I'm thrilled to share that I'll join Columbia in Jan 2027 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics and Development& the Columbia Stem Cell Initiative! A long-held dream; I'm grateful for my mentors and colleagues. We'll study microbiota-ENS interactions-now hiring! theaydinlab.com

The Aydin Lab | Laboratory of Neurodevelopmental Plasticity

The Aydin Lab at Columbia University Irving Medical Center studies how gut microbiota shape the development and plasticity of the enteric nervous system.

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We're looking for someone who is highly organized & detail-oriented to serve as the central operational node and technical backbone of our growing lab. Time will be split equally between lab management (~20 hours/week) and research (~20 hours/week). Apps due EOD Aug 3 jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/researc...

Researcher and Lab Manager – Hryckowian Lab - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:Academic StaffEmployment Type:Terminal (Fixed Term)Job Profile:Researcher IJob Summary:The Hryckowian Lab is seeking a highly organized, detail-oriented Researcher I to serve as the central operational node and technical backbone of the laboratory. This role splits time roughly equally between comprehensive laboratory management (~20 hours/week) and direct bench research assistance (~20 hours/week).The Hryckowian Lab’s research focuses on understanding how resident microbial communities (microbiomes) act as a "microbial shield" to protect against pathogenic bacterial infections, and how to...

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We are recruiting a lab manager for my group in Oxford. This is a lovely team doing great things, and you could be an important part of it! See here: www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/lab-... Please spread the word!

Lab Manager - Molecular Immunology - Dunn School

Laboratory Manager/Senior Scientist position in the Molecular Mucosal Immunology group at Oxford

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Subhed from the NYT article on CSU adoption of ChatGPT: “California’s public universities spent $16.9 million on A.I. during a financial crisis, and the result has been chaos.” Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...

Saw a bunch of (boring) commencement speeches about AI, automation, and financial accomplishment. Evans, host of a chicken wing YouTube interview show that has surpassed traditional media, provides a refreshing message about humans, human connections, and human inspiration. youtu.be/UXNQQ99G8VQ?...

Sean Evans Gives 2026 University of Illinois Commencement Speech

YouTube video by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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📣 Our lab is recruiting postdocs to lead new fully funded projects on mechanisms of microbiome–gut–brain signaling & microbial regulation of brain–body interactions in disease, w supportive clinical collaborators. Expertise in gut–brain, systems neuro, or neuroimmunology preferred. Please email 📧

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

It's only "Competitive - Not Discussed" in the Bethesda region of Maryland. Otherwise it's just Sparkling Not Discussed.

Caroline Bartman@cbartman.bsky.social · 5mo ago

study section more fun now that there is not discussed and sparkling not discussed

"AI scientists are building ever-larger models, and then claiming that each model can solve even more than the previous one. Then, model in hand, they go around looking around for problems to solve" stevensalzberg.substack.com/p/ai-is-star...

AI badly needs a dose of skepticism

Some scientists are too eager to believe their own claims

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Join us in beautiful Madison WI! In addition to the postdoc call I previously announced, I am seeking applicants for a Scientist position. IMO this position is best suited for someone who successfully completed their postdoctoral training, see here for more details: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/scienti...

Scientist I – C. difficile and Gut Microbiome - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:Academic StaffEmployment Type...

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We are looking for a motivated Research Associate to join our lab and help us decode the immune system! If you have any questions please reach out! #science #immunology #STEMjobs job-boards.greenhouse.io/biohub/jobs/...

Research Associate, Immune Cell Dynamics and Function

New York, NY (Onsite)

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If you are submitting an NIH grant in February, you will be required to use SciENcv to prepare you biosketch. IT IS MUCH WORSE THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE. Set aside *at least* 4 hours just to transfer an existing an biosketch into SciENcv.

Grateful to share our paper on gene-specific selective sweeps in human gut microbiomes, now out in Nature! It has been a joy to work with @rwolff.bsky.social, whose insights and hard work made this possible. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Gene-specific selective sweeps are pervasive across human gut microbiomes - Nature

Development and application of the integrated linkage disequilibrium score (iLDS) reveals both selective pressures impacting the human gut microbiome and the mechanisms by which gut bacteria adapt to ...

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Excited to share new work by Guli Agirman + co that identifies a direct mechanism linking gut microbial imidazole propionate to stress! 🧠🦠 Btw this image was made by Nano Banana Pro 🍌. First time I've gotten a model to accurately generate a science graphic 🤯 authors.elsevier.com/a/1mA5M6t8JE...

