job alert: UC Davis is looking to hire a 9 month tenure-track Assistant Professor of Mycology in the Department of Plant Pathology. More details below, for full consideration submit by 1 December 2025 recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

Ever wondered how single-celled predators in soil boost plant health? 🧬 Protists don't just eat bacteria -they team up with them to shape the rhizosphere. 📈 Auxin isn't just a plant hormone -it's an interkingdom signal influencing microbial and protist life. 🌱 Read: academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Feature on our internship program #NIFAimpacts news.southernct.edu/2025/09/22/p...

🚨 1 Week Left to Apply! 🚨 The Krieg Lab is hiring a Research Professional in Plant Ecophysiology & Evolution. 📅 Deadline: October 1, 2025 📧 Sending materials (Cover Letter, CV, References) to: kriegc[at]wfu.edu

TAL effectors in Legionella! journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

🎙️ JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: @ciddpsu.bsky.social Ctr for Infectious Disease Dynamics at PSU is searching for a Full or Associate Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling. This is a unique, cross-university search for someone to become a leader in our community! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

CAES is so proud to have two FFAR New Innovators in two years! Congratulations Raquel Rocha!

🍄 UGA Plant Pathology is hiring TT faculty in Mycology/Fungal Biology/Fungal Ecology at the Asst/Assc level! Please pass along this opportunity to anyone you know who may be interested. I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions. 🍄 www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/445...

Please share — Michigan State Plant Biology is searching for an Herbarium Director! Tenure stream, open rank faculty position balancing research, teaching, service, and admin responsibilities. Join us! Reach out to me or @emjo.bsky.social with questions! plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

The Boar's Head in hand bear I, bedecked with counts of E. coli...

Job alert! The Biodiversity and People research group at iDiv and @ufz.de is looking to hire a scientist working on biodiversity, citizen science and school gardens (f/m/n). 📌65% position 📌Limited contract (3 years) 📌Salary up to E13 (TVöD) 🗓️Apply by 1 Sep 2025 www.idiv.de/career/job-o...

An open W2 Professorship position in Molecular Crop Improvement at my Institute @uni-muenster.de! Excellent scientific environment and great conditions for Plant Research 🔬🍅🫛🥒🌽🍓🍎🥔- now open for applications !

Check out our recent mSphere Editor's Pick, in which Stephen Taerum demonstrates the substantial overlap in microbiomes between soil protists and the rhizosphere. Hopefully a step toward understanding anti-predation and survival in beneficial microbes! journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social

ASHS Career Center Endowed Chair of Tree Fruit Soil and Rhizosphere Science, WSU ow.ly/EpNj50WuJbm Assistant/Associate Professor, Plant Science R-1574, Louisiana Tech ow.ly/HlCG50WuJbe ashscareers.careerwebsite.com/jobs/ #plantscijobs

Get inspired during the #PODtalks at #PlantHealth2025! Listen to four outstanding leaders share their unique paths and the unexpected moments that shaped their careers. Explore the full program and register today: bit.ly/44yhgmk #plantpathology

Frank was right!

We are on the lookout for postdocs for two different projects at the intersection of ecology, evolution, and the human microbiome. See thread for more information and reach out!

Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt

Exciting opportunities to establish your group at JIC! Come join our vibrant research community in Norwich! 🔹 Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions (path to tenure-track) tinyurl.com/yk576jms 🔹 GL in Discovery Plant Sciences (tenure-track or tenured) tinyurl.com/mwbs4dhn

Congratulations to Dr. Ravi Patel for winning an Outstanding Poster Award at the Gordon Research Conference in Applied and Environmental Microbiology. We are so proud!

Excited to share our latest collaborative work with @entomososwin.bsky.social @brackneylab.bsky.social looking at the role of mosquito immune cells in virus infection. It turns out that these cells help disseminate virus infection, increasing the potential for virus transmission rdcu.be/euiZt

Thank you to the scientists at Enko Chem for hosting Plant Health Fellows for a tour of your campus!

We're hiring! Join the Plant Pathology journal as a freelance Technical Reader. Part-time, flexible hours Apply by 22nd June to [email protected] www.bspp.org.uk/join-the-pla... #EditingJobs #PlantPathology #AcademicPublishing #Freelance

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

For years researchers observed that a mysterious uncultured group of soil protists from the family Allapsidae is enriched on roots of monocots and dicots around the world. Gabrielle Corso isolated one of these organisms, and describes its unusual life cycle here: journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

For those of you in chronic disease online communities, this is a great resource to get the word out!

