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JL Weissman @jlw-ecoevo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Two weeks left to apply for these postoc positions! We seek two postdocs interested in 1) building trait prediction models capable of resolving complex microbial traits from genomes and metagenomes, and/or (2) building mathematical models of microbial community dynamics in the human microbiome.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 27/09/2026

Agree! Not only how fast but why they are growing at that rate. There are dozens of factors that set envt'l rates. As pro-cultivation as I am, lab growth is completely artificial and the max (or even sub max) rates observed are loosely (at best) related to what is happening in the environment.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 24/09/2026

Davis is one of the places I always keep an eye on for all the reasons @phylogenomics.bsky.social listed here.

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Job: Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology at @ucdavis.bsky.social. Great department. Great university. Great students. Really great colleagues. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07904

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Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Noelle Held @proteocean.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We are still looking for a postdoc to work on molecular underpinnings of nitrogen fixation in the South Pacific, with potential to inform approaches to mCDR. Please share! proteoceanlab.github.io/assets/img/2...

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 16/09/2026

Authors!🚨 While you scramble for scarce $ 🤔 “Springer Nature reports revenue growth of 6.2%..and adjusted operating profit growth of 7.7%. They reported even more stunning submission growth of 30% and published article growth of 13%.” Publishing in society journals helps YOU not them👇🏻. Pass it on.

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Man Lying on a Pile of Money

ALT: Man Lying on a Pile of Money

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 16/09/2026

The real story behind the work is @oceancait.bsky.social and the rest of our team who've spent years coaxing our Asgard culture along. They are bizarre, frustrating, and unlike anything I've been a part of. More to share soon. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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These bizarre, much-coveted microbes are revealing the origins of complex life

Researchers are racing to culture a menagerie of exotic organisms and finding lots of surprises along the way.

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Allan Konopka @hamatsa50.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The latest from Think Like a Microbe thinkmicrobe.substack.com/p/jumping-to... What should be the standard of evidence for a claim? Here, 'metabolic cooperation' between auxotrophs and prototrophs 🧪🧫 #philsci

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Jumping to conclusions

I follow Cameron Thrash on social media as he regularly posts links to interesting microbial ecology papers.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 14/09/2026

We don't believe long-time-loving as an extremophilic category is an appropriate way to view energy-starved life. Most data indicates that once energy flux is restored (lab or in situ) these cells resume growth at a more rapid pace, suggesting they are not obligately bound to slow growth

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Benjamin Wolfe @benwolfe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Over the past decade, a toxic fungus that destroys cheese rinds has been popping up in cheese caves throughout New England. In a new paper from my lab, we tried to better understand this emerging threat to New England's artisan cheese industry. doi.org/10.1128/aem....

Cheese rinds contaminated with Aspergillus westerdijkiae

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 08/09/2026

Zhiwwei gave an excellent talk in our ISME session. They demonstrated inhibitory substances (distinct from ROS) in solid solid media are generated during autoclaving but can be washed out. Solid media is not inert!

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 08/09/2026

We are happy to support an NSF PRFB application that makes use of AI to advance microbial cultivation for biotechnological purposes. Deadline=Sept 29th. More here: uncultured.carinilab.com/p/were-looki...

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We're Looking to Sponsor Postdoc Fellows in AI-Driven Microbial Cultivation

NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 28/08/2026

Happy new #mastodon music day to those who celebrate!

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 26/08/2026

I still feel a wave of relief when someone says they read our papers and enjoy them.

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Join the lab of my wife and do some awesome organic chemistry with important medical implications under her new (second) NIH MIRA grant! Living in Bozeman as a bonus. (www.neufeldt-chemistry.com)

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Ted Morgan @tedmorgan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The new NSF BIO funding opportunity (solicitation) is out, which replaces the DEB, IOS, and MCB solicitations. The BIO Core accepts proposals that cover the scientific topics associated with the legacy programs historically supported by BIO. BIO Core - NSF 26-517. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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Core Research in Biological Sciences (BIO Core)

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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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NSURP.org

National Summer Undergraduate Research Project

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Glen Dsouza @nonresidentdesi.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Excited to share that I've been awarded a 5-year NIH MIRA (R35) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences! The lab is growing! We're recruiting postdocs and research techs interested in microbial ecology, quantitative microscopy, microfluidics, and molecular biology. Please share!

