The @femsmicro.org SSPD 2025 is going strong! 💪 An amazing crowd of postdocs and mentors from all over the globe has gathered for highly inspiring and illuminating discussions of microbiology and career development on the shores of the beautiful Lake of Ohrid - City of Light. 🦠🌞🇲🇰 t1p.de/v7sxs

Nice surprise after summer break: elaborate insights in @elife.bsky.social on our upcoming microfossils article. Thanks to Lubbers & Claessen of @unileiden.bsky.social for taking note! Final accepted version of our reviewed preprint will be out shortly! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Cheers go out to Brielle Hrymoc of Casey Hubert's Lab @ucalgary.bsky.social and Ania Szlembarska of Brett Poulin's Lab @ucdavis.bsky.social for two well-deserved poster prizes for ECRs at the 2025 AEM GRC Conference. Thanks to #FEMSMicrobiolEcol @femsjournals.bsky.social for sponsoring!

📢 Join the 4th D-A-CH Geobiology Young Scientists Symposium in Vienna, 18 to 19/09. Open to PhD students, postdocs, and undergrads working between bio- and geo-sciences. No participation fees! Cool invited talk by @microecolotta.bsky.social More info: ecology.univie.ac.at/news/dach-ge...

🌱💧 Kicking off UBT's 50-year journey of “Searching for Traces”, with the one and only BayCEER watering can! This iconic symbol of ecological research kicks off a series honoring 50 years of UBT’s people and milestones. www.uni-bayreuth.de/50years/sear... @unibayreuth.bsky.social

🥳 Huge congrats to @jpausch.bsky.social and #ClaraMartinez-Pérez of @bayceer.bsky.social for attracting 2 of 3 research prizes awarded by @unibayreuth.bsky.social during this year's #UNIKAT summer fest. #Soil #Water #ClimateChange

This excellent thematic issue connected to the #2023ISEBxISSM conference in Banff is finally out! ♨️ Thanks to our co-guest editors @microecolotta.bsky.social and #MariaDittrich for their great work. 👏

Found no Easter Eggs but removed plenty of weeds! Getting our ✨ SMO ✨ Soil Microplastics Observatory ready for its first exciting full year of sampling. How will the plastic affect our strawberries and soil? Thanks to helpers in @crc1357.bsky.social, @bayceer.bsky.social, #ÖBG and Happy Easter! 🥚🐇

Microbiology Postdocs from all over Europe and the Globe! 🦠😎👍 Application for the FEMS SSPD 2025 “Harnessing microbial solutions in environmental research and One Health” is now open 👇 2 – 10 Sept 2025 on Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia Co-Directors: Joana Falcao Salles and @luederslab.bsky.social

Thematic Issue: Aquatic Microbial Ecology from #FEMSMicrobiolEcol This thematic issue presents contributions centering on Aquatic Microbial Ecology including microbes, marine and freshwater systems, and ecological processes.

📣 Join us for the next #FEMSMicrobiolEcol Webinar on Microbial Ecology for a Sustainable Future – Engaging the Next Generation of Researchers. This session based on our Thematic Issue , will explore innovative research from 3 ECRs & feature 3 guest editor ECRs as co-hosts🔬📖✨ buff.ly/416xzFf

Excited about stable isotopes? 🌍🔬 Join the BaySISS Summer School this September! ✅ Learn from experts ✅ Hands-on experience in labs ✅ FREE course + travel grants available! 📅 Apply by March 16, 2025!🔗 www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/baysiss/ #StableIsotopes #ScienceEducation #BaySISS #PhDLife

Hello Bluesky! 👋 The Collaborative Research Centre Microplastics @unibayreuth.bsky.social arrived @bsky.app 😃. We look for friends & colleagues & a save place to follow research on #microplastics, events & the newest ideas, trends & news! Looking forward to a great time @dfg.de @bayceer.bsky.social

👍 New paper out in #EJSB! See how PostDoc @milanvarsadiya.bsky.social and our team in the #CRC2322 “SoilSystems" make use of live cell extracts from soil to more meaningfully address microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE). 😋🦠 @bayceer.bsky.social @dfg.de

Today is #WorldSoilDay and we @bayceer.bsky.social have many interesting projects running contributing to the protection and sutainable use of this important resource! 🌍🌱 Find out more! 🔽

Welcome, @bayceer.bsky.social, on the side where the skies are blue! 👍⏩😎

Most noteworthy global call-to-action! Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe. academic.oup.com/femsec/artic...

