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The Independent@the-independent.com · 17h ago

James Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’

Two thousand two six, party over, oops, out of time #asv2026 is over, but mark your calendars for ASV 2027 in Madison, Wisconsin July 19-23 Get ready for cheesy Wisconsin references. Sorry, not sorry.

Pls share. Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences - Genetics/Genomics at Smith College. apply.interfolio.com/190342

Bacteriology-Focused Assistant Professor Position in Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan Application deadline: August 15, 2026 Come be my colleague!

🚨🚨 Faculty search! Spread the word! 🚨🚨 The Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology Department at Vanderbilt is hiring! Special consideration will be given to faculty working with Risk Group 3 pathogens (so you can join us in our brand new state-of-the-art BSL3!) apply.interfolio.com/188545

Kaitlyn continues to break barriers with her innovations for using LEA proteins to solve another major cryo-EM sample prep issue! This work should be of great interest to friends who are struggling with particle orientation bias. Another funtastic Lim X Grant collaboration! @uwbiochem.bsky.social

Kaitlyn Abe@kaitlynabe.bsky.social · 3w ago

1/5: Our latest preprint is out! We show that LEA proteins can diversify particle orientations in cryo-EM, helping to overcome preferred orientation at the air-water interface (AWI). www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... with @cijilim.bsky.social and Tim Grant #CryoEM #LEAproteins

Oregon State University's Department of Integrative Biology is currently hiring up to three tenure-track faculty members, with an emphasis on organismal biology. Note: Previous links are no longer active due to a change in our hiring system. oregonstate.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com/OSU_Careers_...

Assistant Professor

Department: Special Instructions to Applicants: To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by 10/1/26. Applications will continue to be accepted after the full consideration date, unt...

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Very proud to see this paper out. This is an incredible collaboration with the labs of Wes Sundquist and Adam Frost. @uofubiochem.bsky.social @kingslsm.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ESCRT-III assembles around mis-segregated DNA to protect genome stability - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

The authors show that persistent ultrafine DNA bridges become coated by membranes and the ESCRT-III proteins CHMP1B and IST1, which protect the genome within from damage.

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“It could take at least a year for OMB to respond to the comments and amend the draft rule”. Friends, this is a direct result of our collective action. The OMB Rule that would require political review of grants has prompted at least 50K comments. Thanks to all who commented, and you still can.

A Proposed Rule Would Politicize Medical Research. Scientists Are Not Happy.

In tens of thousands of comments, researchers, doctors and others warned the rule could hamper progress on important health issues.

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🚨TODAY, 1:00 p.m. EDT🚨 Don't miss 2026 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal recipient Judith Kimble's seminar on the discovery of the first stem cell niche and the genetic mechanisms that regulate stem cell self-renewal and differentiation. 🔗https://buff.ly/Z67hAn9 @uwbiochem.bsky.social

Drug companies perform millions of peptide mapping tests every year. CeleramAb, a new @uwmadison.bsky.social, @morgridgeinstitute.bsky.social spinoff founded by Joshua Coon and Lloyd Smith, could make those analyses much faster, helping accelerate biotherapeutic development.

New lab advance supercharges biotherapeutic development - Morgridge Institute for Research

Biotherapeutics, the fastest-growing segment of the pharmaceutical industry, could see another jolt of energy from a Wisconsin lab advance that accelerates a key drug development step by 100-fold.

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www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u... an ominous trend: graduate admissions are down 15 percent from last year, on top of an 11 percent decrease from the previous year we are destroying our seed corn

Research Universities Are Admitting Fewer Ph.D.s, a Bad Sign for Science

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🚨VIROMICS WORKSHOP 2026🚨 Application is now OPEN for the 8th International Viromics Workshop, Oct. 14-16, 2026, in-person at Ohio State University. Application closes Aug. 7. Apply: forms.gle/pJFLDCNEBvAe... Full details: u.osu.edu/viruslab/vir... #viromics #viruses #ecology #workshop

UC Davis Ecology & Evolution Grad Preview Program is accepting applications until July 20th! It's a fully virtual program where you are paired with a grad student mentor and learn about what grad school entails, how to apply, and what student life is like! Please share widely!

