Oxidative stress reshapes diatom-microbiome interactions by shifting benefits from mutualistic to opportunistic bacteria www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs 🌊

Can we use ecological principles to increase coexistence in synthetic bacterial communities? Our new paper is now out in @isme-microbes.bsky.social: "Environmental complexity shapes maintenance of bacterial diversity through context-dependent interactions among niche axes" doi.org/10.1093/isme...

Happy PRIDE month! Here are just a few queer scientists who have changed history: Alan Turing, Modern computing Sally Ride, Space exploration Nergis Mavalvala, Gravitational waves Ben Barres, Neuroscience Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Cosmology Lynn Conway, Microchips & computing

New paper out! How do species coexist through invasion cycles (like the classic✂️🪨📄) in nature? We introduce a general framework linking the structure of species interactions to the emergence of complex ecological cycles esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Our new study is out, in which we used a gradient design to show how light and nutrients interactively shape the thermal traits of phytoplankton.🌊🌞🌡️🥗 Long story short: Interactions do matter - and #thermaltraits differ in their #resource-dependency. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really useful paper explaining why richness/diversity metrics are rarely informative when applied to microbial community sequencing data: enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Wrapping up a great 5 days of learning and networking with all of the great researchers at #ASMicrobe @asm.org Before I fly home, I had to stop by @padilla.senate.gov’s office to share why microbes are so important. We need our leaders to advocate for us, funding basic and applied science! 🧬 🧫 👩🏻‍🔬 🌱

Listening to @benwolfe.bsky.social talk about microbial evolution in cheese making. Ben is an awesome thinker and communicator. Wow! #ASMicrobe

Hey #ASMMicrobe, if you are interested in bacterial coexistence come see my colleague Jess Gronniger present on her work testing ecological theory in a synthetic community! Saturday (today!) at 2pm 145AB. A sneak peek into our recently accepted research!! #ASMicrobe #MICROBE2026

"There's a lot of power in good vibes and positivity." A wonderful Q&A, if I do say so myself, with biology educator Alexander Eden, Ph.D. about how he creates creative assignments to help students engage with #biology through pop culture! www.fromthelabbench.com/from-the-lab... #sciart #STEM

Microbial Primer: Bacterial energy metabolism www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... #jcampubs

Excited to share our new paper, “Microbial ecology for all: A vision of accessibility, unity, and responsibility.” Thankful to the people I worked with on this and to be growing as an early-career researcher in the field!! 🍄 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#statstab #482 Introducing Causion: A web app for playing with DAGs Thoughts: A very cool app. Let's you see exactly what your assumptions and DGP mean for your causal model. #causal #causalinference #DAG #DAGs #dgp #tutorial #guide #education #pedagogy pedermisager.org/blog/causion...

Bacterial Strain Identity and Community Composition Drive the Seed-to-Seedling Microbiota Assembly https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.02.703190v1

DeepKOALA: A Fast and Accurate Deep Learning Framework for KEGG Orthology Assignment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs

Approaches for accelerating microbial gene function discovery using artificial intelligence www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Every time I catch academic dishonesty, I require a re-write/re-do. Not only does this give students a chance to make up for their mistake, but they get a chance to see what they can do when they are held accountable. It's more work & stress on me but IMO it's worth it. 1/4

Localized nutrient colimitation of phytoplankton growth rates across the subtropical South Pacific Ocean www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs 🌊

🧬🦠🚨 Another new paper alert, this time led by @maureenbug.bsky.social ! In collaboration with the Emerson lab and @titus.idyll.org lab (@taylorreiter.bsky.social), both at UC Davis. Asking the question: what are we missing in short-read metagenome assembly, and why ? doi.org/10.1093/narg...

A little video of our work with pitcher plant microbial communities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EvI...

#statstab #471 Give Your Hypotheses Space! Thoughts: "each hypothesis requires its own model" + "Only interpret the output for your exposure of interest" #causalinference #modelling #hypothesis #tutorial #confounding #mbias brian-lookabaugh.github.io/website-bria...

#NewResearch Mathematical representations of overflow metabolism, mixotrophy, exoenzymes and reactive oxygen species detoxification recapitulate dynamics in co-cultures of Prochlorococcus and eight heterotrophic bacteria. #MicroSky 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📅Our speaker next week is Ágnes Móréh (HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Hungary) presenting: ⭐Simultaneous invasion by two species: consequences for their success and for the resident community⭐ Zoom Link: iite.info/seminar/ Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f... See you there!

