Pls share. Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences - Genetics/Genomics at Smith College. apply.interfolio.com/190342
Andreas Bäumler
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Distinguished Professor University of California Davis Member, NAS, AAM, Leopoldina, AAAS Views are my dog's
Bacteriology-Focused Assistant Professor Position in Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan Application deadline: August 15, 2026 Come be my colleague!
🚨🚨 Faculty search! Spread the word! 🚨🚨 The Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology Department at Vanderbilt is hiring! Special consideration will be given to faculty working with Risk Group 3 pathogens (so you can join us in our brand new state-of-the-art BSL3!) apply.interfolio.com/188545
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Pls share: U of Washington has an opening for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor. This position is expected to specialize in molecular virology or bacteriology. Here is a link: microbiology.washington.edu/index.php/ne...
Micro is Hiring! | UW Microbiology
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Our lab is hiring an enthusiastic and motivated research specialist to study host-pathogen interactions in the context of S. aureus infection. For more information, see below: Lab website: www.reyesruizlab.org jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/researc...
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Faculty search announcement 2026: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern in Dallas. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (broadly defined). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...
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The University of California is on top of the world in new global universities ranking
U.S. News & World Report’s 2026–27 Best Global Universities list ranks UC as the best American public university and places four UC campuses in the top 25 of the world’s best 2,250 universities — a fe...
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More on ancient plague: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Lethal plague outbreaks in Lake Baikal hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago - Nature
Analyses of ancient DNA from hunter-gatherers near Lake Baikal in southeast Siberia around 5,500 years ago indicate that highly virulent Yersinia pestis emerged earlier than previously estimated, far&...
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Here is a more detailed take on this story: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Andreas Bäumler@abaumler.bsky.social · 2mo agoIs colorectal cancer driven by a disruption of anaerobiosis? A recent study by Spiga et al. makes this idea walk and talk like a duck. Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Is colorectal cancer driven by a disruption of anaerobiosis? A recent study by Spiga et al. makes this idea walk and talk like a duck. Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
An anaerobic pathogen rewires host metabolism to fuel oxidative growth in the inflamed gut
To colonize their host and cause disease, enteric pathogens must deploy their virulence factors to establish distinct nutrient niches. How anaerobic p…
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The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
Meet the American Academy of Microbiology Fellows class of 2026
Interested in microbiology, immunology, and host-pathogen interactions? Come work with us! Our department at OHSU is opening a search for a new tenure-track faculty position. See the job advertisement for details. Please share within your networks! www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Faculty Position in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology - Portland, Oregon job with Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) - Molecular Microbiology and Immunology | 12858852
The Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at OHSU invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor position.
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More than 140,000 fake citations across four research repositories were identified in papers and preprints published in 2025 alone go.nature.com/49KiNZJ
Hallucinated citations highest in social sciences preprints site
Nature - More than 140,000 fake citations across four research repositories were identified in papers and preprints published in 2025 alone.
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“The cases appear linked to five hatcheries that supply birds to retailers and involve three strains: Salmonella Saintpaul, Salmonella Mbandaka, and Salmonella Enteritidis” www.cidrap.umn.edu/salmonella/s...
Salmonella outbreaks linked to backyard poultry send 54 to the hospital
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I would argue peer review is an important, albeit imperfect, barrier to stem this tide, but preprint repositories serve to supercharge this problem.
Scott McGrath@smcgrath.phd · 3mo agoAcademic publishing is facing a major crisis with AI slop. Journal editors are being flooded with AI-generated submissions that are almost impossible to detect. It is getting harder it is for human reviewers to filter out the noise.
A one year ban followed by the requirement that subsequent bioXiv submissions must be first accepted by a reputable journal. Does that mean bioXiv finally sees value in peer review 🫢
anil oza@aniloza.bsky.social · 3mo agowow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖
Broad-ranging expert brief by Brennan Center for Justice @brennancenter.org synthesizing work by many independent groups that reveals the costs of attacks on science in terms of economic activity, jobs, discovery, health & leadership. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
The Cost of the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Research Funding
Arbitrary funding cuts and assaults on agency independence have destabilized American scientific research, potentially setting technology, health care, and the economy back decades.
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🚨Faculty job search: University of Illinois Chicago Micro & Immuno department is hiring! Open rank and open area within host-pathogen interactions. Apply by May 31 to join us in UI College of Medicine in the heart of Chicago! uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Portland is a great place to live and OHSU MMI is a great place to work.
@tafesselab.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe’re hiring! Our department is recruiting for a tenure-track faculty position. We seek outstanding candidates working broadly in molecular microbiology, immunology, and host–pathogen interactions. Please share widely! @jnpruneda.bsky.social @rauchlab.bsky.social www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Spread the word! We are recruiting for 6 new research professors at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center. Open rank, open area, but must leverage 🐒 resources. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561
6 Positions - Assistant, Associate, Full Professional Researcher
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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New episode of #MattersMicrobial! This time, Dr. Joe Zackular joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the wily bacterium Clostridiodes difficile (also known as C. diff) which can cause serious disease in humans. Informative session! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord! youtu.be/9oSR01l-EkY?...
"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial
Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.
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We are hiring! We’re excited to recruit a postdoc to our lab at UC Davis to work on plant immune engineering and single-cell analyses of plant pathogen interactions. Apply by June 1. Please repost. www.coakerlab.org/postdoctoral...
The CDC warns that extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Shigella is on the rise in US. The prevalence of XDR Shigella isolates in US surveillance data rose from 0% during 2011-2015 to 8.5% in 2023. Read more: ow.ly/VXee50YLphl 📷: CDC, Stephanie Rossow
@hhmi-science.bsky.social's #FreemanHrabowski Scholars Program offers early career faculty up to $10M over 10 yrs, plus salary & benefits Stable, sustained support can transform your career: Senior Postdoc? This year's competition has a program for you too. Applications open 11/3! bit.ly/4vhC0LA
Early Career Faculty Program | Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI
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