Michael Baym

Does he have to dress like a chef all the time everywhere he goes, like the Mandalorian of gastronomy

Amy Goldberg, PhD - Join The Goldberg lab is moving to UCLA summer 2025, and recruiting postdocs and graduate students. We are a computational lab with occasional wet lab or field collaborators. We will be located in the Depa...

The Goldberg lab at UCLA is hiring one or more postdocs. Flexible start date.

We develop methods to study population genetics of humans, our primate relatives, and our pathogens.

www.goldberglab.org/join

New post-doctoral research position in my phage-host interactions (Phi) laboratory in @otagomicroimmuno.bsky.social at @universityofotago.bsky.social New Zealand. The project is focused on defences against jumbo phages. Please share and if interested apply using the link in the comments.

She’s such a goofball already, I truly can’t wait

Congratulations!!

Seen it on both sides of the political spectrum. Rarely moments of any real authenticity. Gives a distinct ick every time

There’s a specific type of online guy I’m not sure I’ve seen a word for: he picks some issue or group to champion or save and performatively posts about it but his real bit is making a big show of how he’s a victim for his ideological heroism

With Eugene Koonin, we propose a concept of “the selfish ribosome”, under which evolution of life is viewed as a ribosomal takeover, where the ribosome evolved to consume most of the cell’s resources, while other cellular componentry ensures the propagation of the ribosome. arxiv.org/abs/2602.23268

The model of unpaid academic labor required good jobs with ample unstructured time.

this seems like something we should be funding

how many were distinct conferences and not recombinants of others

Surprisingly there are only two "All the world's a phage"

Please tell me someone has written a paper about autophagy titled "Caveat mTOR"

A reminder that we are actively recruiting a geneticist to the Department of Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine

careers-einstein.icims.com/jobs/17847/a...

Final version @nature.com of our paper describing unconventional multicellular development in a choanoflagellate inhabiting an extreme environment. A ton of new data since the first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint (which we've kept updating).

A brief 🧵 (carried over from the old place)

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.

The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

That we can see the asset and target map uncensored and tweeted out strikes me as even worse

However, more than that, he was an incredible mentor, training dozens of grad students and postdocs, many of whom went on to train another generation of scientists. His impact will continue to be felt for decades to come. I miss him, and his memory is a blessing. 2/

I was sad to learn that my postdoctoral mentor, David Botstein, died yesterday. I started with David as a postdoc in 1998, and he had a profound effect on both my life and scientific career. He was a giant in the field of genetics, making seminal contributions in both yeast and human genetics. 1/

Directors

Expressions of interest: Director at MPI EvolBio (f/m/d) — We invite expressions of interest from distinguished scientists in evolutionary biology with a bold, long-term research vision that complements our Institute. More information: www.evolbio.mpg.de/3856225/Dire...

Edwin Starr - War (Original Video - 1969) YouTube video by Stream Crops

If ever there were a song that I wish would lose its relevance.

War! What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Say it again

m.youtube.com/watch?v=01-2...

Sorry but the moral of the story is that, be you Anthropic, NSF, a Ivy university, a doctor, a cop, doesn’t matter if you do 95% of what these people tell you in the hope you get to save the other 5% of your ethics, or your dignity, or your funding. They’ll steamroll you anyway until full compliance

In his defense, I indeed do not have a degree in anything called Biology

Why yes, linkedin spammer, I _have_ been thinking that an MS in Biology might help my career in science

Sequencing Into Darkness is when nanopore realized you got better reads covered in tin foil

But you're thinking about microwaving fish, and the moral stain of even that is indelible

Nobel chemistry laureate Frances Arnold: ‘Whole swaths of science are just going to die on the vine’ The Caltech professor on using AI to harness the power of enzymes — and what US funding cuts could mean for research

Frances Arnold, a Nobel laureate (2018) in Chemistry says that the current administration is interested only in a limited range of topics such as AI & biotechnology.

“There’s whole swaths of science that are just going to die on the vine.”

Science is multidisciplinary.
🧪 archive.today/4qgez

Now published: our work using phylodynamics from surveillance data to quantify and experimentally validate the fitness impact of antibiotic resistance determinants & how this changes with patterns of antibiotic use: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Epstein is probably an outlier in terms of donor class depravity, but think about what this says about our academic leaders and what they are likely willing to do behind the scenes whenever some rich dbag waves his checkbook in their direction.

Happy 38th birthday to the #LTEE!
#BOTD in 1988.
Keep on evolving!

#science #evolution #microbiology