Not a radical thought. Radical thought is giving necessities into the hands of uncaring conglomerations of unchecked power. We should say this out loud more often.

Interested in removing particle-associated microbes from particles for eg flow cytometry, culturing, or other single-cell microbiology purposes? Led by graduating PhD stdnt Jordan Coelho: Detergent-based separation of microbes from marine particles journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #jcampubs 🌊

"The termination is the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols. Thread 1/n

Who fixes carbon in the dark ocean? A new study in @nature.com, led by @barbarabayer.bsky.social @univie.ac.at shows that ammonia‐oxidizing microbes contribute much less to dark carbon fixation than previously thought – leaving room for unknown players. Read more: 🔗 dome.univie.ac.at/news-events/...

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

📢 🦠 🏜️ Meet the first cultured methanogens from oxic soils! Using cultivation and comparative genomics, we descirbe Methanobacterium limanense sp. nov., Methanocella ebodanensis sp. nov., and a strain of Methanosarcina mazei as dwellers of desert biocrusts. With @anne-daebeler.bsky.social and other

Revealed: The EU's export trade in banned pesticides has expanded dramatically in the past half-decade, despite the European Commission's promises to put an end to it New investigation from Unearthed and Public Eye: unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/09/23/e...

Happy to have this collaborative work out on Biorxiv on how Akkermansia muciniphila deploys it’s carbohydrate sulfatases to metabolise colonic mucin, and that processed glycopeptides/proteins of colonic mucin are a favoured carbon source #glycotime. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Over the weekend, the world's richest man appeared on screens in central London to call for a race war and for the UK government to be overthrown. No arrests were made in connection with that communication.

Carbon monoxide metabolism in freshwater anaerobic methanotrophic archaea https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.16.676500v1

A comprehensive analysis of combined stormwater overflow (CSO) discharges to coastal waters and data communications by a UK water company between 2021 and 2023 @envsci.rsc.org pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

The shape of politics in the US right now is increasingly that the media, political and economic elites are allied with the Trump regime against the actual people of the country who hate it

📢 Funded PhD opportunities for UK candidates in beautiful Edinburgh. Get in touch if you're interested in a PhD on understanding the mechanisms of soil carbon cycling and the role of microbes. We work in different ecosystems: peatlands, forests and agricultural soils. Please repost/spread the word.

The first University to outright ban AI and assess on paper based exams and in person seminars will see the stock of their degrees magically soar in the corporate, scientific and intellectual world, and mysteriously wont go bust.

Nice summary from Songcan & Marc 🙏 on our discovery of a new microbial energy metabolism 🦠 🧫 ⚡ 🔌 Microbial Iron oxide respiration coupled to Sulfide Oxidation (MISO) @nature.com Research Briefing 😍 doi.org/10.1038/d415... 📰 Original paper www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky #microbiomesky

If you are UK-based and working on any aspect of microbiomes (human, plant, insect, soil, animal, ...), please do sign up to Microbiome-Net for details of networking, funding and training opportunities. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

The 3 stages of grief: denial, anger, ballroom

'"You can’t have hobbyist research that’s unfunded going on in institutions. We can’t afford it.”' Such a badly formulated phrasing of the issues, so open to so many misinterpretations. If this is the level of thinking about research among sector leaders and policy-makers, be very afraid.

is this guy who reps universities in the UK arguing directly against the actual evidence that shows much of the most disruptive research (in science) comes from small labs? May be he should think about a different job...

Sometimes you meet absolutely incredible bioinfo-magicians. It was a huge privilege when @shenwei356.bsky.social joined our group for a year on an @embl.org sabbatical. While here, he developed a new way of aligning to millions of bacteria, called LexicMap 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

2 Postdoc vacancies: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere @erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA 📢 PLEASE RT Experimental: 🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, omics, biogeochem Modelling: 🖥️ Bioenergetics, thermodynamics, ecological, biogeochem ☀️ Marseille, France ‼️ Apply by 30 Sept

An exciting new study from Alexander Loy and team (@loyteam.bsky.social), now in @nature.com! It describes a previously unknown microbial energy metabolism: Microbial iron oxide respiration coupled to sulfide oxidation (MISO). Read more: 🔗 cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...

MMonitor: Software for Real-Time Monitoring of Microbial Communities Using Long Reads https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.08.674848v1

I’m excited to share our effort to obtain one of the first estimates of the net rate, in physical time, of lateral gene transfer (LGT) – nature’s own genetic engineering - across a complex, global microbiome: doi.org/10.1093/isme...

