🧃☕️ BYOF Seminar | Fri Oct 24 @ 10 am EDT🥛🍹 Bring-Your-Own-Fluid + enjoy 7 min talks about social fluids: 🦈 Viviparity & matrotrophy • Daniel Hughes 🐦 Crop milk • Victoria Farrar 🦂 Sexual stings • Yuqi Reitsema-Wang Email [email protected] for the Zoom link! 🔗 @socialtransfernet.bsky.social

Another round of selfish self-promotion: please join us for the best bridging event to your Halloween party if you are nearby Amsterdam on that day (mandatory music reference: youtu.be/vFwYJYl5GUQ?...)

Metabolic interplay drives population cycles in a cross-feeding microbial community @natcomms.nature.com from @oventurelli2.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm going to be advertising for a few positions in my group in the next couple of months for a big project on synthetic microbial communities. I would love to hear from you if you are interested and I'd also appreciate if everyone could share this far and wide!

Metabolic modeling aficionados in the Netherlands (and close to border), attention please! (promo thread)

There’s a leak - and a conceptual artist - at the Max Planck 👌

It's a common wisdom that the whole genome is not expressed at the same time. Is trying to make a map of the 'entirety' of the metabolic potential (aka genome-scale model) useless, and potentially reckless? It's only an intermediate stop. Especially for unicellular parasites. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Good ideas come from having lots of experience. And experience comes from having lots of bad ideas.

@berasymbionts.bsky.social speaking about socially transferred materials and her amazing beetles and fungal symbiont transfer opening the @socialtransfernet.bsky.social symposium at #ESEB2025

3.5-year #Postdoc position on avian microbiomes and reproduction @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @niooknaw.bsky.social on a fully-funded ERC project focused on understanding the significance of reproductive microbiomes for host biology and fitness. Reach out for more info! nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

Scientific bedlam at the world’s weirdest and wildest research conference www.nature.com/articles/d41... @odedrechavi.bsky.social @sheilaroitman.bsky.social @alinapi.bsky.social @barakrotblat.bsky.social

🎬 Straight from the red carpet to the green screen 🎥 The Glorious Four, @diana-sz.bsky.social #EladNoor #FelipeScott #MarceloRivas close out our summer school saga in style 🎞️ Fall release coming to a thread near you, don’t miss it @economic-cell.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @cecamevents.bsky.social

Today wrapped up our 4th summer school on Economic Principles in Cell Biology organized by @economic-cell.bsky.social at the beautiful @univie.ac.at 🤩 Huge thanks to all the students, teachers and @cecamevents.bsky.social for the support! ✨️ See you next year!

Last day of our summer school! 🥹 So happy to have seen you all here in Vienna! 🇦🇹 @economic-cell.bsky.social

The cast keeps growing faster than E. coli in rich medium #SteffenWaldherr’s in, slate’s up, the signal is strong: Hasta la vista, baby. 🎥 @economic-cell.bsky.social @univie.ac.at 📚🌱

🎬 Hollywood called, but @meikewortel.bsky.social said: “I’m booked – starring in Economic Principles in Cell Biology: The Sequel.” Catch her and the rest of the cast at the @univie.ac.at summer school 👉 @economic-cell.bsky.social 🎥🌱📚

🎥 @pranasag.bsky.social understood the assignment: “Put your head in the game.” 🎬 The @univie.ac.at summer school Economic Principles in Cell Biology is in full swing! Catch us before we all lose our heads 👉 @economic-cell.bsky.social 🌱📚 supported by @cecamevents.bsky.social

📸 #MarkusKöbis. Green screen. Slate snap. Filming is underway for "Economic Principles in Cell Biology" at our summer school @univie.ac.at 🌱📚 Check us out at @economic-cell.bsky.social before #Netflix grabs exclusive rights 🎬 Supported by @cecamevents.bsky.social

🌐 Welcome to the Social Transfer Network (STN) on Bluesky! We’re an interdisciplinary community exploring how materials/signals (from molecules to microbes) transfer between individuals and shape health, behavior, and evolution. #STM

Dear early career scientists! Why not join us in September in Lithuania’s beautiful capital city for the EMBO Young Scientists’ Forum? We will have have a full Night Science workshop & exciting research sessions. Abstract submission: August 1 meetings.embo.org/event/25-eysf @evogytis.bsky.social

There is still time to join us for engaging lectures and provoking discussions at our Summer School on Economic Principles of Cell Biology - at least online! Mark your calendars, July 23-26, and register here: univienna.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

... and a few minutes ago our Chart-Checklist came out in @natcellbio.nature.com 🥳🎉 Gift link for #TCTeAC: rdcu.be/eqPpi www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Let's not be #TCTeAC "The Conference To END All Conferences", but a new format of many more such events. Depating science outside of our typical nutshell (scientifically and mentally) has great potential - we could have come up with 50+ project proposals together. Let's bring fun back to science :)

Oscar-grade acting!

#TCTeAC This is exactly what it looks like (fluid exchanging behaviors in ants🐜)

Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely. Corrupted PowerPoint slides support creativity. #TCTeAC

You’re probably why it takes so long for your paper to get reviewed and your excuses are bad dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/y... 🧪

We have two new positions, a PhD and a Post doc at #InstituteofBiologyLeiden within our @microclockerc.bsky.social #ERCSyG project to discover interaction of #circadianclocks between Bacillus subtilis and Arabidopsis please share these with your network! 🙏 links below👇 [1/3]

Think Like a Microbe is back!! 🧪🧫 #philsci open.substack.com/pub/thinkmic...

One week from now!!! The craziest scientific conference ever www.the-scientist.com/a-scientific... @svobodalab.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social @zernickagoetz.bsky.social @itaiyanai.bsky.social @natanellae.bsky.social see more here woodstock.img.cas.cz

I am very happy to host a Marie Curie Fellow in my lab. Please email me in case you are interested in experimental evolution, evolution of cooperation, bacterial multicellularity, metabolic cross-feeding, or related topics. marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...

schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2... #MicroSky #SymbioSky #FungiFriends

PhD position alert! Fully-funded PhD in my group to work on avian reproductive microbiomes and immunity. Please RT! Deadline June 29th, reach out for more information. #microbiomes #sparrows #spermbiology

Finally out: cells-within-cells are not all made equal, despite the first impression they should. Huge thanks to @adriatica.bsky.social and @basteusink.bsky.social for giving a boost to what began as a rather silly "I don't understand" moment - make sure you explore your next dataset! A 🧵1/10

Had an extremely intense day on Thursday at the @synmikro.bsky.social in Marburg. After the whole day of speed-dating with the local PIs, I had an opportunity to showcase my past research and share my vision for the future of cellular economics - also outside a single cell!

We offer a PhD project within our International Max Planck Research School "Chemical Communication in Ecological Systems" on "Metabolic exchanges, regulation and equilibrium of an ancient insect symbiosis" (Project 5). Please share, inform & apply here: www.ice.mpg.de/129183/imprs

IT'S HAPPENING! The Woodstock of Biology 2.0 meets Night Science @nightsciencepod.bsky.social 10-13 of June in Prague & the Woods of Bohemia... Be there or be REJECTED. #theconferencetoendallconferences

Had the honor to close the #NIME2025 meeting! Thanks to everyone for discussions, and extra kudos to people who gave a talk or brought a poster!

Only one week left to apply for this exciting PhD position, supervised by @gillesvanwezel.bsky.social and me! Please apply if you are interested in microbial biochemistry and have a solid background in enzymes, metabolic pathways, and bacterial genetics. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

🎥 Behind the scenes with @diana-sz.bsky.social shooting for the Economic Principles in Cell Biology summer school 🌱📚 Join us this July for cutting-edge lectures & interactive blended learning! 📢 Register epcp.univie.ac.at/summer-schoo... @economic-cell.bsky.social

It is true, we are coming back for the 4th Summer School "Economic Principles in Cell Biology" from July 23-26th 2025! Register to join us in Vienna or remotely epcp.univie.ac.at/summer-schoo...

Join us for the 4th summer school 'Economic Principles in Cell Biology' from July 23-26, 2025 in Vienna/online! Learn about mathematical modeling of cell systems and how resource allocation thinking helps explain cell behavior principlescellphysiology.org/summer-schoo... @economic-cell.bsky.social

Re: Limitations of LB Medium Read more > schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2... #MicroSky

📣 Bring-Your-Own-Fluid Seminar Mon Dec 9 @ 9am CST/4pm CET The #SocialTransferNetwork invites you to a fun hour of talks, connections, and your favorite social fluid - whether that's a study topic like mucus, milk, or regurgitate, or a seminar beverage ☕️🧋🥛🍹 DM for link!

A framework for understanding collective microbiome metabolism www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

I don't have any photos of the event (yet?) but I was delighted to give a talk at BioQuant/Uni Heidelberg on cellular economics and future prospects - including my own aspirations. I hope this inspires some young scientists (a lot in the auditorium!) to pursue the economic view to living matter.

We had a great #MB10.0 meeting today in Delft! Genetic engineering toolboxes, algae for CO2 capture and valorisation, and plant-protecting molecules. My MSc student Blanka Izsó also presented a poster on the modeling toolkit she is busy extending. Proud supervisor moment! To be continued...

Thanks so much to the Lorentz Center and everyone that came for the #sociallytransferredmaterials meeting. It was great fun working with you all. I can’t wait to see the outputs of this meeting. Hint: #principles of #milkcus during #globalchange 😉