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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

@nicolabarber.bsky.social commented I am “linesmaxxing” the grant I’m writing right now and I just died 🤣

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Maitreya Dunham @maitreya.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Exciting news: @uwgenome.bsky.social will be hiring for two tenure-track faculty positions this year, one open rank and one assistant professor. Both are “Genome Sciences” interpreted broadly so we welcome applicants working in a variety of fields and methods. Ad will be out shortly.

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Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Parenting “win” of the day: narrowly avoided putting habanero pepper jelly in my daughter’s PB&J 😅 🥵

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Silas Tittes @silastittes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m excited for Jordan Rodriguez’s paper and software, This Must Be the Place and EcoLocator! She uses global prediction of location and climate of origin to identify loci with signatures of local adaptation. Also applies to Doug Fir data. Feedback welcome! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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This must be the place: deep learning local adaptation

Climate change is increasingly disrupting the relationship between locally adapted populations and the environments in which they evolved, creating an urgent need for tools that connect genomic variat...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/09/2026

stone cold classic

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Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Also, here's me on the day I opened my lab. Yikes 😳

Picture of younger naive Matt in 2016 in his lab.

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Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I am excited for the next 10 years. I still love being a scientist and this career gives me joy every single day. Here's hoping we can keep science moving forward in the decades to come.

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Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Despite the challenges, this is also a really important time to be a scientist. What we do now will shape the future of science and everything that science does for society. Our actions in stationary phase matter.

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Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The last 10 years have also been... a lot. Politics, parenting, a pandemic, existential threats to science in America... Plus that time a tree fell on our house 😬

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Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My colleagues, past mentors, and family have also been so supportive. I would not have made it in this career without them.

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Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The best part has been all the wonderful, brilliant people I've had the chance to work with over the years. My past and present lab members are amazing humans and scientists that inspire me.

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Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My lab is 10 years old today! I have so many thoughts and feels...

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/

A book cover featuring a beautiful closely cropped portrait of an Anna's hummingbird. The cover says LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale, by Ed Yong. The image also says US: 4/06/27 and UK: 4/29/27

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Gc Rox @gcrox.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Postdoctoral position studying Neisseria gonorrhoeae genetics, genomics, physiology, or pathogenesis. Please email h-seifert@northwestern.edu or apply at careers.northwestern.edu/psp/hrnu_er/... Please Repost

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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-...

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

'Large outbreak of aggressive strain of MRSA superbug in Ireland was linked to bouncy castles' www.thejournal.ie/mrsa-bouncy-... Paper: www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...

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Large outbreak of aggressive strain of MRSA superbug in Ireland was linked to bouncy castles

Most previous large outbreaks have been found in sporting activities, prisons and childcare facilities.

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Molly Przeworski @mollyprz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Job opportunity at Columbia U., in "any combination of field, experimental, computational, or theoretical approaches to study fundamental questions in evolutionary biology".

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Shonna McBride @shonmcbride.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hey y’all, did you know that study sections have been asked to vote each round to adopt the “modified review” practice of only discussing the top 1/3? What if we don’t vote yes?.. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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NIH Guide: Weekly Index for September 11, 2026 | Grants & Funding

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

When old SVU episodes don’t hold up in modern times.

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The current NIH Director’s animus against NIAID to sign away much needed research funds so we can continue bombing another country is… a staggering betrayal of Congressional intentions and authority. Not surprising but still staggering.

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Freya Harrison @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It's taken 12 years and a lot of work from many fantastic people, but we have published an analysis of how our reconstruction of Bald's eyesalve kills bacteria. This was driven by @tosinorababa.bsky.social & Jess Furner-Pardoe through their PhD work #MicroSky journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... [1/n]

Jess in the lab, holding an onion and a garlic bulb and talking; Tosin in the lab holding a petri dish and inspecting it; two glass bottles labelled "eyesalve 33/6/14"

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Joe Zackular @joeyzacks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Excited to share new work from my lab showing that early-life colonization with C. difficile remodels the developing infant gut, published today in @science.org! This study was co-led by two truly amazing scientists: @haidermanzer.bsky.social and Alexa Semon. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Early-life colonization with Clostridioides difficile remodels the developing gut

Clostridioides difficile causes severe disease in adults but commonly colonizes infants asymptomatically. The consequences of early-life colonization on host development remain unknown. In a neonatal ...

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

You can now update bioRxiv/medRxiv preprints with funding information after the fact. Authors often omit/don't have all funding info when submitting, but funders understandably want it there. This solves the problem without requiring you to submit a whole new paper. openrxiv.org/updating-fun...

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Updating funder information on preprints - openRxiv

For the past year, bioRxiv and medRxiv authors have been able to include funder information with their preprints. This can be entered in a dedicated field during the submission process, using Research...