Cool webinar on 22 Nov at 16:00 CET. Calling all #FEMSMicrobiolEcol enthusiasts! Join our webinar on Microbial Impacts of #ClimateChange with Max Häggblom & expert speakers Cornelia U Welte, Susanne Liebner, and Joel E Kostka on 22 Nov! Free registration here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

👋 Farewell to this wonderful bunch of early career researchers filling the D-A-CH Geobiology Symposium 2024 at #BayCEER with most exciting science.👌🔬 See y'all in Vienna next year! Thx again to all involved, esp. #Iwalewahaus for hosting us!

⏰ Deadline extended! Apply before Aug. 30th for our free! D-A-CH young scientists meeting on #GeoBiology, end of Sept. at #BayCEER. Cool keynote by #EmilRuff on dark oxygen production 🔥. Career development hints. Fun and good Bayreuth 🍻

♨️👍 Cool #NewScientist interview with former team member #DheerajKanaparthi on our recent and upcoming papers on how to possibly better explain complex microfossil morphologies. Maybe, they were just protocells before inventing a cell wall?

🤩 Just out in #FrontMicrobiol! Great work by #NicolasTyborski and entire #Rhizotraits team on how landraces of maize select for surprisingly similar #rizosphere #microbiome taxa at very different field sites! More coming up soon! #BayCEER #BonaRes4u

Most stunning pink pigmented #methylotroph leaf offprints taken by our #BayCeer biology BSc students in this summer's #soil #microbiology field course. #ArtOfNature 👍🦠☘️

📢 Join the 3rd D-A-CH Geobiology Young Scientists Symposium in Bayreuth, 30/09 to 01/10. Open to PhD students, postdocs, and undergrads working between bio- and geo-sciences. No participation fees! Cool invited talk by @emilruff.bsky.social Info: www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/D-A-CH-Geobi...

7th retreat of the #BayCEER at the @fraunhofer.bsky.social Research Campus in Waischenfeld with highly inspiring discussions on our current and future research and teaching in #ecology and #environmentalsciences at #UniBT.

See you next week in Würzburg for #dghmvaam2024! Make sure not to miss the special session "Microbes and Microplastics" of our #SFB1357 on Monday at 11:00. dghm-vaam.de

Imagine a team of students and researchers picking "wild" plastic waste out of the field just to put experimental microplastics back in 🤪! Preparing for the start of our Soil Microplastics Observatory <SMO> within #SFB1357. Thanks to all helpers at #BayCEER!

Ever wondered how protocells might have reproduced on early earth, before they invented a cell wall? Second of a series of cool upcoming papers on this by former group member #DheerajKanaparthi now out in Scientific Reports. Congratz, Dheeraj!

Morgen feiern wir den #worldwaterday2024 mit einem hochaktuellen Symposium in Hof. "Wasser, Seen, Zukunft" und die Herausforderungen des Klimawandels! Kurzentschlossene Anmeldung ist noch möglich: 👍👇👀

Hier ist nun unser Artikel zu den Anwendungspotentialen der faszinierenden Kabelbakterien der #MdJ Electronema spp. im #BioSpektrum. #Microbeoftheyear #VAAM_Microbes #CEMAarhus

Sehr spannendes Symposium anlässlich des #WorldWaterDay am 22. März in Hof. Wasserforschung am #BayCEER ist mit dabei. Powered by #ZIM_BMWK Netzwerk #Water4All und durch die #WaterIsRight Stiftung. Anmeldung kostenlos unter: app.guestoo.de/public/event...

Huge thanks to our inspiring students for the poll! What a great place to teach and to do research. 👍👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 #BayCEER #Uni-Bayreuth

Cable bacteria of the exciting Ca. genus Electronema elected Microbe of the Year 2024 by the German VAAM! A pleasure to contribute to this outreach activity with colleagues of CEM-Aarhus and our own research at BayCEER, Uni-BT. 🦠👍🔌 vaam.de/infoportal-m...

Have a research project where you would like to get some cutting-edge stable isotope analyses done but you do not have the budget? 👉 Apply for a Stepping Stone Project with the DFG-funded BayCenSI core facility of the BayCEER! Deadline 15th Jan. www.censi.uni-bayreuth.de/en/projects/...

As a grand #2023ISEBxISSM conference in wintery Banff is coming to an end, we invite submissions from all fields of #SubsurfaceMicrobiology for a thematic issue in FEMS Microbiol Ecol. Deadline 1 April 24. We have guest editors #LottaPurkamo and #MariaDittrich on board. 👍

Hello Bluesky! A new start for updates from @luederslab.bsky.social over here. Things still need to grow, but looking good! Just like the wonderful blue skies of Banff National Park we just experienced during a highly inspiring #2023ISEBxISSM. On my way back to a rainy Germany now. 🛫