🎙️ Job Announcement: Penn State is seeking an ASSISTANT PROFESSOR in MICROBIOLOGY (any subdiscipline) in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Learn more and Join the Microbiome Jubilee: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Postdoc position (please re-post) A funded postdoctoral position, will open in 2026 to study aspects of Neisseria gonorrhoeae pathogenesis, antigenic variation, genetics, or physiology. If interested in more information, please contact Hank Seifert [email protected] #MicroSky

Together with @soreklab.bsky.social, our labs discovered that the human cGAS-STING pathway evolved from ancient bacterial proteins in CBASS anti-phage defense www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Postdoctoral Position (Please re-post) A funded postdoctoral position, will open in 2026 to study aspects of Neisseria gonorrhoeae pathogenesis, antigenic variation, genetics, or physiology. If interested in more information, please contact Hank Seifert [email protected]

Our latest efforts to understand Enterococcal wound infection. In long-term collaboration with @gthibault.bsky.social, we discovered how E. faecalis makes extracellular ROS - via EET!⚡️Which in turn dysregulates host UPR to delay wound healing. Led by @aarontan.bsky.social - his videos below are 🤩!

I am really excited to see this article on basic experimental design principles published. Definitely will be mandatory reading for incoming graduate students in my lab. Maggie Wagner who led this article did an amazing job with the illustrations of basic principles www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to see that this fantastic work is in press now! Congrats to the Palmer lab and lead authors @xiaomeiren.bsky.social and @rmasonclark.bsky.social.

Please contact Congress ASAP to raise awareness of this accounting plan.

Cools story about bacterial crosstalk influencing disease relevant traits! 🧪

Northwestern Micro representing at the 2025GRC MAST conference in beautiful Newport. Great science, collegial people but there’s a cloud hanging over us all. ☁️

Here's our new broad review on the extended mobility of plasmids, about all mechanisms driving and limiting their transfer. From conjugation to conduction, phage-plasmids to hitchers, molecular to evolutionary dynamics, ecology to biotech. The state of affairs. 1/9 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Many exciting initiatives led by EIC @abaumler.bsky.social on including New Voices in Microbiology and special topics issues - check it out! journals.asm.org/journal/iai

New preprint! We characterise the small, regulatory RNA Arp which controls DNA uptake and twitching motilty in A. baumannii. Led by our Dr Fergal Hamrock @hamrockfergal.bsky.social and in collaboration with @westermannlab.bsky.social and Mike Gebhardt's lab!

New @nejm.org report shows a rapid rise in tetM-carrying Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains in the U.S. jumping from <10% in 2020 to >30% by early 2024. Why? Likely linked to our increased use of doxycycline both for STI treatment and DoxyPEP. #MedSky #IDSky www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Goodbye and good luck in graduate school, Kabita Kunwar!

🍂 👿 Brown University has not Received NIH Grant Payments Since April 🧪 "Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) also told NIH to not communicate with the schools about 'whether or why the funds are frozen' " fiercebiotech.com/

Important story about OMB's plans with regard to appropriated funds. This is a big deal, both practically and constitutionally. [Gift article] www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...

NEW at grant-watch.us: Emma Mairson and Marian Jarlenski report on funding freezes at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern, that have received zero payments for #NIH grants since the start of April: grant-watch.us/posts/trends...

This is more than just lost grant dollars...this is patients in experimental treatments for incurable cancers having to stop their course of treatment. It's patients with medical devices going unmonitored. It's entire lines of groundbreaking science coming to a hard stop. #DownWithDOGE

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Comprehensive reporting of issues with US science funding. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

#AcademicSky #EduSky

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

Nice final pub from Dr. Wendy Geslewitz to finish her dissertation work. CRISPRi-mediated repression of three cI repressors induces the expression of three related Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteriophages | Journal of Bacteriology journals.asm.org/eprint/6C2IM...

Congratulations to Eric Skaar and all of the new National Academy Members. www.nasonline.org/news/2025-na...

Check out the back to back cool papers from @jutraslab.bsky.social #MicroSky www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Taking a break from the news in Bsky. Happy to share amazing study by student Jiexi Chen on Vibrio vulnificus MARTX toxin engagement of N-glycans and receptor L1CAM. First study on this toxin binding to cell surfaces. #vibrio #microsky #toxins www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congratulations to Wendy Geslewitz for defending her PhD work.

In a new National Postdoctoral Association report, 43% of postdocs said Trump administration policies have threatened their positions, while more than one-third…

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/s... This article is not even on the first page - let’s try to give the @standupforscience.bsky.social rallies some visibility!

👀"For the past five weeks, employees at #NIH technology transfer offices have been barred from filing new patent applications and been restricted from licensing existing ones, according to emails obtained by STAT and interviews with current and former NIH employees." www.statnews.com/2025/03/07/t...

Coverage of the Stand up for Science protests is horrible. There are local news reports of individual gatherings but no national coverage I can find at NPR, WP, CNN.

Just a reminder that PMC is mirrored in Europe europepmc.org I honestly am having trouble believing it has come to this 🧪

Dive into our latest Microbe Matters 🦠 where Alison Criss talks about Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and if you find those micrographs super cool, you're not the only ones! 😊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper from Kathleen Nicholson and Shaohui Yin showing that natural products can inhabit piliation. doi.org/10.1128/mbio...

Please consider communicating with your representatives and senators. No NIH study sections or NIH funding councils have met because the meetings are not published in the Federal Register. This Federal Register block has the same effect on blocking NIH funding despite a court order.

ASM stands firm in its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, as such efforts are critical to advancing the microbial sciences for everyone. Read our statement: asm.org/Press-Releas...

The Senate HELP Committee has jurisdiction over NIH. GOP members of the committee represent AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC. Research universities and hospitals in those states need to be extra loud.

Erasure. At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social

Get in Dorks, we are going protesting. STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS. More information to come.

Et tu, HHMI? www.science.org/content/arti...

To my friends and colleagues at UAB, IU, UF, FSU, UL, WashU, OSU, CWRU, etc, etc. Call both your senators and your representative. They listen. Emphasize the direct economic impact of NIH research, and the indirect impacts on pharmaceutical/biotech. Underscore its relevance to national security.

American health workers looking to relocate? Doorway to practice medicine in Canada 🇨🇦 We have job openings nationwide. www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...

There are strong reasons that we avoided associating @prideinmicro.bsky.social as an integrated part of another institution. @asm.org's response does not do what it needs to to reassure underrepresented microbiologists that we won't be tossed aside when we aren't politically useful anymore

First, this is facism. It's not 'on the path' or 'a worrying precedent'. It's just facism. Second, you cannot do any health or social science research if you ban 'bias', ethnicity', 'race', 'socioeconomic', 'female' etc. That, of course, may be the plan. Fascist regimes don't like social science.

Please contact ASM and tell them you will resign your membership if they do not restore diversity statements. They are not a government organization and their removal is volunteers and not supporting their membership or mission.

@asm.org I love to publish in society journals that support the community. Removing IDEAA from the webpage is abandoning the community. I have mBio (4), mSystems (1), AEM (1) publications. I'll look to published in @microbiologysociety.org instead of ASM doesn't restore DEI pages.