“Papermills Are Not the Problem — The System Is”

"A new paradigm for antibiotic discovery. By identifying and testing intermediates in the pathways to diverse natural compounds, we may find potent new antibiotics with more resilience to resistance" www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

New paper out of the lab this week. Looking at the genomic diversity in isolates from outbreaks of Lactococcosis, and potential virulence mechanisms of the emerging causative pathogen L. pertauri. doi.org/10.1002/mbo3...

sponges vs ctenophores 3-2

Chemical richness and diversity of uncultivated ‘Entotheonella’ symbionts in marine sponges @natchembio.nature.com by Dell et al from Jörn Piel, Haruko Takeyama, Toshiyuki Wakimoto with @detmersipkema.bsky.social #MARBLES www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🐳 What can whale spit tell us about its health? Turns out, quite a bit! 📲Learn more: go.whoi.edu/breath

Our contribution to this paper from the Piel group is that we discovered a sister genus to Enthotheonella: Proxinella, also biosynthetically rich

I just got an email from a former mentee telling me that one dinner conversation changed how he writes papers♥️ I told him: “just write the paper, get it out—the next one will be better, and the next even better.” Perfectionism is a trap (and a way to procrastinate...:))

This year's #BacDive workshop will take place on 24th November 2025, 3 - 5 PM CET online! We are especially looking forward to the opportunity to answer your questions, and hear your feedback and ideas. 🦠🧬. Write to [email protected] to receive the Zoom login details 🖥️.

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

Schrijver Jaap Scholten, oprichter van de ngo Protect Ukraine: “Dit is een gecrowdfunde oorlog. Basale traumapacks en helmen leveren we sneller dan het bureaucratische Oekraïense leger.” Via @phaedrajanine.bsky.social

Opportunity! Anybody knows of young marine ecologists (within 7 years from earned PhD) that would like to come to Gothenburg, Sweden, for a nationally funded Assistant Professorship? It is highly competitive but well funded. (1) of (3)

Hey @vuelingcare.bsky.social, where is the care? I've booked a flight with you, you accept it. Then change it to a much worse flight option, but allow to be reimbursed, and then I receive a 'no-reply email' stating that you will reimburse me 0.00 euro within 30 days.... and no way to reach anyone...

Het is een beetje als klimaatverandering; elke keer weer nieuwe records en we lijken het geen halt toe te kunnen roepen

Interesting developments in graduation guidelines at University Twente with food for thought share.google/1C56tDX6L6L9...

Interessante ontwikkeling. Schoolboeken zouden inderdaad geen winstmodel mogen zijn en het is goed om leraren meer regie te geven over inhoud. Wel vraag ik me af hoe de kwaliteit wordt gewaarborgd en we voorkomen dat er grote kwalitatieve verschillen ontstaan in het onderwijs. nos.nl/l/2589247

Breaking News: Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, a singer who helped shape the sound of the Grateful Dead in the 1970s, has died at 78.

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

Rake Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer over het verlies vd lijsttrekker van GL-PvdA Frans Timmermans!

"Onze economie zet immateriële behoeften ten onrechte om in materiële groei"

Na alle 20 stembureaus geteld is de voorlopige uitslag in Wageningen bekend ⬇️ www.wageningen.nl/waar-vind-ik...

I've written a piece about great new article by @thibautbrunet.bsky.social, Chantal Combredet & Mylan Ansel. (www.cell.com/cell-reports... ) theconversation.com/how-the-firs...

Hello! Could you help me advertise this PhD position on seagrass physiology and conservation? Thanks

It is that simple indeed

Good night👋 dear people at #Bluesky🌏🌍🌏 with #Democratic Wins Media ❤️‍🔥BREAKING In defiance of #Putin & #Orban protestors in #Hungary stormed the streets to voice their opposition to authoritarianism This is being almost entirely ignored by mainstream media Let’s make it go viral Evil must not win

Marine microbes are cool!!

Lichen symbiosis never stops surprising

You also no longer have to credit academic work if you use an LLM...

Wat zit er veel ruimte tussen Spanje en Portugal.....

Microbes sustain all ecosystems yet they’re nearly absent from conservation frameworks. The @IUCN Microbial Conservation Specialist Group aims to change that. Honored to co-chair this global effort. Great @nytimes piece by Carl Zimmer: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/s...

I just made an account and voted for this biology laboratory made of LEGO to "promote biological research and inspire more people into the world of biology". They need 10K votes. Reposting and/or voting below would be helpful. 🤗 beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

We are happy to share our latest work in @nature.com . We study the genomic and cellular basis of facultative symbiosis in Oculina patagonica - a Mediterranean coral remarkable for its ability to survive long periods without algal symbionts. Led by Shani Levy and @xgrau.bsky.social rdcu.be/eLbaZ

Dit is wel waar. Koraal is niet alleen koraal. Het is is het fundament van een ecosysteem (en van de kustverdediging van veel eilanden)

#SymbioSky #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky the plot thickens 👇 as we all suspected and feared(?), organellogenesis is not straightforward, but rather, well,... a thicket ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Great initiative. Please spread, please donate

A new paradigm that integrates human and nonhuman communication and culture. Melissa Leach and James Fairhead's Naturekind is now available. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #Anthropology #Communication #Culture

I'm recruiting a postdoc to figure out how aerobic methanotrophic bacteria oxidise methane in anoxic freshwater sediment environments: international.au.dk/about/profil... Come to Aarhus University in Denmark and work on this 2-year project funded by @villumfonden.bsky.social!

Congratulations Susuma Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi. Happy that sponges get a Noble prize ;o)

correlation or causation?

"rechtsorde"...... als je dit zo ziet zou linksorde een betere term zijn

Come and work with me and @ariannebabina.bsky.social on #Streptomyces evolution and antibiotic production Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... please repost

Spotted in the kelp forest this week, signs of seasonal shift! By early fall, bull kelp slows and softens. Epiphytes and larger opportunistic seaweeds can “hitchhike,” becoming micro-habitats for invertebrates and microbes. Even at the end of its life, bull #kelp supports #biodiversity.

A 2-y postdoc position in my former group at University of Copenhagen is available in microbial ecology and bioinformatics. See more: employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... Feel free to contact me if you have questions about the environment. Please share the ad.

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Zeesterren en anemonen floreren rondom gezonken bommen en mijnen uit Tweede Wereldoorlog

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Two decades in the making, last week's UN #HighSeasTreaty ratification is a crucial step towards the ambitious goal of conserving 30% of the world’s ocean by 2030. 🤔What will it take to get there? #WHOI researchers weigh in: go.whoi.edu/30x03 #30x30 #BBNJ

This is great news!

Laten we in oktober stemmen voor politici die weten wat politiek is en die iets gaan doen. Iets.