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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 4h

Our proposal hasn't been touched in over 6 months. (going by the online status update dates)

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 9h

Are NSF BIO panels even meeting?

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 9h

I bet it took you a good hour to come down from that.

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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

recruit.ucdavis.edu

Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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

My word, that was a hot minute ago! Yes! Good to see that these folks are *still* A+ tier people (and scientists).

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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...

proteoceanlab.github.io

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 18/09/2026

This is neat paper, Roland. This was something I learned as a grad in the lab, but never explicitly taught in a class. I'll be looking at ways to incorporate this thinking into class materials.

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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

Thanks Branko, I appreciate that!

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

I've been thinking about this for 20 years. The opportunity came up and we took it. YOLO.

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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...

nature.com

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

thinkmicrobe.substack.com

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

Thanks! Feedback is always welcome!

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

Instead we reenvision "maintenance phase" as anergiobiosis (life without energy) as it describes the specific state of energy limitation (as opposed to other nutrients) preventing cell division. More to come on this soon.

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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 · 09/09/2026

Crazy that 2º is the difference.

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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...

uncultured.carinilab.com

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 · 04/09/2026

I just do my best. Some days are like that. We can't have machine-like production day in and day out. I just do my best each day with the knowledge that "my best" looks different every day.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 04/09/2026

Good to see such a clear demonstration after years of speculation.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 01/09/2026

Congrat's! Not surprised in the slightest. Celebrate like it's 1899.

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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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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 19/08/2026

Not surprised at all Michael! Well deserved & proud to be your friend & colleague!

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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...

nsf.gov

Core Research in Biological Sciences (BIO Core)

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 13/08/2026

I'm 12 h behind you on the way to the N island

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