🪸 A recent study by WHOI Reef Solutions scientists shows that microbes and genetic material in seawater change when nearby corals are sick. Seawater was a better indicator of disease than sampling the corals themselves. @amiposts.bsky.social has the scoop: go.whoi.edu/microbio-coral

⏰ Reminder: Peggy Cotter Travel Award apps due Feb 16! We have 3 $1,650 travel awards for ASM Microbe 2026! 👩‍🔬 Early-career professionals (≤15 yrs from terminal degree)are eligible 📧 Apply: [email protected] 🧬 ASM + CNY ASM membership are required Learn more: sites.google.com/view/cnyasm/...

Welcome to the newest members of the Becker Lab here @ithacacollege.bsky.social! Thank you to the wonderful @hannahgreich.bsky.social PhycoSymbiosis lab @sunyesf.bsky.social for our initial population of Aiptasia. Looking forward to some science!

Today was yet another sad day for science. All U-RISE training programs, including the one at SJSU, got stop work orders. We've had a version of this program at SJSU for 30+ yrs. Devastating for the students who got their stipends & tuition pulled w no notice & for the future of science 🧪 1/

Hey #Microbiome peps - has anyone generated ONT (10.4) data for full length 16s rRNA analysis and has a data analysis/OTU clustering pipeline they are happy with and are willing to share? TIA! #nanopore #MicrobiomeSky

Watch this space! www.int-res.com/prepress/m14...

Make sure you follow the #BlackEduSky starter pack go.bsky.app/R1Fhqjw

Wow, Bluesky really took off in the last couple of days! The first microbiome starter pack is full now and I started a second one with non-overlapping profiles. Check out these people below and please let me know if you would like to be included! go.bsky.app/6vPBEty

Love this idea for helping the community make the transition to Bluesky, so I’ve compiled a woefully incomplete list of microbial ecologists and -omics peeps I know are here. Please make suggestions and share. Let me know if you’d like to be added. go.bsky.app/TQpaTqF

Happy Halloween from the Ithaca College “Life on the Ocean” class 🦈🎃 When shark day lands (intentionally) on Halloween, of course I have to dress up!

🌊 #ASLO25 abstracts due Mon, Oct 21st!! 📅 Please consider submitting an abstract to our session SS08: Integrating and developing #omics technologies in #aquatic community #ecology! *invited speakers* @nekton4plankton.bsky.social & @akiledal.bsky.social

Best science beach reads from @scifri.bsky.social include books by @beebrookshire.bsky.social @ferrisjabr.bsky.social and @deborahb.bsky.social #scicomm 🧪 www.sciencefriday.com/segments/bes...

My dept is hiring in Evolutionary Genomics psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

These Barbies do science!! 🧫 🧬 🪸 ✅Poster done ✅ Talk done Now ready to absorb all the other great stuff #ASMicrobe has to offer!

A couple of the lovely ladies of the @lebetimonas.bsky.social lab are in Atlanta for #ASMicrobe! Let’s meet up if you want to talk corals, disease, and microbiomes! 🪸 Talk - AES-IDS-011 Poster- AES-Friday-831

If you’re new to #ASMicrobe from @ASMicrobiology there’s a lot going on you might not know about. Here’s a few things that might help you have a better experience #BinningSingletons 1/n

Let the #ASMicrobe FOMO begin…. Thanks to everyone posting here! And check out Jean Lim and Aly Rogers’ poster on RNA viruses associated with Karenia brevis harmful algal blooms in Florida. #7239 EEB-P-001 – EEB01 Friday Microbial Ecology. Wundergrad Aly will be giving the lightning talk!

Multiple science job openings at the ⁦‪Gordon And Betty Moore Foundation ‬ www.moore.org/about/careers

Back by popular demand - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2025! PIs - Enter your position info here: forms.gle/adBbhEBqYUg5... Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) - share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share!

Just wrapped up a couple wonderful days at Cornell!! I had a great time sharing my research on sctld & microbes and loved all the science chats with other faculty. Thanks so much to @ianhewson.bsky.social for hosting me!

Nothing says an academic “Happy Birthday” more than having a paper published on your birthday! 🎂🥳🎉🙌🏻 Check out our latest work highlighting how SW microbes capture and predict hurricane and disease (SCTLD) impacts on USVI reefs: enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Had so much fun at #SUNYESF talking all things coral reef microbes and meeting all the wonderful scientists there! Thanks so much for hosting me @hannahgreich.bsky.social! 🪸

Had a blast hosting @cynthiabecker25.bsky.social at our #SUNYESF water seminar. We were treated to exciting coral reef microbe science and stellar graphics. 🪸🌊🧫

My Ph.D. student Erin had worked with an amazing group of ECR women to put together this much needed comprehensive review of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD). www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Happy to share our latest research! Over nearly a decade, we monitored two species of coral in Kāne‘ohe Bay, Hawai‘i to reveal that repetitive exposure to heatwaves leads to divergent coral bleaching and recovery trajectories #coralsky 🪸🐠🧪👩🏻‍🔬 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New opinion piece in @TrendsMicrobiol @CellPressNews A microbial matter close to my heart: the role of #Endozoicomonas in #corals. @marenziegler.bsky.social and I synthesized evidence from diverse studies, concluding corals and Endoz may not be the dream team we make them out to be 🧫🪸 👇🏻

Skype a Scientist offers free matches with scientists for Q&As about science. We're a small nonprofit and rely on word of mouth for people to learn about us! Since the fracturing of social media, I don't know where the teachers went 🤔 Are YOU a teacher? Help us find you! #SciEd #Teachers

For grad students and postdocs interested in the Molecular and Cell biology of Symbiosis, come join us at MBL this summer! 4 week course spanning lots of cool organisms and topics. Application deadline Feb 21 🦠🦑🧽🪰🌱🪸🪼🧪

@cbcuconn.bsky.social is offering 2 virtual #bioinformatics training workshops in Jan! Genome Assembly (Jan 8-11) and Genome Annotation (Jan 22-25). 1/2 days, real instructors, real data examples! Learn more & register here: bioinformatics.uconn.edu/cbc-workshops/

Wonderful BlueSky: We are looking for graduate students and postdocs who could benefit from intense exposure to all-things-microbial at the 2024 Microbial Diversity Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. Consider applying / reposting. www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

Please add microbiome-related conferences for 2024 in this thread. Thanks.

We are hiring a TT biostatistician. This is a 12-month unionized position with excellent pay and benefits. Send me a message if you would like more details (please RT). jobs.amstat.org/jobs/1945221...

Excited to see this paper out! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Looking to improve your #microbiome data analyses skills? Hope to see you at #STAMPS2024 at @mblscience.bsky.social! Applications Due: March 11, 2024 go.mbl.edu/STAMPS