From a bluegrass capital in Virginia to a laid-back surf town in Hawaii, these spots are beckoning to tourists this year. bit.ly/3XjXngF

Interested in STEAM? The Resilience Institute Bridging Biological Training & Research (RIBBiTR) is looking for an Artist-in-Residence at our University of Pittsburgh campus (local artists only). Check it out! RIBBiTR.com/join/ Application deadline: July 31, 2024

We have a new position for a MSc level plant-microbe research technician to join our international European Research Council (ERC) #MicroRescue team at EcoMicroLyon in the lovely Lyon, France! CNRS Écologie & Environnement ESA Microbial Ecology ISME emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR…

Microbial co-occurrence network demonstrates spatial and climatic trends for global soil diversity nature.com/articles/s4159…

Millions of mosquitoes released in Hawaii to save rare birds from extinction theguardian.com/environment/ar…

The body is host to an abundant diversity of microorganisms that play critical roles in maintaining human health. A 2022 special issue of Science looked at our understanding of human microbiomes—and what remains to be discovered. scim.ag/7tJ #WorldMicrobiomeDay

Kamala's mother immigrated from India to pursue a PhD & stayed to work as a cancer researcher Kamala's father immigrated from Jamaica to pursue a PhD & stayed to work as a professor Immigrant scientists contribute not only to science but to society at large -- for generations

Amphibian mast cells: barriers to chytrid fungus infections eLife - the journal We show enrichment of frog mast cells (w/ rSCF) confers pathogen (Bd) protection and ameliorates the inflammation-associated skin damage and skin microbiome change caused by Bd infection. doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

Pleased to finally share the Global Amphibian Conservation Action Plan from IUCN SCC Amphibian Specialist Group time to save the amphibians! portals.iucn.org/library/node/5…

Check out the impact of opting to #DrinkBirdFriendly in real time! This Summer Tanager was tagged by the Bird Friendly team on a coffee farm in Colombia in February and was just spotted earlier this month by a birder at Taylorsville Lake State Park in Kentucky! (1/2)

We don’t currently have any grant funding to support Skype A Scientist for 2025 😬 But! We have Frog Facts advent calendars to help float us until I get us funding! They are amazing! Every day scratch off the sparkles to get a frog fact. If we sell 5000 it will fully fund 2025.

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This is one of my favorite papers to assign for incoming graduate students. And, re-reading it for this morning's class gave me some reminders I needed myself. ✨ journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/12…

I am very happy to report that the review Jill Banfield and I wrote on Modern Microbiology just appeared in Cell Press: cell.com/cell/abstract/… Our celebration of microbiology also made it to the cover of this issue and we hope you will find yourself in it, too.