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...

Postdoc Opportunity at UNC Chapel Hill in the Ainslie Lab (pls repost)! The Ainslie Lab is looking for a Post Doc researcher to join our autoimmune tolerance project focused on multiple sclerosis. Details & application info: lnkd.in/e473J_Tw

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

New paper from Dave Brow's group on the role of Hrp1 (CF 1B) in transcription termination www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are hiring! The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Department of Cell and Developmental Biology is hiring a faculty member in the area of Aging, broadly defined. Come join us! Deadline is soon! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

I wanted to remind everyone about the "Save AIDS Research" livestream that will go live on YouTube this Tuesday (9/16) at 11:00am EDT. We have an amazing program of 70+ speakers who will be sharing their latest research. Get all the details at www.saveaidsresearch.org.

Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...

We are looking for new SciLifeLab Fellows (group leaders) to join SciLifeLab and Karolinska Institutet @ki.se . @scilifelab.se is a great place to start your lab with generous funding. Deadline: 15th November. Apply and join us in beautiful #Stockholm #JuniorPI ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

We're hiring! 5 tenure track assistant professors. 2 #microbiology, 2 #Evolution, 1 #biologicalclocks jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675062/f...

David Baltimore, for much of the past three decades, has been one of my most helpful, thoughtful sources. I wrote an obit about his remarkable career, and I included a few of my interactions with him. www.science.org/content/arti...

Even with #antiretroviral therapy, HIV-1 can still cause persistent inflammation in macrophages. This study shows that intron-containing #HIV1 RNA (icRNA) activates NLRP1 #inflammasome & induces IL-1β secretion in myeloid cells, independent of RIG-I-like receptors @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/45VTGBR

The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

Dear scientific community, I am looking for two postdoctoral structural biologists to join my group at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

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

My MCDB dept is accepting applications for a faculty position at the Assistant Professor level! Applications Due by October 15, 2025 We welcome applications from all areas of physiology and neuroscience, spanning molecular, cellular, systems, and organismal levels. lsa.umich.edu/mcdb/news-ev...

Legend David Baltimore died yesterday. He understood the way things should work: "the real contribution of MIT is that it doesn't take itself too seriously. It takes ideas seriously, but the people are relatively informal. They are not self-aggrandizing the way academics can be."

Our wastewater dashboard was updated yesterday (we’re behind because of an equipment failure). I’d like to point out some things you can learn from the dashboard about respiratory virus [and stupid vaccine policy]. 1/ lungfish-science.github.io/wastewater-d...

📢 Research Seminar 🗓 Sept 12 | ⏰ Noon 🎤 Dr. Shai Bel, Bar-Ilan University Join us Sept 12 at Noon for our next research seminar feat. Dr. Shai Bel (Bar-Ilan University). Don’t miss the chance to hear about his work—open to all, come and bring a colleague!

I’ve found cryptic lineages from sequencing wastewater. I’ve found cryptic lineages from screening databases. This is the first time I’ve found a cryptic lineage from social media. This was an interesting story. 1/

So excited to share our work with our collaborator Dr. Ling Lin. TB, the disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, led to 1.25 million deaths globally in 2023. HIV is the greatest risk factor for TB and HIV-M. tuberculosis co-infection causes worse clinical outcomes for both infections. 1/

"We’re currently at about 54% of last year’s total [of funded R01s]...Another way to look at this is that we’re missing 1,809 new R01s."

📚 Congrats to Janet Iwasa, University of Utah — winner of ASCB’s Bruce Alberts Award for innovative, impactful science education! #ASCB #CellBiology

Next Saturday, second night full of music at Strollin' Middleton Jazz Festival, 10th anniversary edition. Lineup on Sat Sept 6 will include the Jon Hoel Trio (5:00pm) and from New York City, Moses Patrou Band (7:00pm). https://loom.ly/dBDryaQ

Awesome to have a visit from @jayeperview.bsky.social and Khoa! Checking out the old haunts one last time before starting their exciting new labs at Tufts University next week!

The research that saves lives, sparks innovation and drives change is happening right now at UW–Madison and across the Big Ten Conference. Together, we’re shaping the future.

Do you love virology but wish you had more colleagues who wanted to discuss the latest papers? FEAR NOT! JVI has you covered with their JVI Seminar Series, where you can hear about a JVI paper directly from the authors. The next seminar is on September 16 at 10am EST: asm.org/webinars/jou...

We're hiring in my Division of Berkeley MCB. Come be my new colleague!

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...

Welcome to Hannah Wayment-Steele, who joins the UW–Madison Department of Biochemistry this month as an assistant professor! Learn more about her research, interests, and lab: biochem.wisc.edu/2025/08/19/n...

Really excited to share the latest story out of the lab today. the culmination of lots of hard work by the first author, Dr. Gary Dunn. The producer cell type of HSV-1 alters the proteomic contents and infectious capacity of virions | Journal of Virology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Faculty search announcement 2025: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (some preference may be given to bacterial pathogens). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...

Thinking about a STEM PhD? 🌟 From high school to undergrad, here’s your guide to the skills, resources, and mindset you need to prepare and thrive in grad school. 📚🔬 🔗 cientificolatino.com/post/titilay... #STEM #GradSchool #CareerTips

Congratulations to @mebrown4.bsky.social and the Brown Lab on this exciting achievement! #WisconsinInnovates

Megan McClean uses a bioengineering approach to understanding fundamental biological and medical questions in microbes, specifically model and pathogenic yeasts. #WARF100 @uwchancellor.bsky.social‬ https://www.warf.org/commercialize/uw-madison-inventor-profiles/mcclean/

My company is hiring a computational biologist! This role is the same position as mine, and will involve building genomic prediction models, some bioinformatics, and a lot of independent research on developing new methods to improve our crop development initiatives. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

New preprint: we developed a method that uses phosphoproteome-derived peptide libraries (PhosPropels) for deep specificity profiling of phosphatases and phospholyases www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congrats to Sandy Schmid , a scientific hero, winner of @ascbiology.bsky.social's E.B Wilson Medal. She shaped our understanding of molecular mechanisms & regulation of clathrin-mediated endocytosis, is a leader in the cell biology community & a remarkable mentor🧪 www.ascb.org/society-news...

Excited to *finally* have @mfarjo.bsky.social 's fantastic paper on SARS-CoV-2 within-host evolutionary dynamics during acute infection published at JVI: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

My department @utoronto.ca (www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/) is hiring a molecular biologist in any field (e.g., ecology, evolutionary biology, etc.). Please encourage any excellent finishing PhD students, postdocs or assistant professor to apply here: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...

As stressful as it is to run a laboratory in the US right now, my thoughts are often with the NIH staff living in the awful chaos trying to preserve the whole enterprise. I’m grateful for every moment they choose not to give up. These people are the only thing keeping it from entirely collapsing.