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Postdoc in Archaea Microbiology - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Biology - Microbiology, Aarhus University

Postdoc position on Asgard archaea in Thiago’s new lab for someone well trained in biochemistry, cloning, and protein purification:
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We’re hiring: Research Group Leader in computational biology.

Are you generating more research ideas than you can explore? Lead cutting-edge AI & biology research at EMBL-EBI.

Apply by 11 April 2026: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

#ScienceCareers @ewaldlab.org @embl.org

Open for registration now! 🌱

The new working group on Plant Biotechnology within the German Society for Plant Breeding will held its first workshop in March 2026.

I'm looking forward to an amazing meeting!

New paper! From Sam Snodgrass and @genomeofforrest.bsky.social, w/ @druncie.bsky.social, @gcbias.bsky.social, and a collaboration with Andres Moreno and @santiagogmm.bsky.social. Can we quantify the impact of humans on maize dispersal?

Plant yourself in a comfy chair and lend me your ear:

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Feel like doing a SynBio PhD in Spain? Check this offer, many fellowships available 👉🏻 lifehub.csic.es/synbio-cofund/

10/28 Our hypothesis: chlorophototrophy and retinalophototrophy together create an evolutionary priority effect. They've saturated the available phototrophic niche space, blocking any newcomer from gaining a foothold. Two is the magic number because two is all it takes to fill that space.

So you sequenced a billion+ bases. That don’t impress me much.

JERBOA is a toolkit to figure out what genes do at scale. We've used it to unlock 43 non-model microbes across 12 different phyla.

A small physical calendar in front of the instrument.

Yeah , did that today , as most other days.

In terms of Northern Hemisphere day length changes, February is the best month. Day length is increasing rapidly now, and the month brings us from the middle of winter to the first signs of spring.

Mycoplasma bacterial cell partly painted as a diagram, partly from a microscope image, and partly as a mash-up with a map of the village I grew up in. Blue, brown and yellow ocre acrylic on paper.

Not managed to check out my crazy bacteria vs castles #sciart project yet? Well let me tell you about it
#biosky #artsky

I like drawing #bacteria, but I wanted to add texture to make the drawing more EXCITING! So I added a map of the village I grew up in.

This is a Mycoplasma. (We call her Mimi.)

I never get how this is not the reviewers first concern. 🫠

Research Group Leader Do you want to lead groundbreaking research in computational biology? Join us at EMBL-EBI! EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) is seeking talented and highly-motivated scientists to jo...

We are hiring for group leaders again — EBI is a great place to start your research group!

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New paper out in @pnas.org, and it made the cover! 👁️

We represent plasmids as circles and mutations as dots, resembling an eye, because in this paper we literally 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ plasmids evolve.

‼️Check Paula’s 🧵 and the paper👇

𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗺𝗶𝗱 𝗺𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝘆 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Full Professor and Chair Laboratory of Biophysics We are looking for a Full Professor in the Biophysics chair group, part of Wageningen University & Research (WUR)

The Laboratory of Biophysics at Wageningen University & Research (NL) is looking for a new chair! Details here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/f...

Congratulations! Surely the first graduate of many to come. Hope you find the time to celebrate this milestone. 🧪🌻

Picture of Jolina and me, happily smiling after her defense.

I'm so happy and proud! 😇
Yesterday, Jolina successfully defended her excellent master's thesis, thereby completing her dual study programme in #Biotechnology at the @hsanhalt.bsky.social and the @leibnizipk.bsky.social. This is also the first graduation completed within the #BGEgroup.

Bacteria are amazing! The abundant Dps protein binds and protects DNA in stationary-phase cells with minimal effect on chromosome accessibility, dynamics, and organization. Now in NAR doi.org/10.1093/nar/...; I'm really proud of our multidisciplinary team led by Lauren, Lindsay, and Xiaofeng, et al.

Why I’m genetically engineering a rainbow flower…

And how a Russian fairy tale inspired the idea 🧵

a man wearing a beanie says " yeah science " Alt: Jeffie (ok Jessie) Pinkman from Breaking Bad wearing a beanie says " yeah science" and points. Hey did anyone watch Pluribus? Sick show, we Stan Vince Gilligan. I bet his middle name is Jeff.

Bluesky is definitely a place for science, research and citing papers. We hope it will continue to close the gap as rapidly as it has with legacy social media. Research, science and dank memes need many homes on the internet.

Bluesky provides one of the more inviting ones.

Happy New Year.

Totally! 💯
Whenever there is a survey here in the UK, I keep suggesting that every grant holder should review 4 grant proposals per year for the body from which they receive funding. This should be a commitment at the stage of accepting the award.
If you have received,you give back to the community

@zeit.de ist dort auch immernoch vertreten. Ich hab mein Abonnement jetzt gekündigt. Hab da auch kein Verständnis mehr für.

Creating bacterial genomic diversity through large-scale reconfigurations reveals phenotype robustness to organizational genome change The ability to generate genomic diversity expands opportunities for understanding and engineering biology. Here, we demonstrate on-demand generation of diversity in bacterial genome configurations and...

After 4 years of joint effort of my Lab and Dr. Llorente Team we took for first time SCRaMbLE to a bacterial system! This allowed us to massively reordered the main chromosome of Vibrio natriegens!

biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Here's a 🧵

Hello Bluesky! We’re here to talk #microbes, #metabolism, #CRISPR, #metabolomics and more.

Pint jar filled with blue dry beans.

A few years ago, through luck and vibes, I managed to produce this blue colored bean variety.

This was an early step in trying to answer the question, [paraphrased] "Why isn't blue as common as red in beans, even though they're both anthocyanins and the plant has the genes for both?"

Doing some tricky organic chemistry with "Feuerzangenbowle".

"The silhouette of the araucaria is very recognizable and has become a symbol for the southern regions of Argentina and Chile. Araucarias appear on the coats of arms of Neuquén Province and Araucanía Region." CREDIT: Ferna.mf , Wikimedia Araucarias en Parque Nacional Conguillio

These strange trees are called 'pewen' or 'piñonero' in their native Chile, but when they reached England as an ornamental, barrister Charles Austin commented:

"It would puzzle a monkey to climb that"

So now, in English, they're called "monkey-puzzles."

They get weirder up close...

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New GM tomato available for sale!!!

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Bluesky post from @chemscrapes.bsky.social of a t shirt of their own design that says "Shake that big round bottom" with a cartoon round bottom flask. Below that post is a post from @sleepyneutrons.bsky.social of a holiday sweater that says "Chernobyl 1986 Safety Operations Team" with a radiation symbol and holiday and Chernobyl imagery in the design.

Today's timeline theme is "Awesome Shirts" apparently.

A long standing goal in synthetic biology is ‘PURE makes PURE’ - effectively the start of self-replicating biology in a tube from just adding biochemicals and DNA instructions. This looks like a promising breakthrough from the Maerkl lab. 👀