Cell biology for a sustainable future – a call to action from early-career scientists url: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Don’t forget to apply to this beautiful Electron Microscopy course at @szndohrn.bsky.social in Napoli, Italy by February 12th! 🌊 ☀️ Stay tuned for the preliminary program, in the meantime take a look here: www.szn.it/index.php/it...

Now published in Nature Biotechnology: go.nature.com/44P7nSm If you missed it, the TL;DR is in my April thread below

Happy New Year from the BlueRemediomics team! Oil spills released 10,000 tonnes in 2024, and 10M tonnes of toxic chemicals enter the environment each year, but solutions exist! Discover how marine microbes can help in our new factsheet. 👉 blueremediomics.eu/wp-content/u...

Did you know a single mL of seawater can host up to 1M microbes, making up 90% of ocean biomass? We’re excited to launch BlueRemediomics’ factsheet series with our consortium partners. First up: marine biodiscovery & blue growth! 👉 blueremediomics.eu/wp-content/u...

🌊 New policy brief on the BBNJ Agreement! Released by @deepstewardship.bsky.social with input from BlueRemediomics’ partner Abbe Brown. It offers recommendations on governance, benefit-sharing, participation & accountability. Read here: blueremediomics.eu/new-policy-b...

The Basque Coast Estuarine Sediment Gene Catalogue www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊

Applications closing soon for our internship programme aimed at Master's students at French universities 🇫🇷 Are you studying bioinformatics, computer science or statistics? Check it out! Deadline: 7 December 2025 www.ebi.ac.uk/about/jobs/i... A collaboration with the French Embassy in London.

The GEOTRACES IDP2025 had a fantastic launch during the Summer School in Cape Town! 🌊 If you missed it, don’t worry—join us tomorrow, 25 November, from 05:00 to 06:30 UTC. 👇👇 www.geotraces.org/launch-of-ge... @scor-int.bsky.social @unoceandecade.bsky.social #OceanData #OceanScience #IDP2025

We will be at @ccapoban.bsky.social in stunning Oban for the next two weeks fixing samples from their remarkable collection for #ExAME - thank you Ceci Mikey Jo Naomi and everyone at SAMS for the warm Scottish welcome ❤️ #ProtistsonSky #ExpandThemAll @fmikus.bsky.social

Understanding the relationship between #foraminifera & their #symbionts can help corals phys.org/news/2025-09... Specific host - #algae relationship, yet flexible bacterial #microbiome, in diatom-bearing foraminifera: Elsa Girard et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #Protists #Microbes #Diatoms

Microbiologist Dr. Rita Colwell was born #OTD in 1934. She is recognized for her study of global infectious disease spread through water sources. Her research on cholera helped save 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 lives. She was the first female director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), 1998-2004. #WomenInSTEM

Ready to shift your world view? 🌎🌍🌏 👉🏽Explore our planet as you never have before: go.whoi.edu/ocean-world

Excited to share our fresh-off-the-press Annual Review on the role of temperature in metabolic scaling! We review the state of the field on this topic and unpack confusion about the various ways the term "scaling" is used in metabolic theories. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

We have a date for the free-to-attend #anvio workshop and ECR Symposium for 2026, and we look forward to meeting you at the @hifmb.de in Oldenburg, Germany! Please find more information on the venue, program, and the application form here, and spread the word 😇 anvio.org/workshops/20...

Great to see this finally published! Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples now out in @narjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

Ocean-M: an integrated global-scale multi-omics database for marine microbial diversity, function and ecological interactions academic.oup.com/nar/advance-... #jcampubs 🌊

Exciting day for the lab: our 1rst paper is officially out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🥳 Wonderful collaboration wt @gautamdey.bsky.social showing how Cryo-ExM achieves consistent immunostaining in diverse diatoms, from the lab and the natural environment 1/n #ProtistsOnSky tinyurl.com/2zxaund7

🚨Our collaboration with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social is out today in @cp-cell.bsky.social We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny. #ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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...

🚨NOTICE TO OUR USERS🚨 The Data Portal will soon replace the Genome Portal. Portal users can book a session with our team for technical help, feedback or a guided walk-through of the new Data Portal. 🖥️🧬 🌱🦠🍄🧪 More information: jgi.doe.gov/analyze-data...

