Jay T Lennon

Diversify Microbiology This is a self-nomination form, entries submitted on behalf of someone else will be deleted. This list is intended for individuals who have completed a PhD or otherwise are employed in a professional ...

Diversify Microbiology is now open to all professionals working in the microbiology field. Nominate yourself at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Applied & environmental microbial scientists are central to addressing today’s global challenges. Submit your session proposal for the ASM Applied & Environmental Microbiology Meeting at #ASMicrobe 2026 by 2 p.m. ET on Aug. 5. Learn more: asm.social/2wC

US senators poised to reject Trump’s proposed massive science cuts Committee gives first hint that policymakers might preserve, rather than slash, funding for US National Science Foundation and other agencies.

US senators poised to reject Trump’s proposed massive science cuts www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Luo Lab - Microbial Ecology - join The Luo Lab is accepting applications for funded Postdoc and PhD opportunities. Details below. Lab members will have access to state-of-the art wet lab, and computing, and sequencing resources, inclu...

Funded postdoc + PhD opportunities in marine microbial ecology! Please share with folks that might be interested.

Start date is flexible (fall 2025 to summer 2026)

More about the lab + applying (Postdoc rolling, PhD apps due Oct/Jan):
sites.google.com/uncc.edu/mic...

Microbial cross-feeding stabilized by segregation of a dependent mutant from its independent ancestor Abstract. Microbial gene loss is hypothesized to be beneficial when gene function is costly, and the gene product can be replaced via cross-feeding from a

Microbial cross-feeding stabilized by segregation of a dependent mutant from its independent ancestor academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs

Microbial cross-feeding stabilized by segregation of a dependent mutant from its independent ancestor Abstract. Microbial gene loss is hypothesized to be beneficial when gene function is costly, and the gene product can be replaced via cross-feeding from a

Microbial cross-feeding stabilized by segregation of a dependent mutant from its independent ancestor

#ISMEJournal by @ofsheff.bsky.social et al from @jakemckinlay.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Exciting news from the IU Biology Greenhouse!

Wally, our corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum), is officially preparing to bloom! 🪴🌸

🎥You can watch the livestream: go.iu.edu/8tM8

📷: Jessica L. Hooten, Department of Biology

Interested in biodiversity, macroecology, spatial ecology, conservation?

@nmouquet.bsky.social put together a global ecology starter pack, two volumes are already full but you can DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join the Vol_3.

Let’s keep the community growing 🌐

HUD has been touring the building for months. NSF says nothing…”nothing to see here”.

I’m quite sick of gaslighting, bullying, and lack of respect for science and academia. It’s getting harder and harder to take.

Our paper in @science.org 👉🏽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

is accompanied by an especially thoughtful perspective by Carey Nadell and Chris Marx 👉🏽
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Water is essential, but 1 in 3 people still lack access to safe drinking water. ASLO recently supported @agu.org and @asm.org in producing a report on how climate change fuels waterborne infections and how science can help. Check it out now: asm.org/reports/wate...

Binning Singletons With Joseph James Joseph James, biologist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, discusses his career trajectory and the creation of Binning Singletons, a unique mentorship program built on peer-to-peer…

Do you like podcasts? Learn about Binning Singletons and founder @tallcuppajoe.bsky.social on @asm.org “Meet the Microbiologist” and register for this year's #BinningSingletons @ #ASMicro event! binningsingletons.com/singleton/bi... 🧪

I am working with ASM to re-launch the Central NY ASM Branch! 🧫🦠

We have funds allocated for us and now just need 25 signatures from ASM members in the geographic region in support of this branch.

More info is in the form and also I’ve attached a FAQ sheet.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.

How bad will it be? Catastrophic.

Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.

But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.

Speak up now before it is too late.

(inflation adjusted $-s below)

McCarthy Attacked Individual Professors. Trump Is Going After Entire Campuses. Historian Ellen Schrecker says the current assault is worse than the 1950’s anti-communist repression of higher ed.

“The damage that the Trump administration is doing is absolutely beyond the pale and has never, never been equaled in American life with regard to higher education.”

