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?...

Wow it’s been a busy few months. I live in New Paltz now! And work in Kingston! It’s the first fall in 7 years where I’m not panic-prepping courses! I love undergrads and miss some parts of academia, but not others. And I’m super excited about my Riverkeeper projects (both new and continuing)!

Global Patterns and Environmental Drives of Nitrite/Nitrate‐Dependent Anaerobic Methane Oxidation Across Natural Ecosystems 🔗 buff.ly/Q8O6xbM

A novel mobile genetic element with virus-like characteristics is widespread in the world's oceans www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨4yr Technical Assistant Position on #Microbial Activities in #Marine #N-Cycling🦠🧪👩‍🎓🔬 Join me @univie.ac.at @dome-vienna.bsky.social Part of our ERC Synergy #RECLESS looking at microbes in marine oxygen minimum zones Apply by Oct 15, start March 2026! -> ucloud.univie.ac.at/index.php/s/...

Just out: metagenomics with internal standards yields phylogenetically resolved genome ("~cell") counts of bacteria, archaea, and photosynthetic eukaryotes per L of seawater, over the AMT29 Atlantic transect, via "single copy" genes (recA, radA, psbO). Compares with microscopy and flow cytometry.

In my latest blog post I lay out some things we as faculty can do to ensure that higher education remains an incubator that prepares future generations for a multiracial democracy as opposed to an incubator for Trump's fascist agenda. Check it out! educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/a...

Congratulations 🎉 now on line at @isme-microbes.bsky.social : Comparative genome analysis reveals broad phylogenetic and functional diversity within the order #Nitrospirales Linnea Kop et al #microbiology @ribesresearch.bsky.social (RIBES) icw @univie.ac.at academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Love this new minireview in J. Bacteriology by @archaeal.bsky.social and colleagues: "Laboratory-based studies must be grounded in nature, not the other way around." And we should focus on members of Earth's dominant microbes from key environments as models. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Green Bank Observatory, one of the most powerful telescopes in the world, is facing an apocalyptic budget cut request (-70%, and the NSF recommends shutting it down). Here's how you can help save this miracle of science and engineering: www.gogreenbankobservatory.org/take-action/

US Friends! The Green Bank Observatory (GBO) is a vital instrument in the global #RadioAstronomy network (incl. pulsar science), and it is under threat with the proposed funding cuts. Please take action to keep it open: www.gogreenbankobservatory.org/take-action/ Pls share! 🔭📡🧪 📸 GBO/AUI/NSF

I have spent the last 24 hours looking at media reports and social media posts about the Texas Hill County tragedy and being appalled by the level of misinformation I am seeing. I have tried to put together an updated, more reasoned summary I hope you'll read. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

University of Minnesota Duluth’s research vessel grows a mysterious goo, and when the captain finds it during repairs, he scoops up a glob of it and takes it back for analysis. “Hey, we work for scientists. We have people who do things,” he says. BIG VIBES.

Best conference camp every summer! #NEMPET25

We are accepting applications for the GeoFutures program. The program provides mentoring & travel support for geoscience undergrads attending the 2025 @sacnas.bsky.social conference. Priority app deadline 06-16-25 @cientificolatino.com @official-bweems.bsky.social environment.uw.edu/about/inclus...

Based on a story first reported by @forbetterscience.bsky.social here: forbetterscience.com/2025/05/19/a...

Inside a Scientific Paper Mill @dereklowe.bsky.social writes about how Csaba Szabo was contacted by a paper mill and offered money if he could help them write more junk papers. www.science.org/content/blog...

Predicting gene distribution in ammonia-oxidizing archaea using phylogenetic signals academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs

Did you know that the female #microbiome is unique in many ways, and antibiotic resistance in the gut microbiome varies between genders? See npj Biofilms and Microbiomes special issue, Women and their microbes, to learn more! www.nature.com/collections/...

Come work with us! We are currently hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow in marine microbial environmental genomics, to focus on microorganisms that produce and consume greenhouse gases and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the coastal Baltic Sea. Apply before 22 June! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Our new paper on MGEs in Vibrio cholerae is now out in Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social Huge congrats to former PhD student Natália Drebes Dörr @nataliadrebesdorr.bsky.social 🎉🍾🥳 for the great work & thx to Alexandre Lemopoulos for bioinformatics support shorturl.at/0LveK

Very excited to present the Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database (GBR-MGD), a comprehensive DB of 1000s of high-quality prokaryote, virus, plasmid, and chromosome-level eukaryote MAGs using Nanopore long reads. Subthreads incoming. Please share widely. 🙂 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

All technical statistics books should start like this! @rmcelreath.bsky.social 👏🏼

PARASOL biostats leads Abigail Smith and Margaret Helmuth gave a guest lecture today in @mesohaline.bsky.social’s #HamiltonCollege BIO 202 Biostatistics class - Nice examples of statistical methods & considerations in longitudinal studies and clinical trials & real life impact of biostats work

Excited to share new research led by our very own @lingdong-shi.bsky.social showing that many archaeal 23S rRNAs are circularized in active ribosomes. Check out the preprint below.

There are only around 140 coal plants still operating, with hundreds of retirements in recent years. Keeping them running costs more than actually building new solar and wind power — in 99 percent of cases. Oh and also coal killed half a million people in the US between 1999 and 2020.

Made this with ChatGPT for my biostats lecture slides. Definitely enough hilarity to use!

The longer I teach, the more I am convinced that the most important part of teaching is Vibes Management.

Very interesting finding: photochemical formation of N2O in freshwater and marine waters. The N cycle gets more complex. 🧐 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Job Alert at @ucdavis.bsky.social The Coastal & Marine Sciences Institute is searching for a Professor & Director. This work spans from the Davis campus to the Bodega Marine Laboratory & beyond. View the full position description & apply by the next review date, April 27th, here: lnkd.in/gKubcJSB

Our study ‘The global human impact on biodiversity’ is out in Nature! Through an unprecedented synthesis (2133 studies!) we show that humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet. 🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are hiring a postdoctoral scholar to join us in the sometime in the next ~6 months. oliveriolab.org with a focus on microbial eukaryotes in extreme environments. Please email w/CV if you'd like to chat. Official ad soon. #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky #ProtistsOnSky

Does genome streamlining influence the prevalence and abundance of freshwater prokaryotes? Does metabolic interdependencies influence the co-occurrence of prokaryotes in freshwater ecosytems? ⬇️ We examine the answer to these questions in our new pre-print ⬇️

Our paper, Pangenomes suggest ecological-evolutionary responses to experimental soil warming, is published! Led by @malladapted.bsky.social, this study of 91 isolate genomes shows lineage specific trends climate adaptation. Thanks to the many reviewers who helped make this a stronger publication. 🧪

Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

Why is teaching undervalued so much.

Hello everyone, the STAMPS course on microbiome data analysis at @mblscience.bsky.social is open until Mar 11, 2025! Join us for a great experience! Please ALSO check out my co-Director @amydwillis.bsky.social excellent post on how to write a great application: statdivlab.github.io/blog/article...

There’s a lot going on in this LinkedIn post 🤔

An important read for all microbiome researchers #microbiomania www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

Ecological dynamics explain modular denitrification in the ocean www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs 🌊

Final exams!

Fed Chair Jerome Powell: "The economy is in a really good place. Americans are still suffering from higher prices but it is not due to inflation. It's due to companies continuing to charge higher prices." You Don't Say I swear, I just want to start throwing shit.

Consider submitting an abstract to my session at #ASMICROBE! We will be talking about metal homeostasis in environmental microorganisms! See session information below! Abstract deadline is Jan. 22, 2025, 12 p.m. ET. #microsky

And I am starting to send out requests for podcast guests on #MattersMicrobial from January to June. Wednesday mornings Pacific time are best. I really want to promote microbial science and microbial scientists. Happy to get requests or suggestions or volunteers. #MicrobialCentrism

Welp. I was hoping to be at AGU Wed-Fri but it increasingly looks like that is falling through due to childcare issues the day I would present. 😫

Update! We went from 3 guinea pigs to 10, after discovering (experiential learning!) that our male was not neutered. There had been a clerical error in which somebody at the SPCA thought Fixed=“N” meant “neutered.” So we had no qualms about getting a few females! It…didn’t mean neutered 🤣

Hi, #AcademiaSky! I'm a #newPI gearing up to teach a mid-level #CellBio course in spring 25. I'm implementing a final project where students work in small groups to make a poster on an emerging model organism in cell bio. Please suggest potential taxa! Bonus points if you include a paper! (1/N)

I am planning to recruit a PhD student to begin in my lab at SUNY ESF for the Fall 2025 semester to work on projects in the area of environmental microbiology. I am unable to respond to comments/DMs here. Please email with any inquiries. Please read carefully before emailing.

We simply dont talk about about how batshit insane bioluminescence is, like theres a shrimp down there 3 miles under the water literally farting rainbows right now

Hello CNY Microbiology (and beyond!) friends! I am organizing a KBase bioinformatics workshop at SUNY ESF on December 11. This event is open to all our friends in the region and has a Zoom option. Please reach out if you have any questions! Register here: forms.gle/qkifXoMSH2uN...