Now published in Nature Biotechnology: go.nature.com/44P7nSm If you missed it, the TL;DR is in my April thread below

The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply. I want to make sure this is very clear.

Humans have emitted 2750 gigatons of CO2 since the industrial revolution from burning fossil fuels and land use change. To put this in perspective, this is more than the (dry) mass of all living things on earth and everything humans have ever built combined:

Remarkable how well earthquake alert systems work. We got ~5-8 seconds warning ahead of a 6.5 quake just now. Center was 400 km away, but still felt pretty significant here in CDMX.

As someone who often conducts fieldwork in remote places, I find it really irritating that many basic applications now require an internet connection to function.

Dec. 21 is the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Susan Cooper, who wrote the solstice poem "The Shortest Day," collaborated with illustrator Carson Ellis on a new picture book. From the NPR archives.

PhD project on tipping points and natural flood management. Deadline 08/01/2026. Collaboration between @engineering-soton.bsky.social and @ukceh.bsky.social #phd #funding #flood #research www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

President Trump thinks he can intimidate Colorado by shuttering NCAR. It’s political retribution, Senator John Hickenlooper and I won’t stand for it. We are holding up the appropriations package to demand NCAR is fully funded. Read our full statement here:

There are many claims that AI is a “planet killing” source of greenhouse gases. But is it? This paper might be the most detailed estimate of the emissions associated with AI. It suggests that AI could emit as much as 30-80 *million* tons of CO2 per year. www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

#AGU25 folks, there is a rapid- response town hall TODAY on the #NCAR dismantling at 1 pm, La Nouvelle Orleans ballroom C (per an AGU media advisory)

Review: A genomic view of Earth’s biomes by Gitta Szabó, @emileyeloe-fadrosh.bsky.social, @jeffinerca.bsky.social & Tanja Woyke @jgi.doe.gov go.nature.com/3VTLImU

Join us TODAY for the #AGU25 #Reeburgh_Lecture by Markus Kleber and stay for the @agubiogeosciences.bsky.social section meeting afterwards. Session B14B in LaNouvelle AB at 4:15

🚨New faculty job opportunity 🚨 Please share this ad for a faculty position in our department at UC Irvine, in the fields of microbiology and infectious disease. MD/PhDs and PhDs are desired and should apply! recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09954

🧵 Here's Ellen Harding Baker's "Solar System" quilt.🧪 This is the story.🔭 Back in 1876, an Iowa mom with 7 kids, E. H. Baker, decided that cooking & raising children wasn’t enough for her. She started working on a wool quilt showing the solar system. americanhistory.si.edu/collections/... 1/7

Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Precipitation increase promotes soil organic carbon formation and stability via the mycorrhizal fungal pathway | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #stableisotopes

We're having this very fun science outreach project where we want to create awareness of the wonders of the world beneath our feet. The soil is alive!! You find us on our youtube channel at www.youtube.com/@Soilwatching #soilchip #microworld #biodiversity #microscopy #underground #hiddenworld

Very proud to be Colombian right now! 🇨🇴 I hope all neighboring countries follow suit soon! news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

"Long-term research carries an intrinsic paradox: its true value emerges only after decades, whereas political agendas often demand short-term results. This mismatch makes sustained monitoring one of the easiest targets when public budgets come under pressure." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"A growing body of evidence that the ‘Gadgil effect’ is not universal, even in the N‐poor litter of temperate pine forests where it was first described" besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

The NYTimes article on Mamdani at Bowdoin is "a wreck, but of a form so pure, so purely Timesian, you almost have to admire it. It certainly is instructive." lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

What a beautiful agrivoltaics facility Majdi Abou Najm and @ucdavis.bsky.social colleagues have built. Thanks for the fantastic workshop and tour!

Why is it always so tough to log into Editorial Manager to do a peer review. If journals want me to do a peer review, they should make the process as seamless as possible. I shouldn't have to track down a login that was created for me despite already having four for the same website...

Ho Ho Ho

Are you an earth or environmental scientist with an interest in climate change mitigation? Join our upcoming scientific meeting looking at enhanced weathering as leading researchers discuss the scientific and societal challenges ahead: royalsociety.org/science-even...

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

A great opportunity to Join Harvard Forest as a Senior Scientist to lead eddy flux work with your very own towers in a place that is deeply connected to ecosystem ecology! @fluxnet.bsky.social @fluxnetecn.bsky.social @agubiogeosciences.bsky.social @cznews.bsky.social @uslter.bsky.social

My colleague @sarahhird.bsky.social has been fighting for family care leave for over a year now. So impressed with her leadership! ctmirror.org/2025/10/21/t...

No image has ever spoken so succinctly about the current situation in the US.

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving

Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.

GET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...

New paper: Dried soil bacteria enter dormancy with "frozen" RNA & metabolite profiles—but water vapor alone can wake them up! #Microbiology #SoilScience #Dormancy #ClimateChange #MicroSky

Nobel Prize given for showing the importance of investing in science for innovation and long-term economic growth. Basically the opposite of what the US is doing. 😭

As authoritarianism takes over, I guess this make sense 🙃 retractionwatch.com/2025/10/10/s...

📣 New PhD student position opening in my lab! Soils are full of microbes, but how many are active? Surprisingly, we still lack reliable methods to answer this. If you are interested in microbial dormancy and are fascinated by the Alps and glacier forefields, contact me. 🏔️ 🦠 💤 🧬 🎓

We are looking for photos or videos of microscopy images and microbial ecologists at work! The winning photos and videos will be used to promote the ISME Society and our publications. Submit your entry by 11 November! More information: isme-microbes.org/call-for-mic... #MicrobialEcology #microbes

My life changed when I first read "The Sea Around Us." Rachel Carson's words captured my 13-yr old sense of wonder for a place I barely knew but felt for so deeply, the ocean. Honored to speak to her legacy @agu.org and grateful to my colleagues for the nomination 🌊💙 www.whoi.edu/press-room/n...

Very excited to announce that Chris Topp will be joining us here at MSU in the Plant Resilience Institute (@msupri.bsky.social) and Plant Biology Department in 2026. Dr. Topp was hired along with Dr. Andrea Glassimire in the most recent PRI search. plantresilience.msu.edu/pri-news/202...

Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404

Was great to share “The music of soil” with the IU Biology Dept EEB seminar. I had so many wonderful conversations... Thanks for hosting me! @richphillipslab.bsky.social @jaytlennon.bsky.social Jake McKinlay Jen Lau Heather Reynolds Andre Franco Kim Novick and many wonderful students.

🧑‍🌾 @timmiller.bsky.social on the Trump FARMER BAILOUT: “Tariffs caused a trade war, farmers can’t sell… and now you and I will have to pay them. The stupidest policy I think I’ve ever seen. A land speed record for policy disaster.” The very tariffs he said would help them are killing them.

I was in Portland last week, and didn't see the war. But I did see an extraordinary collection of food trucks

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.