Our lab is hiring an enthusiastic and motivated research specialist to study host-pathogen interactions in the context of S. aureus infection. For more information, see below: Lab website: www.reyesruizlab.org jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/researc...

Faculty search announcement 2026: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern in Dallas. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (broadly defined). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...

Go UC 😊 www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/univers...

More on ancient plague: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here is a more detailed take on this story: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Is colorectal cancer driven by a disruption of anaerobiosis? A recent study by Spiga et al. makes this idea walk and talk like a duck. Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)

ASM Awardees

Meet the American Academy of Microbiology Fellows class of 2026

Interested in microbiology, immunology, and host-pathogen interactions? Come work with us! Our department at OHSU is opening a search for a new tenure-track faculty position. See the job advertisement for details. Please share within your networks! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

More than 140,000 fake citations across four research repositories were identified in papers and preprints published in 2025 alone go.nature.com/49KiNZJ

“The cases appear linked to five hatcheries that supply birds to retailers and involve three strains: Salmonella Saintpaul, Salmonella Mbandaka, and Salmonella Enteritidis” www.cidrap.umn.edu/salmonella/s...

I would argue peer review is an important, albeit imperfect, barrier to stem this tide, but preprint repositories serve to supercharge this problem.

A one year ban followed by the requirement that subsequent bioXiv submissions must be first accepted by a reputable journal. Does that mean bioXiv finally sees value in peer review 🫢

Broad-ranging expert brief by Brennan Center for Justice @brennancenter.org synthesizing work by many independent groups that reveals the costs of attacks on science in terms of economic activity, jobs, discovery, health & leadership. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

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🚨Faculty job search: University of Illinois Chicago Micro & Immuno department is hiring! Open rank and open area within host-pathogen interactions. Apply by May 31 to join us in UI College of Medicine in the heart of Chicago! uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Portland is a great place to live and OHSU MMI is a great place to work.

Spread the word! We are recruiting for 6 new research professors at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center. Open rank, open area, but must leverage 🐒 resources. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561

New episode of #MattersMicrobial! This time, Dr. Joe Zackular joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the wily bacterium Clostridiodes difficile (also known as C. diff) which can cause serious disease in humans. Informative session! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord! youtu.be/9oSR01l-EkY?...

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

We are hiring! We’re excited to recruit a postdoc to our lab at UC Davis to work on plant immune engineering and single-cell analyses of plant pathogen interactions. Apply by June 1. Please repost. www.coakerlab.org/postdoctoral...

The CDC warns that extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Shigella is on the rise in US. The prevalence of XDR Shigella isolates in US surveillance data rose from 0% during 2011-2015 to 8.5% in 2023. Read more: ow.ly/VXee50YLphl 📷: CDC, Stephanie Rossow

@hhmi-science.bsky.social's #FreemanHrabowski Scholars Program offers early career faculty up to $10M over 10 yrs, plus salary & benefits Stable, sustained support can transform your career: Senior Postdoc? This year's competition has a program for you too. Applications open 11/3! bit.ly/4vhC0LA

Why has the #Salmonella ST34 become a global pandemic clone? The answer is in the #pig gut—and our use of #copper. Our latest research dives into the "copper-modified niche" and how it reshapes the microbiome. link.springer.com/article/10.1... @rafalkolenda.bsky.social @abaumler.bsky.social

Kann ein unausgeglichenes Darmmikrobiom eine chronische Nierenerkrankung verschlimmern? Durch Entschlüsselung der ökologischen Ursachen einer Darmfloraveränderung, und deren Konsequenz für das Voranschreiten der Krankheit, konnten wir diese Frage lösen. Mehr hier: germanic.news/wie-ein-unau...

Genome sequence of a 5,000 year old bacterium (Psychrobacter) from cave ice contains more than 100 genes associated with antimicrobial resistance 😳 www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic...

Out now in @science.org Host-derived nitrate fuels indole production by Escherichia coli to drive chronic kidney disease progression | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Kann ein unausgeglichenes Darmmikrobiom eine chronische Nierenerkrankung verschlimmern? Durch Entschlüsselung der ökologischen Ursachen einer Darmfloraveränderung, und deren Konsequenz für das Voranschreiten der Krankheit, konnten wir diese Frage lösen. Mehr hier: germanic.news/wie-ein-unau...

Does an imbalanced gut microbiome worsen chronic kidney disease? By elucidating the ecological causes for changes in the gut microbiota composition during chronic kidney disease and its consequences for disease progression we were able to answer this question.

Does an imbalanced gut microbiome worsen chronic kidney disease? By elucidating the ecological causes for changes in the gut microbiota composition and its consequences for disease progression we were able to answer this question. Read more at: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

On world kidney day, let’s remember that uremic toxins, metabolites derived from the gut microbiota, drive progression towards renal failure. Yet while the microbial origin of uremic toxins is undisputed, it is not clear whether gut dysbiosis contributes to disease. www.worldkidneyday.org

Here is the "effective payline" for each institute, estimated (by Claude) as the percentile where one can expect 80% probability of funding from a logistic regression fit. The effective payline has gone from a historic ~12% to 6% in 2025.

Pls re-post: My department @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social are recruiting for several new faculty positions (links below). Broad search in molecular biology/biochemistry, across prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Interested in understanding life at the molecular level, this job might be for you! 1/n

AI is threatening science jobs. Which ones are most at risk? Data-analysis and modelling positions are already becoming obsolete, but hands-on experimentalists can breathe easy for now. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Major advance in T. pallidum reserach: "First human cell-based cultivation system for the syphilis spirochete Treponema pallidum" link.springer.com/article/10.1... #MicroSky

AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says https://gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically-zero-to-us-economic-growth-last-year-goldman-sachs-says-2000725380

Congratulations to Mariana Byndloss @maribyndloss.bsky.social for her promotion to Associate Professor with tenure at Vanderbilt University @vanderbilt.edu Photo credit: Bäumler lab archives

By my count, this is the third CDC outbreak notice in the past three months involving Moringa leaf and various Salmonella strains. What's with that?

Congratulations to Çagla Tükel @caglatukel.bsky.social for her election to fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology! asm.social/2OC

Postdoc position available in my lab! Project will focus on how the microbiome-derived metabolite butyrate shapes C. difficile fitness and pathogenesis & will build on our previous/ongoing work in this space. Apply here: hr.wisc.edu/postdoc-and-...

I just leaned that my former postdoc mentor, Fred Heffron, passed away last week. I have fond memories from my time in Portland. Fred was smart, funny, and gave us the freedom to develop our own ideas. I am indebted to him for getting my academic career started in the US. Thank you and R.I.P.

Science: U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office By Jeffrey Mervis, Monica Hersher @science.org @policyhound.bsky.social @mghersher.bsky.social bit.ly/3M8yf9B

E. coli is the leading bacterium causing death from AMR infections worldwide. If you'd like to explore approaches to exploit the DNA damage response as alternative antimicrobial, please apply to the following PhD studentship available in my lab starting October 2026: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

CS: Host-microbiome dynamics abstract deadline extended to Feb 6. Share your research with leading scientists exploring the ecology of the human microbiome, its influence on host physiology & its complex interactions with the immune system. http://dlvr.it/TQVndt

#XDR Shigella is a serious, emerging global health threat. This topic is one of many we'll be discussing at #TheShigellaMeeting Registration is open! www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/registration... #AMR #MicroSky #IDSky 🔬🧫🦠

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Leptospirosis outbreak in Berkeley www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...