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Holly Bik

@hollybik.bsky.social

Associate Professor at the University of Georgia + Associate Director of UGA Institute of Bioinformatics. Marine Biology, Polar Science, Deep-Sea Worms (nematodes!), Environmental Genomics, and Science Writing. Views are my own. http://www.hollybik.com

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Mark A. Hanson@hansonmark.bsky.social · 3d ago

HIRING MICROBIOLOGIST: effective start asap! The PDRA/PDRF (per xp) will investigate the interactions of bumblebee antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) with the gut microbiota & more. Our work has shown AMPs have striking specificity for ecological microbes. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/13... 1/2

Postdoctoral Researcher Associate or Fellow in Cornwall | University of Exeter

View details and apply for this Postdoctoral Researcher Associate or Fellow vacancy in Cornwall. Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow This job is part of an Advanced Research + Inventio...

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Talia Lerner@talialerner.bsky.social · last wk.

We need to be clear-eyed about how strong + dangerous anti-science forces are right now. But I’m an idealist and an optimist! I love science with all my heart, both the process and the knowledge it brings. I agree with Keri (excellent thread) bsky.app/profile/mart...

Keri Martinowich@martinowk.bsky.social · last wk.

I find myself holding seemingly contradictory views. On one hand, this is an extraordinary moment. We are watching discoveries built over decades produce treatments, and things are happening now that I couldn't imagine when I started. It is hard not to look at that and feel enormous optimism.

Dr. Lauren E. Fuess@laurenfuess.bsky.social · 3w ago

Thanks to this grant we will be hiring!! Our grad position ad is already live with more opportunities forthcoming. But if you’re interested in postdoc or technician positions, please reach out! fuesslab.wp.txstate.edu/opportunities/

opportunities – Symbiommunity Lab

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Dr. Lauren E. Fuess@laurenfuess.bsky.social · 3w ago

Alright now that I’m home I guess it’s time to officially announce some really good news: I have received an NIH R35 MIRA!! This award will fund five years of research in my group using Aiptasia to study context dependency and GxGxE interactions in animal-microbe symbioses!

Screenshot of NIH status page, stating the project titled: “Mechanisms of Intergenomic Epistasis and Environmental Context in Animal-Microbe Symbioses” has been awarded with PI Lauren Fuess
Holly Bik@hollybik.bsky.social · 3w ago

Sheila’s lab is doing amazing symbiosis work, and the EEB department at Stony Brook would be a truly incredible place to do a postdoc. And you’re only a ~1hr train ride away from NYC! #SymbioSky

@dr-skitch.bsky.social · 3w ago

My lab at @stonybrooku.bsky.social Dept of Ecology & Evolution is recruiting a 2-year Postdoc! They will split time between genomics and symbiosis dynamics of cnidarians 🪸, and the development of STAGdb. Start date as early as Sept 2026. Please share this post with anyone who might be a great fit!

Holly Bik@hollybik.bsky.social · 3w ago

Friends, it is still possible to get new NSF funding! I only submitted two grants last summer and shockingly both are being funded. This new BioOCE grant will focus on deep-sea benthic biogeography using eDNA and taxonomy (with new shiptime & ROV Jason ops!!) #MeiofaunaMonday

Dr Craig R McClain@drcraigmc.bsky.social · 3w ago

Thrilled to share our #NSF award is official: we're heading to the abyssal Pacific to map deep-sea biodiversity using eDNA and ROV push coring. 16 stations, 1,024 cores, one incredible cruise. Huge thanks to co-PI @hollybik.bsky.social for leading this. 🧪 #marinelife

Phoebe Cohen@phoebefossil.bsky.social · last mo.

Super excited that our paper led by @sandinmm.eurosky.social in PNAS is out! We show that crown-group eukaryotes were already taxonomically and ecologically diverse throughout the Mesoproterozoic, revealing complex communities well before the Neoproterozoic radiation. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Environmental phylogenetics supports a steady diversification of crown eukaryotes starting from the mid-Proterozoic | PNAS

Molecular clock and preservation of early microfossil assemblages suggest that eukaryotes were present and already diverse more than ~1600 million ...

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Holly Bik@hollybik.bsky.social · last mo.

Love this #SciComm🧵 - IMO things like “UpGoerFive” are like a beginner improv class - great start that gives you perspective on your skill level, but it’s a long way from 1st improv class to being on Saturday Night Live (good SciComm takes YEARS of deliberate practice!!!)