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Britt Koskella @bkoskella.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Postdocs and early career folks - this is a truly wonderful opportunity to spend time in Berlin, gain time to think, and expand your network! call.wiko-berlin.de/procedure/65...

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Wiko Application Platform

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 07/07/2026

Had an awesome time at Hayward field watching some jaw-dropping *amazing* athletes do their thing at the Pre Classic this weekend!

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 12/06/2026

Another great read on Think Like a Microbe on Dormancy in microbes.

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Allan Konopka @hamatsa50.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Just up on Think Like a Microbe -- slacker culture in microbes: an under-appreciated life style 🧪🧫 #philsci open.substack.com/pub/thinkmic...

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On microbial dormancy and resuscitation

~25% of world's human population contain latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis cells in lung granulomas

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 09/06/2026

I am so mad at AI for comandeering the em dash. I loved that thing! Now I am finding myself trying to find other ways to say the same thing when I used to use an em dash. RIP, em.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 01/06/2026

Not a teacher, an academic advisor. After flunking (with a 0.0 GPA) my second straight semester as a freshman in college, I was told "you won't be admitted again unless you can prove you can do college level work." Get bent, Joe.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 21/05/2026

We need a microbial "culture announcement" journal, like we have genome announcements. ASMs MRA *could* work. But, they require deposition into a culture collection, which has many barriers from both sides (depositor and collection).

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 16/05/2026

Come See our Grad Student @astrobio-agb.bsky.social this week at #AbSciCon2026. She'll be presenting her research on how desert microbes can literally drink water vapor from the air! 🌵💧 #Microbiology #Extremophiles #Desiccation #Astrobiology

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 11/05/2026

Our updated preprint is live. Anergiobiosis: a testable framework for microbial life under extreme energy flux limitation with @environmicrobio.bsky.social and @jenbiddle.bsky.social ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Does anyone who has worked with low-oxygen/anoxic seawater have any advice for setting up microcosms from Niskin bottles? What methods do you use to prevent/minimize oxygen contamination?

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 30/04/2026

Sad to hear about Craig Venter. He was a central figure as I was coming up through the ranks. He was a visionary and the data produced under him was and still is extraordinarily valuable to the community. I never had a chance to to meet him. Condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 28/04/2026

Having sat through my fair share of track meets, $1100 for a single seat for half day of non-final heats at the Olympics is simply crazy money. I'd rather (and will) support my local college teams.

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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Congratulations to Alexandra Z. Worden, a senior scientist in the Bay Paul Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory, for being awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in recognition of her groundbreaking research in ocean biogeochemistry! Read more here: go.mbl.edu/worden

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James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I'm blogging over on substack - no subscription needed. open.substack.com/pub/profmcin...

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The Fourth Wave

Meditations for the anxious scientific mind

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 07/04/2026

Very frustrated by the ever-growing list of rules and administrative burden for EVERYTHING in academia.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 19/03/2026

Is there a consensus for ANI differences associated with Order, Family, or Genus level divergence in bacteria? I'm looking at ~79% ANI between two genomes and am wondering where that falls.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 17/03/2026

And if you have not been accepted, understand that this is a VERY weird time for grad admissions. Lack of acceptance may not be due to YOU, but due to uncontrollable factors at the university. Keep trying in the future.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 13/03/2026

Our group enjoyed this workshop last year, Highly recommend!

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Heidi Aronson, PhD @heidi-aronson.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

How do you make methane from phosphite? Through interspecies H2 transfer! Our paper on lithosyntrophy is finally published - read about how we resolved the metabolic interactions in this phosphite oxidizing, methanogenic enrichment culture! #phosphorus #methanogenesis www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Lithosyntrophy: Obligate syntrophy in a phosphite-oxidizing, methanogenic culture | PNAS

The anaerobic conversion of organic matter to methane and carbon dioxide typically relies on obligate syntrophic interactions between bacteria and ...

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