Gina Lewin

Comments due tomorrow (Oct. 13) on a proposed change to NIH procedures that would conceal expert reviewer scores on grant proposals from program officers & PIs and reduce the effectiveness of peer review, part of a larger project to sideline experts and politicize federal funding decisions. 👇

Maybe I'm the last to discover this, but @paper-feed.bsky.social pulls together a digest of research papers based on accounts you follow. Sharing because this feed has substantially improved my Bluesky science experience recently. Big thanks to the creators of this feed! bsky.app/profile/did:...

🚨 The NIH is moving to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars in infectious-disease research projects to the DOD under a secret 10-year pact. Here’s what’s happening inside “Operation Prevailing Edge” 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I am happy to share that we are recruiting a postdoc with previous #tuberculosis research experience for a Mtb systems biology project focused on gene networks! Please visit our lab website (www.jasonyanglab.org) and our ad (tinyurl.com/ms92bmj8) for more information!

Microbiology professors/PIs, would you like to join the microPI slack? Microbiology is defined broadly. This is an open tent. Professor/PI is inclusive to teaching focused roles, or pure research PI roles like a National lab PI. Reply or DM me and I will send you a link.

🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! TODAY IS THE LAST DAY to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/cY8HD

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!

It's day 3 of the United States of Science 2026. 28 states are closed out. Most of the big states still on the board. 31 bubbles for Pennsylvania 41 for California 46 for Ohio 86 for Texas 109 for NY 123 for Florida Who's going to help get them finished? Fill a bubble here givebutter.com/USS2026

We've been learning a lot about how Enterococcus faecalis interacts with neutrophils lately. In our latest preprint, @harisantypas.bsky.social describes how lactic acid from E. faecalis dampens neutrophil metabolism leading to NETosis and phagoytosis suppression. #microsky

Scientific journal editor here: If you're invited to peer review an article and you can't do it, please just click "no." That tells me "this person can't do it, I should invite someone else." Otherwise the system waits 3 weeks to tell me that you didn't respond and I should invite someone else.

Happy to share this perspective about better integrating the microbiome and symbiosis fields, starting with a call to be more accurate with our terminology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... Was the best experience to write this article with the amazing @khadlily.bsky.social #microbiome #microsky

Going to be a good day at #ASMicrobe Check out two presentations from my lab: Alyssa Hamm is taking about bacterial scRNA-seq at 3:15 in 151AB Grace Heine is presenting poster MECH-SAT-496 on the role of strain- and species-level diversity in microbial interactions

Excited to be in DC for #ASMicrobe! Come find me at poster MECH-FRI-454 this afternoon. Or please reach out if you want to chat about this open position in my lab!

🚨🦠💻🧬🚨 My lab is hiring!! Looking for a technician or postdoc to join us in Cleveland starting this summer to lead a project analyzing ~1000 metatranscriptomes from the human oral cavity. More info on my lab website www.thelewinlab.com/join-us #ASMicrobe #Microbiome #Microsky

Megathread about responding to new OMB grant funding rules (feel free to add/link more!) I was collecting these for me, but figured I'd round 'em up for everyone 🧪 What's the problem? arstechnica.com/science/2026... elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Delighted to see this out in its final form! doi.org/10.1093/isme... We established a discussion group focussed on the history of community ecology and how it informs our understanding of microbiota. This review distils those discussions to provide a guide for microbiologists entering the field

Spring in Breckenridge = great science + hot chocolate weather #KSBeyondAntibiotics26

Made it to #ksbeyondantibiotics26. Saw wildlife right away!

Update: I am definitely hiring 2 PhD students; preference to those who can start spring 2027, but reach out if you’re looking to start in Fall 27. Want to start earlier? Reach out and we can talk about technician positions starting as early as this summer.

