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Igor Brodsky @brodskyigorlab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

6 days to register a comment on NIH Request for Information (RFI) on Changing Reporting Outcomes for Peer Review. They are proposing to hide the impact scores and percentiles. 🤔 funding decisions will not be transparent👎🏼. Register a comment while you still can rfi.grants.nih.gov?s=6a2b1c22c3...

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Request For Information

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George O'Toole (he/him/his) @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pls share:The Department of Microbiology at the University of Georgia invites applications for a tenure track Associate or Full professor position in Medical Mycology, beginning August 1, 2027. www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/508...

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Associate Professor or Professor of Microbiology in Medical Mycology

The Department of Microbiology at the University of Georgia invites applications for a nine-month, tenure-track position in Medical Mycology at the rank of Associate or Full Professor, with an anticip...

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Earlier this year the scientific community successfully fought back on dramatic changes in Federal funding proposed by the Trump Administration.Now another RFI is proposing substantial changes that would damage peer review. This letter from SDB President Helen McNeill lays out the issue clearly 1/n

Dear SDB Members,

I am writing you now to ask everyone to respond to a proposed change to the way that grant review information at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is communicated to grant applicants, institutions, and NIH program staff. This is your opportunity to provide feedback on the process that selects our grants for funding.

The proposed change means that individuals, institutes and NIH staff will no longer receive the final overall impact score or percentile score that reflects the scientific opinion of a panel of experts. Currently, three reviewers provide their detailed opinion of a grant, and then the entire panel asks questions, can examine figures, and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of a grant, and then members all independently score. The final overall impact score reflects this discussion and careful consideration of the entire scientific panel.

The proposed change is to now simply divide the scored grants into three categories: Scored applications would be grouped into three broad categories - “Most Competitive (top 25%),” “Competitive (26%-50%),” and “Not Discussed”. The motivation for the change is that decisions would now focus on the comments of reviewers, not the score of the grant to determine which grants to support. However, the current mechanism allows for scores and comments to be considered. Thus, removing the score component from NIH staff makes selection of which grants to fund more burdensome for NIH staff.

The loss of detailed scores will also make it more difficult for researchers to assess how competitive an application was and determine whether to revise and resubmit it. An application ranked top 2% and one ranked 24th% would receive the same label, even if the scientific panel viewed them quite differently. Meanwhile, applications ranked 25th%and 26th% would be placed in different categories because of a tiny difference that NIH itself says should not be treated as meaningful. The proposal would erase potentially important differences while creating arbitrary new dividing lines.

This is a dramatic loss of transparency in the scientific review process. Under the new plan, principal investigator(s), applicant institutions, NIH program staff, ICO leadership, and the relevant NIH Advisory Council will no longer have access to the final overall score.

NIH is explicitly asking for input on this particular question.

This is a Request for Information (RFI), not simply an announcement of a policy that has already been finalized. NIH says comments will be used to inform the final recommendation, including implementation and communication.

Please comment here: https://rfi.grants.nih.gov/?s=6a2b1c22c3fcfda46e0badd2

Deadline for response receipt is October 13, 2026, 11:59 PM ET.

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Jean Léon Maître @maitrejl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

📣Our department is hiring a new group leader!📣 Want to start your team in a vibrant scientific environment in the center of Paris? I was very lucky to do that 10 years ago, reach out if you have any question. Apply by December 18th: jpi-recruitment-curie-umr3215-u934.curie.fr

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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

NIH’s move toward multiyear funding is a major reason for the drop in grant numbers: The agency now commits several years of funding at once to fewer awards, rather than paying for projects one year at a time. www.the-scientist.com/federal-rese...

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NIH Grant Awards Fall to a Six-Year Low in FY2026 | The Scientist

A public dataset from Grant Witness shows NIH has issued about 11 percent fewer grant awards this fiscal year than its five-year average pace.

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Nichole Broderick, PhD @nabroderick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It was really impressive! We had a great visit! Thank you for sharing. We also hadn’t been to the MuseumofNY with our almost 8 yo yet and she found the whole museum interesting and fun. We look forward to future visits.

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Kelly Dawe @corncolors.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The UGA Genetics Department is hiring! Please help spread the word. We have an opening for an Associate Professor/Professor in Genetics, Synthetic Biology, and Biological Engineering. See ad for details – and join us here in Athens, GA!

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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hey Biologists : Have you made any comments on the NIH Biosafety Policy for Biohazards? Because some of the changes are REDONKULOUS - and there are only 40 comments on file - Submit comments by Oct 19! osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form.... 🦠 #microsky

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Comment Form: Draft NIH Biosafety Policy for Research Involving Biohazards

Request for Information: Draft NIH Biosafety Policy for Research Involving Biohazards

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Abstract submission for #Dros27 is now open! 🔗: buff.ly/18h4OHf Prep now: ✅ Browse abstract topics ✅ Prepare title and abstract text ✅ Gather co-author names and institutions ✅ Select one email to use for both abstract submission and registration ✅ Select a credit card to pay the submission fee

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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This one is for the undergrads!! Can y'all repost?!? Share in your classes? I'm not sure where the undergrads are these days when it comes to social media! TY!

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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Massive new review paper out on the causes of insect population declines. It's not great news, BUT if we pay attention, we can still turn things around. 🧪🦋 academic.oup.com/aesa/advance...

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Drivers of insect decline: direct, indirect, and combined pressures

Abstract. Reductions in insect biodiversity are widely documented and result from numerous pressures that operate from local to global scales. Identifying

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Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NSF announces a new branding page. "You shared your feedback — we listened!" WTF content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USN... At the end of FY 2026, NSF has made 6218 awards compared to 11,387 average in previous years. Thx @grantwitness.org If you're listening NSF, how about doing your job?

Graph of NSF awards for FY 2021-2026 showing that at the end of FY 2026, NSF has made about half the usual number of awards.

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Application review for the GRC in Microbial Population Biology will start October 15th! Please apply before then if you are keen on coming. www.grc.org/microbial-po...

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Anne C. Hart @ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Position available to work on Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood; develop assays & test compounds using Hart lab #Celegans disease models. Ideal for scientist with Bachelors or Masters degree seeking mentorship, but previous at-the-bench experience is required. See REQ211438 on Brown Univ website.

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Craig MacLean @craigmaclean.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Postdoc position available in my group to work on ERC funded project on evolutionary biology of antibiotic resistance. Looking for someone with expertise in bacterial genetics, AMR, and evolutionary biology. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSZ416/p...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Oxford

Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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Mzbitca @mzbitca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

All of these are so great and I would say my one addition to point out to a son is “just because they will let you doesn’t mean they should” they should self regulate without a consequence, we teach women to speak up. We need to teach boys to step back

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Pleuni Pennings @pleunipennings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am hiring a postdoc! Are you interested to work on population genetics/ drug resistance/ data? Want to work in Montpellier, France? Fastq files don't scare you? PhD required, start date hopefully Nov 1! (end date Sep 30 2028) Please share! abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/p...

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Postdoc position on drug resistance evolution in Montpellier, France

I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…

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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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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

JOB ALERT: UNC Bio is hiring 2 tenure track assistant profs doing molecular, cell, and dev bio. The search is intentionally broad, so please share widely and spread the word! Find more information and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... Application review begins Nov 1.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Did I remind all of you in NYC to make sure to take yourselves and your children to see "He Built This City" at the Museum of the City of New York yet? The exhibit closes October 12: www.mcny.org/exhibition/h... - I cannot say enough about this exhibit and I think that you will be amazed. GO!

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He Built This City

Explore Joe Macken’s monumental model and discover the extraordinary vision behind one of the most ambitious handmade representations of New York City ever created.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.

