📄 New opinion piece! Agency fuels motivation and well-being, yet early-career researchers rarely get to exercise it. So what can we do to empower ECRs and make academia fairer? We open the dialogue and offer some starting points: www.cell.com/trends-open/...

A herd divided -- what the Grays Bay Road and Port means for caribou and the people living in the community of Kugluktuk, Nunavut. Hear and amplify their voices: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR0J.... c.org/wskDPmrXBN

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Significant update to the AllTheBacteria paper, including discovering new antimicrobial peptides and testing in vitro and vivo. This has grown into a fantastic collaboration!

César de la Fuente@delafuentelab.bsky.social · 2w ago

Biology has plenty of data—the challenge is making it usable. AllTheBacteria transforms 2.44 million public bacterial and archaeal genomes into an open, uniformly processed, searchable, AI-ready resource. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Something I wish I'd know before my uni! universityaffairs.ca/opinion/why-...

Why some people succeed at university without being the ‘top students’ - University Affairs

How to help students navigate the unwritten rules of the academy.

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Really excited to have this work out as a preprint. Great experiment with great colleagues, special shout out to the fantastic job done by Brian Trevelline and Andrew Moeller www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Gut microbiota promote early-life digestive function in songbirds

The vertebrate digestive tract harbors complex microbial communities whose influences on phenotypes and fitness in non-model organisms remain poorly understood. Here, we show that colonization with gu...

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Do you have a background in behavioural ecology and are you interested in doing a PhD in Australia? I’m looking for new grad students so check out our website (BobWongLab.org) or come find me in Torino at #ISBE2026. 🐟🐠

Researchers in Science report the development of a general-purpose biomedical AI agent that can help automate biomedical research workflows. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4pgt4DG

Autonomous biomedical research with an artificial intelligence agent

Biomedical research is increasingly constrained by repetitive, fragmented workflows that slow discovery. We introduce Biomni, a general-purpose biomedical artificial intelligence agent that autonomous...

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Living Biology 🎧 is here! A new SEB #Podcast from the Society for Experimental Biology (@sebiology.bsky.social) exploring the people and ideas behind experimental biology. 🚨 Launch special: 2 episodes available now Listen here: www.sebiology.org/ressources/s...

External Event Grant Awards are available for eligible members as a contribution towards the costs of attending an event between 1 September to 31 December 2026. Apply before 1 July 2026: https://microb.io/4uoBAmb

Now out in @newphyt.bsky.social, led by postdoc @usuitakuji.bsky.social with former undergrad Jerry Yu. Plant microbiomes affect colonization success in the wild!

New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · last mo.

For colonization success, should hosts and microbes travel alone, together, or swap partners along the way? Usui et al. @usuitakuji.bsky.social @mfrederickson.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A new primer in @microbiologysociety.org on epidemic exponential growth with @bnashby.bsky.social @chadisaadroy.bsky.social and Dan Coombs: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... Fun collaboration!

Microbial Primer: Understanding the exponential growth of epidemics

Microbiology Society journals contain high-quality research papers and topical review articles. We are a not-for-profit publisher and we support and invest in the microbiology community, to the benefi...

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So excited to announce our search for 4 postdocs (funded by the Simons Foundation) who will use genomics to "test how ecological interactions, natural selection, natural enemies, hybridization & environmental gradients shape...tropical tree communities" in Panama: stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev... ...1

Consider this. By carbon biomass, bacteria and other microbes outweigh all humans by about 1300:1. Earth is microbial. Humans are microbial. Let's build a better world with microbes. Happy #WorldMicrobiomeDay from @psumbiome.bsky.social Volume on for learning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gw0...

I Am The Microbiome | One Health Microbiome Center

YouTube video by One Health Microbiome Center at Penn State

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The programme of the EVIM-NET Workshop at ExE 2026 is here! Attendance is free, so if you are from the UK, join us on July 3rd! The entire workshop programme is available here: buff.ly/a9vTj5b

Faculty search announcement 2026: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern in Dallas. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (broadly defined). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...

University of Chicago is hiring: Assistant Instructional Professor of Computer Science #assistantprofessor

Evolutionary rescue in a phage community! New paper from former PhD student, Sam Greenrod, with brilliant colleague @craigmaclean.bsky.social : academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Rapid adaptation accelerates competitive suppression in a parasite community

Abstract. Environmental stress leads to changes in community composition by altering competitive hierarchies and pushing taxa towards extinction. Parasites

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NIBS Fellowship program for anyone interested!

We are now recruiting for a 3 year NERC-funded postdoc to study the transmission dynamics of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in migratory birds. Based in the Wild Microbiome Lab @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall.

Presenting my final poster later today at #ASMicrobe

Mike Blazanin@mikeblazanin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Species Diversity Supports Host-Parasite Coexistence in Microbial Communities 📍 AEM-SUN-709 📅 Sunday, June 7 ⏰ 3:00–4:00 PM

The IDEA symposium organizers Yichen (Serena) Dai, @sabiagini.bsky.social, and @hayleybethfree.bsky.social, together with the entire task force are thrilled for the upcoming SMBE 2026 in Copenhagen! See you there! ✨ #SMBE2026 @official-smbe.bsky.social

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution@official-smbe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#SMBE2026 IDEA Symposium: Advancing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in Molecular Biology and Evolution 🗓️ Tue Jun 30, 3:50pm 🔗 smbe2026.org/programme

Why we’re concerned about “Getting Major Projects Built in Canada” 👀 and its impact on nature and a healthy environment. Have your voice heard - read the govt’t proposal www.canada.ca/en/one-canad... and email feedback to engagement@pco-bcp.gc.ca by June 7, 2026 🙏@baumlab.bsky.social

The Conversation Canada@ca.theconversation.com · 2mo ago

Canada’s ‘major projects’ should not come at the cost of the environment

Excited to share this new paper from the lab: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...! See thread below

Eco-evolutionary responses to plasmid-dependent phage constrain the spread of multidrug-resistance plasmids

Abstract. Phage therapy offers an alternative to antibiotics for treating multidrug-resistant infections. Plasmid-dependent phages (PDPs) are promising the

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We have an open PhD position in our Mol. Biochemistry of Plant-Microbe Interactions Lab Saurlab.com. Please see details below, share and consider applying. jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

Fossilized Goniatite shells, spiraling throughout this piece of shale concretion. Each one a, stone imprint of a tiny life, lived out in a tropical sea over 300 million years ago. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

Two permanent positions in HPS, Sydney! #hps #philsci

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philosophy of Science

2 x full time, continuing positions, located on the Camperdown Campus in the Faculty of Science Build your research and apply your expertise by contributing as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Pro...

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When octopuses are stressed, they retreat into hiding to avoid attention, showcasing their unique coping mechanisms in the ocean's depths.

Conference alert: Ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions in a changing world" in Roscoff (Brittany) France, Nov 2-6, 2026. Abstracts submission deadline: June 6

Out Now! Dysbiosis and succession in the scientific infobiome #MicroSky

"Science is not simply a sequence of tasks that can be optimized....The scientific system thrives on inefficiency: redundant efforts, failed attempts, and divergent paths. These are not costs to be eliminated but sources of discovery." Excellent essay! ⬇️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Progression without progress

Progress in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to advance scientific discovery has made it increasingly realistic to envision automated “end-to-end science” (ETES) systems: integrated pipelines t...

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