Above link seems broken 😞, so here: academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Excited to announce our new journal from @isme-microbes.bsky.social ISME Host Microbe is live and now accepting submissions. Look forward to receiving your papers! #Microsky 🧫 🦠

If you'd like to celebrate the biology of viruses - or the fight against viral diseases - this winter, try out our free and updated #VirusSnowflake designs. Please share, and if you have any photos of Virus Snowflakes in your area it would be lovely to see them! cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl...

Just 4 days until the start of I2K and its 33 totally free image analysis tutorials and events! Please share with your "home networks", especially early career researchers - the videos will be amazing and high-impact no matter how many people attend live, BUT (1/x)

What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure. A really informative article, perfect for a weekend coffee read. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New on Think Like a Microbe! 🧫🧪 #philsci open.substack.com/pub/thinkmic...

#microsky oral #microbiome goes supersize www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Come join us in Knoxville! The Dept. of Microbiology 🧫🦠 at the University of Tennessee is hiring 2 Assistant Professors (tenure track, 9-month appt.). Microbial Drivers of Chronic Disease: apply.interfolio.com/173153Quantitative Microbe-Plant-Environment Interactions: apply.interfolio.com/173345

Mark your calendars! #mmpc2026 The 2026 Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference will be take place September 25-27, 2026 at the University of Minnesota! We are excited to welcome keynote speaker Dr. Andy Camilli. Give us a follow and watch for important information here ➡️ mmpc2026.umn.edu

This is your daily reminder that registration is open and *FREE* for #BiM2025 #BlackInMicro Week. Get ready to join our online celebration: linktr.ee/BlackInMicro (or see link in bio)

Please repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist Applications due Dec 1 Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339 Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)

Excited to share our latest preprint is up: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... led by @aanuoluwaduro.bsky.social ! 🧪🧫

A substantial part (but not all) of this increased investment is multi-year funded grants. My current estimate is that multi-year funding has been used in lieu of ~2400 annually funded grants that could have been made. 2/2

Today, courageous FEMA staff members sent the Katrina Declaration to the FEMA "leadership" and others. Sign on it support of these folks committed to the FEMA mission for all of us. www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina... @standupforscience.bsky.social

Video OpEd via @nytimes.com on drastic cuts to the pipeline of federally funded medical research that drives diagnostics, drugs, and treatments for Cancer HIV Diabetes Alzheimer's + more & helps patients, enables patents, and advances soft power. 5 mins 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Excited to have our new mini review on Microbiome Metabolism out today in I&I as part of the @asm.org New Voices in Microbiology collection! Check it out! 🧫🧪 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Super excited to share our paper online 🚨today🚨 in Cell Host & Microbe‬! Xiaomei Ren @xiaomeiren.bsky.social and Mason Clark @rmasonclark.bsky.social‬ co-led discovery of ecological factors for Acinetobacter baumannii carriage in the gut, a reservoir for pathogen spread. 🎉 tinyurl.com/443kfefk

Microbiology professor, want to join a slack for microbiology professors, any career stage, diverse career types (pure teaching, med school, R1, community college, pure research fed PIs, ...) Message me for an invite link if you are interested. No imposter syndrome, if you are 1% micro, join!

The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601

Reading this tonight, and holding my family a little extra tight, heartbroken for all who cannot

Lovely time with new and old friends at microbiology population biology camp. Leaving with lots of new ideas (and lots of new bug bites) @cbibberson.bsky.social @peachypotato.bsky.social @jamesgurney.bsky.social

Dear Science Journalists, Please mention when your write-ups covers work that was funded by federal agencies that are now being dismantled, defunded, and censored. The public needs to know what is being lost, and if you don't tell them in the context of Cool New Science, who will?

Happy to help fill some bubbles in Ohio and support @skypeascientist.bsky.social, which is doing lots of awesome work to connect people with science!

The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget. Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide. Interactive map and shareable report: scienceimpacts.org/fy26 a 🧵

Today's heat wave was made FIVE TIMES more likely by fossil fueled climate change Yet Republicans are trying this week to pass a bill that would decimate the energy transition and sell off swaths of public lands to fossil fuel companies

Great crowd today #NoKings #ScienceNotSilence