Led by @Jiauri Sun & in collab with @Takuro Nunoura and team - we analysed shallow coastal & deep subseafloor sediment cores (0.01 to 600m below the seafloor) in the Western Pacific: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... We found that:

GTDB Release 10-RS226 (16th April 2025) has been published gtdb.ecogenomic.org

Not really my announcement to make--I am but a lesser co-author--but IQ-TREE 3 has just been released! (Most credit to Minh Bui and @roblanfear.bsky.social and their labs) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Originally defined by Rinke et al. (2013) as Candidatus Patescibacteria, the phylum #Patescibacteriota now has a validly published name and an official type! Explore the lifestyle, biogeography, and metabolic capabilities of its type genus, #Patescibacterium, here: doi.org/10.1093/isme... #SeqCode

Great collaboration with Phil Hugenholz @xrefugee13.bsky.social, Tanja Woyke, Per Halkjær Nielsen, and many more: "Proposal of Patescibacterium danicum gen. nov., sp. nov. in the ubiquitous bacterial phylum Patescibacteriota phyl. nov." doi.org/10.1093/isme...

#Amplicon #16S pipeline in 2025 Hi all, since my lab has moved (from ⛱️ to ⛰️), we now need to establish a new #Amplicon pipeline, mostly 16S but also ITS (fungi). So my question is, is QIIME 2 still state of the art, or are there other/ better tools/workflows out there now? Thanks ☺️

Best #paper #acknowledgements ever 😀 So honest. "Thanks finally to five anonymous reviewers .... and to R.N. whose editorial generosity bears no small responsibility for this paper's rescue from an early grave. .... I've supplied all errors myself." doi.org/10.1093/jos/...

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai

New #marine #virus paper out 😀 "Insights Into Phylogeny, Diversity and Functional Potential of Poseidoniales Viruses" > we proposed 2 new Magrovirales families: - Apasviridae (magrovirus group A) - Krittikaviridae (magrovirus group E) > and 1 new order: - Adrikavirales doi.org/10.1111/1462...

The #microbial #climate #feedback hypothesis is already becoming reality ... "shift in methane carbon isotopes suggests microbial emissions drove record high atmospheric methane growth" #science 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Proposal of Patescibacterium danicum gen. nov., sp. nov. in the ubiquitous ultrasmall bacterial phylum Patescibacteriota phyl. nov. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.01.618662v1

Convincing article about flame retardants in recycled black plastic utensils. We have replaced ours already www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

A great day for a short after-work hike and a hut visit with the lab 😀

Assistant Professor in Fungal Biology https://botany.fyi/8uuuga University of California Riverside invites applicants for an Assistant Professor in Fungal Biology position with a focus on molecular plant-fungal interactions in agriculture or natural ecosystems. #PlantSciJobs

My department at Montana State University is starting a faculty search for the position of Assistant Professor of Biochemistry: jobs.montana.edu/postings/43522 Feel free to contact me with questions. #Ilivewhereyouwannagoonvacation

Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Dept. of Evolution and Ecology at UC Davis Open position in the Department of Evolution and Ecology at UC Davis (my home department). See recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06690

Currently, we have the following open positions in the Rinke Group for Microbial MultiOmics and Biorecycling (MMOB) @ the University of Innsbruck, Austria: 1x postdoc 3x PhD 1x RA More info @ rinkelab.org/index.php/op...