#statstab #464 Plotting p-check interaction {brms} Thoughts: Annoyingly #brms doesn't natively allow plotting for interactions (that I know of). The forum has a solution. #ppc #posterior #bayesian #modelfit #diagnostic #rstats #r #stan discourse.mc-stan.org/t/plotting-p...

News & Views out now - Entomopathogenic fungi bait and kill insects with longifolene By Thiago Luiz Alves e Silva & Joel Vega-Rodriguez #microsky #malaria www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Come be our colleague! We are looking for a tenure track cell / molecular biologist with focus on biochemical sciences. Strong bio department, lovely rural communities and living among the redwoods! Ask me questions ! careers.humboldt.edu/mob/hm/en-us...

#NatMicroPicks CRISPR Metagenome Engineering! 🦠🔧🧬 MetaEdit enables precise genetic editing of native gut bacteria in mice. #MicroSky #SynBio www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I was thrilled to be interviewed by Matt Candeias for his cool podcast In Defense of Plants! Check it out if you want to hear about sagebrush, pitcher plants and leaf microbiomes! www.indefenseofplants.com/podcast/2025...

Ecological coherence in abundance dynamics across terrestrial and marine assemblages https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.05.686795v1

#NewResearch Precipitation legacy effects on soil microbiota facilitate adaptive drought responses in plants #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This was such a neat study it got posted twice on our 'cool papers' channel in lab slack 😅 #ProtistsonSky

Through an extensive investigation using over 20 complementary analytical techniques, researchers identify Spongiophyton as one of the earliest undisputed lichens in the fossil record. Learn more in this week’s issue of #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/4oHMxeU

The average nucleotide identity (ANI) underpins how we map microbial diversity, compare species, and connect genomes to ecology. I wrote a short piece reflecting on the discovery and significance of this metric (and really enjoyed digging into the context and story behind it!) #microsky 🧬

Whoa—my book is up for pre-order! 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭 & 𝐌𝐋 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 #Rstats 𝐚𝐧𝐝 #PyData The book presents an ultra-simple and powerful workflow to make sense of ± any model you fit The web version will stay free forever and my proceeds go to charity. tinyurl.com/4fk56fc8

New @exeter.ac.uk reveals how cilia choreograph their “Mexican wave”, enabling marine creatures to swim! Full paper in Science Advances - www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🦑🌊🌍🧪🐟 #AcademicSky @micromotility.bsky.social

I find there's a huge mismatch between the standard advice that people give about scientific conference talks, and how people actually give talks. So I picked out the most important pieces of advice that are most often ignored. 🧪

We wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/.... How did we do?

OUT NOW - Long-read metagenomics method for strain tracking after FMT #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our latest Research Briefing is out, on using metaproteomics and stable isotope labelling to uncover rare species involved in carbon turnover www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣Tomorrow our next series of online seminars restarts: Chris Klausmeier (MSU) will present: ⭐Microbial cross-feeding: coexistence and collapse, spatial patterns and population cycles⭐ Free and open to all: Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/ Global Times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

📣Our line-up for our next theoretical ecology series (crossing three continents!), It will have been 5 years since we started, and still all our seminars are fully open on Zoom (iite.info/seminar/). There is no need to register, but you can sign up to email updates here iite.info/seminar-emai...

So many Russulas about #FungiFriends

New blog post! Let's say you have two measures meant to capture the same confounder. They're highly correlated. Can you still proceed with your regression analysis? (I admit, the title is a bit of a spoiler) www.the100.ci/2025/10/13/i...

#statstab #266 When to use negative binomial and Poisson regression Thoughts: A heated debate and condemnation of NB by @noah_greifer. Seems term confusion is also an issue in the field. #poisson #regression #negativebinomial #countdata #overdispersion stats.stackexchange.com/questions/65...

#statstab #433 The Table 2 Fallacy: Presenting and Interpreting Confounder and Modifier Coefficients Thoughts: Adding predictors to your model results in marked changes in inference. Be mindful! #table2 #fallacy #covariates #bias #inference #regression doi.org/10.1093/aje/...

How can we identify #coexistence in #ecology? There are at least three common approaches (structural stability, eigenvalues, and invasion), and each investigates different aspects of community dynamics (equilibria, locally stable equilibria, and global stability). 1/2

Cathy is an outstanding scientist and mentor! Definitely apply if your research interests align:

Ohio State microbiology department is hiring assistant professor of Microbiome science (due Nov 6). It's an amazing department please apply!! (I would apply if I had more pubs haha...) jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675478/a...