Thinking about doing a postdoc? Wondering what we do all day?? Christoph Ziegenhain @sofiavanmoorsel and I tracked over 19 months (!) of work & compared it to our junior postdoc data from 6 yrs ago - check out our article! #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #phdchat elisagranato.com/days-in-the-li…

Emailing your co-author about the draft

New preprint up! We sequenced hundreds of samples from across one of Earth's oldest living organisms - the Pando aspen clone - to understand how mutations accumulate and spread in long-lived clonal organisms. Our results were…surprising. 1/30

#JOBALERT! Biologist with Forst Collins Science Center to assess #restoration outcomes. Apply by TOMORROW: usajobs.gov/job/814805000/…

We ran 80,000 election simulations and women are pissed off and well-organized in every one of them

Waiting for statement by German chancellor Olaf Scholz on his decision to sack his finance minister Christian Lindner tonight. This is the beginning of the end of Germany’s three-way coalition. What a day to break up the German government. #USElection2024

Storage at room temperature is a cost-effective and practical preservation method for dry biocrust microbial communities. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

For women in academia, barriers to having children aren't just finding partners or preserving fertility. It's systemic barriers—relentless relocations, temporary contracts, focus on individual achievement—planning for a family is like an impossible luxury.science.org/content/articl…

Ten species comprise half of the bacteriology literature, leaving most species unstudied bioRxiv Microbiology by Paul A Jensen biorxiv.org/content/10.110… B. subtilis is #6 😍, anyhow, the literature is biased to models Would publications on plants or animals be similarly biased?

Just a heads-up for American TikTok users living abroad: I also lost access and had to make a new account from Germany. It must know I made my original account while I was living in the US.

The German parliament has strengthened maternity protection for women who have suffered miscarriages. The new regulation would grant maternity leave to women who miscarry after the 13th week of pregnancy. dw.com/en/germany-off…

Abstracts due next week - 30th Graduate Student Symposium! - mailchi.mp/a955e12a1fb4/j…

Hey all - do you have a paper that we could review as a lab? I know people want reviewers and we want to teach about reviewing!

Now that I have a baby, it is time to decide which sports franchises he will be forced to support for the rest of his life and in the battle of the Colorado Rockies versus the San Diego Padres, my home team (Rockies) are making it really hard to justify bringing in a new baby fan.

We have a 3-year postdoc position in our group at the HIFMB to study plasmids and plasmids systems of the marine environment to survey their utility in microbial responses to environmental change. Please see the official job ad here and spread the word: jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/2002…

Someone go to this and tell me all about it please!