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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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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🚨🚨🚨 Very urgent for many of us. I also just learned this today. Tell your friends. Tell your grant admins. 🧪

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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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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Good morning, team. We have 3.5 days until Drexel closes the Academy of Natural Sciences. It’s time for you- yeah YOU- to make some calls. Step 1: Tell the following people we need help pressuring Drexel to keep the museum open: Josh Shaprio 717-787-2500 Mayor Parker's 215-686-2181

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“We have replaced the danger of mouth-pipetting with the danger of a generation of scientists spending their most productive years writing grants that will not be funded. This is its own form of danger, just slower and less honest than the phenol.” A fun one

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 24/09/2026

Ink or watercolor, all originals. One of each! artologica.etsy.com

8 different science-themed paintings in 2 rows

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Some random thoughts: Good science doesn't always need disruptors. Often, it needs load-bearing walls. You can't pivot away from a failed multi-year experiment or "iterate" your way out of a mentee's PhD. Science needs stable foundations, not churn. Don't break the people building on top of it.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 23/09/2026

Can confirm (see 🧵 ). But let me share some optimism. A NIH colleague said today that against all odds, NIH has been…winning. “We made this EO a necessity. We fought hard. We threw sand in all the gears. All the lowdown ways of blocking grants failed to produce the results Vought et al wanted.”

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Daria Van Tyne @dariavantyne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My lab at Pitt is looking for a Laboratory Technician to help our research and phage therapy efforts. Please share and apply! cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

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Laboratory Technician

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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Yuan He @yuanhejhu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A big week for the lab! Two new papers on how cells repair DNA double-strand breaks: one on getting NHEJ started in chromatin, one on processing the ends before ligation. Years of work by a fantastic team.

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Maryland Department of Transportation @marylanddot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ride Maryland Transit Administration free on Sept. 22! Skip the traffic! The Moore-Miller Administration wants you to enjoy Car Free Day. Ride for free all day on all of MTA’s Services. That includes rides on MTA’s Local Bus, Light Rail, Metro Subway, MARC, Commuter Bus and Mobility.

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Collins issues statement on rumors of Executive Order taking control of NIH funding - please keep pressure on. There can be no trust here but it is also the case that she should hear that this statement will be welcomed if it is accompanied by action www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majorit...

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Sen. Collins: OMB Should Not Be Involved in Agency Decisions on Grant Awards | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I want you to think about the kids in your life. Maybe those kids are 8. Maybe they are 32. Do they know enough about snails? Hard to imagine anyone truly knowing *enough* about snails. Help those kids learn snailhood. Get them a Snail Facts advent calendar. 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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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Many uncertainties remain on details of this meeting. But 1.5+ years of grant terminations, staff dismissals, fired boards, and OMB proposals all point in the same direction: the admin wants political control of what research is funded. That is a path to ruin. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

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Trump asked budget chief to draft order bringing health research funding under his control

The move came after the NIH director refused Trump’s request to cut Harvard grants in an Oval Office meeting.

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Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We're hiring! The Microbiome Therapies Initiative (MITI) at Sarafan ChEM-H is seeking a highly motivated protein scientist for a role in our ambitious new effort to develop and produce commensal vaccines in-house at Stanford for clinical use. Learn more: chemh.stanford.edu/opportunitie...

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Careers

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jessamine finch @seedystudies.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

📣 NYBG is hiring a Part-Time Research Technician to support invasive species research, data management, and institutional policy implementation ⌛ 2y position, 20h/wk, hybrid eligible 🎓 Bachelor's or Master's 📊 data mgmt & analysis experience, incl. spatial 🗺️ 🤑 $26/h www.nybg.org/about/work-w...

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Employment | New York Botanical Gardens

Join us at the garden! Find out what employment opportunities are available at The New York Botanical Garden.

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Lilian Caesar @liliancaesar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

apply.interfolio.com/188995 Assoc/Full Prof in microbiome research at OU! Join our growing microbiome community! From bees and plants to freshwater, bats and soils, you’ll find collabs spanning mechanisms to eco-evo. I’ve just arrived,but can say: outstanding research env and wonderful colleagues!

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Igor Iatsenko @iatsenkolab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🚨 Job alert! I am hiring a long-term postdoc (up to 6 years) to work on host–microbe interactions using the #Drosophila model. A great opportunity to develop your own research program in a wonderful scientific environment @uni-graz.at 🦠🔬 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

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University of Graz hiring University Assistant with doctorate (m/f/d) in Graz, Styria, Austria | LinkedIn

Posted 4:24:01 AM. Your ResponsibilitiesIndependent research in the field of host-microbe and microbe-microbe…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

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