“Farage claimed last year to have “bought a house” in his constituency but the property is actually owned in the name of his partner, meaning he legally avoided higher-rate stamp duty on the purchase of an additional home – given he already owns other properties” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Assistant Professor position in the Microbiome Engineering group (Prof Sahar El Aidy) at University of Amsterdam Assistant Professor in Microbiome Imaging and Functional Analysis werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

We have a position for an Assist Prof in Microbial Genomics in our School of III. Hod Joan Geoghegan will be happy to field questions if you are interested. No specific area of microbial genomics preferred so please do consider it www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

Save the Date: #MMEG2025 is coming to Birmingham! Join us on 15–16 December 2025 for the 31st edition of MMEG. This year's event is your chance to: 🔬 Share your research 🤝 Connect with peers 🦠 Discover the latest in molecular microbial ecology Register now: appliedmicrobiology.org/ems-event-ca...

New tool for clustering bacterial genomes: PanGene-O-Meter, provides a higher level of granularity than ANI when classifying bacterial isolates of the same species. Work of the talented @haimashkenazy.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📢 🦠 A new methanotroph from Czech peat! Through an effort led by PhD student in my group Justus Nweze we isolated and describe a new CH4-muncher. Potential for a flexible (annaerobic) metabolisms and cool pH adaptations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microbesky #microbiomesky

Bacteria that 'breathe' rocks and sulphur. 🦠🧫 An international team of scientists led by #microbiologists @loyteam.bsky.social and Marc Mussmann have uncovered #bacteria that remove toxic sulfide and use iron #minerals for growth. 🧪🧑‍🔬 Read more here: ⤵️ @cemess.bsky.social

🤩New recommendation out: DNA capture for sequencing genes in N&C cycling microbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec... by Siljanen et al. Thanks to W. Orsi, @kennethwasmund.bsky.social, and C. Wurzbacher for their review and Lizzy Wilbanks & Craig Herbold for handling. #microbesky #microbiomesky

Sub-cellular chemical mapping in bacteria using correlated cryogenic electron and mass spectrometry imaging Congrats Hannah Ochner and authors on this important paper! Strong collaboration with @kiranrpatil.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... @mrclmb.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social

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🧪How do marine phytoplankton cope with shortage of two vital nutrients? New research @thembauk.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social reveals a hierarchy in nutrient stress responses to nitrogen and phosphorus co-limitation of marine diatoms🧬 Read the paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #diatoms

This, by @jasonhickel.bsky.social, is the clearest explanation I have yet read of why the US and UK governments continue to support the Israeli government, regardless of its great crimes against humanity. jasonhickel.substack.com/p/why-does-t...

ChatGPT informs the cops. If the other reasons aren't enough not to use it, consider this one thoroughly.

De novo peptide databases enable protein-based stable isotope probing of microbial communities with up to species-level resolution link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Exciting new metabolism unlocked - sulfur oxidation coupled to iron reduction! Big congrats and very happy for Songcan, Marc, Alex and team! :-)

Sigh ... 🫣 we need different types (and amounts) of funding AND NOT more concentration of research money!

🧬Working on environmental genomics of prokaryotes?🧬 Check out the recently published guide on how to go about it. Link below: www.sciencedirect.co... #ResourceWednesday #bioinformatics #metagenomics

Another PDRA position! Join our team exploring how the mammalian immune system shapes microbiome ecology & evolution, and vice versa. In collaboration with @hepworth-lab.bsky.social funded by the @wellcometrust.bsky.social www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

'The iguanodontian dinosaur, whose fossils were found on the Isle of Wight, was identified by Dr Jeremy Lockwood, a PhD student at the University of Portsmouth and the Natural History Museum.' 1/2

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

A novel bacterial protein family that catalyses nitrous oxide reduction www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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🧵 New preprint alert! From the Future Oak project, led by @cenococcum.bsky.social Landscape-scale impacts of environment and disease on the tree microbiome 🌳🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We're very happy to release our new database Metalog metalog.embl.de ! It offers manually curated and harmonised contextual data for 110k metagenomics samples across the globe, incl. precomputed taxonomic profiles, for interactive browsing and for download 🧵 1/7 #microsky

The geologic history of marine dissolved organic carbon from iron oxides www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