An very interesting side track of my research I was slightly involved in. Check it out 😁

Virus infection of a #bloom, together with limiting #eutrophication can help in mitigating the effects of harmful algal #blooms (HABs). But what if nutrient reduction selects for virus resistance? And are all cells in a #HAB the same? Answers are in our latest preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...

I recently did this interview with NEB covering a lot of the work I've been involved with lately (e.g. @dudinlab.bsky.social) Hopefully there's something interesting in there and nothing too egregious! Some of the work fits #protistsonsky. Enjoy? www.neb.com/en-us/podcas...

🚨VIROMICS WORKSHOP 2026🚨 Application is now OPEN for the 8th International Viromics Workshop, Oct. 14-16, 2026, in-person at Ohio State University. Application closes Aug. 7. Apply: forms.gle/pJFLDCNEBvAe... Full details: u.osu.edu/viruslab/vir... #viromics #viruses #ecology #workshop

New study by Alexander Henoch (@ahenoch.bsky.social), a PhD student in our group @hifmb.de and @awi.de, shows what it takes to bring gene synteny into microbial pangenomes, and what we learn about the variability landscape of genomes when we do that. See the pre-print here: doi.org/10.64898/202...

Making Waves in Marine Science: Prof. Debbie Lindell Elected to EMBO biology.technion.ac.il/en/making-wa...

🎖️Farooq Azam, a marine microbiologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Scripps Oceanography & @ucsandiego.bsky.social, has earned the prestigious 2026 Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences! He was recognized for his groundbreaking discoveries on the microbial loop. ⤵️ https://bit.ly/4y5lcZU

It's Tuesday! Time for a new episode of #MattersMicrobial! This time, Dr. Hannah Reich joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss phycosymbiosis: how bacteria and algae interact! This was recorded at ASM Microbe. @univpugetsound @ASMicrobiology youtu.be/f6irLu3BWg0?...

We’re hiring! A joint Postdoc at UT Knoxville (Wilhelm & @dtalmy.bsky.social) to study Microcystis, oxidative stress, toxin production, and nutrient selection using lab, field, molecular, and modeling approaches. PhD required. Apply: fa-ewlq-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Amazing opportunity to work with incredible scientists🧑‍🔬. Please share widely!! #ProtistsOnSky #coralreefs

Aspiring Eco-Evo PhD students - check out the Simons Graduate Fellowships! it's a full ride!! 🧪https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-graduate-fellowships-in-ecology-and-evolution/

Viruses at #PSA2026! Great talk

New paper out in Microbiology Spectrum: “Proteomic stress response by a novel methanogen enriched from the Great Salt Lake”, first author William Christian. We enriched a novel, euryarchaeotal, methyl-dismutating methanogen that grows at 16% salinity. 🦠 #microsky journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

The deadline for abstracts to be considered for oral presentations is only 5 days away. Register soon! event.fourwaves.com/vibrio2026/r...

Rotator jobs at nsf GEO www.nsf.gov/careers/open...

Thought i'd highlight that the ONT London Calling tech talk is now up. Points of interest for the microbiome community: 1) Direct RNA multiplexing now available. Can now run 24 samples per flow cell, recover full-length transcripts with 8 base pair modifications... www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE69...

Hi, I spent 5+ years of my life on this work and it’s finally out (and under review), so I’d appreciate it if you’d feign excitement or at least pretend to read it. Thanks! #RNAsky #COVID #AcademiaSky 🧪 🦠 ⭕️

Blusky friends! I have a favor to ask..if you are on instagram, please follow our lab account. We promise to post cool info on microbes, ongoing project activities and random pictures! It will be great to meet you there! Instagram handle: @monir.lab www.instagram.com/monir.lab/ Thank you!

New paper led by Hannah Goldberg on the diversity of hydrogen peroxide detoxification in marine microbes! Wonderful @microbialplanet.bsky.social collaboration with Sonya Dyhrman, Michelle DeMers and Gwen Hennon! enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

ISME is proud to launch ISME Host Microbe, a new fully open-access journal that provides a home for cutting-edge research on host-microbe interactions with particular emphasis on host-associated microbiome studies — spanning from environmental to clinical systems. Learn more: academic.oup.com/ismehm

New preprint from our lab. We demonstrate the presence of highly diverse and temporally dynamic community of Polinton-like Viruses (PLVs), a group of viruses predominantly associated with protists in a marine station over 5 years. PhD student Ethan Mimick is the lead author.

Viruses are highly abundant in the oceans, but there is one place you won't typically find them: in global ocean ecosystem models... until now. Introducing "vDarwin", an explicit integration of viruses into the MITgcm/Darwin global ecosystem framework: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... a 🧵

New online! Infection cycles of viruses of the phylum Nucleocytoviricota

New paper alert! 🚨 We used creative restriction enzymes and Illumina sequencing to examine A&C methylation in the environment: doi.org/10.1128/spec... Because you sometimes do not get enough DNA to manage the gold standard methylation tests! For us that is basically all the time.

New Discovery Report in PLOS Biology (@plosbiology.org)! Here we provide evidence that symbiotic bacteria within fish guts may play an important and overlooked role in the oceanic carbon cycle! doi.org/10.1371/jour... #MicroSky #SymbioSky #MicrobiomeSky

Think this is pretty cool. ONT now has an officially supported barcode kit for direct RNA sequencing. You can now run 24 samples at a time to recover full-length RNA transcripts with 8 different bp mods that aren't removed by amplification or cDNA synthesis. nanoporetech.com/resource-cen...

It's sargassum's world, we just live in it. #miamj #sargassum

Amazing low tides this week! So many beautiful algae & inverts! 🌊

Hey y'all, exciting news! New paper in preprint :). Nucleocytoviricota discovery, virophages, polinton-like viruses with a touch of ecology and evolution! doi.org/10.64898/202... Let me know what you think (scary thing to say online, but well...)

Excited for this award with @zepernickbn.bsky.social and Professor McKay @uwindsor.bsky.social. Rewarding research published with @isme-microbes.bsky.social and more clearly explained in @theconversation.com. www.uwindsor.ca/news/2026-05... doi.org/10.1093/isme... doi.org/10.64628/AAI...

New York - #pedestrians #walk #photography

Happy to share the latest work by my student Isaac at @uwaterloo.ca on #ribosomal #proteins in #phages published in The ISME J. The work is an excellent example of what happens when self-driven curious students are allowed the freedom to run forward with their own ideas uwaterloo.ca/science/news...

Happy to share that our latest research on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of MDR plasmids and PDPs is now out (open access vAuthor) in The ISME Journal doi.org/10.1093/isme... Here, we explored how plasmid-dependent phages (PDPs) act as a selective pressure against the spread of multidrug resistance

Dear PhD students and postdocs — we want to hear about your science firsthand at our annual Early Career Microbiologists Mini-Symposium @johninnescentre.bsky.social (UK) this September. For more information and to apply: www.jic.ac.uk/event/early-...

Lots of people have reached out asking how they can support us after the devastating fire in the MSL building, the heart of @cmarinescience.bsky.social Here’s one way, a GoFundMe organized by our graduate students - gofund.me/4373c6ff3. Please share widely, and thanks for helping our community!

Thanks to everyone who has reached out about the fire (www.tampabay.com/news/educati...) that completely destroyed more than half of our college. Thankfully no one was hurt -but it’s total devastation to the main building The outpouring of support from the scientific community has been heartwarming

Simons Graduate Fellowship Applications are open! If you're applying to Ph.D. programs in ecology and/or evolution this year, or if you're an incoming Ph.D. student who won't start your degree program until Fall 2026 or later, apply! www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Penn State Biology is hiring! We have an opening for a tenure-line faculty position in plant biology - if you'd like to pursue awesome science in a supportive and interdisciplinary community of researchers, consider applying! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

I came back to the United States, hearing about a very sad news: Craig Venter passed away today. He is a pioneer, successfully sequenced the first Human genome, and tried to create Synthetic Cells. We lost a giant in Science. RIP. @jcvi.org

My idea for a new journal/journal section is “marine mortality reports”, akin to metagenome resource announcements, where in very short form, authors can publish their observations in a standardized way that becomes part of the permanent literature. For example: 1) site description

We're searching for a postdoc to work on insect-microbe symbiosis at UNC Chapel Hill ~ Project is flexible (funded from startup) with support for independence and collaboration in our broad Bio department. Details + apply: parkerlab.net/open-positions

A hat-trick of papers from the lab, I'm so proud and excited to announce! We have clams, we have sulfur-oxidizing symbionts, we have seagrasses, and we explore how they're all linked @cemess.bsky.social @microbesplanet.bsky.social

A new family of rolling-circle replication endonucleases widespread in archaeal viruses and plasmids. This family is unrelated to the HUH superfamily Reps, but distantly related to the bacterial Rep_trans enzymes. @narjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Thanks Monir and Danae for covering our work!

Our News and Views article discussing @mfels.bsky.social et al's work on how a giant virus manipulates its host's translation during infection is out today in Nature Microbiology. PhD student Danae Stephens is a co-author. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Resilience and response of marine microbes to the future ocean and a marine heatwave – insights from a mesocosm experiment academic.oup.com/femsec/advan... #jcampubs 🌊

Our first collaboration with the Levine lab! Defining metabolic niches for marine microbial heterotrophs www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs 🌊

Dredging project paused at Port Everglades as concerns grow over risk to #Florida coral reef. www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/d... via @nbcmiami.com

ISOP-sponsored symposium on protistan symbioses across the Tree of Life went fantastic! Thanks all contributors (Ondrej, Gillian, and @mixotrophe.bsky.social) and the best co-host, @nicolecoots.bsky.social! #ProtistsOnSky @protistologyopen.bsky.social