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Julie Maresca

@micromaresca.bsky.social
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Microbiologist, micro-adventurer, micro-doodler. Too many projects, not enough time: phototrophy, built environment, some wastewater. 🚲🥾🧶🧪

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Jonathan Jacobs @bioinformer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ATCC Genome Portal Q3 2026 Release out Monday! genomes.atcc.org previews... New genome assemblies: 207 bacterial, 24 fungal, 15 viral. Plus new RNAseq datasets for 51 human cell lines and organoids (255 total samples, typically N=5 per line) #genomics #bioinformatics #aixbio #referencedata #NGS
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 19h
Did you know they extended the age recommendation?
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 21h
UConn EEB is hiring a tropical horticulturalist for our greenhouses! It's an awesome collection of both research+teaching/public display, and you get to work with pretty amazing folks (I may be biased). Job listing: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49... Closes 10/14! 🌴🌿🌵🌺
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UConn Careers | UConn Careers | University of Connecticut
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Cezar Khursigara @cmkhursigara.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Molecular & Cellular Biology at the University of Guelph is recruiting an Assistant Professor in Molecular & Cellular Biotechnology through the Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders program. Please share widely! careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...
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Assistant Professor (Canada Impact+ Emerging Leader)
Assistant Professor (Canada Impact+ Emerging Leader)
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Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe @aaberhe.com · 29/09/2026
Applications are now open for the UC President's Postdoc Fellowship Reach out if you want to submit an applicaiton focused on environmental/soil sciences, biogeochemistry, climate change, & related areas As a former fellow, this is a program I highly recommend 4 ECRs interested in academic careers
screenshot of the call for applications for the UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship program
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Zymo Research @zymoresearch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Last call! Tomorrow's webinar tackles one of the hardest problems in microbial sequencing: Distinguishing real biological signal from contamination and background noise. Join Natalie Wu-Woods and Anika Gupta from Caltech on Wed, 9/30 at 11 AM PDT. Register Now: ow.ly/Z7yK50ZQiC4
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Joint Genome Institute @jgi.doe.gov · 29/09/2026
From our FY26 Functional Genomics call: Microbes can boost energy efficiency through electron transfer bifurcation. Anne-Frances Miller will ID bifurcation-capable electron transfer flavoproteins by testing selected ETFs using gene synthesis @ukresearch.bsky.social More: jointgeno.me/FGFY26
Community Science Program (FY26)

Congratulations

to our CSP Functional Genomics Call recipients!

