My article on aeonophiles (ultra-long lived organisms) came out in Aeon Magazine today!

Are you a long-time fan of Archaea, an extremophile-phile, or are you simply curious? Either way, we have good news. We’re delighted to announce the 2026 EMBO Workshop on Archaea, 6–10 July. Sign up: meetings.embo.org/event/26-arc... We look forward to seeing you in Cambridge, UK. Please repost!

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

A bunch of activity in the Falkor (too) hangar today. Diving now....https://www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean #AsgardArchaea @schmidtocean.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social @texasscience.bsky.social @utmsi.bsky.social

The sediment in these cores is pungent. ‘Smells like a new phylum’ says Stavros. We are all hoping for a new old one.

ARTISTS! I need your help! In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend. Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...

I love late night science and extractions are one of the most rewarding ways to spend an evening when we get to sequence right on board! Having a wonderful time doing real time metagenomics on the Falkor (too)! @emaguilarpine.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social @schmidtocean.bsky.social

#AsgardArchaea team, led by @archaeal.bsky.social fr @texasscience.bsky.social — sequencing the DNA collected fr mouth of Rio de la Plata to the continental shelf of Uruguay to detect Asgards, a group of single-celled organisms & our closest microbial relatives on the tree of life. bit.ly/3MdniTH

Today's dive site, to ~2,200m. We will be streaming 9am-3pm Central. At www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean #AsgardArchaea @schmidtocean.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social @texasscience.bsky.social @utmsi.bsky.social

Other researchers in action on Falkor (too)

Starting at 7pm Central I will be streaming from the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Uruguay! Feel free to join and ask questions. www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean

The science team have boarded the Falkor (too)! #AsgardArchaea @schmidtocean.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social

Baker Lab 2025 The container is our field gear for the research expedition for Uruguay. sites.utexas.edu/baker-lab/sp...

In a couple of days, my grad student Stavros Trimmer will present his new Asgard archaea culture at the GRC Archaea. He named it Skadiarchaeum after Skadi, the Norse goddess of skiing and hunting. Cartoon of Skadi based on cryoET, which was performed together with with @florianwollweber.bsky.social

Today's reading: Nature should be the model for microbial sciences journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... by @brettbakker.bsky.social @emilyraehyde.bsky.social and @pedroleao.bsky.social Looks ideal for a talk I am working on on model organisms ...

Title: The phylogeny and metabolism underlying the global dominance of the freshwater Nanopelagicaceae lineage Short Talk Symposia: Hot Topics in Microbial Diversity and Systematics Session  6/21/2025 1:45- 3:45:00 403A Presentation Time: 3:15:00 PM

Tomorrow at 12:45-1:30 in the EEB Track Hub in the poster hall #ASMmicrobe I am talking about microbial diversity including Asgard archaea, and an expanded tree of life from marine sediments.

Today at ASM Microbe - Carbon Cycling & Methylotrophy In Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Sediments Presentation Number: 5699 Date: Friday June 20th Time - Poster (10:30-11:30am, 4-5pm) AND Rapid Fire Talk (11:45-12:30pm) @emilyraehyde.bsky.social

Protect the transgender scientists 🏳️‍⚧️ A pleasure to be part of the AQTES group, so many amazing and inspiring scientists! No better time to see this piece published. Happy Pride Month 🌈

The Baker Lab is invading LA for #ASMMicrobe

Officially arrived at my first ASM! My poster is tomorrow in the EEB01 Microbial Ecology session (10:30-11:30am & 4-5pm) + I have a rapid talk at 11:45 in the EEB Track Hub! Can’t wait to chat with you all this weekend! 🧫

"In a competitive academic world, building bridges instead of walls may be our most powerful tool to accelerate discovery and rebuild public trust in science." I'm very happy with this article piece! 🥳 www.the-scientist.com/science-thri...

