All you want for christmas is.... transposon mutagenesis! Our new work at @cultivarium.bsky.social screening lots of transposon vectors in lots of bacteria, from @charliegilbert.bsky.social and team. Transposon and promoter modular parts available on Addgene (pooled library will be there soon too)

Thanks to @yairmau.com for the pics

Heading to #AGU25 tomorrow to talk about continuum models of SOC in session B32B Weds morning. Hope to see some friends there. agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...

This is pretty great.

The Anthropocene

Glad to see this beautful work from Daniel Amador-Noguez’s group is out now. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

On Thu, Nov 20 @ 11am ET, join us for a virtual science seminar with @rockefeller.edu's @flamholz.bsky.social: Statistical Approaches to Soil Carbon Dynamics. Free + open to all. #ecology Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/statistica...

Rockefeller / MSK theory lunch #3 — Chromatin as a memory machine with Dr Jeremy Owen

Every cubic meter of air contains anywhere from 10 to 10 million microbes, depending on the altitude, location, season and time of day. At an observatory Watop Puy de Dôme, a 4,800-foot inactive volcano in France, microbiologists sample the aeromicrobiome.

The vast majority of permafrost exists in the subsurface. What happens when this deep, ancient permafrost thaws? How fast does it take microbial communities to "wake up"? This project now published in JGR, with @isotopes.bsky.social , @kopflab.bsky.social , et al., aims to address that question!

Congrats to Jan, Sean and the whole Brady lab crew.

Applications are now open for September 2026 enrollment in The David Rockefeller Graduate Program in Bioscience. Join a vibrant community of scientists pushing the boundaries of discovery. Learn more here: https://www.rockefeller.edu/education-and-training/graduate-program-in-bioscience/

Pretty strong case for open review processes.

OIST is hiring Open-Rank Faculty!! This call is open to several fields, including Ecology, Environmental Science, and Earth Science🌏🌳🐦🐟🐝🦠 Come be part of a truly diverse and inspiring community!!

EMBL is back on hiring faculty! Check out the multiple open positions: 3 PIs- 2 in Heidelberg incl. our Molecular Systems Biology Unit, 1 in Grenoble 1 Head of Unit (Cell Biology & Biophysics, Heidelberg). Closing deadlines in Sep! +3 more positions to come out then, stay tuned... @embl.org

Please repost and amplify ! We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina! Check us out and come be our colleague! sc.edu/study/colleg... Deadline for applications is Oct 1 #AcademicJobs #EvoBio

🍄 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...

⁉️ Are you our next faculty member? The Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Rice University, seeks applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position. Learn more or apply by October 15th: eeps.rice.edu/eeps-job-opp...

Full-time, 9-month, Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Paleoclimatology position at the University of Hawaii. www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=4...

My MCDB dept is accepting applications for a faculty position at the Assistant Professor level! Applications Due by October 15, 2025 We welcome applications from all areas of physiology and neuroscience, spanning molecular, cellular, systems, and organismal levels. lsa.umich.edu/mcdb/news-ev...

Dartmouth is hiring! Come be my colleague. Biochemistry and Cell Biology is accepting applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Join us in New Hampshire for great science, nice people, and beautiful scenery ⛰️ apply.interfolio.com/171438

📢📢📢 The Yale Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences has opened a search for YCNCC Faculty and Asst/Assoc/Professor with a focus on marine and other geochemical CDR. 🌊🌊🌊 🪨🪨🪨 Details via the below link. Candidate review begins 10/1. Please share widely!! naturalcarboncapture.yale.edu/about/opport...

something I've learned starting a lab and advertising RA positions -- so many talented, motivated, educated young scientists out there looking for work

FYI -- www.rockefeller.edu/our-scientis...

Lab retreat time

Congrats to Albert (2nd pic) on a great poster culminating a summer of thoughtful work. Only 2 weeks left!

In my review of Spears and Geruso's book "After the Spike" for Jacobin, I attempt to confront what I consider the core of their argument, which is why declining global population would be undesirable, and I find their arguments unpersuasive. jacobin.com/2025/07/demo...

calibration of calorimetry to chemical oxidant demand seems pretty useful and significant www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congrats @kiseokmicro.bsky.social

Amazing opportunity

Join us! A few more days to register.

Seems to me the problem with AI + teaching is evaluation and not learning

@rockefelleruniv.bsky.social I heard a rumor that Gunther Blobel had some kumquat trees in RRB — does anyone know if they are still alive?

At least ranked choice makes it clear how ignorant we are about correlations

Today in NYC — a city with ~5mil registered voters — we’re making news out of polls with 800 respondents.

Apparently @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social has a greenhouse.

lab website is up www.rockefeller.edu/research/198...

of course my "responsible conduct of research" course starts with IP protection yet again (3rd institution). quite a moral vacuum we built in american science

🚨 Last call! #MPA2025 @univie.ac.at Abstract submission for the Metabolic Pathway Analysis Conference closes today! Don’t miss your chance to join a stellar lineup, including invited speakers @chmoei.bsky.social & @flamholz.bsky.social Submit now 👉 univie.eventsair.com/Presentation...

Dear synbio bsky -- this Earth Day paper drop from Sam Lovat et al. is worth your time.

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...

Join us online for our second seminar this Thursday 1pm AEST. Akshit Goyal @akshitg.bsky.social (ICTS) will present: "Predicting Ecosystem Responses to Perturbations via a Geometric Approach" Sign up to receive the zoom link forms.gle/XzypgbUp53fW... NB. Time changes in SE Aus from last month!

“So this is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses.“ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

Nice paper using modern Cyanobacteria + genetics to reason about the early earth and the evolution of light harvesting complexes (phycobillosomes) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Recent gains in global terrestrial carbon stocks are mostly stored in nonliving pools | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

US grass-fed beef is as carbon intensive as industrial beef, even after correcting for soil sequestration from rangeland grazing. Operational emissions of grass-fed beef are 3–43 times higher than pork, poultry, cheese, milk, or plants. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

congrats @yinonbaron.bsky.social this is a big one

Glad this paper is out. The review was quite an adventure.

Not that I disagree with any of these pts (would have to see data), but let's not lean so hard on a utilitarian justification for science. We produce minds that can think clearly to learn truths about the universe.