5/ Awardee B.B. Cael, in collaboration w/ Co-I Mathis Hain, is tackling a major challenge: figuring out how to incorporate biology (and all the critical ways it has shaped our planet 🌎) into building better earth system models. 🎉 Congrats Cael & team! 🙏 #HFScout @sullivan-lab.bsky.social

🔬 Announcing our newest awardees! 🌟 These brilliant minds are pushing boundaries across microbiology, immunology, infectious disease, earth systems, and neuroscience. Celebrate with us as we highlight their projects today👇 in our 🧵: 1/ bit.ly/HFAwardees

Our Dept of Microbiology & Immunology @Geisel School of Medicine @Dartmouth has an opening for an Assistant Professor. Looking for programs bridging multiple areas in Micro & Immuno. A great place to be! Programs: www.M2P2.org www.dartmouthbiofilm.org Job ad: apply.interfolio.com/187637

📢 We're hiring! The Department of Microbiology & Cell Biology at Montana State University is hiring an Assistant Professor of Microbiology. We welcome applicants working in microbial pathogenesis, immunology, genetics, microbial evolution, and related areas. Apply: jobs.montana.edu/postings/52009

It's as official as it can be: The Yoder Lab has been very lucky to receive NSF funding to develop our TARDIS method of modeling plants' flowering activity in varying environments. Watch for grad (MSci) opportunities in Fall 2027, and a postdoc position sooner than that 🌿 buff.ly/OHpbfB0

Although Priyanga was fired, the story very much continues for her as she is struggling to make ends meet without a job or prospects. She recently sold her home to move into a small apartment in LA. She made some mistakes...but the punishment so far exceeds the "crime" (see: gender and race)

On this last day of #Evol2026, a reminder to sign up for the ASN Stand Alone meeting, on the East Coast of the US for the first time! www.amnat2027.org Registration is open. It's a small conference and spots are limited.

Fieldwork-sky: After 20 years, it's probably time for a new tent (snapped another pole this morning). Would love recommendations for a 2-person, 2 side door tent (heavy is OK; I'm a princess so I like drive-up field sites). What brands do we love right now?

See a crab, post a crab 🦀

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

My friend's NSF CAREER received the highest possible score (Excellent, Excellent, Excellent: High Priority) and it was rejected today. This would have been my friend's first extramural award, 5 years after starting their lab, exactly when grant $ is make or break for an Assistant Professor's career.

CamDam spins a spotted trunkfish right round 😵‍💫👜🐟 #spottedtrunkfish #trunkfish #swimminghandbag #damselfish #coralcitycamera

Our paper "Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis.” is finally out in Nature. Eukaryogenesis was likely a gradual process shaped by multiple microbial partners and virus-mediated gene transfer, rather than a single binary symbiosis. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

One time I intentionally made #RArt for a college contest when I was a postdoc.

this is the way

Today marks 30 years since we identified the apicoplast, a relict plastid in human and animal parasites (PMID 8632819). Apicoplasts are the target of the widely used antimalarial prophylactic doxycycline, which has saved many thousands of malaria infections.

Eye-to-eye and a wink from a manatee in Coral City #manatee #manateesofcoralcity #sirenia #eyetoeye #coralcitycamera

I'm excited to check out the Cell Bio meeting for the first time this year! But I have no idea which scientific session would be most excited about the evolution of chloroplast-stealing ciliates. Any suggestions? www.ascb.org/cellbio2026/...

The list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2027 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/MAGd4ohyPeoY... students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely! 🧪

So happy to share that this biscuit-making very good boy found his forever home last month. And he's rightfully taken my whole heart off with him. I'm so grateful that there are people with the time to give permanent homes to cats like Capone, who've got all the love to offer in exchange.

Fifth paper acceptance of the year to technician Julian Jacobs (soon to be Simons Grad Fellow in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program) and postdoc Zach Reitz for their dedicated analysis of years-old data on #Mesodinium #karmachamaeleon ingestion-to-starvation cycles. Forthcoming in ISME!

The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF

We're happy to announce our new preprint! 🐸 easymode: general pretrained networks for cellular cryo-ET. Segment ~20 cellular features – ribosomes, microtubules, mitochondria, nuclei & more – with zero model training. 🔗 doi.org/10.64898/202... 🧵👇

Can’t believe that Andy Kim is in two of the most haunting pictures of the last few years.

