the plot thickens... #Archaea #Microsky #SymbioSky

Caulophiles take note 👇 #MicrosSky #CryoET #CryoE; #teamtomo

Dying Sea Stars Oceans cover most of the Earth's surface and contain more than 97% of all our water. The oceans' importance in supporting life on our planet, in regulating the climate, and as a home for a vast amount of... Read more > smallthingsconsidered.blog/schaechter/2... #MicroSky

🚀 New in @natmicrobiol.nature.com EMCG — droplet-based single-particle genomics method 🧬⚠️Sequencing marine microbes one by one — in nL of seawater! Ultra-high resolution — no culture, no bulk averaging. A new way to see the invisible 🫥 🌊 rdcu.be/eOsUF #protistsonsky @bigelowlab.bsky.social

#PhageSky & 🐝sky (?) #MicroSky

this is so cool! I've never seen 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘢 like that 👀 #MicroSky

bacteria move by swimming, twitching, gliding/sliding, ...and now by 'swashing' go figure! #MicroSky

Our new paper maps the tRNA modification landscape in Vibrio cholerae! 💫 We describe differences from E. coli and discuss links to decoding of stress-related codons 🦠 Huge thanks to amazing co-authors and collaborators! @plos.org #rnasky #microsky #tRNAmodifications

by Roberto — When I wrote "A New Dawn," which posted on July 21, the last thing I imagined for the fu­ture of STC was that our platform, Typepad, would go dark on us. Not just dark, pitch black. I was enthusiastically cruising along with my... Read more > smallthingsconsidered.blog/schaechter/2...

Ray: Just a note to say STC is officially back up and running!! You can view our new home via smallthingsconsidered.blog

take note everybody earth.org/antarcticas-...

#MicroSky wohoo!

Today Dr. Jessica Mark Welch, Professor at the ADA Forsyth Institute joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the complex and interactive microbial communities living unseen within our mouths and what those communities can tell us. @markowenmartin.bsky.social

bioRxiv on predator-prey interaction between Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus and V. cholerae and how chitin alters V. cholerae biofilm formation and predator-prey interactions - from Carey Nadell

New week, new episode of #MattersMicrobial. This time, Dr. Jessica Mark Welch of the Forsyth Institute joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the microbiogeography of the human tongue and related issues. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord! youtu.be/VGD8jkNJHKo?...

1. Characterising the role of the dual-function VanT in C. difficile vancomycin resistance. A collaboration between our group in @molmicrosheffield.bsky.social and the groups of @gavinhthomas.bsky.social and Marjan van der Woude at the University of York www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Exciting day for the lab: our 1rst paper is officially out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🥳 Wonderful collaboration wt @gautamdey.bsky.social showing how Cryo-ExM achieves consistent immunostaining in diverse diatoms, from the lab and the natural environment 1/n #ProtistsOnSky tinyurl.com/2zxaund7

𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘺𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘳 A3(2) produces a so far unknown antibiotic (because no one has looked closer, that is) #MicroSky 🙏thx for pointing this out @microbingle.bsky.social

(bacterial) cell divisionistas take note 👇

next level lassopeptides 😉

biologists around the world are demanding that marine biologist leonid pshenichnov be released from russian custody. at least they should be... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

R.I.P Hamilton Smith, 1978 Nobel Laureate for the discovery of type II restriction-modification systems (HindII).

chromosome replicationists take note 👇 #MicroSky

just a few more days, and then we'll be back... 👉 smallthingsconsidered.blog

#MicroSky #CryoEM #CryoET #teamtomo

flagellophiles take note 👇 #MicroSky

christoph: 👇made my day 👏

fans of NAPs take note 👇 what Spurio 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. (1992) saw as complete condensation of the 𝘌. 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘪 nucleoid due to H-NS overproduction (f), can now be traced down to individual loops by Way 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. (2025). #MicroSky @meyerroc.bsky.social @pdersch.bsky.social y.social @phoeberice.bsky.social

as pat says: "it really isn't about writing a review. it's about doing the review yourself. AI can't do that for you," and we can't agree more.

chromosome replicationists – #Archaea branch, Asgard dept. – take note 👇 #ArchaeaSky thx @acritschristoph.bsky.social for boosting this 🙏

who would have thought! phage N15 TelN telomerase has more than one job! (and no, it's not 'moonlighting') great work from the gruber lab 👏 #MicroSky + #PhageSky

Episode 112 of #MattersMicrobial! Dr. Petra Levin joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss bacterial cell size, pH, and antibiotic sensitivity. PLEASE spread the #GoodMicrobialWord. Petra is inspirational. @univpugetsound @asmicrobiology @microbe.tv youtu.be/YPNAvJYAq-s?...

Dr. Petra Levin, the George and Irene Freiberg Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis (and of TWiM!) joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss her work with bacterial cell size, environmental stress on bacteria, and antibiotic resistance 📺👇

#ArchaeaSky (who's going to set up a regular feed?) #Archaea

#ProtistsOnSky ...say hello to choano chains 👋

chromosome segregationists - archaea branch - take note 👇 #ArchaeaSky #Archaea

#PhageSky ! (because j ≠ h)

...the "four seasons" in marine sediments (<1 m). who even came up with the idea that there would be no seasons 'down there'? 🤔 #MicroSky

#MicroSky micro? more like nano when it comes to saccharibacteria...