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Become an mSystems Senior Editor! Tenured associate professors or above (or equivalent) can apply by March 23. I think that mSystems is a remarkable journal, not only for the science but also for the journal culture from the staff and scientists involved. @asm.org journals.asm.org/journal/msys...

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Welp, science moves on, I guess... Our preprint reports that therapeutic immunization with synthetic spore-like particles, "SSHELs", encapsulation peptide antigen elicited antigen-specific T cell expansion, reduced tumor growth, and increased survival. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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From the WTAE Pittsburgh stories (to re-air this weekend as well). Individual to my interview and related pieces to follow. www.wtae.com/article/pitt... 1/n

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Please check out this editorial in JB! #JBacteriology

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Please check out this editorial in JB! #JBacteriology

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Embracing the systems complexity of microbial ecology and evolution: call for papers #mSystems Editorial by a group of editors, senior editors & editor-in-chief @leonorabit.bsky.social @gilbertjacka.bsky.social @ashley17061.bsky.social @markjmandel.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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From the editors of @asm.org journals, a call to action! Below we discuss the U.S. scientific research enterprise and provide evidence and arguments we hope the ASM community can use to advocate for science. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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🧪 Kangaroos have indeterminate growth, although in ♀️ it slows to less than 1% after about age 8, and gets confused with measurement error. Leg length of 6 ♀️ caught 9-10 times yearly since aged 3. Long-term research pays off! From Forrester et al. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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As #BlackHistoryMonth ends, we recognize that the contributions, stories and legacies we celebrate now must be acknowledged and uplifted every day. ASM celebrates the contributions of Black microbiologists to the field of microbiology. Explore our focus page: asm.org/IDEAA/Resour...

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Want to be a published #mBio author? Introducing mBio mGems✨— short, impactful reviews (limited to 1,500 words) that update readers on key topics, highlight future research & raise thought-provoking questions. 📖 Read mGems & start preparing your own: asm.social/2i4

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JB Editor's Pick: Kathayat, Szlechter et al. explore how RpoS-regulated changes in peptidoglycan can enhance environmental survival of C. burnetii and L. pneumophila and alter their susceptibility to carbapenem antibiotics. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @asm.org #JBacteriology

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Happy 37th birthday to the LTEE! the-ltee.org/history/

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Happy 37th birthday to @relenski.bsky.social long term evolution experiment. Here's a beautiful summary: the-ltee.org/history/

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Prof. Matt Barbour and I are recruiting 1 MSc and 1 PhD students. Details below. Prof. Matt Barbour et moi recrutons une personne étudiante à la MSc et 1 au PhD. Détails ci-dessous. #Microbiome #Foodweb #Insects #Arabidopsis

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Introducing "Metagenomic Estimation of Dietary Intake", or "MEDI": a data-driven approach to estimating dietary and nutritional intake from stool DNA 💩 - 🍌🥦🐟🥩📈 See @cdiener.com's excellent thread below. We are really proud of this work, and we hope it is useful to the scientific community.

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New paper out! Phenotypic variation is a feature of several Burkholderia species. We found that quorum sensing and adenosine DNA methylation are two antagonistic systems independently controlling phase variation in B. ambifaria. Great work by @pmlcoulon.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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Looks interesting! "ClusterApp to visualize, organize, and navigate metabolomics data" #microsky

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The International Workshop on ‘Cell-cell communication in bacteria’ (CCCB25) to be held in Trieste, Italy, October 28-30 2025 is now open for abstract submission and registration www.icgeb.org/cell-cell-co... Some abstracts will be selected for oral presentations. #quorum-sensing

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New in JB: Marotta, Grabowicz et al. show that A. baumannii deals with OM stress differently than E. coli, and identify the BfmRS TCS as key during stress in OM lipoprotein biogenesis. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @asm.org #JBacteriology

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This is the step of the peer review process that always stresses me out the most. Hoping for good news on this Monday morning! #microsky

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Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

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Read ASM’s statement on the sweeping removal of federal health agency staff, which will be catastrophic for American science and technology. asm.org/Press-Releas...

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ASM stands firm in its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, as such efforts are critical to advancing the microbial sciences for everyone. Read our statement: asm.org/Press-Releas...

