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ha! in germany we could actually come back to the famous 'edition suhrkamp' paperback series for a pride 🌈 (it wasn't planned as such back in the 1970s though)

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Happy Pride Month! To celebrate, we’ve created a special collection of all the blogs we’ve published over the past few years about our wonderful LGBTQ+ community: https://microb.io/49zAmvF Look out for more to come this month! #Pride2026 #LGBTQSTEM Pride in Microbiology Pride in STEM #Pride2026

The NIAID Director has apparently stepped down. The situation is still murky. www.statnews.com/2026/05/21/n... 1/2

New preprint! Cell division has to happen at the right place but how Archaea pick that place is unknown. We now identified a three-protein system, Dip, that positions the divisome at midcell in H. volcanii and is broadly conserved across Archaea. A thread 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

From MBoC… Now accepting submissions for the Evolutionary Cell Biology special issue. Share your research that links evolutionary insights with cell biology mechanisms: https://www.molbiolcell.org/evolutionary-cell-biology

Please check out our new preprint! Together with @sarathomasy.bsky.social and led by DVM/PhD candidate Raneesh Ramarapu, we used 3D imaging + quantitative analysis to show how the corneal endothelium maintains a stable layer and refines hexagonal packing during development.

New Data Management and Sharing Plan format required for NIH grants submitted after May 25, 2026 (so for EI MIRAs due May 27, 2026) 🧪 grants.nih.gov/grants-proce... grants.nih.gov/policy-and-c...

This is 50. 😂

Our most recent paper "Divergent Rickettsia species exhibit distinct mechanisms of actin-based motility" is now out in @jcb.org! Check it out here: rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Heading into May of 2026 and so far this year, no new grants have been issued by the National Institutes of Health, National Eye Institute. No council meetings have been scheduled. An absolute, unmitigated disaster for vision research is setting up.

Spirit won last night and the O’s ran out of pyro cause it was raining home runs 😂 you love to see it

That’s a first for me… 7 home runs in 5 innings. 😂 Go Os!!

Doing the periodic cleaning of used plasmid miniprep columns and realized in honor of Earth Day it may be worth reminding you molecular biologists: Plasmid miniprep columns can be cleaned and reused essentially indefinitely! Just add 1 M HCl, soak overnight and wash 3x w/ water. Save $ and plastic

Baltimore people, I'm heading back to the Artist Market at Artscape, May 23-24 www.artscape.org

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great article in @quantamagazine.bsky.social by natalie wolchover on the bacterial flagellum and proton motive force. alas, I missed this great model on what happens to the stators during gear-shifting. see it in STC: smallthingsconsidered.blog/schaechter/2... #MicroSky

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

I'm looking for #NewPIs (<3 years as lab heads) in the gene regulation/functional genomics space. If you are one or know one, please comment below! 🧪

Finally published. Many thanks to a wonderful collaborative team and scientific platforms!!! And thanks to editors and reviewers for enthusiasm and a great review. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us ALL safe and healthy

I'm excited to tell you about the most recent preprint in my lab, demonstrating that a conserved spindle matrix protein, NPP-21/TPR, is required for the stronger checkpoint in germline cells during embryogenesis in C. elegans

🆒 new pub! Rapid evolution of Klebsiella pneumoniae biofilms in vitro -> adaptations selected during infection by @gretazabo.bsky.social & Linus Sandegren *hypermucoidy evolves via 📈c-di-GMP, overlaps w/ mutations in UTI and wound isolates. *pleasure to advise this! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Beautiful new work from the Vecchiarelli Lab. 👀

Interested in a teaching faculty position in Bacteriology at UW-Madison? See the attached announcement! @uwbact.bsky.social

We are recruiting postdocs to work on antimicrobial resistance and bacterial cell envelope biology. PLEASE SHARE.

A unique opportunity to lead the most wonderful company in scientific publishing (I might be slightly biased here). The Company of Biologists are searching for a CEO. www.inspiredselection.com/jobs/jo00000...

I am honored to be nominated for ASCB Council this year. If you are an ASCB member, please share and vote before April 30th! The amazing @rogerslabucd.bsky.social is also on the ballot!

My lab at Pitt is looking for a Research Scientist to help us make phage therapy for patients with antibiotic-resistant infections. Please share and apply! cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

Editor Spotlight: Elizabeth Chen The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center “MBoC publishes cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research that stands the test of time.” Explore the journal and submission opportunities at molbiolcell.org

Ahead of the 2026 Marjory Stephenson Prize Lecture, Professor Mark Buttner shares insights on his career and winning a Microbiology Society Prize. Read the blog: https://microb.io/3PVXEVB #Microbio26

CSR to continue the one-third triage cutoff for NIH grant review drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/c...

Join us at the Microbiology Society Annual Conference for our 🌈 LGBTQ+ Networking Event (with Trans & Nonbinary pre-meet). 📅 Tuesday 14 April | ⏰ From 19:30 Get your tickets by Thursday 9th April: https://microb.io/Microbio26SocialProgramme #Microbio26

The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social has a more than 100 year history of supporting science through its journals, meetings, and fellowships. Help lead it into its second century! pls share www.inspiredselection.com/jobs/jo00000...

Pls share: A postdoctoral researcher position is available in the Scharf lab in the Department of Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech to study motility and chemotaxis in the symbiotic soil bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti. jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/postdoc...

Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch For r e a s o n s

Now available as a Version of Record. Thanks a lot again to everyone involved in this project! doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

NoA on April Fool’s Day… let’s hope it’s for real. 🎉🎉🎉 Very excited to advance our studies on the cell biology of the tick-borne obligate intracellular pathogen Rickettsia parkeri!!

Reviewers and SROs take virtual study sections very seriously

Open postdoc position in my lab on HGT and interbacterial competition. We seek candidates with a PhD in microbiology (or related fields)+ strong 1st-author publications. Curious, highly motivated, and dedicated team players ready to contribute fully are encouraged to apply. Details: tiny.cc/cz01101

Streptomyces and other actinos are really fascinating bacteria. Always something new to discover.

I am pleased to share my lab’s latest publication - Acinetobacter species lack canonical DNA repair pathway activation mechanisms, and we discovered a conserved transcriptional activator that fills this role: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

We're excited to invite everyone to the 25th Annual Microbiology Student Symposium on May 4th, 2026! Please join us for a day of research presentations, poster sessions, free food, and more. Feel free to register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New in JB: Mike Cashel is known internationally for his work on "magic spot", or (p)ppGpp, that serves as a key regulator of bacteria physiology. Hinman & Gottesman remember Dr. Cashel. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @asm.org #JBacteriol