I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal. If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.

Do you: -Love #literature? 📚 -Adore #art? 🎨 -Fancy #film or #photography? 📽️📸 -Thrill to the #theater? 🎭 -Relish #RareBooks? 📖 Apply for @ransomcenter.bsky.social's 2026-27 #fellowships! Learn more & submit a proposal by Nov. 3: www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/ #Humanities #Research #CFP #CFA 🗃️📜

How AI Agents Will Change the Web as We Know It spectrum.ieee.org/agentic-web?...

Yesterday I was discussing the intractibility of glioblastoma with a neuroscience colleague--this could be transformative 🧪

Job opening at the DSMZ @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social @dsmzd3.bsky.social #microsky

As someone with Connexin-26 (GJB2) mutations, I've managed to so far study most forms of hearing loss that do NOT involve GJB2. As a cell biologist, I've managed to study ER-organelle related processes and disorders with minimal connection to hearing loss. Now this paper drops.

Throwback to my lab stories for a #Halloween-inspired #microbiology snapshot: Reading hemolysis halos on a blood agar plate produced by a bacterium isolated from a medieval manuscript. 🩸 🧫 📜 Blood agar is used to grow fastidious organisms & to differentiate bacteria based on hemolytic properties.

This time of the year, pink and purple hues cut through #BuenosAires city's constructed #landscape -the #jacarandá trees were brought from the north of 🇦🇷 by french architect & paisajist #CarlosThays ca. 1890, & their splendor enjoyed since then. #urban #primavera #spring

Some ancient stony corals were able to survive extreme environmental changes, which suggests that some modern species could possess some resilience to the effects of climate change, according to research in Nature. go.nature.com/4hrpLpi 🌊 🧪

#Microsky -have your say! ✍️

Our paper on the first UV-sensitive rhodopsin channel, the Apusomonad rhodopsin, has been published in PNAS! 🎉 This is a new family distinct from canonical ChRs with a novel transport mechanism🦠—paving the way for future multi-wavelength optogenetics! 🔬 www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... #OpenAccess

Canada Post features nature´s recyclers 🇨🇦📯 "Stamps highlight beauty and importance of hashtag #fungi in Canadian #ecosystems" 🔗 www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/our-c... #microsky #biodiversity

luckily, there are alternatives to PubMed, see libguides.exeter.ac.uk/c.php?g=7252...

Warm Autumn palette on Science Campus Braunschweig-Süd 🍂🍁 www.sciencecampus-bs.de/en/ @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social @tu-braunschweig.de @fraunhofer.bsky.social

🚨New paper out! Why does Staphylococcus aureus ST1 dominate in BOTH people🧑‍⚕️ & cows🐄 in New Zealand… but rarely elsewhere? Our latest comparative genomics study unpacks this mystery👇 📄 doi.org/10.1128/msph... @asm.org #AMR #Genomics #OneHealth 🖥️🧬💻 #AcademicSky #MicroSky 🧪🧫🦠

And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November. Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

#MicroSky 𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘪 vs 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘴 what a cool story! thx ákos for the shoutout 🙏

After 10 years of work, a complete telomere-to-telomere gap-free genome for C. elegans finally exists: it has 106 Mb rather than the textbook 100.3 Mb, and up to 366 additional genes. genome.cshlp.org/content/35/8...

Happy to share our newest preprint. PhyloNaP as a user friendly database of phylogeny for enzymes involved in natural product production and as public repository for well curated phylogenetic trees. Happy Tree Building!!! #phylogeny #secmet #bioinformatics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

www.dw.com/en/virtual-p... #privacy #vpn #cybersecurity

www.nature.com/articles/s44... #microsky #phagesky #synbio

⬇️point of view matters

🖥️ New design for #SILVA #SILVA 🧬 joined @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social 🧫 and the @dsmzd3.bsky.social in 2023. This is now also visible on the redesigned website 🖌️, which has been restructured reorganized in a first step towards an improved and modernized #SILVA! Try it out at www.arb-silva.de

The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

Happy International Microorganism Day! 🎉 Today, we are celebrating the tiny powerhouses that have a massive impact on our world. From the bacteria in our gut to the fungi that give us antibiotics, these incredible organisms are essential to life. Let's make some noise for the microscopic!

