Feel free to contact me for info about this open position and the project! Fully funded through @hfspo.bsky.social and in collaboration with @jacrickets.bsky.social and Shawn McGlynn

Such a delight to share our work on the evolution of a cheese rind fungus in @currentbiology.bsky.social. This is the fantastic PhD work of @nicolasleonlouw.bsky.social and resulted from amazing collaborations, a wedding proposal(!), an undergrad course, & more! 🧵 www.cell.com/current-biol...

It seems trendy lately to have visualizations of 3D proteins structures generated by AI. These show very ugly artifacts, akin to AI pictures of humans with the wrong number of fingers. It is really not hard to make a visualization of a random protein structure using free software! #AI-slop

Some incredible images in the SCUBA Diving Magazine 2025 photo contest! www.scubadiving.com/2025-photo-c... 🦑🧪🌎

Comparing EcoFab 2.0 results from 5 labs on 3 continents‼️ Breaking the reproducibility barrier with standardized protocols for plant–microbiome research @plosbiology.org by Vlastimil Novak et al from Trent Northen @jgi.doe.gov journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

🎙️ Job Announcement: Penn State is seeking an ASSISTANT PROFESSOR in MICROBIOLOGY (any subdiscipline) in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Learn more and Join the Microbiome Jubilee: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday! During the C-CoMP March Cruise, Clio, the biogeochemistry AUV, was used to collect particle samples for proteomics and metagenomics from various depths within the water column. Check out some of these photos of Clio in action:

Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊

Yes reach out to Yasin for this project. It will allow a worldwide picture of the environmental metabolome. This can be already published or not yet published data but will need world coordinates.

Interested in a co-authorship? We’re building a tool for repository-scale untargeted #metabolomics and #exposomics of #environmental data. To make it the best it can be, we’re looking for people willing to share high-resolution LC-MS/MS (DDA) data from #water, #soil, #sediment, and related samples.

🌊🦠🧪 Delighted to share this work now out in @isme-microbes.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/isme... The currency of microbial life is chemistry, but there’s so much still unknown about how metabolic interactions shape communities. 1/

I gave a symposium talk at the European Society for Evolutionary Biology 2025 (#eseb2025) meeting last week and this was my title slide showcasing how I was speaking as an independent scientist because @dalhousieu.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social has locked us out.

Check out our new paper led by brilliant @jhuisman.bsky.social about how microbial communities cope with stress due to increasing salinity in their environment. We have all your favorites: isolate phenotyping, pairwise competitions, community propagations, and theory. #microsky #mevosky #ecosky

Do I have any followers who are omega-6/PUFA researchers? I have some technical questions for an episode and I'd love to connect.

Not sure how many scientists here have tried Claude Code or similar command line coding assistants. I had a complicated family property tax problem that was best solved by a brute force Monte Carlo simulation approach, so I spent a few days coding up and analyzing a model with Claude Code.

We are on the lookout for postdocs for two different projects at the intersection of ecology, evolution, and the human microbiome. See thread for more information and reach out!

Prophages block cell surface receptors to preserve their viral progeny @nature.com from @themaxwelllab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our paper demonstrating that within-species warfare interactions are ecologically important on human skin is now published in Nature Micro! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The mantra “location, location, location” isn’t just about real estate. For life scientists, more than 50% of their productivity can be attributed to the institution where they work, according to a new study. scim.ag/4kKs1YO

Here's a fun perspective piece on Cyanobacteria as prolific natural product producers with great potential for drug discovery. Thanks especially to @philmuslab.bsky.social for ringleading and letting us contribute! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

How may theoretical ecology & evolutionary theory push microbiology forward? At Environmental Microbiology, I am commissioning a series of Perspectives exploring that question. Excited to share them in the 🧵 below The series is open, so do get in touch if you'd like to propose a new contribution!

