Day 1 of the #MSCW25 conference supported by @amiposts.bsky.social and @monashuniversity.bsky.social is underway with an excellent topic intro on #GHG and #microbialmitigation by A/Prof Carlo Carere! It's going to be a great day of #ECR talks in this space!

The organising committee are delighted to invite you to submit an abstract for the ASM VIC Meeting, taking place at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from 15–18 June 2026. www.theasmmeeting.org.au/abstract-sub...

Huge congratulations to my very first PhD student @carlpille.bsky.social for submitting his thesis last Friday!! 🥳 He has done an amazing job over the past 3.5 years, and has definitely been the #dream first student to primary supervise!

Congratulations to my very first PhD student @carlpille.bsky.social for a fantastic #PhDcompletion seminar this afternoon! Carl has done some excellent work in the #plantsoilmicrobiome field, so #watchthisspace! #proudsupervisor @unimelbsoc.bsky.social

Today is #InternationalMicroorganismDay! And to celebrate, I thought I'd share some thoughts about why I enjoy researching these tiny bugs in the environment, and some recent outreach activities I've done to get everyone else to see that not all bacteria are bad! 1/

And that's a wrap on two weeks in Europe/UK! I was very fortunate to have to opportunity to present my latest research on #hydrogencycling in agroecosystems at both the #esm2025 in Helsinki, and at the ELSA Workshop on Microbiology of Climate Active Gases hosted by the amazing @matehg.bsky.social

Throw back to my presentation last week at #esm2025! It was great to finally get a chance to share these results to a broad audience of #microbialecologists!

Very excited to share that I’ve been awarded the @aussocmic.bsky.social 2025 Jim Pittard Award! (alongside the fantastic Rhys Parry and Heema Vyas!) 🦠 🌾 The award recognises the important contributions of Aus researchers to microbiology at the ECR stage, as well as their contributions to ASM.

Very happy to announce after ~2.5 years of scientific undertaking (from planning to actual experiments to writing and publication process), my 1st paper from my Hub for Smart Fertilisers postdoc is now live! Huge collaborative effort from UniMelb researchers: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I apologise for HydDB being down. Aarhus University decided to stop hosting it at quite short notice. However, we plan to relaunch first thing next year and are in the midst of creating a much-needed HydDB 2.0. HydDB 1.0 is good for hydrogenase information, but our HMMs best for classification. 1/2

First post on this platform - a bit of a reflection on the year 2024! Lots of great science was done #FertiliserHub and #SciMelb, with some truly memorable (no doubt ongoing!) scientific collaborations initiated with @DagmarWoebken and @DOME_Vienna, courtesy of #ISME_microbes Scholar Fund. 1/