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 31/08/2026

Sad news. Yonath was/is a legend indeed. Now there are only 4 living female @nobelprize.org laureates in chemistry. There are 20 living Nobel Prize winners just at Stanford right now.

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Thrilled to announce that my department - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - at the U of Arizona will likely be hiring for a tenure-track position in "Population and Community Ecology" this fall. Watch this space for more details and official announcements coming soon ... #Ecology #EcologyJobs 🌐🌾🧪

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Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

That sucks. We have had hooding in the past but UO did recently change graduation ceremonies, not sure if that impacts PhD hooding as I didn’t graduate a student this year. It has been very worthwhile to the students who participated.

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Hiten Madhani @hitenmadhani.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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

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Welcome - AP Recruit

University of California, San Francisco Online Faculty Recruitment

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Katy Patras @katypatras.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

So excited to share our recent paper!Urogenital immune signatures are associated with birth outcomes after maternal urinary tract infection | Science Translational Medicine share.google/pW97VQQofxId...

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Urogenital immune signatures are associated with birth outcomes after maternal urinary tract infection

Immune responses to urinary tract infections distinguished preterm birth in mice and were linked to birth outcomes in a human pregnancy cohort.

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 27/08/2026

How do #antimicrobial peptides embedded within larger #proteins arise? This study by @titas10.bsky.social @biobarber.bsky.social @caitlinkowa.bsky.social &co resurrects ancient antimicrobial proteins, revealing their origins and diversification. 🧪 #AcademicSky #evolution plos.io/3SonQtD

Reconstructing the emergence of antimicrobial function in mammalian lactoferrin.
(A) Structure of the N-terminal lactoferricin region of lactoferrin (PDB: 1lfg), enriched with positively charged amino acids. (B) Phylogenetic tree of reconstructed ancestral lactoferrin homologs (AncTF and AncLF) with extant human transferrin (hTF, PDB: 3qyt), human lactoferrin (hLF, PDB: 1lfg), and bovine lactoferrin (bLF, PDB: 1blf) illustrated with surface electrostatic potentials. Structures of ancestral proteins were predicted using AlphaFold2. AncTF represents the last common ancestor of mammalian transferrin and lactoferrin, after which the first lactoferrin ancestor (AncLF1) arose by gene duplication. AncLF2 is the common ancestor of hLF and bLF, while AncLF3 represents a bLF ancestor.

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Anthony Vecchiarelli @cellforganized.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My MCDB Dept is hiring, again! Assistant Professor Faculty Search. Please Repost! Applications Due Oct 1st We welcome applications from all areas of cellular/molecular biology in prokaryotes, plants, and animals. More information can be found HERE: jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/679540/a...

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Assistant Professor - Ann Arbor, Michigan job with University of Michigan - Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology | 679540

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FACULTY POSITION IN CELL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND RELATED FIELDS The Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental B...

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Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Also grateful to @caitlinkowa.bsky.social Sierra Scamfer and Natalie Copeland for helping bring this together.

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Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It has such a delight working with @titas10.bsky.social on this project, I’m continually impressed with her combination of creativity and grit.

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Bill Goldman @wgoldman1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The August Recess is a great time to urge Congress to oppose the OMB's proposed rule on federal financial assistance. See details at the link below, which includes a letter template that you can customize and will automatically send to your Senators and Representatives. asm.org/articles/pol...

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 12/08/2026

If you live in the UK and you want something from my shop without the overseas shipping, get in touch

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I am excited to announce a job for an Asst Prof in Plant Evolution in the dept. of Evolution and Ecology at @ucdavis.bsky.social. We're looking broadly, from macro (speciation, comparative genomics, evo-devo) to micro (pop biology, adaptive evolution, evo-eco). recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07777

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Bella Rauch @rauchlab.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Nothing better when I'm in an “everything is awful, science is under attack” slump than having a call with a collaborator, getting super excited about combining our expertise to do cool science! I will keep fighting for future scientists to still get to experience this feeling 💪 #standupforscience

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Dr. Michael D. L. Johnson @copperbae.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

nsurp.org NSURP will ride again in 2027 thanks to an NIAID R25! Stay tuned!

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National Summer Undergraduate Research Project

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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

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Andreas Bäumler @abaumler.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Nominations for the 2027 New Voices in Infection and Immunity cohort are now open: asm.org/NewVoices-IA...

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Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Enjoyed when my sabbatical title was “visiting scholar” - felt way more whimsical than “associate professor”

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Kaçar Lab at UW-Madison @kacarlab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 Join the faculty at UW–Madison Bacteriology! We have two faculty searches: • Asst Prof (Microbial Communities & Bioeconomy) • Asst / Assoc / Full Prof (Systems & Synthetic Biology) Check out the open positions and apply👇 #FacultyJobs #SynBio #Microbiology #Astrobiology #Evolution

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