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Rita Strack

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Chief Editor of Nature Biomedical Engineering. Ph.D. Previously at Nature Methods. @rita_strack on the place formerly known as twitter.

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · Aug 1

I have some BIG NEWS to share today!

Today I begin my next adventure as

Chief Editor of Nature Biomedical Engineering!!

(a thread) @natmethods.nature.com @natbiomedeng.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com

a bunch of balloons are flying in the sky .

ALT: a bunch of balloons are flying in the sky .

media.tenor.com

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Jose Luis Rolando @jlrolando.bsky.social · 3h

I am recruiting a PhD student in microbial ecology for my lab at the University of Florida at the Ft. Lauderdale REC. My lab investigates the role of soil and plant-associated microorganisms in ecosystem functions, with an emphasis on biogeochemical cycles.

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 23h

Was recently reminded by a mentor that leading by example also means taking vacation.

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 4d

Today my daughter's school had a walk-a-thon and I got to hear around 400 little kids singing Soda Pop from Kpop demon hunters. Glorious.

Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 5d

There is still plenty of time to apply! Feel free to reach out to me with questions, and please mention our ad to your colleagues or trainees!

Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 20d

Nature Biomedical Engineering is hiring again! This time we're hoping to add an editor with machine learning expertise to the team (although we are open to those with other relevant expertise!) Deadline is Oct 20. Please RT! springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 6d

Voted today! I hope this wasn't my last free and fair election. What a thing to worry about.

Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 7d

I once read that the average Nobel Laureate is a 65 year old man named John. Not sure if that's true but this year's physics prize is not helping. Still well-deserved though.

Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 7d

I hope this Nobel Prize gets people talking meaningfully about our amazing immune systems and the importance of basic research to human health (and funding basic research).

I am also glad young women get to see that women can not only work at this level, but that those who do can get recognized.

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 7d

See, some suffering got you through jetlag.

Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 7d

What an amazing opportunity to do impactful work in bioimage analysis!!!!

Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 7d

Job alert!

We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks?

See also on the forum:
forum.image.sc/t/research-e...

Research engineer in Bioimage Analysis for the researchers of the inIdEx FORMULA

Hi all We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks? The position is in the Instit...

forum.image.sc

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Julius Brennecke @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social · 9d

The Vienna BioCenter PhD Program application deadline is approaching: October 10!

Join one of Europe’s premier life science campuses, home to cutting-edge research across all areas of biology.
Apply and start your scientific journey in Vienna!

training.vbc.ac.at/phd-program/

#PhD #LifeSciences

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Erin Green @erinrgreen.bsky.social · 10d

Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 10d

The sure-fire way to get over jet lag is to suffer for a few days with either exhaustion or insomnia.

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Michalis Averof @michalis-averof.bsky.social · 11d

Here it is! Postdoctoral position to identify the progenitors sensory organs in the regenerating legs of Parhyale

apply here: www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman

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Michalis Averof @michalis-averof.bsky.social · Jul 13

We've just been awarded a grant to study the cellular basis of regeneration – to track the progenitors of sensory organs in the context of leg regeneration, in our favourite crustacean tinyurl.com/parhyale, based on live imaging and cell tracking. The project involves some cool collaborations... 1/3

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 11d

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 11d

One can only aspire to someday have some part of themselves discovered in a vulture's nest.

Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 11d

Medieval sandal, from 14th century, found preserved in vultures nest on a cliff in southern Spain, a rough sandal woven from grasses and twigs

I'm not saying that vultures might also steal single socks from your laundry basket, but y'know...?

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Found: 650-year-old shoe, in vulture nest

Many unexpected human artifacts have been preserved, for centuries, in vulture nests.

www.nationalgeographic.com

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 11d

Every time I am away, it feels like my kids are so grown up when I get home. In the ten days I was in Germany, my son got tests results showing he exceeds expectations for sixth grade in all subjects and my daughter started biking without training wheels! Also I swear they are both taller.

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 12d

I still mask on public transit. If people with PhDs in the life sciences are not doing it, who will? Also I am still afraid of long COVID. If I can avoid it, I will try.

BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 13d

Time and again I hear from people who don't mask that they choose not to because they don't want to be the "weird" one, or the outcast.

The more of us who do it the easier it becomes for others to do it.

There is no downside.

Gina Murrell @ginamurrell1.bsky.social · 13d

In the past week, I've noticed when I enter the #NYC subway in my KN95 mask, one or two other riders - in a train car packed with unmasked riders - timidly reach into their purse or pants pocket, pull out a mask, and put it on. It's like seeing me in a mask gives them the courage to put on theirs. 😷

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 13d

#Editorial

If you have ever been surprised by seeing an editor at a conference and wondered what they are doing there, this month's editorial has all the answers you need.

#MicroSky #AcademicChatter

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why editors go to conferences - Nature Microbiology

You may have spotted us at different conferences and wondered what we’re doing amid active researchers. Here, we demystify the editorial aims of conference attendance.

www.nature.com

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 13d

Despite These Times...my department is hiring! I really like my department, we have a good mix of disciplines and organisms and we're really low-drama. We also get pizza at faculty meeting. So if you're a computational and structural biologist, join us! 🧪 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...

Assistant Professor - Tenure Track Faculty

The Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is inviting applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. The position requires a doc...

jobs.rutgers.edu

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 13d

Last day in Berlin was spent with my wonderful colleagues Barb, Sadra, and Alessandra! The Berlin Nature office is really nice! And I got my first ever schnitzel as a vegetarian, made from oyster mushrooms. Yum!

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 14d

Please start following @natbiomedeng.nature.com! It's an alive account now and we will start posting good content!

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 14d

Staff members at the NIH seem to have done the impossible: spend the agency's $48 billion budget.

“Everyone has been rallying together to clean up the mess, but it’s a mess that did not need to be made,” an NIH program officer told me.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NIH races to spend its 2025 grant money — but fewer projects win funding

Despite political obstacles, officials are on track to disburse all of the research funds allocated to US biomedical behemoth.

www.nature.com

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Ignacio Arganda-Carreras @iarganda.bsky.social · 14d

📣 We’re hiring, please RT! Fully funded 4-year PhD position in our CVPD group at @informatikaehu.bsky.social!

Research at the intersection of AI, deep learning & bioimage analysis. 🧠🔬

📅 Applications open Oct 6 (deadline: ~Oct 27)
📍 San Sebastian, Spain.
👉 cvpd.github.io/post/2025-09...

📢 Open 4-year PhD Position in Deep Learning for Bioimage Analysis! | CVPD Research group

The Computer Vision and Pattern Discovery (CVPD) group at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) is offering a fully funded 4-year PhD position within the recently awarded project TOSBI: Towar...

cvpd.github.io

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 14d

#GEF2025 the meeting is winding down, but it's been an incredible few days. I gave my last talk on behalf of Nature Methods yesterday. It's been amazing to see how far this field has come in ten years. A huge thanks to my hosts Ali and Silvio!!

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 14d

My teammate Jennifer will be at Seeing is Believing, can I connect you two?