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Bernard Kim @bernardkim.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Princeton EEB is running a very broad faculty search at the Assistant Professor level. Please consider applying to join us! This is a wonderful, collaborative, cohesive department with diverse interests and amazing colleagues. apply.interfolio.com/193474

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Antonio Pagán @antoniopagan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Stanford Medicine’s Microbiology & Immunology Department (my home department) opened a job search for a tenure-track assistant professor position. Candidates interested in any and all areas of microbiology and/or immunology are encouraged to apply. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

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Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology - Stanford University, California, United States

The Department of Microbiology & Immunology at Stanford University seeks applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in the University Tenure Line. We seek ou...

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QinQin Yu @qinqinyu.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Some bacteria can rapidly change their surface proteins to undergo antigenic variation – what is the diversity of these proteins and how do they evolve? We delved into this question in Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the cause of the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhea: journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

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Diversity and evolution of a phase-variable multi-locus antigen in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Author summary The rising levels of antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae make controlling the spread of this sexually transmitted pathogen a public health priority. N. gonorrhoeae rapidly va...

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I'm recruiting a PhD student to work on an NSF-funded project developing new models of trait evolution for phylogenetic comparative methods! Info about the lab here: mhibbins.github.io Applications to our grad program are due December 1. Please share!

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Hibbins Lab

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Heran Darwin, PhD @heran.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

BlueSky doesn't seem to spread the word around as effectively as that other app so I'm reposting this incredible opportunity again (and again!). Please repost and spread the word to strong candidates. Thank you!

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Department of Microbial Pathogenesis @yalemicropath.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Come be our colleague! @yalemicropath.bsky.social offering Assistant Professor #facultyposition in #pathogenesis of viral/bacterial/parasitic infections, pathogen-host interactions, #microbes in health and disease: apply.interfolio.com/189968. Q&A webinar 8/18. medicine.yale.edu/micropath/

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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I’m thrilled to share that our search for a tenure-track colleague in my *truly wonderful and collegial* Genetics, Genomics, Evolution and Development Division in the MCB Department at Berkeley @berkeleymcb.bsky.social is live! Please share this broad search widely: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481

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Assistant Professor -Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development - Molecular and Cell Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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ThePatrick&WatsonLabs @thepwlab.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

🚨🚨 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

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 17/04/2026

I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name OAI: say no more

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Bailey Bowcutt @baileybowcutt.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

In case you didn't hear, many Harvard Graduate Student Workers are on strike. The union is fighting for better wages and benefits, support for non-citizen workers, and protections against harassment. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Thousands of Harvard graduate students strike — bringing research to a halt

Workers at the elite US university want higher pay and better protection for vulnerable students.

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CARB-X @carb-x.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

📢 The CARB-X Portal is now open! Submit an Expression of Interest to apply for CARB-X funding for new #therapeutics, #preventatives, and #diagnostics to address drug-resistant bacteria. The deadline to apply is 22 April at 23:59 ET. 🧪 #ChemSky #IDSky 🔗 Apply now: bit.ly/3P56UDB

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Yonatan Grad @yhgrad.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

www.statnews.com/2026/03/30/b... @mlipsitch.bsky.social and I shared a few words about a giant of public health and immunology--and a beloved friend and mentor, who bridged basic science and its translation on a global scale.

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Remembering public health pioneer Barry Bloom: a scientist, a mentor, a mensch

Marc Lipsitch and Yonatan Grad pay tribute to their former colleague and mentor Barry R. Bloom.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

A must read for anyone who cares (and these days, worries constantly) about American science and medicine. Credit to Prof. Will Mair for sharing his story. There are many more stories like it.

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Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

🔊 Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bacterial Evolution. Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠 3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share! hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

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Jonathan Wosen @jonathanwosen.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

If you're a first-year biomedical Ph.D. student, I'd like to hear how your first few months of grad school have been going. I'm a science journalist at @statnews.com and got my Ph.D. in immunology before going into journalism. You can reach me at jonathan.wosen@statnews.com. #journorequest

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Leslie B Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

@hhmi.org Summer Undergraduate Research Experience - #CechFellows named in honor of Prof Tom Cech Deadline to apply: 12/22/2025 Spend 9 weeks in a paid, mentored biomedical research experience in an HHMI lab. See you next summer!!! www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...

