🚨🚨 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

Keep those comments on the OMB proposed rule coming! www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Comments Flood OMB Proposal on Political Control of Grants

The White House Office of Management and Budget has so far received 90,000 public comments on its plans as scientific and other groups rally against them.

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Come work @lshtm.bsky.social modelling STIs in UK & evaluation of new interventions. 3yr research fellow modelling post - feel free to get in touch to discuss. Current closing date 30th June @rozeggo.bsky.social @adamjkucharski.bsky.social @grahammedley.bsky.social @drlouisedyson.bsky.social

Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Fellow

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...

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I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name OAI: say no more

OpenAI {bot}@openaibot.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Introducing GPT-Rosalind, our frontier reasoning model built to support research across biology, drug discovery, and translational medicine. Video: https://twitter.com/openai/status/2044861690911850863

Simons Graduate Fellowships in #Ecology and #Evolution #science #scienceSky #evoSky www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution

The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

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In case you didn't hear, many Harvard Graduate Student Workers are on strike. The union is fighting for better wages and benefits, support for non-citizen workers, and protections against harassment. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thousands of Harvard graduate students strike — bringing research to a halt

Workers at the elite US university want higher pay and better protection for vulnerable students.

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📢 The CARB-X Portal is now open! Submit an Expression of Interest to apply for CARB-X funding for new #therapeutics, #preventatives, and #diagnostics to address drug-resistant bacteria. The deadline to apply is 22 April at 23:59 ET. 🧪 #ChemSky #IDSky 🔗 Apply now: bit.ly/3P56UDB

www.statnews.com/2026/03/30/b... @mlipsitch.bsky.social and I shared a few words about a giant of public health and immunology--and a beloved friend and mentor, who bridged basic science and its translation on a global scale.

Remembering public health pioneer Barry Bloom: a scientist, a mentor, a mensch

Marc Lipsitch and Yonatan Grad pay tribute to their former colleague and mentor Barry R. Bloom.

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A must read for anyone who cares (and these days, worries constantly) about American science and medicine. Credit to Prof. Will Mair for sharing his story. There are many more stories like it.

Nancy Parmalee@nparmalee.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Gift link. NYT article about the fallout in one Harvard lab from the vandalism to the NIH. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

🔊 Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bacterial Evolution. Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠 3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share! hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

If you're a first-year biomedical Ph.D. student, I'd like to hear how your first few months of grad school have been going. I'm a science journalist at @statnews.com and got my Ph.D. in immunology before going into journalism. You can reach me at jonathan.wosen@statnews.com. #journorequest

@hhmi.org Summer Undergraduate Research Experience - #CechFellows named in honor of Prof Tom Cech Deadline to apply: 12/22/2025 Spend 9 weeks in a paid, mentored biomedical research experience in an HHMI lab. See you next summer!!! www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...

Summer Undergraduate Research Experience | HHMI

The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.

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New preprint: with increasing resistance to ceftriaxone, the last recommended antibiotic for gonorrhea, we urgently need new drugs. Two--zoliflodacin & gepotdiacin--are up for approval by the FDA in Dec. Here we show a point mutation can result in cross-resistance. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Zoliflodacin and gepotidacin cross-resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Resistance to zoliflodacin, a first-in-class antibiotic for gonorrhea treatment, can occur through gyrBD429N, but this mutation's impact on fitness and resistance to other topoisomerase targeting drug...

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23 babies in 13 states have been diagnosed with infant #botulism linked to ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula, prompting a nationwide recall. Public health laboratories and federal partners have played crucial roles in the investigation, which is still ongoing. buff.ly/xU3Czsf

Excited to be moderating this fireside chat next week! We’ll dig into what’s happening with our research and the broader science environment. It won’t be all doom and gloom, as we’ll also share what’s keeping us optimistic. Join us!

Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. C@harvard-iid.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We’re excited to invite you to a faculty discussion panel on the current and future landscape of public health research and education. 🗓️ “Navigating a critical moment for public health education and research,” Wednesday, Nov. 19, from 1 pm-1:45 pm ET on zoom. 🔗 hsph.harvard.edu/events/navig...

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️

We are so excited to share that Bailey Bowcutt (@baileybowcutt.bsky.social), PhD student in the Grad Lab, moderated the Harvard Chan Studio event, “Dr. Anthony Fauci: Insights from 50 years of public service.” 🎦 Watch the full interview: youtu.be/qHxR75vO83M?...

UMass Boston seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in microbial ecology, starting September 1, 2026. Apply by December 1, 2025. Details: http://www.umb.edu/academics/csm/biology #job

Biology - UMass Boston

Biology - UMass Boston

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UChicago Microbiology is searching for tenured or tenure-track faculty working in host-pathogens interactions, viral and bacterial pathogenesis, and emerging infectious diseases. Come join our vibrant Department! microbiology.uchicago.edu Apply here apply.interfolio.com/174404

New STI surveillance data from the CDC shows declines in gonorrhea, chlamydia, and primary and secondary syphilis (though tragically congenital syphilis continues to increase). What explains these declines? (1/2)

With the article link: natsci.msu.edu/news/2025/20... (The tinyurl wasn't clickable for me.)

Homecoming of Discovery: MSU welcomes back Jeff Barrick and the landmark Long-Term Evolution Experiment

A leader in microbial evolution and synthetic biology, Barrick re-joins the MSU community to continue a landmark experiment and expand his research on honeybee microbiomes. He will have joint appointm...

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MSU MGI@msumgi.bsky.social · 12mo ago

MGI is thrilled to welcome back Jeff Barrick as a Hannah Distinguished Professor. His arrival is not only a personal homecoming, but also the return of one of the most influential experiments in evolutionary biology: the Long-Term Evolution Experiment. #LTEE 🔗https://tinyurl.com/2s36k7nd

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

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MGI associate professor Jonathan Hardy and recent MSU human biology graduate Djeneba Diallo went out to Eisenhower Elementary in Flint, MI to introduce sixth-graders to the world of microbiology! Read more here: tinyurl.com/mr3ab7zu

Very exciting. College juniors and recent grads: note the approaching deadline for the 1st round, July 31.

Dmitri Petrov@petrovadmitri.bsky.social · last yr.

Check out this brand new fellowship from the Simon’s Foundation in Ecology and Evolution. Incoming grad students this year are eligible to apply. No citizenship restrictions. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

An update from the team on the uncertain future of our program and the impact of NSF budget cuts. Please share and reach out 🦠

I got the opportunity to speak with Science about my individual research fellowship being terminated. I was awarded the NSF GRFP before I chose Harvard for graduate school, but I still got cut. I study how we can improve treatments for a common antibiotic resistant bacteria, so this is sad to see

Jeffrey Mervis@policyhound.bsky.social · last yr.

After 73 years, is NSF's graduate research fellowship program circling the drain? www.science.org/content/arti...

"Working Together to End TB." Our department's research saves lives, and we're proud to see IID's tuberculosis researchers highlighted alongside other incredible Harvard Chan School scientists! Check out the video to learn more about their impactful work (in 7 words)!

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health@hsph.harvard.edu · last yr.

Harvard Chan School is home to a wide variety of research initiatives, with faculty, researchers, and students all working together to improve health, prevent disease, and support well-being. We asked some of them if they could explain their research in 7 words.

I’m hoping that there will be some rapid action to get legal support to the PhD students who have had their NSF GRFP (fellowships) terminated in the Trump regime’s latest attacks on academia.

Bailey Bowcutt@baileybowcutt.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm a current Harvard graduate student and I found out today that I had my NSF GRFP terminated without notification. I was awarded this individual research fellowship before even choosing Harvard as my graduate school