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Center for Advanced Microbiome Research & Innovation (CAMRI) @camri-igs.bsky.social · 4d

We're hiring a #postdoc with knowledge of the #microbiome, #microbiology, #bioinformatics, #computationalbiology to understand the role of the vaginal microbiome in women's health. #Baltimore #womenshealth

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Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 8d

🔊 Fully-funded 4yr PhD studentship with the NWB DTP, working on novel regulators of bacterial nitrogen metabolism 🦠
Primary supervisor: @ariannebabina.bsky.social (University of Glasgow)
Co-supervisors: myself (Queen’s Belfast)+ Dónal Wall (Glasgow)
🌟 please share 🌟

www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Underpinning Bioscience - Arianne Babina

www.gla.ac.uk

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Amelia Randich @ameliarandich.bsky.social · 7d

Interested in a tenure track position teaching and doing research with undergrads at a PUI? We are looking for a broadly-defined microbiologist who can teach Med Micro and Immunology. Apply at universityofscrantonjobs.com/postings/8308. Pls share widely to feeds (& on twitter if you still tweet)! 🦠

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Kristen DeAngelis 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @kristenobacter.bsky.social · 6d

UMass Amherst Microbiology is hiring a tenure-track virologist. Come work with me! 🦠🧪
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

Details - Assistant Professor - Virology | Human Resources | UMass Amherst

careers.umass.edu

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PD Dr. Laury Sarti @laurysarti.bsky.social · 6d

Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen)

Tenure-track assistant professor in early medieval history at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen The Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH) invites ap...

www.hsozkult.de

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Justine Rudkin @scousemicrobe.bsky.social · 8d

PhD opportunity to come and work in Glasgow, developing advanced tissue culture models to study Staphylococcus aureus colonisation and infection #microsky #PhD #DTPprogram

Enquiries from potential applicants are welcome.

www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Understanding Pathogens, from Molecules to Phenotypes - Justine Rudkin

www.gla.ac.uk

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Germán Bonilla-Rosso @germusthermophilus.bsky.social · 12d

🧪🦠🖥️🧬🧫🔬 The Roadmap for equitable use of public microbiome data -including the Data Reuse Information Tag (DRI)- by the #DataReuseConsortium.
Must read if you use or produce microbiome data!

Kudos to the Data Reuse Core Team for their hard work!

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

A Roadmap for equitable use of public microbiome data published in Nature Microbiology by The Data Reuse Core team @alexjprobst.bsky.social @lhug.bsky.social @environmicrobio.bsky.social Cristina Moraru @geomicrosoares.bsky.social @folker.bsky.social Anke Heyder

and a QR code that takes you to the webpage of the manuscript

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Prof Cynthia Whitchurch FAA🏳️‍🌈 @cwhitch.bsky.social · Dec 2

I'm recruiting! I'm looking for a motivated postdoctoral scientist to join my new team at SCELSE in Singapore. The role will explore various aspects of how #eDNA is produced and utilised in #Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms.

#Microsky #phagesky #Science

ntu.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/...

Research Fellow (eDNA in Biofilms)

The Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) is a unique interdisciplinary Research Centre of Excellence (RCE), funded by National Research Foundation, Ministry of Educati...

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Dr. Claudia Pogoreutz @cpogoreutz.bsky.social · 20d

I will be hiring a PhD student and a postdoc for my ANR-funded project CECIL soon, starting in January 2026. If you have experience in (marine) microbiology and microbial OMICS, and are keen to understand how sea anemone microbiomes work, please reach out! 🧫 🧬

(p.s. we got tapas!)

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Dr. Claudia Pogoreutz @cpogoreutz.bsky.social · Jun 28

I am thrilled to announce that two exciting proposals were selected to be funded by the 2025 call for projects by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social – one major collaborative project (PRC) on which I will be co-investigator, and my Young Researcher (JCJC) project CECIL, which I will be leading.

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Carolyn Ibberson @cbibberson.bsky.social · 22d

My department at UTK is hiring! 🧪🧫 We are hiring two Assistant Professors, one in Microbial Drivers of Chronic Disease and one in Quantitative Microbe-Plant-Environment Interactions! Come join our growing department of microbiologists. Knoxville is a great place to live!

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Katharina Kujala @kkujala.bsky.social · 25d

Not a brand, but I find a centrifuge with 30×1.5/2ml extremely useful at times. Had a set of samples that came to 25 tubes with all replicates and controls. Would have been very annoying to do in a 24-place rotor...

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Nichole Broderick, PhD @nabroderick.bsky.social · Sep 8

#Microsky 🦠 🧪

Seth Bordenstein @symbionticism.bsky.social · Sep 8

🎙️ Job Announcement: Penn State is seeking an ASSISTANT PROFESSOR in MICROBIOLOGY (any subdiscipline) in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Learn more and Join the Microbiome Jubilee: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Assistant Professor in Microbiology

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

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Michael Glickman @michaelglickman.bsky.social · Sep 9

🦠#microsky

Philip Gordts @philipgordts.bsky.social · Sep 5

The University of Utah’s Pathology Dept. & Huntsman Cancer Institute seek a tenure-track faculty (any level) with a passion for the microbiome–cancer interface. Apply by Nov 17, 2025.
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utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/187...

#ScienceJobs #Microbiome #CancerResearch @uofumandi.bsky.social @utah.edu

Microbiology & Immunology/HCI Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor

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Dr. Raven the Science Maven @ravenscimaven.bsky.social · Sep 4

My mentee in undergrad has a 3.9 GPA in biology and wants to do her PhD at Stanford in the microbiology department. She found her dream lab. Can my community help us? She's so talented and I really want this for her! She has accomplished so much against all odds. Please share.

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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · Aug 13

Recruitment is now open for the EMBL-EBI–Sanger Postdoctoral Programme.

ESPOD builds on the collaborative relationship between EMBL-EBI and the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social, offering projects that combine experimental and computational approaches.

www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...

🧬🖥️🔬#postdocjob

ESPOD, the EMBL-EBI/Sanger postdoctoral fellowship. Applications deadline 30 September. Image credit: Karen Arnott / EMBL-EBI

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Kat Coyte @coytelab.bsky.social · Aug 12

A new 4 year PostDoc position in our lab! Modeling + experiments to explore dynamics of carbon fixing hot-spring microbiomes. Part of an exciting multidisciplinary team with Sophie Nixon, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social & others

Please share & get in touch if interested!

tinyurl.com/e7j7bha3

Research Associate in Microbiome Ecology:Oxford Road

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · Aug 12

We are happy to announce that hiring has begun for the Cluster Coordination Office @unituebingen.bsky.social! Would you like to join the team that supports research at the intersection of the geosphere and biosphere? Do you know someone who might be interested? Please share the post!

All positions could also be found on the university webpage: https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/108817

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AHeise @aheise.bsky.social · Aug 9

#phagesky #microsky

Ellinor Alseth @ellinoralseth.bsky.social · Aug 8

Feels surreal to say but: I'm hiring! If you are or know anyone interested in looking at the evolution of phage resistance using A. baumannii and natural transformation, then this might be for you
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Research position in Microbial Pharmacology and Population Biology (282139) | UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Job title: Research position in Microbial Pharmacology and Population Biology (282139), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Wednesday, August 27, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social · Aug 5

🚨 2 funded #PhD positions (ERC Adv Grant) in the Moissl-Eichinger Lab, Graz! Study Methanobrevibacter as a keystone in the gut microbiome.
💡 Omics, modeling, synthetic consortia
📅 Deadline: Sept 10, 2025
🌍 Int’l applicants welcome!
Application link below.
#microbiomesky #archaeasky #microsky

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Kathi Kitzinger @kathikitzinger.bsky.social · Aug 4

🚨3-yr Postdoc Position on #SingleCell Activities in #Marine #N-Cycling🦠🧪👩‍🎓🔬

Join me @univie.ac.at @dome-vienna.bsky.social
Part of our ERC Synergy #RECLESS looking at microbes in marine oxygen minimum zones

Apply by Oct 15, start March 2026!

-> ucloud.univie.ac.at/index.php/s/...

RECLESS_Postdoc_single_cell_UniVie.pdf

u:cloud - Ihre Daten, auf Wolken gebettet.

ucloud.univie.ac.at

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Kathi Kitzinger @kathikitzinger.bsky.social · Aug 4

🚨4yr Technical Assistant Position on #Microbial Activities in #Marine #N-Cycling🦠🧪👩‍🎓🔬

Join me @univie.ac.at @dome-vienna.bsky.social
Part of our ERC Synergy #RECLESS looking at microbes in marine oxygen minimum zones

Apply by Oct 15, start March 2026!

-> ucloud.univie.ac.at/index.php/s/...

RECLESS_TA_molecular_UniVie.pdf

u:cloud - Ihre Daten, auf Wolken gebettet.

ucloud.univie.ac.at

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Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · Aug 1

Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊

Electron micrograph of two phage infecting a host cell side-by-side, with hearts between them

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ryan @ryanfm.bsky.social · Jul 31

job alert! looking for someone excited about quantum computing, up on the latest social tools and trends, and a capable storyteller/content strategist. 3 days a week in NYC office + occasional visits to our Yorktown lab (there's a shuttle from public transit). 🧪 ibmglobal.avature.net/en_US/career...

Social Media Manager

ibmglobal.avature.net

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · Jul 31

ONE Lectureship in genomics + TWO in ecology are advertised right now in my 'hood. Applications close 7th August. It'd be brilliant to have these filled with plant people. #PlantSciJobs #MonashBiol #plantecology #plantgenomics 🪴🧪🌱🌿🌾 This links to both : www.ecolsoc.org.au/opportunitie...

Three positions at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia): Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Ecology (2 positions) or Genomics (1 position) - VIC - Ecological Society of Australia

Closing 7 August 2025 The School of Biological Sciences at Monash University is seeking three academics to join our team as a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer (tenured-equivalent position under the Austral...

www.ecolsoc.org.au

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Typas Lab @typaslab.bsky.social · Jul 30

Ready to lead pioneering research that bridges systems-level investigations of biological systems to molecular mechanism? The EMBL Molecular Systems Biology Unit in Heidelberg is hiring a Group Leader!

Group Leader – Molecular Systems Biology Unit

Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Molecular Systems Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a motivated scientist to lead an independent research group, addressing original biological ...

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