We have an epic line-up for the SoCal Microbiome Symposium at CalTech on Sept 19th, Sarah Allard, Ariane Briegel, Nandita Garud, Sarakis Mazmanian, Joel Sachs, Julia Schartzman, Emily Stein and David Underhill. Thanks to hosts Margaret McFall Ngai and Ned Ruby!

The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601

POSTDOC🚨 With the excellent @anshika22.bsky.social moving to UCI 🥲Anna Zemke and I are again recruiting a postdoc on the HOST-PATHOGEN BIOLOGY of TRACHEOBRONCHITIS. This is a microbiome-device-host immunity problem of broad significance. Contact Dr. Zemke (zemkea at upmc dot edu) if interested! 👇🏻

Where does microbiome-based medicine stand today, and where is it headed? We explore five simulated clinical cases, featuring insights from @gilbertjacka.bsky.social and @katrinewhiteson.bsky.social loom.ly/h7uGlx0

Excited to be on the way to #ASMicrobe once more ! And if you want to know more about our work on CRISPRs, metagenomes, and phages, please come and chat and/or come see me tomorrow morning (9:15am in the EEB-IDS-202 session, which looks amazing overall !)

Welcome to all attending @asm.org #Microbe2025 and to all following here. Looking forward to a great meeting! Delighted that many labmates & colleagues are presenting, as follows, and to celebrate the publication of the Academy's Early Microbial Life report, which I co-chaired. Check these out!🧵

Do you have any “published” E. coli phage? and willing to share for academic research? most phages from yr 1980-2015 ish aren’t even available to researchers. they are either lost bcz of not sharing or archiving in registries.

I appreciate the offers from other scientists to help Harvard (students, labs, etc) through this attack, but what would be most helpful is for you to use your position to contact your elected representatives and make it clear this fight isn't just Harvard, it will affect you, and their districts too

Daniel and Kelly talk to @katrinewhiteson.bsky.social (a Whiteson Prize laureate) about the complex relationship between humans and microbes www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs. Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng Custom Lab Hardware Turn Key Genetic Design Please repost for reach 💚

Me and a few of my mates got together and wrote a review on the current state of clinical translation of microbiome research. A great summary of the state of the art for microbiome research. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our latest paper, in which @brinda.eu (along with @zaminiqbal.bsky.social and others) introduces phylogenetic compression for storage and search of enormous microbial genome libraries, was published today in @naturemethods.bsky.social: rdcu.be/eg4OA 1/

What a joy to read this beautifully written commentary on our community coalescence experiments! Thank you Alyssa Mitchell and @contaminatedsci.bsky.social for the insightful take and lovely graphical summary.

Embracing the systems complexity of microbial ecology and evolution: call for papers #mSystems Editorial by a group of editors, senior editors & editor-in-chief @leonorabit.bsky.social @gilbertjacka.bsky.social @ashley17061.bsky.social @markjmandel.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up. If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes. Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.

Are you a microbiologist looking to move to Alaska? There is an opening for a microbiologist in a clinical lab in Bethel. Only requires a BS. Please share with your networks, they really need to hire someone ASAP. phh.tbe.taleo.net/phh01/ats/ca... #AlaskaSky #Microjobs 🧪🦠🔬

Any of you have amazing science images? Entries are open for Nature’s 2025 #ScientistAtWork competition. Your science caught on camera could win a £500 cash prize (or local-currency equivalent) and the chance to see your images appear in print and online. Entries are due by March 28. 🧪🔬🧬 #SciComm

Made a feed for phage papers/discussions/friends! Please feel free to pin this feed to your bluesky profile and if you wish to add to the feed, simply add the #phage hashtag (NOT case sensitive) and the feed will aggregate the posts. See you there! Please repost🙏🏽

Help our friends at the NSF: Seeking scientists based in California who are willing to attest to direct harm caused by NSF firings. If you’re in the science world, please RT this to widen the net— a lawsuit on the unjust mass firings needs these comments. (comment briefly here and I’ll follow up!)

Happy International Women's Day I made a Women In Phage Research starter pack (+ me because I dont know how to remove me) Please share & let me know who to add #phagesky #microsky #microbiomesky 🧬🖥️🔬 go.bsky.app/BGugi2N

Daniel and Kelly chat with Dr. Katrine Whiteson about diabetes, the history of insulin production, and Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaroff. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

From the editors of @asm.org journals, a call to action! Below we discuss the U.S. scientific research enterprise and provide evidence and arguments we hope the ASM community can use to advocate for science. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

@asm.org @pnas.org @vscooper.micropopbio.org Do you have any suggestions for how scientists can help protect the integrity of science and what your position on RFK Jr as head of HHS is? Yes, I have already written my congressional reps. What are the organizations doing to protect the future?

“We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.”– Martin Luther King Jr. “Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.”- Mahatma Gandhi