Some of the longest-lived organisms on Earth aren’t whales, trees or corals, but microbes buried deep in the earth. This eye-opening essay examines the slowest lives on Earth, asking what such lives mean for how we define life itself @karenlloyd.bsky.social

Come join us! Soon I will be advertising a postdoc vacancy in my group as part of my @erc.europa.eu AdG project 'DARK ROOTS'. Focus of the project will be on phylo- and metagenomic mining of novel prokaryotic lineages. I will soon post a link here - stay tuned, and please repost! #asgardarchaea

🚨 New Perspectives article where, Deiner, Gibbons and colleagues describe the current strengths and limitations of microbial community-scale metabolic models in microbiome research. 🦠🧮 #MicroSky @gibbological.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today we @mib-wur.bsky.social are on strike against the budget cuts in higher education. #StopTheCuts

Great Science from „home“ at the #KNVM2025 by @kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social from the #MPI-CEJena

This year the GRS will have a keynote from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social and a mentorship panel with Simon Rittmann, @geosantiagom.bsky.social, Susanne Erdmann, and Yan Liao! www.grc.org/archaea-ecol...

In case you missed it the GRC and GRS for Archaea 2025 are both open for applications! Join us in Switzerland for the latest iteration of this awesome conference! #archaeasky

The history of Earth’s sulfur cycle www.nature.com/articles/s43... #jcampubs 🌊

Not new here but will become more active at @bsky.app (I am no longer active on X) Follow me to hear more about the wonderful world of microbes (evolution, archaea, symbiosis, new microbes, ...). Expect occasional rants about academia, 🇳🇱 politics, life, etc. My research group: go.bsky.app/MzZPftE

Excited to have our review 'Archaea and the origin of eukaryotes' in the @NatureRevMicro special issue celebrating the 40th anniversary of Woese and Fox's paper! With @anjspa1 @cstairs J. Lombard and @Ettema_lab https://www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro.2017.133

Transcriptional landscape of the archaeal cell cycle is broadly conserved in eukaryotes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.20.624502v1