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.

Our new paper highlights aerobic methane production from methylphosphonates by abundant Methylotenera in Pleistocene era groundwaters. Congrats to @shengjieli.bsky.social, colleagues, and partners at AEPA! academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

It starts with soybeans. Who knew.

Meet the Gulf of America "EPA Renames Its Gulf Division to Honor the Gulf of America" www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

www.mbl.edu/news/renewed... Nice article about our course and all eyes on @jadenhansen.bsky.social sequencing microbial DNA using @nanoporetech.com Thanks also @emvidal.bsky.social, Hannah Vanderscheuren and Eleanor Greene for making this happen.

Germans abroad, don't forget to apply for your election materials. 🚨Application deadline is Feb 2.🚨 It's easy, fill in the PDF, sign, email to the responsible municipality. Takes a few minutes. FCK AFD www.bundeswahlleiterin.de/bundestagswa...

NEW: OPM — the US govt's HR department — is now being run exclusively by Big Tech lackies, mostly from Elon Musk companies. Reporting directly to the chief of staff is a kid who just graduated high school & was recently a camp counsellor before interning at Neuralink. From @telliotter.bsky.social:

Kudos to @asm.org I have never in my nearly 25yrs as a member been sent an "ASM Action Alert" asking me to contact my members of Congress. Make those calls. Write those emails. There are extraordinary times and we must make ourselves heard

Hello Australian friends and colleagues. I will be chatting about our latest research on the ABC radio show Nightlife today (Thursday) at 11:30 pm. Stay tuned! #subsurface #deeplife #darkoxygen #microbiome

High throughput long-read 16S rRNA gene sequencing finely resolves complex diversity and phylogenetic clades of sulfur-cycling microbes in Guaymas Basin. www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic... Nice study led by @johnehinkle.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social @molmoyn.bsky.social

As we look back on 2024, we see a fantastic year of learning and discovery at the MBL, thanks to our talented scientists, staff, and supporters. Here are just a few highlights. www.mbl.edu/news/2024-ye...