🔎 Assistant or Associate Professor in Virology 📍 @utrechtvirology.bsky.social, Netherlands 🔗 instruct-eric.org/jobs/assista... For these jobs and more, make sure to visit our website: instruct-eric.org/jobs If you have a job that you would like to advertise with us, please get in touch!

Assistant or Associate Professor in Virology - Instruct-ERIC

Instruct-ERIC is a pan-European research infrastructure in structural biology, making high-end technologies and methods available to all European researchers.

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SCI Lab investigator Dietram Scheufele (@dietram.bsky.social) joins a group of science communication and policy experts in a new Nature comment (@nature.com). A timely piece in advance of this weekend's celebration of democracy ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Six ways to put the public at the heart of science and policy

Trust in elite institutions is on the wane globally. Building public participation into research and government advice can turn the tide.

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Had a blast putting this video abstract together with colleagues for @zjmaggiexu.bsky.social story in @currentbiology.bsky.social on how the "vampire cell" P. collini builds the perfect feeding trap 👀. Be sure to check out the full paper: www.cell.com/current-biol... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikzm...

A cellular vampire builds the perfect feeding trap / Curr. Biol., June 24, 2026 (Vol. 36, Issue 14)

YouTube video by Cell Press

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Today the last person at risk from the hantavirus outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius completed their quarantine, tested negative, and returned home, @drtedros.who.int said in @who.int presser. "We are therefore very pleased to say that WHO considers the outbreak of hantavirus over.""

"public trust in science and scientists is high...The idea that there’s a pervasive lack of trust is completely unfounded...But trust has dropped in certain groups...politically right-leaning groups" Maybe it's not science/scientists that's to blame... 1/2 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Pls share: U of Washington has an opening for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor. This position is expected to specialize in molecular virology or bacteriology. Here is a link: microbiology.washington.edu/index.php/ne...

"Large-scale, targeted undergraduate training programs can move the needle on diversifying the US biomedical research workforce." RISE & MARC students were more than twice as likely to complete a PhD than matched students not in those programs. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Broadening participation: 20-year outcomes from undergraduate science training programs

Twenty-year study shows NIH training programs double Ph.D. completion among underrepresented students.

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Rasgon Lab Postdocs are FINALLY formally available. Apply here! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Postdoctoral Scholar Researcher

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

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Our Dept of Microbiology & Immunology @Geisel School of Medicine @Dartmouth has an opening for an Assistant Professor. Looking for programs bridging multiple areas in Micro & Immuno. A great place to be! Programs: www.M2P2.org www.dartmouthbiofilm.org Job ad: apply.interfolio.com/187637

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/...

91 years ago today, Wendell M. Stanley reported the crystallization of tobacco mosaic virus. Stanley showed that viruses exist at the edge of living and non-living, and biology was never the same. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Isolation of a Crystalline Protein Possessing the Properties of Tobacco-Mosaic Virus

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Have you ever seen this iconic image of the Ebola virus, from the first known outbreak in DRC in 1976? An electron microscopic image, it was captured by #CDC 's Fred Murphy, a virological giant and a very kind interviewee. He died yesterday. He will be missed, but his scientific legacy lives on.

Our biology department at Université Laval has a faculty position in Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, or Genetics. We have an Institute of Integrative and Systems biology, we are unionized, and Québec City is a wonderful mix of culture and access to nature. AMA universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

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My friend's NSF CAREER received the highest possible score (Excellent, Excellent, Excellent: High Priority) and it was rejected today. This would have been my friend's first extramural award, 5 years after starting their lab, exactly when grant $ is make or break for an Assistant Professor's career.

Jeffrey Mervis@policyhound.bsky.social · last mo.

Been wondering why NSF isn't spending most of its FY26 appropriation? A $1.5B tech initiative may be the reason. And big cuts to hundreds of research programs could be just the beginning of the bad news. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Excited for the 2026 Madison Jazz Festival! Nate Smith, Wycliffe Gordon, Mathis Picard, and many more coming to Madison for 9 days of great jazz at venues throughout the city. Schedule link in comments.