Are you an experienced PhD student or postdoc in plant science looking to connect, present your work, and discuss career paths? Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026 Deadline: 23 January 2026 plant-ecr-networking.eu

Spielende Haie, ein Baum mit Blitzfetisch und Impf-Zahnseide - @science.org mit einer Auswahl spannender Entdeckungen 2025 zum Staunen und manchmal auch Schmunzeln www.science.org/content/arti...

Frohe Weihnachten! Wir freuen uns auf ein neues Jahr voller spannender Beiträge aus der Wissenschafts-Community und bedanken uns bei allen Autor:innen, Leser:innen und Unterstützer:innen. @gbmev.bsky.social y.social @vaam-microbes.bsky.social @gfgenetik.bsky.social @vbio.bsky.social

In parallel, we'll be publishing a special issue on Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics - you can find out more at: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/im... Submission deadline: 1 April 2026 #imaging #microscopy #cellbiology

Die Vereinigung für Allgemeine und Angewandte Mikrobiologie (VAAM) hat #PENICILLIUM zur Mikrobe des Jahres 2026 gekürt. Alles zu dessen Bedeutung für Medizin, Lebensmittelproduktion und Biotechnologie im Artikel: vaam.de/infoportal-m...

The 3rd Annual Meeting of the YoungPI Working Group - for Junior Profs. and Group Leaders - will take place in Heidelberg, on the 16th and 17th March 2026, just before the start of the GfV Meeting. Registrations are now open: youngpi.g-f-v.org/events/

Congratulations Julia 🥂🥇

Today is our 12th anniversary! We started on December 14, 2013 with the simple goal of providing free-to-access, scientifically rigorous stories of Women in STEM, little thinking it would be a decade-spanning endeavor! www.wisarchive.com/archive #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #MathSky #ChemSky #NeuroSky 🧪⚛️🧠

So structural biology is not dead after all 😋 Not a big surprise The title of this article is exactly in line with what I think. Same applies to LLMs for scientific writing.

Our PhD program IMPRS-EBM of #Epigenetics, #Biophysics & #Metabolism will open for applications next week. 📢 Want to work at the forefront of epigenetic research at an MPI? Looking for a fully-funded #PhDposition at Max Planck? Here is your chance: www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/IMPRS-PhD-Pr...

GBM Lunch on December 17, 12:30 PM (CET) We’re excited to welcome Mikel Garcia-Marcos (Boston University) presenting: “The Secret Life of G Proteins” Session chair: Tassula Proikas-Cezanne (@unituebingen.bsky.social) Organized by the GBM Study Group Autophagy. #GBMLunch #Autophagy #GProteins

📢 Please help spread the word: We’re hiring a Head of Student & Postdoc Affairs to coordinate our international PhD program, provide guidance & career counseling, lead training programs, collaborate on EDI initiatives, and manage alumni relations. Apply at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

Trusted science starts with how we communicate it. 5 takeaways from our webinar with Sense about Science: context, transparency, peer review ≠ "truth", avoid hype, know your audience. Read the summary: spkl.io/63329Agxjx

We are recruiting a tenure track professor in the broader area of molecular biology @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de at Heidelberg University! www.nature.com/naturecareer... Please share and apply!

🚨 Fully funded PhD positions in #microbiology! Join IMPRS Principles of Microbial Life in Marburg,Germany 🌱 Interdisciplinary research 🧬 World-class mentoring 🧪 State-of-the-art research infrastructure 🗓️ Apply until Jan 31, 2026 🔗 imprs-marburg.mpg.de/3197/JOIN-US#microbiology#PhDposition #WomenInSTEM

Year of the Tregs!

😊 We welcome you to the next Immune Alliance Seminar on Dec 17, 9 am (in Germany) / 5 pm (in Japan), via zoom. Registration is free: dgfi.org/immune-allia... Organizers: Christina Zielinski (Leibniz-HKI, Jena, Germany), @zielinskilab.bsky.social Osamu Takeuchi (Kyoto University, Japan)

🚀 We're hiring! We are offering several exciting #PhD & #postdoc positions spanning a range of topics, from jumbo phage biology & phage therapy to programmable RNA therapeutics & Fusobacterium nucleatum research. The application deadline is Jan 11. Learn more: www.helmholtz-hiri.de/en/jobs-tale...

9️⃣2️⃣ Akiko Iwasaki @virusesimmunity.bsky.social (1970- ) 🇯🇵 #womeninSTEM Immunologist who has made significant contributions to the understanding of innate and adaptive immunity, as well as the role of autophagy during viral infections. www.statnews.com/2020/10/27/a...

Please RT 📧 Registration open for ➡️"Summer School on Chromatin Biology" Our 2 weeks hands on expedition 🧪👩‍💻August 2026. 3. edition. Learn CUT@Tag, CUT@Run, ChIPseq, ATACseq AND to analyse your own data at @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social Daily letures by experts in the field ! ▶️ shorturl.at/jrA8i

Come and join us at @ceplas.bsky.social for a structured #PhD program A new call for PhD students

The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing english.elpais.com/science-tech... (& so many don’t realize that none of these profits come to the authors, who even have to pay $$$ themselves to make the work open access) #highered #academicsky

Hiring: PostDoc in Tissue Clearing & 3D Histopathology 🧪🖥️ My lab at Helmholtz Munich is seeking a highly motivated PostDoc/Scientist to strengthen our efforts in advanced imaging of cancer tissues. More info: www.linkedin.com/posts/ali-ma...

