We are welcoming applications for a full professorship on Molecular and Evolutionary Zoology at Kiel Univerdity, Northern Germany, with fantastic facilities and infrastructure! @uni-kiel.de @crc1182.bsky.social @transevo.bsky.social www.nature.com/naturecareer...

And also see our new paper on the Role of microbial life history strategy in host-microbiome interactions in the ISMEJ. @crc1182.bsky.social url: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Busy week Fucus sampling with our colleagues @gloriareithmaier.bsky.social @lies-nerd.bsky.social @karikaphegyi.bsky.social and lots of others for #Fubluc and getting ready for outreach with kids for #TheOceanRaceEurope @geomarkiel.bsky.social

🚨 In case you missed it… our 4-year time-series analysis of Arctic Ocean viruses is out now! Near-monthly samples — including through the dark, cold, polar winter ❄️ — using long-read metagenomics. Short thread 🧵👇

After a four-year investigation, a breakthrough study reveals the cause of sea star wasting disease (SSWD). A strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida is the culprit behind the marine epidemic that has killed billions of sea stars since 2013. Read the study: 🔗https://tinyurl.com/4rcb3xpf

Finally is this story out public!! With an amazing historical dataset from IMR (@havforskningsinstituttet) we demonstrate how human perturbations impact the genomic signal in one of the largest cod stocks in the world: the northeast arctic cod | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🌊 Sponge genomes are helping unlock the secrets of aquatic symbioses — and thanks to @sangerinstitute.bsky.social, researchers now have access to 50+ genomes. Excited to see how these new samples help advance understanding of #AquaticSymbiosis. 🧬

PhD opportunity in my group as part of the #CONCENTRATE TRR. Marine algae-glycan-bacterial interactions. Please apply or share! www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...

There might be more seagrass species than you think - happy to share this fantastic collaboration with Xiaomei Zhang, @lei-yu.bsky.social and many others nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

One more week to apply! if you are a few years past your PhD and interested in advancing marine genomics and population genetics, come to Kiel, Northern Germany, to join a thriving, collaborative research and teaching environment.

Ever heard about “phantom recoveries” and “overfishing ratchets” ? These explain why still so many fish stocks are in a bad shape in European waters despite binding goals of the EU fisheries policy. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Keep on going, Marine Molecular Ecology part is next!

My knees tell me I’m aging—but do you also wonder what we can learn about aging by looking beyond humans? If you study aging in corals, duckweed, or other "unusual" systems, join us at @eseb2025.bsky.social to talk about aging outside the box! Abstract deadline: 5 May. eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...

Fantastic team effort, a big thanks to the GEOMAR seagrass group

Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics @geomarkiel.bsky.social / University of Kiel www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June

very much looking forward to watch!

Here’s the press release about what we’re up to these days. What isn’t mentioned in the text is how amazing it is to work with people as enthusiastic as I am, how incredible it is to see students so engaged in this project, and how teamwork truly feels like teamwork 🌊 www.geomar.de/en/news/arti...

🏆 Research integrity consultant and image forensics expert @elisabethbik.bsky.social has uncovered fraudulent data in over 7,600 scientific papers and exposed the practices of ‘paper mills’ that produce counterfeit scientific articles. She is honoured with the €200K Individual Award. Congrats!

If you are looking for a postdoc and interested in 2nd generation restoration considering genetic factors in seagrass ecosystem, targeting our pet species Zostera marina, still 10 days left to apply!

Looking for a PhD position, and interested in in 2nd generation restoration considering genetic factors in seagrasses (aka assisted evolution)? - still 10 days left to apply!

What can we learn about ageing by looking beyond sexually reproducing unitary organisms? Very excited that our symposium (w/ Dr. Margaux Bieuville, not on bsky) "Ageing outside of the box: insights from unusual and non-model species" was accepted @eseb2025.bsky.social! eseb2025.com/list-of-symp...

This looks quite cool, latest paper from Frank Johannes on somatic mutations in trees: Branching architecture limits the rate of somatic mutation accumulation in trees doi.org/10.1101/2025...

🏙️ Animal populations from urban areas show significantly higher resilience to stressful environmental conditions. 💡This was found by international researchers led by Dr Elizabeta Briski (GEOMAR). The study is published today in the journal Ecology Letters. 🔗 www.geomar.de/en/news/arti...

