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Miriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · 6d

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 7d

Despite These Times...my department is hiring! I really like my department, we have a good mix of disciplines and organisms and we're really low-drama. We also get pizza at faculty meeting. So if you're a computational and structural biologist, join us! 🧪 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...

Assistant Professor - Tenure Track Faculty

The Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is inviting applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. The position requires a doc...

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Miriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · 7d

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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 8d

My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist!

Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!

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Miriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · 9d

A short poem of gratitude to all NIH staff who (daily) bolster and support investments in US biomedical research (poem credit: LLM drafted, NI refined)

AI-assisted poetry expressing gratitude to NIH staffers

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Markus Deserno @markusdeserno.bsky.social · 12d

I am super excited to announce that we have a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics open in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon! 🧪

Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360

PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies!

Let me briefly explain what we're looking for:

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Tenure-track Position in Biophysics at Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Physics

Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Open Date: Sep 19, 2025

Description
The Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics. The appointment is intended to be at the Assistant Professor level, but exceptional candidates at a higher level may also be considered. We seek outstanding candidates with a strong record in cellular and subcellular biophysics. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, uncovering how key characteristics of living systems arise from the interplay between supramolecular cellular structures, how the emergent cellular circuitry defines goals and enables robust decision making, and how metabolic resources are allocated. This encompasses understanding of how information is learned, stored, transduced, and processed across subcellular structures. Applicants with theoretical, data science, or experimental backgrounds within biological physics are encouraged to apply. The ideal candidate will strengthen and extend research programs of current biophysics faculty in the Department of Physics and collaborate with broader life science activities across many departments at CMU and the wider Pittsburgh area.

More details on Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/174360

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Miriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · 14d

#bioscofacjobs

Cedric Feschotte @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social · 15d

📣 Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology to join the @weillinstitute.bsky.social PLS spread the word!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607

Cornell University, Molecular Biology & Genetics

Job #AJO30607, WDR-00055221 Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology & Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

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Miriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · 14d

#bioscifacjobs

Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 14d

🚨 Microbiologists! We are recruiting Assistant / Associate Professors in 3 collaborative areas of our U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro
2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute
3) Center for Vaccine Research
🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...

Faculty Professor Associate - Full-Time | Vaughn Cooper

We are recruiting Faculty microbiologists in three (3) different, complementary, and collaborative areas at the University of Pittsburgh associated with the School of Medicine. 1) Fundamental researc...

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Miriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · 15d

#bioscifacjobs

Tiffany Ito @tiffanyito.bsky.social · 16d

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology

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Assistant Professor

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Miriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · 18d

#bioscifscjobs

Cell & Systems Biology (CSB) @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social · 18d

The Department of Cell & Systems Biology at University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in the field of Animal Morphogenesis.
#CellBiology #DevelopmentalBiology #mechanobiology #TissueMorphogenesis
#SystemsBiology

jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Assistant Professor - Animal Morphogenesis

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Miriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · 18d

Best news of the day! Congratulations

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Miriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · 19d

Do you a floppy drive reader? I do.

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Miriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · 23d

Amen

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 23d

A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails.
Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits.
Thank you!

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Neuronline (SfN) @neuronline.sfn.org · 26d

Advocacy starts with you—make your voice heard for neuroscience funding. The House is still considering its NIH funding proposal for FY26—your outreach can make a difference.

Use these tools to engage locally and act now: vist.ly/46jxr

More resources in the replies👇

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Dan Sloan @sloanevolab.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word!

jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

Assistant Professor Plant-Microbe Interactions

We seek a creative, collaborative, and visionary plant biologist to establish an internationally recognized research program at the forefront of plant-microbe interactions aimed at understanding how t...

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Miriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · 29d

#bioscofacjobs

Anthony Vecchiarelli @cellforganized.bsky.social · Aug 26

My MCDB dept is accepting applications for a faculty position at the Assistant Professor level!

Applications Due by October 15, 2025

We welcome applications from all areas of physiology and neuroscience, spanning molecular, cellular, systems, and organismal levels.

lsa.umich.edu/mcdb/news-ev...

MCDB Opens Search for Faculty | U-M LSA Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB)

MCDB welcomes applications at the Assistant Professor level from outstanding biological scientists in all areas of physiology and neuroscience, spanning molecular, cellular, systems, and organismal le...

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Miriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · 29d

#bioscifacjobs

Yuko Munakata @yukomunakata.bsky.social · Sep 8

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

Miriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · Sep 7

Confirming: yes they are. Along with those of my departmental colleagues.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · Sep 7

If you're a scientist, your papers are in this list

Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Miriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · Sep 6

Please help me to celebrate Mei Zhen, an innovator and tremendous collaborator, named to the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science on September 4, 2025

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Miriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · Sep 6

#bioscifacjobs
www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/58737

Assistant or Associate Professor, Microbiology and Immunology

The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (JSMBS) at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) invites applications for a faculty position in the Department of Microbiology and Immu...

www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu

Miriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · Sep 2

Looking forward to reading!

Joy Franco, PhD @engineeringjoy.bsky.social · Sep 2

Happily sharing that our paper, where we examen the link between synaptic vulnerability & molecular identity in auditory neurons, is now up on Biorxiv! 🥳 I am ELATED to finally share what has been a major part of my postdoc life the past few years. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Molecularly defined auditory neuron subtypes show different vulnerabilities to noise- and age-related synaptopathy in mice

Neuronal subtype-specific synaptopathy is a hallmark of many forms of neurodegeneration. We examined the cellular basis for synaptic vulnerability in the auditory system, where three subtypes of spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs) - Ia, Ib, and Ic - carry acoustic information from the cochlea to the brain. In response to noise and aging, a subset of synapses between inner hair cells and SGNs are lost, but it is unclear how this loss varies across SGN subtypes. Using genetic labelling, we showed that Ia SGNs have larger post-synaptic densities (PSDs) than Ib and Ic SGNs and are the most resilient subtype. Ia PSD volumes increased with age and were unchanged after noise exposure. By contrast, average Ib/Ic PSD volumes did not change with age but decreased with noise. Genetic reprogramming of Ib/Ic neurons to a Ia-like identity provided significant protection against noise-induced synaptopathy, linking identity to resilience and providing an entry point for therapeutics. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. Blavatnik Family Foundation, https://ror.org/049hmt962, Blavatnik Sensory Disorders Research Grant National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, R01DC009223 National Institute on Aging, K00AG078230

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Miriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Julian Catchen @jcatchen.bsky.social · Aug 26

Our EEB department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hiring an assistant professor in evo-devo. See go.illinois.edu/EEBAsstProf for details. Please share!

Miriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · Aug 22

Congratulations 🍾

a dolphin is laying on its back on a wooden deck .

ALT: a dolphin is laying on its back on a wooden deck .

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John Borghi @johnborghi.bsky.social · Aug 20

A friendly reminder that the NIH Public Access Policy IS NOT “you must publish open access” but rather “you must ensure your copy of your paper is deposited into PubMed Central.”

Yes, it is very confusing. Yes, you should be able to do that deposit yourself without paying anything to a journal.

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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · Aug 20

We are hiring into 3 (THREE!) tenure track lines this year at Wake Forest — if you’re looking please reach out, I love chatting about our department! We are a vibrant group that love & embrace the teacher-scholar model 👩‍🏫

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Miriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Aug 20

Come join our new Department of Neuroscience @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041

Assistant Professor - Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu