Jeremy G Bird

Our department and UD are a great place to be, with excellent collaborative colleagues and with a lot of fantastic resources available to researchers including outstanding Bioimaging, Sequencing, and Mass spectroscopy core facilities.

My department (Biological Sciences) at the University of Delaware is looking for a new tenure track assistant professor with a research focus on biomolecular sensing broadly. 🧪#molbiol #microsky
careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...

I recommend Penrose brewing in Geneva (not far south down the Fox River). Excellent sours and other fun beers.

This is a transmission electron micrograph of a t-even family E. coli phage. The capsid head is visible as a dark spot in the upper lefthand corner with the tail protruding from it. The tail fibers are also just visible.

My Experimental Microbiology students have all successfully cultured their phage! And thanks to the U Delaware Bioimaging Core we have really nice TEM images. Next step, genome sequencing. 🧪#MoBiol

Celebratory birb! 🪶 #birds

New in JB: There are many ways to regulate transcription. Jayasinghe and Babitzke review the role of RNA polymerase pausing in the control of gene expression in several microbes.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
@asm.org #JBacteriology

A female ruby throated hummingbird hovers under a butterfly bush flower spike while feeding on nectar from its flowers. The hummingbird's prismatic back feathers are showing both blue and green.

A female ruby throated humming bird perches on the stamen of a red and white lily flower and picks ants out of the inside of the flower. Her back and wings are pointed towards the viewer.

#birds More hummingbirds just because (just because they'll be migrating away soon enough and we'll miss them).

😬 No thanks. So many nightmares (Both physical and administrative).

Exactly. It should be a sealed source. It should take monumental mistreatment of the irradiator to make the thing leak.

A snowberry clearwing (Hummingbird moth) feeds from a flower while hovering above it.

A female ruby-throated hummingbird feeds from a purple salvia flower with the entirety of it's beak in the flower.

A female ruby-throated hummingbird mid-flight with its wings fully extended and a distinct black marking on her neck.

A great black wasp crawls on small pink flowers looking for pollen

When at the Genetics of Bacteria and Phage meeting #phages2025 it's important to visit Olbrich botanical gardens for the macrobiology #birds #wildlife #photography

An asymmetric nautilus-like HflK/C assembly controls FtsH proteolysis of membrane proteins | The EMBO Journal imageimageThe hexameric E. coli AAA-proteases FtsH associates with HflK/C subunits to form large membrane-spanning assemblies which similarly exist in eukaryotic organelles. Here, a new cryo-EM struct...

Alireza Ghanbarpour: gorgeous, asymmetrical, monstrous HflK/C-FtsH complex that proteolyses membrane proteins in #Ecoli revealed by cryoEM #phages2025 🦠

www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

I prefer the simpler Eppendorf M4 repeaters as they aren’t electronic (they have a battery but it’s only for the screen). Plus you can get calibrated used ones for $350ish. I still have a OG West German 4780 model too but finding tips that still fit is challenging. Never needed calibration though.

Important to note: 1. The job search that he applied to ultimately hired a different white man and 2. He is mad because a separate department from the one he applied to was directly recruiting a senior faculty member from another university who happened to be a black woman. Absolute nonsense.

A turkey vulture strikes a pose, looking over its shoulder at the camera with its distinctive red head wrinkles prominently displayed.

More adventures in bird portraiture #birds 🪶
Bombay Hook, DE July 2025

A turkey vulture strikes a pose, looking over its shoulder at the camera with its distinctive red head wrinkles prominently displayed.

More adventures in bird portraiture #birds 🪶
Bombay Hook, DE July 2025

Two Willits stand guard on top of a dune keeping watch for predators

Two female black scoters waddle along the beach to get away from the photographer

Two for #TwosDay #birds #wildlife Long Beach Island, NJ July 2025

A ghost crab sits on the sand wearily watching the photographer after it was startled out of its burrow.

A surprising daytime friend. Ghost Crab. Long Beach Island, NJ. July, 2025.

Least Terns - exchanging a fish!
Early July, Surf Drive Beach, MA

A common tern flaps its wings as it flies along the beach

A least tern stands amongst sea shells near its nest.

A least tern soars above looking for fish in the water.

A common tern hovers over the water looking for fish

Terns! Terns! Terns! Early July, Long Beach Island, NJ #birds #wildlife

Piping Plover family enjoying the beach life bordering the Great Sippewisett Marsh. Barnstable County, MA. #birds

Nice!

A ruby-throated humming bird sticks its beak into a tiny Lavender flower searching for nectar.

A ruby-throated hummingbird feeds on a lavender flower that has a lady beetle on it.

A ruby-throated humming bird shows off his lovely red gorget as he flies through a lavender plant looking for flowers to feed from.

Back home from the Microbial Transcription Gordon Conference and glad to see our hummingbirds are settled in to our yard for the season right on time. Photo credit: Amber Krauchunas. #birds #wildlife

A male indigo bunting perches on a wild rose branch while checking out the photographer. He is displaying his deep blue chest.

Another good sighting today. Indigo bunting on an overgrown slope. Chester County, PA. #birds #wildlife

A ruby-throated humming bird sticks its beak into a tiny Lavender flower searching for nectar.

A ruby-throated hummingbird feeds on a lavender flower that has a lady beetle on it.

A ruby-throated humming bird shows off his lovely red gorget as he flies through a lavender plant looking for flowers to feed from.

Back home from the Microbial Transcription Gordon Conference and glad to see our hummingbirds are settled in to our yard for the season right on time. Photo credit: Amber Krauchunas. #birds #wildlife

Our paper describing a method for measuring cotranscriptional RNA folding using high-throughput RNA chemical probing is out @natcomms.nature.com!

A pileated woodpecker looks up from a grass covered rotten log that it has been probing for bugs.

A pileated woodpecker ascends a tree trunk and shows off its distinctive red cap.

Pileated woodpecker #birds #wildlife

A snowy egret wades through leg deep water with its beak open and its reflection clearly visible in front of it.

A snowy egret strikes the water as it attempts to catch a fish, causing a big splash.

I made a new friend while taking a break from writing. Woods Hole, MA. May, 2025. #birds

A wading semipalmated plover walks through the water with its wings out stretched as it prepares to fly away. Its reflection is clearly visible beneath it.

Semipalmated Plover. Bombay Hook, Smyrna, DE. May, 2025. #birds

There is nothing better. #birds

A chipping sparrow perches in a fir tree and shows his good side to the camera person. April 2025.

A tufted titmouse pops up behind foliage to check out the camera person. May 2025.

Bird headshots. Chipping Sparrow and Tufted Titmouse. #birds