A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

UW Vet Med is proud to work with the PEOPLE Program, offering Madison and Milwaukee area high school students interested in pursing the veterinary medicine track early exposure to the field, through interactive activities and learning.

UW Vet Med professor Peter Halfmann, PhD, will be speaking on an expert panel discussing “Trust, Information, & Outbreak Response: Lessons from Ebola” on September 29 at 9am CST. Register for the webinar from the Global Health Institute today: https://bit.ly/46ynKCV

Most basic science departments at UCSF are having faculty searches this year. Biochemistry & Biophysics, Microbiology & Immunology, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and more. We're looking for new and exciting science and nice people. You'll find them all at aprecruit.ucsf.edu

WE'RE HIRING! Thanks to some recent successes with NIH funding, we're seeking two new postdoctoral scholars to join our team. See below for details. Please share widely and feel free to reach out with any questions!

The application period for PhD admissions at @stjude.bsky.social opens in September! Check out the admissions guide to see if you are eligible and, if so, do not hesitate to apply if interested in doing a PhD on the fundamental biology of infectious diseases www.stjude.org/education-tr...

Biomedical Sciences PhD Program

St. Jude offers a unique biomedical PhD program at one of the world’s premier pediatric research centers. Find out about admissions, courses, faculty and more.

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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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We are looking for motivated Postdocs to join our lab to investigate the emergence and evolution of bacterial pathogens. If your profile and interests fit the description below get in touch! Please share.Thank you!

Headed to #mmpc2026 in Minneapolis this year? Order your MMPC t-shirt before Septemeber 4th! Fun fact: I went through a previous MMPC abstract book and counted all the unique microbes. Can you see your favorite microbe in the shirt design?

Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference@mmpconference.bsky.social · last mo.

New for #mmpc2026 this year: T-SHIRTS!! Designed by @ruthlessruth15.bsky.social & featuring your favorite microbes! Shirts must be ordered by Sept 4 & can be picked up at the conference. Get your official 2026 Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference swag here: mmpc2026.umn.edu/more/2026-mm...

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

I'm delighted to share that Dr. Tristan Rubio is joining my team, at CIRI, as ENS Lyon Associate Professor. Tristan brings outstanding expertise and a collaborative mindset that will strengthen our research. I'm looking forward to the new ideas and discoveries ahead. Welcome aboard, Tristan!

Ironically, as @mart1oeil.eu showed, there are telltale signs that the piece was edited with ChatGPT: many links include "?utm_source=chatgpt.com" If even Science editorial team cannot afford good human editing, that's worrying

Jed Brown@jedbrown.org · 2mo ago

Editor in Chief of Science: AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive.

Amazing week of science & camaraderie at GRC Microbial Toxins & Pathogenicity! Many thanks to chair @torreslab.bsky.social & the discussion leaders, speakers, poster presenters, attendees, & staff for an awesome meeting! Excited to organize the next one with new vice-chair @sauerlab.bsky.social!

Fresh out of the lab! Our new preprint is now up on BioRxiv, exploring how the beneficial bacterium Pseudomonas putida controls its T6SS nanoweapon. It turns out the Gac/Rsm pathway acts as a strict molecular brake on the system. 👇 (1/4) Read the full preprint here: doi.org/10.64898/202...

The SynBio team’s plasmid collection is one of the coolest aspects of @thesainsburylab.bsky.social What’s even cooler is their vision of sharing it with everyone and the partners who are helping make it happen 💪 🧬

Sophien Kamoun@kamounlab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Just published: Community Spirit: Plasmids for All How a decade of plasmid-wrangling at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social grew into a movement — and the unexpected friends now helping us open the doors wider. medium.com/p/community-...

#microsky New preprint from the lab! Widespread immune systems protect bacteria against conjugative plasmids www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Kudos to the extremely talented lead author Ludovic Poiré! Key contributions by @francoisrousset.bsky.social and also help from C. Lesterlin/TacC lab. 🧵⬇️

Widespread immune systems protect bacteria against conjugative plasmids

Conjugative plasmids are a class of mobile genetic elements capable of efficient transfer between bacterial cells. Although they can introduce beneficial traits such as antibiotic resistance to recipi...

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🦠🛡️ #Intestinal cells can limit #Salmonella growth by starving the #bacteria of an essential nutrient, revealing a natural defense against #infection. #Microbiology #GutMicrobiome #Infection #Immunology #Microsky via @sciencex.bsky.social

Intestinal cells starve Salmonella of essential nutrients, revealing new tactic in infection defense

Salmonella, an infection that causes diarrhea, fever and abdominal pain, is the most common form of bacterial food poisoning in the U.S., sickening more than a million people each year. Although most…

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Our lab is hiring an enthusiastic and motivated research specialist to study host-pathogen interactions in the context of S. aureus infection. For more information, see below: Lab website: www.reyesruizlab.org jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/researc...

Research Specialist - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:Academic StaffEmployment Type...

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The Dillard Lab is looking to hire a research technician to study the mechanisms by which Neisseria gonorrhoeae damages human Fallopian tubes during pelvic inflammatory disease. Lab website: www.dillardlab.mmi.wisc.edu View the job posting: shorturl.at/YO2sE

Recruiting a postdoc to join my lab at @lshtm.bsky.social to work in an MRC porgramme grant funded project to dissect the gut colonziation by Klebsiella. In vivo and in vitro models, and new approaches to identify Klebsiella factors involved. jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Fellow

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...

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Check out our latest T7SS toxin story. These reverse toxins aren’t as rare as we thought!

bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A novel reverse lipase toxin substrate of the Staphylococcus aureus type VII secretion system https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.22.733114v1

Placenta metabolic clock: NAD+ depletion triggers a countdown to birth in mice @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The placental metabolic clock

NAD+ depletion triggers a countdown to birth in mice

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How do human cells defend against viruses? @sgfern.bsky.social discovers that human immune proteins named ISGs target ancient features of replication shared between animal and bacterial viruses – opening analysis of human immunity to the power of bacterial genetics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Reminder — UW #Microbiology has an open search for an Assistant Professor, focusing on fundamental problems in #bacteriology! If you or someone you know would be suitable, here's the ad: apply.interfolio.com/185622

Happy to share the last publication of @bobytaillefer.bsky.social, showing that #T6SS heterogeneity is an attenuation strategy to optimizes the trade-off between competitive killing and survival.

PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · 3mo ago

The T6SS is a widespread nanoweapon deployed by #bacteria, but why is it deployed heterogeneously? @cascaleslab.bsky.social &co show that #Ecoli adopt distinct #T6SS attacker "ON" & defender "OFF" roles to optimize survival, a key strategy in microbial warfare @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3S5dL45

📢A new effector-triggered immunity role for GBP1! No place for pathogens to hide now that GBP1 can detect extracellular pathogens that hijack the actin cytoskeleton. Surprise*suprise* GBP1 does this independently of LPS! 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thank you Suzana @suzanasalcedo.bsky.social for visiting @scelse.bsky.social and giving such a nice talk.

Thinking of doing a PhD with a focus on infectious diseases? My lab is seeking enthusiastic students to investigate the emergence and transmission of pathogenic Vibrios. Join us at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, an extraordinary research center! www.stjude.org/education-tr...

Biomedical Sciences PhD Program

St. Jude offers a unique biomedical PhD program at one of the world’s premier pediatric research centers. Find out about admissions, courses, faculty and more.

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🚨Faculty job search: University of Illinois Chicago Micro & Immuno department is hiring! Open rank and open area within host-pathogen interactions. Apply by May 31 to join us in UI College of Medicine in the heart of Chicago! uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

So we blocked IFNγ in Mtb infected macaques and….the animals were fine. Turns out mice overestimate the importance of IFNγ in TB because IFNγ drives iNOS in mice but not macaques or humans. This means we don’t actually know how T cells suppress Mtb. rdcu.be/ff9GB #tuberculosis #immunology