This could be a metaphor for so many things in society, international relations, etc ...

1/3 To those interested in microbial iron & metal transport: In 1992, the late JB Neilands (UCB), the pioneer in the study of Fe transport entrusted me with his collection of purified siderophores from a wide range of microbes—many of them unique chemical species that can no longer be reproduced

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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The Peters lab is looking for a new team member! The role transposons play in evolution, basic mechanisms regulating transposition, and applying transposons as tools for genome modification with a special focus on guide RNA-directed transposition. cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...

Interested in a tenure track position teaching and doing research with undergrads at a PUI? We are looking for a broadly-defined microbiologist who can teach Med Micro and Immunology. Apply at universityofscrantonjobs.com/postings/8308. Pls share widely to feeds (& on twitter if you still tweet)! 🦠

If you've got kids in the Chicago area, come to the South Side Science Fest on Saturday!
southsidescience.event.uchicago.edu?utm_source=H...

First publication from our lab!

Sorry I'm having trouble getting access to the full text, so maybe you can help me out here. I'm more-or-less self-taught in micro stuff. If temperate phages are the ones that can form lysogens, why are they not synonymous? What am I missing here? Thanks in advance ...

Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change.

Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned

Does anyone know a gene in E. coli that duplicated "fairly recently", as to compare and contrast it's sequence divergence with that found in mobile elements?

#sciencesky #microsky

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers.

My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.

We found 437 of them.

Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

New Notice about No-Cost Extensions...

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If you can't lick 'em, join 'em!

reposting from a different social media site:
mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com/editors-picks
Featuring cutting-edge work on TE evolution, function & regulation.
#TEs #MobileDNA

Looking forward to this new installment of the Woods Hole Mobile DNA Meeting! Fantastic program, laid-back atmosphere, and gorgeous setting at the Marine Biological Laboratory ⛵️🪼🐋
Abstract submission closes Aug 7 but registration after that date is possible. www.eventsquid.com/event.cfm?ev...

I NEED to tell you the story of Tae Heung “William” Kim.

He's a graduate student at Texas A&M where he's working on a vaccine for Lyme disease.

He's a *legal permanent resident* of the United States.

And he's been in ICE detention for 12 days & counting, transferred Tuesday to South Texas.

only 17??

It also means that enormous time and energy is being wasted writing proposal instead of doing science.
The overall NIH system may need serious reform, but this is vandalism.

Our work expanding the Large Serine Integrase toolkit is finally out! We used alphafold-multimer to identify likely recombination directionality factors and tested them experimentally. Much credit to fantastic postdoc Heewhan Shin.
@heewhanshin.bsky.social‬
#Alphafold
#MobileGeneticElements

Thank you!!
People who write such comprehensive reviews render a valuable service to all.

Check out this new review (with animations, natch) of mechanisms of licensing origins of DNA replication - a wonderful (and continuing!) collaboration with Bruce Stillman @cshlnews.bsky.social and John Diffley @crick.ac.uk! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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