Hi Friends! I just wanted to let you know that I'll be changing jobs soon! I'll be sad to leave Wheaton College, but am excited to start as an Associate Professor of Biology at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo this fall! Looking forward to working with new students and California yeasts!

Thrilled to announce that the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington, School of Medicine is hiring at the Assistant Professor level (tenure-track)! The Pacific Northwest is an awesome place to live and do science 🧪🦠. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/185622 Applications due 8/1.

Just want to announce a new peer-reviewed paper with THREE Wheaton student coauthors! This research was done in their Research Experience in Biology course, which fulfilled their Sophomore Experience requirement. @micropub7n.bsky.social www.micropublication.org/journals/bio...

Please share! My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

If you participated in a yeast meeting in 2025, reach out to me about publishing your work from that meeting!

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

There are lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to Nazi Germany and there are also lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to the post-1850 Fugitive Slave Act U.S. and it's *weird* how people respond with interest to the former but total confusion to the latter

🚨We’re hiring! Please help spread the word! Our lab at @TheSainsburyLab is recruiting a pre-doctoral intern to work on plant immunity research. Ideal for those who are planning to pursue a PhD and seeking research experience. tatsuyanobori.com

Post-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

‼️Please RT: The CEPLAS Graduate School call for 2026 is now open! Detailed info on our website: bit.ly/4q19JWk @hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @leibnizipk.bsky.social @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

Up to 10 doctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology now open for application! Start date September 2026. More info here: www.evolbio.mpg.de/imprs

Seconding this! I didn't know this until I started working at my current job (at a small liberal arts college). It often is cheaper than in-state tuition, depending on the details. I don't love the lack of price transparency, but absolutely it's worth applying to a program you're interested in.

Check out this "journal club" article, by me and Matt Wengler, describing a cool recent paper on injecting bacteria into fungal mycelium. With some clever artificial selection, the fungus adapts to the presence of the bacteria, making the symbiosis stable! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Be careful everyone: California county sees increase in rare kind of poisoning www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 333 tenure-track positions and 48 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪

Just sent this to the Biological Data Analysis students and told them they could use it in their final projects 😆

The special issue will be guest-edited by @pjboynton.bsky.social (Wheaton College Massachusetts, USA) and Pei-Yun Jenny Wu (CNRS Bordeaux, France). You can find more information on the accepted topics and submission instructions by using the QR code below:

AI slop is making it harder for me to find useful information. Here's the ScienceDirect overview of "Fungal Metabolism":

I’m looking for folks to send me specimens of golden oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus citrinopileatus) collected from natural areas all over North America. I need specimens from everywhere other than Wisconsin: 2/n pringlelab.github.io/gom_communit...

We have an opening for postdoctoral training! Please apply by 15th August 2025 for full consideration. Here is the ad: hittinger.genetics.wisc.edu/People/Join/...

Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.

@pjboynton.bsky.social advertises our upcoming special issue about the #Yeast2025 conference in Paris

Hi Friends, what's a HELPFUL way of responding to someone who brags that they don't vote? I encountered someone IRL who did this yesterday (a stranger), and couldn't think of a productive response

Still working on that #ASMicrobe poster? This is your yearly reminder to write microorganism names correctly: genus is capitalized, species is not, and the whole thing should be italicized. You’re welcome @asm.org #Microbe2025 #ClinMicro #ASMMicrobe

Want to know more about the ecology of wild yeasts, their association with oak trees, temperature, and rainfall? Read the latest by @chloehbk.bsky.social and @javo-pinto.bsky.social

In the latest #Yeast research article of the series #FantasticYeasts, Pei-Jie Han, Feng-Yan Bai & team describe a new yeast species isolated from a Chinese forest: Saccharomycopsis yichangensis, that can prey on Saccharomyces cerevisiae and other yeasts 😲 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Inquiry deadline TOMORROW!

Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.

When I was younger, I believed that if I didn't understand a piece of writing, the fault was likely my own, and I needed to improve my thinking or reading skills. What I've learned since then is that many influential or acclaimed thinkers are just not very good writers.

This is very bad news.

I completely agree with everything the crab museum folks say here about dragging biology into judging trans and nonbinary people. Thank you!

Women in the UK face being banned from female toilets and other spaces. This is a disgusting assault on human rights and female dignity. Share if you agree!!

New post doc opportunity in our team at Kiel University in the north of Germany. We are looking for a motivated molecular biologists to unravel plant-microbe interactions in grasses. Please see: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/... More to our research and group here: www.environmental-genomics.de

Check out my latest paper on fitness costs and benefits of hosting a killer virus if you're a yeast in the forest! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hi everyone! "Yeast" is looking for its next journal cover for the upcoming 2025 issues. If you have beautiful yeast images that you would like to see on our front cover, please send them to [email protected] Have a nice day 🙂

Join the second Evolutionary Rescue workshop at the Max Planck Institute, Plon, Germany from June 30 to July 3, 2024. Registration is free until March 15. More info: https://workshops.evolbio.mpg.de/event/128/. #workshop

Curious of what's in your miso soup? In the latest research article of the series #BuddingTopics , Tomoo Ogata & collegues explore the genomic structures of haploid and allodiploid Zygosaccharomyces strains isolated from miso. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

In the latest review of the series #ecoYeast , @mrtrni.bsky.social , @lumoralesr.bsky.social & collegues describe the yeasts associated with agave fermentations and how they adapted to live in this challenging environment

ISME supports students and postdocs to further develop their academic knowledge and skills in a host institution outside of their country of study. Submit your application by 31 March 2025. 🔗https://isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar-mobility-fund-call-for-applications/ #MicrobialEcology #microbes

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob 2 Doctoral researchers: Ecohydrology, Ecophysiology, Isotopehydrology 📍 @uni-freiburg.de together with @simonhaber.bsky.social 📆 Start: 1 July 2025 📆 Deadline: 31 March 2025 www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

I am reeling from the cuts at NSF- a close friend and colleague, who was an outstanding PO and absolute asset to the evolutionary biology community, was just fired. This is simply because he COULD be- he was still in the 2 year probationary period after changing jobs at NSF. Goddamn it.

Some work I'm doing with undergraduate Natalie Moore was featured on Wheaton's website recently! wheatoncollege.edu/news/explori...

I've been seeing devastating closures of USDA labs this week, and thinking about all the messaging I usually give microbiology and mycology undergrads on the importance of public science, with the USDA as a clear example. (1/9)

The lawsuit alleges the migrants have been "disappeared into a black box" and are unable to communicate with attorneys.

Really nice discussion here about how biologists can BOTH use words like "male" and "female" in their work AND ALSO engage with sex as non-binary, often in very interesting ways. I also sincerely appreciate Bolnick's emphasis of our moral responsibilities when working with human beings.

Hi everybody! The Yeast journal is finally on Bluesky! Follow us to keep updated on the latest research articles, reviews and special issues on #Yeast biology and more! 🙂

Watching the superbowl off-and-on between answering e-mails this evening... It's remarkable how two of the ads I've seen so far (Pfizer and ChatGPT) directly (inadvertently?) highlight the importance of federal funding for basic research on the technology we're enjoying or anticipating enjoying.

Applications for MEME are open! It's a research- and mobility-oriented Evolutionary Biology Master's Programme, where students have the opportunity to visit 4(+2) different universities in two years. Please spread the word! www.evobio.eu #EvoBio

If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me. Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.