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Cryo-EM Faculty position (Assistant or Associate Prof. level) at U de Montréal (in one of the world's great cities)! Dept of Biochem & Mol Med www.umontreal.ca/public/www/d... Deadline March 11, 2025 Contact Pascale Legault, Director ([email protected])

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We are honored to welcome Maydianne Andrade, recipient of the President’s Award for Societal Engagement, as a keynote speaker! 🎤 “I don’t think of you as Black” and other Misconceptions about Equity, Merit & Systems Change 📍 Don’t miss this talk at #CSEE2025 in Sherbrooke

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Excited to be back to Dartmouth to attend the M2P2 annual retreat. Lots of familiar faces (and new ones too)! Also happy to have my trainees attending. #microsky

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My latest column just appeared in Science, entitled "Free speech, fact-checking, and the right to accurate information”. (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) I use one of President Trump’s first executive orders to unpack the terrain between misinformation and claims to free speech 1/n

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New in JB: May and Grabowicz describe the most recent research on outer membrane lipoproteins, including targeting these pathways for novel antibiotics. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @asm.org #JBacteriology

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🚨 Exciting news! 🚨 ASM welcomes new Editors-in-Chief for our journals starting July 1! 👏 Join us in thanking our outgoing leaders & congratulating Romney Humphries, Marvin Whiteley, Ashley Shade and Ira Blader! Read more: asm.org/Press-Releas...

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This is one of those little things that has made my working life a lot better. I often have dozens of tabs open and live in fear of Chrome crashing. Toby, allows me to save them, file them and then find them again. Free educator/student discount - well worth it! www.gettoby.com

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Many people, including academics, don't understand what F&A is for. Please share to help. 1) Translate to "overhead" in common business accounting: 60% IDC => 60/160 = 37.5% overhead (low!) 2) Infographic explaining what it's for, linked here: www.cogr.edu/sites/defaul...

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On Feb. 7 the National Institute of Health (NIH) announced it is capping facilities & administration costs (also known as indirect costs) to 15% starting Feb. 10. This will devastate science & scientific research in the U.S. Email your members of Congress now: asm.org/Articles/Pol...

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Open House at USherbrooke today! My colleague @moffettpeter.bsky.social is showing prospective students our brand new greenhouse @centre-seve.bsky.social and all the exciting research we can do with it.

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JB Editor's Pick: Pickens, De Leon et al. describe the distinct contributions two critical biofilm adhesins for SRB. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @asm.org #JBacteriology

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The MBL remembers and celebrates the outstanding legacy of Ernest Everett Just, the first African American to study and work at the Marine Biological Laboratory. Just was an internationally respected researcher who published more than 70 scientific articles in his career. Read more: bit.ly/4gguh7S

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It took me longer than I wanted, but I finally have an official lab website! www.fjplab.com

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Interactions between the nitrogen phosphotransferase system of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and its quorum sensing circuits. A new preprint from @jrchandler.bsky.social's group www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Excited to share! @yeshapatel.bsky.social and I report... Mutations in RNAP confer antibiotic resistance via transcriptome remodeling. Repression of branched chain amino acid and Pyr pathways increases β-lactam resistance in B. subtilis. #MicroSky #AMR #antibiotics www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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A statement from the BMA Board Members to the BMA Community and Beyond. Additional alt text to follow due to the character limit.

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Here's my latest research article: the impact of TSST-1 in the vagina beyond menstrual toxic shock syndrome. doi.org/10.1128/iai....

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Just another one for 2025 👩‍🔬 Great work with @stephentuffs.bsky.social and Nick Walton from @superantigens.bsky.social lab. Here is our last study focusing on the impact of superantigens within 3 S. aureus isolates from the same bacteremia patient: doi.org/10.1128/iai....

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Job Alert! Assistant de recherche/associé de recherche en pathologie végétale/microbiologie moléculaire Research assistant in plant pathology and molecular microbiology Team Martin Filion @mcgill.ca Début/Start Mar 1 Date limite/Deadline Feb 15 mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

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Little things make me happy- We finally received the two rotors that I’ve ordered a while ago. Yay! #microsky

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