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Chris Marshall

@sirmicrobe.bsky.social

120 followers 83 following 3 posts

Really enthusiastic about mentoring and microbes. Assoc Prof at Marquette Univ.

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Erin Green @erinrgreen.bsky.social · 5d

Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 10d

View from the lab now. Did I mention that we are recruiting faculty microbiologists?

www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...

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Dr. Jennifer Glass (she/her) @methanojen.bsky.social · 12d

A reminder to please support non-profit publishers.

It’s good for science and scientists.

It’s a responsible use of taxpayer dollars.

It requires resisting peer pressure to submit to Nature journals.

Thanks @bacteriality.bsky.social for this helpful slide for microbiology journals.

Slide with text “Support Society Journals:
Society-based journals help build and advocate for our scientific communities” showing the logos for non profit publishers ASM, ACS, ASBMB. microbiology society, Science, and ISME. Underneath “for-profit journals do not” showing logos for Nature, Elsevier, Frontiers, CellPress, and MDPI.

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · Aug 21

Our Pitt Microbiology and Molecular Genetics department in the School of Medicine is recruiting..

Microbiologists! 🧫🦠🔬🧪

Please apply to join our faculty and enjoy these views 👀 while doing great science

cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

Chris Marshall @sirmicrobe.bsky.social · Aug 15

Getting ready to teach microbiology this semester, just using ChatGPT to help me freshen up the course

bad AI-generated version of bacterial cell envelopes

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K.T. Elliott @ktelliottmicro.bsky.social · Jul 17

🚨🚨🚨PUI TT Job Alert!!

My dept at TCNJ is hiring a tenure track cell and molecular biologist. Come join my supportive colleagues, helpful staff, & fabulous students!

We're surprisingly well resourced w/excellent equipment (confocal, SEM etc) and research w/students counts towards our teaching load!

Assistant Professor - Biology

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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2025 10th ASM Conference on Biofilms @asmbiofilms2025.bsky.social · Aug 4

What to expect at the ASM Biofilms Conference

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Natalie Wright, Ph.D. @coereba.bsky.social · Jul 25

Kenyon is hiring a TT microbiologist! Please share widely. I’m the search chair & am happy to answer any questions. careers.pageuppeople.com/695/cw/en-us...

Kenyon College - Details - Assistant Professor of Biology (Tenure-Track)

careers.pageuppeople.com

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Tiffany Lowe-Power 🌱🦠 @tlowepower.bsky.social · Jul 25

Microbiology professor, want to join a slack for microbiology professors, any career stage, diverse career types (pure teaching, med school, R1, community college, pure research fed PIs, ...)

Message me for an invite link if you are interested.

No imposter syndrome, if you are 1% micro, join!

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Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social · Jul 22

We are on the lookout for postdocs for two different projects at the intersection of ecology, evolution, and the human microbiome.

See thread for more information and reach out!

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Michael Henson, Ph.D. @aquaticmicrolab.bsky.social · Jul 21

Notice of Award is in!
Join our team at NIU to study marine microbial ecology & disease dynamics in sea urchins 🧫🌊🦠
PhD | Spring/Fall 2026 start
Job Ad Here 👉 shorturl.at/fSMy9
Apply here 👉 forms.gle/gfMnHutijfqC...
More: theaquaticmicrobiologylab.com
@ianhewson.bsky.social @viromegirl.bsky.social

Funded Graduate Student Opportunity in Marine Microbial Ecology

**Applicants will be contacted if selected for next round. Applicants not selected will not receive any notice. If not selected, this is not indicative of your merit. ** Northern Illinois University |...

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · Jul 17

POSTDOC🚨
With the excellent @anshika22.bsky.social moving to UCI 🥲Anna Zemke and I are again recruiting a postdoc on the HOST-PATHOGEN BIOLOGY of TRACHEOBRONCHITIS. This is a microbiome-device-host immunity problem of broad significance.

Contact Dr. Zemke (zemkea at upmc dot edu) if interested! 👇🏻

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · May 28

Quote

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Louis Pasteur

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Apr 23

AAU updates their excellent explainer about indirect costs to cover the current attacks...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtqK...

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Facilities and Administrative (F&A) Costs Explainer

YouTube video by Association of American Universities

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Chris Marshall @sirmicrobe.bsky.social · Apr 18

arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

Resist, eggheads! Universities are not as weak as they have chosen to be.

Opinion: It’s time for public resistance.

arstechnica.com

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Apr 18

Also, for the record:
1. No it doesn't.
2. No it doesn't.
3. Kinda but not really.
4. This is unconfirmed and months early makes no sense.
5. It has.

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Nanami Kubota @nanamikubota.bsky.social · Apr 2

Preprint out! Bacteria w/ hyper-replicative filamentous phage lead to overnight emergence of cheater phages. Bacteria w/ both phages can outcompete wildtype, then rapidly lose phage via a phage Tragedy of the Commons
@shellyscrib.bsky.social @vscooper.micropopbio.org www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Filamentous cheater phages drive bacterial and phage populations to lower fitness

Many bacteria carry phage genome(s) in their chromosome (i.e., prophage), and this intertwines the fitness of the bacterium and the phage. Most Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains carry filamentous phages ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · Feb 26

My (purely teaching-focused) unit is hiring. We teach the lecture and lab for 100-level bio majors. Starts at 1 year, but expectation is permanent. For more information and to apply, please visit careers.msu.edu (search for job# 1024852). Review of applications will begin on March 20, 2025.