Trump administration cuts to NSF will result in more than 200,000 FEWER people per year involved in basic science, training, and education - what should have been the next generation of US scientists. This isn't even eating your seed corn, it is setting your seed corn on fire and salting the earth.

The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath

Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision…

Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter.

If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide

Friday PM attempted massacre... of science.

The fight is not over. There are things to do.

Organize with @standupforscience.bsky.social

Get informed: scienceimpacts.org

Call your representative & ask: what are they doing to stop the self-destruction of American's innovation economy?

Stabilisation of Fluctuating Population Dynamics via the Evolution of Dormancy Endogenous population fluctuations create conditions where dormancy can be adaptive as a bet-hedging strategy. In turn, dormancy tends to stabilise population fluctuations. Using simple but flexible ....

"Stabilisation of Fluctuating Population Dynamics via the Evolution of Dormancy"

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Read the May summary of science on climate change and microbes via @asm.org: tinyurl.com/44a998e5

And learn more about the American Academy of Microbiology's (AAM) "Climate Change & Microbes" scientific portfolio: tinyurl.com/ysyv5scj

Working link:

microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...

A schema of study units based on three aspects of species: their spatiotemporal association (geography), their evolutionary relationships (phylogeny), and their ecological requirements and effects (niche). Each of those aspects defines a different unit of study: community, clade, and guild, respectively. The intersections of those units define additional, more proscribed units that are subsets of two or more larger units.

🆕 in Ecological Monographs' "Method" section: A new framework maps how, where & what we measure in biodiversity research, uniting 130 metrics and clear guidelines so ecologists pick the right tools for the right questions

📄The units of biodiversity
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

Join Drs. Amanda Gibson (University of Virginia), Corlett Wood (University of Pennsylvania), Lynda Delph (Indiana University), and Curt Lively (Indiana University) for a six-day workshop on evolutionary biology for early career graduate students. During this week, you'll have the time and support to think deeply about the evolutionary questions that excite you and to engage in focused conversations with a small group of peers. As your group shapes ideas into a research proposal, you'll practice communicating with one another and articulating yourself in writing. The workshop will also include tutorials on the art of science writing and question development. We have found this workshop to be particularly valuable for students who are early in their PhD, prior to writing their dissertation proposal. We assume some prior experience working in the field of evolutionary biology. The research proposal is an exercise in scientific thought and communication; it will reflect the mutual interests of your group and does not need to focus on your specific dissertation research. So, come prepared to work with your group on a wide range of evolutionary questions and approaches that may fall outside your area of expertise! Workshop dates: July 27 - August 2, 2025 Enrollment limit: 16 Cost: $300 (with financial assistance available, including registration awards for student members of the American Society of Naturalists) Deadline for cancelation with refund: July 13, 2025 Location: Mountain Lake Biological Station, Pembroke, Virginia For more information and to register, visit https://mlbs.virginia.edu/evolutionary-biology-workshop

Join us for an Evolution workshop at the beautiful Mountain Lake Biological Station this July.

Our preprint on evolved formate assimilation by recent-grad Dr. Brittany Mazny. How is the CO2 intermediate retained to prime the Calvin cycle? The answer includes pigment production as an overlooked CO2 concentrating mechanism. w @blasarre.bsky.social + A Govindaraju www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

X version of NSF text on cancelled grants

The comms working at the NSF on X had this to say.

Americans should know that for 75 years NSF has supported science and technology in the nation's service & helped to secure the national defense.

Breaking it will have consequences for decades to come.

We need an *independent* NSF now.

Together with leading science organizations, ASM filed an amicus brief calling for immediate restoration of NIH grants supporting early-career scientists. Read the press release: asm.org/press-releas...

About NSF’s new(est) bulletin -

15% indirect cost rates will kill universities.

Apparently that’s the point.

I am sick.

Announcing the mSystems special collection on microbial dormancy | mSystems Many microorganisms can persist in a reversible state of reduced metabolic activity called dormancy. Dormancy allows microbes to survive unfavorable conditions, disperse and immigrate widely, broaden ...

Part of special collection on microbial dormancy led by @ashley17061.bsky.social: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...