This years ISSM is in Vienna from Aug 30 - Sept 4, the early bird deadline is 15 June. As a premier conference in subsurface microbiology, the ISSM features exciting sessions and excellent keynote speakers. Spread the word, see you there. issm2026.univie.ac.at #deeplife #microbiome #subsurface

🔬 We have an open PhD position at SLU Uppsala! We're looking for a curious & driven PhD student to join the #ECOPHARM project funded by @kawresearch.bsky.social and investigate plasmid-dependent phages in aquatic ecosystems. Pls share with anyone who might be interested! www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

I guess as scientists we should all create more content for these channels... maybe an objective for my next sabatical... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Tack så mycket for a fantastic goodbye symposium, lecture & party with a large number of past & present PhD & post doc honoring with their present. A memory to be cherished 4ever 🥰 & best #microbiology department at @ribesresearch.bsky.social ever! @cuwelte.bsky.social @marcstrous.bsky.social et al

Thank you for A very special Goodbye gift by @cuwelte.bsky.social & @marcstrous.bsky.social et al: A special issue of my favorite #environmental #microbiology journal. Microbial #Methane & #Nitrogen cycling under the loupe enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1462...

COMMBAT: a web platform for exploring expression control of biosynthetic gene clusters @narjournal.bsky.social from @sebarigali.bsky.social With @gillesvanwezel.bsky.social @marnixmedema.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

With Eugene Koonin, we wrote a rather comprehensive review on the origin, evolution and organization of the #virosphere. We describe all 10 viral realms and the logic behind them, and so much more. Check it out! comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/biologies/ar...

Very excited to share our new paper out in Nature. Congrats to Xiaoqian (Annie) Yu and all the coauthors. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Accessible Gibbs energy at metabolic activation limits long-term cell growth www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs

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

We’re hiring! 🇸🇪🔬
 Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Prokaryotic Microbiology (molecular focus) at Stockholm University. Supportive environment + strong molecular research 👉https://su.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:921526/type:job/where:125/apply:1 Please share!!

Interested in working on the evolution of photosynthetic endosymbioses? Come join us! I have 2 open positions in my new group @cemess.bsky.social in Vienna 3yr postdoc info: tinyurl.com/4emkjpn4 4yr PhD info: tinyurl.com/mtxmsjpy Apply by 1st June! Please share/repost #Protists #Symbiosis #PhD

8 more days left to apply for this 3-year postdoc position. Please repost! The position offers a lot of freedom to test new ideas about how archaea and bacteria communicate & sense the extracellular environment.

Yet another functional group that is not as restricted as we thought for 25 years. This is an important reminder that microbes are metabolically more diverse than we give them credit and yet another reminder that 16S rRNA surveys are ignorant about metabolism. Just bc you detect some ANME =/= AOM.

I just published Don’t Perish! A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Paper (2026 edition) Great science deserves to be read—not buried under unclear writing. This is the updated 2026 edition of your favorite guide to writing scientific papers. medium.com/p/dont-peris...

An Asgard archaeon from a modern analog of ancient microbial mats (Current Biology) Beautiful microscopy of an Asgard archaeon, in the same family as Lokiarchaea, in syntrophy with a sulfate-reducing bacteria Very very nice paper we saw in preprint form: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Deadline is April 20th! Let’s get those viruses

Moran et al. in Science Emergent predictability in microbial ecosystems www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

12.7 million battery electric vehicles were sold globally in 2025. In 2010, the number was barely 10,000. In China, 1 in 2 new cars sold last year was electric. The transition is happening faster than almost anyone predicted.

I'm hiring my first postdoc! Apply by 20/4/26, position #20443. Seeking an environmental microbiologist with experience in metagenomics (preferably viromics) and molecular biology. Experience with targeted metabolomics is a plus. international.au.dk/about/profil...

Again looking for (self)nominations of/by grad students and postdocs to give virtual talks (via zoom) in the fall seminar series of MSU's Thermal Biology Institute. Does >not< need to be on thermophiles. Email me!

