Help advance water research in CNY! Participate in SHARCS on Sat Oct 4, a community science project led by SUNY ESF researchers! Collect a quick water sample, snap a photo, fill out a short survey, and return the sample. Adults 18+ welcome! No experience needed. More info: bit.ly/CNYSHARCS.

Please share - an Assist Prof position in microbiology employmentopportunities.umb.edu/mob/cw/en-us... @asm.org

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... New preprint of one of my postdoc projects looking at mechanisms of acid tolerance in a mildly acidophilic denitrifier!

Help advance water research in CNY! Participate in SHARCS on Sat Oct 4, a community science project led by SUNY ESF researchers! Collect a quick water sample, snap a photo, fill out a short survey, and return the sample. Adults 18+ welcome! No experience needed. More info: bit.ly/CNYSHARCS.

Wow! This is amazing news. Having friends who are confronted with Huntington's, this brings a ray of hope. bbc.com/news/article...

www.localsyr.com/news/local-n... Do you hate Andrew Cuomo? Looking for more reasons to hate him? “A decision was made by the then chancellor and especially Andrew Cuomo….clawed back $10 million, and ever since then, there has been this shortfall,” said Fred Kowal, President at [UUP]”

Write your program officer and grants management official TODAY and thank them! It takes 30 seconds and its really appreciated. The only reason they're remotely this close is because those folks are working 60 hour weeks under immense pressure

God this makes me want to cry. Increasing enrollment while cutting staff and placing blame on a staff increase and staff: student ratio shows a fundamental misunderstanding of his higher ed works. SUNY has implemented *several* unfunded mandates across campuses in the last few years.

Giving a webinar on #BlueSoup this Friday, in case anyone wants to pop in during their lunch!

This is ridiculous. Bad for students, bad for NY, bad for the Adirondacks

dailyorange.com/2025/09/suny... SUNY’s stability plan orders ESF to cut 18.9% of staff…the plan expects ESF to increase its undergraduate enrollment by 16.1%. The plan will cut 38 full-time employees..also requires cuts to ESF’s athletics program and the school’s five major forest properties.

this is just unconscionable. without the opportunities i got at esf, i wouldn't have gotten to work on a massive museum exhibit or be a phd student right now. please send a letter to john king jr. and kathy hochul to reverse this decision!!

Please repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist Applications due Dec 1 Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339 Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)

Our project was selected for support through DOE’s FICUS program! jgi.doe.gov/user-science... We will use a combination of long-read metagenomics, 15N analyses, and structural characterization of soil organic matter to explore fire-plant-soil-microbe feedbacks!

www.syracuse.com/schools/2025... The stability plan from Albany would increase our enrollment by 20% and reduce our faculty and staff by 20%. This would come with heavy increases in the teaching load of existing faculty, killing our research programs.

Help us by sharing these posts and signing a letter to our governor to restore ESF’s mission funding! actionnetwork.org/letters/gov-...

Help us by sharing these posts and signing a letter to our governor to restore ESF’s mission funding! actionnetwork.org/letters/gov-...

www.syracuse.com/schools/2025... The stability plan from Albany would increase our enrollment by 20% and reduce our faculty and staff by 20%. This would come with heavy increases in the teaching load of existing faculty, killing our research programs.

Opportunity for Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Biochemistry/Microbiology at RMIT University (Melbourne Australia) ref: JR41993 | closing: 12-Oct-2025 #biochem #chemsky 🧪 rmit.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/RMIT_C...

Last week I joined our Master of Landscape Arch students at the Stone Quarry Art Park to lead a guest workshop on creating Winogradsky columns. We did ab overview of microbial metabolism (using human metabolism as a grounding framework) and followed by using gathered materials to create columns.

Please check out our updated version of this preprint - now with even more transposable elements! 🧬🦠 No really, we added in a few more analyses about TEs and further compared Mycetohabitans to related bacteria, plus other treats. @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Bringing the uncultivated microbial majority of freshwater ecosystems into culture www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Energy Secretary Chris Wright has disbanded a controversial Climate Working Group (CWG), which wrote a report that scientists say was full of errors and misrepresented climate science.

