It was wonderful to take some time to think and develop new ideas ideas together on our annual retreat. And: great vegetarian food, amazing weather, and cats! @roeyangel.bsky.social, @wutkowska.bsky.social

We are hiring! On the search for an ambitious post-doc with hot skills in metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and bioinformatics to join our EcoEnergeticS project with @michaeladippold.bsky.social Find the ad here: uni-tuebingen.de/zh/266340

Application deadline: 17 September 2025 Apply now to join us at CeMESS! ter.univie.ac.at/news-talks/n...

🤩New recommendation out: DNA capture for sequencing genes in N&C cycling microbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec... by Siljanen et al. Thanks to W. Orsi, @kennethwasmund.bsky.social, and C. Wurzbacher for their review and Lizzy Wilbanks & Craig Herbold for handling. #microbesky #microbiomesky

📢 🦠 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

📢 A new tool for the Identification of Viral Elements in Microbial Dark Matter PCI Microbiol recommendation by C. Herbold on the #preprint by R. Pérez-Bucio, F. Enault, and C. Galiez Check it out here: microbiol.peercommunityin.org/PCIMicrobiol...

Our recent paper by @julkras.bsky.social provides further insights into the metabolism of sulfoquinovose in humans and lab mice, and its prebiotic potential. 🦠🧫 #microbesky #microbiomesky microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

You know sulfoquinovose (SQ)? No?! You should if you are interested in diet-gut microbiome 🦠🧫interactions 😉 SQ is a sulfosugar that this part of a ubiquitous sulfonolipid in photosynthetic organisms and thus part of your diet - if you like leafy greens and algae 🥬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Two vaccine candidates using mRNA technology elicit a potent immune response against HIV go.nature.com/4ov7WZI

“Isolation of a new methanotroph belonging to Mycobacterium” is now out! Awesome work by my former postdoc Hiromi Kambara, who led this project all the way. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

We're pleased to announce the University of Cambridge as a new supporter of PCI! We greatly appreciate their endorsement of our open, transparent, and community-driven peer review model.

Welcome to the team Univ. Mlebourne! @rachel.popelka.filcoff.com , @touremily.bsky.social @arcas.org.au

New from The Strain Team: 🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊 Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗). Gross! 😀 1/n #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas. 'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”

New preprint @julkras.bsky.social et al. We show that degradation of sulfoquinovose, ubiquitous in plants and algae, is a core function of the cow rumen microbiome and describe novel SQ-metabolizing taxa. 🐄🧫🦠 #microbiomesky #microsky

This promises to be a cool PhD project with a very inspiring and nice PI!

We had a fantastic few days at the Euro C1 Meeting at the @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social It was a real pleasure to welcome an inspiring lineup of keynote and guest speakers. Thank you all who joined us and helped make the event such a success! @vaam-microbes.bsky.social @femsmicro.org #EuroC1

We were thrilled to welcome @cuwelte.bsky.social as our second keynote speaker at the Euro C1 Conference. Her talk “Challenging Methanotrophy: Carbon Monoxide Metabolism in Anaerobic Methanotrophic Archaea” shed light on surprising new aspects of archaeal carbon cycling. #EuroC1 #MPI #Keynote

Just 2 days to go until we can welcome the participants of the EuroC1 Meeting 2025 here in #Bremen. Young and established researchers will present findings & engage in insightful discussions on #C1 #metabolism and volatile #organic compound-related topics. mpi-bremen.de/EuroC1-Sympo...

📢 A new #preprint recommendation: Florence Valence, @annemathilde-th.bsky.social et al. teach us to think twice before cutting our veggies for fermentation! - check it out here: microbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec... 🦠🥕🥬🍄🦠

Thank you Souhir Marsit, Thibault Nidelet, and @khowell.bsky.social for supporting us! #openscience @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social

I'm beyond excited to be part of this collaborative research centre! Stay tuned for updates from me on shallow water bodies in (coastal) peatlands and their microbiomes!

📣 Exciting opportunity! We're hiring a #postdoctoral fellow in #gutmicrobiome research to explore the activity and function of the gut microbiome in situ and its regulation by the immune system.🦠🔬 Post based at @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social Apply here 👇 jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

PhD position available in Ceske Budejovice (Czechia), funded by ERC KLEPTOS, to study plastid endosymbiosis in kleptoplastidic protists. Are you curious about this process and do you like sampling/cultivation of protists? Join our team by applying here: jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/243 #protistsonsky

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

The law won't save us. Nearly all authoritarian regimes legitimize their actions within the law and make their acts legal. More lawyers need to realize this.

Sounds like something that might be useful to many... resulting in a 10% increase high quality bins: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Are you interested in studying archaea with their diverse symbionts? We look forward hearing from you: workingat.nioz.nl/o/postdoc-po...

It only took me 4 years -now my research group has a website 😅😍 microbescancycle.wordpress.com

New bacterial phylum Minisyncoccota (formerly Ca. Patescibacteria or CPR) in the kingdom Bacillati. Congratulations, Kuroda-san, Narihiro-san, and Nobu (@masarunobu.bsky.social)! www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

Following a White House anti-DEI order, the National Cryptologic Museum covered up exhibits of women and people of color in its Hall of Honor. The NSA reversed course after former employees mobilized.

Hell breaks lose in US science - a very alarming development - Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

Versatile nitrate-respiring heterotrophs are previously concealed contributors to sulfur cycle www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Spread the word #AcademicSky if you or someone you know is being impacted by the fed funding freeze, @motherjones.com wants to hear from you!

Extensive new preprint with Ying Teng's lab on how carbon monoxide affects soil communities and activities. Contrary to popular belief, CO at biologically relevant concentrations mainly stimulates rather than inhibits growth. Diverse bacteria grow and fix CO2 with it. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our team's first paper! In this study, we present two CO oxidisers from volcanic deposits, including a Cupriavidus - the first CO oxidiser identified from this genus. Hope you enjoy reading it! rdcu.be/d7CCx

🤩 Wow, two new recommendations in January: Read more about vaginal microbiome dynamics and CaCO3 biomineralization by Mycrocystis here: microbiol.peercommunityin.org/PCIMicrobiol... microbiol.peercommunityin.org/PCIMicrobiol... Thanks to all authors, @rafaelmunoztamayo.bsky.social and Rutger De Wit!

Register now for the EuroC1 Meeting 2025, taking place on from May 7 to 8 in #Bremen. Young and established researchers will present findings & engage in insightful discussions on #C1 #metabolism and volatile #organic compound-related topics. Register by March 31 mpi-bremen.de/EuroC1-Sympo...

📢 New paper in Ecology Letters on assigning Y-yield and A-acquisition strategies of our YAS framework using genomics data; genome size came out as a significant factor. Led by Xingjie Wu, Jingjing Peng and Shuo Jiao. doi.org/10.1111/ele....

🎉Another amazing year thanks to the tremendous work of the @peercommunityin.bsky.social team ! 🙌 - 2 new PCIs, - indexation of @peercomjournal.bsky.social in @scopus.bsky.social / WoS / OpenAlex, - Direct submission from @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social, @csic.es - webinars, etc. JUST WOW 🤩🤩

I apologise for HydDB being down. Aarhus University decided to stop hosting it at quite short notice. However, we plan to relaunch first thing next year and are in the midst of creating a much-needed HydDB 2.0. HydDB 1.0 is good for hydrogenase information, but our HMMs best for classification. 1/2

Pleased to see this out in @peercomjournal.bsky.social @peercommunityin.bsky.social The effect of dietary #fish #oil replacement by #microalgae on the #gilthead #seabream #midgut bacterial #microbiota @hostmicrobelit.bsky.social #SymbioSky #SciComm peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

Amnesty International Investigation Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide “We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo. zeteo.com/p/amnesty-co...

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

Have you wondered why fungi could have more resilience during environmental conditions? They can produce storage compounds which may help them to remain active! Thanks to all the team, esp. Alberto Canarini and Jörg Schnecker for conducting this experiment during challenging lockdowns!

🤩🦠 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

We’re encouraging meaningful commentary with $1,000 rewards for selected PubPeer comments. bsky.app/profile/pubp... Now imagine if @hhmi.bsky.social , NIH, NSF, etc also awarded outstanding public reviews. These could boost careers and CVs while building a vital layer of scientific evaluation.