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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

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

America is failing!

Happy International Microorganism Day #internationalmicroorganismday

Met grote precisie is Oekraine bezig de olieraffinage in Rusland lam te leggen. Doel is om benzine-schaarste bij de pomp te creëren. Breng de oorlog naar de gewone burger in Moskou, is het parool der Oekraïners. Gelijk hebben ze. Recente column 👇 www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Happy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social

That is insane. One of them applied with me. Everyone I am talking to at the sponge conference in Vila do Conde also applied with someone.

New preprint from our team! Experimental evidence that ammonia-oxidizing archaea in sponges use branched chain amino acids as substrates - possibly also key for host interaction #Nitrification #MicroSky 🧪 #ArchaeaSky @bglasl.bsky.social @kathikitzinger.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are looking for a 3-year postdoc to work with Daniel Probst, Justin van der Hooft and myself on an exciting project involving federated learning and integrative omics for discovery of new antibiotics from natural products. Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p... Please share!

Octopuses sense environmental microbiomes to drive predatory and parental behaviors. Artwork by Lily Soucy. #evolution #sensation #microbiome @cellpress.bsky.social

Apply before October 1st: ISME Scholar mobility fund to - Initiate a collaborative research project - Attendance at a training activity - Travel to a laboratory to learn a methodology - Travel to prepare for a scholarship or research grant isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar...

AI-Driven Marine Robotics for Microbiome Monitoring Marine ecosystems face increasing pressure due to climate change, driving the need for scalable, AI-powered monitoring solutions. Ref. marinemicrobiome.org/ai-driven-ma...

Een van de fraaiste successen van internationaal milieubeleid is de daling van de emissie van zwaveldioxide. Ooit was zwaveloxide de belangrijke van 'zure regen'. Herinnert u zich dat fenomeen nog? #grafiekvandedag

Fokke & Sukke .... houden de boel scherp in de gaten

In August, atmospheric CO₂ at Mauna Loa (still in operation) was up 2.6 ppm from last year in August. Based on daily values, the month's average concentrai was 425.6 ppm vs 423.0 ppm last year.

📢 Only 7 days left! Don’t miss your chance to join the World Sponge Conference in Vila do Conde, Portugal 🇵🇹 🗓 September 9–13, 2025

Two remarkable Ambassadors for our Planet, 99 year old Sir David Attenborough and 91 year old Dr. Jane Goodall. They’ve dedicated their lives to educate and protect.. 🌍 #janegoodall #davidattenborough #nature #chimpanzees #wildlife #environment #drjanegoodall #jane #sirdavidattenborough #bbc #bsky

Combination of large-scale phylogenomic analysis, mouse lethality experiments and bacterial growth assays shows sheds light on how a pandemic clone of Vibrio parahaemolyticus was able to spread worldwide www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wonderful #ISME20 video. This will be a fantastic conference in Auckland next year. #MicroSky 🧪 @isme-microbes.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrCE...

Wat een mooi artikel in #NRC. Trots op Wageningen en op Wageningen University & Research en de organisatie vd #AID #introductie2025 www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Very promising news on the next seven-year EU budget, with a proposed substantial increase for Horizon Europe including the ERC. We are analysing the other parts of this proposal in more detail. @Vonderleyen @EZaharievaEU research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/news/all-res...

Please help get the word out - We are hiring at all levels (graduate students, technicians, and postdocs)! If you are interested in sponges, cell biology, evolution, immunity, and symbiosis, please don’t hesitate to contact me to learn more.

Dame Atwood weet het weer als geen ander glashelder te verwoorden. #femicide

Great work from Karen Visick @microklv.bsky.social lab on fan-favorite Vibrio fischeri and its adorable 🐙 host. A single point mutation is sufficient to drive syp-dependent biofilm formation and promote colonization by Vibrio fischeri h/t @seqcoast.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Neuentwickelte Antikörpertests zur Früherkennung von Multipler Sklerose (MS) könnten in Zukunft eine Behandlung bereits vor Auftreten erster Symptome ermöglichen @meduniwien.ac.at #ElisabethPuchhammer-Stöckl #HannesVietzen #ZentrumVirologie #ThomasBerger #PaulusRommer #UniversitätsklinikNeurologie

Yes, marine sponges will be really unhappy. They can't run away and are just [quoting Townes van Zandt] waiting around to die

First paper we've found that validates auxotrophy predictions from genomes. in non-host associated communities (e.g. soils) auxotrophy is rare. I believe the assumption of prevalent auxotrophies emerging out of pervasive cross-feeding needs to be reconsidered.. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats with this paper and your PhD degree Dora

Je hoort het haar zeggen...

First PhD paper published by Akhirta Atikana from @mib-wur.bsky.social. 62 sponges from Indonesia were assessed for antimicrobial activity and their microbial communities. Actinomycetota, but also little studied taxa such as PAUC34f positively correlated to activity. www.google.com/search?clien...

Anastasia Galani defended her PhD thesis entitled 'In hot pursuit: Isolating novel thermophilic CO-utilising microbes for syngas fermentation' performed @mib-wur.bsky.social at Wageningen University @w-u-r.bsky.social Super proud of this thesis and supervised by Diana Sousa and myself.

50 sponge genomes have now been sequenced at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social through the Aquatic Symbiosis project spearheaded by @utehentschel.bsky.social sangerinstitute.blog/2025/07/03/e...

Check out this new piece about critical precautions and controls needed to conduct microbiome analyses on low biomass samples (like seed endophytes!) Thanks to @noahfierer.bsky.social & @greening.bsky.social for leading the charge! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

And it's only June.....

tagging #SymbioSky #ProtistsOnSky

🔔 Registration Extension Don’t miss your chance! Register now for the World Sponge Conference! Take advantage of the extended deadline and secure your spot today. 📅 New deadline: July 13th

ISME congratulates @ilafores.bsky.social from @usherbrooke.bsky.social as the winner of the Alma Dal Co Award, recognizing her as an exceptional early-career scholar who has made important contributions to microbial ecology. isme-microbes.org/winner-of-th... #MicrobialEcology #microbes #isme20

🎉 Registration is now OPEN for the 12th World Sponge Conference! Join us in Portugal this September to connect with the global sponge community 🧽 📅 Register between 2–30 June to secure your place. 💻 Registration link: events.ciimar.up.pt/index.php/ev... 🔗 More info: www.worldspongecommunity.com

I get annoyed at the narrative that all the awareness and work on climate change hasn't done anything. Yes, global CO₂ emissions indeed continue to climb, but we don't know the counterfactual. When I was in grad school, we were on track for 5°C of warming. Now it's below 3°C. That's progress.

Sorry, geen antwoord op de vraag, maar een wedervraag.. Hebben andere landen in Europa die allemaal meer zon en wind hebben dan NL ook allemaal van die stroomnetwerkproblemen?

Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason. If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half. 📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social

New from The Strain Team: 🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊 Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗). Gross! 😀 1/n #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

Our study on the first probiotic treatments for SCTLD testing in the wild has been published! www.sciencenews.org/article/prob...

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