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Maitreya Dunham @maitreya.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

Great news for yeast tetrad dissectors: Singer has stepped up in the wake of the closure of Cora Styles Needles N Blocks to make dissection needles. My lab manager beta tested them & deemed them, and I quote, "flawless." So glad to have a new source! www.singerinstruments.com/product/sing...

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Lil (Lillian Fritz-Laylin) @fritzlaylin.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

🧪 My department is hiring! Tenure track faculty position in genetics. Researchers using any eukaryotic model, including fungi and plants are encouraged to apply! We are a broad biology department with strengths across all kingdoms. Join us! Apply by March 1 tinyurl.com/y4evds8p

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Nicola Barber @nicolabarber.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

We’re searching for Biology Dept Head here at Oregon! Please share careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/53...

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Lil (Lillian Fritz-Laylin) @fritzlaylin.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

🚨🧪New lab preprint: "We therefore propose a model for cytoskeletal evolution in which pools of microtubule network components constrain and guide the diversification of the entire network, so that the evolution of tubulin is inextricably linked to that of its binding partners." tinyurl.com/27ck46nb

Figure one in our new preprint showing the diversity of microtubule binding proteins in different eukaryotic lineages. There are a lot of these proteins all across the eukaryotic tree!

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

I am *thrilled* to finally announce that our department is hiring an Evolutionary Biologist. We are esp looking genetic/genomic expertise, and those who can help us build a more equitable biology community at UCSB. Please apply by Jan 15! recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02635 #unicornjob

recruit.ap.ucsb.edu

Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Biology

University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

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Sophie G Martin @sophiemartinlab.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

Are you an ASCB member? Submit you work to MBoC. From today, all members’ papers thoroughly reviewed. No desk rejection!

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Lil (Lillian Fritz-Laylin) @fritzlaylin.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

The JCS “Diversity and Evolution in Cell Biology" conference is accepting applications! Spain, 2024. Please spread the word! 🧪https://www.biologists.com/meetings/jcsevocellbio24/

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Maitreyi Das @daslabpombe.com · 18/11/2023

🚨🚨🚨Very excited to present our latest preprint on the role of endocytosis in regulating Cdc42 oscillatory dynamics at cell ends to promote bipolarity. Fantastic work by Marcus Harrell and Bethany Campbell in collaboration with Tian Hong and Ziyi Liu from U. Tennessee. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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The Arp2/3 complex promotes periodic removal of Pak1-mediated negative feedback to facilitate antico...

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Michael Manhart @michaelmanhart.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

For microbiologists seeking faculty jobs: Rutgers has 4+ faculty searches in microbiology right now! Please share widely and see below for details and links on the individual positions 1/5

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Lil (Lillian Fritz-Laylin) @fritzlaylin.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

🐸🍄🚨New lab preprint! Genetic transformation of the frog-killing chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧪

Image of Bd sporangium with actin highlighted in green. Actin forms patches at the cell periphery as well as cages surrounding each nucleus.

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Youtube now has all talks and lectures from the 4th Annual Workshop in Advanced Microscopy and Biophotonics at Institut Pasteur Montevideo (2021): youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Lil (Lillian Fritz-Laylin) @fritzlaylin.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Dug up the best meme I have ever made for a talk next week:

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Benjamin Wolfe @benwolfe.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

Step one in making cheese curd agar.

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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

OTD in 1674, Antonie von Leeuwenhoek sent the first of many letters to Henry Oldenburg of the Royal Society of London describing the “animalcules” he had observed in rainwater using a microscope. www.dbnl.org/tekst/leeu02... #histsci 🧪

Sketch of animalcules as observed by Leeuwenhoek.

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Mark Westneat 🐟 @mwestneat.bsky.social · 02/09/2023

Phylogenetics faculty job! Colorado State 👍. Love to see it specified, bc resolving the tree of life is a scientific grand challenge for humanity. 🧪 #AcademicSky #SciJobs jobs.colostate.edu/postings/131...

jobs.colostate.edu

Assistant Professor in Phylogenetics

The successful candidate will develop a research program, specifically developing a research program in the area of phylogenetics, that interfaces with an integrative and collaborative department of e...

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 02/09/2023

Just when I thought Canada couldn't get any more Canada: there's a hockey stick in this beaver dam.

Beaver dam between two ponds of water in the evening. A hockey stick with a broken paddle sits among the branches of the dam. A beaver swims through the still water next to the dam.

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

Hey new Plant Scientists, follow this feed to keep track of all #PlantScience related stuff posted here on Bluesky (see the screenshot for hashtags that are indexed). bsky.app/profile/did:... You can add it to your feeds and pin/like, which will make sure that the content shows up in your time line.