📢 PLEASE RT! ❄️ M2 Masters Internship: Metagenomic analysis of microbial cold adaptation in the cryosphere 🧬 Compile & curate ice nucleation & cold-adaptation protein database 🖥️ Build HMM profiles 🦠 Analyze existing metagenomic data using HMMs ☀️ Marseille, France Apply by 15 Oct

Based on feedback from applicants, reviewers and broader research community, the ERC Scientific Council decided to make changes in the 2026–27 calls for proposal for research funding. More details from the ERC President 👉 europa.eu/!hP3WWF What’s your take on this? Tell us! 👇

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: glass square bottles were a common type of storage and transport vessels in the #Roman Empire. The square shape makes packing easier and saves space. The bottles were used to store/transport spices, medicines, balms,...🧵1/2 🏺#archaeology

😍 The next edition of our #eDNA #Metabarcoding course with @dominikbuchner.bsky.social @leeselab.bsky.social @tillmacher.bsky.social is now official! 🗓️Save the dates: Feb 23-26! More time for hands-on work with BolDigger, TaxonTable & Apscape www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

🚨NOTICE TO OUR USERS🚨 The Genome Portal will be replaced with the Data Portal application sometime next month. Portal users can book a session with our team for technical help, feedback or a guided walk-through of the new Data Portal. 🖥️🧬 More information: jgi.doe.gov/analyze-data...

🔥 New episode of the Night Science Podcast! We talk with the leaders of Google's AI Co-Scientist project, Alan Karthikesalingam and Vivek Natarajan, about how their system evolved parts of human hypothesis generation while also diverging in fascinating ways.

The 2025 Agar Art Contest opens soon! This year’s theme is “Microbes Make the World Go Round." Show us the vital role microbes play in our daily lives through the medium of agar. Submissions are open Sept.12-Oct. 26. See contest details: asm.org/events/asm-a...

More on the ancient foundation of animal development. Coyle & King illustrate how core regulatory modules were present in our pre-animal ancestors. The key was not invention, but recycling & new protein interactions. #CellBiology #multicellularity #protistsOnSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

👉 Join the #NFDI4Microbiota Conference 🦠 and learn how to identify strain designations in literature and sequence metadata by leveraging the #StrainInfo API 🖥️🧬 and libraries in #Workshop7.

"Evans and colleagues studied more than 16 million papers, revealing that flat, or egalitarian, teams consistently spark more disruptive breakthroughs than tall, hierarchical ones." 🧪 #philsci undark.org/2025/07/31/o...

Single-celled species that often stick together in colonies have researchers rethinking the origin of animals. A feature in Nature explores how five organisms are helping researchers define how life became multicellular. 🧪

Brazilian paleobotanist Maria Salgado-Labouriau was born 94 years today. Her research into the deep past of plant evolution took her across the Andes Mountains and the Brazilian Plateau, and resulted in a string of books that vaulted her to worldwide scientific status. #WomenInSTEM #Botany 🌱🧪

I missed this when it came out last September - excellent essay! Not-so-mutually beneficial coral symbiosis: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

I didn't realize that calls for the removal of lead in gasoline started in the 1920s with Alice Hamilton, first woman to join the faculty at Harvard. It took 70 years until lead was finally banned from gasoline. She was a trailblazer for occupational health! www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/05/hist...

'Earth Browsers' 🌍🌎🌏🛰️ 3 key portals to our planet's wonders, selected by @geologoenapuros.bsky.social -and my (slightly biased) sample: Los Glaciares National Park, Patagonia, Argentina 🇦🇷 captured by Landsat-8 📷 Credit: USGS/ESA @esa.int @landsat.bsky.social

From the air, purse seines—a large net that encircles schooling fish—float like jellyfish along Vietnam’s coast.⁠ ⁠ Award-winning photographer Thien Nguyen Ngoc takes to the air to showcase the unseen beauty of this time-honored tradition. ⁠ ⁠ 📲 Get the full picture: go.whoi.edu/castingwide

www.nature.com/articles/d41... Brain Computer Interface can read thoughts -it discerns neural differences between internal and attempted speech. It comes with a mental password.

For #ancientsitesunday this stunning aerial view of the Parco degli Acquedotti, south east of #Rome. The park is named for its seven aqueducts which supplied the city with water. Photo: Valentino Ligori #archaeology 🏺

apnews.com/article/plas... No agreement reached on a #plastic #pollution treaty in Geneva

When it's hot we need the cool shade of a garden. BL Royal MS 6 E IX; Convenevole da Prato, Carmina regia; c1335 CE; Italy (Tuscany); f.15v

#microsky Microbiología Sintética -en Español #uruguay 🇺🇾

Preprint servers face challenges with LLM-generated content, but the numbers seem lower than journals.. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

ICYMI: New online! The human skin microbiome: from metagenomes to therapeutics

Impactful work in 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 from team led by Case McNamara lab at Calibr/Scripps New compound optimized via click chemistry blocks Pks13—a critical enzyme for 𝙈. 𝙩𝙪𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙨 cell wall synthesis ✅ Novel MOA ✅ High potency vs. clinical isolates ✅ Orally bioavailable ✅ Excellent PK, toxicology results