In October, @brionyjones.bsky.social presented at the European Commission's Joint Research Council in Ispra for a AI4SoilHealth meeting earlier in the month. The presentation title was 'Global F.A.I.R.ness of co-located microbial and soil health data in public genomic repositories.' 🌱🦠🧬

@laurens-colours.bsky.social was recently invited to present at a @britishecologicalsociety.org & @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social event on art & science 🎨 Lauren's full talk on scientific storytelling through merging logic and feeling can be found here ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGdA...

@lindsaynewbold.bsky.social also gave a talk recently on the National Honey Monitoring Scheme (NHMS) at the AgZero+ all staff meeting! 🍯 Find out more via the links below ⬇️ NHMS: honey-monitoring.ac.uk AgZero+: agzeroplus.org.uk

📢 Check out below our latest work on national-scale river biofilms led by the brilliant @amycthorpe.bsky.social

@oxonandrew.bsky.social has been on a paper publishing streak recently! As well as the above he has also published a paper on emerging contaminants in urban streams in Sub-Saharan Africa 🧪💊💧 check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

PhD opportunity to work in my lab at UEA, together with @drbradbrad.bsky.social and Marc Dumont “Linking AMR, global warming and CUE in deglaciated soils” www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🚨 New #OpenAccess paper in #Environmental #DNA! 🚨 Led by #TimGoodall @ukceh.bsky.social with @danread.bsky.social we tested whether #soil #eDNA metabarcoding can capture plant #biodiversity & vegetation cover across the UK 🌱 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/edn3...

Have you ever looked at some differentially occurring gene clusters in a microbial #pangenome and thought to yourself "I wonder if they contribute to any metabolic modules"? With the most recent changes, the answer is a few clicks away in #anvio 😇

Welcome to our "meet the researcher" series!👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 Tune in over the next week as we introduce you to our UKCEH Molecular Ecology PhD researchers and tell you a bit about their projects! 🧪🧬🦠

🧪 NEW: Emily Williams reflects on a recent visit to the Falkland Islands as part of a project working with UK Overseas Territories to tackle invasive non-native species — a major threat to island #biodiversity and livelihoods🌿 Read more: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... #INNS #blog

🆕 Vacancy! If you want to work with sequencing data derived from cultivated and natural soil microbiomes to understand the role of prokaryotes in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, check our vacancy 🦠 @bioinf.bsky.social‬ 💷 £36,720 to £42,000 p/a 🗓️ Apply by 08 July 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/BSB0Qfh

We have a new 3-year postdoc position in our group at the @hifmb.de to study plasmids and plasmids systems of the marine environment to survey their utility in microbial responses to environmental change. Please see the official job ad here, and spread the word: jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20...

Rain or shine ☔️🌞, our #NERC-funded #MICROCYCLE teams are sampling Thames & Avon, uncovering how microbes influence the fate of organic matter🧫💧. @amycthorpe.bsky.social & #TimGoodall in #MolecularEcology in action at @ukceh.bsky.social 🧪 🔗 tinyurl.com/46469ztn #FreshwaterQuality #RiverHealth

🎂👏 Congratulations to the Natural Environment Research Council on 60 years of enabling world-leading environmental science and the launch of an ambitious new 10-year vision. We look forward to working with NERC to make a meaningful difference. 🔗 NERC Forward Look: www.ukri.org/publications... 🧪

The Aquatic Ecosystems Group at UKCEH are hosting this great community engagement event a Loch Leven, Scotland. A chance to talk to our scientists about what the Loch means to you: eu1.hubs.ly/H0knhrs0 @ukceh.bsky.social #UKCEH_AquaEco 🧪💦

Hi all, have you seen that the Aquatic Ecology & Microbial Ecology Groups of the BES are holding a science conference at the Zoological Society of London in September? Registration/abstract submission still open... @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social @bes-microbialgroup.bsky.social #BESAG2025 (1/5) 🧪🌊

@clairecarvell.bsky.social showing how collaborative work between @ukceh.bsky.social & @sangerinstitute.bsky.social leveraged the #BIOSCAN pipeline to uncover 135+ insect families sampled as part of the #UK @pomscheme.bsky.social Presented at @ukdnawg.bsky.social conference at the #RoyalSociety

This weekend, Ellie Mackay from the UKCEH Aquatic Ecosystems Group will be talking to the community about the ecology of Windermere (by canoe safari!). A great public engagement event! www.windermeresciencefestival.org/portfolio/ca... #UKCEH_AquaEco @ukceh.bsky.social @ellie-mackay.bsky.social

Are you an undergraduate student interested in a PhD? Apply now to gain experience in a NERC-funded Research Experience Placement this summer – UKCEH scientists are leading some of the projects! E4 placements: e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/further-nerc... GW4+ placements: www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/undrgrad-pla...

📢 We're excited to announce the #ROBINHydro dataset & paper are published! 🌏 This makes available for wider use data for 2,386 global gauging stations with natural or near-natural catchments— a major step forward in accessible, global-scale streamflow data. 🔗 www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪

🌡️ A new study by UKCEH & @universityofleeds.bsky.social reveals how wet soils can amplify heatwaves in vulnerable regions See our news: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... Read the full study: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... @johnmarsham.bsky.social @agu.org #heatwaves #HeatStress

I’m happy to share our recent review published in The ISME Journal! Here, we explore the role of CO and H₂ oxidisers in oligotrophic environments. This work was a collaboration with Philippe Constant, Gary King, and @hendrikschaefer.bsky.social. Hope you enjoy it! academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

🧪 How do you embed #FAIRdata principles into research workflows? Our data stewardship team share how they've customised @fair-wizard.com to improve data management & collaboration—and support the wider NERC research community. 🔗 www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... #EnvironmentalScience #OpenScience

GTDB Release 10-RS226 (16th April 2025) has been published gtdb.ecogenomic.org

A new @britishecologicalsociety.org report assesses the evidence around #RegenerativeAgriculture approaches 🌱🌾 Co-authors include UKCEH ecologists Prof Bridget Emmett (current President of BES) and Dr Lisa Norton, & contribution from greenhouse gas flux scientist Dr Jenny Rhymes #soil #farming 🧪⤵️

We're very proud of our international relations coordinator María Estelí Jarquín on her recent appointment to the Governing Board of the @sciencecouncil.bsky.social 👏🏼 Congratulations to María who will be a strong voice for young scientists across the globe 🌎 🔗 council.science/news/isc-gov...

If you are interested in a postdoc opportunity in Europe, I'd suggest you to consider the EU Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship: ec.europa.eu/info/funding... If you are into marine microbial ecology and evolution, I'd love to support your application (see more at merenlab.org). E-MAIL ME NOW! :)

Catch me and Isobel Stanton discussing #AMR in the environment and wastewater, and what this means for human health 🦠💊🥼 Podcast link below 🔽

🎧 Resistance Rising: 1.14 million - new podcast episode coming soon! Alice & Sue are a sewage treatment works to explore the growing global issue of antimicrobial resistance (#AMR) 🦠 🔔 Subscribe on your favourite podcast app! www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... @hollytipper.bsky.social 🧪

Protecting glaciers 🏔️❄️means protecting the future by - securing ecosystems 🌏 - strengthening resilience🔄 We safeguard biodiversity, water resources, and communities (including microbial 🦠) for generations to come. 🌍🏔️❄️ Check out the #𝗚𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺

Right in time for the UN International Glacier Day: nice contribution on the latest findings from the Vanishing Glaciers Project by @layeb.bsky.social & @riverepfl.bsky.social in theconversation.com/fonte-des-gl...

An excellent letter by Dennis Hazelett: www.nature.com/articles/s41... And below is my attempt to motivate people in my group and others elsewhere to read it. Putting it here as well in case it may work on you, too :p

📢 Delighted to annouce our fifth and final keynote speaker for #BESAG2025! 📢 Dr Joe Taylor, UKCEH "Biodiversity and importance of microbial eukaryotes in lakes" 🌏 Where: ZSL London ⏰ When: 15/16th September 2025 Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/besag2025-... #aquatic #ecology #diversity

If you have been using #anvio to analyze your microbial pangenomes, we have a new program for you to calculate rarefaction curves or Heaps' Law fit for your gene clusters: anvio.org/help/main/pr... Sorry it took this long :/ But at least t will run on any existing anvi'o pangenome :)

This will be a really exciting webinar, don't miss it if you are working in the AMR genomics field

OUT NOW: Mapping the metagenomic diversity of the multi-kingdom glacier-fed stream microbiome by Gregoire Michoud, Tom Battin & co www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@riverepfl.bsky.social is seeking postdocs performing research on mountain stream biogeochemistry. Please, see advertisement below.

Predicting the future of glacier-fed streams and their microbiome by @riverepfl.bsky.social, @layeb.bsky.social, @susheelbusi.bsky.social and friends in www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Well, well done dear Massimo!!!

I have a series of blogs about the SRA that may help: edwards.flinders.edu.au/lab-blog/sra/ Mostly, I use SRA in the Google Cloud (or AWS) to search long lists and get SRR IDs and then fast(er)q-dump to download them edwards.flinders.edu.au/search-sra-m... edwards.flinders.edu.au/fastq-dump/

'The UK launches mSCAPE, a world-first metagenomics initiative by UKHSA to enhance health security through rapid pathogen detection and surveillance.'

#reading "Gut microbiota strain richness is species specific and affects engraftment" by Chen-Liaw et al. As usual, quoted text is from manuscript [slight edits], unquoted is mine These are idiosyncratic personal notes, not a comprehensive review! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586…

Thrilled to share another piece of work from our team, with fantastic collaboration from @drbradbrad.bsky.social! In this study, we explore how competition and facilitation among microbes can regulate the spread of AMR over time in the Arctic.

Excited to introduce the preprint for CoverM: the Swiss Army knife of coverage calculators for metagenomics! 🧬🖥️ DOI: doi.org/10.48550/arX... @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @viralinstruction.bsky.social @apcamargo.bsky.social

🚨😷🧪 NEW: A growing body of evidence shows that pandemics, biodiversity loss, and climate change are part of a broader polycrisis - but there are no simple solutions. A sweeping overview of "Pathogens and planetary change" for the first issue of @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social, out now 🔓 rdcu.be/d6lHl

Does anybody have suggestions what the best UK provider for MIC test strips is? I cannot find anything on my university ordering system.

Our Founder, @tallcuppajoe.bsky.social, discusses his career trajectory and the creation of Binning Singletons, a unique mentorship program built on peer-to-peer networking at scientific meetings and conferences and was first implemented in 2019 at @asm.org Microbe asm.org/Podcasts/MTM...

What a start into the New Year👋! Yet another very cool METALP paper out - by Luis and Nic! New insights into synchronicity of DOC in high-mountain streams. Great conceptual thinking, stats and lots and lots of sensor data.....Enjoy! aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

...quite some work today 😀. Yet another great piece from the @riverepfl.bsky.social Vanishing Glaciers Project, by Aileen , @susheelbusi.bsky.social @layeb.bsky.social and many others. A fresh look on the BGCs in glacier-fed streams. Well done, Aileen👋! journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10....

...more from the Vanishing Glaciers project, also with @susheelbusi.bsky.social @layeb.bsky.social: Greg's awesome metagenomic insights into the glacier-fed stream microbiome are out now. What a bewildering biofilm mode of life up there☺️! Well done all! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New insights into the microbiome of the world's glacier-fed streams. Amazing work by @layeb.bsky.social and @susheelbusi.bsky.social and many others! Thanks all friends and colleagues around the globe! Also the great Nomis Foundation for continuous support! www.nature.com/articles/s41...