Such a fascinating story revealing how sea slugs can maintain the activity of ingested chloroplasts for up to a year to aid through starvation periods before later digesting them - www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Have you ever looked at some differentially occurring gene clusters in a microbial #pangenome and thought to yourself "I wonder if they contribute to any metabolic modules"? With the most recent changes, the answer is a few clicks away in #anvio 😇

Naiavirus: an enveloped giant virus with a pleomorphic, flexible tail nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63463-6

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

🚨New preprint from the lab🚨 We present a transcriptomic, marker gene-based growth classifier that predicts the growth states of bacterial strains from different phyla cultivated in diverse conditions. #MicroSky #MicroEcoEvo #MicroEco #Microbiology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

✈️ Calling all grad students & postdocs in microbial ecology! Want to work, train, or collaborate abroad? ISME’s Scholar Mobility Fund can help you get there. 📅 Apply by 1 October 🌍 Open to applicants worldwide (esp. outside NA & Europe!) Details: isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar... #MicrobialEcology

Future ocean warming may cause large reductions in Prochlorococcus biomass and productivity www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

🦠📉A comprehensive model quantifying virus killing of bacteria based on bacterial population dynamics! Curious to see how it aligns with our simple model (Fig. 5) 👉 www.cell.com/cell-genomic... Bacterial density+dilution events strongly impact CRISPR immunity updates!! @mikeblazanin.bsky.social 🧪

At last ! A tool specifically for phage-plasmid hunters. Check tyPPing by @karinailchenko.bsky.social and @eugenpfeifer.bsky.social

Estinates of the net rate of lateral gene transfer in marine prokaryotes from single-cell amplified genome analysis - academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

A very timely perspective piece on how we should interpret and study auxiliary metabolic genes in viruses www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Side note: One often thinks they're not recovering low-abundance taxa because they're low-abundance. But with Illumina, it's also likely because they're low-GC and Illumina has strong GC bias. You can fix this with wetlab intervention like this, or using ONT instead, which doesn't have a GC-bias.🧵

The achievable carbon uptake from planting trees is much lower than previous estimates, and even lower than many nations have committed to. New paper by Wang et al. in Science. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪🌏🌳🌲🌐

Check out our new paper on adopting a trait-based framework for protist diversity! We make the case for a unified protist trait database, how to build it, and how it could transform research on protist ecology and evolution. #protistsonsky

Cultivation and complete genome sequencing of 34 marine #Arctic bacteria reveals insights into their diversity and adaptations - journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Season 5 is going to start 🔜 Check out the program and feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/info... @kathlemon.bsky.social ‬ @saramitri.bsky.social @simrouxvirus.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social @deepaagashe.bsky.social

🌊🦠🧪 Delighted to share this work now out in @isme-microbes.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/isme... The currency of microbial life is chemistry, but there’s so much still unknown about how metabolic interactions shape communities. 1/

#Comment A call for early-career teams in interdisciplinary microbiology research #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Direct high-throughput deconvolution of non-canonical bases via nanopore sequencing and bootstrapped learning - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Program for #GloMiNe2025 "Preservation of microbial diversity” by @microbiotavault.bsky.social ‬and #MVIF is OUT: cassyni.com/s/mvif-glomi... 1/3

Patescibacteria in groundwater exhibit large genomic alterations driven by horizontal gene transfer #HGT #microevo - journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

This week, the capital of Evolution is Barcelona! Over 1900 evolutionary biologists are gathering for the biennial meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, coorganised with its Spanish sister #ESEB2025. Over 540 of us are on Bluesky! You can use these starter packs to connect: 1/n

Great session today on the impact of mobile genetic elements on #ecology and #evolution at #eseb2025 - thank you to all the speakers, poster presenters and attendees 😄

Metalog - a database of harmonised and manually curated metadata for >100,000 metagenomic samples - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

If you ever find yourself needing evidence for ‘Plasmids are just as common in microbes without resistance genes,’ we’ve got you covered! Check our new paper, out today: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

