New preprint to close out the year! Led by Alana Papula and together with Daniel Fisher, we used single-cell genomes to infer the evolution of Prochlorococcus—one of the most abundant and genetically diverse bacteria on Earth. Check it out here: doi.org/10.64898/202...

Excited to share the first results from my postdoc at @dmf-unil.bsky.social with @saramitri.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Come be my colleague at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. We're hiring an assistant professor in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling. 🌊

Huge paper for the Arctic Ocean published today in @science.org - a new 30,000 year history of Arctic Ocean sea-ice cover reconstructed from the accumulation of cosmic dust-derived helium-3! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (1/n)

📣New preprint alert! Check out this new preprint by Zhu et al. that quantifies and compares labile exometabolites from six axenic strains of marine phytoplankton 🌊 to identify key chemical currencies within the marine chemical-microbial network! 🧪🦠

Super excited to be part of this beautiful effort led by @zhuyt0515.bsky.social and Hanna Anderson! A true team effort to characterize diversity in phytoplankton-excreted metabolites and identify key chemical currencies within the ocean ecosystem and carbon cycle www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📣#MTTM Mariana Torres (martorres.bsky.social) is a C-CoMP B2P Fellow working with @rogierbraakman.bsky.social @mit.edu. Using computational methods, they are investigating environmental drivers of carbon cycle metabolism dynamics in the North Atlantic Ocean 🌊.

New paper out! In it i review the context and implications of the "chitin raft hypothesis" for how cyanobacteria colonized the open ocean. Included is a new perspective on why there were two major stages of atmospheric oxygenation over Earth history. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Assessing cellular metabolic dynamics with NAD(P)H fluorescence polarization imaging https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.28.667273v1

Our latest, and the second paper led by Jordan Coelho this year. Want to remove bacteria from POM for single-cell microbiology/culturing/'omics applications? We've got some data: Detergent-based separation of microbes from marine particles www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs 🌊

Job alert! We have a postdoc position available in the Stelkens Lab at Stockholm University. Join us and apply experimental evolution and comparative genomics in the model system yeast to test for parallel climate adaptation. Apply through this link: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline 15 August.

This looks very cool - congrats!

A new paper in Nature Ecol & Evol by @rosafernandez.bsky.social et al. shows a #punctuated burst of genome evolution in #annelids as they transitioned from marine to land and freshwater habitats.

‼️I'm looking for a postdoc‼️ Come join effort in using metagenomes to quantify microbial catabolic potential and carbon substrate availability at the ecosystem level. We seek to understand evolutionary forces shaping the carbon cycle. Part of ccomp-stc.org careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

New preprint is out where we report a new obligate (?) methylotrophic bacteria with diel cycle of methanol dehydrogenase transcription in surface seawater, with implications for marine lanthanide and carbon cycling. Where the methanol comes from is a mystery! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to give a virtual seminar in the NASA LIFE RCN series next Tuesday June 10th, at 8am PST/11am EST. I'll be talking about the Chitin Raft Hypothesis and the rise of planktonic marine cyanobacteria. 🧪🦠⚒️🌐 #Paleobio #MEvoSky #MicroSky www.lifercn.org/events/2025-...

Great opportunity to awesome science!

Excited to give a virtual seminar in the NASA LIFE RCN series next Tuesday June 10th, at 8am PST/11am EST. I'll be talking about the Chitin Raft Hypothesis and the rise of planktonic marine cyanobacteria. 🧪🦠⚒️🌐 #Paleobio #MEvoSky #MicroSky www.lifercn.org/events/2025-...

Revamped pre-print with updated title: The chitin raft hypothesis for the colonization of the open ocean by cyanobacteria. In this paper i discuss the broader context and implications of the hypothesis. 🧪🦠⚒️🌍🌐 #Paleobio #MEvoSky #MicroSky eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

Our latest, led by @jameswclark.bsky.social of @milnerevolution.bsky.social shows that the notorious mismatch between molecular and palaeontological estimates for the timing of origin of angiosperms is a consequence of equivocal interpretation of their fossil record @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social

@seandstacey.bsky.social #AddMicrobiology Thank you!

Fascinating! I have always wondered about how to think about the impact of gradual vs punctuated evolutionary dynamics on (my interest is particularly microbial) phylogenetic clock models. This paper seems to offer a general framework for doing so

Want to learn more about #kelp distributions and environmental parameters? Check out our paper led by Aaron Eger and Georgina Wood) and app - An Environmental Niche Exploration Tool for Kelp Forest Management onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... & www.kelpee.info

This paper led by @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social was fun to participate in: The global spectrum of tree crown architecture, www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Now online!

