We just launched the Kickstarter campaign of MicroMates, a card game that brings the hidden world of microorganisms to life in a fun, colorful, and scientifically inspired way. Please back us up and spread the word! micromates.se

A list of #marinebiology starter packs! 🌊 go.bsky.app/4PTX62K Marine Ecology go.bsky.app/RS5zQHv Marine Biologists I go.bsky.app/8DoyTMs Marine Biologists II go.bsky.app/Qo5Gh2H Coral reef science go.bsky.app/E8vrnd6 LGBTQIA+ Grads go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo Ocean Women go.bsky.app/4wMsfX4 Ocean Women II

Thread of Starter Packs to network for PhD and postdoc positions in Biology (or adjacent fields)! 🧵 First up: Starter Pack for students looking for PhD positions! go.bsky.app/EFj87fi

Organic metabolite uptake by diazotrophs in the North Pacific Ocean academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

check out our new publication on DOM uptake by diazotrophs (and that is both autotrophic and heterotrophic ones!) academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... @mioceanologie.bsky.social @ird-fr.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk @ucscscience.bsky.social

Bye, bye #AquaEcOmics 👋🏻 What a well organized event! Extraordinary venue lots of fruitful discussions! Icing on the cake: Lauren Rodriguez taking home the @physaliacourses.bsky.social best presentation award for the @ewhale-dna.bsky.social team! 🤩 @aquaecomics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy #eDNA

Congratulations to Teun Everts (@teuneverts.bsky.social) and Thomas Reinhart for winning the Best Student Presentation awards at the #AquaEcOmics meeting in Evian, France! mbmg.pensoft.net/news/806 @aquaecomics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

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...

Congratulations Lauren Rodriguez! 🐳 Our #eWHALE #Phd student from @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social won the @physaliacourses.bsky.social best presentation award at the #AquaEcOmics conference for presenting #eDNA sampling optimization results! 👏🏻 @bettinathal.bsky.social

Jeez. French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

@kamilhupalo.bsky.social introducing the „fish smoothie approach“ for detecting fish parasites! #AquaEcOmics @aquaecomics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

AquaEcOmics first day: awesome talk from karoline Faust! Microbetag looks great. #Aquaecomics #microbialNetwork

Great talk from Valérie Langlois on eDNA standards and iTrackDNA activities. #Aquaecomics

Good start with an ice breaker 😉 #aquaecomics meeting!! #evian #omics #metabarcoding #edna #metagenomics #metabolomics

In three days we'll be meeting in Evian 🙂 #aquaecomics meeting is coming!! #evian #omics #metabarcoding #edna #metagenomics #metabolomics

Excited to announce the preliminary program for the upcoming AquaEcOmics symposium. Registration closes on the 31th of January so it is not yet too late to secure your attendance. https://aquaecomics.symposium.inrae.fr/ #aquaecomics2025 #eDNA #omics […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Défendre la science avec mes formidables collègues français. Merci USMB-INRAE-CARRTEL pour votre hospitalité et votre soutien! @inrae-france.bsky.social @rosaliebruel.bsky.social @herverogissart.bsky.social @jean-guillard.bsky.social @cyanophage.bsky.social @allanraffard.bsky.social

🎉Exciting news! I’m extremely honored and happy to have been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship for my project CONSUMALG! At the @sbroscoff.bsky.social I’ll be studying how bacteria degrade marine macroalgae 🌊🦠🍃 I can’t wait to start this journey! #MSCA #CONSUMALG

⚠️⚠️⚠️ New permanent job opportunity in Microbial Oceanography @noc.ac.uk careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/rese... Looking for people bridging microbial ecology and biogeochemistry, focus in the #ERC project EXPAND noc.ac.uk/projects/exp... @usocb.bsky.social @aslo.org @ismeoffice.bsky.social

Adaptive strategies of Caribbean sponge holobionts beyond the mesophotic zone https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.31.635867v1

