Extraordinary! Check out the video www.flotrack.org/articles/160...

Josh Kerr has broken the world record in the mile that had stood for 27 years. The Scot ran 3min 42.66sec in front of 60,000 at London Stadium

Visualized.

In addition to disrupting the lives and dreams of great students from around the world, this will degrade the economic, technological, and national security of the United States.

11 in a row!

AllTheBacteria: a community resource empowers biology and discovers novel peptide antibiotics.

Polymyxin B functions as a TLR2 agonist, suggesting that polymyxin B preparations can induce macrophage activation under conditions in which IFN-γ and LPS are present academic.oup.com/jimmunol/art... @jimmunol.bsky.social

All of Pittsburgh smells like Scout camp. Flashback to Camp Liberty summer camp 2016-20 #iykyk

Bacteriophage continue to have so much to teach us. It's in our interest to understand how they work and impact human & environmental health. New joint work led by @mariandm.bsky.social & @rantahan.bsky.social inferring single-cell latent period & burst size heterogeneity from population dynamics.

#mSphere started a new article collections titled mSphere Legacy. These articles will be authored by our senior colleagues in the microbial sciences community to not only reflect back on their own careers and journey's but how they see the future unfolding. @asm.org journals.asm.org/eprint/PZEHP...

I just came across this astonishing 20-year-old work. By transplanting embryonic mouse gum-forming tissue to the beak-forming region of chick embryos, the researchers showed that the chick epithelium could be induced to make teeth. But the best part is... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Highly recommend this interview of George O'Toole @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social by Paul Rainey @paulbrainey.bsky.social about society journals, publishing, the value of summer courses, PhD training, promotions, etc. Lots of valuable wisdom here! open.substack.com/pub/academic...

Cannot be more excited about the lineup for the inaugural Function of Evolving Systems GRC conference I am co-organizing with the amazing Joy Bergelson. Less than a month away: August 9 - 14, 2026. Still a few spots left! And do check out the amazing list of speakers: www.grc.org/function-of-...

"I believe that Wittgenstein was right when he said that in any language there are things that cannot be said." - @dereklowe.bsky.social which means much remains unlearnable by ML, despite what the AI universalists say. The End of Disease | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...

🔬 We're not into conspiracy theories but ...... #postthecomments

From hijackers to architects: the role of prophages in bacterial genome evolution.

Epstein survivors released this video today urging senators to block the confirmation of Todd Blanche for Attorney General. They’re trying to get to 20,000 signatures on their petition to send a message to the Senate. ujoin.co/campaigns/45...

OUR WORK IS NOT DONE. In unusual move, NSF issued a request for information on plan to conform grant policies to the proposed (unfinalized) OMB rule. Plan includes changes to grant termination provisions & disallowing publication costs. Comments due August 24. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

🧬 Even Earth's most abundant enzyme makes mistakes. Rubisco fixes CO₂ for nearly all life but wastes ~20% of potential crop yield on a 3-billion-year-old side reaction. We built a microbial sensor that finally makes it visible & tinkerable in living cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

To stop the Project 2025 takeover of science, public comments are half a plan. But they won't get us all the way there. Here's the second half of the plan - and what you can do: samwang.substack.com/p/building-h...

Have you tested your smoke alarm lately? We recommend testing them once a week and you should have one installed per floor of your home.

Working with a rod-shaped microbe, she helped spark an agricultural revolution
Mary-Dell Chilton, who has died at 87, led a team credited with developing the first genetically modified plant. Tried to gift 🔗 wapo.st/4pifPm7

Great inspiration from @hormiga.bsky.social. I’m working on mine this weekend. . .

The Origin of Life in the Light of Evolution Another food for thought paper with @lauraeme.bsky.social and a lot of fantastic scientists. arxiv.org/abs/2605.05464

Agree, this is a super form, very easy to draft and submit. Do it!

The @nytimes.com Lost Science series continues. USG killed funding for Jessica Cantlon's study of cognitive skills, saying it was turning from basic to applied science. "There won’t be more discoveries, and we’ll just stop at what we already know," Cantlon says. Gift link: nyti.ms/4hbDmCS

Exploring life’s hidden majority: microbial dark matter symposium highlights journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Very proud of this preprint out of my lab, our first (of hopefully many) host-microbe spatial transcriptomics paper. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Amazing insights into P. aeruginosa biology and chronic airway disease @cysticfibrosis.org.uk @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @asthmaandlung.org.uk

according to @domestiquecycling.com Pogi put a new record on the Tourmalet of 43'12'' - Ving was about 35 seconds behind voer the top so he did something like 43'47'' Previous record 45'35'' by them both in 2023. Might not be his best numbers... but hardly a bad day

🚨Join us at the University of Geneva! We're seeking an outstanding junior researcher to apply for an ERC or SNSF Starting Grant with our institutional support in host–pathogen interactions, bacteriology, virology, parasitology, or mycology. www.unige.ch/medecine/mim... Please share!

That's the biggest beatdown in the first TdF mountain stage I can recall since Lance. Tadej is simply amazing, huge props to Jonas for persevering in no mans land

Great summary of #SpudCell from @dereklowe.bsky.social. I had only read a secondary article (heavily based on the press release) on it, and despite the enormous hype inside could not figure out from that article whether it was even a top-down or bottom-up approach! www.science.org/content/blog...

New genomic data suggest the ongoing #Bundibugyo virus outbreak arose from a single zoonotic spillover, with the outbreak lineage likely emerging weeks before detection—underscoring the critical role of genomic surveillance for early outbreak detection and response. virological.org/t/genomic-ep...

The deadline is approaching: You can submit multiple comments You can submit as anon - just state you are PI, student etc Include the Section in the comment [#.#] Be sincere in your concerns Follow CLS and check previous posts for daily policy highlights from the OMB bill to frame your comments.

And the Cooper and Van Tyne labs watched this in person! A 10 RBI game 🤯

Hannah Mears on the Pirates telecast says Ryan O’Hearn recorded only the 2nd game in MLB history with: - a grand slam - a 3-run homer - and another 3-run homer

Heads up cycling yinzers www.wesanews.org/development-...

1. A bit of evolutionary biology. I'm really intrigued by a new perspective piece from Steve Frank that explores connections between how natural selection creates systems that generalize and recent work in machine learning about the surprising capabilities of massively overparameterized systems.

You want to see Norway men’s national football team’s official photo for World Cup 2026 www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...

I like Zohran plenty but hard pass on his TS playlist. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/n...

Can’t wait for what we can build together! There’s never been a better time to be a microbiologist.

Please welcome @vscooper.micropopbio.org as the new ASM President and Federico Sisti, Ph.D., as President-Elect. They begin their terms on July 1. ASM congratulates its new & continuing leaders and looks forward to their leadership in advancing ASM’s mission. asm.social/2Zx

PMI’s own Dr. Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org is the new president of the American Society of Microbiology! 👏🏼

Our Dept of Microbiology & Immunology @Geisel School of Medicine @Dartmouth has an opening for an Assistant Professor. Looking for programs bridging multiple areas in Micro & Immuno. A great place to be! Programs: www.M2P2.org www.dartmouthbiofilm.org Job ad: apply.interfolio.com/187637

Pls share: U of Washington has an opening for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor. This position is expected to specialize in molecular virology or bacteriology. Here is a link: microbiology.washington.edu/index.php/ne...

cf. NIH, which is basically on pace with FY25 spending. Obligations are actually slightly above.

NSF grantmaking update Last week ago (6/22) New grants: 1594/4881 — 32.6% of avg. Obligations: 1.8/2.82 billion — 63.8% of avg. Now (6/28) New grants: 1835/5202 — 35.3% of avg. Obligations: 1.9/3.08 billion — 61.6% of avg. Data from grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

📢 We're hiring! The Department of Microbiology & Cell Biology at Montana State University is hiring an Assistant Professor of Microbiology. We welcome applicants working in microbial pathogenesis, immunology, genetics, microbial evolution, and related areas. Apply: jobs.montana.edu/postings/52009

🚨New paper alert 🚨 Here we tried to leverage an (incredible) metagenome time-series to better understand MGE diversity and activity in soil across decade(s). @scbagby.bsky.social has an amazing thread about this work with all the details - bsky.app/profile/scba...

very cool paper. Also contains an author that has the best name for a scientific consultancy that I have seen yet: “Middle Author Bioinformatics, LLC, Phoenix, AZ, USA Arkadiy Garber“