iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Come be our colleague. I have been in this Division for 27 years (4 as a postdoc and 23 as a PI). It is an amazing place to work, collaborate, and be inspired. If you are applying to be an Assistant or Associate Professor this Fall, don't miss this deadline.

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Avi Flamholz @flamholz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Lab Retreat / NYLittle 2.0 with labs of @karnagowda.bsky.social (OSU), Darcy McRose (MIT), and Jane Lucas (Cary)

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Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Cannot be more excited about the lineup for the inaugural Function of Evolving Systems GRC conference I am co-organizing with the amazing Joy Bergelson. Less than a month away: August 9 - 14, 2026. Still a few spots left! And do check out the amazing list of speakers: www.grc.org/function-of-...

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2026 Function of Evolving Systems Conference GRC

The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Function of Evolving Systems will be held in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire. Apply today to reserve your spot.

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Avi Flamholz @flamholz.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Samples from a catchment pond and adjacent river. So different!

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Avi Flamholz @flamholz.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Glad to host Dan Needleman for the Physics and Biology seminar @rockefeller.edu today

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Avi Flamholz @flamholz.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Huge thanks to all the folks who work to keep @rockefeller.edu accessible and beautiful during these crazy storms.

Snowy campus; facilities workers shoveling the snow

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Avi Flamholz @flamholz.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Super glad to host Rico Rojas from NYU @rockefeller.edu today — he gave a thought provoking talk on the mechanical properties of the gram positive cell wall.

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Avi Flamholz @flamholz.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Was great to host @deepakkrish.bsky.social at @rockefeller.edu this week. Thanks for the conversation and phenomenal talk.

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Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

All you want for christmas is.... transposon mutagenesis! Our new work at @cultivarium.bsky.social screening lots of transposon vectors in lots of bacteria, from @charliegilbert.bsky.social and team. Transposon and promoter modular parts available on Addgene (pooled library will be there soon too)

Figure 2. Himar1 transposon variant screen on a cohort of 92 bacterial species.

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Avi Flamholz @flamholz.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Heading to #AGU25 tomorrow to talk about continuum models of SOC in session B32B Weds morning. Hope to see some friends there. agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...

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Statistical approaches to soil carbon dynamics

Terrestrial ecosystems absorb ≈30% of anthropogenic CO2 emissions in a process ...

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Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies @caryinstitute.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

On Thu, Nov 20 @ 11am ET, join us for a virtual science seminar with @rockefeller.edu's @flamholz.bsky.social: Statistical Approaches to Soil Carbon Dynamics. Free + open to all. #ecology Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/statistica...

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Avi Flamholz @flamholz.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Rockefeller / MSK theory lunch #3 — Chromatin as a memory machine with Dr Jeremy Owen

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 07/11/2025

Every cubic meter of air contains anywhere from 10 to 10 million microbes, depending on the altitude, location, season and time of day. At an observatory Watop Puy de Dôme, a 4,800-foot inactive volcano in France, microbiologists sample the aeromicrobiome.

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Microbes Also Change the Climate. Could That Help Us? | Quanta Magazine

A collection of short dispatches from the field of climate microbiology conveys the contributions that single-celled life forms make to our climate system, and how we can work with them to address…

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Avi Flamholz @flamholz.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Congrats to Jan, Sean and the whole Brady lab crew.

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The Rockefeller University @rockefeller.edu · 08/09/2025

Applications are now open for September 2026 enrollment in The David Rockefeller Graduate Program in Bioscience. Join a vibrant community of scientists pushing the boundaries of discovery. Learn more here: www.rockefeller.edu/education-and-t…

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Avi Flamholz @flamholz.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Pretty strong case for open review processes.

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Chikae Tatsumi @chikaetatsumi.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

OIST is hiring Open-Rank Faculty!! This call is open to several fields, including Ecology, Environmental Science, and Earth Science🌏🌳🐦🐟🐝🦠 Come be part of a truly diverse and inspiring community!!

