DYK most P. aeruginosa carry filamentous phage(s) that don't need to kill the cell to reproduce? We 👉🏻@nanamikubota.bsky.social show that these Pf phages can go ROGUE. "Filamentous cheater phages drive bacterial and phage populations to lower fitness" 🔗 authors.elsevier.com/c/1lt5I3QW8S...

If things weren’t bad enough already, Republicans in control of Congress are shutting down the government. Why? Because Donald Trump opposes making health care more affordable for millions of Americans.

thanks, jeremy, for pointing this out 👇 (already, when this was a hot issue a few month ago, europmc.org was mentioned here on 🔵bsky as a possible safety belt) #MicroSky

www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky

Come join us in Knoxville! 🧫🧪🦠

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)

Dual transposon sequencing profiles the genetic interaction landscape in bacteria | Science https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adt7685?af=R

Come join us in Knoxville! 🧫🧪🦠

We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Microbial Drivers of Chronic Disease, starting Fall 2026!

We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Quantitative Microbe–Plant–Environment Interactions, starting Fall 2026!

More from our #SCIMaP effort, including projections and state level report cards of what is at stake given the White House projected FY26 budget for NIH scienceimpacts.org/fy26

My department at UTK is hiring! 🧪🧫 We are hiring two Assistant Professors, one in Microbial Drivers of Chronic Disease and one in Quantitative Microbe-Plant-Environment Interactions! Come join our growing department of microbiologists. Knoxville is a great place to live!

Former surgeon general Jerome Adams pulls no punches in his assessment of health secretary Kennedy and the risk he poses to vaccine policy. www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/j...

Phase separation and coexistence in spatial coordination games between microbes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.09.675176v1

Revealing Community Dynamics in Polymicrobial Infections through a Quantitative Framework https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.12.675334v1

Excited to share our latest preprint is up: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... led by @aanuoluwaduro.bsky.social ! 🧪🧫

This is the way

CDC staff walking out to cheers from an assembled crowd. AP was live-streaming it, but is is private now. [Screen grab]

Four more top #CDC officials have submitted their resignation in the past few hours - Debra Houry (chief medical officer), Demere Daskalakis (director of NCIRD), Daniel Jernigan (director of NCEZID) + Jen Layden (director of OPHDST) www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... It is horrifying

These children were probably praying when they were shot to death at catholic school. Don’t give us your fucking thoughts and prayers. Trump got rid of the Office of Gun Violence Prevention. Trump gutted the resources that were in place to keep our communities safe.

Absolutely gutted that this happened again, this time in a place I know and love. We have the power to stop this. www.startribune.com/minneapolis-... #EndGunViolence

“We feel like the lost generation.” A story on the collapse of US science, which is hitting young scientists hardest www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

A wonderfully-done depiction of what America is losing by destroying science. This isn’t just a story about these scientists, it is a story about how Russ Vought and MAGA are killing medical cures. That will touch everyone. With David Ho, Kamila Naxerova, @docsirianni.bsky.social, 1/

It bears repeating that nearly the entire US enterprise in science and technology has been irreversibly gutted. This is shocking. All this loss has occurred without any real benefit to the average US citizen. Except we now have the biggest, best funded secret police force perhaps ever. Yay for us!

Our high-precision metagenomic strain caller, PHLAME, is now published in Cell Reports!! www.cell.com/cell-reports... PHLAME works on tough sample types -- including those with coexisting strains of a species and low depth.

NOA!!! 🎉🍾

Excited to have our new mini review on Microbiome Metabolism out today in I&I as part of the @asm.org New Voices in Microbiology collection! Check it out! 🧫🧪 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Microbiology professor, want to join a slack for microbiology professors, any career stage, diverse career types (pure teaching, med school, R1, community college, pure research fed PIs, ...) Message me for an invite link if you are interested. No imposter syndrome, if you are 1% micro, join!

Infection and Immunity is now welcoming nominations for highly promising scientists at the assistant professor level (or equivalent) to submit research to the next New Voices in Microbiology Collection! Please nominate by the August 18 deadline using the below link: app.asm.org/account/logi...

Lets start by acknowledging the current American health system sucks. We rank lowest in life expectancy among rich countries, and gains are slowing. Since the 1980s, the country has lost about 10 million people compared to countries with similar incomes. Real problems, which will get worse.

Powerful video with courageous NIH staff members standing in solidarity with the EPA signers of their Declaration of Dissent. @standupforscience.bsky.social

Super stoked and honored to be elected as co-chair along with @ksbakes.bsky.social for the Microbial Population Biology 2029 GRC! And looking forward to a great 2027 meeting in Andover chaired by @drhhnz.bsky.social and @wcratcliff.bsky.social !

Feeling tired but inspired after a great week at the #MicrobialPopBioGRC. Great to see old friends and make some new ones! 🦞🗻🧫 @ginalewin.bsky.social @peachypotato.bsky.social @jamesgurney.bsky.social @stephenkdolan.bsky.social

Lovely time with new and old friends at microbiology population biology camp. Leaving with lots of new ideas (and lots of new bug bites) @cbibberson.bsky.social @peachypotato.bsky.social @jamesgurney.bsky.social

"The NIH is a sound investment for the US taxpayer"

Deep in my heart I believe that America is better than this. We are better than stripping health care away from our most vulnerable and taking food out of the mouths of hungry children so that corporations can have another tax cut. I urge my colleagues in the House: Vote no.

Our paper demonstrating that within-species warfare interactions are ecologically important on human skin is now published in Nature Micro! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I spoke on the Senate Floor about why Republicans’ rushed bill is a Big Beautiful Betrayal of the hardworking people of this country. 16 million people lose their health care, $4 TRILLION in debt, and higher interest rates that will make it harder for young people to buy a home.

This is also true for Tennessee, but Senator @MarshaBlackburn & @SenatorHagerty wouldn’t say this in a million years. #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

"In an email yesterday, senior NIH official Michelle Bulls instructed agency employees to 'unrelease all grant projects that are in the [queue] to be terminated.'"🧪⚕️

Essential reading from terminated members of ACIP in JAMA: "The termination of all members and its leadership in a single action undermines the committee’s capacity to operate effectively and efficiently, aside from raising questions about competence." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Best image of the day:

Incredible reporting by @propublica.org. We are actively losing so much it's difficult to wrap one's head around it. projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...

New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

And this is not just a problem for academia. Many colleagues who were NSF fellows - federally funded grad students - now work for start-ups, pharma, tech, etc. Graduate students are current and future innovators in all spaces. Drying up training pipelines will dehydrate our industries. 🫗#SaveNSF

Bringing this to Bsky bc @steverattner.bsky.social hasn't posted it yet and it's so critical. The entirety of the cuts to Medicaid and food benefits are to pay for tax cuts for people earning more than half a million a year. Call Congress: 202-224-3121

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.