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Julie Maresca
@micromaresca.bsky.social
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Microbiologist, micro-adventurer, micro-doodler. Too many projects, not enough time: phototrophy, built environment, some wastewater. 🚲🥾🧶🧪
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morgancarterphd.bsky.social
We are hiring!! Biological Sciences as UNC Charlotte has a broad search for a new assistant professor.
Apps reviewed 12/15.

Please spread the word! 💚⛏️
#PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
Assistant Professor
Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in the biological sciences or related fields.Candidates are expected to document expertise in their specialty by a record of postdoctoral training, peer reviewed publ...
jobs.charlotte.edu
November 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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cmichaelrose.bsky.social
I am looking for a PostDoc to join my group at Genentech to drive the development of proteomics technologies to fuel target and therapeutic discovery and development. Check out the link below!

careers.gene.com/us/en/job/20...
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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chemjobber.bsky.social
The 2026 Chemical Engineering Faculty Jobs List (run by Arvind Ganesan and Todd N. Whittaker) has 88 research/teaching positions and 16 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemEjobs #chemchat #chemsky 🧪⚗️
AY25-26 Chemical Engineering Faculty Jobs List
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November 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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chemjobber.bsky.social
The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 330 tenure-track positions and 47 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪
The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List
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November 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
micromaresca.bsky.social
One of the best things about my new position is exactly this
rogerslabucd.bsky.social Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 7h
This hits really close to home! I am all about being silly and bringing my two sides (serious scientist and ridiculous person) to work. Life is too short and too hard to save the fun for later. ❤️
November 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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asm.org
Share your research to the Applied & Environmental Microbiology Meeting at ASM Microbe 2026.

Early Abstract Deadline: Dec. 2, 2 p.m. ET.

asm.social/2HP
You work powers global resilience
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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mostlymicrobes.bsky.social
Today's student Thank a Microbe post features Pseudomonas putida! Need to clean up oil spills and other toxic hydrocarbons? Call in P. putida.
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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erantal.bsky.social
🚨We're hiring! A tenure track position at McGill University in the area of #bioethics and / or philosophy of science, with a special focus on the ethics of medical technologies. Please share widely. #philsky #ethics #philsci philjobs.org/job/show/30402
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Equity, Ethics, and Policy and Department of Philosophy, McGill University - PhilJobs:JFP Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Equity...
An international database of jobs for philosophers
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November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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burrowingowl.bsky.social
Good morning! 🪶
Burrowing owl couple peeking out from inside a discarded tire.
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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ndchiappini.bsky.social
UNCW's Dept of Chem and Biochem is looking for four (4!) new members this cycle including:

Asst Professor Analytical Chem
Asst Professor Physical Chem
Lecturer - Bio- and general Chem
Lecturer - General Chem

Our dept is a great place to work and Wilmington's a blast!
#ChemSky #ChemJobs
Links ⬇️
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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leonorabit.bsky.social
We have some great AEM sessions that need your exciting abstracts!

From the Rhizosphere to Pollinators: Studying Agricultural Microbiomes Across Biological Scales.

Microbial Traits Driving Host Resilience in a Changing Climate.

