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This is unbelievably cool
Very much worth 3 min of your day.
This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program is funded by the National Science Foundation to create "points of entry" for students interested in research. Students apply from across the country to spend 10 weeks in Bozeman, Montana this summer (May 26, 2026 - August 1, 2026). Admitted students are paired with a faculty mentor, who serves as an advisor for a student's summer project. Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided. Our program leverages MSU’s unique microbiology expertise, focusing specifically on microbes living with little or no oxygen (like those in the hot springs of nearby Yellowstone). Low oxygen microbes are essential to human and ecosystem health. They influence (or control) such processes as the breakdown of food in the GI tract, removal of toxins from our bodies and the environment, and production of greenhouse gases. They are also models for understanding the origins of life on this planet, and the potential for life on other planets. A key goal of our program is to recruit students from schools with limited research infrastructure. Being in Montana, a state with a vibrant Native American community, we are particularly interested in applications from students at tribal colleges. However, ANYONE with an interest in microbiology - or biology/science in general - can and should apply. If willing and able, please share/tweet/spread the word far and wide. Applications are due February 14, 2026. Full details can be found through our website http://www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/
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 14 deadline
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A free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication
Starting this week, I set aside one hour each week to meet ECRs outside my group who want to discuss career development, mentorship, or any non-technical professional questions.
Here is a blog that explains my motivation for this and how to schedule a meeting:
merenlab.org/2025/11/16/E...
SCIE exists for lazy evaluation panels that lack the expertise to assess scientific impact themselves to 'know' what journal names to look for in people's CVs.
We need more eLifes. We need to flood this industry with creative, independent, non-profit publishing models for science.
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
View from the lab now. Did I mention that we are recruiting faculty microbiologists?
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we are happy to support this appeal 👇 we are also happy to repeat it...
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
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Getting ready to teach microbiology this semester, just using ChatGPT to help me freshen up the course
Applications due tomorrow for full consideration. Thinking about joining my fabulous department and becoming my colleague? Get that application in!!
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!
What to expect at the ASM Biofilms Conference
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!
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...
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
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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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
AAU updates their excellent explainer about indirect costs to cover the current attacks...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtqK...
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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.
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...
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.
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/...
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
📣 📣 📣 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...
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!
Bumping this since more people are here now. Our NTTs are unionized and awesome.
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.
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.
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