Nicole Dubilier

If you’re applying to your dream lab for an internship/PhD/postdoc, always send a second email 1-2 weeks after the first one if you don’t hear back.

I promise we will be grateful rather than annoyed. My email inbox is a disaster and I’m quite junior - and very few of us have secretarial support

Yup

So much wisdom from Jane Goodall over the years. But I believe the 'difficult women' quote, @jay.bsky.team, is by Karen Karbo. Still iconic.

not a single news org signed. that's what it takes. stand together. everywhere, every time.

Dear @apnews.com

The republicans control congress. Democrats did not vote down anything. If the GOP wanted to fund the government, they could have changed the rules to pass a CR with a simple majority like they did 11 days ago to approve 48 trump appointees at once.

Fix your headline.

Welcome MarMic Newbies!

Among them, a Poretsky Lab alum whom we miss very much here in Chicago (but are so excited for.)

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended.

It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

The Political Scene | The New Yorker The Washington Roundtable is joined by the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Keren Yarhi-Milo, the dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, to discuss...

Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous.

It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy."

Because that's not how America works.
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Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash.

Pam Bondi knew.

Kash Patel knew.

Emil Bove knew.

And they made the investigation go away.

A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

Agreed. I’ve been thinking a lot of David Rose this past week and about why the Ezra Kleins of this world did not think that it warranted the same kind of attention as the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.

Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.

People have power. Ask Target

In case you wonder which platforms are here to help creators thrive and which are here to tell us to eat shit, here’s the breakdown of likes for crab, 15 hours after posting. Follower count in () for more useful comparison.

TikTok(2k): 139
Instagram (22k): 719
Tumblr (13k): 12k
Bsky (52k): 22k

There’s a leak - and a conceptual artist - at the Max Planck 👌

Robert Redford on the phone, plus Dustin Hoffman. From All the President’s Men

When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.

Computational image analyst (m/f/d) The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster, Germany, has an opening for a

My lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social is looking for a computational biologist with a passion for imaging and spatial biology. A staff scientist position with long-term perspective! Apply and spread the word 🙏 jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/jobposting/0...

✈️ Calling all grad students & postdocs in microbial ecology!
Want to work, train, or collaborate abroad? ISME’s Scholar Mobility Fund can help you get there.
📅 Apply by 1 October
🌍 Open to applicants worldwide (esp. outside NA & Europe!)
Details: isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar...
#MicrobialEcology

“They are a progressive city, and they don’t want the president’s help. That’s on them. It’s horrific that they don’t want President Trump’s help.” “Chicago should be begging Donald Trump for help to keep Chicago safe,” Bondi added. “Yet, they aren’t so we’re going to go into a city who wants us there.”

Certainly looks like we scared the President away from Chicago. Fighting like hell works.

THIS is amazing!

Why would any foreign country invest in a nation that did this?

Synthetically designed anti-defense proteins overcome barriers to bacterial transformation and phage infection Bacterial defense systems present considerable barriers to both phage infection and plasmid transformation. These systems target mobile genetic elements, limiting the efficacy of bacteriophage-based t...

Preprint: De-novo design of proteins that inhibit bacterial defenses

Our approach allows silencing defense systems of choice. We show how this approach enables programming of “untransformable” bacteria, and how it can enhance phage therapy applications

Congrats Jeremy Garb!
tinyurl.com/Syttt
🧵

How thoughtful experimental design can empower biologists in the omics era - Nature Communications Here, the authors discuss principles of experimental design that are relevant for all biology research, along with special considerations for projects using -omics approaches, highlighting common expe...

I am really excited to see this article on basic experimental design principles published. Definitely will be mandatory reading for incoming graduate students in my lab. Maggie Wagner who led this article did an amazing job with the illustrations of basic principles www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mapping the transcriptional landscape of algal resistance to viral infection reveals a core expression program Algal blooms and their demise by viruses drive global-scale ecological processes in the ocean. These blooms form the foundation of marine food webs, regulate microbial communities, and shape biogeoc...

📣 We are excited to share our latest paper, led by @taliashaler.bsky.social! We explore the transcriptional basis of #microalgae resistance to #viral_infection and identified a core group of resistance-related genes. >>
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#New_Phytologist #Marine_Biology #Viruses

Check out our paper led by @vesnagrujcic.bsky.social on step by step symbiotic interactions of cyanobacteria with their diatom hosts!

photo of a string of algal cells and the same string under fluorescence microscopy showing glowing blobs inside each cell

Partnership between #algae & #bacteria reveals secrets of evolution phys.org/news/2025-08...

Stepwise genome #evolution from a facultative symbiont to an endosymbiont in the N2-fixing symbioses www.cell.com/current-biol... #protists by @vesnagrujcic.bsky.social, @mehrshmali.bsky.social, et al.

Tens of thousands in Tel Aviv are calling to stop the war and return of all hostages after nearly 700 days.

Not-so-mutually beneficial coral symbiosis The partnership between corals and their intracellular algal symbionts has long been a textbook example of mutually beneficial association. In this essay, Mikhail Matz argues for an updated view in which the coral acts more as a farmer of algal cells to support its own growth.

I missed this when it came out last September - excellent essay!
Not-so-mutually beneficial coral symbiosis: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Examples of protein annotations across functional classification schemes. Yellow: hierarchical classification schemes, red: orthologous/homologous groups, and blue: methods using protein domain information. Protein structures were generated using the ColabFold Alphafold MMseqs2 interactive notebook (version 1.5.2) (57) and visualized using ChimeraX (58). (A) Functional labels associated with the glycogen synthase protein in Escherichia coli (UniprotKB P0A6U8). (B) Functional labels associated with Kehishuvirus sp. tikala major capsid protein (NCBI WEU69752.1).

New in @asm.org #MMBR Computational function prediction of bacteria and phage proteins. How to annotate your #phage and #bacteria genomes

by @susiegriggo.bsky.social @bedutilh.bsky.social @gbouras13.bsky.social and Bob

#phagesky #microsky

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alpha Uni: Meeresbiologie studieren · Artenvielfalt unter Wasser erforschen - hier anschauen Shari macht ihre Liebe für den Ozean und seine Bewohner schon jetzt zum Beruf. Sie studiert Meeresbiologie an der Universität Bremen. Auf den Azoren leitet sie Tauchexpeditionen, um Geld zu verdienen ...

Was macht man eigentlich im Meeresbiologie-Studium?

Shari Moscoso, Studentin & Hiwi @nicoledubilier.bsky.social, erzählt vom Studium @unibremen.bsky.social, was #Bremen so besonders (toll) macht, wie cool unsere Forschung und wie schön der Planet Meer ist!

www.ardmediathek.de/video/alpha-...

Join us! This is more than a scientific meeting, it's a platform to catalyze collaboration, share knowledge openly and develop solutions for safeguarding marine ecosystems in a changing world. Great line-up of speakers and early bird rate still available!

Please RT!