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Two tenure-track positions at Amherst College www.amherst.edu. apply.interfolio.com/168795 (molecular genetics and biochemistry) apply.interfolio.com/168794 (molecular/cellular neurobiology)

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2030STEM in partnership with Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) is building a new, catalytic resource to advance the careers of early to mid-career STEM researchers and professionals who are motivated to build an inclusive STEM ecosystem. Get more informarion at 2030stem.org/fellowship-1

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I'm happy to announce the latest release of the GlobDB, available at globdb.org. The GlobDB is a database of "species dereplicated" microbial genomes, and as of release 226 contains twice the number of species-representative genomes (306,260) than the latest GTDB release.

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🦑🌊🧪 Please share among your networks, a Research Fellow post in #Ocean Dynamics and Floating Offshore #Wind Consequences on Key Ecosystem Drivers in the Celtic Sea working with me, @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social & @peterimiller.bsky.social tinyurl.com/44x66b5z #PlanktonImaging #RemoteSensing #AUVs

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In her new book, published today, neuroscientist @nicolecrust.bsky.social takes a bird's-eye view of where the neuroscience community is currently and where it needs to go to solve some of the field’s biggest questions. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/community/el...

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New genome announcement from our team: Draft genome sequence of Desulfobacterota strain M19, a mesophilic sulfur-disproportionating bacterium from a #DeepSea hydrothermal vent on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #Bacteria #Microbes #Genomics #HydrothermalVents #Extremophiles

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"These are scientists, physicians, epidemiologists & other experts who are honored to serve their country because they care deeply about public health." @richbesser.bsky.social in defense of #ACIP and on the risks posed by political interference in its critical work. www.statnews.com/2025/06/10/a...

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Today, my NIH colleagues and I did something scary but really important. We spoke up about egregious harms we are seeing happen to research participants and public health through thoughtless and politicized policies at NIH. 🧵1/3 apnews.com/article/nih-...

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New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

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We have two new positions, a PhD and a Post doc at #InstituteofBiologyLeiden within our @microclockerc.bsky.social #ERCSyG project to discover interaction of #circadianclocks between Bacillus subtilis and Arabidopsis please share these with your network! 🙏 links below👇 [1/3]

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Big day for the Gurney lab, first paper from the lab is now published. @sczerwinski.bsky.social led this work and answered a simple question does phage steering work when other bacteria are around? Tldr: yes! journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10....

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I’ve written threads about the GBR-MGDs pMAGs, but it also contains viruses (vMAGs), including a monophyletic clade of marine Crassvirales, chromosome-level eukaryote eMAGs, and putative plasmids. We wanted a holistic DB. One problem: some key software appear to break with long reads. A 🦠 🧵.

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www.votervoice.net/mobile/ASMUS... From @asm.org

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Our newest special issue is now live! Check it out to discover more about diverse and beautiful Fungi🍄🍄‍🟫🍄 On the cover: the fly agaric, Amanita muscaria, releasing its spores in the early morning light. www.cell.com/current-biol...

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New preprint "Drivers of genetic diversity across the marine tree of life" out lead by my former postdoc Rachel Toczydlowski, along with @reidbrennan.bsky.social, Joanna Kelley, Jamie Pringle, @seaprof.bsky.social, and @johnwares.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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What comes next with reinforcement learning Scaling RL, sparse rewards, continual learning, and the progress wall when pretraining really stops. www.interconnects.ai/p/what-comes...

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Trichodesmium metaproteomes reflect the differential influence of resource availability across ocean regions academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs 🌊

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Official accounts for SMBE and affiliated journals are now on Bluesky: ▫️ Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social ▫️ Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social ▫️ Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social Starter Pack: go.bsky.app/2xnyMrS

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🎙️I am thrilled to share this episode of #MattersMicrobial hosted by @markowenmartin.bsky.social. @symbionticism.bsky.social and I talk about One Health Microbiome Sciences and what is next for the microbiome research field! 🦠🌏

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For all the microbiologists out there. asm.org/advocacy

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New STAT story about NIH rescinding the institution-wide anti-DEI term and condition that had been added to Notices of Award. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/n... 1/n

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Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

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Job vacancy as senior scientist on #fluorescent #microscopy (incl confocal and high resolution) open at University of Vienna! Apply until June 15: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...

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🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

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CrossFilt: A Cross-species Filtering Tool that Eliminates Alignment Bias in Comparative Genomics Studies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/kennethabarr...

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I'm thrilled to share the newest paper from the Yang Lab! Ever wonder how bacterial metabolism affects antibiotic resistance #AMR? In this study, Barry Li, a former MD/PhD student in the lab, took on this question using a systems and #synthetic_biology approach. 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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RFK Jr says he's dismissing all 17 members of CDC's vaccine advisory committee (ACIP) and will appoint new members, calling a number of them "last-minute appointees" of the Biden administration. HHS still says it plans to hold the next ACIP meeting June 25-27 www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/h...