Got to visit one of my favorite places this weekend where I started studying large lakes and the microbes that run them! 🌊

Thursday! Episode 92 of #MattersMicrobial! Dr. Valerie DeAnda Torres of the University of Florida joined the #QualityQuorum to discuss the work of her research group in studying evolution of metabolic pathways in the deep ocean. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord! youtu.be/nNcXGmh9CZo?...

It’s a tad breezy today. #AlaskaSky #DY2504 🧪🌊🦑

personal survival training in Louisiana the past two days to help us get ocean ready! 🌊⛴️

Abstract accepted, all registered and hotel is booked for ASM Microbe 2025! This will be my first Microbe conference, excited to give a rapid fire talk + poster & meet everyone! 🧬

little displays of kindness on the #LPSC2025 “artistic creations” board

Soraya Alfred—Impacts aren’t all bad! Impacts, like Chicxulub, can generate porosity, permeability, heat, and fluid flow that creates self-sustaining subsurface ecosystems. #LPSC2025

Grant review panels have been halted at NIH. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Happy new year! Thrilled to announce Women Advancing River Research (WARR) 2025, featuring inspiring women on water research from around the world. 11 am, US eastern, 3rd Thursday every month. Register: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Recordings 2021- 2024: www.cee.psu.edu/events/women...

Using the longest metagenome time series ever collected from a natural system, research led by UT postdoc Robin Rohwer finds Wisconsin lake bacteria in a kind of endless evolutionary loop that they can’t seem to shake. @robinrohwer.bsky.social @archaeal.bsky.social cns.utexas.edu/news/researc...

OUT NOW Twenty years of bacterial ecology and evolution in a freshwater lake @archaeal.bsky.social @quendi.bsky.social @robinrohwer.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

After 24 years of work, I’m thrilled to announce the TYMEFLIES dataset, which comprises metagenomes from Lake Mendota (Madison, WI), collected roughly every 10 days (471 samples) for 20 years! @quendi.bsky.social @robinrohwer.bsky.social rdcu.be/d5put A thread…

Excited to share “Bin Chicken”, substantially improving genome recovery through rational metagenomic assembly. Applied to public 🌍 metagenomes, it recovered 24,000 novel species 🦠, including 6 novel phyla. doi.org/10.1101/2024... @wwood @rhysnewell @CMR_QUT 🧵1/6

A list of #marinebiology starter packs! 🌊 go.bsky.app/4PTX62K Marine Ecology go.bsky.app/RS5zQHv Marine Biologists I go.bsky.app/8DoyTMs Marine Biologists II go.bsky.app/Qo5Gh2H Coral reef science go.bsky.app/E8vrnd6 LGBTQIA+ Grads go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo Ocean Women go.bsky.app/4wMsfX4 Ocean Women II

Happy International Pride in STEM Day! I’m a queer 🏳️‍🌈 & intersex 💛💜 aquatic microbial ecologist in my second year of my PhD studying carbon cycling at hydrothermal vents. LGBTQIA+ representation is important & I’m proud to be part of the amazing queer community in ecology & micro. #PrideInSTEM

November 18 is the International Day of LGBQTIA+ People in STEM! Today more than ever we want to stress the importance of communities, building connections, and raising each other up. Let's keep leaving our mark for the betterment of us all! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #QueerinSTEM prideinstem.org/lgbtstemday/

Reposting this list of #EarlyCareerResearchers in #Marine Biology/Ecology/Evolution, which now contains 150 ECRs from around the world. While no starter pack is perfect, the goal was to include people w/ diverse interests, expertise, & perspectives. Let's amplify the voices of the next generation! 🧪

New preprint, Methane production from hydrocarbon by consortium dominated by ANME archaea. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy to share my 1st first first-author paper in preprint with co-first @luisvalentin.bsky.social! Here, we describe three complete Asgard Archaea genomes from wetland soil in a collaboration between the @archaeal.bsky.social lab and the Banfield Lab. #ArchaeaSky 1/