The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed go.nature.com/4925W5G

Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports... This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵

Happy Ctenophore Day! 🐙🦑🧪

Our preprint on our new metagenomic HiFi assembler Alice is out 🥳 Based on a *new sketching method* (🧵1/6) 👉 Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 👉 Github github.com/rolandfaure/...

The job is still open. Get your application in ASAP. Or just pass it on to somebody that might be interested.

EcoFoldDB: Protein Structure‐Guided Functional Profiling of Ecologically Relevant Microbial Traits at the Metagenome Scale enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs

A genomic view of Earth’s biomes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here's a new paper that stresses the importance of microbes not only for human health but for planetary health in general, performing all sorts of essential activities at global scale : Incorporating microbiomes into the One Health Joint Plan of Action | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

It being Sunday, and having been to the #Vatican in support of Pope Francis's environmental work, here's my news to me good news for Sept 7 #EarthOptimism #BeyondTheObituaries www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Catastrophic tipping point in Antarctica already happening A "rapid and substantial slowdown" of ocean currents has already begun Warming waters will further reduce Krill and phytoplankton populations and starve emperor penguins Sea levels will rise www.dw.com/en/antarctic...

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

Just out: metagenomics with internal standards yields phylogenetically resolved genome ("~cell") counts of bacteria, archaea, and photosynthetic eukaryotes per L of seawater, over the AMT29 Atlantic transect, via "single copy" genes (recA, radA, psbO). Compares with microscopy and flow cytometry.

A dinoflagellate-infecting giant virus with a micron-length tail www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For my science column in this week's Listener, I talked to polar governance expert Alan Hemmings about the #Antarctic Treaty, geopolitics and emperors 🐧 current issue in shops now, online soon 🌎🇦🇶

Recently I learnt that EMBL-EBI has a free online course about AlphaFold — how it works, strengths and limitations, how to use it — and it's very good! There are also little quizzes and interactives. www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl...

Even if you can’t attend this course in person, the online course materials are free and SO useful (I used this GitHub to plan out content for my new -Omics grad course)

🎙️ #Podcast Épisode 3 : Partager la science : le rôle de la médiation scientifique 🔬Léa Bello et Myriam Thomas vous embarquent pour un échange passionnant sur la #médiationscientifique. 🎧 Disponible sur toutes les plateformes : shows.acast.com/un-hublot-su... Crédits : Agathe Roullin, Léa Bello

Are you interested in how diatoms communicate with each other? Exciting post-doc position available in my lab to study the signalling mechanisms of cell-cell communication in diatoms. Deadline 14th July. @kehelliwell.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO210/p...

We had a wonderful time at the Molecular Life of Diatoms meeting in Ghent last week!! Many stimulating conversations and fantastic talks. Huge thanks to the organizers for this splendid event #mld8 #protistsOnSky 🤎💛💚🌊

There is one month left to apply for our Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution! These awards provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in #ecology and #evolution. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... #science

Early Career Scientist at #Goldschmidt2025?🌊 Join the GEOTRACES ECS Mixer! 🍕 Free pizza & drinks 🗓 Tue 8 July | 🕖 19:45 📍 U Olmeru (5 min walk) maps.app.goo.gl/5w6ibKqC8q64... Sign up 👇https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeWXAsmdWIWU99S1WH-Anl4RNSnfxhrgoiOmEcmTSiWT77awA/viewform

So excited to announce the GRUMP paper is published! This global dataset provides relative abundances for plankton spanning Archaea to Zooplankton from unfractionated (>0.2µm) water samples using 3-domain universal primers that amplify 16S and 18S in one PCR reaction. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

429.17 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 01-Jul-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

The Marine Research Centre (CIM) at the University of Vigo, Spain, and EMBL join forces to study how to curb red tides and anticipate the effects of marine heatwaves. The CELLBLOOM project will advance scientific understanding of current global changes in the ocean. www.embl.org/news/lab-mat...

Congratulations to Asaf Vardi @vardilab.bsky.social for being elected to EMBO. microbial ecology rock!!! www.embo.org/press-releas...

New paper out! Using over 20 years of #satellite data, we show that restored #peatlands start to resemble intact peatlands. Their #albedo and land surface #temperature (LST) gradually align with those of natural peatlands. 👉 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...