In the right conditions, antibiotic resistance can happen extremely fast. Here is an example from my own work of bacteria overcoming an antibiotic in just eleven days in a giant petri dish: 1/

This entire line of research, after being repeatedly selected in rigorous open national competitions for funding, was cut this week as collective political retribution x.com/baym/status/19…

I went on WBUR today to talk about the grant terminations and the importance of basic medical research wbur.org/news/2025/05/1…

Just out in PNAS! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… "The evolution of thermal performance curves in response to rising temperatures across the model genus yeast". Beautiful work using experimental evolution to forecast climate impacts on biodiversity by Jennifer Molinet Jennifer Molinet

This is just fucking cruel. There’s no other way about it

The idea that the conduct of research at independent institutions for the benefit of all Americans should be motivated by being "in sync... with the administration", and not by truth regardless of politics, is utterly and profoundly against the core ideals of America

Job alert! We have a postdoc position available in the Stelkens Lab at Stockholm University. Join us and apply experimental evolution and comparative genomics in the model system yeast to test for parallel climate adaptation. #Evolution #yeast #genomics

The latest story from the Schacherer Lab highlights the phenotypic impact of acquired subgenomes in allopolyploids, through the lens of 1,060 Brettanomyces bruxellensis genomes. Nice collaboration with Université de Bordeaux CNRS Biologie - Institut universitaire de France (IUF) nature.com/articles/s4146…

New paper from my lab! We describe our idea that high-throughput pooled experimental methods – typically used to test thousands of hypotheses at once – also have huge potential to help in “everyday” experiments testing one or a few focused hypotheses. doi.org/10.1093/g3jour…

Very excited to share our new work on gastruloids by the incredible Cat Triandafillou! We mapped gene expression across 26 individual gastruloids at single-cell resolution and discovered some pretty amazing patterns about how these "mini-embryos" organize themselves.

I’d love to hear biologists weigh in on the fundamental question: can you predict the impact of cell perturbations better by studying the natural variation in a population of healthy cells (more data), or by studying cells that have been perturbed genetically or chemically?

This is a good article and I agree with its argument for comprehensible research.

Multi-year funding at NIH: The Quickening drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/mul… via Drug Monkey

If he is referring to NIMHD, they got 1.1% of the NIH budget. With a mission that covers health disparities across all of the health domains. officeofbudget.od.nih.gov/pdfs/FY26/cy/A…

It’s also ridiculous not to ask him why the health concerns of minoritized citizens who pay their taxes should not receive NIH’s attention.

depressing to me how biologists, because of their allergy to all things AI/ML, have basically ceded the AI+Bio space to computer scientists

I'm afraid this is the pocket rescission play with $15B (30% of the FY25 budget) still unspent: wsj.com/politics/polic…

Vought has ordered a halt on all extramural NIH funding for the rest of the FY. No words. You cannot let this stand Senate Democrats Senate Republicans Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. wsj.com/politics/polic… Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research

Elio was a rock of humanity, a giant of microbiology, and I could never think of the world without him. I will not, as his example lives forever. May we all find the Elio flow state.

Elio Schaechter, eminent microbiologist and great human, leaves us his memoirs that tell the story of an extraordinary life: eliosmemoirs.org. What a fantastic and impactful journey!