Chris Marshall

SCIE exists for lazy evaluation panels that lack the expertise to assess scientific impact themselves to 'know' what journal names to look for in people's CVs.

We need more eLifes. We need to flood this industry with creative, independent, non-profit publishing models for science.

Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404

View from the lab now. Did I mention that we are recruiting faculty microbiologists?

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we are happy to support this appeal 👇 we are also happy to repeat it...

Our Pitt Microbiology and Molecular Genetics department in the School of Medicine is recruiting..

Microbiologists! 🧫🦠🔬🧪

Please apply to join our faculty and enjoy these views 👀 while doing great science

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Getting ready to teach microbiology this semester, just using ChatGPT to help me freshen up the course

Applications due tomorrow for full consideration. Thinking about joining my fabulous department and becoming my colleague? Get that application in!!

We are on the lookout for postdocs for two different projects at the intersection of ecology, evolution, and the human microbiome.

See thread for more information and reach out!

What to expect at the ASM Biofilms Conference

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!

Kenyon is hiring a TT microbiologist! Please share widely. I’m the search chair & am happy to answer any questions. careers.pageuppeople.com/695/cw/en-us...

Funded Graduate Student Opportunity in Marine Microbial Ecology **Applicants will be contacted if selected for next round. Applicants not selected will not receive any notice. If not selected, this is not indicative of your merit. ** Northern Illinois University |...

Notice of Award is in!
Join our team at NIU to study marine microbial ecology & disease dynamics in sea urchins 🧫🌊🦠
PhD | Spring/Fall 2026 start
Job Ad Here 👉 shorturl.at/fSMy9
Apply here 👉 forms.gle/gfMnHutijfqC...
More: theaquaticmicrobiologylab.com
@ianhewson.bsky.social @viromegirl.bsky.social

POSTDOC🚨
With the excellent @anshika22.bsky.social moving to UCI 🥲Anna Zemke and I are again recruiting a postdoc on the HOST-PATHOGEN BIOLOGY of TRACHEOBRONCHITIS. This is a microbiome-device-host immunity problem of broad significance.

Contact Dr. Zemke (zemkea at upmc dot edu) if interested! 👇🏻

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Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Louis Pasteur

YouTube video by Association of American Universities Facilities and Administrative (F&A) Costs Explainer

AAU updates their excellent explainer about indirect costs to cover the current attacks...

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Resist, eggheads! Universities are not as weak as they have chosen to be. Opinion: It’s time for public resistance.

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Also, for the record:
1. No it doesn't.
2. No it doesn't.
3. Kinda but not really.
4. This is unconfirmed and months early makes no sense.
5. It has.

Filamentous cheater phages drive bacterial and phage populations to lower fitness Many bacteria carry phage genome(s) in their chromosome (i.e., prophage), and this intertwines the fitness of the bacterium and the phage. Most Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains carry filamentous phages ...

Preprint out! Bacteria w/ hyper-replicative filamentous phage lead to overnight emergence of cheater phages. Bacteria w/ both phages can outcompete wildtype, then rapidly lose phage via a phage Tragedy of the Commons
@shellyscrib.bsky.social @vscooper.micropopbio.org www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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My (purely teaching-focused) unit is hiring. We teach the lecture and lab for 100-level bio majors. Starts at 1 year, but expectation is permanent. For more information and to apply, please visit careers.msu.edu (search for job# 1024852). Review of applications will begin on March 20, 2025.

Diabetes potentiates the emergence and expansion of antibiotic resistance Diabetic infections are a reservoir for the emergence and proliferation of antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus aureus.

Delighted to share our new study. A collaboration with the Thurlow lab. Antibiotic resistance rapidly emerges and thrives in diabetic mice. A worrying coming together of two major and growing health problems worldwide www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Friends, please help spread the word about our microbiology REU program at Montana State University.
www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/

Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided.

Details in the attached pic--Feb 13 deadline
🧫🧪🦠#microsky

ecoevojobs.net 2024-25

📣 📣 📣 Still lots of TT jobs being advertised: The 2024-2025 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Have had some good chats recently about pivoting to non-profit and society journals. A point to share/underline is that such options exist across the "prestige" spectrum. Some examples in the image. All heavily subjective of course; would love to hear thoughts from others!

Bumping this since more people are here now. Our NTTs are unionized and awesome.

Herpetologist Wanted!!! Come join our team in Milwaukee! The Gamble Lab at Marquette University is hiring a Research/Animal Care Technician. Duties include lizard & snake husbandry; sample collection & curation; & data management – email w/questions: tgamble@geckoevolution.org Information about the Gamble at Marquette University can be found here: https://www.geckoevolution.org/ Get details about the position and apply here: https://employment.marquette.edu/postings/21925 Photos include: upper left - corn snakes hatching from eggs on a black background; upper right - a crested gecko on a branch on a white background; lower left - photo of Marquette University campus in spring with colorful flowers in the foreground; lower right - gecko hatching from an egg with a bit of eggshell on its head.

Herpetologist Wanted!!!
We are hiring a Research/Animal Care Technician in Milwaukee. Previous lizard/snake experience required.
See attached ad (and alt text) for details.
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Recruiting Postdoc for Fall 2024 The Newton Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is recruiting a Postdoctoral Scholar to begin as soon as possible in Fall 2024 to lead a research project on antimicrobial resistance in municip...

Recruiting a Postdoctoral Scholar for Fall 2024. See wix.to/wPgT5kj for details

I am super excited to share that my lab has relocated to the Dept of Microbiology & Cell Biology at Montana State University in Bozeman, MT.

We will be looking to recruit scientists at all levels.

Get in touch if you love phages, microbes, & mountains. 🧫🧪🦠

Excited to share the first preprint from my lab, collaborating with the fantastic @sanmillan.bsky.social 's lab, led by the amazing Jorge Sastre. We've demonstrated how insertion sequences encoded in plasmids promote bacterial adaptation. This project has been incredibly fun!

We are recruiting a MS graduate student for fall 2024. Research focus is on Microbiology interventions in wastewater. Applications are due January 15. Please contact me if interested.

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Hugely impressed with the quality of genomic/transcriptomic services at @seqcoast.bsky.social! We've processed several orders with them and they are fast, have competitive prices, produce high quality data, and are happy to work with diverse samples from academic researchers. seqcoast.com/services/