JGI

Anne-Frances Miller

University of Kentucky

Electron transfer flavoproteins from diverse environments and metabolic niches, filling data gaps to enable a phylogenetic tree
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The FEBS Journal @febsj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
📣 Call for Papers! We are excited to invite submissions for our Biochemistry & beyond collections: 🌱 Plants & Biotechnology, 🐟 Organismal Biology & Microbiology, 🫀 Cardiobiology, 🧫 Stem Cells & Development, 🧬 RNA Biology & Epigenetics. Discover more here ➡️ buff.ly/BW52kvd
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EEES Clemson University @eees-clemsonu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Buncombe County (North Carolina) Environmental and Engineering Services is hiring! The Environmental Plan Reviewer position buncombecounty.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Buncom... is accepting applications through October 1.
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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Emory Biology department is hiring a tenure-track ecologist at any rank. Deadline is Nov 1, link below! As I've said many times before, I couldn't ask for a more supportive department. Our faculty colleagues, dept chair, and admin staff are truly awesome ❤️ apply.interfolio.com/191783
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu
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Kimberly Beatty @beattylab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please share: OHSU is hiring an Assistant Prof. in the Dept. of Chemical Physiology & Biochemistry. We are looking for a chemical biologist who will apply novel chemical tools in physiological systems. Apply online: www.ohsu.edu/human-resour... (Job # 2026-41667).
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OHSU Faculty, Physician and Academic Jobs in Oregon
Find higher education faculty, physician and research jobs and build your academic health career at OHSU in Portland, Oregon.
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Made the poor decision to watch "The Love Hypothesis" this weekend and if you have any experience in academic science environments I strongly urge you not to. If the author, as claimed, indeed has a PhD in neuroscience from an accredited university I can only conclude that they wrote it as rage bait
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CNY ASM @cnyasm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨 Calling all CNY microbiologists! 🚨 Registration & abstract submissions for the Inaugural CNY ASM Branch Meeting close in 1 week (Oct. 5)! Present your research, compete for poster awards, and connect with colleagues across CNY. 🔗 tinyurl.com/CNYASM #CNYASM #Microbiology
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CNY ASM Inaugural Meeting - Culturing Connections
Kick off new connections and good vibes at the CNY ASM inaugural fall meeting—let’s cultivate something awesome together!
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George O'Toole (he/him/his) @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The newest issue of JB is out! A swarm is featured on the cover. Check out the newest minireviews, research articles and this month a special historical piece. journals.asm.org/toc/jb/208/9 @asm.org #JBacteriol @microsky.bsky.social
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JB Table of Contents Volume 208, Issue 9
Journal of Bacteriology: Table of Contents Volume 208, Issue 9
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George O'Toole (he/him/his) @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pls share: Two tenure-track positions in Molecular Microbiology at Virginia Tech. I had a great visit there a couple of years ago! jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant/Associate Professor - Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Job Description The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech seeks applicants for two (2) tenure-track research and teaching positions at the Assistant/Associate ...
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UCSF @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
UCSF’s Kevan Shokat, PhD, just won the $1M Stephenson Global Prize for research in pancreatic cancer. He cracked KRAS, a cancer driver long considered “undruggable.” Drugs built on his work now treat lung and pancreatic cancer. ow.ly/UYuY50ZRSXg
Middle-aged man in a blue lab coat smiling while seated in a scientific laboratory setting.Hand wearing black glove holding five small glass vials with various colored liquids, including pink and orange hues.
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Jan-Ulrik Dahl (Dahl lab, ISU) @janulrikdahl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Join us and become my colleague! The School of Biological Sciences is opening the search for an Assistant Professor in the field of Host-Microbe Interactions with the targeted start date of Fall 2027. Please reach out to me with any questions you have: jobsearch.illinoisstate.edu/jobs/assista...
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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN HOST-MICROBE INTERACTIONS (IMMUNOLOGY, MICROBIOLOGY) - Normal, Illinois, Illinois, United States
Title: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN HOST-MICROBE INTERACTIONS (IMMUNOLOGY, MICROBIOLOGY)Employee Classification: Asst ProfessorDivision Name: Academic AffairsCollege/Unit: College of Arts and SciencesDepart...
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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Anoxygenic phototrophic Chlorobi use broad metabolic and resource acquisition strategies to support stable near-clonal blooms www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We have an open Assistant/Associate Professor position in Pathogen Biology at the Department of Genetics - come and join us! 🦠 🧫 🧬https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assistantassociate-professor-in-pathogen-genetics-pc51175
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Assistant/Associate Professor in Pathogen Genetics
