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Black Microbiologists Assoc (Black In Micro) @blackinmicro.bsky.social · 8d

This is your daily reminder that registration is open and *FREE* for #BiM2025 #BlackInMicro Week. Get ready to join our online celebration: linktr.ee/BlackInMicro (or see link in bio)

The summarised schedule of Black in Micro Week 2025, October 14-16. All times are in Eastern Standard Time. Mon 14: Pathways for Change. Welcome and Keynote Address 12pm. Marian Johnson-Thompson, PhD. Panel Discussion: Finding Black Spaces in STEM, 1:15-2:15 PM. Weds 15, Careers & Research: ECR Symposium 9-12 PM. Panel discussion: Navigating Careers in Microbiology 2-3 PM. Thurs 16, Community: Panel Discussion - Empowering Your Science 12-1:15 PM. Workshop: Science in Action

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Tiffany Lowe-Power 🌱🦠 @tlowepower.bsky.social · 16d

Please repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist

Applications due Dec 1

Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)

he Department of Plant Pathology at the University of California, Davis is seeking applications for a fulltime, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Mycology, with a focus on plant pathogenic, symbiotic,
or mycotoxigenic fungi and fungal-like organisms (e.g., oomycetes). We are looking for a highly
motivated and creative scientist with a strong background in mycology and/or the biology of fungi and
fungal-like organisms that interact with plants. The successful candidate will be expected to develop a
world-class, externally funded research program that integrates both fundamental and applied aspects
of fungal biology within the context of plant pathology. We welcome applicants pursuing a wide range
of research topics related to plant-associated fungi, including but not limited to mechanisms of fungal
pathogenesis or symbiosis with plants, population genomics and evolution of fungal plant pathogens,
plant-associated fungal microbiomes and plant-microbe interactions, and/or one health approaches to
fungal diseases and antifungal resistance. Applicants working in other relevant research areas involving
pathogenic, symbiotic, or mycotoxigenic fungi or fungal-like organisms that affect plant health are also
encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will have significant opportunities for collaboration with
faculty in plant pathology, microbiology, genomics, and agricultural sciences, and to contribute to
addressing issues of importance to California’s agricultural and natural ecosystems.
The appointee primary teaching responsibilities will be teaching Introductory Mycology, an upperdivision lab class, and SAS 30, Mushroom, Molds & Society, a general education class for non-majors.
Additional graduate and undergraduate teaching responsibilities may be assigned based on
departmental needs and the candidate’s expertise. The department offers modern instructional
facilities, including a newly renovated teaching laboratory.

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Carolyn Ibberson @cbibberson.bsky.social · 25d

Excited to share our latest preprint is up: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... led by @aanuoluwaduro.bsky.social ! 🧪🧫

Revealing Community Dynamics in Polymicrobial Infections through a Quantitative Framework

Laboratory models provide tractable, reproducible systems that have long served as foundational tools in microbiology. However, the extent to which these models accurately mimic the biological environ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 29d

A substantial part (but not all) of this increased investment is multi-year funded grants.

My current estimate is that multi-year funding has been used in lieu of ~2400 annually funded grants that could have been made.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 25

Today, courageous FEMA staff members sent the Katrina Declaration to the FEMA "leadership" and others.

Sign on it support of these folks committed to the FEMA mission for all of us.

www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina...

@standupforscience.bsky.social

Support the FEMA Katrina Declaration Now! — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

www.standupforscience.net

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · Aug 25

Over a third of people say they’re going days without eating in Gaza. For now, the confirmed famine is centered in the governorate of Gaza, one of five in the strip. Our maps show where it’s expected to spread by the end of September

www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

The evolution of famine in Gaza, in maps and charts

For the first time, catastrophic levels of hunger have been confirmed in the strip

www.economist.com

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · Aug 24

Video OpEd via @nytimes.com on drastic cuts to the pipeline of federally funded medical research that drives diagnostics, drugs, and treatments for

Cancer

HIV

Diabetes

Alzheimer's

+ more

& helps patients, enables patents, and advances soft power.

5 mins 🎁

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.

www.nytimes.com

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Carolyn Ibberson @cbibberson.bsky.social · Aug 4

Excited to have our new mini review on Microbiome Metabolism out today in I&I as part of the @asm.org New Voices in Microbiology collection! Check it out!

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journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Infections as ecosystems: community metabolic interactions in microbial pathogenesis | Infection and Immunity

Microbial communities are present on nearly every surface of the human body. These microbiomes exist as dynamic ecosystems that are influenced by heterogeneous nutritional and chemical landscapes, the...

journals.asm.org

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Lauren Palmer @laurenpalmer.bsky.social · Aug 4

Super excited to share our paper online 🚨today🚨 in Cell Host & Microbe‬! Xiaomei Ren @xiaomeiren.bsky.social and Mason Clark @rmasonclark.bsky.social‬ co-led discovery of ecological factors for Acinetobacter baumannii carriage in the gut, a reservoir for pathogen spread. 🎉

tinyurl.com/443kfefk

Cell Host & Microbe @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social · Aug 4

Amino acid competition shapes A. baumannii gut carriage

Acinetobacter baumannii uses ornithine to compete w/ microbiota & persist in gut. Amino acid supplementation & differences in diet promote A. baumannii gut colonization in mice & humans
@laurenpalmer.bsky.social‬
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Amino acid competition shapes Acinetobacter baumannii gut carriage

Ren and Clark et al. show that Acinetobacter baumannii uses ornithine to compete with the resident microbiota and persist in the gut. Additional evidence demonstrates that amino acid supplementation a...

www.cell.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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Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social · Jul 17

The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more.
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601

Junior, Assistant, or Associate Specialist – Xue Lab

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ap.uci.edu

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Gina Lewin @ginalewin.bsky.social · Jul 16

Reading this tonight, and holding my family a little extra tight, heartbroken for all who cannot

500 Women Scientists @500womensci.bsky.social · Jul 15

In 1980, James Baldwin wrote in The Nation: “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” 500womenscientists.org/updates/2025...

The children are always ours — 500 Women Scientists

In 1980, James Baldwin wrote in The Nation : “ The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing thi...

500womenscientists.org

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Gina Lewin @ginalewin.bsky.social · Jul 11

Lovely time with new and old friends at microbiology population biology camp. Leaving with lots of new ideas (and lots of new bug bites)

@cbibberson.bsky.social @peachypotato.bsky.social @jamesgurney.bsky.social

College of New Hampshire views and people eating lobster

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · Jul 2

Dear Science Journalists,

Please mention when your write-ups covers work that was funded by federal agencies that are now being dismantled, defunded, and censored.

The public needs to know what is being lost, and if you don't tell them in the context of Cool New Science, who will?

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Gina Lewin @ginalewin.bsky.social · Jul 1

Wish I could like this 100 more times. Huge congrats, very well deserved! 🥳

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Gina Lewin @ginalewin.bsky.social · Jun 30

Happy to help fill some bubbles in Ohio and support @skypeascientist.bsky.social, which is doing lots of awesome work to connect people with science!

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Jun 30

It’s that time again! Time for @skypeascientist.bsky.social’s 7th annual United States of Science Challenge!

Each bubble on this map represents classrooms we marched w/scientists this year.

$10 donations fill bubbles!

The first region to fill in all of their bubbles wins!

givebutter.com/USS2025

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · Jun 23

The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget.

Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide.

Interactive map and shareable report:
scienceimpacts.org/fy26

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Economic loss due to NIH budget cuts by congressional district, scienceimpacts.org/fy26

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · Jun 23

Today's heat wave was made FIVE TIMES more likely by fossil fueled climate change

Yet Republicans are trying this week to pass a bill that would decimate the energy transition and sell off swaths of public lands to fossil fuel companies

It's hot. Fossil fuels made it hotter.

And it'll still be the coldest summer of your life if Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" passes this week.

heated.world

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Gina Lewin @ginalewin.bsky.social · Jun 14

Great crowd today

#NoKings #ScienceNotSilence

Sign at a protest with images of monarch butterflies and text saying the “only orange monarch we want”

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jun 9

I wanted to show support for these brave public servants and to allow others, including the scientific community, to join me. In partnership with @standupforscience.bsky.social‬, we have a way for you to do that... www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

Support NIH Staff Now!

www.standupforscience.net

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · Jun 7

This is so cool, @vscooper.micropopbio.org 👏

#EvolvingSTEM at its best!

bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · Jun 7

Student-led experimental evolution reveals novel biofilm regulatory networks underlying adaptations to multiple niches https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.06.658356v1

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · May 29

🚨ATTENTION MOMS🚨

Friday, May 30th at 3pm

Meet me outside of the CDC with your pregnant bellies, your babies, your toddlers, your strollers, your signs, and your baby gear.

We are standing up for science and vaccines!
@standupforscience.bsky.social

RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/moms-...

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Morgan Sobol @msobol.bsky.social · May 28

🚨 I’m hiring a postdoc for Fall 2025 with experience in microbial ‘omics data analysis and phylogenetics/genomics. Projects will be centered around ancient microbial ecology & evolution. Click here for more information: bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/wp.txstate.e...

Please share, thank you 🙏🏻

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · May 28

Major update to #SCIMaP visualization of impacts of cuts to federally supported health research. Map now includes information on future economic losses (impact of proposed reduction of NIH IDC to 15%) and current economic losses (impact of terminated NIH grants).

scienceimpacts.org

Update to https://scienceimpacts.org to include terminated grants

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · May 2

🔔BREAKING🔔

The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding.

This is censorship disguised as oversight.

Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3):
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

www.nature.com

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