Director of Department of Microbiome Science at MPI Biology Tübingen Germany. Also known as Leylab.com.
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We are proud to share that Ruth Ley @microbiome.bsky.social , Director of the Department of Microbiome Science, has been elected Fellow of The Royal Society @royalsociety.org . Congratulations!!!
MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory
Come and work with us in a beautiful corner of Germany: 5 years of funding for your microbiology research and lots of great colleagues 🦠🧫
The future of the @maxplanck.de is in good hands
@kelseyhuus.bsky.social is also the recipient of a Max Planck partner group, which will give her some additional funds for 5 years! Go Kelsey go!! @maxplanck.de
"Please provide a justification for the foreign collaboration."
Science.
Sean Eddy??!!! Speechless.
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RuthLeyMicro
"Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are." It turns out, microbes follow the same rule!
Very proud to share our lab's new paper in @natmicrobiol.nature.com showing that bacteria don't just respond to their environment, they respond to each other.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Carl T. Bergstrom
It is apparently a hoax en.mediamass.net/people/craig...
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Mizrahi Lab
You are an ambitious young scientist, on the verge to independence, in a research field related to our Cluster of Excellence @cmfi.bsky.social “Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections”? Join our vibrant, interactive scientific community in Tubingen. Repost and apply!
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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The Cluster of Excellence EXC 2124 “Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections” (CMFI) at the University of Tübingen invites applications for Indepen...
Interested in a *staff computational scientist* position? We are looking for an experienced computational biologist (ideally with microbiology experience) to support published packages while also driving new research. Pay range $73k-$111k w excellent benefits. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
Andreas Peschel
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MIT - Computational Biology Program Scientist - Cambridge MA 02139
My PO said I had to fill out this form for 3 of my papers for the RPPR of my NIGMS MIRA grant in February, or I could not include them in my progress report.
It looks like things have gotten even worse since then.
Roland Dunbrack 🏳️🌈
After more than five years at our institute, postdoctoral researcher Kelsey Huus is beginning an exciting new chapter as Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa. Congratulations Kelsey! Read more about Kelsey's journey here: tinyurl.com/4wrktyky
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News of scientist Craig Venter’s death spread quickly earlier this week, causing concern among fans across the world. However, the April 2026 report has now been confirmed as a complete hoax, the 79-y...
This is awful to hear, describing how Sean Eddy (HMMER, infernal, pfam, rfam) has been defunded. The letter said his work
"had been determined to be of absolutely no value to the US taxpayer, and therefore it was being specifically terminated,"
www.npr.org/2026/05/21/n...
Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The consequences, they say, are already becoming clear.