Header of the "Plant Science Research" Feed. There is a big button at the top named "Add to my Feeds", which is circled to show new users that this is how to follow.

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Jason Munshi-South @urbanevol.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

We are hiring an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Biology at Fordham University! Search is broad but interested in phylogenomics, evol genomics, and people that can teach computational bio and/or biostats. Please spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/128986

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Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

Early work found no REM in sleeping echidna, suggesting REM sleep arose in other mammals after diverging from monotremes. Later work discovered REM in the only other living monotreme genus. What do platypuses look like when dreaming, you ask? royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #evolution

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

Major federal funding program for childcare is about to sunset. Rs have suggested they won't extend it & Biden left it out of his supplemental budget request Nationwide, 70k providers expected to close altogether; 3.2m kids forecast to lose childcare slots www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Lil (Lillian Fritz-Laylin) @fritzlaylin.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

Happy last day of no-more-camps-but-elementary-school-hasn't-yet-started-time to all who celebrate! 🥳🍎📝

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Kristen DeAngelis 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @kristenobacter.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

Local folks, check out the Plant Biology symposium happening at UMass on 21 October. Theme this year is Biology of Chloroplasts and Mitochondria 🧪

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

“To cross the southern coast of England, west to east, is thus to travel forwards - and at breathtaking chronological speed - in a self-propelled time-machine. With every few hundred yards of eastward progress one passes through hundreds of thousands of years of geological time: …👇🏼 🧪 geology ⚒️

William Smith’s 1815 Geological Map of England, Wales and part of Scotland. The colorful map shows the extent of the rocks by type using a different color for each, and the successive ages including a legend that correlates the rocks from young on top to older on the bottom. There is also a cross section that shows how the strata dips to the east across the area.

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Sarah Whorley, Ph.D. 🦬⚔️ @dralgaegirl.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

🧪Alrighty Folks! It's that time of year where I ask if any Scientists would like to volunteer/donate their time to come to Buffalo to give a seminar! Literally any science is welcome! -About 45 min -Must talk about how you got into science -In person or zoom!

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 26/08/2023

Those who are able to succeed via traditional routes end up with an emotional incentive to view them as meritocratic and dismiss any other modes as attempts to 'cheat' the natural order.

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Maitreyi Das @daslabpombe.com · 26/08/2023

🚨📢 SAVE THE DATE! pombe2025, The 12th International Fission yeasts meeting will be held on August 3rd-8th, 2025 @BostonCollege Stay tuned for more info in the coming months. Please spread the word.

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Anna Allen @akallen10.bsky.social · 26/08/2023

Major goal here is to spread all the NSF news and advice I can! First piece of advice .... talk to your Program Director! We are normal people. Most of us are former full-time faculty members who have been in your shoes. We've taught, mentored, done research, written grants, written papers, etc.

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Lil (Lillian Fritz-Laylin) @fritzlaylin.bsky.social · 26/08/2023

Shameless plug 📢: If working or studying at 🌊 Woods Hole MBL has shaped your career, consider donating! The higher the % of alumni who donate, the more $$ high-rolling donors give. Even $10 helps. It's easy and fast:

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Alumni Fund | Marine Biological Laboratory

Thousands of scientists around the globe at leading research institutions attribute their inspiration to the MBL’s life-changing, career-launching courses.

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Elizabeth Preston @inkfish.bsky.social · 09/08/2023

Do crocodiles move toward the sound of a crying baby because they want to eat it, or help it? Re-upping this story for the afternoon crew, who I trust will actually read it (and learn how crocodiles and alligators are amazing parents) before mocking me! 🧪

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Hush Little Baby, Don’t Say a Word — I Think a Crocodile Heard

The semiaquatic reptiles seemed to be roused to action in a study when they heard recordings of crying human and ape infants.

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Mostafa Zamanian @zamanian.bsky.social · 06/08/2023

UW-Madison is advertising a tenure-track faculty position in Host-Pathogen interactions, broadly defined. Come join our department in beautiful Madison! Please share. (1/5) #ttjobs jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assistant-or-ass…

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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 06/08/2023

Snakes are commonly parasitised by ticks, but this particular species - Amblyomma nitidum - is a specialist of sea snakes and has followed its hosts into the sea, making it one of the few species of marine ticks www.sciencedirect.com/science/artic… 🧪 #Invertebrate

A male sea snake tick (Amblyomma nitidum)

The sea snake tick (Amblyomma nitidum) with its head buried under a scale on a wild yellow-lipped sea krait (Laticauda colubrina) on Sansiantai Island, Taiwan. Photo credit: Kuo-Cheng Yeh

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