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · last mo.

I stand by those words 13 years later. To scientists, I say: it is NOT hopeless! You can learn to harness the powers that everyday language. But it will take some practice, and it will take more than a thousand words. Here are some further suggestions: carlzimmer.com/science-writ... 10/10

Holly Bik@hollybik.bsky.social · last mo.

It’s #WormWednesday and we’re busy processing buckets of sand we just brought back from the Florida Keys! We’re picking out Stilbonematid nematode worms to study their bacterial symbionts. We call this one “Chewbacca” because…well, it looks like a Wookie’e leg (the “hairs” are Thiosymbion bacteria)

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️@napaaqtuk.bsky.social · last mo.

If you are interested in microbiomes, this is an excellent group of international researchers coming together to discuss current research.

Lavisha Parab@lavishaparab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hi #microbiomesky and #mevosky and also #phagesky maybe? Some of us want a microbiome journal club to catch up on microbiology/evolution related microbiome research. Monthly@15:00 CET/09:00 EST/18:30 IST or so Please text my LMU email address if you're interested (not typing it here to avoid spam)

Virginia Gewin@virginiagewin.bsky.social · last mo.

Scientists--if your funding was cut over the last year (for research on climate, global health, DEI, LGBTQ or womens health, etc) but you managed to keep the research going, I want to talk to you for an upcoming article! Plz contact me: gewin at me dot com. Re-posts appreciated!

Holly Bik@hollybik.bsky.social · last mo.

LAST DAY to submit your comment for the proposed OMB rule changes! I submitted mine this weekend, took under 30min (mostly bc I got on a roll typing out impacts to process my anger…and then editing into more eloquent reasoning lol)

Maureen Barr@barrlab.bsky.social · last mo.

Posted my comments opposing OMBs proposed rule. It was so easy, using this great letter writing tool of @faseborg.bsky.social www.faseb.org/science-poli... Did you submit yours yet? The deadline is soon - July 13. This is essential to save science and research in the US.

I write in my personal capacity as a research-active faculty member, not on behalf of my institution. I am a distinguished professor at a leading state R1 university. I am also a Senior Principal Investigator whose research laboratory is NIH. I submit these comments in strong opposition to OMB's proposed rule revising 2 C.F.R. Part 200 (Docket OMB-2026-0034). I am requesting that OMB withdraw this rule entirely because of the devasting consequences it will have on biomedical research, human health, the economy, and the nation. The proposed pre-issuance review requirement (§ 200.205) eliminates that independence by giving political appointees – who may have no experience or training in the biomedical research field - veto power over peer-reviewed funding decisions. As a Senior PI / Lab director whose research is supported by NIH, I am deeply concerned that the best science will not be funded, instead politicians will decide not based on merit and research quality, but rather ideology. Peer-review is critical for gold-standard science. This proposed discretionary termination provision (§ 200.340) jeopardizes the future and well-being of the researchers in my laboratory, my department, my university, my state, and the United States. My research program has been continuously funded by the NIH for over two decades. My laboratory is like a small business – with NIH funding, I employ eight full-time personnel. These scientists are at all stages of their careers – newly minted bachelors who are working as research technicians or graduate students; postdoctoral researchers who are completing additional training in order to go onto careers in academia, biotech, industry, governments; senior scientists who have devoted their entire careers to biomedical research and training the next generation of scientists, physicians, dentists, teachers, etc. The proposed international collaboration restrictions (§§ 200.202(e), 200.220) will isolate US scientists and lead to the demise…
Holly Bik@hollybik.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m hanging out at @scrippsocean.bsky.social for the next 2 weeks, kicking off the inaugural California Intertidal BioBlitz!!! Over the next two years, this project will produce 4000+ DNA reference barcodes for west coast marine invertebrates. I’m a nematode taxonomist here, ID’ing (round)worms!!

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Ele Willoughby@minouette.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy birthday to #botanist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), 🧪👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher and mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, the first Indigenous Hawaiian woman to earn a doctorate in science and the first woman or person of colour to become 🧵

My linocut portrait of Isabella Aiona Abbott in indigo on cream coloured paper. She’s facing forward at a table in a shirt and sweater vest with a sheet with algae samples on the table. In my print, she is surrounded by algae of the Pacific, all of which appeared in Abbott's research publications, including several species she discovered, or based on images of specimen she personally collected or whose traditional use as food she documented. The algae are in pinks, khaki green and rust.