Inspiring interview with Kati Karikó on SciFri last week. "I remember when I was demoted. I was 40 years old. And I loudly say, the bench is here... I still can do it. I felt still empowered by that fact that I am here." As long as we have hands and a bench, there is still work to be done.

Oh, that's a relief! Let's pack it up guys, we can all go home.

@ceitec.eu MU has an opening for a junior research group leader. We would love to get a new PI in our plant research department! www.ceitec.eu/junior-resea... #plantsciencejobs

Dear All, We're trying again to hire our future #Professor in #Plant #Chemical #Ecology. Please share this post, and if you apply, please do follow the guidelines and translate the documents into the right language. #Scijobs #plantscience lbvpam.univ-st-etienne.fr/en/join-us/c...

Samuel Martins at UFL is hiring postdoc to work w/ our multidisciplinary team of scientists across the U.S. to investigate the impact of organic management on micropredator diversity, pathogen survival, & soil & plant health. It's a fun group! Apply here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

Join me April 28th at the West Lafayette Lilly Nature Center at 7PM for a talk with the Indiana Native Plant Society West Central Chapter on the history of the #Purdue #Herbaria, Purdue Botany and Plant Pathology, and Purdue Agriculture. indiananativeplants.org/2025/west-ce...

🚨 Project Highlight 🚨 Just one week left to apply for the BSPP Undergraduate Vacation Bursary scheme! 📅 Apply by April 14th to be considered for a fully-funded summer research opportunity 🎓✨ 🔗https://buff.ly/ZDo4pfK

Tenure-track Faculty position just opened up in my department! If you want to be part of a dynamic group who is excited about science, apply. For more details, visit www.usherbrooke.ca/emplois/offr... Please share in your networks! #microsky

@entsocamerica.bsky.social is offering membership fee waivers for those affected by recent firings across the United States. They are also running a donation fund to help cover these fees. If you want to support your fellow #entomology community, donate! If you need help with a fee waiver, apply! 🧪🌿

Our department (@EEBUofT) is searching for a Post-Doc! Post-docs funded by this fellowship are independently supported, with research funds available. We invite applications from innovative, collaborative candidates. See the job ad here: eeb.utoronto.ca/wp-content/u...

🌱Announcing 3 More Keynote Speakers for #PMS2025! 🌱 🔬 Manuel Delgado Baquerizo – IRNAS-CSIC 🌱 María J. Pozo – Estación Experimental del Zaidín (CSIC) 🌍 Lucas William Mendes – University of Sao Paulo Join us at #PMS2025 in Malaga in November. Register now: 6thplantmicrobiomesymposium2025.com

#OceanJobs 🚨🚨Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Maine is hiring a Director of Communications! #SciComm bigelow.freshteam.com/jobs/eAFZgIO...

Any senior scientist out there working on environmental topics and looking for a change of scenery? (and willing to learn French)

Scientists- are you already changing your proposals to not include censored words? Are you getting rejected if you include them? My colleagues' proposals concern microbial diversity, transgenic plants, sexing insects, statistical bias, etc. You can't discuss biology without these words.

Does anyone else feel increasingly like we're stuck in the Twilight Zone episode "It's a good life"?

Exploration of hot spring microbes led to PCR. Curiosity about Gila monsters enabled the development of Ozempic. What is your favorite story of a major advance or profitable product enabled by basic science and exploration?

APS Bacteriology Advancements Webinar on March 10: "Phytoplasma-Associated Diseases: The Hidden Threat in the World of Agriculture" by Prof. Assunta Bertaccini Register here: bit.ly/3PSIFZe Moderator: Mustafa Jibrin #PlantScience #PlantPathology #PlantDisease #SciComm

In 2008, a certain VP candidate said that USDA fruit fly research was a wasteful "pet project" that had "nothing to do with the public good". I'm proud that my colleague has found 3 new SWD attractants & 2 repellents that can be used in traps and sprays to save berry and grape crops from this fly!

Hello Bluesky! Here’s my first post: My lab in NUS (Singapore) has one postdoc (research fellow) position open. Candidate will conduct mechanobiology study on duckweed (Wolffia sp.), in close association with Prakash Kumar’s lab. More info and application link: careers.nus.edu.sg/job/Research...

3400 from the USFS

CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

I mis-added earlier, here's corrected post: How many scientists and interior workers were fired today? Between news article estimates and social posts, I count over 10k: 5200 @ NIH 1200-2000 @ DOE 800 @ USDA 2,300 @ Dept. of Interior 1,300 @ CDC (I haven't heard any FDA, EPA, or NASA numbers)