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We are hiring a second TT position this fall in Cell Biology, again broadly defined. This one may be relevant to any physiologists out there. @uicbios.bsky.social has been a fantastically supportive place to start a research program, right in downtown #Chicago! uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Africa at risk of continent-wide Ebola crisis, health chief warns www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

The Gaia hypothesis — the notion by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis that Earth and Life are best understood as one functional unit — has had a checkered history. But it also may have helped midwife Earth System Science. 🌍🌱🦠🛘 Florian Maderspacher on Gaia's many guises👇 www.cell.com/current-biol...

My department at GW is hiring a Teaching Assistant Professor for Intro Bio. Apply here! www.gwu.jobs/postings/129...

Just in time for Halloween, we've posted a new preprint on zombie deubiquitinases! As it turns out, standard #DUB catalytic mutants aren't truly dead - they've just become zombies that are still capable of removing noncanonical, ester-linked #ubiquitin signals...

My department at UCSF (Cell & Tissue Biology) is recruiting for a tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor studying the fundamental cell biology underlying disease. Join us! App due Dec 1. aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF06272

Duke Biology has two faculty positions we're searching for: 1) Assistant Professor in Cellular and Molecular Systems 2) Assistant Professor of the Practice with a focus on Ecology. See here the following link for more details and how to apply: biology.duke.edu/about-us/jobs

🚨 Our department is hiring! Looking to fill an endowed position in genetics/genomics to join us in beautiful Oregon. Search is at the Associate/Full Professor level. See below for details and share with your colleagues!

Don’t miss the deadline (Oct 31) if you want to apply for a faculty position in Evolutionary Biology in my department! facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

@joethorntonlab.bsky.social and I are thrilled to co-organize the 2027 Molecular Mechanisms in Evolution GRC, June 13–18, in beautiful Portland, Maine! See our ⭐stellar⭐ lineup of speakers ⬇️ spanning evolutionary biochemistry, cell biology, development, behavior... www.grc.org/molecular-me... 1/n

It's happening! NYUGSM Microbiology is hiring and I'd love to see more bacteriology here! Please repost and spread the word!

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🚨 Fantastic new lab and mentor alert!!! 🚨

🚨PhD opportunity alert!!! Come work with us on this new cool NERC DTP PhD project Investigate How Bacterial Hosts Control Domesticated Viral Machines to Drive Horizontal Gene Transfer in Marine Environments. Retweet = nice. Thank you!!! aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships...

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...

10 days left to apply for an Assistant Professorship in Evolutionary Biology at Columbia.

📣 📣 📣 UPDATE: The 2026-2027 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resource! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Here's the ad for the Genome Sciences faculty positions ap.washington.edu/ahr/position...

Virology friends: come work with me at UVA! Now hiring a professor of virology (open rank): apply.interfolio.com/191946

That's our money they stole, #ScienceSky 🧪 We have to reclaim it.

We are now accepting applications, through February 1st 2027, for the next class of Jane Coffin Childs postdoctoral fellows. Please repost and share with your community! We're looking for outstanding, creative, and independent recent ... 1/ www.jccfund.org/eligibilty-c...

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

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

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.

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

Hello friends, the Harvard Life Science departments have banded together to hire a new colleague working at the intersection of Life Sciences and AI. Could be primarily an experimentalist, or could be primarily a compute/theorist. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16773

We're hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Evolutionary Biology in my department at the university of Houston @uh-ecoevo.bsky.social Come be my colleague careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista...

📣 We are looking for a PhD student in 2027! Interested in studying rapid evolutionary dynamics of species in changing climates? Apply to the MOI LAB by Nov 19! Flyer below & tinyurl.com/flyerphdmoilab @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @innovativegenomics.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social

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...

Thanks to the generosity of the Bezos Family Foundation, @basicsci.fredhutch.org is excited to announce a new search to recruit a Bezos Family Distinguished Scholar : apply.interfolio.com/193655

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...

Princeton EEB is running a very broad faculty search at the Assistant Professor level. Please consider applying to join us! This is a wonderful, collaborative, cohesive department with diverse interests and amazing colleagues. apply.interfolio.com/193474

I have starter packs for all 50 states, so check my account to get connected to groups in your area!

Excellent article by @jessicaglenza.bsky.social at @us.theguardian.com that highlights how the Trump-Bhattacharya NIH grant terminations undermine trust built in communities and waste public resources by terminating critical, rigorous cutting edge science. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

U of U Biochemistry is hiring! See links below -- we're searching for a cell biologist and an AI/ML/data scientist, both broadly defined. Reach out if you have any questions about our supportive and collegial department. utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/208... utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/208...

Transformative opportunity for early career faculty @hhmi-science.bsky.social #FreemanHrabowski Scholars competition opens 11/3/2026 but you can get started NOW: view application components, establish eligibility, and unlock example applications and other resources www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...

We are searching for an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology! Looking for colleagues asking fundamental questions relating to evolutionary processes and drivers of evolutionary patterns. If you think it is you, please do apply! And please repost. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

New lawsuit challenging NIH actions around "DEI" on Constitutional grounds. protectdemocracy.org/work/researc... 1/2

Nominations are open for the ASV Ann Palmenberg Junior Investigator Award! www.asv.org/ann-palmenbe...

Lots of stories across Pennsylvania about NIH grant terminations at Pitt and Penn. This is why speaking out matters. Even Congress critters who generally support the administration get pressured into actually supporting their constituents. www.wesanews.org/health-scien...

The Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin has two open positions for assistant professors, one in evolutionary biology and one in mechanistic processes. Please share. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/193270

Trump's cuts and political interference at NIH could be "the end of federal health research as we know it". My story for @bmj.com 🧪 www.bmj.com/content/394/...

Congratulations to Heran Darwin (@heran.bsky.social), Arturo Casadevall (acasadevall1.bsky.social), and all of the ASM awardees! asm.org/press-releas... @asm.org

NIH can't scrape together enough reviewers or study sections and they're simultaneously making reviews jump through more hoops. Realtime retraining for experienced reviewer. No more zip downloads of all apps. I regret agreeing to a Nov section because it's not just more work, it's more busywork.

We are hiring! 🌟 Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor. It's a broad search: we want great colleagues doing serious biological work at the molecular scale. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/191981 bcmb.uchicago.edu

This cartoon was created by Pulitzer Prize winning artist Adam Zyglis for The Buffalo News in November, 2024. It hits even harder now.

one of the biggest scandals at NIH in anyone’s memory we cannot hand over civilian science to the military they have their expertise we have ours like asking us to fight wars

ASM: Congress Must Reject Siphoning of NIH Funds to DoW bit.ly/4xKYUfo