Job opening: University of Bremen - Professorship for Molecular Botany - Deadline March 15 www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

Very excited to announce *TWO* fully-funded PhD positions starting this summer focusing on greenhouse gases in the peatlands of the Congo Basin! Both positions are joint between my group in @eth-eaps.bsky.social and that of @johansix.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social. Come join us!

In addition to the 2 postdoc jobs posted yesterday, we’re recruiting 2 PhD students (environmental microbiology/ molecular ecology) to join us from April. The projects will map microbial populations across niches in bioelectrochemical systems relevant to biomethanation & link them to performance.

Come work with us on #darkoxygen as part of the NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. It is an amazing opportunity to get up to 3 years of funding. Deadlines are March 1. and November 1. Happy to discuss your ideas! Details here: zintellect.com/Opportunity/... @mblscience.bsky.social #astrobiology

Buzzards Bay is frozen! ❄️✨ View from MBLs Stoney Beach.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

Meet "OxyMoRon" our 5-year NASA ICAR program to study dark oxygen production in Earth's hidden ecosystems. We have multiple positions and are happy about collabs. Co-PIs:@valdeanda.bsky.social @microbiaki.bsky.social @valiergaly.bsky.social Ranjani Murali, Scott Wankel www.mbl.edu/news/emil-ru...

Frozen spume in Woods Hole! ❄️✨

🌏 Happy 🔭 New 🧪 Year 🦠 2026 ✨ If you feel like an easy read about subsurface microbiomes and astrobiology: Here is an opinion I wrote with @emvidal.bsky.social @geobiomaggie.bsky.social @drbradbrad.bsky.social and Melody Lindsay enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If you work on Dark Oxygen --> come to #AbSciCon2026 this year. 17-22 May, Madison Join our session on ""Dark Oxygen" Production: where does it happen, how does it work, and what does it mean for astrobiology?" Submit your abstract until January 14 More info here: agu.confex.com/agu/abscicon...

Thrilled to share our new paper: Subsurface Life on Earth as a Key to Unlock Extraterrestrial Mysteries. 🧪 @melroselane.bsky.social, @drbradbrad.bsky.social , @geobiomaggie.bsky.social, @emilruff.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Please apply if you are interested in marine biogeochemistry and microbial dark oxygen production. Deadline: November 17th.

Looking for a cutting-edge and fun conference in 2026? How about: GRC Geobiology in Ventura, CA - January 11-16, 2026 www.grc.org/geobiology-c... AbSciCon in Madison, WI - May 17-22, 2026 www.agu.org/abscicon 🤩The Ruff Lab will be there with sessions and presentations on Dark Oxygen Production 🥳

🤩 BONCAT-Live for isolation and cultivation of active environmental bacteria 😍 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Finally! This idea deserved to be broadly discussed for decades.

Spend the summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, conducting your own original research. Applications open now. grassfoundation.org/application-... @mblscience.bsky.social

We’re recruiting a PhD student (Fall 2026) to study the ecology & evolution of aquatic giant viruses! Research spans lab experiment, field sampling, & bioinformatics. Background in microbiology/bioinforamtics encouraged. More info & contact email here: monirlab.com/join/ Please share. Thank you!

The White House budget proposal includes an $18B cut to NIH research funding in FY26. Explore the anticipated economic impacts in communities nationwide & click on any district to learn more and get a shareable scorecard. New from our #SCIMaP team: scienceimpacts.org/fy26

Great publication from Maggie Wagner (KU) and Manuel Kleiner (NCS) on how to design microbiome (+ other Omic) projects with downstream statistics in mind! A must read for trainees! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This generous gift will have positive ripple effects throughout the entire community in and around Woods Hole. 🥂🧪🎊🔬🥳 www.mbl.edu/news/mbl-ann...

Excited to present our DODGE project (#Safer2028) results on dark oxygen in the deep continental biosphere today at the #Goldschmidt2025 conference in Prague. It's session 9e in the Small Hall - see you there if you are around!

