2 Postdoc vacancies: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere @erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA 📢 PLEASE RT Experimental: 🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, omics, biogeochem Modelling: 🖥️ Bioenergetics, thermodynamics, ecological, biogeochem ☀️ Marseille, France ‼️ Apply by 30 Sept

Phosphite oxidizers 🤝 Methanogens In our new paper on “Lithosyntrophy” we show that phosphite oxidation drives methanogenesis through interspecies H2 transfer. Lithosyntrophy establishes a novel mechanistic link between the #phosphorus and carbon redox cycles

Our story about microbial methane is out! We found that reducing the expression of a key gene of methanogenesis modulates the isotopic composition of the methane: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Check out also the coverage at the UC Berkeley News website: news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/14/s...

But the ocean also consumes all that oxygen it produces so it's net zero. 🌊

The Ambiguous Genetic Code of Methanogenic Archaea that Grow on Methylamines www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

You know the way we all talk about leveraging 'omics information to improve ecosystem/biogeochemical model performance - well here's a step in that direction - led by Zhen Li integrating across many scientific teams to make this happen www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Come to #Prague for #Woodstock2025. What is it? A scientific conference unlike any other. Think #BurningMan or #MusicFestival but #science themed. It'll have two parts - decentralised sessions spread in #Prague (sightsee as you move around) & #campsite event to wrap it up (1/7)

Friends: Science is under threat! Worldwide, forces seek to make it corporate-like, focused on deliverables, or even the enemy of society. It's time to take a stand to celebrate the science we know and love. Introducing: Woodstock.Bio2 + Night Science June 10-13, Prague & Woods of Bohemia Join us!

Global cement production has slowed / plateaued over the last decade after rapid growth in the 1990s and early 2000s. ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

Archaea aficionados around the world, APH is now on BlueSky! Follow us for virtual conference announcements and more 🦠

Relevant to this audience! @nature.com asks: “Has Bluesky replaced X for scientists? Take Nature’s poll”: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Enter a Paleolithic ritual chamber deep within Manot Cave, Israel, where you’ll find a boulder engraved with designs from around 36,000 years ago. The site is the earliest known evidence of religious behavior in the Paleolithic Levant. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I’m proud to join more than 30 colleagues today in sharing our analysis of potential risks from “mirror life”. We summarize our findings in a @science.org article, and in greater detail in a 300pg technical report: Article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Report: purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036

The first research outcome from my postdoc work at Berkeley, we show that gene expression controls the isotopic composition of microbial methane!

CRISPR-enabled control of gene expression sets the isotopic composition of microbial methane www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs