.

Congrats to all the PATH awardees and welcome to the family! What an amazing cohort! So happy to see @laurenpalmer.bsky.social among the awardees!

BWF Announces the 2026 Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease www.bwfund.org/news/bwf-ann... #bwfpath

Thinking of doing a PhD with a focus on infectious diseases? My lab is seeking enthusiastic students to investigate the emergence and transmission of pathogenic Vibrios. Join us at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, an extraordinary research center! www.stjude.org/education-tr...

Very proud of having contributed to this timely and actionable report by the by @asm.org, American Academy of Microbiology and American Geophysical Union. The report was released today. asm.org/reports/role...

Thank you @stjuderesearch.bsky.social for the wonderful highlight of our recent work in @natcomms.nature.com!

Vibriophiles! Achtung! Come to Berlin Sept 13-16 to learn the latest about your favorite bacteria. Great speakers, great venue, great topics, great location (home of Robert Koch). Oral abstract deadline June 15. Please share. @asm.org @rki-de.bsky.social #Vibrio26 #VIS

Delighted to see our work recently published in @natcomms.nature.com ! In our article we describe a small RNA with a unique modular structure that shapes the evolution of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in microbiology, immunology, and host-pathogen interactions? Come work with us! Our department at OHSU is opening a search for a new tenure-track faculty position. See the job advertisement for details. Please share within your networks! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

🚨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...

Biology is so fascinating!

Please repost! This comes from the good people at ChimeraX, who produce powerful up-to-date software to study protein (etc) structures, which are FREE to the community. 🙏 To stay viable and serve us, they need an experienced structural biologist to assume the leadership role on a funded project.

There's more - we also have a broad call for 6 Assistant Professors in @warwicklifesci.bsky.social www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Check out this squid-vibrio postdoc position at Penn State with my colleague Tim Miyashiro, especially if you have a background in proteomics/metabolomics. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

Micro-scale spatial metagenomics opens a new era in microbiome ecology @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Opinion from @mizrahilab.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/micro...

I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool

📣📣 BWF is hiring! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43... #ProjectManagement #ScienceEducation #DiversityInScience #GrantsManagement #NonprofitJobs #STEMCareers #BWFJobs #DurhamNC #HybridWork

Very provocative new paper in @natmicrobiol.nature.com As global temps rise, drought is becoming more frequent and prolonged across many regions Paper shows climate-driven drying of soils can fuel antimicrobial resistance at its ecological source, independent of clinical antibiotic use 🧵 (1 of 6)

You asked, we listened. Millions of AI-predicted protein complex structures are now available in the #AlphaFold Database. This spans homodimers from 20 of the most studied species, including humans, as well as the World Health Organization’s priority pathogens list. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t...

The 2026 St. Jude-PIDS Pediatric Infectious Diseases Research Conference marked 25 years of advancing pediatric infectious diseases research through collaboration, training and scientific discovery.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Mind blowing

New preprint on the limits of detecting higher-order interactions in microbial communities. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We find that the dominance of additive and pairwise interactions on community function may not reflect biological simplicity, but fundamental limits of statistical detection.

#OnThisDay in 1938, American evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis was born. Margulis is most known for developing and popularising the endosymbiotic theory, which explains how eukaryotic cells evolved organelles from simpler prokaryotic organisms that resided within another and became incorporated.

Faculty position in Plant Molecular Biology (Associate Professor or Tenure-Track Assistant Professor) at Aarhus University, Denmark mbg.au.dk/aktuelt/ledi...

Please join us for the Cold Spring Harbor Asia @cshlnews.bsky.social meeting on Bacterial Infection & Host Defense this May 11-15 in Suzhou, China! We have a fantastic lineup of speakers. Abstract deadline is March 6. Hope to see you there!

have you ever seen 𝘊𝘩𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘺𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 doing a perfect breast stroke? here you go... #ProtistsOnSky

Scientists have seen Asgard archaea crawling for the first time. When it comes to the origin of eukaryotes, this is like seeing a feathered dinosaur in the wild. (Video courtesy of Philipp Ralder)

Synthetically-primed evolution enables emergence of Pseudomonas putida strains able to grow on explosive residue 2,4 DNT as sole C/N source. A case of *molecular negotiation* between the implanted pathway & the host’s regulatory & physiological network 🤔 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New Perspective!🔥It's fascinating how scientists from different fields but interested in the same question [e.g. genotype-phenoytpe relationship] can have such different perspectives. Here we put in our 2 cents wrt genetic effects being context-dependent, and pheno variation being mostly polygenic

The American Academy of Microbiology proudly announces the election of 63 fellows to the Class of 2026. Over the past 50 years, the Academy has elected +2,700 distinguished scientists. This year, the new fellows hail from 14 countries. Read press release: asm.social/2OC

Happy to be back at Dartmouth College after 10 years! Humbled and honored to be giving the Keynote lecture named after my Postdoctoral mentor at the Microbiology Retreat. Full circle!

Skeleton shrimp: superior snackers This amphipod in the family Caprellidae, has feather-like setae line several of their 18 appendages for collecting food — amphipod translates to “feet on all sides” in Greek. #argentiniandeepseeps ~1200 meters

#ProtistsOnSky no 'swimming' by 𝘝𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘺𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢, definitively no 'staying still'. just a relaxed walk towards the lunch...

Fresh news on de novo genes! Happy to present our latest work published in Nature communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Keywords not in specific order: intergenic ORFs, de novo genes, GC content, foldability, genetic code, ancestral sequence reconstruction and more :)

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

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Can’t wait! 🦠 🧫 The speaker lineup is a sight to behold