And now it's out! Happy that PNAS selected for the cover this SEM image snapped by @samjlord.bsky.social, one of the most evocative visualizations of Euplotes that I have ever encountered. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Stay tuned for what is shaping up to be some fascinating follow-up in the lab...

Do you know any students who are planning to apply to graduate school this cycle? Encourage them to apply to the Biology Preview Program! We provide intensive workshops to help students w/ their applications + 1:1 mentorship.

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

would folks be interested in some kind of short, opinion-y piece on this? sardonic working title: "so you think you need a model? actually you don't"

Whenever someone asks me whether the war is over in Ukraine, I'll show them this picture of the attack today. #Ukrainianview

1/13 So excited to share our new preprint!! How do organelles pack together in a crowded cytoplasm? we know organelles interact via contact sites, but how does competition for space contribute to organelle morphology and interactions? @wallaceucsf.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

For those of you who *don't* have the privilege of teaching biologists at UCSB, who, frankly, would never. #unicornjob🦄

Hey #CSEE2026, come check out Kaleigh Davis' talk in the Thermal Ecology session -- she developed general predictions for the effects of warming on competition using metabolic theory and coexistence theory -- coming out soon in Ecology Letters!! Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Please enjoy baby Alligator Gars feeding on brine shrimp (Artemia), set to a Bluey instrumental 🙂 🐟🧪gars are planktivorous at this stage (20 mm, 12 days post-hatch), but will soon switch to eating insects and fish! They’re also already breathing air!

Hi folks! @bu-biology.bsky.social is hiring two (!!) lecturers in Cell and Molecular Biology. It is a sweet gig in an awesome department. Come join us! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32034

The extremely rare catcopus.

This Is Just To Say We have desk-rejected the manuscript that you submitted and which you were probably hoping would be sent for peer-review Forgive us it represents an insufficient advance so incremental and so much better suited for a specialist journal

What are the biggest open questions in #microbiome and #symbiosis research? At #CSEE, we’re running a symposium on disturbance, adaptation, and the parasitism–mutualism continuum—and we want to foster discussion around these questions. Share your questions (& this post) ↓ forms.gle/huhvTgZCWVrS...

Now accepting applications for our 2027 Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution! These awards support students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs to conduct #ecology and #evolution research. Deadline is June 30, 2026: bit.ly/4umYKZd #science

Simons Graduate Fellowship Applications are open! If you're applying to Ph.D. programs in ecology and/or evolution this year, or if you're an incoming Ph.D. student who won't start your degree program until Fall 2026 or later, apply! www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

The 2017 meeting in Victoria (which gave rise to my omnipresent and somewhat dated headshot) is up there among the top meetings I've ever attended. Just a wonderful and supportive community of scholars with boundless enthusiasm for discovery.

Ma première réunion #SCEECSEE20 a eu lieu en 2017 à Victoria, en Colombie-Britannique. J’apprécie beaucoup cette communauté collaborative, solidaire et réfléchie. Si vous n’êtes pas encore membre de @csee-scee.bsky.social, c’est un grand jour pour rejoindre : csee-scee.ca/fr/signup/

There's some chatter about whether avoiding the phrase "climate change" in an NSF grant constitutes censorship or dishonesty or cynicism or capitulation to fascism or whatever. I thought I'd share my perspective as someone who has grappled with with this (both now and back in 2017-2020).

What a heartbreaking loss of a brilliant and generous member of the mycology and ecology community. I'm thinking of Adriana's family and extended scientific family at this time.

We're looking for a junior specialist to work on a fun project exploring seagrass local adaptation across the whole state of California! It should be a good mix of field and molecular work. Please share with folks you think would be interested! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07605

The truly stunning part of this marathon WR is his final full 5K split from 35-40K. 13:42 🤯 That wins most major 5K races

"Three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a church in North Norfolk."

Sabastian Sawe of Kenya has become the first person to run a marathon in under 2 hours.

Summer is around the corner and soon you'll read a bunch of posts about how every man should have a pair of loafers. I don't think anyone needs anything, but if you're shopping for a pair, let me show you how to think about loafers. This applies to any wardrobe item. 🧵

Another excellent talk by @fmikus.bsky.social: an extraordinarily beautifully illustrated pitch for expansion microscopy, improving all the time thanks to Felix & team's efforts with antibodies, etc. #ISOP2026

Join us! We are recruiting an Associate/ Assistant Professor in quantitative, systems and engineering biology (QSEB) @warwicklifesci.bsky.social . warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...