This is unbelievably cool

Very much worth 3 min of your day.

Friends, please help spread the word about our microbiology REU program at Montana State University. www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/ Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided. Details in the attached pic--Feb 14 deadline 🧫🧪🦠#microsky

A free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication

Starting this week, I set aside one hour each week to meet ECRs outside my group who want to discuss career development, mentorship, or any non-technical professional questions. Here is a blog that explains my motivation for this and how to schedule a meeting: merenlab.org/2025/11/16/E...

SCIE exists for lazy evaluation panels that lack the expertise to assess scientific impact themselves to 'know' what journal names to look for in people's CVs. We need more eLifes. We need to flood this industry with creative, independent, non-profit publishing models for science.

Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404

View from the lab now. Did I mention that we are recruiting faculty microbiologists? www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...

we are happy to support this appeal 👇 we are also happy to repeat it...

Our Pitt Microbiology and Molecular Genetics department in the School of Medicine is recruiting.. Microbiologists! 🧫🦠🔬🧪 Please apply to join our faculty and enjoy these views 👀 while doing great science cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

Getting ready to teach microbiology this semester, just using ChatGPT to help me freshen up the course

Applications due tomorrow for full consideration. Thinking about joining my fabulous department and becoming my colleague? Get that application in!!

What to expect at the ASM Biofilms Conference

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!

Kenyon is hiring a TT microbiologist! Please share widely. I’m the search chair & am happy to answer any questions. careers.pageuppeople.com/695/cw/en-us...

Notice of Award is in! Join our team at NIU to study marine microbial ecology & disease dynamics in sea urchins 🧫🌊🦠 PhD | Spring/Fall 2026 start Job Ad Here 👉 shorturl.at/fSMy9 Apply here 👉 forms.gle/gfMnHutijfqC... More: theaquaticmicrobiologylab.com @ianhewson.bsky.social @viromegirl.bsky.social

POSTDOC🚨 With the excellent @anshika22.bsky.social moving to UCI 🥲Anna Zemke and I are again recruiting a postdoc on the HOST-PATHOGEN BIOLOGY of TRACHEOBRONCHITIS. This is a microbiome-device-host immunity problem of broad significance. Contact Dr. Zemke (zemkea at upmc dot edu) if interested! 👇🏻

Quote Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. Louis Pasteur

AAU updates their excellent explainer about indirect costs to cover the current attacks... www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtqK... 1/2

Also, for the record: 1. No it doesn't. 2. No it doesn't. 3. Kinda but not really. 4. This is unconfirmed and months early makes no sense. 5. It has.

Preprint out! Bacteria w/ hyper-replicative filamentous phage lead to overnight emergence of cheater phages. Bacteria w/ both phages can outcompete wildtype, then rapidly lose phage via a phage Tragedy of the Commons @shellyscrib.bsky.social @vscooper.micropopbio.org www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My (purely teaching-focused) unit is hiring. We teach the lecture and lab for 100-level bio majors. Starts at 1 year, but expectation is permanent. For more information and to apply, please visit careers.msu.edu (search for job# 1024852). Review of applications will begin on March 20, 2025.

Delighted to share our new study. A collaboration with the Thurlow lab. Antibiotic resistance rapidly emerges and thrives in diabetic mice. A worrying coming together of two major and growing health problems worldwide www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Friends, please help spread the word about our microbiology REU program at Montana State University. www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/ Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided. Details in the attached pic--Feb 13 deadline 🧫🧪🦠#microsky

📣 📣 📣 Still lots of TT jobs being advertised: The 2024-2025 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Have had some good chats recently about pivoting to non-profit and society journals. A point to share/underline is that such options exist across the "prestige" spectrum. Some examples in the image. All heavily subjective of course; would love to hear thoughts from others!

Bumping this since more people are here now. Our NTTs are unionized and awesome.

Herpetologist Wanted!!! We are hiring a Research/Animal Care Technician in Milwaukee. Previous lizard/snake experience required. See attached ad (and alt text) for details. 🧪🦎

Recruiting a Postdoctoral Scholar for Fall 2024. See wix.to/wPgT5kj for details

I am super excited to share that my lab has relocated to the Dept of Microbiology & Cell Biology at Montana State University in Bozeman, MT. We will be looking to recruit scientists at all levels. Get in touch if you love phages, microbes, & mountains. 🧫🧪🦠

Excited to share the first preprint from my lab, collaborating with the fantastic @sanmillan.bsky.social 's lab, led by the amazing Jorge Sastre. We've demonstrated how insertion sequences encoded in plasmids promote bacterial adaptation. This project has been incredibly fun!

We are recruiting a MS graduate student for fall 2024. Research focus is on Microbiology interventions in wastewater. Applications are due January 15. Please contact me if interested.

Hugely impressed with the quality of genomic/transcriptomic services at @seqcoast.bsky.social! We've processed several orders with them and they are fast, have competitive prices, produce high quality data, and are happy to work with diverse samples from academic researchers. seqcoast.com/services/

There is still time…We are hiring 2 tenure track faculty at the U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences 1) Freshwater (Ecosystem) Dynamics and 2) Fisheries. Application review starts Oct 2. jobs.uwm.edu/postings/37676 jobs.uwm.edu/postings/37677 We would love for you to join us!

I'm excited to announce that the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology has TWO openings for tenure track Assistant Professors using genomics-informed methods to study critical questions in Plant and/or Microbial Biology. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/265...

Not sure how to begin your sequencing journey? Get in touch! You can send us a note via our contact form, or book a quick meeting with one of our scientists: seqcoast.com/contact/

Three - count 'em! - faculty positions open at U Tennessee Microbiology! 1.) TT Assoc/Full prof: Plant/microbe interactions apply.interfolio.com/131119 2.) TT Ass't prof: Immunology apply.interfolio.com/130937 3.)TT Ass't prof: Micro. physiology apply.interfolio.com/130406

Please boost/share: the antibiotic discovery CURE Tiny Earth (TinyEarth.wisc.edu) based at UW-Madison is hiring a Curriculum Lead. Details/application here: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/curricu...

🚨Psst: we are hiring in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics in Pitt’s School of Medicine. Microbiologists wanted! 🧪🧬🦠 (ad soon to follow)