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We’re hiring at VIDO! 🔬 Principal Research Scientist – ESKAPE Pathogens 🐄 Principal Research Scientist – Bovine Respiratory Disease 🛡️ Associate Biosafety Officer Help us advance infectious disease research. Apply today: vido.org/careers/curr... @usask.ca

We’re hiring a Microscopy Core Director at the Wadsworth Center! It's a state position (job stability & PENSION!) in a uniquely academic, research-driven environment 😎 Please share 🙏 statejobs.ny.gov/public/vacan...

Exciting line up of talks for CauloCon 2026 - includes keynotes from @brunlabcaulo.bsky.social @lamasonlab.bsky.social and @thanbichlerlab.bsky.social! Hear work from Isaac Payne and Trung Nguyen, 2 students in my lab, on Weds and Thurs. 🤩

The origin of our eyes over half a billion years ago is looking more and more weird--from a cyclops to four eyes to two. Here's my story (gift link): nyti.ms/4rzisQP

University of Toronto is hiring: Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology #assistantprofessorposition

📢📢📢Lectureships at Bristol!📢📢📢 We're hiring 3 x lecturers (=assistant professor) in Biological Sciences, across the discipline. Great department, great colleagues, great building, great city Details here: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

How #baby #microbiomes in the West differ from those everywhere else ... | #microbes | #bacteria | #diets | #gut | #stool | Via @newscientist.com

Putting a lot of work into a grant that probably won't get funded due to lack of funding in NIH/NSF. So I'm curious scientists: what work were you excited about that didn't get funding? Non-scientists, this is the work we are missing out on in the US when we don't fully fund NIG/NSF/USDA/etc

Check this out straight from the NIH website, acknowledging that multiyear funding was likely responsible for a 20% decrease in early stage investigators. And that it was expected. A strange approach for someone so committed to the next generation of scientists. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Xiaofeng combined 2D live-cell single-particle tracking with 3D simulations to specifically measure the bacterial nucleoid accessibility and viscosity! Our preprint describes how these nucleoid properties respond to cellular processes! Code is available too. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Come join #LaurierBiology! We're recruiting 3 tenure-track faculty positions! Integrative Organismal Zoologist! careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo... Microbial Systems Biologist! careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo... Computational Ecology/Modeling Biologist! careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo... DEADLINE MARCH 22nd!

Bacteria frozen in ancient underground ice cave found to be resistant against 10 modern antibiotics | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

One of the biggest questions in biology is how complex cells evolved about 2 billion years ago. Here's my new story on how scientists are solving the mystery of eukaryotes like us. Gift link: nyti.ms/4qMbo22

To learn more about this work, please read our preprint. We look forward to your comments and feedback. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 13/end

Please spread the word: the Structural Studies Division @mrclmb.bsky.social is looking for a new tenure-track, independent group leader with an exciting plan in any area of Structural (Molecular & Cell) biology, in discovery biology and/or methods development. 🥳 mrc.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

How did life arise from simple chemical building blocks? New #LMBResearch led by @edogia.bsky.social in @philholliger.bsky.social group has identified a small self-replicating ribozyme that could be the answer. Read more: mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/...

The moment you’ve all been waiting for… 🦠 SAVE THE DATE! 🦠 BBM2026 will be held from June 22nd - 23rd at Boston University’s George Sherman Union. Our featured speaker this year is Dr. Eric Skaar from Vanderbilt University! Registration opens soon! More info at: bostonbacterial.org #BBM2026

Unveiling hidden variables in stressed bacteria @cp-cellreports.bsky.social Review by @divyach.bsky.social and @maxencevincent.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-reports...

I present the most interesting graph ever made. HUMAN ON BICYCLE beats every other living thing. www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

In our most recent work David Forrest has discovered a widespread mechanisms linking transcription initiation to DNA supercoiling... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you have an interest in mixing computation and experiments to understand microbial evolution (for example antibiotic resistance) and you think you might be a good fit for a postdoc in my lab, reach out. If it seems it might be a fit I’m happy to help you frame it as AI for Biology per this call

Extremophile alert! Registration is OPEN for the 2026 EMBO Archaeal workshop in Cambridge. Spaces are limited, so register soon with an abstract if you’d like to give a talk. If you can’t come in person, we are welcoming virtual attendees. So join us online where all talks will be screened!

US sales of medically important antibiotics for farm animals rose 16% 2023-24. When regulatory agencies & public health guidance are being weakened, expecting the tighter controls needed to curb the trend feels more like wishful thinking than policy #AMR publichealthpolicyjournal.com/u-s-farm-ant...

