If you're interested in working with me on a master's or PhD with questions related to genomics, biodiversity, and climate change, I'd love to chat about the CAMBIUM fellowship! There's an informational webinar next week and applications are due December 1st.

With much gratitude to everyone who supported the wonderful #STAMPS summer course at the MBL, I share that STAMPS will not be offered in 2026. 💔😿

Microbial eukaryote folks, you've got two more weeks to apply for this TT job: apply.interfolio.com/174456. We're a supportive department with a great breadth of interests, with really sharp students, in a very livable city with the nation's best park system. Come join us!

If you're looking for a faculty position at the intersection of ecology and computing (both broadly defined), please apply to this joint search between the CEE Department and the College of Computing at MIT: cee.mit.edu/people/share...

We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab. biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... Deadline January 15th!

The Department of Biology at @eastcarolinauniv.bsky.social seeks to fill a tenure-track faculty at the Assistant Professor level with expertise in evolutionary Biology! Come join us! ecu.peopleadmin.com/postings/89839

1/ Ever needed to annotate TEs in a fungal genome, but didn't know where to start? We have released #MycoMobilome, a community-focused non-redundant database of transposable element consensus sequences for the fungal kingdom, constructed from >4,000 fungal genomes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#2025MMM #2026MMM

Excited to share our new paper out in @isme-microbes.bsky.social. We asked if environmental microbial communities can be adaptively modulated by host species that transiently acquire their symbionts from the environment #SymbioSky #MicrobiomeSky doi.org/10.1093/isme...

Postdoc vacancy: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere @erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA 📢 PLEASE RT 🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, cell sorting, omics, ecological interpretation ☀️ Marseille, France ‼️ Apply ASAP & before 7 Nov Link: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Reposting this just in case anyone who is interested missed it. We’ll be reviewing applications on Nov 1st, so there is still time to apply for this position this week! Great position for people who want to do both research and teach at a high level with undergraduates!

The INTP 2026 calendar is coming soon! We are currently finalizing the program and we would be delighted to include your projects! Would you like to organize a working group, a research residency, or an artistic workshop in a setting conducive to creativity, surrounded by nature? 🧪🌐🌍 👉 Contact us!

Bumping this up one last time. I'm looking to hire graduate student(s) to work on an NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies here in Colorado. @cudenverclas.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐙 Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details

Ok, I have a minute, let's do this. Our lab is interested in contaminants found in Alaskan waters and identifying microbes from a fish native to Alaska, three-spine stickleback, to use in bioremediation in cold water lakes. Sarah was interested in microplastics, which I wasn't really studying. 1/n

'mRNA vaccines seem to boost the effectiveness of an immune therapy for skin and lung cancer.' @maxkozlov.bsky.social @nature.com 'COVID-19 mRNA vaccine acts like a siren and activates the immune system throughout the body - programming a response to kill the cancer.' www.nature.com/articles/d41...

JOB ALERT! We are looking for a LAB MANAGER (7-year position!) to help us build the MOLECULAR BIODIVERSITY lab in our @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Are you a NGS wet lab expert, and you like the idea of supporting research on natural biodiversity, then apply! Please re-post!

Happy to announce that our comparative metagenomic analysis of the gut microbiota of five honeybee species - spearheaded by @aiswarya.bsky.social - is finally published in a peer-reviewed journal! rdcu.be/eKMCs @fbm-unil.bsky.social @dmf-unil.bsky.social 🧵👇

Check out our new Tansley review on climate, plants, and microbes! I enjoyed working with a team of friendly and knowledgeable scientists. @meafkhami.bsky.social @kerricrawford.bsky.social @aclassen.bsky.social @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social @damianmicroeco.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Excited to share that I’ll be starting my research group in Nov 2025 at the Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica in Taipei🎉 We study how eco & evo rules govern complex systems layered by hosts🌱& symbionts🦠 & mobile genes🧬 Recruiting soon at all levels! 🔗 chang-yu-chang.github.io/changlab/

OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx! www.oist.jp/careers/facu...

Good opportunity!

Heeeeey #Microbial #Ecology folk! My department has a job opening for a tenure track Microbial Ecologist! Feel free to DM me with questions. Come join our awesome supportive whip-smart & kind crew in the Biology Department of @umassboston.bsky.social! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...