We evaluated quantification methods for #metaproteomics and found that area under the curve quantification (AUC) outperforms spectral counting. Importantly, using match between runs for AUC quantification results in lots of false detections and should not be used www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Hard to focus on my science with all the bad things happening in the world

Genomic and evolutionary factors influencing the prediction accuracy of optimal growth temperature in prokaryotes journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

New genetic codes in bacteria and archaea identified with a fast k-mer based algorithm www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs

Job Alert!!! - We are hiring a Postdoc for the NASA ICAR OxyMoRon program Join my lab at Marine Biological Laboratory and an international team of geomicrobiologists and geochemists. Details here, please share widely: recruiting.ultipro.com/MAR1033MBL/J... @mblscience.bsky.social #darkoxygen ⚒️🧪

📣We have 5 PhD positions in hadal biogeochemistry and microbial ecology at the Danish Center for Hadal Research: lnkd.in/eJ6rp_Rk. 📣 Deadline: 4 May 2026 Please share widely! fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Structural and functional study suggests DnfC is a putative glutamine amidotransferase in the dirammox pathway #heterotrophic #Nitrification www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We tested the efficacy of semi-permeable capsules to capture protists from cultures and environmental samples using the Onyx from @atrandi.bsky.social. Tremendous effort from everyone in the lab and led by Marco Fantini and Nik Brask - check out the videos here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Super excited to be launching two things today: #RustQC 🦀🧬 and rewrites.bio 🚀 I used AI to rewrite 15 RNA-seq QC tools into a single Rust binary (I've never written any Rust). It ended up being over 60x faster. Here's the story 🧵 seqeralabs.github.io/RustQC/

Should have posted this yesterday. Art and Idea by Marike, my love, who is not on Bsky.

An exciting new study in PNAS led by postdoc Andrea Unzueta Martinez and Prof. @pgirguis.bsky.social lab shows that oysters coordinate with microbes living inside of them to build their hard shells! A game changer for understanding ocean resilience as waters become more acidic from #climatechange

I thought it was quite mind boggling to see that around 10% of the protein in a standard yeast based bread is actually yeast protein! Here our #metaproteomics analysis of microbial protein in fermented foods pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A... Congratulations to first authors Laura Winkler and Ayesha Awan

Myloasm, our long-read metagenome assembler, is now published! w/ @mgmarin.bsky.social and @lh3lh3.bsky.social Very rewarding after > a year of development and countless hours thinking about assembly. Thanks to beta testers, Li lab, and reviewers who gave very helpful feedback. rdcu.be/famFj

ANIr-based methodology to determine if two sequence-discrete populations are identical and identify cosmopolitan prokaryotic populations academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs

Come work with us in Vienna and along European coasts! We look for a creative Postdoc (4year contract) in Evolutionary Genomics to cooperate with physiologists, ecologists, see: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoc-... Please share! @univie.ac.at

Samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu contain all five canonical nucleobases (A, G, C, T, U). Their presence in Ryugu and Bennu supports the hypothesis that carbonaceous asteroids contributed to the prebiotic chemical inventory of early Earth. http://dlvr.it/TRWtVp ☄️

Predicting protein-protein interactions (PPIs) at proteome scale can take months with co-folding models due to the massive all-vs-all comparisons required. We are excited to announce FlashPPI, a contrastive learning framework that predicts proteome wide physical interfaces in minutes. 1/🧵

This is a cool use of Hi-C within microbiology.

New paper out in MBE! 🧵 "Genomic Perplexity and the Evolution of Context-Dependent Function" The big idea: genes don't have fixed functions. Function emerges from context - genomic, cellular, environmental. And we can quantify this. academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

#China and #Canada lead the world in groundwater microbial ecology... map from nice new paper from our Chinese colleagues www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Two more weeks to apply - come join us () in The Netherlands as a postdoctoral researcher on large-scale metagenomic exploration of new lineages!

We have an open position for a bioinformatics/theoretical microbial ecology PhD student to study viral strategies in the global Microverse! Join us at the @microverse.bsky.social at @uni-jena.de, please apply through this link: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/9...

Snappy quick overview of where the world is heading in energy and climate change: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

In addition to the 2 postdoc jobs posted yesterday, we’re recruiting 2 PhD students (environmental microbiology/ molecular ecology) to join us from April. The projects will map microbial populations across niches in bioelectrochemical systems relevant to biomethanation & link them to performance.

Come work with us on #darkoxygen as part of the NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. It is an amazing opportunity to get up to 3 years of funding. Deadlines are March 1. and November 1. Happy to discuss your ideas! Details here: zintellect.com/Opportunity/... @mblscience.bsky.social #astrobiology

Impact of human activities on groundwater biogeochemical cycles and microbial communities: Insights from metagenomic analysis www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Bacterial necromass recycling promotes diversity maintenance in bacterial communities via resource partitioning www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs