New #ecoevo paper @pnas.org: Evolution of species’ range and niche in changing environments. I show that feedback between evolutionary and population dynamics can create a tipping point where genetic variance erodes, and species’ ranges contract or fragment www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #popgen 🧬🧪 🌎

A redox-sensitive phosphatase regulates glycolysis as a metabolic switch in the bacterial inner membrane www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

The heterogeneous selection landscape of genome evolution in prokaryotes www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #jcampubs

📢Out now: Na Jiao and colleagues present DeepSeMS, a framework for predicting secondary metabolite structures from biosynthetic gene cluster sequences. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #microbiome 🧫 🔓 rdcu.be/fgic0

Our first collaboration with the Levine lab! Defining metabolic niches for marine microbial heterotrophs www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs 🌊

Polyphosphate acts as an architectural regulator of carbon fixation and nucleoid structure in cyanobacteria www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs

The maturation of the unique FeMo-cofactor of molybdenum nitrogenase is a multistep process requiring the sequential action of a series of maturase complexes. Cryo-EM structures capture trafficking of a key intermediate of cofactor assembly www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Want to convert old relative abundance ocean amplicon data into absolute abundances? Williams et al. show a flow cytometry "anchor" can provide reasonable absolute abundances, validated by internal-standard corrected metagenomics with single copy genes, and amplicons academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Characterization of phytoplankton-excreted metabolites mediating carbon flux through the surface ocean.” Explore the article here: https://ow.ly/zPNG50YBfRR For more trending articles, visit https://ow.ly/iZnr50YBfRS.

Biochemical remodelling of phytoplankton cell composition under climate change www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊

Alkaline phosphatase activity supports heterotrophic carbon acquisition in a coastal time series site and a representative marine bacterium www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs 🌊

In a new Nature study, we show that extreme global climate outcomes may occur even under moderate 2°C warming for several sectors. The findings reinforce the urgency of limiting warming well below 2°C. Together with @erichfischer.bsky.social @janasillmann.bsky.social @zscheischlerjak.bsky.social

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

New Perspective form Rory Maizels & me: "Gene regulatory networks: from correlative models to causal explanations" Gene regulatory networks are supposed to give us mechanistic explanations of development, so why are we drowning in 'hairballs' of statistical correlations? rdcu.be/e7zx7

Trace elements incorporated into grains of pyrite preserve information about the chemistry of ancient oceans, allowing researchers to reconstruct the interplay of biology and tectonics driving long-term oxygen fluctuations. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/RJSO50YwsLC

Experimental evolution of fission yeast in the same environment as a previous experiment with budding yeast reveals parallel evolution but distinct molecular mechanisms and targets of adaptation in the two species 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

AlphaFold database has entered the era of complexes. Together with NVIDIA, DeepMind and EBI, we use ColabFold, OpenFold and MMseqs2-GPU to predict ~31 million complexes (homo & hetro-dimers) resulting in 1.8 million high-quality predictions 📄 research.nvidia.com/labs/dbr/ass... 🌐 alphafold.ebi.ac.uk

🚨 Next Friday 20/03 15:30 EU, Julia Schwartzman (University of Southern California) will present the talk Ecological Dynamics of Bacterial Groups at the Population Dynamics Seminars. Subscription sites.google.com/view/popdyn/

This could be your dream job! PhD in ecology, and English and Japanese language skills required... working for POKEMON!!! www.ign.com/articles/the...

International Women’s Day celebrates the Earth’s 4 billion female inhabitants. Nature brings you a collection of the latest on advancements in women’s health and career guidance, advice and inspiration for women in science. 🧪 #IWD2026

A study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution reports that long-term ocean warming reduces global fish biomass by up to 19.8% annually. Warmer years and marine heatwaves were linked to sharp biomass losses of up to 43.4%. go.nature.com/40b6AIB 🧪 🌍

Check out our new review in Nature Reviews Genetics on de novo emerged genes and proteins. How they emerge, are lost and persist - and how de novo emerged proteins relate to randomized proteins! @bornberglab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ocean warming enhances iron use efficiencies of marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea #USC_MEB www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs

DECODE: deep learning-based common deconvolution framework for various omics data www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Happy 30th birthday, Pokémon! Since 1996, the Japanese media sensation has inspired generations of researchers in fields as diverse as evolution, biodiversity and research integrity. go.nature.com/4bcjZ9w

