Microbiome sequencing has come so far in 2 decades. In my PhD— I used TRFLP…. am now doing long read sequencing of entire soil metagenomes! This review was great fun- thanks Gitta Szabó @emileyeloe-fadrosh.bsky.social Tanja Woyke of @jgi.doe.gov www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sequencing methods 🧬 have come a long way from census counts 🔢 to assembling genomes and understanding the functions 🧪 of bacteria and viruses. New review by @jgi.doe.gov's Gitta Szabó, @emileyeloe-fadrosh.bsky.social, Tanja Woyke with @jeffinerca.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It’s a whole lot. Take care of each other.

Stable Isotope Probing #qSIP AND NanoSIMS!--all to show how the common river algae Epithemia are supported by N-fixing bacterial endosymbionts - now thought to be a kind of “proto-organelle”. Ecosystem consequences of a nitrogen-fixing proto-organelle | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

www.syracuse.com/opinion/2025... Our president thinks that asking faculty and staff to voluntarily quit is a better solution than advocating for restoration of our mission funding from SUNY and being a more effective fundraiser. Meanwhile her high-paying job is safe. How can you help us? 🧵🪡

📢 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

We've extended the application deadline for this award to 9/17! Apply here for the Fall Meeting AGU-B DEI Travel Grant for up to $1500 ( connect.agu.org/biogeoscienc...)

The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

Deadline for comment on EPA endangerment finding extended to 22 Sept. Please send a comment. Here's a good piece with some ideas, and you don't have to be a scientist to comment. blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...

If you're submitting an #AGU2025 abstract on #enhancedrockweathering biogeochemistry, microbiology, hydrology, modeling, MRV, public policy or social science, consider session B037, Enhanced Weathering for Carbon Dioxide Removal & Improved Soil and Agronomic Properties -due 7/30!

Here is an alternate take on my OpEd defending Science. As i mentioned last time there is a hunger from the public to hear from science experts. I encourage more of us to write to papers where you have roots on matters defending science, facts and democracy www.ptreyeslight.com/opinion/we-m...

GRC ratings like it’s Uber: Organizer @deniseakob.bsky.social ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Geese ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Leeches ⭐️ Karaoke ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ People ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I had a great time at my first ever GRC this past week! I'll most definitely be attending Applied and Environmental Micro in 2027. Thanks @deniseakob.bsky.social @environmicrobio.bsky.social @thuls.bsky.social for organizing such a welcoming, fun, and scientifically stimulating conference!

UC Irvine keeps expanding its focus on microbial ecology and microbiome science - an exciting place to work for any early-career people on the hunt for a job!

Our new paper shows that soil cation exchange can delay CO₂ removal from enhanced weathering by years to decades. Lag varies by soil, climate, and land use—longest in high-CEC regions like the Corn Belt. Big implications for MRV, credit timing, and deployment strategy. Timing matters! 🪨🌾 Link below.

Read National Academy of Sciences (NAS) members -- economist Chuck Manski, astrophysicist Ray Weyman, & climate scientist Ben Santer -- calling for NAS to more pro-actively defend & advance American science & American interests broadly. #econsky www.scientificamerican.com/article/stro...

At a moment of rapid demand growth and a growing electricity affordability crisis, the Republican's One Big Horrible Bill will RAISE TAXES on wind & solar—the only new sources of electricity we are able to rapidly add to the US grid—in four different ways.

Major thanks to the whole team, including Tao Dai for his leadership and to @jeffinerca.bsky.social for fearless leadership of the original report.

Aarhus University seeks a tenure-track assistant professor in population genetics, comparative genomics, or bioinformatics for biodiversity research. More info: https://www.au.dk/om/stillinger/job/tenure-track-assistant-professor-in-biodiversity-research-using-genetics #job

“One study put that payback time at seven months — not bad considering the typical 20- to 25-year lifespan of a wind turbine.” Paramount this took 1 minute to find, please forward my showrunner fee. yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/06/what...

Protect Trans Scientists. cowritten with a lot of amazing people (I tagged those I could find but there are so many more incredible folks) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @thepunkscientist.bsky.social @jlw-ecoevo.bsky.social @bfrancescol.bsky.social @drsueishaq.bsky.social

Inspiring closing of @Rhizosphere6 by @jeffinerca.bsky.social thank you!

Amazing last day at #rhizosphere6! Some wonderful talks, and I loved this quote from Jennifer Pett-Ridge @jeffinerca.bsky.social: “Whatever discipline you come from, whichever goddess you relate to, be it physics, biology, poetry… you can be a rhizosphere researcher”.

Inspirational and very motivating talk by @jeffinerca.bsky.social at the closing remarks of #Rhizosphere6 emphasising the many research communities that fit in this meeting and "all the good that carbon does when it's in the soil"! Superb last talk! More people & friends in Vienna 2029!!