The GEOMAR seagrass team is hiring. Time to make coastal restoration long-term sustainable. A fully funded 4-yr PhD position on eelgrass seascape genomics in the Baltic Sea, further details see here www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... @geomarkiel.bsky.social DM me for inquiries

Imagine that you are a low-copy extra-chromosomal genetic elements invading a host cell. What’s your best strategy to survive? Check our new study of prokaryotic #plasmid for the answer! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... led by Johannes Effe with @iwangtoknow.bsky.social and more! (not on bsky)

Do you think marine evolution #MarEvol is cool? Maybe you were at the 2018 Marine Evolution meeting in Strömstad, Sweden? And surely you'd like us to do it again and organise MarEvol2? Why not in the South of France? Then fill in this questionnaire and spread the word: framaforms.org/my-interest-...

Fantastic PhD programme in Northern Germany, integrating groundbreaking evolutionary research and societal relevance

speaking truth to 'power' -> after all the recent bad press that restoration got, a more nuanced view was in order: let's not get lost in absolutes and mind the detail! rdcu.be/d1S5K @natureportfolio.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social cheers & hugs to my "partners in crime"

My good news of this week- finally some marine Natura 2000 MPAs are no longer just paper parks oceans-and-fisheries.ec.europa.eu/news/increas...

Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.

We are removing the largest and longest-lived animals, which can be detrimental to those species dependent on migration, sociality, and cultural transmission to survive. Paper in Science by @kellerfish.bsky.social et al.: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

One of the unseen consequences of megafauna extinctions and severe decline in wildlife abundance is the drastic reduction in global nutrient cycling. This diagram shows nutrient transport as a mere fraction of late Quaternary pre-extinction values. We need wildlife. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Interested in blue carbon habitats? - then check out this new preprint on a comprehensive assessment for German coastal waters /ecosystems papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... great team effort led by Corina Peter

My good news of the week. Kiel Fjord directly located within a medium sized German city at the Baltic Sea is regreening itself. Eelgrass now found at 3.6 m and expanding after it had been completely absent in the 1990s. Thanks GEOMAR Seagrass team for scouting in the chilly Baltic Sea.

GEOMAR research division Marine Ecology is hiring. www.geomar.de/en/karriere/.... Seeking a creative, integrative pelagic ecologist working beyond competition and predation. Located at the Baltic Sea, Kiel is offering a vibrant academic research environment, directly at the seashore

Gene analyses revealing the capacity of #seagrasses to exist under changing conditions provide clues for their conservation and sustainable use. Media info 👉 www.geomar.de/en/news/arti... Publication 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s414... @thorstenreusch.bsky.social

Your annual reminder that some things are NOT bad for you:

From #plasmid to #mitochondria and #plastid, extra-chromosomal genetic elements share many properties of their evolutionary dynamics. Great work by Marina Khachaturyan

#Klimawandel erhitzt #Ostsee schneller, als #Arten sich anpassen. Ohne #Seegras und #Seetang, die ab 25°C absterben, sterben etliche weitere Arten. @thorstenreusch.bsky.social (#Geomar) misst Temperaturen und gibt mit #Umsiedlung resistenten Seegrases der #Evolution einen wichtigen Schubs t.ly/jwqvm

🧵In the newly published Best Practices Guide to Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) Research, we make recommendations for monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV), the multistep process to quantify the amount of CO₂ removed by OAE, a promising CO₂ removal technique. 1/5

We are soon hiring, pending funding of the wonderful @CRC1182, 2 PhD positions on marine sponge symbioses. Stay tuned...

Great PhD fellowship with Markus Molis‘ lab in Tromsö, Arctic University of Norway, 4-year position - involving collaboration with our lab in Kiel, see www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

check out new preprint by former PhD student Marina Khachaturyan: superb blend of modeling with a large pop genomic data set on our favorite seagrass. Why heteroplasmy is rare in organelles, and even rarer in mitochondria www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... with @daganlab.bsky.social

Indeed this was truly interdisciplinary. Happy to be member of the ADAPTASEX team. The modeling of @benjaminwerner.bsky.social with Jessie Renton provides solid theoretical grounds. Find out how large clones can be aged, seagrasses in a large global data set, but also many others.

fresh off the press: a roadmap how to restore corals via assisted evolution cordap.org/news/roadmap... - more pressing than ever

Leopoldina and DFG call for science-based decisions in the EU debate on new genomic techniques such as genome editing in plant breeding #breeding #plantscience #gmo #genomeediting #crispr www-leopoldina-org.translate.goog/en/presse-1/...