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Typas Lab @typaslab.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

EMBL is back on hiring faculty! Check out the multiple open positions: 3 PIs- 2 in Heidelberg incl. our Molecular Systems Biology Unit, 1 in Grenoble 1 Head of Unit (Cell Biology & Biophysics, Heidelberg). Closing deadlines in Sep! +3 more positions to come out then, stay tuned... @embl.org

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Carrie Wessinger @carriewessi.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Please repost and amplify ! We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina! Check us out and come be our colleague! sc.edu/study/colleg... Deadline for applications is Oct 1 #AcademicJobs #EvoBio

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Assistant Professor position in Evolutionary Genetics - Department of Biological Sciences | University of South Carolina

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Anny Chung (鍾彥儀) @yyachung.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

🍄 UGA Plant Pathology is hiring TT faculty in Mycology/Fungal Biology/Fungal Ecology at the Asst/Assc level! Please pass along this opportunity to anyone you know who may be interested. I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions. 🍄 www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/445...

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Assistant or Associate Professor - Fungal Biology/Mycology

The Department of Plant Pathology in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) at the University of Georgia is recruiting for the position of Assistant or Associate Professor in Fu...

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riceeeps.bsky.social @riceeeps.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

⁉️ Are you our next faculty member? The Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Rice University, seeks applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position. Learn more or apply by October 15th: eeps.rice.edu/eeps-job-opp...

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Julia McHugh @drjmchugh.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Full-time, 9-month, Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Paleoclimatology position at the University of Hawaii. www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=4...

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Assistant Professor in Paleoclimatology - Honolulu, HI - Indeed.com

University of Hawaii

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Anthony Vecchiarelli @cellforganized.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

My MCDB dept is accepting applications for a faculty position at the Assistant Professor level! Applications Due by October 15, 2025 We welcome applications from all areas of physiology and neuroscience, spanning molecular, cellular, systems, and organismal levels. lsa.umich.edu/mcdb/news-ev...

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MCDB Opens Search for Faculty | U-M LSA Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB)

MCDB welcomes applications at the Assistant Professor level from outstanding biological scientists in all areas of physiology and neuroscience, spanning molecular, cellular, systems, and organismal le...

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Jennifer Landino @jenelandino.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Dartmouth is hiring! Come be my colleague. Biochemistry and Cell Biology is accepting applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Join us in New Hampshire for great science, nice people, and beautiful scenery ⛰️ apply.interfolio.com/171438

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Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture @yalecncc.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

📢📢📢 The Yale Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences has opened a search for YCNCC Faculty and Asst/Assoc/Professor with a focus on marine and other geochemical CDR. 🌊🌊🌊 🪨🪨🪨 Details via the below link. Candidate review begins 10/1. Please share widely!! naturalcarboncapture.yale.edu/about/opport...

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Avi Flamholz @flamholz.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

something I've learned starting a lab and advertising RA positions -- so many talented, motivated, educated young scientists out there looking for work

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Avi Flamholz @flamholz.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Congrats to Albert (2nd pic) on a great poster culminating a summer of thoughtful work. Only 2 weeks left!

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Danny Colligan @dannycolligan.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

In my review of Spears and Geruso's book "After the Spike" for Jacobin, I attempt to confront what I consider the core of their argument, which is why declining global population would be undesirable, and I find their arguments unpersuasive. jacobin.com/2025/07/demo...

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Why Should We Worry About Declining Birth Rates?

Declining birth rates around the world may pose new challenges for humanity. A new book on the topic by Elon Musk–funded economists indulges in questionable philosophy and sci-fi speculation that fail...

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Avi Flamholz @flamholz.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Join us! A few more days to register.

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Avi Flamholz @flamholz.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Seems to me the problem with AI + teaching is evaluation and not learning

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Avi Flamholz @flamholz.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

@rockefelleruniv.bsky.social I heard a rumor that Gunther Blobel had some kumquat trees in RRB — does anyone know if they are still alive?

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Avi Flamholz @flamholz.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

At least ranked choice makes it clear how ignorant we are about correlations

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Avi Flamholz @flamholz.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Today in NYC — a city with ~5mil registered voters — we’re making news out of polls with 800 respondents.

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Avi Flamholz @flamholz.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

of course my "responsible conduct of research" course starts with IP protection yet again (3rd institution). quite a moral vacuum we built in american science

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