📆 Save The Date! The Plant-Bacteria Interaction Meeting (18th RPB) in Aussois, Savoie will take place from January 11 to 15th, 2027 👉 More info on the keynote speakers & sessions: plants-bacteria-2027.symposium.inrae.fr Deadline: September 25th @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social @sfp-france.bsky.social

Please help spread the word about this 3-year postdoc position in my team. If your expertise & interest lie in studying how organisms from different domains of life (Bacteria and Archaea) communicate, come join us this summer in cozy Odense, Denmark. Job post: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Synthetic bacterial community colonizes wheat roots grown in soil and mimics the assembly pattern of a field community in a cultivar dependent manner url: academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Submitted a grant proposal yessterday.🤞 12000/12000 characters. That has to count for something 🥸 right?

I’m looking for two postdoctoral scientists in experimental evolution to join my team from April 2026 (or soon after). Please share! fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Co-convening "The art and science of microbial persuasion" at #ISME20 with Fengping Wang. Cultivation advances: methods, media, uncultured lineages. Coaxing reluctant microbes? Submit your abstract & join us in NZ! isme.live.ws-django.co.uk/public/confe... isme.live.ws-django.co.uk/public/confe...

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

We will soon have to do RNA-seq on RNA from wheat roots. Does anyone have recommendations for good European sequencing companies?

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

How to deal with a co-author who claims to have written and revised part of a manuscript, when it is clearly just ChatGPT or the like?

To all visionary microbe enthusiasts: @femsmicro.org is looking for an editor-in-chief for their flagship journal FEMS Microbiology Reviews! More details can be found here: fems-microbiology.org/opportunitie...

🎉 Don't miss out on early bird registration for the 4th Global Soil Biodiversity Conference 🎉 Early bird registration is open until December 15th ,2025 🦜 Registration page 👇 globalsoilbiodiversity2026.org/registration/

A 2-y postdoc position in my former group at University of Copenhagen is available in microbial ecology and bioinformatics. See more: employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... Feel free to contact me if you have questions about the environment. Please share the ad.

New article on equitable reuse of public sequencing data, published in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! Led by the Data reuse core team @lhug.bsky.social @environmicrobio.bsky.social Cristina Moraru, @geomicrosoares.bsky.social, @folker.bsky.social and with Anke Heyer and The Data Reuse Consotrium!

Hot off the press from our lab, led by @fredebak.bsky.social 👇 NRPS gene dynamics in the wheat rhizoplane show increased proportion of viscosin NRPS genes of importance for root colonization during drought | mSphere journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Post-doc position on Biological Nitrification Inhibition in rice in Aberdeen (Scotland)! Join our nice team and environment! Deadline 23rd Sept! www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/rese...

📢 We are thrilled to announce the International Soil Virus Conference 2026 in conjunction with the Saint Loup Research Institute. 🗓️ June 16 – 18, 2026 📍 Château de Saint Loup sur Thouet, France 👇 RSVP by October 31st, 2025 #virus #phage #ISVC2026

Hot off the press!! At my exchange at @niab-uk.bsky.social, we found some interesting patterns in how root hairless wheat will use its microbiome (bacteria + fungi) to improve its phosphorus uptake. The results in one sentence: bacteria may be cool, but AMF are the superstar!

Paper accepted! ☺️Great way to start the week. We investigated the composition of non-ribosomal peptide synthases on the rhizoplane of #wheat during drought. Among other things, we showed that the potential to synthesize the biosurfactant #viscosin improves rhizoplane colonization during drought.

Hey plant + soil people, what is your experience with RNA extraction kits? Will any ole kit work, or are some better with soil/soil-grown plants than others? We are buying our first RNA kits, drop your suggestions!! #PlantScience

And here it is: environmentalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... Enjoy reading it.

Impacts of diverse undersown cover crops on seasonal soil microbial properties url: academic.oup.com/femsec/artic...