@royalsociety.org URF reunion at the #rhizo6 in Edinburgh. Beautiful dinner in the National Museum of Scotland. From left: Carmen Sánchez Cañizares, @iandealidbury.bsky.social, Laura Lehtovirta- Morley, Cecile Gubry-Rangin, yours truly and in the front Siul Ruiz. #rhizo6 📸 @jeffinerca.bsky.social

The *Microbes Persist* project I lead is featured in LLNL’s new Science and Tech magazine. We’re trying to understand how genomes of tiny organisms control the creation & breakdown of soil organic matter— a critical ingredient in keeping our soils healthy and productive. str.llnl.gov/str-march-20...

If you don’t pre-print, now’s the time to start. And here’s a great new place to do it 👇

Like any preprint server, CDRXIV will only be useful to the extent that it’s adopted by the research community. We’re excited to see how it will evolve, and we want your help shaping it. We hope you submit your research and share the news with others. cdrxiv.org

Very happy to support CDRXIV w/ our new papers 😁 This one is led by Baishakhi Bose on decade-scale C storage in building materials. Short version: CA can use some of its forest thinnings for CLT, mitigate wildfire risk, & storage C in the process. There's more than enough! cdrxiv.org/preprint/345

Interesting use of #qSIP to detect microbial partners incorporating labeled substrates, enhancing understanding of fungal-bacterial interactions in soil. @jeffinerca.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... #soilmicrobiology

Spent some quality time in Half Moon Bay chatting with bioeconomy leaders in CA, sharing the stage with the unparalleled @jeffinerca.bsky.social There is so much room to move faster than we do. The wildfire mitigation benefits alone demand it. Glad to have this strong community to tap into.

Assemblies of long-read metagenomes suffer from diverse errors https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.22.649783v1

Nothing quite like finding out your kiddo is learning about your life’s work in her Bio class. And enjoying it!!

Come and work with me! The Nature Micro team is expanding and we're looking for someone to champion microbial ecology, plant micro & related areas for the journal Knowledge of microbial ecology/plant micro is desirable but we're open to applications from all microbiologists Link below 👇

🌍 Excited to share our new research on carbon-negative bioplastics—now published in Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews! We assessed the techno-economic potential for atmospheric CO2 removal via industrial-scale fermentation of lignocellulose into bioplastics 🌱 🧪 . 1/n

Many thanks to co-authors Nicolas Clauser, @cdscown.bsky.social, & @jeffinerca.bsky.social! Link to article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Another preprint! Microbiomes are often structured in guilds, or groups of taxa that use similar resources - wastewater, fermentation, human gut. How do these guilds respond to environmental fluctuations? Can we learn these guilds from time series in the wild?

Best AI hype allegory to date via @tressiemcphd.bsky.social “every time someone asks me, “What about A.I.?” with the breathless anticipation of a boy who thinks this is the summer he finally gets to touch a boob”

Congratulations to @jeffinerca.bsky.social! She joins Jennifer Doudna and Peggy Lemaux as IGI's AAAS Fellows.

Ten week paid #NSF #REU #internship at the HJ Andrews #LTER in Oregon working on forest #microclimate and fungal symbiont effects on seedling success. Hosted by @osubpp.bsky.social. Review begins 4 April. 🧪🌎🍄 More info: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

So humbled and honored to be on this list! Sending huge thanks to the folks who nominated me & have been my research compatriots in the past 2 decades. + delighted to also see the names of some other wonderful colleagues! ☺️

We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Our paper is out and is open access! Phosphate amendment drives bloom of RNA viruses after soil wet-up. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @sieravirus.bsky.social @jeffinerca.bsky.social @graemenicol.bsky.social @christinahazard.bsky.social

Joanne is—and will always remain—one of my scientific heroes! I was lucky enough to meet her when I was a summer student at the Salk Institute. She had just learned about her illness, yet her energy, brilliance, and resilience were incredible—a true force of nature.

The new Defense department budget erases $20 MILLION DOLLARS for pancreatic cancer research. $20,000,000 gone, for a disease with a 5-year survival rate of 13%.

Last week @dwnewstoday.bsky.social & @spiegel.de released a report about the misconduct at Max Planck institutes across Germany The lack of accountability by MPI is depressing www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5nE...

Our perspective on soil virus ecology research is out! Fantastic collab with @christinahazard.bsky.social @karthik-a.bsky.social @lukehillary.bsky.social @urineri.bsky.social @simrouxvirus.bsky.social @gtrubl.bsky.social @KurtWilliams @jeffinerca.bsky.social @graemenicol.bsky.social @JoanneEmerson

TSL is thrilled to celebrate the incredible achievement of @jonathandgjones.bsky.social, now a 2025 Wolf Prize Laureate in Agriculture along with Jeffery Dangl and Brian Staskawicz "for groundbreaking discoveries of the immune system and disease resistance in plants" www.tsl.ac.uk/news/jonatha...