BECOME A PART OF SOMETHING BIGGER

careers.msu.edu

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Conlon Lab @bconlon.bsky.social · Feb 13

Delighted to share our new study. A collaboration with the Thurlow lab. Antibiotic resistance rapidly emerges and thrives in diabetic mice. A worrying coming together of two major and growing health problems worldwide www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Diabetes potentiates the emergence and expansion of antibiotic resistance

Diabetic infections are a reservoir for the emergence and proliferation of antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus aureus.

www.science.org

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Patrick R. Secor @prsecor.bsky.social · Jan 6

Friends, please help spread the word about our microbiology REU program at Montana State University.
www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/

Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided.

Details in the attached pic--Feb 13 deadline
🧫🧪🦠#microsky

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Iain Johnston @mitomaths.bsky.social · Dec 9

Have had some good chats recently about pivoting to non-profit and society journals. A point to share/underline is that such options exist across the "prestige" spectrum. Some examples in the image. All heavily subjective of course; would love to hear thoughts from others!

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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · Nov 26

📣 📣 📣 Still lots of TT jobs being advertised: The 2024-2025 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2024-25

docs.google.com

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Rachel Poretsky @rporetsky.bsky.social · Oct 24

Genetics teaching position in my department:
Open Rank Teaching Faculty- Non-Tenure Track (Genetics)
Department of Biological Sciences- University of Illinois Chicago #genesky #teaching #academicjobs #genetics
uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Open Rank Teaching Faculty- Non-Tenure Track (Genetics)- Department of Biological Sciences

Position SummaryFull-time non-tenure track teaching position with the title of Teaching Professor, rank open (Assistant, Associate, or Full. Expected ...

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Tony Gamble @tonygamble.bsky.social · Sep 26

Herpetologist Wanted!!!
We are hiring a Research/Animal Care Technician in Milwaukee. Previous lizard/snake experience required.
See attached ad (and alt text) for details.
🧪🦎

Herpetologist Wanted!!!
Come join our team in Milwaukee! The Gamble Lab at Marquette University is hiring a Research/Animal Care Technician. Duties include lizard & snake husbandry; sample collection & curation; & data management – email w/questions: tgamble@geckoevolution.org
Information about the Gamble at Marquette University can be found here: https://www.geckoevolution.org/
Get details about the position and apply here: https://employment.marquette.edu/postings/21925
Photos include: upper left - corn snakes hatching from eggs on a black background; upper right - a crested gecko on a branch on a white background; lower left - photo of Marquette University campus in spring with colorful flowers in the foreground; lower right - gecko hatching from an egg with a bit of eggshell on its head.

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Ryan Newton @aqcrobial.bsky.social · Aug 16

Recruiting a Postdoctoral Scholar for Fall 2024. See wix.to/wPgT5kj for details

Recruiting Postdoc for Fall 2024

The Newton Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is recruiting a Postdoctoral Scholar to begin as soon as possible in Fall 2024 to lead a research project on antimicrobial resistance in municip...

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Patrick R. Secor @prsecor.bsky.social · Aug 16

I am super excited to share that my lab has relocated to the Dept of Microbiology & Cell Biology at Montana State University in Bozeman, MT.

We will be looking to recruit scientists at all levels.

Get in touch if you love phages, microbes, & mountains. 🧫🧪🦠

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Alvaro San Millan @sanmillan.bsky.social · Mar 2

New preprint in collaboration with @asantoslopez.bsky.social lab and led by Jorge Sastre. Combining experimental evolution and analyses of longitudinal samples from hospitalised patients, we unveiled a new mechanism of plasmid-mediated evolution beyond HGT 1/8
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Plasmid-encoded insertion sequences promote rapid adaptation in clinical enterobacteria

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

www.biorxiv.org

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Ryan Newton @aqcrobial.bsky.social · Nov 21

We are recruiting a MS graduate student for fall 2024. Research focus is on Microbiology interventions in wastewater. Applications are due January 15. Please contact me if interested.

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Benjamin Wolfe @benwolfe.bsky.social · Nov 7

Hugely impressed with the quality of genomic/transcriptomic services at @seqcoast.bsky.social! We've processed several orders with them and they are fast, have competitive prices, produce high quality data, and are happy to work with diverse samples from academic researchers. seqcoast.com/services/

Services - SeqCoast Genomics

Fast Insights. Friendly Service. Sequencing and bioinformatics from microbial genomics experts Short read whole genome sequencing, Illumina Our short read sequencing service provides 150bp paired end ...

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Ryan Newton @aqcrobial.bsky.social · Sep 27

There is still time…We are hiring 2 tenure track faculty at the U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences 1) Freshwater (Ecosystem) Dynamics and 2) Fisheries. Application review starts Oct 2. jobs.uwm.edu/postings/37676 jobs.uwm.edu/postings/37677
We would love for you to join us!

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR - Freshwater Dynamics

The School of Freshwater Sciences seeks a tenure-track faculty member who will join a highly interdisciplinary program to contribute to limnological research and education at the University of Wiscons...