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Summer Undergraduate Research Experience | HHMI

The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.

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Yonatan Grad @yhgrad.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

New preprint: with increasing resistance to ceftriaxone, the last recommended antibiotic for gonorrhea, we urgently need new drugs. Two--zoliflodacin & gepotdiacin--are up for approval by the FDA in Dec. Here we show a point mutation can result in cross-resistance. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Zoliflodacin and gepotidacin cross-resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Resistance to zoliflodacin, a first-in-class antibiotic for gonorrhea treatment, can occur through gyrBD429N, but this mutation's impact on fitness and resistance to other topoisomerase targeting drug...

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APHL @aphl.org · 18/11/2025

23 babies in 13 states have been diagnosed with infant #botulism linked to ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula, prompting a nationwide recall. Public health laboratories and federal partners have played crucial roles in the investigation, which is still ongoing. buff.ly/xU3Czsf

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Bailey Bowcutt @baileybowcutt.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Excited to be moderating this fireside chat next week! We’ll dig into what’s happening with our research and the broader science environment. It won’t be all doom and gloom, as we’ll also share what’s keeping us optimistic. Join us!

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Dan Starr @danstarrucdavis.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️

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Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. C @harvard-iid.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

We are so excited to share that Bailey Bowcutt (@baileybowcutt.bsky.social), PhD student in the Grad Lab, moderated the Harvard Chan Studio event, “Dr. Anthony Fauci: Insights from 50 years of public service.” 🎦 Watch the full interview: youtu.be/qHxR75vO83M?...

Dr. Anthony Fauci in a black suit and tie.

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

UMass Boston seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in microbial ecology, starting September 1, 2026. Apply by December 1, 2025. Details: www.umb.edu/academics/csm/biology #job

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Biology - UMass Boston

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Shabaana Khader @khadershabaana.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

UChicago Microbiology is searching for tenured or tenure-track faculty working in host-pathogens interactions, viral and bacterial pathogenesis, and emerging infectious diseases. Come join our vibrant Department! microbiology.uchicago.edu Apply here apply.interfolio.com/174404

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Yonatan Grad @yhgrad.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

New STI surveillance data from the CDC shows declines in gonorrhea, chlamydia, and primary and secondary syphilis (though tragically congenital syphilis continues to increase). What explains these declines? (1/2)

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Why are gonorrhea diagnoses declining in the US?

After a decade of rising cases, the US CDC reported a decline in the rate of gonorrhea diagnoses for two years in a row in 2022 and 2023, especially among young adults. Primary and secondary syphilis ...

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Ellinor Alseth @ellinoralseth.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Feels surreal to say but: I'm hiring! If you are or know anyone interested in looking at the evolution of phage resistance using A. baumannii and natural transformation, then this might be for you www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Research position in Microbial Pharmacology and Population Biology (282139) | UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Job title: Research position in Microbial Pharmacology and Population Biology (282139), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Wednesday, August 27, 2025

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MSU MGI @msumgi.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

MGI associate professor Jonathan Hardy and recent MSU human biology graduate Djeneba Diallo went out to Eisenhower Elementary in Flint, MI to introduce sixth-graders to the world of microbiology! Read more here: tinyurl.com/mr3ab7zu

A student raises her hand and Djeneba Diallo calls on her during the outreach program. They are in an elementary classroom.

A student looks on as Dr. Hardy helps him load a slide into the microscope.

A student looks through a microscope and Djeneba Diallo looks through another microscope.

A close-up picture of a slide in a microscope.

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Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Very exciting. College juniors and recent grads: note the approaching deadline for the 1st round, July 31.

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Verena @viralemergence.org · 02/06/2025

An update from the team on the uncertain future of our program and the impact of NSF budget cuts. Please share and reach out 🦠

Some difficult news from the team:

In NSF's FY25-26 Budget Request to Congress, we learned that our program will take a whopping 50% cut - meaning that in September, we'll be $1.25m short of an operating budget that currently supports a cohort of seven PhD students, four postdocs, and three full-time staff.

