Registration and Abstract Submission for the 80th annual PSA meeting, held in Juneau, Alaska, are now open! Submissions will close on April 24th, 2026, so be sure to get your registration and abstracts in by then! For more information see: www.psaalgae.org/.../psa-14-1... #algae #psa #alaska

On my way to give a public presentation at @hhu.de Thanks for the invite 😊 www.polarscience.de/flyer

#Norfolk: big sky and empty beaches

Worth reading: Is striving for excellence a liability for Europe’s early-career precariat? Do universities value connections over merit? www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/strivi...

Submit your environmental metagenomics data to our new collection at 'Scientific Data'. Essential #data from #terrestrial and #marine ecosystems, as well as environments relevant to human #health such as water quality and #agriculture are welcome. Deadline: Dec. 2026 www.nature.com/collections/...

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Our new #MOSAiC paper led by Oliver Mueller just out @commsearth.nature.com Arctic sea-ice ridges are biomass hotspots harboring diverse microbial communities @ueaenv.bsky.social @norwichmicro.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s432...

A new sign has arrived in our neighbourhood. #Norwich

Award winning poster by our very own Yixuan Li 🎉👏 #CMINorwich2026 @norwichmicro.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social A molecular toolkit (e.g. CRISPR/Cas based genome editing) for the marine picoeukaryote Micromonas commoda.

And here we go: #CMINorwich26 @norwichmicro.bsky.social

Worth reading: 2.4 million uniformly analyzed microbial communities: The MicrobeAtlas database www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Huge news 🌍🧬 The Protist 10,000 Genomes Project is joining the Earth BioGenome Project. Protists may represent the majority of eukaryotic diversity — yet only a tiny fraction have reference genomes. Time to change that. 🚀✨ Learn more 👉 ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/p10k/ #EBP #Protists #Genomics #TreeOfLife

Fascinating single-cell red algae: models for evolution and adaptation #TansleyReview by Berger et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #plantscience

Just out @natcomms.nature.com Our new paper led by @karaslab.bsky.social with our help (Thalassiosira pseudonana). Breaking the cell wall for efficient DNA delivery to #diatoms www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Winter has returned to #Norwich

Our new preprint co-led with colleagues from #IOCAS and #BGI The genetic repertoire of the deep sea: from sequence to structure and function @ueaenv.bsky.social @norwichmicro.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Sad news

Some times we have good news: today enters into force the High Seas Treaty, known as the #Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement Hope for the #ocean #OceanOptimism #MarineEcology #MarinePolicy news.un.org/en/story/202...

This morning at the campus of @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

Good morning #Norwich and a happy 2026!

Most dystopian landscape in Germany during blue-hour cycling

Just out - an update on our paper from 2015: Evolution of Microalgae and Their Adaptations in Different Marine Ecosystems #ocean #algae #microbiomes Led by @antoniaotte1.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/9780...

Our new paper just out in @isme-microbes.bsky.social Venturing into the deep sea: #microbiomes and their feedbacks play a significant role in shaping habitat-scale spatial heterogeneity of #cold-seep carbonates. @norwichmicro.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/isme...

On my way home

Our consensus statement led by @jgi.doe.gov on standards for technical reporting in #environmental and host-associated #microbiome studies #STREAMS @norwichmicro.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Scenic drive along the Laoshan mountains

At OUC campus in November

A double helix in front of @viblifesciences.bsky.social

Thanks for the invite! See you tomorrow.

Our new preprint led by Emelia J. Chamberlain: From microbial diversity to function: evaluating dimensionality reduction methods #MOSAiC #Arctic #Ocean #microbiomes @norwichmicro.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our new methods paper led by AWI colleagues with the support of #OmicronCr. CRISPR-Cas for single-cell diatom microbiome research. @isme-microbes.bsky.social @norwichmicro.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Seen today on our campus @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social

New issue of Journal of Phycology is out with our paper highlighted on the cover. 😀 Congrats to all authors and especially Longji Deng 👏 @ueaenv.bsky.social First genetic transformation system in a heterotrophic #diatom onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15298817...

Fully funded #PhD Studentship in my lab! Get in touch 😀 The role of light-driven proton pumps in sustaining oceanic primary production #microbial #rhodopsins #diatom #ocean @ueaenv.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Our latest #preprint led by Yumary M. Vasquez & Frederik Schulz @jgi.doe.gov The largest database of giant #virus MAGs (GVMAGs V2) with >18,000 genomes from #marine, freshwater, anthropogenic and terrestrial environments. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congrats all! Exciting times ahead! Good luck everyone! 😊👍👏

Congrats everyone including @paulgmock.bsky.social Good luck at @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social You are in good hands www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Welcome-M...

New Species Spotlight 👇 Patricia Sanchez-Baracaldo zooms in and out on cyanobacteria www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free to read: rdcu.be/eHZSN

Sequencing methods 🧬 have come a long way from census counts 🔢 to assembling genomes and understanding the functions 🧪 of bacteria and viruses. New review by @jgi.doe.gov's Gitta Szabó, @emileyeloe-fadrosh.bsky.social, Tanja Woyke with @jeffinerca.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Worth reading: A genome-wide CRISPR screen reveals how #diatoms thrive in dynamic light. From Ellen Yeh's group www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cool preprint: Evidence for the acquisition of a proteorhodopsin-like #rhodopsin by a chrysophyte-infecting giant #virus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

UK introduces landmark legislation to protect world’s ocean www.gov.uk/government/n...

Survey of 8 countries including Spain and the US finds 82% of people support setting aside 30% land + sea for nature. All over the world, people WANT rewilding. Time our politicians started turning that clear wish into actual policy. Let's bring nature back!!! share.google/8lsJ5PfS2nau...

Last few days for booking your online tickets! Join leading coccolithophore scientists online at Advances in Coccolithophore Research 2025, 9-11 September. Full schedule including speakers and talks available - buff.ly/oaMjqZB ➡️ Book your ticket by Friday 5 September.

Our latest methods article led by Longji Deng. It enables to reverse engineer #photosynthesis in a eukaryotic heterotroph containing a "chloroplast": The #diatom Nitzschia putrida @ueaenv.bsky.social @norwichmicro.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our new paper just out in BMC Biology led by Johanna Winder: Environmental adaptations in #metagenomes revealed by deep learning. Artificial neural networks were used to classify ice-binding / substrate-binding proteins (DUF3494). bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Applecross Bay

Over the Scottish Highlands

Common sea urchin > 10cm in diameter.