Grateful to the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) for funding my new project: Quantifying microbial dormancy and growth in glacial forefield soils (is QoMA)!

The latest and most detailed review on a fundamental biochemical pathway: #glycolysis #microbiology #biochemistry onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The position is still open. Please apply here: jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/277

1/6 PhD /PostDoc positions available. Exploration of physiological functions of the cell fusogen Fusexin1 in Archaea. In a collaborative project between the Albers lab (Freiburg) and the Podbilewicz lab (Technion) starting in January 2026.

WOW! Fluorescein-based dyes are not valid reporters of oxidative stress in bacteria, and conclusions based on their use must be reconsidered www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨 Come and work with us 🦠🧪🖥️ Postdoc position with lots of freedom available in my group - 1.5 years with options to extend - work on ecogenomics and physiology of N/CH4-cyclers - remote work possible 🤓 more info here: isme-microbes.org/postdoc-ecog... #microbesky

Please share this with anyone who may be interested in a post-doc in Germany: jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20... This is quite an exciting opportunity to push the boundaries of what is known regarding the molecular basis of the formation and demise of photosymbiotic relationships in marine habitats.

📣 New PhD student position opening in my lab! Soils are full of microbes, but how many are active? Surprisingly, we still lack reliable methods to answer this. If you are interested in microbial dormancy and are fascinated by the Alps and glacier forefields, contact me. 🏔️ 🦠 💤 🧬 🎓

Coevolution and cross-infection patterns between viruses and their host methanogens in paddy soils #microbiology #virology #methanogens #viruses #phages @isme-microbes.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

🆕 New publication in SOIL journal! 📖 Aeration and mineral composition of soil mediate microbial CUE 👥 Niedźwiecka et al. 🔗 soil.copernicus.org/articles/11/... #SoilScience #SoilJournal #Research #OpenAccess #EGU_SSS

📣Now finally with peer-review stamp of approval. Thanks @ashish-malik.bsky.social for being the editor for this paper. soil.copernicus.org/articles/11/...

🦠 Among #Methylococcales, the genus #Methylobacter has the most genomes and MAGs deposited in the dbs. We found interesting stuff, e.g., some M. spp. encode all three MMOs: pMMO, pXMO, sMMO! Have a look at our ms: doi.org/10.1101/2025... with @anne-daebeler.bsky.social, Vojta, Justus&Julius

📢 Funded PhD opportunities for UK candidates in beautiful Edinburgh. Get in touch if you're interested in a PhD on understanding the mechanisms of soil carbon cycling and the role of microbes. We work in different ecosystems: peatlands, forests and agricultural soils. Please repost/spread the word.

Microbiome sequencing has come so far in 2 decades. In my PhD— I used TRFLP…. am now doing long read sequencing of entire soil metagenomes! This review was great fun- thanks Gitta Szabó @emileyeloe-fadrosh.bsky.social Tanja Woyke of @jgi.doe.gov www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 🦠 🏜️ Meet the first cultured methanogens from oxic soils! Using cultivation and comparative genomics, we descirbe Methanobacterium limanense sp. nov., Methanocella ebodanensis sp. nov., and a strain of Methanosarcina mazei as dwellers of desert biocrusts. With @anne-daebeler.bsky.social and other

"36% of 7,177 manuscripts submitted between January and June 2025 were flagged by Pangram for suspected AI-generated text" I don't think we're ready for the amount of junk text coming our way 😬 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Unfortunately, the sauna was broken this time, but I guess you can't always have it all...

Thanks @luederslab.bsky.social and @femsmicro.org for the opportunity to be a Summer School mentor. I had so much fun and I really hope FEMS will continue this programme in the future.

The @femsmicro.org SSPD 2025 is going strong! 💪 An amazing crowd of postdocs and mentors from all over the globe has gathered for highly inspiring and illuminating discussions of microbiology and career development on the shores of the beautiful Lake of Ohrid - City of Light. 🦠🌞🇲🇰 t1p.de/v7sxs

Huge thanks to co-director Joana Falcao Salles and mentors @roeyangel.bsky.social, @gabrieleberg.bsky.social, Martina Cappelletti, Rodrigo Costa, Max Häggblom, @matehg.bsky.social, @kolb2018.bsky.social, @ashley17061.bsky.social, András Táncsics and ofc. Antonio Ventosa for contributing! 🤩

📢 🦠 A new methanotroph from Czech peat! Through an effort led by PhD student in my group Justus Nweze we isolated and describe a new CH4-muncher. Potential for a flexible (annaerobic) metabolisms and cool pH adaptations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microbesky #microbiomesky

📢 New paper in @nature.com Microbes rock 🎸🤘 with sulfide and iron minerals I am very excited to share our recent study, which describes a previously unknown microbial energy metabolism ⚡⚡⚡🦠🧫⚡⚡⚡ 🆕 Microbial iron oxide respiration coupled to sulfide oxidation - MISO www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper alert! We suggest caution in the analyses of viral auxiliary metabolic genes and propose a new overarching term - 'auxiliary viral genes' (AVGs) to describe different types of such genes. @simrouxvirus.bsky.social #phagesky #Microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New collaborative work with colleagues from Biology Centre CAS about the role of tree species and soil depth in microbial necromass accumulation. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Take-home message from Roey Angel: methanogenic Methanobacterium appears to be very common in upland soils as well. #esm2025

What an inspiring group of researchers! And they are all here in Helsinki for the soil microorganisms! 🤩 #esm2025 #soils

Fresh new abstract books are waiting for the #esm2025 congress, which starts in a few days. Don’t forget to follow us from Sunday onwards!

📣 New collab. work pre-print from my lab: Impact of Long-Term Mercury Contamination on the Rhizosphere Microbiota of Lotus tenuis: A Pathway to Resilience via Interkingdom Facilitation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A 1.0 release for Sandpiper. 700,000 microbial community profiles (3x the last version, 4.7 Pbp metaG), searchable via the @ace-gtdb.bsky.social R226 taxonomy that just dropped. MetaGs are going exponential, but we are still nowhere near a MAG for all species. sandpiper.qut.edu.au #microsky 🧬🖥️ 1/2

Climate change deniers used grok to generate a fake paper that they promptly published in a fake journal. It'll have >1 million views on X in under 24 hours. It's not just an example of bad things on X. There are a lot of those. But it also shows that sci comm there is meaningless and futile

This is a unique opportunity for young postdocs to network and get career mentoring. Please consider joining or spread it to your colleagues.

📣New pre-print from my lab, where we show the importance of considering aeration or the redox conditions when measuring carbon use efficiency. egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

Happy Valentine’s Day Poem

Giving infectious disease research a break, as promised by the MAHA agenda. Let's break down what exactly this Executive Order is *really* saying. Fortunately, I speak fluent anti-vax grifterese & can translate. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

That's a very interesting timing to "review" your web pages. Just as the entire US scientific system is undergoing the most extensive censorship since McCarthyism. 🤔

#MicrobiomeSky #MicroSky

📣 If you're interested in the #arthropod #microbiome and its implications for soil and #biogeochemical_cycling, I'll be giving a webinar on the topic of "Ecophysiological implications of the millipede microbiome" in the ACTIONr webinar series. Here's the link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8595969393...

Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself." Earlier that day:

We are looking for a PhD student to study anaerobic metabolisms of nitrfiers using 'omics and isotopes. 🦠🔬🧪🧫 Please help spread the word! More info here: jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/230

Some limitations - always wave THOSE around, marketing tells me: Sharing research via shortlinks (like bitly) is NOT tracked on Bluesky atm. For this to happen the service has to make a change first (we're chatting with them so don't all @ them about it.) Use the DOI or direct link and you're good.

I can't believe how unprofessional some professors can be. I am trying to get a reference letter from the supervisor of a potential PhD student, and she is ghosting me. She won't reply to my emails or return my calls! How is it unclear that writing reference letters is a top priority as a PI??? 😡

As of today Altmetric will display where research has been posted, reposted and quote-posted on this platform. All three types of posting behaviour are supported at launch. Data are available in Badges, Altmetric Explorer, Altmetric API and Altmetric data on SQL via Google BigQuery.

Thanks to the Czech Science Foundation for supporting my grant application! PhD position is still open: jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/228

🥁🥁In one week🥁🥁 (5/12/24) at 4 pm CET, PCI webinar series #9: How much is too much? Estimating APCs and questioning sustainability by Leigh-Ann Butler (Scholarly Communication Librarian, University of Ottawa). Mandatory registration:

“Our results suggest that soil microbiomes from different climates share unified responses to extreme climatic events, but that predicting the extent of community change may require knowledge of the local microbiome.” #Nature #scisky #News #Biology Open Access www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🤩🦠 A new #preprint #openscience recommendation just out: Yeast consortia for novel wine fermentations by E. Pourcelot, et al. Check here: microbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec... Thanks to @fcocubillosr.bsky.social for handling and @pablo-villa.bsky.social, C. Varela and 3 anonymous reviewers

#IDSky #MicroSky 🦠 🧫🧪 CAN YOU SPOT THE POSTAGE STAMP BLOOPER? (answer in first comment)

A career milestone I'll be happy to never reach is the type of professor who invites a guest lecturer, introduces them and then drops into a deep sleep until the end of the seminar

📢 A new #preprint recommendation by pcimicrobiol.bsky.social: S. Katsoulis-Dimitriou, E. Nikouli, E.-Z. Gkalogianni, I. Karapanagiotidis, and @kkormas.bsky.social Micobiota adaptations in gilthead sea breams 🐟🦠 Check it out here: microbiol.peercommunityin.org/PCIMicrobiol...