Good to see this initiative continues

I am hiring! - looking for a Staff Scientist to co-run my research group with me. Staff Scientist is a senior professional scientist role at EMBL. Please forward to people you might know who could be interested! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

The discovery of regulatory T-cells may seem an obscure bit of biology to win such an esteemed prize. It is not. It is an excellent example of physiology leading to medicine in the way the prize’s double name alludes to

I do biomedical research to help people. When people come in this space making things up, it makes it harder for people not in the field to trust the extensive studies that we do and distinguish fact from fiction. Baseless claims reduce future cures. Willful ignorance drives us backwards.

Here you go dear sir 😎

hosting.northumbria.ac.uk/nu-omics/vom... #phagesky #phage #microsky Come and join us for Viruses of Microbes UK 2026 at @northumbriauni.bsky.social ! Fantastic chance for ECRs to showcase their work 🙂

We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions. Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research. Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Imagine studying a technology whose presence in the classroom is so detrimental to the development of writing and research skills (including even the will to know the sources behind claims!) that mitigating its effects becomes a central goal of course design, and concluding with tips on adopting it.

The Data Science team at EMBL is hiring for two open positions! First, for a Scientific Community Manager, focusing on community aspects and training on data science. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

The @uncchapelhill.bsky.social Department of Biology is searching for tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Chapel Hill is a wonderful place and Biology is an amazing group of people. To apply, see: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

It’s Monday! Which means it’s time for another Meet the Member series! First, Miguel, who hails from 🇨🇴&🇦🇷 I have the pleasure of co-supervising Miguel for his PhD on lifecycle health promotion & prediction tools. He’s been recognised by the 🇨🇦 gov’t as an emerging leader in the Americas! 🏆💪🏾

This morning, @isbscience.org's Dr. Mary Brunkow was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine! Dr. Brunkow shares the award with Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi. Read the press release here: www.nobelprize.org/.../medicine.... What a tremendous honor! Congratulations!

Faculty positions in animal morphogenesis that may be filled at the Assistant or Associate Professor level in one of my favorite Departments" Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Toronto. 1/n jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

The job is still open. Get your application in ASAP. Or just pass it on to somebody that might be interested.

We're hiring a #postdoc with knowledge of the #microbiome, #microbiology, #bioinformatics, #computationalbiology to understand the role of the vaginal microbiome in women's health. #Baltimore #womenshealth

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"It's just a joke, bro" The go-to line of every deplorable chud who wants to convey an implicit threat of violence.

We are now accepting applications for the position of Assistant or Associate Professor in Indigenous Public Policy. This is a full-time, tenure-track faculty appointment with a start date of July 15th, 2026. To learn more/apply, visit our website: www.sfu.ca/policy-schoo... #SFUSPP

Calling botanical researchers, the School of Natural Science at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Plant Biodiversity and Conservation. I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat! my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

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

It's #ChemNobel season again! Surely this year should go to the most important chemical breakthrough of our lifetimes: DNA synthesis/Marvin Caruthers 🧬 Phosphoramidite DNA synthesis is the bedrock of modern biology and enabled the development of therapies for untreatable diseases #chemsky 🧪

I don’t think this stat (3.9%) reflects those waiting for LP8.1 (like me) as it’s only become available this week. It reflects the paucity of people keeping up with recommendations. And reduction in severity matters.

Today, Sept. 30, we observe National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (NDTR). This day is dedicated to honouring the children who never made it home and the Survivors of residential schools. It also serves to raise awareness about the intergenerational impacts of these experiences.

Come join us 2-4th March 2026 for a cracking #microbiome conference in Hinxton UK! Speaker line up is AMAZING and lots of opportunities for ECRs for selected talks, flash talks and posters. Bursaries are also available! See details below 👇

Professor (full) or Associate Professor (tenure track) in Microbial Genetics of Health (U. Turku Finland). Competitive starting package included! Please share. duunitori.fi/tyopaikat/ty...

Become my colleague @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social ! 2 Associate Professorships in the areas of - prokaryotic/eukaryotic microbiology - metabolism my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.

Thanks to generative AI, "the only foolproof thing that works right now is to slow down and ask questions before sharing: If a piece of content seems shocking, divisive, or too good to be true, pause before spreading it."

Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year? How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.

I'm thrilled to be the Featured Photographer of the fall 2025 issue of ON Nature. It's such an honour having my work in this award-winning environmental magazine published by #OntarioNature, a charity dedicated to protecting wild places and wild lives. Many, many thanks, @ontarionature.bsky.social.

Led by @lhug.bsky.social, @environmicrobio.bsky.social , Cristina Moraru, @geomicrosoares.bsky.social, @folker.bsky.social, Anke Heyder and @alexjprobst.bsky.social (and the Data Reuse Consortium).

Thrilled to have contributed as part of the Data Reuse Consortium behind this new @natmicrobiol.nature.com article 'A roadmap for equitable reuse of public microbiome data' www.nature.com/articles/s41... If you work with microbiome, metagenomic, or ‘omics data more broadly, check out the paper.

The only reason Canada Post has to break even is because very stupid people think the government is a business and/or the national budget works like a home ledger.

This is very exciting! A small clinical trial using gene therapy for Huntington's disease has been successful. microRNAs were used to edit the Huntington mRNA, stopping it making mutant protein that can damage neurons. Huge hopes now for treating such a devastating condition

Hey scRNAseq people… what’s this about not needing to do biological replicates? What now? I’m sorry - yes it’s expensive to do. Complain to 10X Genomics - not the RA Fisher and his legacy. 🙃 RA Fisher, Jacques Monod, Francois Jacob, and Barbara McClintock are watching. 🤣

I’m all about Canadian History. Here’s something for the folks not old enough to remember Poilievre’s mentor and groomer. #cdnpoli #cdnhistory

I'm on a panel this week where we will allocate about a million dollars in grants and as I wade through these apps one thing is apparent: the ability to write clearly in plain language is a real asset for scientists

If this is right, it should prick the #AI bubble. I wouldn't want to be diagnosed by 'someone' who hallucinates, i.e. makes up stuff that looks like an answer, but isn't. [ht @goonerismspeek.bsky.social ]

so … the machine does not understand context? I’m shocked, shocked!

MMseqs2-GPU sets new standards in single query search speed, allows near instant search of big databases, scales to multiple GPUs and is fast beyond VRAM. It enables ColabFold MSA generation in seconds and sub-second Foldseek search against AFDB50. 1/n 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💿 mmseqs.com

You cannot simply delete scientific progress and deny human benefits, whether you are a despot or self-declared king.

Our analysis is the largest to date, we used our newly created MUTT database which consists of over 15,000 samples, from over 30 studies, each with paired sequence counts and microbial load measurements. Core takeaway, its important to accurately model uncertainty and error. @ggloor.bsky.social

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a reminder of what we are working toward

“The Left” and “the Right” aren’t real. They’re made-up clubs, invented and sold to the public by the people in power… and by the loudest people with the most to gain.

A US senate subcommittee was told this unpublished vaccine study was 'the most important ever.' Henry Ford Health now confirms why it was never published: it failed scientific standards. Here's what's actually wrong with the study: jakescottmd.substack.com/p/why-the-senates-most-important-vaccine