The most useful and useful impactful classes I took during my PhD were at ESF. It’s an amazing school always working on a shoestring budget. Cutting more will just decimate it and the amazing work it does.

www.syracuse.com/opinion/2025... Our president thinks that asking faculty and staff to voluntarily quit is a better solution than advocating for restoration of our mission funding from SUNY and being a more effective fundraiser. Meanwhile her high-paying job is safe. How can you help us? 🧵🪡

Please share to support ESF! actionnetwork.org/letters/gov-... ESF is #1 in per capita research expenditures in SUNY & has a 97% placement rate for students. However, SUNY is tasking us to increase undergraduate enrollment by 16% and graduate enrollment by 18%, while reducing staffing FTE by 19%

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FWKKU... Have you ever looked in your genome annotations and wondered “why are there so many tellurium resistance genes out there? And what even is tellurium?” Well, we have an answer for your in our newly published paper!

I want to throw up: we are not safe even in blue states. “Harmeet K. Dhillon, assistant attorney general for Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, who wrote on X that the incident was “deeply concerning” and said the agency would “look into” it.” www.texastribune.org/2025/09/08/t...

“This isn’t about academic freedom; it’s about academic responsibility.” This is about what a professor may teach in class within the subject matter of her course. If that’s not about academic freedom than nothing is.

It’s clear that Texas A&M just flat out doesn’t want to be a university, at least not the administration. You can’t teach hard science either if “well Trump said” counts as some mic drop during a lecture.

Reposting for visibility alongside this pic of one of our GORGEOUS regional campuses

Please share to support ESF! actionnetwork.org/letters/gov-... ESF is #1 in per capita research expenditures in SUNY & has a 97% placement rate for students. However, SUNY is tasking us to increase undergraduate enrollment by 16% and graduate enrollment by 18%, while reducing staffing FTE by 19%

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

The Crimson, scooping every news outlet not run by undergraduates working in between classes, gets into how court orders mandating return of research funding have been flaunted, and makes a clear case for contempt proceedings against DOGE officials. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

🚨 We're hiring, please share! The FMI seeks a tenure-track Group Leader (Assistant Prof) in Structural Biology 🔬 Innovative scientists in genome regulation, RNA metabolism, or protein homeostasis—especially using cutting-edge approaches—apply now at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

New lab pre-print up! "Twelve species of human parasites make up half the literature on microbial eukaryotes" doi.org/10.1101/2025... We (led by UG Joanna Lepper and with @hbrappap.bsky.social) quantified all mentions of protist species in the scientific literature 🧵 #protistsonsky #microsky

Obligatory sharing of John Oliver's take on this administrations fight against research and Universities #academia youtu.be/xk94il8L820?...

Got to spend the weekend at ESF’s Cranberry Lake campus in the Adirondacks!

www.syracuse.com/opinion/2025... “In 2012, SUNY abruptly cut about $10 million in annual state support from ESF, creating a structural deficit the campus has carried ever since.” “SUNY’s plan for ESF: 20% reduction in staffing, increased enrollment and more budget cuts over the next four years.”

Wow. I think it's important to know that *several* SUNY schools have a budget deficit of $5-10+ million. Some have done voluntary separation already. Some are slowly shearing off small programs/services without talking about it publicly. We will see more of this, imo.

Who do they think is going to teach this increased enrollment? And why on earth would anyone, particularly adjuncts, take on MORE credit hours with LESS job security? (And maybe worth saying that admin is expecting faculty to take on more non-teaching responsibility than ever.)

what the fuck is this???? ESF is a hidden jewel in our suny system, i am CONSTANTLY telling kids to go there

WTAF??!!?? Oh, would you mind just quitting?? 😡

www.localsyr.com/education/su... Please help me share this! SUNY is trying to do a 20% reduction in our workforce while increasing enrollment by 20%. They are also effectively dismantling our graduate program by severely cutting TA line.

Shopping for a lab coat to put on my Labubu that I bought for my work tote.

As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...

I'm so sad how many places—including Emory—are ending DEI initiatives, rather than standing by them, or even emphasizing that many of these programs are intended to help *anyone* who needs it. 😞 #DiversityIsntABadWord

'When an authoritarian sets out to dismantle a democracy, they rarely begin with tanks in the streets. They start with the institutions that shape how a nation understands itself — its universities, its research labs, its spaces for free inquiry.'

Check out the fantastic podcast series run by @bugsneedheroes.bsky.social! In each episode, Amanda (artist) and Kelly (entomologist) discuss amazing insects, with researchers as guests. Amanda also designs an illustration based on each convo! 🐝🐜🦋🪰🦟🪲🕷️