Very well done story on 60 Minutes about the harms of grant terminations and freezes at Harvard with Joan Brugge, Don Engbar, David Liu, and a very compelling young cancer patient, now cured with Liu's technology. Transcript and video here www.cbsnews.com/news/researc...

When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)

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...

NYT article reporting that Canada is about to lose its status of eliminating measles. It says Canada has reported 5000 cases and the US 1700. But we can be certain that the US number is a gross underestimate, it’s probably 5 times higher at the least. This is because RFKJr has

How do mRNA vaccines help fight cancer? A @nature.com paper today tells the story, one with big implications, as reviewed here erictopol.substack.com/p/how-mrna-v...

Anyone @unlincoln.bsky.social in Lincoln, Nebraska I’m speaking at the Johnny Carson center for the emerging media arts tomorrow night! Parents with kids are welcome! Come hear about my career path and find out how important art is in science! #nebraska #lincoln #science #art

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️

Congrats @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Happy Halloween!!

From Senate hearing on Wednesday www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

Congrats @cijilim.bsky.social !!

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci 🧪🛟🫁 Excellent reporting by @bruceylee.bsky.social in @forbes.com about the new NIH multi year funding policy decimating US biomedical research. www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...

I am so proud of @jezcarlton.bsky.social . What a magnificent inaugural lecture, many congratulations Professor Carlton!

For #WorldPolioDay, @asm.org named the University of Pittsburgh a Milestones in Microbiology site to honor Dr. Jonas Salk for developing the world’s first polio vaccine. After use in the early 1950s, it reduced paralytic polio in the U.S. by 96% in only a few years.

warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... I am advertising for a PhD position in my group. We'll be investigating how pathogenic RNA viruses replicate in the nucleus. The project will teach cryoEM/ET, virus culture, and in vitro assays. If you're interested reach out and I'd be happy to have a chat.

For 10 weeks starting in mid-July, NIH went on a tear. They issued 23,436 grants worth $14.9 billion—5k grants & $5 billion more than the same 10 weeks in FY24. In fiscal week 46 alone (mid-Aug), they awarded $2.1 billion in grants, nearly double their best week in FY24. NIH staff are amazing. 🤩

🦠 Abstract submission for the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Virology is open! Share your research with the virology community and help shape the scientific dialogue next year in Heidelberg. 🕐 Deadline: Jan 4, 2026 🔗 virology-meeting.de/programme-ab... #GfV2026 #virology #virologymeeting

UChicago Microbiology is searching for tenured or tenure-track faculty working in host-pathogens interactions, viral and bacterial pathogenesis, and emerging infectious diseases. Come join our vibrant Department! microbiology.uchicago.edu Apply here apply.interfolio.com/174404

Hooray for Andrea!

A summary of training, fellowship, and career development awards Fiscal year 2025 (compared to fiscal year 2024) 1/12

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development. go.nature.com/4hj9NNV

We are inviting applications for postdoctoral fellows in immunology of TB at the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, University of Cape Town. For more information see the attached ad: idm.uct.ac.za/media/739223

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

So the Trump administration is saying that the firing of hundreds of CDC staff was a mistake, a "coding error", and then hired them back. Well I think the "mistake" excuse is BS. The firings were designed to cause chaos, anxiety and to kill morale. Another in a long 

Two group leader positions available in the broader areas of RNA science, RNA technologies, and RNA medicine. Attractive packages and a great environment. Come and join us at Helmholtz RNA Würzburg, Bavaria.

After years in the making, Joe McKellar @viroscope.bsky.social’s final PhD paper is finally out today in PNAS! 🎉 🎉🎉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🧬 Exciting news from our lab 🧬 The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has approved our project studying KSHV and RNA decay: our first grant since re-launching the lab in Switzerland 🎉 We’re now looking for a Postdoc and a PhD student to join the team (start date January 2026) - please repost!

The long-term goal of @cijilim.bsky.social's research group is to understand how mammalian telomeres safeguard the genome. #WARF100 @uwchancellor.bsky.social @uwbiochem.bsky.social https://www.warf.org/commercialize/uw-madison-inventor-profiles/ip_lim/

Only a few days left to apply for the great PhD Programme of @vbcscitraining.bsky.social 👇🏻

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

UMass Amherst Microbiology is hiring a tenure-track virologist. Come work with me! 🦠🧪 careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

Come join us in Oxford! Two positions open right now in @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social It’s a great place to work. Really supportive colleagues, great students, colleges provide a unique social environment - in summary, it’s a lot of fun.

Very excited about next week's RNA Maxigroup seminar from Kristen Lynch @upenn.edu ! Thanks to @rnasociety.bsky.social , @uwbiochem.bsky.social, and the CMB program for sponsoring!

We have an open post-doc position in my group to study mRNA cleavage and polyadenylation using biochemical reconstitution and cryoEM. Please get in touch if you are interested in joining this amazing team! 🔬🧬🤩 #RNA #cryoEM

NSF GRFP solicitation out. App deadlines now in November. As others noted, eligibility rules for current graduate students now exclude 2nd year grad students. See the solicitation - they’ve emphasized “first year” and “less than one academic year” in grad program. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Excited to share our new preprint, which was years in the making! chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr... New reactions are typically developed by trial and error. How can we speed up this process? Read on to learn how we used DNA scaffolding to perform >500,000 parallel reactions on attomole scale. 1/n

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Tonight! WARF's Kevin Walters and author Doug Moe explore the fascinating story of Karl Paul Link and the discovery of warfarin at a special event hosted by @uwmadlibraries.bsky.social.

believe that pathogens really cause diseases. Really, America this man must be paid no attention, he must be removed from Office. Here is a link to a podcast I did about pathogen survaillance and pandemic preparedness. www.infectiousdose.com/post/jim-alw...

🚨 Microbiologists! We are recruiting Assistant / Associate Professors in 3 collaborative areas of our U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine. 1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro 2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute 3) Center for Vaccine Research 🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...

Our weekly #MDTP student seminars continue tomorrow, featuring Grace Enzien from the Donohue Lab and Ebru Guver from the Sperandio Lab! #UWMadison

📣 Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology to join the @weillinstitute.bsky.social PLS spread the word! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607

Re-upping this: For those of you having new students in the lab, I have curated a YouTube playlist on molecular biology: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... I usually have my students watch it before I show them how to do it in the lab.

Before and after #badgerchallenge. Definitely top 10 in the Over 50 Clydesdale Division. And I'm just short of my fundraising goal for research in pancreatic cancer and multiple myeloma in memory of my folks if anybody wants to contribute to my fundraiser: www.givesignup.org/Race/28060/D...

Are you a recent PhD interested in a postdoc in Canada? Up to 20% of NSERC Postdoc Fellowships (70k/y for 2y) will be awarded to International applicants, who did their PhD outside of Canada. Deadline is 17 October. See: www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etu...

Mammalian ZAP and KHNYN independently restrict CpG-enriched avian viruses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.23.629495v1