Early Earth was an anoxic world. How did bacteria first learn to sense oxygen and use it to their advantage? In our new study, we show that bacterial CZB proteins mediate aerotaxis and redox taxis by monitoring extracellular bioavailable Zn²⁺. #microsky 🧪🦠🔬🧫 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Please share! I'm hiring a new NSF-funded Lab Technician, ideally to start in June at the Claremont Colleges. We study the development of social behavior and its regulation by behavioral, endocrine, and neural mechanisms using a highly social cichlid fish 🐠🧠🧪 +info TessaSolomonLane.com/Hiring

🎉 Congratulations to Bruce Redden for being accepted into the @harvard.edu Medical School MD/PhD Summer Program! This summer, Bruce will work on a mentored research project at HMS and train with clinicians at Massachusetts General Hospital. www.hms.harvard.edu/md_phd/heart...

Lots of great vector-borne disease research in our department here at #WSU in Pullman, WA. Come join the team! Borrelia, Anaplasma, and more! Veterinary Microbiology & Pathology Dept within the College of Veterinary Medicine. #lymedisease #microsky #idsky 🧪🦠🧫

Dana Shaw@shawlab.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My department at Washington State University is recruiting an Assistant or Associate Professor in vector-borne disease 🕷️🦟🦠 Full job description is linked below. Come join us on the Palouse!

#episky #idsky #microsky #virosky

Dana Shaw@shawlab.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My department at Washington State University is recruiting an Assistant or Associate Professor in vector-borne disease 🕷️🦟🦠 Full job description is linked below. Come join us on the Palouse!

Scientists: scale of 1-10 how do you feel about the new required SciENcv biosketch format? 10=love 5=no difference to old 1=deep hatred 🧪🦠🧫🧬

Enjoying the great science at STiM in Ventura, CA!

12+ years & multiple generations of scientists. We are excited to share a new preprint describing structure(s) of H. pylori transducer-like protein D (TlpD), a key chemotaxis protein and a model for a widespread class of soluble chemoreceptors. ▶️ Preprint: lnkd.in/gUw67dU8 🦠 🧪 #microsky #idsky

Heading to the Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms meeting shortly - looking forward to hearing the latest and greatest on bacterial motility and #chemotaxis www.grc.org/sensory-tran... 🦠 #microsky 🧪

A little lab holiday spirit

First major snowfall of the year in #CougarCountry! Perfect for writing papers and grants.

A big congratulations to future #IDsky physician-scientist Bruce Redden for his research presentation award at this year's ABRCMS. Lots of time and practice went into that presentation! Such a great meeting for the next generation of researchers to network & share discoveries! 🦠🧪 #medsky #medsky

ASM NW was wonderful this year! In addition to the great science, this trainee-focused meeting plays such an important role in providing the next generation of scientists, microbiologists, and clinicians an opportunity to learn, network, and share their own research. 🧪🦠

#BLAST A great lab to investigate bacterial locomotion and signal transduction! #microsky #idsky 🧪🦠🧫

BLAST Meetings@blastmeetings.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A postdoctoral research position is available in the group of Prof. Dr. Kirsten Jung at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany (www.bio.lmu.de/en/research/...)

You’ve heard of #Lymedisease, but have you ever seen the bacteria that causes it? 🦠 Borrelia burgdorferi, the spiral-shaped culprit transmitted by ticks, swims with a creepy wriggling motion and uses #chemotaxis to navigate. Both fascinating... and disgusting #Microsky 🧪 #IDsky @shawlab.bsky.social

Registration is open! Come join us at the sensory transduction in microorganisms GRC! Spread the word! www.grc.org/sensory-tran...

🚨 Postdoctoral Position 🚨 Investigate molecular mechanisms of protein homeostasis in Salmonella during infection! Strong background in biochemistry/molecular biology encouraged. 📩 Send CV, publications, and statement to Eduardo A. Groisman at Yale: eduardo.groisman@yale.edu 🧪 #microsky 🦠 #BLAST

Link to new article in Nature: Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur 🧪🦖🦕 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur - Nature

The ankylosaurian dinosaur Spicomellus afer possessed a tail weapon and uniquely elaborate dermal armour.

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Wonderful how Alphafold has opened up protein structure prediction to non-experts but you still have to feed it correct information (like oligomeric state!). A small test case shows AF3 makes excellent guesses on natural variants but inaccuracies occur from dubious user inputs. #microsky #IDsky 🧪🦠

🚨 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

Talent recruitment programmes have enticed many researchers to return to China. But how successful have they been? I spoke with several researchers who have analysed these trends and assessed their impact on China's research ecosystem 🧪

How China’s bold talent recruitment has shaped science

Many Chinese researchers have received enviable benefits and positions after returning from training abroad.

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In our new study in @elife.bsky.social with the cheeky title "Navigating Contradictions" we used these tiny glass needles to study chemotaxis & learn how Salmonella and other gut pathogens make decisions when they encounter conflicting stimuli. #microsky #IDsky 🦠🧪 #gastrosky tinyurl.com/yckdn8v6

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity – Rutgers University! Join Ann Stock’s lab to study how Bacteroides regulate fiber and glycan metabolism via hybrid two-component systems. Structural + regulatory biology | CryoEM, crystallography, gene regulation 🔗 Apply | 🔬 Lab 📧 stock@cabm.rutgers.edu #postdoc #microsky 🧪🦠

And this also biases the directions and priorities of science in ways that don’t necessarily reflect the values of the broader public.

Dr Craig R McClain@drcraigmc.bsky.social · last yr.

Behind many scientists is a lifetime of invisible, unsustainable costs. From unpaid internships to underpaid postdocs, the economic toll of a STEM career is staggering—and it's pushing talent out. My new perspective explores this crisis. #STEM #AcademicBlueSky journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Scientists: anyone else's first draft of manuscript figures look like these? 🧪 #chemotaxis #microsky #motility

At @wsuvetmed.bsky.social we are launching a new program to help students bridge the gap to careers in the biomedical industry. What skills and experiences should we focus on to better prepare and connect our trainees with industry opportunities? 🧪🦠 #microsky #medsky #WSU

June is #NationalCancerSurvivorMonth. Thanks to cancer research, millions of people in the U.S. and worldwide are living with, through, and beyond a cancer diagnosis. Test your knowledge with our Cancer Survivorship quiz. www.aacr.org/Pages/NCSM-Q... #CelebrateSurvivorship

Like watching Salmonella swim around? We do! In our revisions for our study in @elife.bsky.social we saw that #salmonella tolerates indole as long as nutrients are around, but the degree of their attraction depends on [indole]. Study: doi.org/10.7554/eLif... 🧪🦠 #Microsky #IDsky #Gastrosky

A paper in Nature reports the discovery of a new species of tyrannosauroid — the group of dinosaurs that includes Tyrannosaurus rex. This discovery sheds new light on the evolution of wider tyrannosaur species. go.nature.com/4jM0KVo #Paleosky 🧪

I've got some expanded thoughts on yesterday's State of the Science event.

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · last yr.