Fantastic. Proud to be from A2.

Sidebar: this "upstart" is part of an order (Legionellales) that has been infecting eukaryotic hosts for ~1.9 billion (yes B) years! (h/t Lionel Guy). academic.oup.com/mbe/article/39…

Favorite songs that reference pathogens... I'll start: Warren Zevon referencing Brucellosis in "Play it all Night Long" Bob Dylan - Legionnaires' Disease: bobdylan.com/songs/legionna… Bonus points for Dylan accurately predicting the environmental source of L. longbeachae... TREES!

Congrats to longtime collaborator, Alexei Savchenko, for getting this out! Happy to be a part of what should be a good resource for the field–a comprehensive, Alphafold-based analysis of L. pneumophila effectors with yeast-based validation of predictions. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Independence Lake, MI #aurora

Missing out on #ASMicrobe this year, but I wanted to announce that the Levin lab at Pitt is growing! Pls RT! 🎉We’re recruiting grad students and postdocs to study host-microbe battlegrounds in natural environments, shaping pathogen evolution before these microbes infect humans

So, my university has made Microsoft's co-pilot available for free. Some of its most profound insights: "We are all mutants, dancing on the edge of chaos." "We are the gray area between adaptation and madness.”

No wake zone!

It needs to be illegal to block bike lanes like this. I see it everyday along Bloor and Harbord. They are used as parking, delivery spots, etc. (e.g. Bloor and Brunswick) In the absence of enforcement, people who block them need to face real liability. Olivia Chow Dianne Saxe - Toronto City Council Ward 11, UR

My heart breaks for the cyclists killed today in Toronto and earlier this week in St Catharines. Let's be clear: these deaths were preventable. We need all levels of government to quit playing politics with road safety and take #VisionZero seriously. #onpoli

We are hiring multiple assistant professors in microbiology. Come and join our awesome research environment at Penn State. Apply online at: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic/j… Please Retweet

Faculty search! YaleMicroPath is looking to hire assistant professor(s) focused on the pathogenesis of viral, bacterial, parasitic, or fungal infections. Info: apply.interfolio.com/151755. Q&A webinar in Sept. Please RT!

🇨🇦Two new principal investigator positions available in biomedical discovery research and two more in population health data science at #LTRI Sinai Health in Toronto. Closes Oct 20. See lunenfeld.ca (or DM me for deets).🇨🇦