I love the idea of "micropublications" www.micropublication.org (preparing one now)

Exciting postdoc opportunity here👇📢📢 investigating diatom sensing @mldiatoms.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social come join us! #protistsOnSky #diatoms #signalling

There is one month left to apply for our Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution! These awards provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in #ecology and #evolution. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... #science

Amazing chance to work with CONTRAST project & TREC expedition coastal sediment samples to map chemical contaminants and how they shape microbial life over time. Based at Ifremer, Nantes in Chemical Contamination of Marine Ecosystems unit www.hellowork.com/fr-fr/emploi... #Postdoc #MicrobialEcology

Interested in natural product producing microorganisms? 🦠 See you in Berlin... 😀

This methodology is as important as the development of molecular networking and can be used together.Examples of its use by my lab and how it’s used and how we think about using it is in its infancy www.cell.com/cell/fulltex..., www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1..., www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

Is most harm in academia done unintentionally? Please let me know what you think -- very curious about other people's impressions and opinions. open.substack.com/pub/matthias...

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

I am very happy (and anxious) to share with you our most recent work in which we evaluated four of the most popular long-read assemblers, www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and tell you just a little bit about it in the following 🧵

Recently, there’s been a lot of discussion about diversity in science. However, disability/chronic conditions has been absent. In response, Trends in Ecology & Evolution is publishing a series of interviews with ecologists and evolutionary biologists who are disabled or have a chronic condition.

📢We are #hiring a full time editor to handle areas including microbial ecology & plant microbiology🦠🌱 This position will work closely with @naturecomms.bsky.social #microsky #microbiomesky #ecologysky 🧪 Available in NYC, Madrid, or other US offices Read more & apply here: shorturl.at/yvdYJ

The IAGLR Student Travel Award was always a big help to me when I traveled to the conference as a student. Don’t miss out! #IAGLR25

Köpfe und Ideen 2025: I Look at the Entire Land – Fellow Bashir Bashir in an interview with Sonja Zekri www.wiko-berlin.de/en/wikothequ...

The latest discovery from the lab and great colleagues at McMaster and U Illinois, Chicago. Lariocidin, a new lasso peptide antibiotic that inhibits the ribosome. rdcu.be/efdha

New on #biorXiv: 'Inferring single-cell heterogeneity of bacteriophage life-history traits from population-scale dynamics'. A theory-experiment collaboration, led by @mariandm.bsky.social + Ran Tahan w/the Lindell group at Technion (and yes, I am excited). a 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/contenat/10....

One week left to apply for this BBSRC funded PhD position in the Duncan lab, cosupervised by @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social and @ruamicro.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📢Excited to share TWO ERC-funded postdoc positions!🧪Are you passionate about molecular mechanisms and marine microbial interactions?🌊🔬Join us in dissecting antagonistic diatom-bacteria interactions, by the sea! tiny.cc/xlfe001 @thembauk.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social Please msg to hear more!

Trends in Microbiology is starting a series of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) articles that exclusively spotlights underrepresented geographies/ voices. Read our latest editorial here: www.cell.com/trends/micro...

⌛📝 One week left to apply to our latest call for faculty positions here at @molbiolau.bsky.social in Aarhus, Denmark 🇩🇰 Two (👀) positions are available w. open topic + rank (tenure-track assist or assoc professorship dep. on career stage). mbg.au.dk/en/news-and-...

Hi there, my student is making a survey about the use of R packages in Ecology, could you please spend two mins on filling it 🥹 Very appreciated! And if you could spread it further (RT), that would be just awesome. ❤️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

We're looking for a postdoc on the Computational Analysis of Environmental #Microbiome Data! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... In the past two years, @embl.org scientists have gathered more than 3000 soil, sediment & water samples from Europe's coastlines within the #TREC expedition (1/2)

"keystone molecules": A beautiful illustration also featured in our perspective on the ecology of molecules!🧪🌐💧🧬🔬🦠 #academicsky with @florianaltermatt.bsky.social @tiannapeller.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We are excited to announce a new faculty position here in Cambridge, for researchers in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Come and join us! Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50414/

Nice distraction: How Not to Start a Microbial Evolution Experiment telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2025/02/08/h... by @relenski.bsky.social

#KoepfeundIdeen 2025: Von Mikroben und Großvätern – ein Porträt von Fellow @rachelgregor.bsky.social von Manuela Lenzen www.wiko-berlin.de/wikothek/koe...

My time as a College for Life Sciences Fellow at WiKo this fall in Berlin was fantastic-- delighted to share this interview about my stay there