Amy Hitchcock Camp
@amycamp.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences and Biochemistry at Mount Holyoke College | eavesdropping on bacteria since 2004 | she/her
Candidates with expertise in microbiology are particularly encouraged to apply!
I'm very excited to announce that the Worcester State University Biology Department has been approved to hire TWO new tenure-track faculty members to begin September 1, 2026! Here is a link to the job ad and application site: worcester.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...
worcester.interviewexchange.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Candidates with expertise in microbiology are particularly encouraged to apply!
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I'm very excited to announce that the Worcester State University Biology Department has been approved to hire TWO new tenure-track faculty members to begin September 1, 2026! Here is a link to the job ad and application site: worcester.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...
worcester.interviewexchange.com
September 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I'm very excited to announce that the Worcester State University Biology Department has been approved to hire TWO new tenure-track faculty members to begin September 1, 2026! Here is a link to the job ad and application site: worcester.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...
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Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
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Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior
Job no: R-0000002388 Position Title: Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior Work Type: Faculty Full time In-Person Start Date: 07/01/2026 Job Description: The Department of Neuroscience and ...
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July 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
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🚨🚨🚨PUI TT Job Alert!!
My dept at TCNJ is hiring a tenure track cell and molecular biologist. Come join my supportive colleagues, helpful staff, & fabulous students!
We're surprisingly well resourced w/excellent equipment (confocal, SEM etc) and research w/students counts towards our teaching load!
My dept at TCNJ is hiring a tenure track cell and molecular biologist. Come join my supportive colleagues, helpful staff, & fabulous students!
We're surprisingly well resourced w/excellent equipment (confocal, SEM etc) and research w/students counts towards our teaching load!
Assistant Professor - Biology
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
tcnj.taleo.net
July 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
🚨🚨🚨PUI TT Job Alert!!
My dept at TCNJ is hiring a tenure track cell and molecular biologist. Come join my supportive colleagues, helpful staff, & fabulous students!
We're surprisingly well resourced w/excellent equipment (confocal, SEM etc) and research w/students counts towards our teaching load!
My dept at TCNJ is hiring a tenure track cell and molecular biologist. Come join my supportive colleagues, helpful staff, & fabulous students!
We're surprisingly well resourced w/excellent equipment (confocal, SEM etc) and research w/students counts towards our teaching load!
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Bacterial sporulation (endospore formation) is complicated,but it turns out a lot of steps are regulated by classically defined developmental "checkpoints", and not events that are intrinsically required for the next step to occur. Zac Park reviews these in #Bacillus subtilis
doi.org/10.1146/annu...
doi.org/10.1146/annu...
To Sporulate or Not to Sporulate: Developmental Checkpoints Monitoring Bacillus subtilis Sporulation | Annual Reviews
Developmental processes are carefully regulated programs that are present in multiple kingdoms of life and that generally result in cell differentiation and specialization. This regulation can be medi...
doi.org
June 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Bacterial sporulation (endospore formation) is complicated,but it turns out a lot of steps are regulated by classically defined developmental "checkpoints", and not events that are intrinsically required for the next step to occur. Zac Park reviews these in #Bacillus subtilis
doi.org/10.1146/annu...
doi.org/10.1146/annu...
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Finally a small win: NIH rescinds requirement to denounce DEI as a condition for receiving funding.
Which is great, since saying I don’t care to create inclusive spaces is antithetical to my mission as an educator.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Which is great, since saying I don’t care to create inclusive spaces is antithetical to my mission as an educator.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-124: Notice of Rescission of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Rescission of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award NOT-OD-25-124. NIH
grants.nih.gov
June 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Finally a small win: NIH rescinds requirement to denounce DEI as a condition for receiving funding.
Which is great, since saying I don’t care to create inclusive spaces is antithetical to my mission as an educator.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Which is great, since saying I don’t care to create inclusive spaces is antithetical to my mission as an educator.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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I know you all know this, but apparently it needs to be said that basic science is a NECESSARY PRECURSOR to translational science
NSF to ONLY fund research in five areas: artificial intelligence, quantum information science, biotechnology, nuclear energy, and translational science. Can this be happening?
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF slashes number of ‘rotators’ and well-paid managers as part of restructuring
Smaller future budgets will require fewer people, NSF official tells staff
www.science.org
May 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I know you all know this, but apparently it needs to be said that basic science is a NECESSARY PRECURSOR to translational science
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Fellow bacterial cell biologists, message me if you use @thermofishersci.bsky.social Gene Frames for microscopy!
Thermo are planning to discontinue these in September but have indicated they will look into this further.
If I make list of labs using them Thermo might not kill the product
Please RT🔬🦠
Thermo are planning to discontinue these in September but have indicated they will look into this further.
If I make list of labs using them Thermo might not kill the product
Please RT🔬🦠
Live Cell Imaging of Bacillus subtilis and Streptococcus pneumoniae using Automated Time-lapse Microscopy
42.1K Views. University of Groningen. This protocol provides a step-by-step procedure to monitor single cell behavior of different bacteria in time using automated fluorescence time-lapse microscopy....
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April 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Fellow bacterial cell biologists, message me if you use @thermofishersci.bsky.social Gene Frames for microscopy!
Thermo are planning to discontinue these in September but have indicated they will look into this further.
If I make list of labs using them Thermo might not kill the product
Please RT🔬🦠
Thermo are planning to discontinue these in September but have indicated they will look into this further.
If I make list of labs using them Thermo might not kill the product
Please RT🔬🦠
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🧪Amy @amycamp.bsky.social & I met in the Silver lab @danafarber.bsky.social in 2001 & we've collaborated ever since we both got our own labs. This paper about a new ClpCP adaptor, out today, is the work of about 10 years & we are very happy to see it fly the nest. genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl...
March 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
🧪Amy @amycamp.bsky.social & I met in the Silver lab @danafarber.bsky.social in 2001 & we've collaborated ever since we both got our own labs. This paper about a new ClpCP adaptor, out today, is the work of about 10 years & we are very happy to see it fly the nest. genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl...
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This does away with awards based on underrepresentation, student support services based on race, scholarships, etc. Let me explain, pre coffee (wrote this morning, no time to update, you're getting a cut n paste), why this is a bad idea. 🧵
www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...
www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...
Trump admin threatens to rescind federal funds over DEI
In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal.
www.insidehighered.com
February 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This does away with awards based on underrepresentation, student support services based on race, scholarships, etc. Let me explain, pre coffee (wrote this morning, no time to update, you're getting a cut n paste), why this is a bad idea. 🧵
www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...
www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...
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I don't see any indication in this statement that ASM thinks they did anything incorrectly. If that's the case, are they telling us they would do it the same way the next time? Not even communicate differently with members?
ASM has received questions about content on our site being under review—thank you to those who reached out. "Under review" never meant removal, despite understandable concerns to the contrary. Most modified pages have been or are in the process of being restored. Read our statement: asm.social/2h3
ASM Responds to Member Questions About Executive Orders
Our modified pages are back up or in the process of being restored. ASM has not retracted or altered any research articles, scientific papers or peer reviewed articles on our website.
asm.social
February 4, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I don't see any indication in this statement that ASM thinks they did anything incorrectly. If that's the case, are they telling us they would do it the same way the next time? Not even communicate differently with members?
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Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.
February 3, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.
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I can't even begin to articulate how pissed off I am that letters of rec for so many US programs are due this weekend.
November 27, 2024 at 3:56 AM
I can't even begin to articulate how pissed off I am that letters of rec for so many US programs are due this weekend.
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@bstevensonlab.bsky.social while dusting my account on 𝕏, I came across this tweet by christina. I still miss her...
November 26, 2024 at 11:15 AM
@bstevensonlab.bsky.social while dusting my account on 𝕏, I came across this tweet by christina. I still miss her...
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Folks associated w/ PhD programs: it’s *not* too late to send an email to all letter writers apologizing for not realizing that your standard 12/1 deadline fell on a Holiday-weekend Sunday and announcing that letters would be accepted through midnight on 12/2. Even NIH extends Sun deadlines… 🙏🏼🙏🏼
November 24, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Folks associated w/ PhD programs: it’s *not* too late to send an email to all letter writers apologizing for not realizing that your standard 12/1 deadline fell on a Holiday-weekend Sunday and announcing that letters would be accepted through midnight on 12/2. Even NIH extends Sun deadlines… 🙏🏼🙏🏼
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Met with a student today who shared that she had been told numerous times — by both peers and faculty — that she doesn’t “*seem* like a Chemistry major.”
Please . Don’t . Do . This .
This “sense” can only be fueled by implicit bias, and it erodes a student’s deeply deserved sense of #belonging.
Please . Don’t . Do . This .
This “sense” can only be fueled by implicit bias, and it erodes a student’s deeply deserved sense of #belonging.
November 25, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Met with a student today who shared that she had been told numerous times — by both peers and faculty — that she doesn’t “*seem* like a Chemistry major.”
Please . Don’t . Do . This .
This “sense” can only be fueled by implicit bias, and it erodes a student’s deeply deserved sense of #belonging.
Please . Don’t . Do . This .
This “sense” can only be fueled by implicit bias, and it erodes a student’s deeply deserved sense of #belonging.
Agree 100% that having a science buddy as awesome as @katieberry.bsky.social especially at a small college has been a gift, both for me and my students!
I am eternally grateful to have @amycamp.bsky.social as a bacterial-genetics science-buddy @mtholyoke. The second perspective at joint lab meetings has been a huge help for me and the many students we have informally co-mentored. Creative ideas are synergistic, and fun science is better science!!
November 23, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Agree 100% that having a science buddy as awesome as @katieberry.bsky.social especially at a small college has been a gift, both for me and my students!
The Mount Holyoke College Biology department is seeking a visiting instructor to teach Microbiology with lab in Spring 2024. A great opportunity to gain teaching experience in a small liberal arts college setting. Please share, and msg me directly with questions/how to apply.
September 27, 2023 at 2:57 AM
The Mount Holyoke College Biology department is seeking a visiting instructor to teach Microbiology with lab in Spring 2024. A great opportunity to gain teaching experience in a small liberal arts college setting. Please share, and msg me directly with questions/how to apply.