We are discovering new species at the fastest rate ever. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The #1 organism used to make biocement has never been engineered... until now! Excited to share our work on Sporosarcina pasteurii! Esp. since it's the first project I've contributed to here at Cultivarium :) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Feeling festive? Why not deck the halls with @cvrinfo.bsky.social's papercraft #VirusSnowflakes and celebrate the science of viruses and the fight against viral diseases. Download for free: cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl... #scicomm #sciart #decorations

Protist–bacteria partnerships are more common in wastewater treatment plants than we thought. In this ISME communications paper, we uncovered widespread denitrifying endosymbionts inside ciliates, their global distribution, and their temporal dynamics across WWTPs.🦠 academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

What is this? Is this really becoming a standard for graduation and commencement ceremonies? Is this happening to you too?? ‘Clear bag guidelines’, ‘made of vinyl, or pvc’, ‘no opaque bags ‘, and my personal favorite: everyone ‘must carry (not wear) their gowns through the entry point’

Lobster and Cat by Pablo Picasso, 1965 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137441

A little video of our work with pitcher plant microbial communities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EvI...

This is fascinating work: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microbiomes

Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social ASN President for a minute for a string of announcements, please share widely!!! 1. Student research awards are open for applications, to fund research expenses for 10 graduate students ($2000 each) nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

I am recruiting graduate students for Fall 2026! The Microbial Ecosystems Lab @hot-mes-asu.bsky.social at ASU studies microbial interactions, spatial ecology, and imaging-driven microbiome science. If you love microbes, microfluidics, or single-cell analysis, let’s talk! www.microbialeco.systems

Whoop! New preprint has dropped - led by the amazing @trevormugoya.bsky.social. We developed a SV-calling and benchmarking platform called SaVor and test it on 1,165 Arabidopsis thaliana short read whole genomes. Do check out the paper, and try SaVor on your own data: github.com/ChabbyTMD/Sa...

It's that time of year again... time for #DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship applications! I'm so excited to be running this program for the sixth year and seeing the growth over the years! Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn... Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR... Applications due December 5th!

#Postdoc in #landscape ecology with me How does plant species traits influence communities responce to environmental change? An unique re-survey data set from the UK will be used to explore & test hypotheses about dispersal and persistence 🧪🌍 Apply 30th of November su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Indeed! I just purchased a stunning chiffon scarf of brain cells! Sadly Etsy wouldn't let me take a picture, so you'll just have to visit yourself! www.etsy.com/shop/artolog...

Wooow! Its so cute!

Cosmic Web - Spiral Construction #AIイラスト #aiart #synthart #sci-fi #web #strands

Just got one for my mom! They are so beautiful! You all know you would wear petri dishes or neurons around your neck! Get one

Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/

Happy to share a new preprint from the lab: Marko became interested in whether the disordered linker of FtsZ might influence how the protein organizes into the Z-ring. And this led to some surprising findings! Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🥲life is short anyways. Lets enjoy it. And help others enjoy it too. Ok?

This is how #NIH will fund foreign components.

Maybe baby dragons are blond like cats

As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.

We have some great AEM sessions that need your exciting abstracts! From the Rhizosphere to Pollinators: Studying Agricultural Microbiomes Across Biological Scales. Microbial Traits Driving Host Resilience in a Changing Climate. Mechanistic Basis of Coexistence in Microbial Communities.

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

The UW Center for an Informed Public is looking for postdocs (for 2026-2028) from across diverse disciplines whose research sheds light on the challenges of our modern information environment, promotes civic health, and/or helps people/communities navigate online spaces: apply.interfolio.com/177901

They grow bacteria on those hairy arms and then lick the bacteria off for a delightful snack, isn't that gross and cool?

I'm recruiting a new master's student for fall 2026 in my lab at Northern Michigan University @bionmu.bsky.social ! Students with interests in evolution of freshwater fish are encouraged to apply. Please see our lab website lizmandeville.github.io and the attached advertisement for more information.

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Postdoc position in ecological forecasting 📈 as part of the Horizon Europe OSCARS call. The postdoc will be based in lovely Sevilla (fantastic place to live) and will include working closely with several European forecasting projects. Apply by Dec 11! 🌎🧪 globalchangeeco.com/jobs

🚨Good news, everyone! 1) I'm thrilled to be joining the behavior powerhouse that is Indiana University!! So stoked, starting Jan 2026. 2) I'm recruiting grad students! Are you (or your trainee) interested in sensory ecology? behavior? evolution? fieldwork? spiders? Drop me a line Jstafstr(at)iu.edu

Help me spread the word! Share! Tell your friends. Tell a stranger. Tell your dog to bark it out into the night!

Still posting cytoskeleton videos, it seems. Actin this time. Sample: Lifeact-eGFP in HeLa cells. Modality: Airyscan confocal Timestamp is mm:ss and the scale bar is 5 µm.

Fungal friends: The University of Minnesota is hiring a tenure track medical mycologist, with emphasis on emergence of pathogens, genomics and evolution! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Are the Saja boys disease or the CDC?

Flying #photography

A REAL PHAGE TURNER Great work in Nat Comm from the UC San Diego laboratories of David Pride and Justin Meyer—experimental evolution of bacteriophage to successfully expand their host range against MDR strains of the critical threat pathogen Klebsiella pneumoniae. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Alfredo Souto Cuero. Cañotas, 1911

Come be our colleague! We are looking for a tenure track cell / molecular biologist with focus on biochemical sciences. Strong bio department, lovely rural communities and living among the redwoods! Ask me questions ! careers.humboldt.edu/mob/hm/en-us...

Hey folks, we (the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University) are looking for an Assistant Teaching Professor in microbiology and immunology. Please pass this on to anyone you think might be interested, or check it out if you are interested yourself! apply.interfolio.com/176994

Listen to one of my favorite humans talk about her super cool work in microbial communities!

Purple hazeeeee

Science is awesome ... www.cell.com/trends/biote... #violacein #pigments

This feels huge!!!! Look at humans finding things. Maybe we can solve problems together.

This famous cartoon by my friend Joel Pett tells us what we need to know while the current climate conference, COPE 30, is dominated by fossil fuel lobbyists. We have it in our power to defeat the fossil fuel oligarchs and their pet politicians. By doing so, we can create a much better world.

🌎 Experiments are central to understanding community dynamics, yet their use is declining. We're trying to understand why. If you work in community ecology, we'd really appreciate your input in a quick survey (<5 mins). 👉🏼 link.webropolsurveys.com/S/2022629791... Reposts welcome!

📣 Looking for a 3-Year Postdoc @johninnescentre.bsky.social to join my Wellcome project. This is a highly interdisciplinary project that explores chromatin dynamics in 🌱 plant responses across timescales, from circadian rhythms to seasonal changes 📅 Closes on 10 Dec. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/36...

We are looking for a PhD student to work on an exciting plastid endosymbiosis in microbial eukaryotes. This position involves sampling, exciting microscopy such as CARDFISH, ExM and FIBSEM, single-cell transcriptomics and more. #protistsonsky 1/2