Very excited to share our latest work in Science on metagenomic editing (MetaEdit) of the gut microbiome in vivo & directly modifying unculturable immune-modulatory SFB bug in the small intestine. 🦠🧬🛠️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Metagenomic editing of commensal bacteria in vivo using CRISPR-associated transposases

Although metagenomic sequencing has revealed a rich microbial biodiversity in the mammalian gut, methods to genetically alter specific species in the microbiome are highly limited. Here, we introduce ...

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UCLA alumnus Fred Ramsdell received the @nobelprize.bsky.social today in Physiology or Medicine — our 17th Nobel Prize for an alum or faculty member, and the third prize in five years for a Bruin. ucla.in/4oaVlKd #nobelprize #academicsky 🧪

Happy to share this paper in final form rdcu.be/eH8tj, with more info on neuronal responses and potential mechanism of actions! The results suggest that there is neural interoception of microbial metabolic state 🧠🦠 We hope they can inspire more work in this area!

Complex carbohydrate utilization by gut bacteria modulates host food consumption

Nature Communications - Gut bacteria digest dietary fiber and release molecules as energy for the host. Here, Yu et al. find that the ability of certain gut bacteria to digest different fibers...

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Elaine Hsiao@pipethero.bsky.social · 3y ago

Delighted to share work by Kristie Yu, Celine Son, & co showing that selective fructan metabolism by the gut microbiome can contribute to host associative learning of dietary preference, even when it comes to choosing between diets with the same perceptual salience (and macronutrient composition!)

If you're a UCLA researcher (PI, grad student, etc) with an NSF, NIH or other suddenly suspended grant, please email or DM me. I'm trying to confirm what the suspension letters say and how extensive the NIH suspensions are. Email: Mikhail at calmatters dot org

Mikhail Zinshteyn@mzinshteyn.bsky.social · last yr.

I chased this all day: UCLA research grants suspended after Trump administration faulted campus for antisemitism calmatters.org/education/hi...

Breaking: NSF is suspending roughly 300 grants with UCLA, following a DOJ finding on Tuesday that the university violated Title VI by "creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students."

I am seeking a postdoc for my group at UCLA. We work at the intersection of population genetics x microbiome (garud.eeb.ucla.edu). If interested, please message me!

CCII's Vice Director, Sidonia Fagarasan, and the faculty of this year's RIKEN IMS-JSI Summer School & Symposium. Sidonia spoke about the biochemical dialog between immune cells mediating anti-cancer responses www.ims.riken.jp/events/rcais...

The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601

Junior, Assistant, or Associate Specialist – Xue Lab

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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Check it out, a great opportunity for people looking to start their own lab in Japan 👇 www.ccii.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/careers-e...

Open Positions｜Careers｜Center for Cancer Immunotherapy and Immunobiology

Open Positions

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”replication crisis” has always been hyperbole. Scientists ALWAYS argued, called each other frauds, and eventually land on consensus. A lot of what van Leeuwenhoek observed in the late 1600s was NOT REPRODUCIBLE because nobody could make lenses like him. But he was right, about cells, and bacteria.

Berna Devezer@devezer.bsky.social · last yr.

There is no "science-wide replication crisis" because every word in that phrase carries unfounded assumptions. 🧵 1. There is no evidence that progress has generally stalled in the sciences. Also, no one has actually tried to estimate replicability across fields.

When I write "Utilize"

Goin back to Cali. Find me at UCLA. I’m recruiting at all levels. You can learn more at our lab website: www.donaldsonlab.com We have an advertisement up for a technician (SRA) position: jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/5998

Gregory P Donaldson, PhD, Assistant Professor at MIMG (starting January 2025) | Microbiology Immunology & Molecular Genetics

Please join us as we welcome Dr. Donaldson to UCLA in his new role as assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics.

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Hi friends new and old! I study how microbes interact and evolve in complex communities like the human gut microbiome.🦠🧬💩 I'm thrilled to share that I'm starting a lab at UC Irvine in April 2025 and am recruiting at all levels - please spread the word! kxuelab.com More about my work below...🧵1/n

Xue lab at UC Irvine

Ecology and evolution in the human gut microbiome

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Still thinking about gut biogeography.

Gut biogeography of the bacterial microbiota - Nature Reviews Microbiology

The gut microbiota has a strong impact on host physiology. In this Review, Mazmanian and colleagues describe the mechanisms that control the biogeography of bacteria in the gut and discuss the importa...

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