Enorme hoeveelheden dierlijke eiwitten produceren is niet alleen slecht voor de gezondheid en de planeet, maar zet door de importafhankelijkheid ook onze economie en autonomie op het spel. Hoog tijd dus om hier verandering in te brengen.

Europa moet anders gaan eten – niet uit idealisme, maar uit veiligheidsoverwegingen

Europa’s inhaalslag op defensie en energie komt op stoom. Maar voor onze voedselvoorziening blijven we afhankelijk van landen waarmee we liever geen zaken doen. De EU kan er niet meer omheen: meer aut...

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I'm looking for an enthusiastic student to join my team as a PhD candidate on archaeal genome evolution 🦠💻 Work in beautiful Utrecht, at @binfutrecht.bsky.social, an international group full of caring, amazing scientists, and with frequent cake breaks! www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please share! 🙏

Early-career researchers do more ‘disruptive’ science than veterans www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Early-career researchers do more ‘disruptive’ science than veterans

Analysis of papers from millions of scientists shows that older researchers tend to stick with ideas from their past.

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🧵 New pre-print out from my time at @mib-wur.bsky.social showing how the titration of the initiator protein DnaA on the chromosome of E. coli can generate stable DNA replication @hohlbeinlab.bsky.social @nicoc-micsynmet.bsky.social doi.org/10.64898/202...

Come and discuss with us about #PhD #Supervision Quality in the #Netherlands at the Profkip Symposium by De Jonge Akademie in the Trippenhuis on May 18th. You will have the chance to engage with members of De Jonge Akademie, @hetpnn.nl, @postdocnl.bsky.social and @apnet.bsky.social.

APNet - Assistant Professor Network Netherlands@apnet.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Are you interested in thinking along on, how to improve PhD supervision quality in the Netherlands? Register for the event of The Young Academy at the Trippenhuis on May 18th and discuss the #Profkip inititative: www.dejongeakademie.nl/nieuws/32246... 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡. (1/n)

Hoeveel waarschuwingen zijn er nog nodig? De rijken worden rijker, de rest van NL betaalt de rekening. Hoogste tijd voor een forse koerswijziging van dit rechtse beleid!

What we do in the Lab and what we ambition to happen in the (near) future 👇 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Are microbes the future of pollution clean-up?

Synthetic biologists are engineering bacteria to feast on oil, plastic and toxic chemicals.

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Duidelijk, toch? Stem vandaag #GroenEnSociaal 💚❤️

Mooi zo! Nieuwe MacBook is simpel te repareren, met dank aan de EU www.rtl.nl/nieuws/econo...

Nieuwe MacBook is simpel te repareren, met dank aan de EU

Wie de nieuwe MacBook Neo van Apple openschroeft, ziet iets onverwacht: een batterij die simpel te vervangen is. Dat komt door nieuwe EU-regels, die het makkelijker maken voor consumenten om hun eigen...

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Ok, ik geef toe, ik was Bluesky even vergeten. Maar jullie moeten niet de Night Run Wageningen vergeten. Inschrijven kan nog steeds: nightrunwageningen.nl #wageningen #hardlopen #5km #10km #kidsrun

"My motto is: just do it!" We love this interview w/ Maren Nattermann, Research Group Leader @ Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, on Marjory Stephenson (1885–1948), pioneer of chemical microbiology as well as her own path into science www.mpg.de/26210626/mar... #IWD2026

"There isn't one 'single right way' for a career - and it doesn’t have to be a straight line"

Maren Nattermann, Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, on Marjory Stephenson (1885–1948): pioneer of chemical microbiology, whose work on bacterial metabolic...

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💡 We are inviting you to nominate a woman in microbiology whose work or impact deserves to be seen. Selected nominations will be featured on the FEMS website and across our social media channels on International Women’s Day, 8 March. 👉 Who inspires you? Nominate them by 4 March . buff.ly/AKyMbQD

rust in de portemonnee (geen inkomen)

Jenny Rozema 🏳️‍⚧️@bsky.jennyrozema.net · 6mo ago

Yeşilgöz bij BNR: "We gaan ein-de-lijk die vreselijke loondoorbetaling bij ziekte eens aanpakken." Geen verder commentaar.

www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/f... Become our new colleague (and next door neighbor) and lead a chair/group/department of Biophysics at Wageningen University. Reach out to me for info and please spread!!!

Full Professor and Chair Laboratory of Biophysics

We are looking for a Full Professor in the Biophysics chair group, part of Wageningen University & Research (WUR)

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The Laboratory of Biophysics at Wageningen University & Research (NL) is looking for a new chair! Details here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/f...

Full Professor and Chair Laboratory of Biophysics

We are looking for a Full Professor in the Biophysics chair group, part of Wageningen University & Research (WUR)

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So when we want Dutch government to leave X (I do), we'd better follow them here. A starter pack! Nederlandse overheden: ministeries, provincies, gemeenten Aanvullingen welkom go.bsky.app/V4Bf6mB

I have a postdoc position in metagenomic exploration available in my group. Candidates with documented experience in phylo & metagenomics and preferably with petabase-scale data mining and GLM workflows are encouraged to apply. Come join us! 🧬🦠💻 Please repost Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

Postdoctoral researcher Phylogenomics and metagenomics

Are you just as excited as we are about the fascinating world of microorganisms? Do you want to contribute to exploring and genomically characterize novel prokaryotic lineages? Do you have a PhD degre...

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Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺@ettema.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Come join us! Soon I will be advertising a postdoc vacancy in my group as part of my @erc.europa.eu AdG project 'DARK ROOTS'. Focus of the project will be on phylo- and metagenomic mining of novel prokaryotic lineages. I will soon post a link here - stay tuned, and please repost! #asgardarchaea

Time to leverage SynBio for tacking environmental pollution. But releasing bioengineered microorganisms still raises alarms. A new narrative is badly needed: bacteria for bioremediation are not alien intrusions but laboratory-trained extensions of life’s creativity link.springer.com/10.1038/s443...

Doing a PhD is - at heart - one long discussion with your mentor. The discussion changes over time - with unexpected turns and ups & downs - but through it all is a pair of people discussing a topic endlessly to make sense of it. PhD students: choose someone you like to talk to!

🚨 Postdoctoral Opportunity for Female Scientists🚨 The University of Vienna is awarding at least 20 fully funded 4 year postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists Interested? Get in touch via direct message careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... #MicroSky 🧪 #PostDoc @univie.ac.at

For all PhD candidates interested in #syntheticbiology consider our #EMBOSynBio course! Applications open!

EMBL Events@events.embl.org · 8mo ago

Apply for #EMBOSynBio! 🥼🧪 The course offers hands-on experience with cutting-edge SynBio tools, supported by lectures covering the whole engineering cycle and its convergence toward a deeper understanding of biology. 30 Jun – 6 Jul 2026 EMBL Heidelberg s.embl.org/syn26-01-bl

Our new paper is out: we present a quantitative framework to assess how (bio)tech interventions in plant agriculture could meaningfully contribute to climate mitigation. This may be the most important paper I ever publish #SyntheticBiology #ClimateAction #Agriculture #Biochar doi.org/10.1093/plph...

Harnessing plant agriculture to mitigate climate change: A framework to evaluate synthetic biology (and other) interventions

The scale of plant agriculture can be used to mitigate climate change, and meaningful targets (synthetic biology and comparators) can be selected to increa

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Opportunity to join the lab of @ettema.bsky.social in our department as postdoc! 👇

Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺@ettema.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Come join us! Soon I will be advertising a postdoc vacancy in my group as part of my @erc.europa.eu AdG project 'DARK ROOTS'. Focus of the project will be on phylo- and metagenomic mining of novel prokaryotic lineages. I will soon post a link here - stay tuned, and please repost! #asgardarchaea

Newest preprint from our lab: a new family of promising synthetic CO2 fixation cycles that may outcompete the Calvin cycle and that Vittorio Rainaldi realized to a great extent in E. coli! Up to 11 heterologous enzymes in a cascade supporting CO2 fixation & growth! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Modular in vivo engineering of the reductive methylaspartate cycles for synthetic CO2 fixation

Biological carbon fixation is currently limited to seven naturally occurring pathways. Synthetic carbon fixation pathways have the potential to surpass aerobic natural pathways in efficiency, but none...

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Great to see our MOSAIC story about an easy, cloning-free efficient protocol for mutating plasmids using recombineering is out now officially and the cover story of ASC Synthetic Biology pubs.acs.org/toc/asbcd6/1... ! Great shoutout to Marijn van den Brink, Tim Althuis and Christophe Danelon!

ACS Synthetic Biology

We introduce MOSAIC, a highly efficient protocol for the editing of plasmids and generation of combinatorial plasmid libraries. This quick protocol employs the single-stranded DNA annealing protein Cs...

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'hey mela' is the first vegan pregnancy test in the world. Now available in Germany. What could be vegan about it? These tests are based on antibodies that are usually farmed from small rodents kept in cages, infected with hybridoma cells. This test is based on AB expressed from algae!! 🧪

Archaeal Virus Ph.D. project! (With Tessa Quax) www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

Please repost! Postdoc in adaptive laboratory evolution and C1 synthetic metabolism! Location: DTU Biosustain 🦠🧬🔬 Starting in 01/2026! Fell free to reach out if you have questions! efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Fijn dat het deze verkiezingen een keer over belastingen gaat. Nu nog zorgen dat de feiten het winnen van de framing. De middenklasse in NL betaalt de belastingkortingen van de allerrijksten. Hoe rijker je bent, hoe lager je belastingdruk. Dit komt door politieke keuzes. Ga stemmen 29 oktober.

🧵 Our study on the elusive titration control mechanism of the replication initiator DnaA in Escherichia coli is now out on @natcomms.nature.com‬! @stephkoe.bsky.social @hohlbeinlab.bsky.social‬ @nicoc-micsynmet.bsky.social @ettema.bsky.social‬ @mib-wur.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s414...

The Escherichia coli replication initiator DnaA is titrated on the chromosome - Nature Communications

A DNA-binding protein, DnaA, regulates the initiation of chromosomal replication in bacteria. Here, Olivi et al. show that the bacterial chromosome sequesters DnaA in a growth rate-dependent manner, s...

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