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ThePatrick&WatsonLabs @thepwlab.bsky.social · 5d

Right?!?! SO RUDE! We'll have to spell out "GO DORES" with our pipettes or something in response.

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ThePatrick&WatsonLabs @thepwlab.bsky.social · 5d

The person packing our VWR order chose violence today. #secfootball #anchordown

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Heran Darwin, PhD @heran.bsky.social · 7d

If it wasn't clear, this ad is for tenure track Microbiology faculty at the assistant professor level😬

Heran Darwin, PhD @heran.bsky.social · 7d

We're hiring! Check out our ad and please re-post or forward to interested #Microbiology parties: apply.interfolio.com/174783

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Department of Microbiology, The University of Chicago @uocmicrobiology.bsky.social · 8d

UChicago Microbiology is searching for tenured or tenure-track faculty working in host-pathogens interactions, viral and bacterial pathogenesis, and emerging infectious diseases. Come join our vibrant Department! microbiology.uchicago.edu
Apply here apply.interfolio.com/174404

Department of Microbiology | The University of Chicago

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Shabaana Khader @khadershabaana.bsky.social · 9d

Dear #microbiology and #immunology community- I took a break from social media after I deleted my Twitter account, but am back here. Please help me rebuild my community by following me and amplifying this message- I will follow you back. Thank you and I look forward to our many interactions!

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ThePatrick&WatsonLabs @thepwlab.bsky.social · 12d

If you are somehow still compelled to be a PI in the world in which we find ourselves, we'd love to have you as a colleague!

Two positions in Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University.

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Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University - Nashville, Tennessee job with Vanderbilt University School of Medicine | 12843515

Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine—Basic Sciences

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ThePatrick&WatsonLabs @thepwlab.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks, boss! Good advice!

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ThePatrick&WatsonLabs @thepwlab.bsky.social · 14d

Anyone know if IAR shuts down if the government shuts down?

Study Section peeps might want to download the grants they have to review...

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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 15d

According to news reports, NIH is on track to award nearly all of its FY25 budget. Program officers—working long hours despite staff losses—made it possible. Take a moment to thank your PO for their dedication.

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ThePatrick&WatsonLabs @thepwlab.bsky.social · 17d

Deadly pathogens have never been cuter!

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Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 29d

A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails.
Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits.
Thank you!

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ThePatrick&WatsonLabs @thepwlab.bsky.social · Sep 11

Not necessarily a substitute, but I really enjoyed the pumpkin munchkins we got for lab meeting last week.

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ThePatrick&WatsonLabs @thepwlab.bsky.social · Sep 10

So depressing and so unsurprising.

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ThePatrick&WatsonLabs @thepwlab.bsky.social · Sep 8

Came here for this. What a win!

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Julie Pfeiffer @jkpfeiff.bsky.social · Aug 18

Faculty search announcement 2025: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (some preference may be given to bacterial pathogens). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...

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ThePatrick&WatsonLabs @thepwlab.bsky.social · Aug 18

Not trying to argue that the situation isn't dire, but for accuracy sake, this is under-reporting. I had a type 2 award on 8/11 from NIGMS that's not on Reporter yet.

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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · Aug 7

Any plant biologist with a funded NIH R35 MIRA ESI willing to share their proposal with me? THANKS. #PlantSciences

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Steve Baker @sfbkr.bsky.social · Jul 28

Preprint on tandem split-GFP influenza viruses is now up! We strung 7 copies of GFP11 together to make a bright virus with minimal fitness defects. Fluorescence requires GFP1-10 from cells, so we made a few that are relevant for flu. See this fluorescent love story: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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ThePatrick&WatsonLabs @thepwlab.bsky.social · Jul 17

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ThePatrick&WatsonLabs @thepwlab.bsky.social · Jul 15

A P/W lab student who had his F31-DIV terminated just got a very fundable score on the (same) F31 he submitted again as a new application in April.

Its almost as if his science and aptitude had nothing to do with "DEI" 🤔

Hope this inspires others with unfairly terminated awards to try again!

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ThePatrick&WatsonLabs @thepwlab.bsky.social · Jul 12

Scientist boy band?

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ThePatrick&WatsonLabs @thepwlab.bsky.social · Jul 2

Yay!!! But also explain this to me—GA wasn’t part of the lawsuit, right? Everyone keeps saying it’s restricted to states that sued, but NIH actions are maybe inconsistent with that (I hope?)

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ThePatrick&WatsonLabs @thepwlab.bsky.social · Jun 30

Want to learn more about all the ways macrophages regulate their functions downstream of transcription? Check out our new review, the brainchild of two talented trainees: Mackenzie Smith @u2afwho.bsky.social in the Patrick lab and Ed Courvan in the Parker lab.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Plans within plans: post-transcriptional regulation governs macrophage responses

Macrophages are sentinels and first responders of the innate immune system. By sensing danger signals, they initiate and amplify inflammatory and rege…

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ThePatrick&WatsonLabs @thepwlab.bsky.social · Jun 29

The Post Malone ones are also quite good.

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ThePatrick&WatsonLabs @thepwlab.bsky.social · Jun 26

IAI: Zero open access fees and a reasonable review process.
5 stars, will be back!

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Andreas Bäumler @abaumler.bsky.social · Jun 26

The new open access policy of NIH will take effect next week (July 1st). All NIH funded research 🔬🧪🧬accepted after July 1st must be open access upon publication. Worried about fees? 💸 Check out how IAI stacks up against other journals—you might be surprised. #OpenAccess #SciComm #Microbiology

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