My good friend Joe (@tallcuppajoe.bsky.social), founder of @binningsingletons.com unexpectedly lost his wife Sarah on Christmas. If he touched your life, please consider contributing to his children’s education as a show of support 🧪🧫🦠 gofund.me/65e0c557e

Donate to Honoring Sarah James Through Education, organized by Joe James

Honoring Sarah James & Supporting Her Children’s Future On Christmas, our com… Joe James needs your support for Honoring Sarah James Through Education

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Chris@drchriskellogg.bsky.social · 7mo ago

My dear friend @tallcuppajoe.bsky.social founder of @binningsingletons.com unexpectedly lost his wife on Christmas. If he touched your life, please consider contributing to his children’s education as a tribute to his wife and a show of support. 🧪🧫🦠 gofund.me/65e0c557e

Austria is a gorgeous place and the University of Vienna’s CeMMS one of the top places in the world to do microbial ecology.

Paul Carini@uncultured.carinilab.com · last yr.

Austria is stepping up to support US postdocs: stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/en/fellowshi...

Congratulations and thanks to @femsmicro.org @femsjournals.bsky.social for highlighting the excellent work of early career researchers!

Tillmann Lueders@luederslab.bsky.social · last yr.

Cheers go out to Brielle Hrymoc of Casey Hubert's Lab @ucalgary.bsky.social and Ania Szlembarska of Brett Poulin's Lab @ucdavis.bsky.social for two well-deserved poster prizes for ECRs at the 2025 AEM GRC Conference. Thanks to #FEMSMicrobiolEcol @femsjournals.bsky.social for sponsoring!

Federal agencies hiding out in a bunker

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

Funded Graduate Student Opportunity in Marine Microbial Ecology

**Applicants will be contacted if selected for next round. Applicants not selected will not receive any notice. If not selected, this is not indicative of your merit. ** Northern Illinois University |...

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Thanks Jen! Can’t wait for the GRC next month!!

Jennifer Biddle@jenbiddle.bsky.social · last yr.

Y'all, @deniseakob.bsky.social is planning a GREAT week of things for the AEM GRC in July. So hard to remember that Microbe is next week, not the GRC. Can't wait for dorm life next month!

Congrats Dr. Huber @juliehuber.bsky.social for your well-deserved induction into the American Academy of Microbiology! Thanks for all that you do for science and the many amazing people, from all walks of life, that make it happen.

The 2025 Applied and Environmental Microbiology Gordon Research Conference & Seminar (AEM GRC/GRS) will be held in July! Apply soon - we expect the conference to fill up quickly so please apply early to guarantee a spot. Hope to see you at Mount Holyoke College! www.grc.org/applied-and-...

The first #AppliedAndEnvironmentalMicrobiology issue of 2025 is out! And here are the articles selected for the Spotlight section, a 🧵 doi.org/10.1128/aem....

Articles of Significant Interest in This Issue | Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Sabree et al. (e01483-24) discuss the financial stress that postdocs experience when relocating without institutional compensation for moving expenses. As the authors state in their article, “Solving ...

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Job opportunity! ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR (TIER 2) IN PLANT RESILIENCE FOR FOOD SECURITY #plantscience #plantscijobs academicjobsonline.org/ajo/UBC/Bota...

Disappointed by the commercially available ABC books for toddlers and young kids, that either get things wrong or focus on immunology rather than microbiology (boooh!), I made a ABC of Microbiology for my son. Feel free to share. nebula.wsimg.com/bf929d050fcd...

Funded 4-year PhD with me & @barriewilks.bsky.social. We've found a way to make Streptomyces bacteria over-produce antibiotics in the presence of glucose. Could be a game changer. This PhD project aims to understand how it works. biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/rel...

We're hiring a lab technician to help with high-throughput culturing and other aspects of our research. Please help spread the word. Find out more and apply using the link below. Requisition ID: REQ20156462 usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Research Lab Technician II at USC

Learn more about applying for Research Lab Technician II at USC

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A friendly reminder that we all thought the 2016 election would be a no-brainer. If you're registed, please, don't listen to the polls, don't assume - vote.

Congratulations to @USGS colleagues on their new publication in Science: Predictions of groundwater PFAS occurrence at drinking water supply depths in the United States #pfas #prediction #drinkingwater www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Predictions of groundwater PFAS occurrence at drinking water supply depths in the United States

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), known colloquially as “forever chemicals”, have been associated with adverse human health effects and have contaminated drinking water supplies across the U...

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🚨We are also hiring a postdoc to work on our newly funded Lyme disease phage project at Montana State! Are you a spirochetologist interested in phage biology? Come work with us in beautiful Bozeman, MT! Apply here: jobs.montana.edu/postings/43811 🧫🧪🦠

Patrick R. Secor@prsecor.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨We're hiring a lab manager/research scientist! Come work with us at Montana State University in beautiful Bozeman, MT We are a phage lab with diverse projects related to infectious disease, check us out here: patsecor.wixsite.com/mysite-1 Apply here: jobs.montana.edu/postings/43723 🧫🧪🦠

🚨We're hiring a lab manager/research scientist! Come work with us at Montana State University in beautiful Bozeman, MT We are a phage lab with diverse projects related to infectious disease, check us out here: patsecor.wixsite.com/mysite-1 Apply here: jobs.montana.edu/postings/43723 🧫🧪🦠

The Ruyle lab @New York University is recruiting a PhD student for Fall 2025. The lab examines how human activity, the biosphere, and climate change impact water quality. Research includes work on PFAS contamination. Learn more: wp.nyu.edu/ruylelab/

My department at Montana State University is starting a faculty search for the position of Assistant Professor of Biochemistry: jobs.montana.edu/postings/43522 Feel free to contact me with questions. #Ilivewhereyouwannagoonvacation

NSURP T-shirts! Buy a shirt and support this awesome program! I had a great time mentoring an NSURP scholar over the summer. She is headed to ABRCMS this fall to present her research. Fundraisers like this support these young scientists. www.customink.com/fundraising/...

Support National Summer Undergraduate Research Project Fundraiser 2024 for program costs

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I am happy to share a preprint of recent microbe mineral interaction research from our team led by Nicole Fiore demonstrating calcium carbonate as the sole source of inorganic carbon for methanogenesis. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-4...

It was a privilege to work with @markabelan.bsky.social on an infographic that summarizes the role of microbes in methane cycling, both cells that make or break methane. We have English, German and Spanish versions! Use widely and freely :)

mark belan | science illustrator + info designer@markabelan.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW PIECE: The Microbial Role of Climate Change Check out this infographic I made with @environmicrobio.bsky.social that introduces this unique intersection between methane, microbes, and climate change!

What’s black, white, and blue? @deniseakob.bsky.social and I are having convergent fashion again today (totally unplanned) #ASMicrobe 🧪🧫👩‍🔬

And please join the EEB meet up today at 4pm in the track hub space for some very exciting announcements about the future of the track!

Britt Koskella@bkoskella.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hey #MicroSky - who’s here at #ASMicrobe? Come hang out in the EEB track with us!

Hey #MicroSky - who’s here at #ASMicrobe? Come hang out in the EEB track with us!

Registration is open for the International Symposium AquaDiva "Unraveling the Linkage of Surface and Subsurface Ecosystems in a Changing Environment". The meeting is 6-7 June 2024 in Jena, Germany. www.aquadiva.uni-jena.de/internationa...

We are in our fifth year of NSURP, and we couldn't have done it without the mentors. You all help make this program great. We are once again calling on you. Visit NSURP.org to sign up as a mentor today. This is a great mentorship opportunity for trainees. Looking forward to seeing you this summer!

#JobAlert #geochemistry The US Geological Survey in Reston, VA is hiring a geochemist to investigate the fate and effects of organic contaminants. Learn more at www.usajobs.gov/job/783751500 Apply starting April 1st. Applicants must be U.S. Citizens and recent graduates.

We're hiring @microbesplanet.bsky.social! There is an open PhD position in my group to explore the effects of oxygen fluctuations on aquatic microbiomes. Apply here: microplanet.at/wp7.3-phd2 @cemess.bsky.social @dome-vienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at