Now published in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Breakthrough paper from Emily Zakem & co on understanding heterotrophic marine microbes. Introduces concept of “slopiotrophs”, ie “slow copiotrophs” (we generally think of copiotrophs as fast growing) which degrade more recalcitrant forms of organic carbon at depth www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨New paper alert!🚨 We show that hummingbird beaks have changed in shape & size since around WWII, driven by the rise of commercialized feeders! 🧵 📄 Paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #ornithology #evolution #GlobalChangeBiology

Come postdoc in Oslo! 3 years. You design the project! Get in touch with me or others at our museum! Deadline 23 june www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... share and repost !

New vacancy in my team! PhD student position on microbial genome evolution, focusing on the evolutionary principles underlying bacterial genome architecture. Please repost and share with talented MSc students in #evobio, bioinformatics or related :) www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #MEvoSky #MicroSky

I wrote a Dispatch for Current Biology on the neat new paper by @princessquatris.bsky.social et al., highlighting why occupancy modelling is an exciting tool for understanding sampling bias in palaeontology 🦕 You can access it for free using this link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l7HM3QW8S...

Absolute tour de force analysis of how the ecosystem shifts along an estuarine/coastal to open ocean gradient, with particular focus on the phytoplankton communities. Congrats on a brilliant paper!

Just out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... "The evolution of thermal performance curves in response to rising temperatures across the model genus yeast". Beautiful work using experimental evolution forecasting climate impacts on biodiversity by Jennifer Molinet @jennifermolinet.bsky.social

Our latest preprint just dropped @paulturnerlab.bsky.social We evolved bacteria on swim plates, against a phage that attacks through the flagellum. Motility trades off AND trades up(!!) with phage-resistance! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Circadian rhythms at cell type resolution. From: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantScience

Fossil claw prints found in Australia were probably made by the earliest known members of the group that includes reptiles, birds and mammals The findings suggest that this group — the amniotes — originated at least 35 million years earlier than previously thought https://go.nature.com/4j6rhMB

Now at #Biofilms11, @andersohd.bsky.social is introducing epssmash.secondarymetabolites.org - a tool for mining microbial genomes for exopolysaccharide biosynthetic gene clusters. Looks really valuable for finding new & different #biofilm producers #MicroSky

📢Excited to share our new paper in Nature Physics @naturephysics.bsky.social: Cooperative hydrodynamics accompany multicellular-like colonial organization in the unicellular Stentor! How do single-celled organisms benefit from teamwork? Let’s dive in! #Multicellularity nature.com/articles/s41...?

1/12 Thrilled to share our latest paper on host-microbiome-interactions in aging out in Nature Microbiology @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social, great work led by Lena Best @sci-witch.bsky.social with the Frahm lab within the ITN SmartAge. @crc1182.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cyclization of archaeal membrane lipids impacts membrane protein activity and archaellum formation | PNAS https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2423648122?af=R

cool preprint from a few months back: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Really intriguing IS strategy to become fixed in plasmids, where the IS cuts up any plasmid that doesn't contain the insertion sequence

🎉 New paper out! 🪸🌊 Using rocky reefs as a model and a new organising framework, we show heterogeneity effects depend on: 1) how heterogeneity is generated and measured: 2) the traits of responding organisms; and 3) environmental stress @jngriffy.bsky.social @swanseauni.bsky.social 1/7 🧵

Habemus paper! Our story on integron-encoded anti-phage defenses is now out in @science.org! 16 new systems, small versions of known ones, and a lot more in this highly-collaborative study. Many thanks to everyone involved, especially my supervisor @epcrocha.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/bapt...

Deep origin of eukaryotes outside Heimdallarchaeia within Asgardarchaeota www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

New in JB: Blöcher, Lotte Søgaard-Andersen et al. identify a bacterial tyrosine pseudokinase, which functions via protein-protein interaction, to promote EPS biosynthesis in Myxococcus. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @asm.org #JBacteriology

An atlas of metabolites driving chemotaxis in prokaryotes This database compiles the effects (attractant, repellent or neutral) of 926 compounds and the chemotactic behaviour of 394 strains #ChemicalBiology #Microbiology

This highlights how a strong mutualistic interaction can promote the diversification of entire clades by influencing their phenotypes, defining their geographic distribution, and ultimately contributing to their evolutionary and ecological success 🧪🧬🐠 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Check out our latest work on the evolution of animal genome regulation out today in @nature.com. Nicely summarized below by @ianakim.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41... This is a major output from our ERC-StG project Evocellmap @erc.europa.eu at @crg.eu

Divergent selection and plasticity increases reproductive isolation early during incipient speciation. Find our new meta-analysis on experimental speciation studies here: rdcu.be/ek019 🧪 @EvolOdonata.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy @pipdowning.bsky.social

We know that beaked birds were the only dinosaurs to survive the asteroid-triggered mass extinction 66 million years ago, which begs a question. Why have birds never reached the size of large dinos? @restingdinoface.bsky.social with your answer. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...