Verena is one of the largest and last pandemic prevention-focused programs in the United States: since 2020, we've supported the training of over 60 postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates. Our researchers have established unique laboratory resources for studying animal immune systems, and discovered new antiviral immune adaptations in bats; developed risk assessment algorithms for wildlife and livestock viruses, and diagnostic algorithms for viruses like dengue, Ebola, and Zika; and quantified the effects of climate change, deforestation, and factory farming on spillover risk. Everything we develop is 100% open source, and our data has supported the research of nearly 150 external researchers in 21 countries to date.

We have three months to make up our budget shortfall. Every dollar spent on Verena supports not just our team, but the community of researchers who use our data, code, and resources. You can help us by sharing this post, and reaching out if you're able to support a unique and vulnerable program. Or just head over to viralemergence.org, and take a look at what we do. 🦟 🦇 🦠

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Bailey Bowcutt @baileybowcutt.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I got the opportunity to speak with Science about my individual research fellowship being terminated. I was awarded the NSF GRFP before I chose Harvard for graduate school, but I still got cut. I study how we can improve treatments for a common antibiotic resistant bacteria, so this is sad to see

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Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. C @harvard-iid.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

"Working Together to End TB." Our department's research saves lives, and we're proud to see IID's tuberculosis researchers highlighted alongside other incredible Harvard Chan School scientists! Check out the video to learn more about their impactful work (in 7 words)!

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I’m hoping that there will be some rapid action to get legal support to the PhD students who have had their NSF GRFP (fellowships) terminated in the Trump regime’s latest attacks on academia.

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Kirstin Oliveira Roster @kroster.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

New preprint. After years of increases, gonorrhea diagnosis rates dropped in the US in 2022 and 2023. While the news is promising, understanding WHY is key to sustaining progress. dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/427...

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Why are gonorrhea diagnoses declining in the US?

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 22/05/2025

These are grant TO THE STUDENTS, not to the institution, so this is just straight-up punishing students for choosing the institution

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Cathy Gao-Howard MD MS @catgaohow.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health @hsph.harvard.edu · 20/05/2025

Harvard Chan scientists participate in a rigorous application process for federal grants to conduct their vital health research. The government has now terminated nearly every single one of those grants.

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

There is still time to apply for #PhD studentships with us! Thanks for spreading the word. #phdchat #phdlife #academiclife

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Daniel Tamarit @danieltamarit.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

New vacancy in my team! PhD student position on microbial genome evolution, focusing on the evolutionary principles underlying bacterial genome architecture. Please repost and share with talented MSc students in #evobio, bioinformatics or related :) www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #MEvoSky #MicroSky

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Molly Franke @mollyfranke.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

All 4 of my NIH research grants are terminated. These were grants on MDR-TB treatment & strategies for supporting adolescents living w/ HIV. This is a massive waste of resources. I am heartbroken for my Harvard team, my partners in Peru, the next generation of scientists & our country. Shame.

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

All NIH and NSF grants for my entire team--and for all of Harvard, I guess?--have been terminated. As provocative as that sounds, the practical effect is probably not much. Everything was already frozen. 🤷‍♂️ On the upside, it makes tracking terminated grants easier. No more guesswork at Harvard!

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Polly Fordyce @pollyfordyce.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Are you a postdoc/grad student preparing to launch a faculty search? Do you have a track record of excellence in research, leadership, mentorship & community engagement? Apply to the 2025 Next Generation Faculty Symposium: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com! Pls repost! (1/3)

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Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium

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Johnson Lab - University of Iowa @campylobacterlab.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Hey y'all! My department is conducting a search for an assistant or associate professor in bacteriology. It's pretty broadly defined. If you know anyone who's looking for a great department that does awesome science - please send them our way! You can DM me with any questions you have 😀

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 14/05/2025

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

A screenshot of the termination notice showing "Outstanding Investigator Grants"

A screenshot of the termination notice with "This award is terminated effective the date of this award, due to unsafe antisemitic actions that suggest the institution lacks concern for the safety and wellbeing of Jewish students." highlighted

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

This is so heartbreaking and makes nothing better and no one safer. It is the punitive act of an administration that values fealty over human health.

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