Julie Maresca

Celebrate Women's History Month all March long and take 40% off of our women's and gender studies titles with promotion code 05WHM26. press.syr.edu/supressbook-...

Close-up of a black and white abstract pattern of microbes with colourful coral-like shapes in blue, pink, green, and purple accents.

Society Champion, Eliza_coli has designed Multicoloured Microbes colouring sheets which provide a fun microbiome-themed activity for outreach work. Society members can now access these, alongside a host of other resources:
https://microb.io/3N9ESZP

#chemjobs

🚨 We're hiring!
Postdoctoral positions in modeling of development and evolution at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social & @scilifelab.se

Focus: dynamical systems, time-series, phylogenetics, dimensionality reduction

📍 Stockholm
🕒 2+1 years
🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Please share!

How Bacteria Die in the Microbial Marine Forest

Dr. Anne Thompson explores her research on salps, some of the most abundant animals in the ocean, and how their feeding mechanisms shape marine microbial food webs and carbon cycles.

@markowenmartin.bsky.social

A reminder that we are actively recruiting a geneticist to the Department of Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine

careers-einstein.icims.com/jobs/17847/a...

Posting again!

A photo of the MOP foundation library

Stunning library at MOP foundation in A Coruña

A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)

Directorates to follow

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Source of image: https://heterodoxacademy.org/blog/social-science-pandemic-cultural-evolution/

A tenure-track faculty position (Professor of Evolutionary Biology) is open at #UQAR in Quebec, Canada. Teaching in French. Application deadline: 4 May 2026. Details: www.csz-scz.ca/job-postings... 🧪

"not perfect" for prophages either, "very not perfect" for lytic viruses 😁
We touch on this a bit in our "host prediction" review www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
and the Sullivan lab has done benchmarking that highlights the potential noise in these data
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Call for applications, pls share!

2026 Evolutionary Medicine Summer Institute (EMSI) advances research in a frontier of evolutionary medicine. They provide training in methods needed to address cutting edge questions in that frontier.

2026 focus: Climate Change and Health

sites.duke.edu/emsi/

View some great roles in microbiology on our jobs board, including:

🔬 PhD Position in Regulation & Evolution of Bacterial Multicellularity
🤖 Junior Research Group in AI in Health & Infection Research
🧫 Junior Research Group in Infection Biology …and more!

👉 buff.ly/8LVPIja

Applications are open for PREP Bio at the University of Oregon! A great opportunity for postbacs looking for additional research experience while preparing for graduate school. More here: cas.uoregon.edu/UO-PREP-Bio

#Quiltsky! It’s the podcast crossover we’ve been waiting for! @ologies.bsky.social just dropped an amazing episode on quilting. Which I listened to while quilting, because that’s when I listen to podcasts (and Ologies is one of my top three favourites.)

pca.st/episode/77c2...

I'm really disappointed in the low margin for D.C. statehood among *Democrats*. Do people not realize that Congress can overrule any of our 'state' laws we pass, while, at the same time, we have no representation in that same body? 1/x

Join us as Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Computational Biology at Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) / @leidenscience.bsky.social / @unileiden.bsky.social

Application deadline on 15 March 2026
👇
careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan...

New preprint from my lab‼️
We describe how cations in the media remodel the Geobacter envelope for reciprocal control of cytochrome-loaded vesicles and conductive pili.

Important phenomenon to understand discrepancies in the literature about the true nature of nanowires.

doi.org/10.21203/rs....

MSE virtual seminar today: “Mechanisms of environmental microbiome resilience”

Events will be hosted January - December in 2026, on the last Wednesday of every month, 11:00 - 13:00 pm ET. Presented over Zoom. After each talk, we will continue the discussions in an informal social meeting with MSE.…

Faculty position in Plant Molecular Biology (Associate Professor or Tenure-Track Assistant Professor) at Aarhus University, Denmark
mbg.au.dk/aktuelt/ledi...

Only have about a week left to comment on this--DoE trying to remove many areas from being classified as a "professional" degree, including nursing and public health. This will limit access to student loans and ultimately drive students from the fields.

The “boys’ club’ is alive and well. Just ask any woman in academia.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐬𝐲𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧? 🪸

Join us for a 3-year #Postdoc and help us find out! Our ERC-funded project at @hifmb.de offers excellent facilities and an international collaborative work environment.

Apply by April 1st: jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/21...

#ScienceJobs

PhD candidate in Equine Intestinal Microbiome and Resistome Join this PhD project to study how the equine gut microbiome and resistome can improve gastrointestinal health and combat antimicrobial resistance.

Our faculty has a particularly interesting PhD position open on antimicrobial resistance, effects of antibiotics treatment on the microbiome and resistome, restoration of the equine microbiome using FMT.

www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Please contact Mathijs Theelen, email address in the link below.

We’re hiring a Microscopy Core Director at the Wadsworth Center!
It's a state position (job stability & PENSION!) in a uniquely academic, research-driven environment 😎
Please share 🙏
statejobs.ny.gov/public/vacan...

Trait discovery is one of the most difficult parts of our work here at @kwsgroup.bsky.social. Thus, we need help:

We are looking for a Scientist in #QuantitativeGenetics & #Biostatistics for Trait Discovery.

This is a full time, permanent position here in Einbeck.

#PlantScience #PlantSciJobs

Fears of polio resurgence as US vaccine adviser questions need for childhood shots Survivors say US healthcare system not ready for new cases – ‘the only thing to fix polio is the polio vaccine’

Every time I write about measles, experts warn that polio is next.

But it's been so long since we had polio outbreaks, there are very few doctors who even know how to treat its long-term health issues. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Union: WNBA made enough money for revenue sharing The WNBA players union says that the league generated enough revenue to trigger revenue sharing.

For the first time in league history, the WNBA generated enough revenue in 2025 to trigger revenue sharing with players. Players will receive $8 million.

The union will also pay out $9.25 million from revenue generated from its group licensing program.

www.espn.com/wnba/story/_...

Two postdoctoral positions (3-year) in Experimental Evolution of Methanogenic Microbiomes in Bioelectrochemical Systems Application deadline: 4 March 2026 at 23:59 hours local Danish time

Hiring: two 3-year Postdoc positions

We’re looking for postdocs who can design and run directed laboratory evolution experiments in microbial communities under electrochemical stimulation, and link adaptations to performance using shotgun meta-omics.

University of Toronto is hiring:
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology

#assistantprofessorposition