Great news for yeast tetrad dissectors: Singer has stepped up in the wake of the closure of Cora Styles Needles N Blocks to make dissection needles. My lab manager beta tested them & deemed them, and I quote, "flawless." So glad to have a new source! www.singerinstruments.com/product/sing...

🧪 My department is hiring! Tenure track faculty position in genetics. Researchers using any eukaryotic model, including fungi and plants are encouraged to apply! We are a broad biology department with strengths across all kingdoms. Join us! Apply by March 1 tinyurl.com/y4evds8p

We’re searching for Biology Dept Head here at Oregon! Please share careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/53...

🚨🧪New lab preprint: "We therefore propose a model for cytoskeletal evolution in which pools of microtubule network components constrain and guide the diversification of the entire network, so that the evolution of tubulin is inextricably linked to that of its binding partners." tinyurl.com/27ck46nb

I am *thrilled* to finally announce that our department is hiring an Evolutionary Biologist. We are esp looking genetic/genomic expertise, and those who can help us build a more equitable biology community at UCSB. Please apply by Jan 15! recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02635 #unicornjob

Are you an ASCB member? Submit you work to MBoC. From today, all members’ papers thoroughly reviewed. No desk rejection!

The JCS “Diversity and Evolution in Cell Biology" conference is accepting applications! Spain, 2024. Please spread the word! 🧪https://www.biologists.com/meetings/jcsevocellbio24/

🚨🚨🚨Very excited to present our latest preprint on the role of endocytosis in regulating Cdc42 oscillatory dynamics at cell ends to promote bipolarity. Fantastic work by Marcus Harrell and Bethany Campbell in collaboration with Tian Hong and Ziyi Liu from U. Tennessee. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

For microbiologists seeking faculty jobs: Rutgers has 4+ faculty searches in microbiology right now! Please share widely and see below for details and links on the individual positions 1/5

Sightseeing in Toronto!

Cable management is my passion

🐸🍄🚨New lab preprint! Genetic transformation of the frog-killing chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧪

Youtube now has all talks and lectures from the 4th Annual Workshop in Advanced Microscopy and Biophotonics at Institut Pasteur Montevideo (2021): youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Dug up the best meme I have ever made for a talk next week:

Step one in making cheese curd agar.

OTD in 1674, Antonie von Leeuwenhoek sent the first of many letters to Henry Oldenburg of the Royal Society of London describing the “animalcules” he had observed in rainwater using a microscope. www.dbnl.org/tekst/leeu02... #histsci 🧪

Phylogenetics faculty job! Colorado State 👍. Love to see it specified, bc resolving the tree of life is a scientific grand challenge for humanity. 🧪 #AcademicSky #SciJobs jobs.colostate.edu/postings/131...

Just when I thought Canada couldn't get any more Canada: there's a hockey stick in this beaver dam.

Hey new Plant Scientists, follow this feed to keep track of all #PlantScience related stuff posted here on Bluesky (see the screenshot for hashtags that are indexed). bsky.app/profile/did:... You can add it to your feeds and pin/like, which will make sure that the content shows up in your time line.

We are hiring an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Biology at Fordham University! Search is broad but interested in phylogenomics, evol genomics, and people that can teach computational bio and/or biostats. Please spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/128986

Early work found no REM in sleeping echidna, suggesting REM sleep arose in other mammals after diverging from monotremes. Later work discovered REM in the only other living monotreme genus. What do platypuses look like when dreaming, you ask? royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #evolution

Major federal funding program for childcare is about to sunset. Rs have suggested they won't extend it & Biden left it out of his supplemental budget request Nationwide, 70k providers expected to close altogether; 3.2m kids forecast to lose childcare slots www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Happy last day of no-more-camps-but-elementary-school-hasn't-yet-started-time to all who celebrate! 🥳🍎📝

Local folks, check out the Plant Biology symposium happening at UMass on 21 October. Theme this year is Biology of Chloroplasts and Mitochondria 🧪

“To cross the southern coast of England, west to east, is thus to travel forwards - and at breathtaking chronological speed - in a self-propelled time-machine. With every few hundred yards of eastward progress one passes through hundreds of thousands of years of geological time: …👇🏼 🧪 geology ⚒️

🧪Alrighty Folks! It's that time of year where I ask if any Scientists would like to volunteer/donate their time to come to Buffalo to give a seminar! Literally any science is welcome! -About 45 min -Must talk about how you got into science -In person or zoom!

Those who are able to succeed via traditional routes end up with an emotional incentive to view them as meritocratic and dismiss any other modes as attempts to 'cheat' the natural order.

🚨📢 SAVE THE DATE! pombe2025, The 12th International Fission yeasts meeting will be held on August 3rd-8th, 2025 @BostonCollege Stay tuned for more info in the coming months. Please spread the word.

Major goal here is to spread all the NSF news and advice I can! First piece of advice .... talk to your Program Director! We are normal people. Most of us are former full-time faculty members who have been in your shoes. We've taught, mentored, done research, written grants, written papers, etc.

Shameless plug 📢: If working or studying at 🌊 Woods Hole MBL has shaped your career, consider donating! The higher the % of alumni who donate, the more $$ high-rolling donors give. Even $10 helps. It's easy and fast:

Do crocodiles move toward the sound of a crying baby because they want to eat it, or help it? Re-upping this story for the afternoon crew, who I trust will actually read it (and learn how crocodiles and alligators are amazing parents) before mocking me! 🧪

UW-Madison is advertising a tenure-track faculty position in Host-Pathogen interactions, broadly defined. Come join our department in beautiful Madison! Please share. (1/5) #ttjobs https://jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assistant-or-associate-professor-of-infectious-diseases-madison-wisconsin-united-states

Snakes are commonly parasitised by ticks, but this particular species - Amblyomma nitidum - is a specialist of sea snakes and has followed its hosts into the sea, making it one of the few species of marine ticks https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877959X19302675 🧪 #Invertebrate