New paper out! 🔈🔈📣📣 Plasmids promote antimicrobial resistance through Insertion Sequence-mediated gene inactivation. Combining experimental and computational approaches, we unveil how two of the most prevalent bacterial MGE accelerate the evolution of AMR. 🧵👇🏻 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The JEDI marker - a new approach for measuring #biodiversity that captures all domains of life and is applicable across biological and ecological scales. It's time to change the way we perceive biodiversity - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very excited for the #ESEB25 conference next week 😁If you are interested in mobile genetic elements and the impacts they have on th #ecology and #evolution of organisms then come to our symposium (S10) on Monday at 14:00

This preprint from Helen Sakharova is one of the coolest things to come out of my lab: “Protein language models reveal evolutionary constraints on synonymous codon choice.” Codon choice is a big puzzle in how information is encoded in genomes, and we have a new angle. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📣 New paper alert! Just out in Cell Reports! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40644298/ Thrilled to share that we have discovered a brand-new anti-phage defense system! Bacteria have evolved various defense strategies (CRISPR etc) to counter phage attacks. We found a new one - fascinating and dramatic ⚔️🦠❄️🔬

PHACE: phylogeny-aware coevolution algorithm that maps amino acid substitutions onto a phylogenetic tree to detect molecular coevolution academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Special shoutout to first author Alyzza Calayag (not yet on Bluesky)! This was a strong collaboration between @geomarkiel.bsky.social and @awi.de especially @taylorpriest.bsky.social and @matthiaswietz.bsky.social — and others not on bluesky

Very excited to host the GRS Marine Microbes next year, which we are centering on three key themes: diversification, adaptation and resilience! Applications are now open - www.grc.org/marine-micro...

Quantitative metagenomics for marine prokaryotes and photosynthetic eukaryotes #USC_MEB #jcampubs 🌊 academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

A very nice perspective piece on the need to move beyond species-centric views of #biodiversity and #conservation efforts towards strategies that integrate information on processes www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Occurrence and temporal dynamics of denitrifying protist endosymbionts in the wastewater microbiome. Very excited to see the preprint of this story online and big congrats to @louison-nicolas.bsky.social at @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Great showcase of the power of long-read metagenomes for MAG recovery from soil samples - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very promising and uplifting news - #HorizonEurope funding is not only going to become simpler and faster but the budget is DOUBLING in size from 2028! research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/news/all-res...

Excited that this is out as a preprint! ❇️ We are introducing a novel dinoflagellate giant virus that holds so many mysteries! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🎒 Getting ready for #ESEB2025? 📨 Check your inbox! We have sent out key updates and logistical details.  𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞? The entire scientific schedule is online.  👉 Explore the agenda: https://lnkd.in/d6MSyPPa

We (with Clement Coclet, not on Bsky) had the chance to work on a broad "state of viromics" review. We tried to use this to give an overview of how the field changed over the last ~ 15 years, and also what we think are some of the major remaining challenges. Full-text access at -> rdcu.be/excHt

Tetranucleotide frequencies differentiate genomic boundaries and metabolic strategies across environmental microbiomes - journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

A tool for species-level taxonomic profiling of microbes in metagenomes, along with a website containing ~250,000 already profiled samples - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Arctic Ocean virus communities and their seasonality, bipolarity, and prokaryotic associations www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊

two sentences from the abstract of a paper that resonate with us way more than you can imagine...

A bacterial host factor confines phage localization for excluding the infected compartment through cell division www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨Our newest publication on the Fram Strait and #ArcticOcean is out 🚨 We explored the diversity, temporal dynamics and host-associations of Arctic #viruses over a four year time-series using long-read #metagenomics (and their global prevalence and distribution). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A new type of rhodopsins (called cryorhodopsins) have been found in actinobacteria inhabiting snow- and ice-dominated environments. They act as sensors of UV irradiation - www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Funded postdoc + PhD opportunities in marine microbial ecology! Please share with folks that might be interested. Start date is flexible (fall 2025 to summer 2026) More about the lab + applying (Postdoc rolling, PhD apps due Oct/Jan): sites.google.com/uncc.edu/mic...