Mechanistic Basis of Coexistence in Microbial Communities.
asm.org ASM @asm.org · 5d
Early abstract submissions for ASM Microbe 2026—now 3 fully integrated meetings within 1 microbial world—are officially open. Submit by Dec. 2, 2 p.m. ET to elevate your research, spark new collaborations and join the conversations defining what’s next. asm.org/events/asm-m...
Early abstract submission now open!
November 25, 2025 at 3:36 AM
micromaresca.bsky.social
Oh hey congratulations @oliverio.bsky.social @rmshepherd.bsky.social @hbrappap.bsky.social on the awesome thermophilic amoeba story!
biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 20h
A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.24.690213v1
November 25, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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simrouxvirus.bsky.social
Some fantastic sessions being planned for ASM Microbe 2026, including "Long-term Dynamics of Environmental Microbiomes", and "Eco-evolutionary Dynamics of Phages and Their Roles in Horizontal Gene Transfer". Get your abstract(s) ready, and join us June 4–7, 2026 in D.C. ! asm.org/events/asm-m...
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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liliancaesar.bsky.social
Time to start planning for ASM Microbe 2026! Among the amazing sessions announced (see link), Chris and I are thrilled to be convening “From the Rhizosphere to Pollinators: Studying Agricultural Microbiomes Across Biological Scales”. We can’t wait to see you all there! More details coming soon!
simrouxvirus.bsky.social Simon Roux @simrouxvirus.bsky.social · 1d
Some fantastic sessions being planned for ASM Microbe 2026, including "Long-term Dynamics of Environmental Microbiomes", and "Eco-evolutionary Dynamics of Phages and Their Roles in Horizontal Gene Transfer". Get your abstract(s) ready, and join us June 4–7, 2026 in D.C. ! asm.org/events/asm-m...
November 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
They grow bacteria on those hairy arms and then lick the bacteria off for a delightful snack, isn't that gross and cool?
vireosy.bsky.social Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 1d
yeti crab

#art #sciart 🎨🦑🦀
Drawing of a yeti crab on a dark slate gray background. It is a white crustacean with long forearms covered in fine hairlike filaments, tinted somewhat teal as if seen from underwater.
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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maitreya.bsky.social
Open faculty position (Assistant or Associate) in UW Medical Genetics. As you might expect, faculty often end up also interacting with Genome Sciences, so we're hoping for some great prospects! Note the clinical requirements for the position. apply.interfolio.com/176466
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November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social
Editor-In-Chief for FEMS Microbiology Reviews of @femsjournals.bsky.social @femsmicro.org

#SocietyJournal #Microbiology #EditorInChief

fems-microbiology.org/opportunitie...
November 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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surtlab.bsky.social
This...is exactly the kind of theory that has been needed for longer than a decade in microbiome-host evolution studies
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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dec.ny.gov
Last call for submissions for DEC’s Annual Arbor Day Poster Contest! Enter your “Trees for the Future” themed submission by November 30, 2025, for a chance for your work to be featured on New York’s next Arbor Day poster.

📷: 2018 Arbor Day Poster, captured by Aaron Cohen of Roslyn, New York
A lone green leaved tree growing at the edge of a small pond in a snowy, small park.
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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geiselbiofilm.bsky.social
The newest issue of JB is out! This month's issue has article on topics including bacterial pseudo-receiver domains, B. frag/B.theta as model bugs, peptidoglycomics, pyruvate transport in Staph, "swashing" motility, and more! Check it out!
journals.asm.org/toc/jb/207/11
November 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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mostlymicrobes.bsky.social
For the Thank a Microbe project, Lactobacillus sp. were a favorite genera of bacteria to thank.

Lactobacillus acidophilus is what digests milk sugars into acetic acid, which gives yogurt its tangy taste!
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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jlgoff.bsky.social
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

We have a new paper out, led by my PhD student Linda! Ni and Cu are common co-occurring contaminants. They are also synergistic in their toxicity. We examined the mechanisms of this synergism, finding that sulfur assimilation and Fe-S cluster biogenesis are targets.
The molecular basis of the synergistic toxicity of nickel and copper, common environmental co-contaminants | Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Many environments are contaminated by metals. These metals are toxic to the microorganisms that inhabit these environments and carry out important ecosystem services. While much is known about bacteri...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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alanallport.bsky.social
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
jackiantonovich.bsky.social Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 2d
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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mcnees.bsky.social
Geneticist and microbiologist Rita Rossi Colwell was born #OTD in 1934. She was the first researcher in the US to use computers to analyze bacteriological data, and the first woman to serve as director of the NSF. 🧪 👩‍🔬
A color photo of Dr. Colwell at a lab bench, holding a Petri dish in her right hand and holding something else up to a bunsen burner with her left hand. Out-of-focus lab equipment is in the foreground. She wears a white lab coat, and is looking at the flame. Rows of glassware and other equipment line the shelves behind her.
November 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM