✈️ Calling all grad students & postdocs in microbial ecology!
Want to work, train, or collaborate abroad? ISME’s Scholar Mobility Fund can help you get there.
📅 Apply by 26 April
🌍 Open to applicants worldwide (esp. outside NA & Europe)
Details: isme-microbes.org/call-for-app...
#MicrobialEcology

PhD positions in hadal biogeochemistry & microbial ecology Application deadline: 4 May 2026 at 23:59 hours local Danish time

📣We have 5 PhD positions in hadal biogeochemistry and microbial ecology at the Danish Center for Hadal Research: lnkd.in/eJ6rp_Rk. 📣

Deadline: 4 May 2026

Please share widely!

fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Hvis man kun leder der, hvor der er lys, finder man ikke altid det, man har brug for. I år fejrer vi 150-års jubilæum i Carlsbergfondet. I 150 år har vi altså støttet den frie grundforskning. Men hvad er grundforskning? Se den fulde film👉 bit.ly/grundforskning #CF150aar #dkforsk

Reminder, three more days to apply for our *two* fully funded PhD positions on tropical African biogeochemistry! @eth-eaps.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social @draketw.bsky.social @johansix.bsky.social

💫 I am recruiting a postdoctoral candidate for a 3-year position starting in summer 2026 to work on the role of extracellular RNA (eRNA) in interspecies interactions.

Maybe relevant for curling 🥌

Two fully funded PhD candidate positions in Electromicrobiology (3 years) Application deadline: 4 March 2026 at 23:59 hours local Danish time

In addition to the 2 postdoc jobs posted yesterday, we’re recruiting 2 PhD students (environmental microbiology/ molecular ecology) to join us from April. The projects will map microbial populations across niches in bioelectrochemical systems relevant to biomethanation & link them to performance.

Call for Letters of Intent - HFSP Research Grants 2027

Attention scientists from all over the world🙃
The Call for Letters of Intent for #HFSPResearchGrants 2027 is now open! 🧪
Get your international & interdisciplinary team. It's time to put your bold research idea into practice!
🔗https://bit.ly/48VsGCG
📅 15 Dec 2025–26 Mar 2026
#sts #LifeSciences

"The Hidden Power of Microorganisms: No microbes, no life…”

“Self-portrait of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae.”

“Circles of Life: Microbes in Motion.”

The 2025 Agar Art Contest winners have been selected! This year’s theme, “Microbes Make the World Go Round,” inspired 557 global entries—from food fermentation to antibiotic production. See the masterpieces and finalists! asm.org/press-releas... #agarart

a man walking in a field with an umbrella ALT: a man walking in a field with an umbrella

Come join us! Soon I will be advertising a postdoc vacancy in my group as part of my @erc.europa.eu AdG project 'DARK ROOTS'. Focus of the project will be on phylo- and metagenomic mining of novel prokaryotic lineages. I will soon post a link here - stay tuned, and please repost! #asgardarchaea

Please apply if you are interested in marine biogeochemistry and microbial dark oxygen production. Deadline: November 17th.

Postdoc on microbial oxygen production in marine oxygen minimum zones Application deadline: 17 November 2025 at 23:59 hours local Danish time

📣Postdoc opportunity @nordcee.bsky.social , University of Southern Denmark! 📣

Join us and work with Bo Thamdrup and me on microbial dark oxygen production in marine oxygen minimum zones!

Please share widely!

Deadline: 17 November

More information can be found here:
tinyurl.com/2vuur3wh

Please apply if you are interested in environmental microbiology topics such as microbial dark oxygen production and methane cycling under oxygen depletion.

Two Postdoc Opportunities in Environmental Microbiology!

Join us and work on microbial key players exposed to oxygen depletion.

Please share widely!
Deadline: 25 July

More information can be found here:
tinyurl.com/4kwzzt6p

Come join us in beautiful Lausanne! Deadline for applications: August 10th, 2025
wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

Excited to announce the Molecular Biology of Archaea (MBoA) 2026!

Join us in Cambridge, UK, from 6–10 July 2026 for the only international meeting dedicated to Archaea.

Trump moves to close government lab that tracks planet-warming pollution The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.

New: A NOAA lab in Hawaii that is connected to the longest-running observation of global greenhouse gas concentrations is slated for closure in August, according to a list of lease terminations Democratic members of Congress shared with @washingtonpost.com.

I'm looking for a new grad student interested in microbiology of ancient groundwaters, a fascinating journey into an enigmatic environment with opportunities for fundamental discovery and relevance to groundwater remediation. Contact me if you like fieldwork, mesocosm experiments and metagenomics.

Job alert📣! We are looking for a postdoc in microbial physiology:
3 year project on microbial oxygen production in the dark Deadline: Jan 31
This is a collaboration with @emilruff.bsky.social
& Jordon Hemingway (ETH)

Please spread the word!

For more info & to apply:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...