Cynthia Becker

Today was yet another sad day for science. All U-RISE training programs, including the one at SJSU, got stop work orders. We've had a version of this program at SJSU for 30+ yrs. Devastating for the students who got their stipends & tuition pulled w no notice & for the future of science 🧪 1/

Hey #Microbiome peps - has anyone generated ONT (10.4) data for full length 16s rRNA analysis and has a data analysis/OTU clustering pipeline they are happy with and are willing to share? TIA!

#nanopore #MicrobiomeSky

Watch this space! www.int-res.com/prepress/m14...

Make sure you follow the #BlackEduSky starter pack

go.bsky.app/R1Fhqjw

Wow, Bluesky really took off in the last couple of days! The first microbiome starter pack is full now and I started a second one with non-overlapping profiles.

Check out these people below and please let me know if you would like to be included!

go.bsky.app/6vPBEty

Love this idea for helping the community make the transition to Bluesky, so I’ve compiled a woefully incomplete list of microbial ecologists and -omics peeps I know are here.

Please make suggestions and share. Let me know if you’d like to be added.

go.bsky.app/TQpaTqF

Happy Halloween from the Ithaca College “Life on the Ocean” class 🦈🎃
When shark day lands (intentionally) on Halloween, of course I have to dress up!

We have a great group of co-chairs, @oceanatalie.bsky.social, @aliciareigel.bsky.social, Jeanne Bloomberg, and Adrian Marchetti!

🌊 #ASLO25 abstracts due Mon, Oct 21st!! 📅

Please consider submitting an abstract to our session SS08: Integrating and developing #omics technologies in #aquatic community #ecology!

*invited speakers* @nekton4plankton.bsky.social & @akiledal.bsky.social

The Best Science Beach Reads For Summer 2024 Discover new science reads for this summer with two authors and science writers familiar with the best books on the shelf.

Best science beach reads from @scifri.bsky.social include books by @beebrookshire.bsky.social @ferrisjabr.bsky.social and @deborahb.bsky.social #scicomm 🧪 www.sciencefriday.com/segments/bes...

Evolutionary Genomics Tenure Track Faculty Position in Biology Department APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

My dept is hiring in Evolutionary Genomics
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

These Barbies do science!! 🧫 🧬 🪸
✅Poster done
✅ Talk done
Now ready to absorb all the other great stuff #ASMicrobe has to offer!

A couple of the lovely ladies of the @lebetimonas.bsky.social lab are in Atlanta for #ASMicrobe! Let’s meet up if you want to talk corals, disease, and microbiomes! 🪸

Talk - AES-IDS-011
Poster- AES-Friday-831

What Huh GIF Alt: What Huh GIF of Travolta

If you’re new to #ASMicrobe from @ASMicrobiology there’s a lot going on you might not know about. Here’s a few things that might help you have a better experience #BinningSingletons 1/n

The ecoevojobs google doc has crowdsourced postdoc, fixed term faculty, and TT faculty jobs!! ecoevojobs.net

Let the #ASMicrobe FOMO begin…. Thanks to everyone posting here! And check out Jean Lim and Aly Rogers’ poster on RNA viruses associated with Karenia brevis harmful algal blooms in Florida. #7239 EEB-P-001 – EEB01 Friday Microbial Ecology. Wundergrad Aly will be giving the lightning talk!

Careers

Multiple science job openings at the ⁦‪Gordon And Betty Moore Foundation ‬ www.moore.org/about/careers

Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2025 Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2025 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...

Back by popular demand - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2025!
PIs - Enter your position info here: forms.gle/adBbhEBqYUg5...
Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) - share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Please share!

Just wrapped up a couple wonderful days at Cornell!! I had a great time sharing my research on sctld & microbes and loved all the science chats with other faculty. Thanks so much to @ianhewson.bsky.social for hosting me!

Extra shout out to my amazing PhD advisor @amyapprill.bsky.social for roping me in as an undergrad on this project so I could continue it all through my PhD!

Nothing says an academic “Happy Birthday” more than having a paper published on your birthday! 🎂🥳🎉🙌🏻
Check out our latest work highlighting how SW microbes capture and predict hurricane and disease (SCTLD) impacts on USVI reefs: enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Had so much fun at #SUNYESF talking all things coral reef microbes and meeting all the wonderful scientists there! Thanks so much for hosting me @hannahgreich.bsky.social! 🪸

Had a blast hosting @cynthiabecker25.bsky.social at our #SUNYESF water seminar. We were treated to exciting coral reef microbe science and stellar graphics. 🪸🌊🧫

Stony coral tissue loss disease: a review of emergence, impacts, etiology, diagnostics, and interven... Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is destructive and poses a significant threat to Caribbean coral reef ecosystems. Characterized by the acute loss of coral tissue, SCTLD has impacted over 22 st...

My Ph.D. student Erin had worked with an amazing group of ECR women to put together this much needed comprehensive review of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD).
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Researchers snorkel above colonies of coral reefs in Kaneohe Bay, studying the impact of climate change on coral resilience amidst a backdrop of natural beauty. (Image: Courtesy of Kristen Brown)

Happy to share our latest research!
Over nearly a decade, we monitored two species of coral in Kāne‘ohe Bay, Hawai‘i to reveal that repetitive exposure to heatwaves leads to divergent coral bleaching and recovery trajectories #coralsky 🪸🐠🧪👩🏻‍🔬 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New opinion piece in @TrendsMicrobiol @CellPressNews

A microbial matter close to my heart: the role of #Endozoicomonas in #corals. @marenziegler.bsky.social and I synthesized evidence from diverse studies, concluding corals and Endoz may not be the dream team we make them out to be 🧫🪸

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Since the fracturing of social media, I don't know where the teachers went 🤔

Are YOU a teacher? Help us find you! #SciEd #Teachers

For grad students and postdocs interested in the Molecular and Cell biology of Symbiosis, come join us at MBL this summer! 4 week course spanning lots of cool organisms and topics. Application deadline Feb 21
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@cbcuconn.bsky.social is offering 2 virtual #bioinformatics training workshops in Jan! Genome Assembly (Jan 8-11) and Genome Annotation (Jan 22-25). 1/2 days, real instructors, real data examples! Learn more & register here: bioinformatics.uconn.edu/cbc-workshops/

Wonderful BlueSky:

We are looking for graduate students and postdocs who could benefit from intense exposure to all-things-microbial at the 2024 Microbial Diversity Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA.

Consider applying / reposting.

www.mbl.edu/education/ad...