We have a new study out! In this work, we examine how the Gulf Stream and Kuroshio-Oyashio Extension co-vary, and this is tied to atmospheric variability and potentially sea-ice anomalies. However, this linkage may be changing in a warming world... ➡️ #OpenAccess: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Calling all researchers working on *Genomics of Adaptation to Extreme Thermal Environments* I'm serving as a guest editor of an upcoming collection in BMC Genomics and am eager to read your submission! More on scope and how to contribute here: bit.ly/4kH3PIx 🧪 @springer.springernature.com

Decoupled timescales of organic carbon and phosphorus recycling in the global ocean www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs 🌊

New paper from my team detailing a greatly expanded genomic database of Asgard archaea revealing of high energy metabolism those related to eukaryotes! Led by @katyappler.bsky.social lots of help from @jameslingford.bsky.social @valdeanda.bsky.social @kassipan.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...

How could a simple self-replicating system emerge at the origins of life? RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but existing ones are so large that their self-replication seems impossible. Could they be smaller? Excited to share our latest work in @science.org on a new small polymerase. 1/n

🔥Hot off the press! ❓ How do bacteria get iron when nutrients are scarce and constantly washed away❓ A PriME collective effort reveals—using a new continuous culture device—how bacteria acquire iron under rapid nutrient renewal, beyond #siderophores. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

ICYMI: New online: Mechanism and reconstitution of circadian transcription in cyanobacteria

Here, the authors compile transcriptomic data from experimental evolution of a prokaryotic and five eukaryotic species in 22 environments to reveal that gene expression evolution is often repeatable and deterministic. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nutrient availability modulates impacts of short‐term shifts in temperature and grazing on phytoplankton composition and size structure aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #jcampubs 🌊

Proteomic and biogeochemical perspectives on cyanobacteria nutrient acquisition – Part 2: quantitative contributions of cyanobacterial alkaline phosphatases to bulk enzymatic rates in the subtropical North Atlantic bg.copernicus.org/articles/23/... #jcampubs 🌊

Proteomic and biogeochemical perspectives on cyanobacteria nutrient acquisition – Part 1: Zonal gradients in phosphorus and nitrogen acquisition and stress revealed by metaproteomes of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus bg.copernicus.org/articles/23/... #jcampubs 🌊

Photoholes within cyanobacterial mats can account for the origin of anammox bacteria and ancient nitrogen loss www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Our new paper, out today! We resurrected ancient nitrogenases first used by life on Earth 3 billion years ago. We combined synthetic biology and geology & validated their chemical #biosignature in rocks that helps reveal ancient life on Earth!(and beyond!) Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Using machine learning to sort over 80,000 bacterial genomes into aerobes and anaerobes, researchers find that oxygen-breathing bacteria likely evolved in local oxygen-rich environments 200–400 million years before the Great Oxidation Event. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/jZWQ50Y3LhU

An #AI model created to design proteins simulates 500 million years of protein evolution in developing a previously unknown bright fluorescent protein. Learn more in a new Science study: https://scim.ag/40l2z3J

Our latest. Led by the very talented @ahoiching.bsky.social Cell cycle dysregulation of globally important SAR11 bacteria resulting from environmental perturbation www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊

Coupling of excitation energy to photochemistry in natural marine phytoplankton communities under iron stress www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs 🌊

Phosphorus limitation heightens vulnerability of Crocosphaera watsonii to ocean warming compared with iron limitation www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic... #jcampubs 🌊

Biogenically driven marine organic aerosol production over the West Pacific Ocean bg.copernicus.org/articles/23/... #jcampubs 🌊

iron metalloproteome of Pseudomonas aeruginosa under oxic and anoxic conditions url: academic.oup.com/metallomics/...

A paper published in Nature in September suggests a quarter of heatwave events from 2000-23 would have been near impossible without anthropogenic climate change. The paper also indicates that major carbon emitters are responsible for around 50% of the increase in intensity of these events. ⚒️ 🧪

The changing roles of Escherichia coli www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Diverse community of rhizobia-diatom symbioses fixes nitrogen in the South Pacific gyre academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs 🌊

Grateful to share our paper on gene-specific selective sweeps in human gut microbiomes, now out in Nature! It has been a joy to work with @rwolff.bsky.social, whose insights and hard work made this possible. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Is the Zinc Hypothesis true? (Zn control of marine primary production). Apparently yes: by multiple independent lines of evidence, including zinc stress protein biomarkers, in the low pCO2 waters of a coastal Antarctica bloom. Thesis work by Riss Kell and many wonderful collabs. In Open review BG. 🌊