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Breaking: HHS Secretary RFK Jr. has removed all 17 members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel, dismantling years of public health precedent.

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An analysis shows that NIH grant awards supported 407,782 jobs and $94.58 bn in new economic activity nationwide, the largest figure in the history of the report, w/ an ROI of $2.56 for every $1 in awards. Deep cuts to NIH funding will contribute to a recession. www.forbes.com/sites/michae... 🧪🔬

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A new PostDoc position in our BioEO team url-shortener.me/1KHP @ecioxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk -> Quantifying interactions between climate change, forest functional diversity and fragmentation and vector borne diseases in the Amazon -> get in touch if interested ! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Leveraging the GBR-MGD, we find that seawater microbes can reliably predict fisheries management practice. Microbes indicative of No Take Marine Reserves (NTMRs) have streamlined, low-GC genomes, fished reefs do not—turned out to be very interesting! Excellent work led by @markoterzin.bsky.social

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A call to stand up and show support for the Bethesda Declaration, the NIH, and for federally funded science in general.

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Sharing the most significant work from my group, led by the @evolvingstem.bsky.social team. Come for the discoveries of how Pseudomonas adapts in biofilms, stay for the story of how they were discovered by thousands of young scientists in grades 9-12. 🧪🧫🧬🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Simon Fraser University invites applications from world-renowned researchers for the Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC) 2026 competition, offering up to $8M over eight years to support innovative and impactful research. Learn more and apply by June 30: www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/a...

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check out our newest paper in JB: Kuchma, Geiger et al. identify key components of flagellar-mediated surface sensing system of P. aeruginosa. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @asm.org #Jbacteriology

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Various classes of riboswitches bind the nitrogen-rich compound guanidine, but its physiological significance remains elusive. In #JBacteriology, discover what we know so far about this important compound and open questions to guide future research: asm.social/2rW

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Now open - LOIs for the Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) program. Deadline is July 17 @ 3pm ET. More information here: buff.ly/iSu3v60 #bwfpath #GrantOpportunity

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📣 Happy to share our review on host-microbiome genomics! We synthesize the growing field exploring interactions between human genetics and the microbiome, building a roadmap for mapping the dialogue between our genes and microbes Out now in Nature Reviews Genetics👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Super happy to share our latest in @natcancer.nature.com co-led by @pannunziolab.bsky.social! We review the complex role of the circadian clock in genome integrity, DNA repair, immunity, metabolism, and cancer with a specific focus on early-onset cancer. Check it out! www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Ecological assemblages may be spatially organized by both context dependency and general processes. Here the authors find general patterns in the organization of regional biodiversity in biogeographical regions www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A single-cell perspective on host–virus dynamics in the ocean @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Opinion from @vardilab.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/micro...

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After working at it for a while, I finally convinced @clequere.bsky.social to join Bluesky. Many of you know her, but if not, she’s an extraordinary scientist whose impact on climate science and society is hard to measure. Please give her a follow. research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/c...

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We’re hiring: GIMM is launching its first call for Group Leaders. Looking for scientists ready to push boundaries, ask bold questions & build the future of biomedical discovery. 🔗 gimm.pt/jobs/open-ca... 📅 Apply by June 8 #ScienceJobs #GroupLeader #BiomedicalResearch

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E. coli prophages’ arsenal against temperate phages New work isolates temperate phages from diverse E. coli strains, enabling identification of 17 conserved, prophage-encoded anti-phage defense systems that protect against other temperate phages www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

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📣 Latest from the lab: Performance of deep-learning-based approaches to improve polygenic scores www.nature.com/articles/s41... Its thought deep learning will substantially improve PGS but the reality is MANY have tried but no/little gain has been seen so far. Here we report our negative results.

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He's right. "Nothing short of devastating" By @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Not all persister bacteria are dormant! 🦠 Single-cell imaging of over a million #EColi shows that many antibiotic-resistant persisters were actively growing before drug exposure. Persistence appears to be more dynamic than once thought. buff.ly/04T4L1k

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Introns have to come from somewhere, right? @celineh2ooo.bsky.social and I looked at multiple genome alignments with 1000s of genomes and found 342 cases where humans (and our relatives) had gained a new intron. Still not sure where these come from, but it's a fascinating question

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📢 Big day for archaeal microbiology! Today, we jointly shed light on the mysterious world of archaeal extracellular vesicles from human gut archaea - published in @natcomms.nature.com ‬ in parallel with our precious colleagues around @mkrupovic.bsky.social 🇦🇹🤝🇫🇷.

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