We’re hiring a new Vice President for Research at TAMUSA! Come work with me :) wittkieffer.com/positions/20...

Tiny Chef, the Instagram sensation who also happens to be animated, has gained millions of fans of all ages while whipping up vegetarian meals with a side of heart. https://to.pbs.org/3V1pHCs

DOGE slashes federal funds to Humanities Texas www.expressnews.com/news/article...

We’re doing a lab sustainability survey with students here at @A&M-SA. If you can help us get this link out to folks - particularly those doing A&P, we would appreciate it. I'll share our findings with you all when done! Here's the survey forms.gle/SNGsrcxDWHCA... D

🧪 New studies show paying peer reviewers ~$250 speeds up reviews by 1-33 days without affecting quality. One journal saw acceptance rates rise from 48% to 53%. #AcademicSky

Check this out chem friends!!!

Oooo anyone want to move to Denmark!!??

Why is this not of value?? Read this folks www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

The 2025 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 496 tenure-track positions and 88 teaching positions: bit.ly/facultychemj... #facultychemjobs #chemjobs #chemsky 🧪⚗️

📢 Last call for the EMBL International PhD Programme summer recruitment! This is a fully funded PhD programme fostering creative approaches to questions in the molecular life sciences. Join us in promoting scientific excellence throughout Europe. Apply now! www.embl.org/about/info/e...

www.microbe.tv/immune/immun... I was lucky enough to receive a vaccine against measles that prevented a severe infection so I’m paying more attention to what happens during & after the disease. Immune system “forgets” what it was immune to before because #measles #virus wipes out immune memory.

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Read this folks and brush up on your measles knowledge - it’s coming ….

Strong background in genomics and bioinformatics education and community engagement. Currently located in Bethesda, MD. Updated CV: app.box.com/s/hg5g6z05cz...

If you are an NIH or CDC scientist that lost your job, we have a home for you at UTHealth. I’m hiring physician scientists and we also have transplant ID fellowship slots open. Contact me. #IDSky #MedSky

Congratulations Dr. Dennehy!!!

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the nation’s largest private funder of biomedical research, yesterday killed a $60 million program aimed at making universities’ STEM education more inclusive. scim.ag/3EtS0US

Rat populations are rising in cities predominantly because of warmer average temperatures, reports a new #ScienceAdvances study.

Did you know that if a child with #measles walks into a classroom, every unvaccinated child will most certainly get it? Why are measles cases increasing worldwide? And is the measles vaccine safe and effective? Dr Natasha Crowcroft explains on Science in 5. Watch full EP: bit.ly/40RQqoC

Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh

We are devastated to report that NABT President-Elect Lindsey (Carter) Fields was aboard the AA Airlines 5342. This is a tremendous loss. Please keep Lindsey, the other victims, and their families in your hearts. We also ask that you respect the privacy of her loved ones at this time.

NSF's Undergraduate Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology program has been abruptly archived. The deadline was tomorrow. People were submitting proposals. This program is designed to support the American scientific workforce. I cannot see the point of this level of self-sabotage.

Hoping more science educators will join bluesky! @ncsce.bsky.social

Ok what is going on now - I’m hearing of a potential economic collapse - www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...

Near the end of his life, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera painted Water, Origin of Life at the terminus of the public water system in Mexico City. Strikingly accurate in its scientific theory, watch what inspired Rivera and how it connects with microbiology. youtu.be/toLP7Gje_mg

The Hawai‘i Department of Health (DOH) State Laboratories Division has detected H5 bird flu at very low levels in wastewater samples collected at the Līhuʻe Wastewater Treatment Plant on Kauaʻi.

Educators - Talk and workshop abstracts for the Open Science in Undergraduate Education Symposium are due by Feb. 15. We're looking for proposal highlighting interesting and impactful ways you have incorporate #OpenScience tools in your classroom. 🔗 alleninstitute.org/events/opens... 🧬 #EduSky

Ok what is going on in Louisiana!!?? www.npr.org/sections/sho...

🚨 Summer Internship and Postbaccalaureate positions are now posted and open for application! 🚨 Please share with your network, especially students and recent grads with unconventional backgrounds and journeys. The last day to apply is Jan. 7, 2025. alleninstitute.org/careers/inte...

This is very interesting!!! I’ll be pulling out our textbooks now

Some good news for literacy!! @ncsce apnews.com/article/new-...

How TX is "obeying in advance" and banning references to race, gender, equity etc into curriculum. Major implications for our work connecting STEM to civic questions (note how“a class on mathematics may not include an activity on SB 17-prohibited topics) www.texastribune.org/2024/11/19/t...

HPV vaccination affected the sequential decline in HPV infection prevalence, cervical cancer incidence, and cervical cancer mortality. @jama.com Open Access jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

We have a lot of work to do. #scientificliteracy is a critical trait. Regardless of all beliefs, experiences, and leanings, we need all people to have a scientific worldview. We are committed to the fight for #scienceliteracy. Are you?

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The Natural Products Atlas 3.0: extending the database of microbially derived natural products - thanks to the Linington lab for letting the Duncan lab be part of the curation efforts academic.oup.com/nar/advance-... #NaturalProducts #SpecializedMetabolites #microsky #microbialchemistry

New paper; Changing taxonomy and antibiotic resistance of bacterial isolates in a new hospital ward pre and post patient admittance journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

🎨 In case anyone need… The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏! Check it out 👇 bioart.niaid.nih.gov

NCSCE and SENCER couldn’t agree more!

Teaching or developing a virology course in the upcoming academic year? ASV has curriculum guidelines and learning objectives to help you out! asv.org/curriculum-g...

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