My super department @warwicklifesci.bsky.social is hiring 6 assistant profs in the wake of recent retirements. We're looking for people in microbiology/infection, cellular disease / immunity; environmental biology; and plant/crop science. #MicroSky warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
Embarkation
Alex Colville
1994
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 2961:
Your voice is unique. It’s a combination of many factors: your upbringing and background; the books you’ve read; your personality. Some people may not like it, but it’s yours. Keep it authentic. Trying to sound like someone else is a betrayal of who you are.
This worship of efficiency kills creativity. Every transcript I have, every piece of research, I go over again & again, looking for detail, pattern, illuminating anecdote. It’s not efficient. I flail sometimes! But it’s essential. It’s how I learn to tell the story to myself, so I can tell it to you
plz repost 🙏 we are looking for a technician to start this summer/fall for 1-2 years to work with me at Cornell in the labs of @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social and Andy Clark, in collaboration with @corriemoreau.bsky.social on flies & termites 🪰🐜🧬🔬 Ithaca is gorges!
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Rutgers University is hiring:
Lecturer in Biochemistry and Microbiology
#lecturer
The global mycology community calling for an effort to combat drug‑resistant - Closing the gap on antifungal resistance www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We’re hiring!
Postdoc position at APC/School of Micro, working on gut microbiome–pathogen interactions in an ERC-funded project with @hilarybrowne.bsky.social
🧫 Anaerobic microbiology + bioinformatics
📅 Deadline: 17 April 2026
📰 Apply here: buff.ly/IxGKwH6
#Microbiome #Postdoc #AcademicJobs
A black-and-white historical photograph of Elizabeth Bugie, a pioneering biochemist, working in a laboratory. She is shown from the waist up, wearing a short-sleeved white top and focusing intently on her work. She has dark, shoulder-length hair and is holding a piece of glassware connected to a black rubber tube, seemingly adjusting a filtration or distillation setup. Several Erlenmeyer flasks and glass funnels sit on the bench in front of her. In the background, shelves are filled with numerous glass chemical bottles of various sizes, and a window with multiple panes is visible to the right.
Biochemist Elizabeth Bugie co-discovered streptomycin (with Selman Waksman), the first antibiotic against Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Waksman went on to win the 1952 Nobel Prize for Medicine & took full credit for the discovery. Bugie died #OTD in 2001. #WomenInSTEM #MatildaEffect (1/2)
Community Science Program New Investigator (FY26) Congratulations to our 2026 CSP New Investigator recipients! Jennifer Goff SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Trailblazers of PyOM Breakdown: Are actinomycetes taking the lead?
From our FY26 New Investigator call: @jlgoff.bsky.social will use multi-omics to identify which soil microbes degrade PyOM from prescribed burns, providing insights for biochar use in bioenergy systems.
jgi.doe.gov/user-science/science-stories/jgi-announces-2026-new-investigator-portfolio
Now, you might say, "What about all the knowledge we'd lose if we push all the abusive geniuses out of academia?!"
But I'd counter and say, "Well, what about the knowledge we've already lost from the budding scholars whose careers they've derailed with their abuse?"
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We are soon to be headless....
So come be our new boss in lovely Copenhagen and lead a department with research interests
from genes to ecosystems, and everything alive in between.
Three watercolor paintings with brains and anti AI messages
New Anti-AI watercolors in the shop! Artologica.etsy.com 🧠
Want to switch countries for a postdoc? Specifically, are you European, or are you non-European wanting to come to Europe? Now's the time to reach out to potential host labs!
(It's very normal to cold-email a PI about potentially hosting -- don't be shy!)
CEB vacancies: PDRA (perovskite solar cells); Marie Curie fellow (fixed term); Business Support Apprentice — apply now.
Now's your chance to join us!🥼
We have multiple exciting roles open across research and professional services divisions.
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#ChemicalEngineering #Biotechnology #CambridgeUniversity
Technical University of Braunschweig is hiring:
W2 Professorship in Evolution and Systematics of Microorganisms
#fullprofessor
An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death
Dear Friends,
Please send this to your networks. Project Drawdown is offering full-time, paid (with benefits) fellowships to scientists and engineers working on climate solutions in the public interest.
Deadline is April 17.
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Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.
We’re hiring an Environmental Data Services Manager!
This position can be remote or based in our Toronto office. Find out more and apply 👇
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Calling all geologists! 🥾⛏️ The Utah Geological Survey is hiring a Geologic Mapper. If you love fieldwork, creating detailed maps, and want to work in a geological wonderland, this is for you!
Apply here: utdgohcm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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The Gale
Sybil Andrews
1930
Two very young burrowing owlets peeking out of their burrow.
Good morning! 🪶
A spiral bound field guide with a photo of sea star and a sea urchin, written and illustrated by Madelynn DeBest.
An illustrated schematic of the zones of the rocky intertidal and which species live at what depths.
An example page from a spiral bound field guide, open to the entry for bladderwarck, a light green seaweed with little air bladders to help it float.
A field guide entry for an invasive blue crab, showing it to be 9” across.
One of my former students took her final project for my field natural history class and turned it into her Honors thesis: a 100% original, hand-drawn field guide to the rocky intertidal! And she got copies printed for her defense!
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...
Check out this squid-vibrio postdoc position at Penn State with my colleague Tim Miyashiro, especially if you have a background in proteomics/metabolomics.
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The diverse molecular mechanisms of cellular motility. (A) The rotary T9SS and conveyor belt of Flavobacterium johnsoniae. (B) The focal adhesin complex of Myxococcus xanthus. (C) The leg-like attachment machinery of Mycoplasma mobile. Additional mechanistic models of motility for Mycoplasma genitalium (21) and Mycoplasma pneumoniae (22–26) are described in the text, with additional details available in the cited literature. (D) Multiple Type IV pili strategically arranged at both sides of the septal wall ensure smooth, coordinated gliding in filamentous cyanobacteria. The molecular organization depicted is based on well-characterized Type IV pilus systems of cyanobacteria. (E) The actin and myosin-based glidosome of the apicomplexan Toxoplasma gondii. (F) The proposed raphe and actinomyosin system of the diatom Craspedostauros australis. (OM, outer membrane; IM, inner membrane; PG, peptidoglycan; IMC, inner membrane complex; pPM, parasite plasma membrane; hPM, host plasma membrane).
#MicrobiologyMonday: Gliding motility allows cells to move smoothly along surfaces without flagella. Although this strategy has evolved independently across many microbial lineages, common mechanical principles emerge. Learn more in #JBacteriology: asm.social/2SJ
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Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Brown University invites applications for a Doherty Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ocean Sciences. This competitive postdoctoral fellowship will be awarded for a one-year period, + 2nd year possible. Please see apply.interfolio.com/183855!
I will say this again: Science isn’t just something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world.
It’s why this app exists. It’s why child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world.