Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

eeb.msu.edu

Little juvenile hawk enjoying a cold plunge on a warm Georgia evening.

🧪We want to purify our own Cas9-maybe an improved version. What're ppl using these days?

Phage therapy via receptor-constrained evolutionary traps

Phage therapy via receptor-constrained evolutionary traps

Phage therapy often fails when bacteria evolve resistance. We argue that phage selection should begin with receptors whose modification imposes predictable costs, turning resistance into reduced virulence, antibiotic resensitization, or other exploitable trade-offs. Receptor-constrained evolutionary traps offer a framework for designing phages that steer—not merely suppress—bacterial evolution effectively.

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Save the date! The 27th Biennial Evergreen International Phage Meeting is coming to Canada for the first time in its history! 🦠 🧬 📅 July 25 - 29, 2027 📍 University of Guelph, Guelph, ON More info to follow...

If I had two cents for each photo of me as a child sat next to a large ape, I’d only have two cents, but it’s weird it happened twice.

Why does antibiotic resistance evolution vary between patients? Come to @officialuom.bsky.social @mermanchester.bsky.social to help us find out! 2.5 year @wellcometrust.bsky.social postdoc position in experimental evolution Closing 15 May. Apply here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Research Associate in Microbial Evolution:Oxford Road

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One of the best parts of visiting my brother.

Multiple fully funded PhD/postdoc positions available: experimental evolution of tumour suppression, egalitarian & fraternal ETIs, jumbo phage ecology & genetics. Related EoIs welcome. Email CV/statement of motivation written in own words. Open until filled. Grateful for reposting 🙏

My lab at Pitt is looking for a Research Scientist to help us make phage therapy for patients with antibiotic-resistant infections. Please share and apply! cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

Excited to have our newest paper out in ISME Communications led by @aanuoluwaduro.bsky.social ! academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... 🧪🦠🧫 @ismepublications.bsky.social

Foster success. Jojo was adopted this afternoon. I’ll miss this idiot.

Friends, please help spread the word about our microbiology REU program at Montana State University. www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/ Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided. Details in the attached pic--Feb 14 deadline 🧫🧪🦠#microsky

Phage folks who use the wizard DNA clean up kit to extract Phage DNA, I understand how the silica can hold onto DNA, how does the kit open up the phage in the first place? Mechanical stress from the 10µm silica beads in the resin? Or does the guanidinium thiocyanate do the job?

JOB ALERT! 📢 For the scientists who love science communication: we’re hiring at @kurzgesagt.org !🌍 Come join our team, the vibes are impeccable. ✍️ Scriptwriter (Remote) kurzgesagt.org/careers/scri... 🔍 Fact-Checker & Researcher (Munich/Berlin/Remote) kurzgesagt.org/careers/seni...

I also didn’t write this book.

Proof that even as a child I had bags under my eyes.

In Wales for Christmas. That means pictures of my parent’s gigantic dog where I try to depict her scale.

So incredibly proud of this work, and thankful to everyone who makes it possible!

Pittsburgh Phage Program@pghphageprogram.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Pittsburgh Phage Program — 2025 Wrapped! To our patients, clinicians, researches, regulators, and partners— this work doesn’t happen without you. We screened, treated, delivered, learned—and even laid the groundwork for a 2026 trial! #pittsburghphageprogram #phagetherapy #P3

We combined whole tissue clearing with HCR-mRNA FISH imaging to differentiate and visualize different PAO1 variants in mouse lungs infected with mixed populations.

Recent work from the lab showing how presence of O-antigen deficient Pseudomonas variants change aggregate assembly and microbiogeography of infection journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Whole-tissue imaging reveals intrastrain diversity shapes the spatial organization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a murine infection model | mSphere

Intrastrain genetic and phenotypic diversity within Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations is common in chronic pulmonary infections. While this intrastrain heterogeneity is a hallmark of chronic infection, its consequences for the spatial organization of P. aeruginosa within the airways remain unclear. Here, we demonstrate that the loss of O-specific antigen in a subpopulation of P. aeruginosa significantly alters the spatial architecture of P. aeruginosa, without changing the total population size or composition. Using a combination of tissue clearing and hybridization chain reaction RNA-FISH in a murine lung infection model, we mapped the localization of genetically distinct P. aeruginosa variants in mixed populations in vivo. These findings reveal that genetic diversification within a strain can reshape the infection landscape at the micron scale, highlighting the overlooked role of intrastrain dynamics in shaping the microbiogeography of infections and influencing host-pathogen interactions.

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Escargone... I'll see myself out www.bbc.com/news/article...

French farm has €90,000 worth of escargot snails stolen

The break-in was "a real blow", says L'Escargot Des Grands Crus, which was preparing deliveries for the holiday season.

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Interesting, if anyone has other suggestions on ways to poison AIs to reduce student cheating I'm all ears!

Posit@posit.co · 9mo ago

Introducing bluffbench, a new tool to evaluate how well LLMs actually see data plots. When we trick LLMs with secret #RStats transformations, they can miss the visual contradiction. bluffbench helps us measure this "blind spot" in AI coding agents. Learn more: posit.co/blog/introdu...

PhD opportunity in my lab: exploring how commensals and pathogens build biofilm communities on endotracheal (ventilator) tubes. Microbial ecology, medical microbiology and fancy imaging! Co-supervised with the fabulous Saskia Bakker and Jeremy Webb warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... #MicroSky

Interested in doing a PhD in phage biology? See below a super cool project on megaphage ecology and evolution available at the University of Jyväskylä (FIN) in Elina Laanto's lab (Project no. 4). Co-supervision provided by yours truly.

Elina Laanto@elaanto.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🚀 PhD opportunity The Dept of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, is recruiting 1–4 new PhD candidates. One of the positions is potentially in my lab, focusing on megaphages and their hosts. Details and apply here 👇 bit.ly/48eqYNB #phage

I made a phage… I think it’s in LB

Such a Friday, double win at Biology Department with Bio for Breakfast and Research day @jamesgurney.bsky.social @persisterbritt.bsky.social @kswetzel1.bsky.social

My lab is gonna make the switch to from dplyr to genzplyr right away. hadley.github.io/genzplyr/

dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap

`genzplyr` is an alternative syntax for `dplyr` that replaces boring old function names with GenZ slang. Your data wrangling is about to hit different.

hadley.github.io

Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu