The DOE has cancelled 321 awards, all in blue states, worth 7.5B$. www.latitudemedia.com/news/scoop-t...

Correlative MS Imaging for cellular identification and analysis of in situ cryo-ET www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.16.676641v1 #cryoem

PubMed is in trouble This is beyond bad for medical research pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Professor (full) or Associate Professor (tenure track) in Microbial Genetics of Health (U. Turku Finland). Competitive starting package included! Please share. duunitori.fi/tyopaikat/ty...

EXCITING NEWS!! We're searching for a new professor colleague at the Biozentrum🇨🇭. Ideal candidates are exploring novel biological questions with structure, biophysics, or high-resolution imaging. 🧪 🧶🧬 🔬 The call closes Nov 3. Please get in touch if you would like more information. Come join us! 👩‍🔬🤓

This is what this is about for me: protecting early career researchers who haven’t published their data yet from data thefts. In 2022 my lab’s data was used by two studies, scooping the work of grad students and postdocs. I contacted the authors, who had used our data. One team understood, retracted

Biogenesis and function of archaeal lipoproteins. This takes me back. The first papers I published from my new group were on lipoprotein biogenesis in Streptomyces with @proftracypalmer.bsky.social about 15y ago. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Isolation of Marsarchaeota, now named Tardisphaerales. Added to my pile of shame (to be read papers).

Our article on equitable reuse of public sequencing data is out! Led by @alexjprobst.bsky.social, @lhug.bsky.social, Cristina Moraru, @geomicrosoares.bsky.social, @folker.bsky.social and myself -, co-authored by Anke Heyder, and developed in consultation with 167 scientists. tinyurl.com/n6yeanmk

BONCAT-Live for isolation and cultivation of active environmental bacteria journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

🚨New preprint from our lab!🚨 We trace the evolution of microbial exoenzymes and uncover their role in Earth’s oxygenation. By recycling nutrients, exoenzymes helped fuel cyanobacteria and set off feedbacks that sustained the long-term rise of O₂. #MicroSky 🧪 🦠 🌎 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Petroff et al study the magnetotactic properties of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria from Little Sippewissett salt marsh.

Toss up between “The good, the bad, and the ugly “ (1966) and “The Matrix” (1999).

This week, Dr. Laura Weyrich, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the paleo oral microbiome! We will learn if our ancestors had the same kind of resident microbes as we do. @markowenmartin.bsky.social @lauraweyrich.bsky.social

New frontiers in short-chain alkyl-coenzyme M reductases #methane #anme #methanogenesis www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I will die on this hill: aif you call a fecal microbiome a gut microbiome you at the very least misrepresent, and worst case lie about, your sample and your study. I really wish people would stop doing this. You are doing a disservice to science and to communication to the public.

Structure of a bacteria archaellum. Note: Sonja is the eukaryotic archaellum @archaellum.bsky.social

Another week, another episode of #MattersMicrobial! This time, my friend and colleague Dr. Lisa Gorski joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss food safety and Listeria. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord? @ASMicrobiology @univpugetsound youtu.be/Y1J9AaqEgkc?...

Struc­tures of meth­ane-ac­tiv­at­ing en­zyme in elu­sive ar­chaea @mariecmueller.bsky.social @cuwelte.bsky.social @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social #methane #ANME #archaea #MCR #microbiology #biochemistry #StructuralBiology mpi-bremen.de/en/Structure...

Asgard archaea were first found in mud at the bottom of the North Sea. Today, cellular biologists Martin Pilhofer and Christa Schleper are exploring one of their more elusive structural elements: a totally tubular system that looks a lot like our own. www.quantamagazine.org/tiny-tubes-r...

Assistant Professor position in the Microbiome Engineering group (Prof Sahar El Aidy) at University of Amsterdam Assistant Professor in Microbiome Imaging and Functional Analysis werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Another week, another episode of #MattersMicrobial! Dr. Dennis Claessen of Leiden University joins the #QualityQuorum to chat about cell wall deficient bacteria, antibiotic resistance, and perhaps insights into how life evolved. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord? youtu.be/NIrmcitpBp8?...

Sub-cellular chemical mapping in bacteria using correlated cryogenic electron and mass spectrometry imaging Congrats Hannah Ochner and authors on this important paper! Strong collaboration with @kiranrpatil.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... @mrclmb.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social

We're accepting proposals from new PIs through our New Investigator call until SEPT. 9 🖥️🧬🦠 🧪🍄🌱 jointgeno.me/CSPnewPI Hear from @snehacouvillion.bsky.social on how this program helped further her research⬇️ @axelvisel.bsky.social @simrouxvirus.bsky.social @danudwary.secondarymetabolism.com

New week-new episode of the #MattersMicrobial podcast!! Dr. Roxanne Beinart of the University of Rhode Island joins the #QualityQuorum to chat about the work her group does on deep sea chemoautrophic communities & symbioses! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord? youtu.be/mERRJOuEsB4?...

Bringing the uncultivated microbial majority of freshwater ecosystems into culture www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

📢 New paper in @nature.com Microbes rock 🎸🤘 with sulfide and iron minerals I am very excited to share our recent study, which describes a previously unknown microbial energy metabolism ⚡⚡⚡🦠🧫⚡⚡⚡ 🆕 Microbial iron oxide respiration coupled to sulfide oxidation - MISO www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Redox conduction facilitates direct interspecies electron transport in anaerobic methanotrophic consortia www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

FISH-FACS Proteomics: Enhanced label-free quantitative proteome analysis from low cell numbers of uncultured environmental microorganisms academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs

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.

My newest addition to my Fermi problem homework: "Calculate what proportion of a Golden Retriever’s daily energy intake is spent on wagging its tail."

Our story about microbial methane is out! We found that reducing the expression of a key gene of methanogenesis modulates the isotopic composition of the methane: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Check out also the coverage at the UC Berkeley News website: news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/14/s...

Paywall. Anyone got access?

A novel bacterial protein family that catalyses nitrous oxide reduction www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Imagine a bacterium that refuses to follow the textbook: It grows as tangled filaments, divides unevenly, reshapes its own membranes… and even builds grappling hooks. Meet Litorilinea aerophila — and here’s why it blew our minds.

We are on the cusp of AGI, definitely for real

Saddened to learn of the passing of Moselio "Elio" Schaechter—Distinguished Professor at Tufts, SDSU and UCSD—humanist and visionary leader in the fields of microbiology and scientific communication—mentor, friend, and inspiration to me and so many others Small Things Considered Big Things Achieved

It's that time. New episode of #MattersMicrobial! Dr. Jean-Marie Volland joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the discovery of Thiomargarita magnifica...a bacterium a centimeter long! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord? microbe.tv youtu.be/9KgvmQWe_F4?...

Advanced grad students or postdocs: interested in giving a virtual Thermal Biology Institute (www.tbi.montana.edu) seminar in fall or spring? Please email or DM me ASAP!

this seems like a very good idea actually

Yup. clauswilke.substack.com/p/phd-level-...

Cool study on aerotolerant methanogens! Options they might protect themselves from O2 include biofilm formation in response to O2 exposure and antioxidants (F420-H2-oxidases, rubredoxins, thioredoxins, and peroxiredoxins). This opens up a vareity of new possible habitats for methanogens.

The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities. It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree. Likely to enter force within days.

New ArsTechnica story about the new steaming pile of Executive Order... arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Only six months in and almost half of Project 2025 has been implemented: thehill.com/opinion/whit...

“This Executive Order is nothing short of obscene," said Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA). "In what world does Donald Trump think that Americans want political appointees – who, need I remind the President, are unelected bureaucrats – making decisions on what science gets funded?”

Well, this is a huge Executive Order power grab... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 1/3

The official version of the constitution on Congress.gov has removed Article I, Section 9 and 10 from the website which includes the writ of habeus corpus. web.archive.org/web/diff/202...

If you are a postdoc working on any topic related to environmental microbiology and are looking for exposure, the Thermal Biology Institute (tbi.montana.edu) has slots open for virtual talks via zoom this fall. Email me if you are interested! Seminars are most Mondays, 3-4 pm Mountain Time.

Constitution sections on due process and foreign gifts just vanished from Congress' website Include provisions such as habeas corpus, forbidding the naming of titles of nobility, and forbidding foreign emoluments for U.S. officials. www.404media.co/constitution...