For ANME enthusiasts & for those who wonder how a methanogen turns into a methanotroph 👇New work by Orphanlab Identification of key steps in the evolution of anaerobic methanotrophy in Candidatus Methanovorans (ANME-3) archaea www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @caltech.edu @mblscience.bsky.social

Two Postdoc Opportunities in Environmental Microbiology! Join us and work on microbial key players exposed to oxygen depletion. Please share widely! Deadline: 25 July More information can be found here: tinyurl.com/4kwzzt6p

Watch out for two new grad students at U of Amsterdam and U of Miami. We are so thankful, Eleanor and Jaden, for your fantastic work and all the wonderful times here at @mblscience.bsky.social @jadenhansen.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/in/eleanor-g...

This week: Holden Thorp, Editor-in-Chief, Science Magazine talking about “Staying True to the Indispensable Values of Science”. Don't miss MBL Friday evening lectures. Like every year the line-up is excellent. In person & virtual. www.mbl.edu/events/frida... @mblscience.bsky.social @science.org

"We are speaking on behalf of hundreds of NIH staff who are standing up together to say: WE DISSENT. I am so scared about doing this but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only gonna get harder to speak up." Thank you to Dr. Jenna Norton and NIH scientists for your courage!

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...

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Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... Application Deadline July 31, 2025

Review of methane through space and time, coauthored with @planetdr.bsky.social, is out (OA) in @annualreviews.bsky.social. Hopefully a helpful resource for community and courses. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪 NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF... We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people** 🧵 on some highlights...

Yesterday’s lab retreat going whale watching in Boston. I feel so fortunate and happy! What a lovely group of inspiring and wonderful people! (We missed you Roo). Life is good, enjoy the weekend everyone.

Growing and monitoring methanogens in the lab at 100 bar pressure! Next-level cultivation by @emvidal.bsky.social

Some good news ! New undergraduate astrobiology minor just launched at @gtresearchnews.bsky.social ! cos.gatech.edu/news/georgia...

Feeling like Jodie Foster today, at the Very Large Array.

PANGAEA is working to rescue data from the US! Many datasets - e.g. from NOAA - are being decommissioned in May. PANGAEA has opened its archive to safeguard these valuable resources. "If you become aware of any endangered datasets, please don't hesitate to contact us. We ❤️ data!" www.pangaea.de

Innovations in the electron transport chain fuel archaeal methane metabolism www.cell.com/trends/bioch... A great review by Blake Downing and @diptinayak.bsky.social

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

This is a strong example of a local response by Woods Hole ocean science institutions to the larger issues disrupting and ending valuable science programs in the US. I know there have been others stepping up to stand for science. Let's make our voices heard bit.ly/3XLnkp2 🌊🧪

Part of our team (@jordonhemingway.bsky.social, C. Fernandes, T. Nagakura, Z. Wang) went sampling in the #Bedretto tunnel this week, looking for #darkoxygen ! Thank you @isme-microbes.bsky.social for funding my participation in this expedition! @ethzurich.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social

Last chance to send in your application to the Scholar Mobility Fund to visit a host institution outside of your country of study. You have until Monday to submit! ⏰⏳ 🔗https://isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar-mobility-fund-call-for-applications/ #MicrobialEcology #microbes

Inferring replication states of bacteria and viruses in enrichment cultures via long-read sequencing. A great team and fun collaboration! #microbiome @nanoporetech.com @mblscience.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

A great rally at Woods Hole Waterfront Park. Thanks to representatives Keating and Moakley and all the other speakers, the crowd and coffee obsession for free cocoa :-)

Hello everyone, the STAMPS course on microbiome data analysis at @mblscience.bsky.social is open until Mar 11, 2025! Join us for a great experience! Please ALSO check out my co-Director @amydwillis.bsky.social excellent post on how to write a great application: statdivlab.github.io/blog/article...

Scientists & experts: Add your name to this open letter calling on Congress and the Trump administration to ensure that NOAA and its sub-agencies remain fully funded and staffed, and that the independent, trusted science the agency produces is protected. act.ucsusa.org/4kajJuk

Cold seeps are potential hotspots of deep-sea nitrogen loss driven by microorganisms across 21 phyla Exciting results from an inspiring collaboration with Xiyang Dong and colleagues! @mblscience.bsky.social #methane #microbiome www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.