My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin: Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author. Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.

Announcement: 30 new species discovered from expeditions to the Southern Ocean. Read more 👇 oceancensus.org/press-releas... @schmidtocean.bsky.social #NewSpecies

Towards key principles of host-associated microbiome assembly www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

It’s finally out! Our paper on the bacterial symbionts of three White Sea sponges is here. A story that began in 2016 has reached its last chapter… or has it? We hope that by the time you finish our hefty tome — maybe around 2034 — we’ll release the sequel. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

#SMBE2025 Symposium 23: Thematic symposium: Symbiosis 🔗 smbe2025.scimeeting.cn/en/web/program/25070

Talks by: Chang Liu Jingdi Li Shiqi Luo @anastasiiar.bsky.social Zhuli Cheng Hui Wang Min Tang Yongjun Tan

Check it out! Three Arctic sponge species, six years of observation, and seven symbiotic bacteria—six of which belong to novel candidate genera. An odyssey that began in 2016 is now complete! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Sponges #Microbiome #Symbiosis #BacteriaSymbionts #Arctic