I’m excited to launch Microbial Planet, a new editorial-style section of the Chase Lab website for short research dispatches on microbial ecology, evolution, environmental genomics, biogeochemistry, and microbial chemical ecology.

man sometimes I absolutely love this job, but the other side really bums me out... after 9mo review on career, I get: "we know that it does! We have know this for decades!" "intellectual novelty...is non-existent" "PI isn't corr author...calls to question prior exp. as claimed" "low productivity"

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Always love papers blending ecology and evolution, should be a fun read! Emergence of alternative stable states in microbial communities undergoing horizontal gene transfer elifesciences.org/articles/99593

Uneven sequencing (coverage) depth can bias microbial intraspecies diversity estimates and how to account for it academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs

🌊🌊🌊 Our PNAS paper on octocoral diterpene evolution is out - a huge interdisciplinary effort led by @immo-burkhardt.bsky.social and the first publication from our @noaa.gov grant on the biopharmaceutical potential of the CCE🪸🤿🧬 www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

🧫 Graduate students wanted - microbial edition The Chase Lab at SMU Earth Sciences is looking for microbial humans: adaptive, collaborative, and occasionally anaerobic. If you get excited about connecting sequence data to actual biology, come join the experiment. 🌍 Dallas, TX 🔗 microbomics.com

Started off as a reading group and led to a nice mini-review of microbiome evolution in natural communities. Complete credit to Abby for leading this fun collab! #mevosky Investigating bacterial evolution in nature with metagenomics doi.org/10.1016/j.mi...

Our article showing energy production from air alone is in PNAS today. This paper provides an ultimate biochemical proof that microbes can survive simply by 'making' energy from air (making two ATP per molecule atmospheric H2 consumed) and has biotech applications. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Fungal spores reveal a global climate footprint on microbes' traits! Incorporating microbial traits improves predictions of biogeographic shifts. Fun project w @balachaudhary.bsky.social @smriti-pehim-limbu.bsky.social @sturmer.bsky.social @aguilart.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New work led by the amazing @aprillukowski.bsky.social lab. Love working on these interdisciplinary projects discovering new chemical diversity in nature. Microbes are the best chemists! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

En route to ASM Microbe. Excited to be back in CA. Let me know if you’re also going and want to grab a coffee to discuss some science 🙌🏻

There is so, so much good science being shared and discussed on bsky right now. The news of its demise is quite backwards. If you are having trouble finding it among all of the very important political news, use the papersky feed that filters posts you follow to just papers: bsky.app/profile/pape...

Unearthing Vertical Stratified Archaeal Community and Associated Methane Metabolism in Thermokarst Sediments enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs

Just out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... "The evolution of thermal performance curves in response to rising temperatures across the model genus yeast". Beautiful work using experimental evolution forecasting climate impacts on biodiversity by Jennifer Molinet @jennifermolinet.bsky.social

When is microbial cross-feeding evolutionarily stable? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

so is it like even worth starting to prepare a CAREER grant??? 🤷‍♂️

New opinion paper from the lab! www.cell.com/trends/micro...

I am very happy (and anxious) to share with you our most recent work in which we evaluated four of the most popular long-read assemblers, www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and tell you just a little bit about it in the following 🧵

Love this title! My ecology class reads the original Hutchinson paper to start the semester every year. #niches Paradox of the Sub-Plankton: Plausible Mechanisms andOpen Problems Underlying Strain-Level Diversity inMicrobial Communities doi.org/10.1111/1462...

If you're in DFW next week, come join us for our 3rd Annual SMU Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources (EENR) Colloquium. Exciting invited speakers and panels addressing science, industry, and law about pressing #envsci issues 📍 SMU 📅 Friday May 2 🌎🌱🛰️🍃♻️💡

If anyone is teaching environmental science #Envsci I highly recommend showing students this interactive world map of the ocean-atmosphere interactions 🌎 🌊 🌬️ classic.nullschool.net

really cool paper on RiPPs that binds to a new ribosomal site, inhibits translation elongation and induces miscoding in G+ and G- www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“species composition and functional properties of tropical American forests (and possibly all tropical forests) are increasingly out of equilibrium with local climate” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨New paper from NSF EMERGE BII: A framework for integrating genomics, microbial traits, and ecosystem biogeochemistry. Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#mevosky Last semester: reading group on micro evolution - trying to understand in natural communities. Wanted to share! 🧬🦠 1. Start with THE classic paper on MAGs Community structure and metabolism through reconstruction of microbial genomes from the environment www.nature.com/articles/nat...

Need a reading group or something to catch-up on some amazing papers!! A vast repertoire of secondary metabolites potentially influences community dynamics and biogeochemical processes in cold seeps | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Some of my first year grad students in my class are asking for books to read that will get them thinking about what questions to ask and how to know what they should ask. I have a couple of recs but wondering if anyone can help. What inspired you??

Our minireview on BGC evolution being shaped by genomic & ecological context is now live on mSystems: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #secmet #MEvoSky

I think the Microbial Evolution feed is working! Simply add the #MEvoSky hashtag to your post and it will aggregate to the feed linked below. Feel free to introduce yourself in context of microbial evo and adjacent topics. Experimental and directed evo welcome too! bsky.app/profile/did:...

This is worth a read for anybody interested in microbial diversity www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Adam Rivers (USDA-ARS) and I are hiring a joint postdoc to on a microfluidics and sequencing based project to better understand synthetic and natural microbiome community dynamics and generate data to build AI/ML models to infer interspp. interactions. Hit me up if interested!

First ever #AGU24 was a massive success. Loved hearing about all the soil talks and POM v MAOM mechanisms, both geochemical and microbial mediated. Definitely has me thinking a lot more about soil dynamics.

📣 All our sessions about advancing soil carbon predictions is today!

Today's JC paper on the theme of microbial evolution: Competition–dispersal tradeoff ecologically differentiates recently speciated marine bacterioplankton populations doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

and it's now live! congrats to all involved! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Slipper season is back 🙌🏻

Giving a lecture today on environmental impacts of livestock. Blows my mind every time I prep for this one. If interested highly recommend the “Cowspiracy” documentary on Netflix 🐑🐓

Why do I always procrastinate reviewing papers?? 😫

After yesterday, I couldn’t do it anymore. Had to leave that other platform but excited to join here. Lmk what I need to do to get back to communicating science 🧪🧬🦠