Another charter member of the "Branch Covidians"... The damage these idiots are doing both with specific issues under consideration and future operations is breathtaking (literally).

Idk I just feel like releasing this on Women and Girls in Science day with the top people being in the Epstein files and only THREE (3) women being in the top FIFTY...is on the nose. www.forbes.com/sites/alexkn...

Science cannot thrive when censorship shuts down research. Shutting down research doesn't make people healthy. Help us impeach & #RemoveRFKJr by visiting standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr . (1/5🧵)

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Attention science fighting peeps! Here are some banners for you to rep on your Bluesky account! Join the fight for science on March 7th in D.C. or your area of choice by visiting this link! : standupforscience.net/march7

For anyone interested in the history of molecular biology, I cannot recommend Judson's The Eighth Day of Creation highly enough. One of the great book on the history of science. I have two copies because a actually wore out the first one (paperback) www.cshlpress.com/default.tpl?...

Shameful. and for WHAT? to quote @maddow.bsky.social : who is this good for?

The obsession with “star scientists” and “attracting top talent” fundamentally misunderstands research and higher education. Create a healthy environment that is attractive to all manner of scientists. Because that run of the mill, non-transformative, maybe slightly boring research matters, too.

The new Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE) Program page is posted. Please contact us at [email protected] if you have questions. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

In a manuscript on BioRxiv, we describe experiments exploring the culturome of the gut of adults with CF and in health, revealing an interesting redistribution of the microbes in the lumen vs. mucosa. The study is led by Sarvesh Surve a PhD student in my lab. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint! Do you like ocean waves? We found similar waves on bacterial colonies! We found that this collective behavior, known as rippling, is nothing but surface waves on an active nematic. @princeton.edu @mpipks.bsky.social @ub.edu @icreacommunity.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Viruses are found in almost every ecosystem across the planet. Now, researchers have released VIRE – a comprehensive viral genome database covering diverse ecosystems to advance understanding of viral evolution and ecosystem functions. Learn more: www.embl.org/news/science...

I have the gel electrophoresis scarf and love it!

Sharing this important article... for no reason whatsoever. "We must also continue to deepen and refine our understanding of fundamental biological processes because these details frequently hold the keys to major advances in applied research." elifesciences.org/articles/102...

‘The latest surveillance data found that the number of antibiotic-resistant infections in 2024 equated to an average of nearly 400 newly reported cases a week.’ www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

@standupforscience.bsky.social #StandWithJenna 2/2

My quote of the day Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed. Whitney Young

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

The “canonical” story how Rosalind Franklin got wronged by Watson and Crick inadvertently makes her look far less scientifically competent than she was (“She did not realize the significance of her own data!”). This article offers a much more nuanced account of what happened.

Congratulations to Drew Hryckowian! @a-hryckowian.bsky.social

8 high level positions at NIH posted including 6 institute director positions (NIMH, NIGMS, NICHD, NIDCR, NHGRI, NLM). Only open for 2 weeks (applications due November 21). Application materials include a) CV b) vision statement c) a photocopy of doctoral degree. hr.nih.gov/careers/open...

just gonna leave this here 🧪

Great profile of @ruthlessruth15.bsky.social www.the-scientist.com/postdoc-port...

by Roberto — When I wrote "A New Dawn," which posted on July 21, the last thing I imagined for the fu­ture of STC was that our platform, Typepad, would go dark on us. Not just dark, pitch black. I was enthusiastically cruising along with my... Read more > smallthingsconsidered.blog/schaechter/2...

A new study analyzes soils sampled across Kansas to determine the importance of “legacy effects” — or how soils from a specific location are influenced by microbes that evolved in response to the specific climate at that site for many years. #LegacyEffects #drought 🧪 news.ku.edu/news/article...

A reminder that UTK Microbiology is hiring for two tenure-track faculty positions — one in quantitative plant-microbe interactions and another in microbial drivers of chronic disease. Review of applications begins November 21.

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

Pritzker: Throughout history we've learned that tyranny doesn't arrive with dramatic proclamations. Most times it comes quietly wrapped in the language of law and order, with fingers pointed at someone who doesn't look like you, promising safety while demanding that we sacrifice our neighbors.

People gathered for pro-democracy protests across the country today.

New biology: stink bugs inoculate their eggs with a fungus that protects them from parasitoids www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...

🔬 Microbiology job seekers 🧫 go to BMA Job Board to view open positions! Have a vacancy to fill? Posting instructions also available (scroll to bottom). blackinmicrobiology....

-80 freezer at -20

#AcademicSky #EduSky

Fridays are busy these days. First, a 7AM PT podcast session with the great Dr. Petra Levin, to discuss bacterial stress, size, and antibiotic resistance for Episode 112 releasted next week. Such fun to chat with a TWiMmer!

New episode of #MattersMicrobial! The superlative Dr. Jeff Gralnick chats with the #QualityQuorum about bacteria that breathe metal! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord! @univpugetsound @asmicrobiology @microbe.tv youtu.be/rh-TK2Bvxj8?...

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

4 October (today) is International Observe the Moon night! It's super easy to do - just head out and look up at our celestial companion who has been with us for nearly all of our time. Without it, our world would be very different. *There's a whole other world that just hangs in our sky for us*

Job @Rutgers !!!

This is your daily reminder that registration is open and *FREE* for #BiM2025 #BlackInMicro Week. Get ready to join our online celebration: linktr.ee/BlackInMicro#BiM2025#BlackInMicroor see link in bio)

So this came online over the weekend: My dive into the "definition" of coevolution is online ahead of publication in @journal-evo.bsky.social! Don’t ask "when is it coevolution?" — ask "how?" doi.org/10.1093/evol...

📢 Deadline extended! Apply by Oct 3 for the 2025 Sydney Brenner Thesis Award—honoring outstanding theses in nematode biology (defended Oct 1, 2024–Sept 30, 2025). Send in your nomination today! 🔗:

External Event Grant awards of up to £750 are available for eligible members as a contribution towards the costs of registration, travel, and accommodation to attend an event beginning 01 Jan – 30 April 2026. Apply now before the deadline 01 Nov at 23:59: microb.io/ExternalEven...

Interesting work on understudied sponge symbionts from the Arctic.

Here's my NSF GRFP OpEd. Who wants to publish it? "Revert text of NSF 25-547 (GRFP FY26) to NSF 24-591 (GRFP FY25) and keep current competition dates so that all applicants have a fair chance and awards can be made in advance of April 2026 decisions for graduate school."

We have limited time to act and a potential shutdown ahead. Candidates for the NSF GRFP need answers. The change in eligibility with <90 days before deadline is both unfair and contravenes NSF's own policy: www.nsf.gov/funding/over...

First, first-author publication from undergrad Tabitha Cowell is live! She did some very cool comparisons of putative conjugative T4SS gene clusters and found neat eco evolutionary differences between the wilt pathogen and more environmental species! I'll make an explainer sometime this week.