Apply to become the next MSU EEB Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow! These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here: eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Happy UK Fungus Day! All of these were photographed by me in the UK. Aren’t they beautiful! #ukfungi #ukfungusday

Cell size matters: a unifying theory across the tree of life www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... #jcampubs

The Department of Biology at the University of Kentucky is hiring a Microbiologist (broadly defined). Microbial eco-evo folks, this is your sign to come work with us. Not in the search committee, but happy to answer questions. ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/600... #microbiology #ecology

🌱Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position OPEN🌱 -Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity- at The Univ. Texas at Austin, Molecular BioSciences. Deadline Nov 1st. Please spread the words and APPLY! Contact me if you have any questions. apply.interfolio.com/175001

View from the lab now. Did I mention that we are recruiting faculty microbiologists? www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...

Microbes without borders: uniting societies for climate action @femsjournals.bsky.social Microbiol Ecol by @jaytlennon.bsky.social et al @leonorabit.bsky.social @vscooper.micropopbio.org @gilbertjacka.bsky.social academic.oup.com/femsec/artic...

Microbiology societies from five continents recently met at @asm.org HQ in DC for the inaugural Global Strategy Meeting on Microbes and Climate Change. This initiative marks the beginning of coordinated global action to harness microbial life for climate solutions. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Cool PNAS paper by @jordivangestel.bsky.social and colleagues Contributed by Carol Gross [reviewed by @polzlab.bsky.social and @wcratcliff.bsky.social] Bacillus subtilis in defense mode: Switch-like adaptations to protistan predation www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Two weeks left for students and postdocs to apply to receive support for international research, training, or lab visits. Submit your application by 1 October 2025! Learn more and apply: isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar... #MicrobialEcology #microbes

Assistant Professor (Quantitative Microbe-Plant-Environment Interactions), Dept of Microbiology, Fall 2026 apply.interfolio.com/173345 at University of Tennessee - Knoxville. Position is part of a faculty cluster hire in Bioinformatics, Genomics and Quantitative-based Solutions for Food Security.

Please consider applying to our open faculty position call that includes Ecology! apply.interfolio.com/172075

Come and work with us! Three new academic posts (including Animal Behaviour) and superb facilities in the new Life & Mind Building

Interested in how multiple stresses interact to affect bacterial communities? Check out our new paper! This is the 3rd and final chapter to be published from @jess-bernardin.bsky.social's PhD. Definitely biased, but I think it's a super cool study 😀

Did you know tiny algae can "skate" within Arctic sea ice? ⛸️ Our new study in @pnas.org reveals the secret life of ice diatoms: they are actively gliding to navigate the ice! This adds a new dimension to the sea ice ecosystem, revealing an active, dynamic ecological niche. @prakashlab.bsky.social

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species go.nature.com/4mOb5T9

Ecosystem consequences of a nitrogen-fixing proto-organelle www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs

Comparing EcoFab 2.0 results from 5 labs on 3 continents‼️ Breaking the reproducibility barrier with standardized protocols for plant–microbiome research @plosbiology.org by Vlastimil Novak et al from Trent Northen @jgi.doe.gov journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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...

Side note: One often thinks they're not recovering low-abundance taxa because they're low-abundance. But with Illumina, it's also likely because they're low-GC and Illumina has strong GC bias. You can fix this with wetlab intervention like this, or using ONT instead, which doesn't have a GC-bias.🧵

Assistant Prof post in bacterial genomics @unibirmingham.bsky.social Come and join us!! @imibirmingham.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

My department is hiring a Plant-Fungal Assist Prof!! As the newest #NewPI here, don't get me started on how wonderful my colleagues, how smooth my onboarding has been, how supportive the school and the department are, how nice my brand new lab is, and how convenient living in Champaign Urbana is!

Hey, I'm recruiting for up to two funded PhD positions in #mycology or community #ecology. Please share! Good stipend, lovely location in the woods near the beach. Field, lab, and computational projects. Seeking wide interests and bold ideas! Lab: gzahn.github.io Apply: forms.gle/jK7bJkyrTAUH...

As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...

This one's for the eukaryotic microbes, and their researchers 🤓! Collection launch in Microbial Genomics @microbiologysociety.org giving all your wonderful weirdness a place to shine 🌟 #MicroSky #protistsonsky #protists #fungi #parasites #Microbiology 💻🧬 www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...

Super excited to share that my PhD research paper is finally out! @newphyt.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph.... @parkergroup.bsky.social

Wow, more than 2.4M of assembled bacteria in the new release of ABT! We plan to index these using our efficient colored De Bruijn graph index, Fulgor. We recently conducted experiments with nearly 1M genomes…getting there :) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...