This story started 5y ago with my lab. Spearheaded by fearless 1st authors theopi and Olivia Leland. Theopi is now a PhD student at Brown University. Olivia is a physics PhD student at Brandeis University, a self-taught biologist, and made us love soft matter. A (very long) thread (1/24)

We have extended the deadline to apply for two Assistant/Associate Prof in Microbiology positions at the University of Illinois through November! Come to the home of the Archaea! tinyurl.com/55aumzdt

Please retweet 🙏: 2 European Research Council (ERC)-funded Post-doc positions are available in our lab to investigate #RNA structural ensemble and their dynamics in living cells. Application link: rug.nl/about-ug/work-…

Mark your calendars, Archaea Power Hour is back next WEDNESDAY, Nov. 13th, at 10AM EST / 4 PM CET!!! We'll have one talk by our very own @BrendanSchroyen. Check your email for the link or visit our new website for more info: archaea.bio/archaea-power-….

Want to know the history of the Villefranche sur mer marine station ? Vous voulez connaître l’histoire de la station de Villefranche sur mer? Consultez la revue Arts & Sciences #imev #villefranchesurmer #artandscience openscience.fr/Deux-Siecles-d…

Very happy to share our SeqTagger work, led by the super-team of Gregor Diensthuber and #Leszek, to barcode and demultiplex #directRNA Oxford Nanopore data - also works with #RNA004 data! Code available in GitHub, feedback very welcome! :-) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Dear community, let's explore some new territories ... We will start to be active Aribio.bsky.social... We are not giving up this place yet but sadly #ScienceTwitter is not what it used to be since a very long time now...

Emergency bulletin! 14 journals have co-published an urgent call for the deployment of microbial solutions against climate catastrophe, by Raquel Peixoto et al. nature.com/articles/s4156…

We have two postdoc positions available (funded for 3 years by Volkswagen Momentum) for research related to the de novo evolution of (i) bacterial anti-CRISPR activities and (ii) archaeal tRNA gene introns. Please feel free to share or apply: stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/299…

📢 Onderwijs en onderzoek zijn cruciaal om de grote vraagstukken van onze tijd aan te pakken! Toch bezuinigt het kabinet-Schoof €1 miljard op hoger onderwijs en wetenschap. Wij komen in actie tegen deze bezuinigingen! Teken jij ook de petitie? campagnes.degoedezaak.org/campaigns/stop…

Someone once told me that if you see the journalist and scientists leaving, you might also want to leave. Find me over on blue sky as @quantaofgeorge!

Things are growing fast over there 🦋🦋🦋

In preparation of my new year's resolution to leave a deteriorating X, i finally found back my bluesky credentials bsky.app/profile/msmjet… To shout out for our fight against the announced draconic budget cuts on higher education in 🇳🇱 on the other side 🟥 Stop the budget cuts 🟥

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Ho ho ho 🎅, it's APH time!!! Did you know Santa is an archaea enthusiast too? Make sure to get on his nice list by attending our last APH session of the semester on WEDNESDAY, Dec. 11th at 10 AM EST / 4 PM CET! Don't miss these two exciting talks by Karol Sánchez and Deepak Kumar:

I was asked to contribute an entry on 'Ancestral Reconstruction: Theory & Practice" for the Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, 2nd Edition. The encyclopedia doesn't come out until next year, but my contribution is already available online: doi.org/10.1016/B978-0….