Coincidental and exciting! Anaerobic methanotrophic archaea (ANME) do like carbon monoxide - two independent studies showcasing CO metabolism across freshwater and marine ANME (ANME-2d and -2b). ANME-2d: doi.org/10.1101/2025... (Welte lab) ANME-2b: reposted (Orphan lab)

Of the 10 defense systems originally discovered in Doron et al 2018, Kiwa was one of the last to be studied - until now Kiwa is a membrane-embedded complex activated in phage attachments sites to degrade phage DNA A nice study by the Nobrega lab

We wrote a review on the free nucleotide pool as a central playground in human, bacterial, and plant immunity – now out in Nature Reviews in Immunology www.nature.com/articles/s41... Was fun to write this piece with Dina Hochhauser! Here is a thread to explain the premises 1/

Just a heads-up so people don't get caught off guard. 🔥😎🔥

YES!

PARIS (AP) — French President Macron announces that France will recognize Palestine as a state.

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will recognize Palestine as a state, amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza.

With all the memes and the drama over the CEO on the Coldplay cam... Let me make something crystal clear: 📢 CHARACTER IS A PERSONAL TRAIL, NOT A PROFESSIONAL SKILL Be aware of people that don't respect their partner...

Today's reading: Nature should be the model for microbial sciences journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... by @brettbakker.bsky.social @emilyraehyde.bsky.social and @pedroleao.bsky.social Looks ideal for a talk I am working on on model organisms ...

New online! Viromics approaches for the study of viral diversity and ecology in microbiomes

"In a competitive academic world, building bridges instead of walls may be our most powerful tool to accelerate discovery and rebuild public trust in science." I'm very happy with this article piece! 🥳 www.the-scientist.com/science-thri...

OUT NOW: Structural insights into light harvesting by antenna-containing rhodopsins in marine #Asgard #archaea @bejalab.bsky.social @labinoue.bsky.social #microsky 🦠🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The archaeal S-layer is not only pretty, it also carries crucial cellular functions, and the list keeps growing! @sshamphavi.bsky.social @marleenvw.bsky.social @archaellum.bsky.social and I wrote a little sheath sheet (+10 pts if you got the pun) 📖 Curr Opin Cell Biol 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

I wish more people could understand this! 📢 "Success lies in building a career. Fulfillment lies in building character." There is no price tag on a clean conscience. 🔥

Interested in phage defenses that natively block lytic phage used in therapies? Or do you want to figure out if a phage has a modified genome? Meet the END-nucleases, an enzyme family that can broadly restrict phages with many diverse modifications. From talented post-doc Wearn-Xin Yee!

A database of structures for ecologically relevant microbial traits - Looks cool - here's the github: github.com/timghaly/Eco...

a bit late here, but thx @hiro-imachi.bsky.social for the shoutout on 𝕏 👏 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝗶𝗺𝘀 @HolgerDaims on 𝕏, Jun 12, 2020 Happy to announce cultivation and genomic/kinetic characterization of two new marine #Nitrospinae ... the elusive Nitrospinae for #MicroSky

Please join the (very good) network so I have a happier PI 🧪🧫🧬 #MicroSky

To my microbiology friends... What are your thoughts on the concept of extinction applied to microbes? we use the term "dilution-to-extinction" to cultivate microbes, but by definition it's not really extinction. I was thinking about this after coming across this: www.theinvisibleextinction.com

@pedroleao.bsky.social on a Gift from Asgard: The Prokaryotic Origin of Eukaryotic Immune Mechanisms #KNVM2025

*checks the TL* Oh, I see we're doing "authors are landlords" again. Because *checks notes* one of the world's biggest companies is profiting off torrented work. 🤦🏻

#StandUpForScience Science not silence!