Listen up folks 👇👇👇

Simulations of Earth’s Archean Eon show that UV irradiation of planetary gas mixtures at ambient temperature and pressure can produce a variety of organosulfur molecules, such as cysteine, which are important to biological life. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/l9jw50XCZlN

Weil es viele Meldungen verkürzt darstellen: Die #Gentechnik -Regeln in der EU werden im Kern nicht geändert. Es wird lediglich eine Ausnahme-Regel für Pflanzen geschaffen, die mit neuen Techniken gezüchtet wurden, aber äquivalent zu konventionellen sind. Für alle anderen gelten die alten Regeln.

Schnelles Update nach der Einigung in der letzten Nacht auf neue Regeln für NGT-Pflanzen. Kernpunkte: NGT1-Pflanzen im Kern wie konventionelle. Aber: Deutlich strengere Kriterien. Alle übrigen NGT-Pflanzen (NGT2) weiterhin wie GVO. www.transgen.de/aktuell/2880...

Berufsbilder in Pharma: Online-Veranstaltung mit Dr. Nadine Leistner Du möchtest in der Pharmawelt durchstarten, weißt aber noch nicht genau, welcher Job zu dir passt? Dann ist das Softskill Seminar des VBIO am 10. Dezember genau richtig für dich! Zur Anmeldung: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Heute vor 77 Jahren griff Elisabeth Selbert zum Äußersten. Nachdem ihr Formulierungsvorschlag "Männer und Frauen sind gleichberechtigt." für Art. 3 Abs. 2 nach der 3. Lesung erneut durchgefallen war, mobilisierte sie weiblichen Widerstand. 1/3

"Scientists have discovered that avian influenza viruses have a gene that makes them incredibly resistant to heat, rendering our body's natural defense system – fever – powerless in fighting infection." Higher temperatures help the viruses replicate. newatlas.com/infectious-d... #H5N1 #BirdFlu

Five years ago, researchers at Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaFold2 go.nature.com/44rM1di

I will be giving several talks this coming week at universities in Switzerland: Lausanne, Neuchâtel, Basel, and Bern. Hope to see some of you there!

Developed initially to target and kill tumors, they are now being engineered to target cells that are contributing to autoimmune diseases, like antibody-producing B cells. #Science 🧪

𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐓𝐒 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 2025! 🎉 At the 28th STS Meeting in Weimar Theresia Gutmann @thegutmann.bsky.social was honored with this award, which recognizes outstanding research by postdocs or junior PIs within the STS. Congratulations! @mpi-cbg.de #STS #CellCommSummit

"Neuer Influenza-Subtyp: Was in dieser Grippesaison zu erwarten ist"- dazu nehmen @klausueberla.bsky.social und @ulrike-protzer.bsky.social im folgenden Beitrag Stellung 👇 (HMB) www.tagesschau.de/wissen/gesun...

𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 /𝐀𝐈(𝐫)𝐄𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐫𝐮𝐠 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 Join us for the 𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 at our joint meeting of the BioPharma Cluster South Germany and @gbmev.bsky.social. 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: December 5th 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞: Stadthaus Ulm 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞: lnkd.in/eB4DD7pA We look forward to seeing you!

GBM Lunch on December 3, 12.30pm Speaker: Alpaslan Tasdogan (University Hospital Essen) Title: Cancer Metabolomics - from Bench to Bedside Chair: Sven Heiles (ISAS, Dortmund) Organized by GBM Study Group "Bioanalytics" gbm-online.de/de/gbm-lunch... #GBMLunch #Bioanalytics

Biochemist Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn was born #OTD in 1948. She shared the 2009 #Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the enzyme telomerase & how chromosomes are protected by telomeres. This has 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 implications for the fields of #aging and #cancer research. #WomenInSTEM

Join us today (Wednesday, Nov 26) for a talk by Dejana Mokranjac from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich -she is going to present the latest results from her mitochondrial research. We are very much looking forward to her presentation! @mokranjaclab.bsky.social

Neuer STEMtisch ist da! 🎧 Charlotte taucht mit Gerhard Karger in die Welt zwischen Chemie & Popmusik ein – von geheimen Metaphern bis zu ikonischen Songs. Und: Es gibt eine eigene Playlist zu allen erwähnten Tracks! 🎶🔥 Reinhören lohnt sich! 👇 #AllesChlor! #jcfhört #Podcast #Chemie #Musik @gdch.de

Good news to start the day with.

𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥/𝐀𝐈 (𝐑)𝐄𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐫𝐮𝐠 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 & 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 Stadthaus Ulm, December 5, 2025 4th Joint Meeting of GBM & BioPharma Cluster South Germany ai.gbm-online.de/home.html#We... Check out our specials for young scientists!

Deadline is coming up soon! Hurry up, and hand in your application/nomination!

This is the last week to apply!

🚨Preprint alert - this is a big one! We transfer the revolutionary power of TnSeq to bacteriophages. Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms. A thread 1/8

We are back, soon! The secrets of bacterial cell envelopes' our free online seminar series is due to resume in January 2026 after a long break. Hosted by Georgina Benn and Syma Khalid- supported by the Microbiology Society. More details soon. @microbiologysociety.org Please spread the word

Noch zehn Tage: Bis zum 30. November könnt ihr eure Skizzen beim Hochschulwettbewerb 2026 einreichen. Wir suchen Kommunikationsprojekte zur Medizin der Zukunft. youtube.com/shorts/v98r7... @jungeakademie.bsky.social @bvhkom.bsky.social

This week on the pod: 💊 A molecule that delivers insulin through the skin 🧠 How language lights up the brain, whatever the tongue go.nature.com/4raJ9vd

A great opportunity to join our newly established imaging centre in Frankfurt as engineer/technician. If you love light microscopy, please apply! Please share!