ISME20 Abstract guidelines are now available — start preparing your abstract to be able to share your latest research with the global community of microbial ecologists at ISME20, held in New Zealand, August 2026. Learn more: isme-microbes.org/isme20-abstr... #ISME20 #MicrobialEcology

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Landmark study in @Nature! 🇩🇰 The "Microflora Danica" project has created the first-ever national microbiome atlas. Led by Aalborg University, @fwf-at.bsky.social CoE Microplanet's Director @michiwagner4.bsky.social, and @daanspeth.bsky.social, Andrew Giguere @cemess.bsky.social analyzed nitrifiers.

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

A quick microbio present before the holidays 🎁 >150 years after their first description, filamentous "Crenothrix bacteria" are now in stable laboratory culture! In our pre-print, we probe the unique physiology & ecology of the "lacustrine" group of these enigmatic methane-oxidizing microbes... 1/2

Reading student writing in 2025 feels like I wished a monkey's paw for perfect grammar and spelling

@isme-microbes.bsky.social offers a great opportunity to publish uncultured microbes via #SeqCode using #genomes as type material. A fantastic step toward embracing the true diversity of microbes! But isolates are also welcome 🧫🔬🦠😁 @seqcode.bsky.social

💾 Prokka 1.15.6 is released! This is the last major release of Prokka. But don't be sad, because @oschwengers.bsky.social already has an excellent replacement called Bakta you can migrate to. #bioinformatics #microbiology #genomics github.com/tseemann/pro...

Thanks to @carlsbergfondet.dk for supporting my Carlsberg Semper Ardens Accelerate project on aerobic methanotrophic bacteria growing anaerobically! www.carlsbergfondet.dk/det-har-vi-s...

The Microflora Danica atlas of Danish environmental microbiomes www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

It’s exciting to see converging evidence across systems! 😀 Alongside the new work on gutless worms, our study shows that organosulfur cycling is also essential in lucinid holobionts. Lucinid host provides DMSP to its symbionts, sulphur-oxidising Thiodiazotropha and, a new member, Endozoicomonas.

Congratulations @louison-nicolas.bsky.social !

Oxygen production as an electron overflow pathway in ammonia-oxidizing archaea www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs

Microflora Danica: What can you learn from collecting and sequencing 10,000+ samples from a single country? Check out our new paper in @nature.com to find out. Incredible work led by Caitlin Singleton, Thomas B. N. Jensen, and Mads Albertsen from @aau.dk. 🦠🧫🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're excited to release metaTraits.embl.de! 🦠 Interactively explore 140+ 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘁𝘀, harmonized & integrated from culture-derived collections 🔬 & genome-based predictions 🧬 for >2M MAGs & genomes. Publication at NAR: doi.org/10.1093/nar/... @narjournal.bsky.social #microsky 🧵 1/8

🔬Looking for a student project? We’re looking for students! 👉If you are interested in pursuing a project within electromicrobiology and cable bacteria, then you should check out our student projects on our webside, packed with project ideas. (Link in comment)

Just in time for me to cite in something I've been using GlobDB for

I feel this. A big part of my professional growth over the last few years has been the realization that I will not live to carry out the vast majority of my ideas. As a result, I'm much more open with sharing them than ever before.

An underrated cause of of the anxiety epidemic is that you can never see the f***ing filesystem anymore

I think I use a weird dialect of R resulting from both pre- and post-tidyverse learning...

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)

This is fantastic, I laughed for about 3 minutes...

Insights on adaptive strategies and evolution of cable bacteria in saline lakes #microbiology #bacteria #CableBacteria aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

'Hi it's me, Microsoft Outlook, the world's leading email client! You received an email with a meeting invite and a detailed agenda, and now you RSVPd? Let me just delete that email for you buddy :) I've hidden the agenda in your calendar, where evil Search won't find it. you don't need the mail :)'

Me: Hey outlook, I need to send a reply to this email. Outlook: Sure, start writing! Me: Hey I need to follow up, let me write another reply. Outlook: Sure thing. But you just want to write to yourself, right?

🚨 Come and work with us 🦠🧪🖥️ Postdoc position with lots of freedom available in my group - 1.5 years with options to extend - work on ecogenomics and physiology of N/CH4-cyclers - remote work possible 🤓 more info here: isme-microbes.org/postdoc-ecog... #microbesky

Want to know how diverse soil really is? Our ultra deep sequencing is now published in GigaScience: academic.oup.com/gigascience/... Soil is wild! Thanks for leading the study @canerbagci.bsky.social #secmet #soil #metagenomics #bacterialdiversity

Crossing the bridge on my way to a meeting in Copenhagen. Bonkers that the Danes built their capital city on this island when they have perfectly good mainland available.

Microbial oxidation significantly reduces methane export from global groundwaters #microbiology #methane www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

🚨Exciting 🧪👩‍🎓🦠 job alert 🚨 Postdoc position on dark microbial O2 production in marine oxygen minimum zones with Bo Thamdrup and @beatekraft.bsky.social at @sdu.dk Love fieldwork, stable isotopes, the sea and a fantastic team? Then apply -> fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

and guess what, Methylobacter again!

Extracellular electron transfer in cable bacteria enables growth rates comparable to aerobic respiration www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

New preprint by @kartiksaiyer.bsky.social, @leodigel.bsky.social and others from @cemau.bsky.social about how cable bacteria grow using electrodes instead of oxygen: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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!

🔍 On the hunt for cable bacteria again! 🔍 Last week, most of the Ecology team at CEM: Mie, Lea, Ugo, @larspeternielsen.bsky.social & Andreas had a great day in the field at Norsminde Fjord and Følle Vig, exploring the population dynamic and activity of cable bacteria along our local coasts🔬🌿🌊

Two new positions are available at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology to support development of our genomics facility. Both stand to become permanent. Both offer a ton of opportunity to engage in a wide range of creative science. Pls repost 🙏 www.evolbio.mpg.de/3838377/job_...

Still 10 days left to apply! 🦠🧪👩‍🎓🔬 Come work with my team in beautiful Vienna!

Interested in an exciting 2.5 year PostDoc position with a focus on the characterization of novel #nitrifiers? This is a collaborative project between our nitrification group @cemess.bsky.social and C. Singleton and P. Nielsen at @aau.dk 🧪 #MicroSky www.stillinger.aau.dk/videnskabeli...

Thanks to @villumfonden.bsky.social for supporting my weird ideas again with a Villum Experiment project! Set to start next year: AGAMBLE – Anaerobic Growth of Aerobic Methanotrophic Bacteria in Lake Environments. Job ad for a 2-year postdoc position coming soon! villumfonden.dk/en/nyhed/tra...

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.

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Imprint of #eutrophication on #methane-cycling microbes in freshwater sediment egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

A niche for diverse cable bacteria in continental margin sediments overlain by oxygen-deficient waters bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/... #jcampubs 🌊

I didn't even notice this was two separate papers at first... thanks for the overview!

📢 PLEASE RT! ❄️ M2 Masters Internship: Metagenomic analysis of microbial cold adaptation in the cryosphere 🧬 Compile & curate ice nucleation & cold-adaptation protein database 🖥️ Build HMM profiles 🦠 Analyze existing metagenomic data using HMMs ☀️ Marseille, France Apply by 15 Oct

Remember when we weren't allowed to say the word "prokaryote"? Crazy times...

@lassezj.bsky.social Cool don't you think?

When you accidentally double-click on the tsv file and suddenly it's Karen's Birthday.

Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change. Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned