Many genes associated with dog behavior influence human personalities, too arstechnica.com/science/2025...

The Black Death was history's most lethal plague. Now scientists say they know where it started Ancient DNA has identified the earliest victims of the Black Plague in Kyrgyzstan in central Asia www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

How Algae Helped Some Life Outlast Extinction eos.org/research-spo...

AI spots ‘ghost’ signatures of ancient life on Earth

A lovely chain of Lauderia annulata diatoms. #marineplankton 🦑

#Vacancies: we are looking for not just one but three #postdoctoral researchers interested in bridging #genetics, #archaeology and #linguistics in exploring the #humanpast. shorturl.at/B3Qdd @haam-community.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social

bacteria move by swimming, twitching, gliding/sliding, ...and now by 'swashing' go figure! #MicroSky

Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems. For more details and to apply please see www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

We are hiring! Interested? Apply here: go.mbl.edu/AS1887

Cancelled surveys, suppressed publications, hidden data: the Trump administration is continuing to hack and slash its way through the entire enterprise of science within the federal government. Here’s a snapshot of the attacks on science that we saw during September:

Yo-ho-ho and many, many bottles of rum. www.science.org/content/arti...

Bacteria in hot springs can move against fast water flow without flagella. Instead, they use pili like grappling hooks to crawl upstream, revealing a surprising survival strategy in extreme environments. isme-microbes.org/hot-spring-b... #microbes #bacterialmotility #extremophiles #hotsprings

Our work on ribosome hibernation in archaea is out! We identified Hib, a new hibernation factor broadly distributed across archaea. Check out the preprint 👉 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.11.676729v1 (1/🧵)

🌱🌋 A greenhouse experiment led by Scripps Oceanography & @unigreifswald.bsky.social has uncovered a powerful new way volcanoes give life to the Earth: volcanic ash can triple plant productivity by transforming the microbiome, reshaping entire soil ecosystems. Dig in: scripps.ucsd.edu/news/volcani...

You can hold on to your butts thanks to DNA that evolved in fish arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers - arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/s...

Ass't Professor of Biology - ecological genomics - Uni S. Dakota yourfuture.sdbor.edu/postings/45104

New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO₂ arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Postdoc: Environmental Microbial Genomics - Trent Univ, ON microbial community composition and functioning in thawing North American permafrost, focus on environmental pathogens & application of single-cell sequencing. more info: glfc-wet.github.io contact: Andrew Tanentzap ([email protected])

Happy to announce I will be leading the "Advances in Genomics Technologies" workshop at this exciting conference in Biodiversity Genomes organized by @ebpgenome.bsky.social‬ at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social on 27–29 October 2025. Registration deadline: July 14th!!! tinyurl.com/BioGenome

Six striking images showcase scientific fieldwork [note: a little bit off-topic, but given the situation in the US, we need to be celebrating the accomplishments of scientists whenever and wherever the opportunity arises] www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Postdoc: ecology of deep soil forest fungi - Uni Basel - CHE plant microbiome biology, to uncover how microbes contribute to plant growth. contacts: Björn Lindahl ([email protected]) Klaus Schlaeppi ([email protected]) jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

Viruses that infect fungi knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

Intraterrestrials: The Most Alien Life We've Ever Seen Is Right Beneath Our Feet gizmodo.com/intraterrest...

Genetically engineered bacteria break down industrial contaminants #Vibrio_natriegens arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Korea's Haenyeo women divers developed genetic superpower www.dw.com/en/koreas-ha...

Postdoc: Environmental Microbial Genomics - microbial release from permafrost thawing - Trent Univ, ON microbial community composition and functioning, focus on environmental pathogens using single-cell sequencing approaches. glfc-wet.github.io contact: Andrew Tanentzap [email protected]

#DNA links modern pueblo dwellers to Chaco Canyon people #genomics #anthropology #firstnations arstechnica.com/science/2025...

We have the first video of a plant cell wall being built. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

In a new Science study, researchers introduce GAIA, a statistical approach that seeks to learn the geographic position of every genetic ancestor of individuals included in a genome dataset. Learn more: scim.ag/3XFo0wb #SciencePerspective