The whole issue of Nature Micro is up now, and look at that gorgeous cover! @emerge-bii.bsky.social co-director Ruth Varner took the picture. www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

Sarah Bagby@scbagby.bsky.social · last mo.

Out today in Nature Microbiology: a paper that started in 2021 with an email from @sullivan-lab.bsky.social. Subject line: "Crazy ideas". www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/23

Out today in Nature Microbiology: a paper that started in 2021 with an email from @sullivan-lab.bsky.social. Subject line: "Crazy ideas". www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/23

I feel that the local science center could have done with one more round of review before going with "Voices of the Titanic Immersive Experience" for the new exhibit.

Wow.

Microbial eukaryote folks, you've got two more weeks to apply for this TT job: apply.interfolio.com/174456. We're a supportive department with a great breadth of interests, with really sharp students, in a very livable city with the nation's best park system. Come join us!

Fellow Clevelanders will have seen @neorsd.org's update on the end of their Shaker Dam engineering work. I have some technical-detail thoughts about this, as an engineering-adjacent STEM person and a fan of the lake and brook. Keep reading for a summary (incl. links to slides and video): 1/8

NE Ohio Regional Sewer District@neorsd.org · last yr.

a message to residents of Shaker Heights and Cleveland Heights and any interested followers: we're hosting 2 events to present our latest Lower Lake findings and future plans. • Webinar: Tues 8/19 • Open House: Wed 8/20 Webinar registration and event details: www.neorsd.org/LowerLake

Out in @natbiotech.nature.com: Metagenome taxonomy profilers usually ignore unknown species. SingleM is an accurate profiler which doesn't, even detecting phyla with no MAGs. Profiles of 700,000 metagenomes at sandpiper.qut.edu.au. A 🧵

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY* (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

No PhD students or severely reduced # of admits -> *undergraduates* looking now to start the next phase of their career in support of research & discovery will be stuck without an option. This is far from the only place in a similar situation, whether announced publicly yet or not.

WESA@wesa.fm · last yr.

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

NIH indirects case update: Hearing ongoing now, and I'll try to live tweet some notable exchanges. Prior to more detailed arguments, Judge Kelley starts off with a few point questions to both sides: (I'm paraphrasing here)

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

I know that all these institutions know how to push back because when Obama directed them to enforce pre-existing Title IX law, universities said no. They flat out refused until there was a working group and specific guidelines. And even then, they *still* refused.

Everyone, plz share with your stellar undergrads! The UDE program (Undergraduate Diversity at Evolution) pairs students from diverse backgrounds with mentors to attend the Evolution meeting each year. Encourage your undergrads to apply!

Society for the Study of Evolution@sse-evolution.bsky.social · 2y ago

Are you or do you know an undergrad interested in evolution? The SSE Undergraduate Diversity at Evolution program provides funding, mentoring, and a presentation opportunity at #Evol2025. Applications due Monday! https://buff.ly/4eExoFL

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 13 deadline 🧫🧪🦠#microsky

(1/6) Our new short paper on incidental bacterial domestication between patient isolation and creation of frozen stock. Geno/phenotype changes are obscured by rich media and more prevalent than we previously thought. #MicroSky

#phagesky Some partnerships are always fun!! Excited to share one such 🎉 product w Simon Roux, perspectives on our favorite “atypical” phages, for special issue to celebrate my former mentor Carol Gross @ UCSF Tapping the treasure trove of atypical phages www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Tapping the treasure trove of atypical phages

With advancements in genomics technologies, a vast diversity of ‘atypical’ phages, that is, with single-stranded DNA or RNA genomes, are being uncover…

sciencedirect.com

Ohio friends: consider contacting Gov Dewine to urge him not to sign the "bathroom bill" (SB 104). Educators are in a particularly good position to made the case against this on practical grounds, though I also brought up the specter of conference/business boycotts, as in NC.

Shameless plug: a post on 'writing as thinking' that I wrote for my own students hackingsemantics.xyz/2024/writing/

On AI-assisted writing in graduate school

What is the proper role of AI ‘assistance’ in graduate student writing? It depends on what you mean by ‘graduate’.

hackingsemantics.xyz

Our first B. subtilis paper, published at NatureComms. Translation in Bacillus subtilis is spatially and temporally coordinated during sporulation. #subtiwiki #bacillus www.nature.com/articles/s41... Funded by FNP_org_pl and EMBO_YIP

Governor Andy Beshear, in a Trump +30 state, gives advice to Democrats: Do not throw LGBTQ+ people under the bus, it will not work. His advice to dems: Lead on your values. This man ran on a fully inclusive campaign in 2023 and won. He received the same kind of ads Harris did.

We are looking for a dynamic, motivated, interdisciplinary researcher to join our new project RESPECT: Rapid Engagement with Stressed Peatland Environments and Communities in Transformation. Field & lab components working in a cross-disciplinary group. 1/2

My department is looking for an assistant professor in fisheries and conservation: careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job... Please repost! #marinesky #oceanography #STEM #fisheries

Excited to share: The inaugural Alma Dal Co School on Collective Behavior is coming to Venice (Sep 29-Oct 4, 2025). This unique school honors Alma (1989-2022), whose brilliant work bridging physics and microbiology revealed how metabolic interactions structure microbial communities. 1/12

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Ben Litherland@benlitherland.bsky.social · 2y ago

Well I'm sure this won't negatively impact the idea of scholarship as a shared collective endeavour to better understand the world.

It's great that turnout here seems high, but a long line is also a sign of voter suppression because Ohio's GOP limited early voting to just 1 site per county regardless of population. Franklin County's 1.3 million people (heavily Dem) & Vinton County's 12,000 people (heavily GOP) each get 1 site

I'm so excited to announce that my department is now hiring TWO ECOLOGISTS at the Assistant Professor Level. We will be really excited to substantially expand research in ecology in our EEOB Department at UCR. Please Repost and share widely! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01983

Assistant Professor of Ecology

University of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.ucr.edu