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Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

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Not new here but will become more active at @bsky.app (I am no longer active on X) Follow me to hear more about the wonderful world of microbes (evolution, archaea, symbiosis, new microbes, ...).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