Both chambers of Congress have now passed the FY26 minibus with NIH provisions. The President will sign. (1) $48.7 billion for NIH (2) Full IDC recovery (3) No more multi-year funding (4) No NIH reorganization, maintaining the current IC structure.

Want to ride the front of the wave of all-things-microbiology; field work, cultivation, microscopy, molecular, bioinformatics and AI tools? Me too! Please join us @mblscience.bsky.social for the 2026 Summer Microbial Diversity Course! Applications due soon. www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

Hey alpha aficionados - it's almost time for CauloCon 2026! This free, virtual meeting will feature talks from @brunlabcaulo.bsky.social @thanbichlerlab.bsky.social and @lamasonlab.bsky.social with opps for trainee talks. Register using the link below. 👇

We are hiring!

A permanent position as a research scientist is opened in our team! We look for a plant physiologist with expertise in plant / microorganism interactions to identify plant susceptibility factors to fungal disease. Please forward!

Next session tomorrow! Sign up here for updates: t.co/O7XhxxSn2u

Today, I would like to honor the memory of Roger Y. Tsien, born on February 1, 1952. His legacy lives with all who use his technologies, including calcium sensors, fluorescent proteins, the acetoxymethyl (AM) ester, & many more! #FluorescenceFriday www.nature.com/articles/nme...

Peptidoglycan architecture dictates protein interactions, tissue tropism, and arthritis in the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi Exciting new research from @jutraslab.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plospathogen... #MicroSky

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

I wrote today about AlphaGenome, Google DeepMind's AI for DNA. It's powerful, experts told me, but it won't solve the mysteries of the genome overnight. Gift link: nyti.ms/4k5NFIl

We are looking for new editors for Microbiology, the flagship journal of @microbiologysociety.org Deadline for applications is 16 Feb 2026 microbiologysociety.org/who-we-are/j...

We are thrilled to announce Francis S. Collins, former director of the NIH, as the 2026 NAS Public Welfare Medalist for his pioneering research in human genetics and critical contributions to public welfare as the leader of the Human Genome Project! www.nasonline.org/news/francis... #NASaward

Want a clearer view of the molecular tools shaping microbiology right now? 🔬 Join our free webinar on 16 February, featuring four leading authors breaking down new tools and discoveries across microbial genomics, adaptation, and pathogenesis. Register now👉https://buff.ly/MrKCNiL

Our CytoTape work is published today in Nature @nature.com! CytoTape is a genetically encoded, flexible, intracellular protein tape recorder for spatiotemporally scalable and multiplexed recording of cellular activities continuously across weeks in vitro and in vivo. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Laboratory of Biophysics at Wageningen University & Research (NL) is looking for a new chair! Details here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/f...

TULIP Summer School 2026 Applications are OPEN ✅ “Biological interactions from genes to ecosystems” will take place from June 27 to July 3, in France 🏔️ Open to PhD, Masters students & Postdoc researchers in ecology, evolution and functional biology www.labex-tulip.fr/eng/news/tul...

SAVE THE DATE! The next instalment of the long-running Bacterial and Archaeal Cell Division Conference will take place at www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels..., Italy from the 20th to 23rd of April 2027. Organisers: me, @s-lab.bsky.social, @awehenkel.bsky.social. More info soon. #MicroSky

This whack-a-mole f@#kery game is really getting old Key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A reminder to sign up for the 2026 EMBO archaeal meeting im Cambridge: meetings.embo.org/event/26-arc.... Registration is open. We are looking forward to hosting you!

I’m honored to be part of the next GRS Single Molecule Approaches to Biology, thanks Chairs @qmsmith.bsky.social and Alba Gomez Segalas for organizing this great event! The GRS is a wonderful opportunity for young scientists to share their exciting science and build communities. See you there!

A few months at nursery gives a roughly 1-year-old baby more new microbes for its gut microbiome than it has acquired in its WHOLE LIFE up until that point from its family. 🤯 🧪 #microbiome #science My latest for @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Fer’s tour de force in B. anthracis is out! Fer got Tn-seq running, built an ordered knockout library, defined all essential sporulation genes, and found a peptidoglycan deacetylase inhibitor critical for engulfment. Including our first one-by-all Alphafold screen! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

279 postdoctoral fellowships! Download freely our database of postdoctoral fellowships and grants. For each entry, we provide eligibility criteria, $ amount, deadline, etc. Good luck! Here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Don't miss out. Apply to our 2026 Advanced Research Training Courses today!