If I'm speaking at a Stand Up For Science Rally, can I list that on my CV as an invited presentation? 🧪🌎💧 PS - come join us in Buffalo! www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

New group of RNA phages ?? 👀 👀 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Wow! Exciting times ahead! 🥳 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I love this sentiment, but I honestly wouldn't participate. I spoke about my experiences in science in a meeting once and a white colleague came to my office and literally cried about how she was oppressed. I'd rather not go through that again. Instead of asking colleagues to retell trauma, ....

Fun little Q&A! Thank you for the opportunity Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

Please take a lesson from other societies. SICB and AGU have both put out strong statements about valuing diversity in science. AGU is asking for feedback from their members, which you are clearly not doing. So disappointed in your response. bsky.app/profile/napa...

"We will not retract published articles on request by an author on the basis that they contain so-called banned words" @bmj.com takes a stand: "Medical journal editors must resist CDC order and anti-gender ideology" www.bmj.com/content/388/...

1. Our questjons were not about executive ordere but about ASM doing things wihtout any communication of memebrship asm.org/press-releas...

I was going to respond to the ASM press release after having my coffee, but this is such a better response. ASMs last email was Jan 30 and does not mention taking down IDEAA sites or spotlights on Black, Indigenous, or other underrepresented microbiologists, or anything about DEI. Disappointed.

A long post about what’s happening to the science funding agencies in the US and why. As mentioned, this one just kept getting longer even as I kept stripping curse words from it. www.science.org/content/blog...

Because of strange ongoing problems with @skyfeed.xyz, I had to migrate the #VirEvol feed. It now runs on bluesky feed generator (blueskyfeedcreator.com) by @fyodork.bsky.nz. Since old posts are not migrated, I will do this by reposting them all.

I understand that in critical times like these we have to play with the card we have, and most importantly play smart. Navigate politics is about trading. In Academia is no different. We just have to be VERY careful with the concession we give, and what we are leaving on the table

Count the Career Development Grant for Postdoctoral Women among the casualties of ASM’s recent self-censorship. Disappointing. I’m a past recipient. The impact of this small grant on my career was huge. Plus, I believe it’s a donor-funded program (not fed funds).

#Archaeasky #Mikrosky 🔬🦠🧫

Would you expect that Bacteria use an archaellum for swimming? We didn't, but we found that some Chloroflexota do! Find the story here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A little thread below 1/n

I’m on one of ASMs IDEAA committees and we have received 0 communication from ASM staff on why this is happening. I had to find out via social media. Extremely disappointing.

Ok this is not ok. ASM actively sought out BMA and its members for Juneteenth and Black History month content for the last 4 years. Actively asked for black labor and then takes it down?! @asm.org this is unacceptable. You should be standing up for marginalized microbiologists not erasing them.

If Luka can be fired... none of us is safe! 🫠

A year ago I was coming back to the Netherlands to start as an assistant professor @ribesresearch.bsky.social SO MUCH stuff happened. I can say that it has been quite a transition. It's quite hard, but I'll also say it's everything I wish for and more! 🧡🌷

I have been listening to this type of speech since I was 10. 😴 If I listened to this.. I wouldn't have done sh*t with my life! -Life is hard -The world isn't fair All true, but so what? Because it's hard you won't even try? So please step a side, or you are gonna get run over.

Our paper out @CellCellPress: Structure guided discovery of viral proteins that inhibit host immunity Congrats Erez Yirmiya, Azita Leavitt, Gil Amitai, our collaborators at the Kranzusch lab, and coauthors A 🧵 1/10 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

It has been amazing to continue this long-term research through a PhD with @quendi.bsky.social and a postdoc with @archaeal.bsky.social . Not everyone gets to see a project through like this as an ECR- thanks to supportive PI's and the NSF-PRFB fellowship that let me design my own postdoc 💙🧪

Great short listen!

"Why are they not looking at Archaea? Why do people keep forgetting about Archaea?" Yeah. That's me! 😅 It was very nice to be sort of this episode of #ShortWave @NPR www.npr.org/2024/12/11/1...