Applications are invited for an Assistant or Associate Professorship in Pathogen Genetics to be held in the Department of Genetics. We are searching for a talented individual with a track record of fu...
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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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Maria Rebolleda-Gomez @mrebolleda.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Come work with us!
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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Please repost/share We're hiring! UC Davis Plant Pathology seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in plant health & microbiomes. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07904 My department is full of great colleagues, and we look forward to recruiting our new colleague!
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Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Snail Facts advent calendars are ready 4 u Scratch off a shell a day for facts about the snails of the world. Get one for you, for your kids, for your niblings, your neighbors' kids, hell, your grandma. Snails are for everyone! SquidFacts.net
An 11x14 inch poster featuring snails, slugs, nudibranchs, and other snails! There are 24 yellow-green snail shells that you can scratch off. There's a leaf sheep and sea bunny and sea angel and fire snail and banana slug and mystery snail and ramshorn snail and candy cane snail
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 23/09/2026
NEW: The HHS is holding back Covid vaccines for all children in at least 11 states and one territory. And it's not clear when - or whether - the shots will be available. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Delays in Covid shots for kids is latest bid by Trump officials to restrict vaccines
Administration is holding back Covid vaccines for all children in at least 11 states and one US territory
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
For the right person, this is a once-in-a-lifetime unicorn dream job www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...
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Chief Conservation Officer at Ocean Conservancy — Washington DC-Baltimore Area | LinkedIn Jobs
Apply for Chief Conservation Officer at Ocean Conservancy in Washington DC-Baltimore Area. Full-time Executive role. See responsibilities, qualifications, and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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H. B. Beryl Rappaport @hbrappap.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Our description of fire amoeba, 𝘐𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘦𝘣𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴, is now online at Cell! Thanks @oliverio.bsky.social and amazing team for questioning the limits of eukaryotes! 🔥 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes
The amoeba Incendiamoeba cascadensis demonstrates that eukaryotic life can withstand temperatures beyond what was thought possible and sheds light on molecular strategies for survival in extreme heat.
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Sarah Whorley, Ph.D. 🦬⚔️ @dralgaegirl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🧪Tenure Track Microbiology/Genetics Faculty daemen.applicantpro.com/jobs/4212649 This position is mostly for Genetics and Microbiology in our Biology/PT/PA degrees. Also expected to teach General Biology (at least I, maybe II). Potential for Clinical Microbio at the professional graduate level. 4/7
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Sarah Whorley, Ph.D. 🦬⚔️ @dralgaegirl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🧪Tenure Track Chemistry Faculty daemen.applicantpro.com/jobs/4212720 This position is mostly for Analytical/Physical Chemistry for our Biochemistry degrees. You'll also teach General Chem (I/II). Teaching load is about 3/4, research is expected though not onerous. 2/7
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 17/09/2026
The Trump admin has decimated American science budgets, taking away life saving opportunities, and the potential for groundbreaking discoveries. This is how you destroy American innovation. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump administration has cut or frozen $177 billion in grants across every state, analysis shows
An analysis finds that the Trump administration has cut or frozen up to $177 billion in federal grants since the president took office for his second term.
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Here it is! @basicsci.fredhutch.org is searching for an associate or senior faculty member!
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beckybart.bsky.social @beckybart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at UC Berkeley currently has two open Assistant Professor positions (aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382 & aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522). Interested individuals are welcome to apply to one or both searches.
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Assistant Professor - Plant Responses to Environmental Changes - Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Julie Maresca @micromaresca.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New York is one of the affected states here
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Gustavo Silva de Miranda @gustavo-de-miranda.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
📢 Job alert! OU's Oklahoma Biological Survey & School of Biological Sciences are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Vector Biology & One Health. Start: Aug 2027. Apply: apply.interfolio.com/193462 #VectorBiology #OneHealth #AcademicJobs
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 20/09/2026
Amtrak didn’t tell us about this exposure, so heads up: if you took an Amtrak train last week through Chicago or anywhere on the Southwest Chief, Coast Starlight, or California Zephyr routes like we did, you may have been exposed to measles! Please let the train people in your life know about this