📢 Save the date L'@umrcarrtel.bsky.social organise sa prochaine école d'été ! 🔍 Summer school “Biomarkers for lakes ecological monitoring” 📍 Thonon-les-Bains 📅 23-27 Juin 2025 ➡️ Infos et inscription (jusqu'au 28.02.2025) : tinyurl.com/s8na3w82

🧬 DNA metabarcoding of diatoms is ready for biomonitoring, but varying protocols hinder comparability. #DNAquaIMG ( #BiodivMon) shows successful protocol transfer across labs, proposing a strategy ensuring distinct protocols meet minimum standards.

What a way to start the year 😌 ! My 2nd PhD chapter is now out in @commsbio.bsky.social ! We show that macroalgae generate complex chemical and microbial waterscapes. You like #coralreefs🪸, #fieldstudies🤿 and #multiomics🧪 !? That's for you ➡️ nature.com/articles/s42... #openaccess #moorea

Really happy of our new paper Proficiency testing and cross-laboratory method comparison to support standardisation of diatom DNA metabarcoding for freshwater biomonitoring By Valentin Vasselon, Sinzi Rivera and Benoît Paix et al […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Are diatom DNA metabarcoding protocols reproducible? How much variability between protocols affects quality assessment? 📖 I'm excited to share our new article with colleagues from #DNAqua-Net #DNAquaIMG published in MBMG! 👉 mbmg.pensoft.net/article/1332... #DNAmetabarcoding #Diatoms #Biomonitoring

Here it is youtu.be/BZ7cttLDyA8?... there are also office hours in case you have questions. Shown at end of video.

Hi #ChemicalEcologists, Just created a starter package for networking people in our field 😆 Please let me know if people need to be added! go.bsky.app/KzwBnhN

As another #PhycologyFriday winds to a close, here's a starter pack of algal appreciators to follow! Lmk if you'd like to be added to the list. go.bsky.app/RwMphxS

Any other #eDNA folks going to AquaEcOmics in March? Who am I having beers with? 😁

Let‘s try a #metabarcoding starter pack to nucleate people interested. Welcome molecular #biodiversity monitoring people. Let’s try to keep us posted on updates regarding papers, projects, methods. Happy weekend.☀️#eDNA go.bsky.app/Qvqgknp

Here’s a fun bunch 🙌 Let me know if you’d like to be added to it!

Many of the (great) starter packs focus on faculty in different fields. In an effort to help #EarlyCareerResearchers in #marine biology, ecology, evolution, & related fields (re-)connect, here is a list of ECRs. Please give them a follow (and reply to be added or suggest people). go.bsky.app/KhWvT4u

Metabolomics folks / mass spectrometrists, are you looking for a cool postdoc opportunity? Dr. Anitra Ingalls @ the Univ. of Washington is hiring a postdoc to work with an international team (including yours truly) on the metabolites of marine critters. Come work with us! apply.interfolio.com/150110

I started an #eDNA starter pack as one didn’t exist yet. Feel free to message me to get your name added. Open to all! go.bsky.app/U2vgV5Q

Biofilm Starter Pack on the Blue place go.bsky.app/HF1jeCQ

We have two 3-year post doc positions open for applications at @voltcenter.bsky.social in Copenhagen, Denmark 1⃣ Microbial trait modeling 2⃣ Modeling Ecosystem Dynamics and Atmospheric Feedback t.co/TnyiaYHWGf VOLT is a Center of Excellence and Copenhagen a fantastic city. Contact me if Q's.

Registrations for the 2025 AquaEcOmics Have a look and select among the 7 great sessions hereby 📷 Submission deadline: soon! (but you still have few days :) ) aquaecomics.symposium.inrae.fr #aquaecomics2025 #eDNA #omics #metagenomics #metabarcoding #dPCR #marine #freshwater #ecology #biomonitoring

Check out our new article to explore how some sponge species are able to live in the wild without oxygen for months at a time peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....