🔬 Explore new career opportunities in microbiology! 🌱🧫 ~ Professor: Join KU Leuven to focus on microbes in the food chain. ~ PhD: Join the "Laboratory of Plant-Microbe-Environment Interactions." ~ PhD: Fish microbiomes & health 👉 Find out more: buff.ly/vicIBQA

Assistant Prof post in bacterial genomics @unibirmingham.bsky.social Come and join us!! @imibirmingham.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

Well, this is interesting, and I am the total opposite of the author! How about you #MicroSky?! www.independent.co.uk/life-style/h...

#FEMS2025 kicks off in just 2 days 🚀✨ Now is the perfect time to explore the FEMS MICRO app and start building your personalised onsite agenda 📅✅ Flag your favourite sessions ⭐️, identify must-see speakers 🎤, and plan your day 🗺️ to make the most of every moment ⏳ buff.ly/nN0DaPL

We are looking forward to good discussions and forming positive actions together!

Stand up for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8

Postdocs! Level up your research at FEMS Summer School 2025 📣 🗓️ Dates: 2-10 September 2025 📍 Location: Metropol Resort Hotel Ohrid, North Macedonia 🔬 Focus: Harnessing microbial solutions in environmental research and One Health. Apply by 18 April 2025, 23:59 CET buff.ly/zLA2RQg

Scientists are all around you! 36.8 million workers make up the STEM workforce (24% of the total civilian workforce in the US) in 2021. More than half don't have a Bachelor's degree. YET 72% of the US can't name a living scientist! Peeps, share your science!! ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb2024...

About to jump on our LGBTQ Zwifters Trans Day of Visibility @gozwift.bsky.social club ride to celebrate and support our wonderful trans community. We see you every day my friends.

A "spate" of findings. Interesting interpretation!

Applications are now open for the FEMS Summer School for Postdocs 2025! Thank you so much for the invitation, Tillmann and Joana. I'm really happy to be part of this great event! I can't wait to be there and mentor our fantastic ECRs. #FEMS_SSPD_2025 #Mentorship #ECRs @femsmicro.bsky.social

Wow, although not surprising. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Good news #MicroSky! #FEMS2025 early bird registration is now open! #Microbiology #Research #Science #MagnifyingMicrobialImpact #EcoInnovations #HealthHorizons #Biotechnology #EngagementandGrowth

#Phd alert! Want to do interdisciplinary research into #superbugs and their armour? We got the PhD for you in #Salgadolab @newcastleuni.bsky.social, co-supervisors Peter Chivers @durham-university.bsky.social & Agnieszka Bronowska (NUChemistry)! shorturl.at/agD5h 2 weeks left to apply! #MicroSky

Hear from our new Editor-in-Chief of #FEMSMicrobiolLett, Dr Clare Taylor, in our latest #MicrobesAndUs podcast episode: buff.ly/xy1ghaD On #IWD2025, we are excited to learn from her the vision being formed for the future of the journal. #AccelerateAction #WomenInScience

This is amazing! Witches tartan - created to memorialise those who suffered as a result of The Witchcraft Act 1563 to 1736 in Scotland. I look forward to replacing all my clothes with this! www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetail...

My editorial simultaneously published in all of @asm.org's journals addresses the ongoing effort by the administration to halt efforts to diversify science. It should be obvious from ASM Journals' efforts over the years, but we aren't fans journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

* sigh * www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

Caturday be like...

Erasing our history won't erase us. Transgender people have always been here — and we always will be.

Ted Cruz released a spreadsheet of NSF grants found to be "questionable projects that promoted Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) or advanced neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda." There are more planetary sci grants here then I expected. Are you here? www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...

Latest blogpost on Musk/Royal Society debacle: deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/02/seve... I look at the reasons that have been given for inaction, and find them wanting. @royalsociety.org

I had the good fortune of being on a panel with Andrew for @voiceofyoungsci.bsky.social back in November, and we talked about the importance of integrity and being true to yourself. This is how to role model that. 👏🏻

Awful times, again. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

OK folks, I have now created a google form that allows people to sign to show their support for my open letter to the President of the Royal Society. Please sign and share widely: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...

Today is the 10th anniversary of International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Especially in the face of women being erased from websites and #DEI being torn down, I will continue to do all that I can to support all women to thrive in science.

Interesting to see list of major barriers to entry and retention in R+D careers identified, including lack of diversity and inclusion, on this International Day of Women and Girls in Science Day #womeninstem www.gov.uk/government/p...

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🔬 On 11 February, we celebrate the important contributions of women to the STEM disciplines. On this occasion, we asked six female scientists what science means to them: home.cern/news/news/cern/international-day-women-and-girls-science-2025

🌟 Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Let’s celebrate with a new set of tools for funding organizations that aim to reduce inequalities at the pre-award stage. Find out more bit.ly/DORA-toolkit... Led by @ebibristol.bsky.social, @morebrains.coop, @bristolbrc.bsky.social

Needed more than ever as some organisations continue to scrub #DEI from their websites and policies. "In conclusion, everyone can engage in allyship and work to challenge and dismantle systemic bias, creating a more just, equitable and inclusive academic community for all." rdcu.be/d9jFj

Without reviewers, we would not be able to publish. I want to thank everyone who has reviewed for #FEMSMicrobiolLett - your work and time, which you give freely, supports the microbiology community. Journal income funds grants that support careers, simple as that. I can't thank you enough.

Are you a woman, non-binary or genderqueer person who works in science and who is passionate about your research? Can you be in Edinburgh on 3 May 2025? Please consider applying for Soapbox Science Edinburgh 2025. Also feel free to get in touch with me if you have any questions!

Are you an early career researcher interested in interdisciplinary structural microbiology research and looking for a host lab to develop your ideas? I'd be happy to discuss possible applications to #BBSRC #Fellowship www.ukri.org/opportunity/... Get in touch if interested! #MicroSky #academicsky

@roysocchem.bsky.social also has a great toolkit for everyone for every day - check out their link.

So much damage from unnecessary actions. These actions seem disproportionate to the federal funding received, as a % of income, and now they have destroyed trust and made everyone question their integrity, nevermind the harm they've caused to so many of the scientists they claim to support.

In the meantime @asm.org are scrubbing their website... for example the page "celebrating women's achievements in microbiology" asm.org/Under-Review....

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Time to remind myself of this paper from 2022: Understanding advantaged groups' opposition to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies: The role of perceived threat. compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

No, no, no, no, no. I cannot understand this. I am actually struggling for words...

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From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

Started my Masters class on microbial infection today, but we didn't talk about any microbiology. This chicken oversaw the students as they spent some time getting yo know each. Connection is important in my class and this was time well spent!

Hearing from at least three different society publishers that federal employees have been asked to stop being reviewers for scientific journals. #scholarlypublishing

I just can't wrap my brain around any of this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Don't miss your chance to share your science and be part of #FEMS2025! Together, we'll be magnifying microbial impact! #MicroSky

Good grief. T***p hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring. www.science.org/content/arti...

If you are a #500queerscientists contributor and here on BlueSky, drop us a note! 👋 ⬇️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Collaborating with @rin-krichilsky.bsky.social and Kanako Shimizu, we put together what's basically a top-ten list of ways to help foster trans inclusivity and awareness within our scientific and academic communities and would love if you could help share the guide!

Adding this to my cass reading list.