Guess I'm just "dicking around" because all these other platforms are inaccessible to me (deafblind, hello). Y'all know where to find me, though. ✌️

The new Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE) Program page is posted. Please contact us at [email protected] if you have questions. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

I really don't like complaining, but does anyone else feel like the burden of universities having reduced budgets is slowly being placed on them? For me, it's now no TA support, responsible for compiling my own budget reports, frozen university funds (going on 2 years), etc. ?

Bummed Piastri didn't with the F1 WDC, but also very happy for Lando Norris. Great guy and good fro F1. Can't wait for next year!

Well this sucks.

Fresh off their R&R HOF induction, all I can think of is the White Stripes: "I'm gonna fight 'em off, a seven tentacle arm-y couldn't hold me back" Sorry not sorry

And ‘Searching for the Asgards’ the movie: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgmE...

My most-used bluesky words in 2025 were: 1. "congrats" (25×) 2. "research" (17×) 3. "paper" (15×) 4. "soil" (13×) 5. "those" (13×) Pretty fun app that compiles your usage into a report here: anisota.net/harvest

A new experiment in Science using an AI-powered browser extension to reorder feeds on X/Twitter shows that even small changes in exposure to hostile political content can measurably influence feelings toward opposing political parties—within days of X exposure. https://scim.ag/44uqZLa

I am recruiting graduate students for Fall 2026! The Microbial Ecosystems Lab @hot-mes-asu.bsky.social at ASU studies microbial interactions, spatial ecology, and imaging-driven microbiome science. If you love microbes, microfluidics, or single-cell analysis, let’s talk! www.microbialeco.systems

Dynamic protrusions mediate unique crawling motility in Asgard Archaea (Promethearchaeota) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.30.690169v1

The position is still open. Please apply here: jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/277

It's been 8 years for us, but I can confirm moving still sucks. Even though it's a local move (~1 mile), we still have to pack everything and relocate it!

Happy International Mens Day! If you are a teen, find a role model that exemplifies the honorable virtues of masculinity and strive toward compassion. If you are an adult, strive to be a pillar of your community...but also go get a colonoscopy and check your prostate please.

Hey folks, we (the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University) are looking for an Assistant Teaching Professor in microbiology and immunology. Please pass this on to anyone you think might be interested, or check it out if you are interested yourself! apply.interfolio.com/176994

I feel this. A big part of my professional growth over the last few years has been the realization that I will not live to carry out the vast majority of my ideas. As a result, I'm much more open with sharing them than ever before.

Map of seafloor where we are diving to sample sediments today. #AsgardArchaea @schmidtocean.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social @texasscience.bsky.social @utmsi.bsky.social

Starting this week, I set aside one hour each week to meet ECRs outside my group who want to discuss career development, mentorship, or any non-technical professional questions. Here is a blog that explains my motivation for this and how to schedule a meeting: merenlab.org/2025/11/16/E...

Some really fantastic discussion in this live stream.

It’s Friday: a new episode of #MattersMicrobial! This week, Dr. Julie Maresca joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss microbes and concrete and road salt! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord? @ASMicrobiology @univpugetsound @microbe.tv youtu.be/3JpbySeOO20?...

Starting at 7pm Central I will be streaming from the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Uruguay! Feel free to join and ask questions. www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean

📣New preprint alert! Check out this new preprint by Zhu et al. that quantifies and compares labile exometabolites from six axenic strains of marine phytoplankton 🌊 to identify key chemical currencies within the marine chemical-microbial network! 🧪🦠

Does anyone by any chance have a Ni-CODH database they could share it with me? Thanks!

I'm tasked with creating a career roadmap for our major (Biology), from enrollment to hire post grad. Does anyone have examples of ones they've done or find useful?

So, so cool to see all these microbial culture focused people all in the same room (in-person or virtual) at the @jgi.doe.gov Cultivation Jamboree!

Have any of my followers implemented a "flipped classroom" for an upper division Environmental Micro (or related) course? I am planning a re-work for my current class for next fall and considering a flipped modality.

Good opportunity to be on Mark's podcast. Highly recommend! #microsky

We've had a bad month for equipment failure this month. Three expensive incubators are down and one of our flow cytometers. How do y'all deal with this financially once startup is gone? Do you budget in proposals for it? Do your departments help? College funds?

ICYMI: Our latest shows what happens to transcriptional and metabolic profiles in a desiccated soil bacterium. To simplify things, I've attached a visual abstract. Comments on the preprint are welcome! #microsky #microbesky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Please repost: What are the current costs of kit-based RNA extractions per sample? Qiagen quoted my grad student a "discount" that came to $10/sample. That seemed /way/ too high

📣Postdoc opportunity @nordcee.bsky.social , University of Southern Denmark! 📣 Join us and work with Bo Thamdrup and me on microbial dark oxygen production in marine oxygen minimum zones! Please share widely! Deadline: 17 November More information can be found here: tinyurl.com/2vuur3wh

Please share this with anyone who may be interested in a post-doc in Germany: jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20... This is quite an exciting opportunity to push the boundaries of what is known regarding the molecular basis of the formation and demise of photosymbiotic relationships in marine habitats.

Come be my chair at The University of Arizona! We have great bike riding, hiking, and of course, science! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

For y'all y'all from the mid-atlantic-ish area of the US. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL34... @jenbiddle.bsky.social @surtlab.bsky.social

University of Arizona (kind of) rejects the Trump compact I’m not super happy but I’m not super disappointed…we kinda half assed the reaction here

I'm delighted our paper is out: doi.org/10.1093/isme... With new SAR11 isolate genomes and time-series metagenomes, we reveal coastal and offshore SAR11 ecotypes, identify associated metabolic traits, and pinpoint selective gene sweeps as a likely evolutionary driver to niche partitioning. 🌊🦠

📣#MTTM Annika Gomez is a @simonsfoundation.org Postdoc Fellow in Marine Microbial Ecology in the Dyhrman Group @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. She studies marine viruses that exert a major influence on the fate of organic carbon in phytoplankton 🌊using ‘omics and culturing methods.

What type of #microscopy would allow for watching real time cell division of an anaerobic bacterium (~1 x 0.5 um rod) at resolution high enough to view internal structure? Doubling time of ~2 days. #MicroSky

I finally bit the bullet and got an Athletic Brewing membership (the NA beer company) and it's so worth it. I get the same crisp AHHHHH feeling when I get home and put my legs up while cutting back on alcohol that frankly doesn't make me feel good. And I get to enjoy them on the go.

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

Last day to apply to come work with me on developing AI approaches to understanding pangenome evolution www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU184/p...

Tucson wildlife operates on a simple principle: if it can't maim you, it'll destroy your property instead. Today's culprit? Packrats in my engine bay. Chewed straight through the wiring harness to my transmission. Had *just enough* wire left to butt-connect everything back together and limp away.

This was a great read. I feel similarly.

We're looking for two new U of Arizona undergraduate researchers to join our group. More details below. uncultured.carinilab.com/p/were-hirin...

Good opportunity!

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We're hiring for several positions (a post-bac researcher in #transcriptomics, a #phage #postdoc, a senior researcher (broad topics) and a graduate student to work on #ciliates) - find info here: www.marine.usf.edu/genomics/app...

UMass Amherst Microbiology is hiring a tenure-track virologist. Come work with me! 🦠🧪 careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

The job is still open. Get your application in ASAP. Or just pass it on to somebody that might be interested.