The University of Minnesota just announced the "Meal-A-Day Program" which will provide one meal a day for SNAP benefit recipients while the SNAP program is limited or unavailable. This makes me very happy. A lot of students, faculty, and staff at the U need this, unfortunately.

Roseola – HHV-6/7 before it was cool...

Mark your calendars! #mmpc2026 The 2026 Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference will be take place September 25-27, 2026 at the University of Minnesota! We are excited to welcome keynote speaker Dr. Andy Camilli. Give us a follow and watch for important information here ➡️ mmpc2026.umn.edu

When you manage to sneak “6 7” into a conversation about Toll-like receptors 😎 My work here is done. #AcademicLife #ScienceHumor

We’re hiring! KUMC's Dept. of Microbiol., Mol. Genet. & Immunol. seeks a new Asst. Professor in Immunology. Be part of a vibrant department and benefit from association with the NCI-designated KU Cancer Center. Come join us in Kansas City! Apply here: kumc.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/kumc-j...

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Known to me as the «Barf and Polish» approach…

Yesterday, I noted that the missing funding for non-competitive renewals and new awards had decreased from June to July by approximately $1.99 B. It appears that ~$0.28 B is due to the use of multi-year funding. This still represents 651 grants and investigators that could have been funded. 8/9

My quote of the day This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. Winston Churchill

Fantastic preprint of Bert van den Berg, @sykhalid.bsky.social Syma Khalid, and colleagues on the molecular mechanism of how phages target LptD as host receptor👇🏼🧬🔐

Predicted structures from the AFDB are poor substitutes for experimental structures when training inverse folding NNs. Here, authors show that this is because they are "too perfect", and passing them through a custom-trained AFDB-to-PDB NN helps fix this threadreaderapp.com/thread/19384...

Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

Seriously cool paper that helps explain how the agent of Q fever is idiosyncratically able to thrive in an acidified phagolysosome by pumping out a host protease! 🧪🧫🦠 #MicroSky

"The peptidoglycan of Borrelia burgdorferi can persist in discrete tissues and cause systemic responses consistent with chronic illness" Yet another important publication from @jutraslab.bsky.social, @lochhead.bsky.social, and colleagues. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #MicroSky 🦠🧫🔬

The new Klarna approach to conservation...

Shout out to the home of my monthly column, @newscientist.com, which nailed their headline about the genetically modified GREY wolves www.newscientist.com/article/2475...

An email that is predatory, yet so fitting the times we live in...

"DC’s hottest Signal chat is Houthis PC Small Group. This place has everything: war plans, flame emojis, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic…" 😆

CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 to the newly minted Ph.D. Candidate Nick Freitas (not on 🦋), shown below as a #K-INBRE undergraduate summer student in 2019. Yes, we let him wear his K-State T-shirt. ONWARD through the inner membrane, the periplasm to the surface! #KUMedicalCenter #IGPBS 🦠🧫🧪

Just x'd x yesterday. Mieux vaut tard...

There are no illegal protests in a democracy. Fuck that guy.

phys.org/news/2025-02... Model organisms are just pioneer lab bench organisms.

Everyone who ever got funding through NIAID should be aware of this bill and start sending messages to their US legislators. The bill intends to dissolve NIAID. This is Project 2025 www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

In case you were "adhocking" in one of the postponed NIH study sections and were hoping to benefit from the 2-week late submission policy for reviewers for your own grant submission (grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...), here's the info received from DRR (Division of Receipt and Referral) by my SRO: 1/2

Congratulations to Dr. Bryan Murphy! Mark VI Ph.D. graduate from the Zückert Lab.

not a cell phone in sight just people living in the moment #MicroSky #IDSky

It's nice to see our work from 15 years ago making a difference in expanding genetic tools for another tick-borne pathogen! journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Can colleagues amplify this appeal to journals and journal editors to open accounts on Bluesky, please? @MicrobioSoc @TrendsMicrobiol @CellCellPress @JBacteriology @jbiolchem @Nature @ScienceMagazine @PNASNews @MolMicroEditors @NAR_Open @NatureMicrobiol @NatureComms @ASMicrobiology 🙏 🦠🧪🧫🧬

NOW OPEN (please RT): Asst. Prof. Position in Molecular Bacterial Pathogenesis or Cancer Immunology at KU Med. Ctr, KC. Details in ad below. Application deadline Oct. 1, 2024. Job link: kumc.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/kumc-j.... Position number JR004886. 🦠 #microbiology #immunology #academicjobs

The new Lyme and Tickborne Diseases Research and Education Institute at Johns Hopkins SPH Molecular Microbiology and Immunology is hiring at the assistant professor level. Application opens Oct 15. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/133621

Postdoc opportunity on Borrelia burgdorferi genetics at NIH, Bethesda 🧫🦠🧪

On my way to Brussels, Maastricht and Lisbon. Fitting for a first post on Bluesky…