Half of microbial eukaryote literature focuses on only twelve human parasites -in #ISMEJournal by Joanna Lepper, @hbrappap.bsky.social and @oliverio.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Stony Brook is hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Marine Molecular Ecology (assistant encouraged, molecular broadly defined, includes microbial omics!): apply.interfolio.com/174869

Come join us at UBC!

Historically, viruses were thought to primarily use host cell's translational machinery. New work from @harvardcellbio.bsky.social faculty Amy Lee reveals that a giant DNA virus encodes its own IF4F initiation complex, suggesting an unexpected evolutionary innovation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

In case you wonder which platforms are here to help creators thrive and which are here to tell us to eat shit, here’s the breakdown of likes for crab, 15 hours after posting. Follower count in () for more useful comparison. TikTok(2k): 139 Instagram (22k): 719 Tumblr (13k): 12k Bsky (52k): 22k

Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.

Are you a recent PhD interested in a postdoc in Canada? Up to 20% of NSERC Postdoc Fellowships (70k/y for 2y) will be awarded to International applicants, who did their PhD outside of Canada. Deadline is 17 October. See: www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etu...

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Check out our new paper on adopting a trait-based framework for protist diversity! We make the case for a unified protist trait database, how to build it, and how it could transform research on protist ecology and evolution. #protistsonsky

Birds of Everglades - Florida 2025. #birds #wildlife #photography #everglades

Many interesting PhD projects, including ours. Consider applying!

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 🦠🌊

Hurricane season - South Florida sky is full of drama this month. #photography #hurricane #landing #flights #miami #MIA #clouds

ONT has a temporary bioinformatics position (8 months) open while I'm on maternity leave. Focus will be on microbial genomics but with opportunities to work on projects across the breadth of genomics! ejnh.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Great new article about the cool stuff we're finding (improbably) alive deep inside Earth's crust! Nice work, @laurapoppick.bsky.social at @quantamagazine.bsky.social www.quantamagazine.org/the-pursuit-...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #protistsonsky

We’re recruiting a PhD student (Fall 2026) to study the ecology & evolution of aquatic giant viruses! Research spans lab experiment, field sampling, & bioinformatics. Background in microbiology/bioinforamtics encouraged. More info & contact email here: monirlab.com/join/ Please share. Thank you!

Do you like coastal/estuarine microbiology, time-series data, and/or metagenomics? Have we got a dataset for you #NSFfunded Metagenomes and 1,313 metagenome-assembled genomes from a northern Gulf of Mexico coastal time series www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Marine Viruses and Their Role in Marine Ecosystems and Carbon Cycling www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... #jcampubs

🚨New Preprint Alert🚨 P. strigosa, a reef-building coral shows tightly regulated transcriptional control over natural diel cycles. #CoralReefs #Symbiosky #bioinformatics #marinemicrobes #protistsonsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very proud of the work from lab members and collaborators that coincidentally came out today www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... and www.nature.com/articles/s41.... A bacterial and viral pathogen associated with mass mortality in seastars and oysters. @kevinzhong2006.bsky.social @rhizalyssa.bsky.social

Want to name a real virus? I have recently discovered 9 new phages which now need names! To enter, you simply need to donate to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust on my JustGiving page (£2 = 1 entry) and share your email with me on donation (see link info). Please share 💚 www.justgiving.com/page/meaghan-c-1

our paper is online! rdcu.be/exXBX . Who would have thought that some #giantviruses not only have #histones, but even histone variants that make weird #nucleosomes (pdb 9CVT). Fantastic work from Ale Villalta and Chelsea Toner, with Hugo Bisio @molbiolgv.bsky.social and Chantal Abergel

Excited that this is out as a preprint! ❇️ We are introducing a novel dinoflagellate giant virus that holds so many mysteries! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our paper "A reverse-transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) assay for the rapid colorimetric detection of pepper mild mottle virus (PMMoV)" is out! Congrats to 1st author @ajgross.bsky.social @cmarinescience.bsky.social 🧪🌱🦠https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTg%7Ebm%7EZcCBT

If you're at #SMBE2025, the @plosbiology.org paper about the expansion of the known Nucleocytoviricota (giant virus) repertoire, mentioned by Eugene Koonin in his (remote) plenary talk, is journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

🧬 Interested in aquatic micro, nutrient cycling, river-ocean interfaces I’m seeking a postdoc candidate to apply with me for the 2026 Walder Biota Fellowship ($70k+/yr 2 yrs, $20k/yr research). Details: www.biotaawards.org/2026-applica... #biogeochemistry #BiotaFellowship #microsky #ecoSky #evoSky

Our latest, and the second paper led by Jordan Coelho this year. Want to remove bacteria from POM for single-cell microbiology/culturing/'omics applications? We've got some data: Detergent-based separation of microbes from marine particles www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs 🌊

Eyes - #photography #Bangladesh #portrait

Sunkissed - #photography #utah #california #virginia

PhD opportunity in marine virus eco-evo dynamics Joint CNRS–UBC program: @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social × @ubcoceans.bsky.social 📍 Banyuls-sur-Mer, France (LBBM UMR8176) 🗓️ Start: Oct 2025 | Duration: 3 years 🔍 Skills: Modelling, Bioinformatics, Marine Virology 🔗 Apply: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

Terrific PhD science opportunity in the world of marine viral ecology and evolution with a stellar team in S. France working with Marcelino Suzuki, David Demory, and Sheree Yau. Applications due July 8. 👇

Lab’s first publication as #newPI @isme-microbes.bsky.social 😃 We observed evidence supporting the viral shuttle hypothesis in giant viruses. We also observed convergent evolution amongst giant viruses and bacteriophages to light-energy and nutrient limitation. academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Euktect: Enhanced Eukaryotic Sequence Detection and Classification in Metagenomes via the DNA Language Model www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

Giant viruses specific to deep oceans show persistent presence and activity www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs 🌊

On June 19, #ASMMicrobe honored @simrouxvirus.bsky.social of the JGI with the Microbiome Data Prize. Roux leads the JGI's Viral Genomics Group within our Metagenome Program. More on the award: jgi.doe.gov/user-science... More on the JGI's Metagenome Program: jgi.doe.gov/science-prog... 🖥️🧬 🦠🧪

Our latest on the microbiology of SAR116, led by the indefatigable Jordan Coelho: Culture-supported ecophysiology of the SAR116 clade demonstrates metabolic and spatial niche partitioning academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs

This is ever so true, folks, read this thread if you want to land a CAREER award. The solicitation is clear that the development of your education plan should be well integrated with your research plan in a clearly articulated trajectory of professional development over the course of 5 years.

This paper was much needed to highlight again the fact that protists make (almost) all main branches of the eukaryote tree of life, yet they continue to be dramatically understudied. Genomics is one example of this. Cite it!!! #protistsonsky

NSF has added 500 new GRFPs, for a total of 1500. (These appear to have come from the list of honorable mentions, which is now down to ~2300) www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...

Nice teaming up with our ORNL colleagues to pull together this story. Liz D and the gang examining virus diversity in Sphagnum. doi.org/10.1186/s407...

A new study from scientists at the Rosenstiel School may help unravel the many types of viruses present in our waterways and oceans.

Excited to share my 2nd paper in Environmental Microbiome! "Mosses as extraordinary reservoir of microbial diversity: a comparative analysing of co-occurring ‘plant-moss twins’ in natural alpine ecosystem" Thanks! #Prof.Dr.GabrieleBerg, @aabdelfattah.bsky.social @leibnizatb.bsky.social

The Koonin Law of Computatoinal Biology: Whenever you think you have a great idea in computational or evolutionary biology, it will already have been published by Eugene Koonin in the mid 90ies.

Get the word out far and wide. New opportunity from the Simons Foundation in the Eco-Evo space. 2026 Simons Graduate Fellowship in Ecology and Evolution Awards, due July 31, 2025, only for incoming PhD students who plan to start their PhDs in Fall 2026. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Inkscape plugin to rescale figures without distorting the text, and other useful features! github.com/burghoff/Sci...

Lab's first preprint! #newPI We show that viruses are active agents that recycle carbon fixed by productive chemoautotrophs, shaping our understanding of carbon cycling in redox-active ecosystems. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @julesdeep.bsky.social @gtrubl.bsky.social @mepjoe.bsky.social

A giant virus in the genome of Chlamydomonas - this week in @science.org #plantscience Cryptic infection of a giant virus in a unicellular green alga | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

One of my earliest inspirations in photography. Rest in peace Sebastião Salgado! www.cnn.com/2025/05/23/a...

Out in Science! Zakem et al. mechanistically modeled global marine prokaryotic functional diversity, grounded with field data. Shifts in community composition drive respiration and thus biological C storage. This facilitates C cycle projections in a warming ocean www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...