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Jennifer Goff, PhD @jlgoff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We are recruiting a new graduate student to SUNY ESF to work on a project examining how invasive quagga mussels influence lake trout survival. This project involves a fun mixture of mussels, fish, aquatic biogeochemistry, and microbes!
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 19/09/2026
you haven’t lived until you’ve experienced a POOP POOP POOP chant on a girl scouts treatment plant tour bus.
a group full of children stand at treatment plant tanks of water as a man in a green tee shirt points. they all wear white hard hatsbus full of kids listen to a man in hard hat speak to the group
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“On Thursday, scientists reported that they had found another gene-editing defense in nature, this one in viruses… This system, called VIPR, appears to be more than four billion years old, and it seems be the evolutionary ancestor of CRISPR… It may prove to be the more powerful gene-editing tool”
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The Next Gene-Editing Technology May Also Be the Oldest
Scientists have discovered a powerful gene-targeting system in viruses. Billions of years old, VIPR seems to predate CRISPR and may be even more effective.
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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Join us at the "2027 Applied and Environmental GRC: Mechanistic Microbiology for a Complex World" July 18-23, 2027 and GRS "Mechanistic Microbiology Beyond the Model Organism" July 17-18. Applications are open! @thuls.bsky.social and I put together an awesome schedule! www.grc.org/applied-and-...
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2027 Applied and Environmental Microbiology Conference GRC
The 2027 Gordon Research Conference on Applied and Environmental Microbiology will be held in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/09/2026
Over 100 new cases of measles in Pennsylvania have been reported over the past week, according to the state’s health department. This brings the state’s total to 731 cases in 38 counties for the current outbreak, which started in late April.
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See the latest measles count for the Pennsylvania outbreak
The state’s measles outbreak continues to grow.
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the coolest #facultychemjobs positions I've seen in a long, long time: "Canada Impact+ Emerging Leader in the Chemistry of Wildfires", UBC-Okanagan, Kelowna, BC research.ubc.ca/media/file/i... Best wishes to those interested #chemjobscanada #chemsky
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Mike Jetten @msmjetten.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Happy International Microbe Day! 🔬 On this day in 1683, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek sent his legendary letter describing "animalcules" to the Royal Society in London. Celebrating with a few of our favorite microbes and microbiologists! #anammox #methylomirabilis #methanoperedens @femsmicro.org
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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 17/09/2026
It’s International Microorganism Day! For a third year running, some of our Champions have told us about their favourite microbes and our very talented Champion, Eliza Wolfson, has brought these to life with her illustrations! @eliza-coli.bsky.social @femsmicro.org
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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
TWO JOBS in our department #IntegrativeBiology at #UTAustin! Evolutionary Biology and Organismal Mechanistic Processes, both very widely defined. Come join us! Application info here: apply.interfolio.com/193270
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Black Microbiologists Assoc (Black In Micro) @blackinmicro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Excited for what lies ahead for #BlackInMicro and this new chapter of leadership. Please join us in welcoming Nikea Pittman, PhD (President), Chelsey Spriggs, PhD (Treasurer), Eva Davis, PhD (Secretary), and Kishana Taylor, PhD (Member-at-Large). Congratulations!
BMA enters a new chapter. 2026 - 2027 Board of Directors: President, Nikea Pittman PhD; Treasurer, Chelsey Spriggs, PhD; Secretary, Eva Davis, PhD; Member-at-Large, Kishana Taylor, PhD
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Jose Jimenez @jjimenez.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We are recruiting!! We are looking for an expert in the metabolic engineering of non model microorganisms to join our team working on plastic waste upcycling. For details please check the link below. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...
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Chemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
University of Toronto: Theoretical Chemistry chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/202…
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NPR @npr.org · 15/09/2026
NASA employees say they've lost vital equipment and staff needed to make sophisticated spacecraft amid the agency's abrupt relocations over the past several months. n.pr/3SK34oz
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NASA rushed engineers out of their labs. They say it risks future space missions
NASA employees say they've lost vital equipment and staff needed to make sophisticated spacecraft amid the agency's abrupt relocations over the past several months.
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Amrit Venkatesh @amrit-venkatesh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Please repost. Come be my colleague at UVA Department of Chemistry and the UVA Catalysis Initiative for Clean Energy and Chemicals! apply.interfolio.com/192031 #chemsky @chemjobber.bsky.social @pubs.acs.org @rsc.org
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 09/09/2026
We are hiring! Start at a #MaxPlanckInstitute with your own independent Max Planck Research Group. This position is equivalent to a W2 Professorship at a German university, or Associate Professor internationally. 🔗Apply until October 14th! www.mpg.de/career/max-p... #ScienceCareer #MPRG #TenureTrack
Call for independent Max Planck Research Groups
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