Great final talk of the #rhizosphere6 conference. It was very rewarding to participste and hope to make it to Vienna in 4 years.

Paper accepted. #Nematode #Plantmicrobiome

#See#microbiome environmentalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Above all, I hope that the collection of 112 wheat-derived, complete Pseudomonas genomes will be a useful and interesting tool for others. Download them here: t.co/iFMgxWqnk4

My 1st first-author research article is published in Applied Soil Ecology! This paper has been my constant companion over the past 4 years, but I'm so happy to send it off into the world 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Microbiology Postdocs from all over Europe and the Globe! 🦠😎👍 Application for the FEMS SSPD 2025 “Harnessing microbial solutions in environmental research and One Health” is now open 👇 2 – 10 Sept 2025 on Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia Co-Directors: Joana Falcao Salles and @luederslab.bsky.social

📢 Open PhD Position With @fly-florian.bsky.social, we are recruiting a PhD student to develop CRISPR-Based Microbiome Editing to Study Microbial Interactions in Early Plant Life 🧬 🌿 Join us in Angers, France in the @emersys-irhs.bsky.social at @inrae-france.bsky.social 🗓️ Deadline 03/31 More info 👇

An opnion worth reading, on how to improve the planning microbiome data analysis and the use of statistics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#PhD position in #Microbial Interactions group. #Wheat #Microbiome #Phosphorous RT appreciated employment.ku.dk/phd?show=163...

#PhD positions at UCPH - Department of Plant and Envrionmental Sciences #Microbiome #Biodiversity #Pathogens jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

👨‍🎓 in 🌾🦠! Soon there will be an available #phd position in #plant #microbiome in out research group @ucph.bsky.social More details in a couple of weeks.

Metabolism of hemicelluloses by root-associated Bacteroidota species academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Mechanisms of cooperation in the plants-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi-bacteria continuum academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Agricultural practices and pollinators modulate the anthosphere microbiome academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Invertebrate Decline Has Minimal Effects on Oak-Associated Microbiomes enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ten simple rules for fostering creativity in research labs journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... #jcampubs

I am looking for a paper on the pH and oxygen gradients around a germinating #seed. Does anyone know of one? #microbiome #plant

Fully funded PhD studentships in the University of Aberdeen in microbial adaptation: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Microbial community dynamics in the soil-root continuum are linked with plant species turnover during secondary succession academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Plasmids encode and can mobilize onion pathogenicity in Pantoea agglomerans academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Harnessing the synergy of Urochloa brizantha and Amazonian Dark Earth microbiomes for enhanced pasture recovery bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Seed microbiomes promote Astragalus mongholicus seed germination through pathogen suppression and cellulose degradation microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Commercial bioinoculants improve colonization but do not alter the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community of greenhouse-grown grapevine root environmentalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Pls ahre: Pls share: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Hofstra University, NY Full ad and application link: hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/5041

Looking forward to share my experience as #translationalscientist #roots #plantscience #appliedscience #plantsoil #sustainability #barleymicrobreed #droughtstress @bokuvienna.bsky.social At the @plantaeofficial.bsky.social platform thx @katarinakurtovic.bsky.social plantae.org/plantaeprese...

‘Stamp out paper mills’ — science sleuths on how to fight fake research By Anna Abalkina, René Aquarius, Elisabeth Bik, David Bimler, Dorothy Bishop, Jennifer Byrne, Guillaume Cabanac, Adam Day, Cyril Labbé & Nick Wise @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Had the pleasure to attend the inaugural lecture by Bo Markussen (Applied statistics) yesterday at @ucph.bsky.social Super interesting, and great to see our microbiome data can be used for developing new statistical tests. I am thankful for the Data Science Lab at @ucph.bsky.social

I think this is what a lot of non-creative people don't get about art. That it's *not* a process that can be optimised for maximum efficiency - the milling around and trying things and scrapping them and building on the core of a good idea those less good ideas had *is* the process.