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

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🖥️ 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

Part 2 of our #SeqCode video series is here! This time, we dive into #Latin and #name formation, presented by Dr. Dominik Berrens from Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz. 🍿 Enjoy share, and don't be shy - ask questions in the comments! #Nomenclature #Taxonomy www.youtube.com/watch?v=eldx...

Have a great idea to support microbiology data infrastructure? Join our Flex Fund FAQ session on July 28, 14:30 CEST! 💡 Learn how to apply for funding – deadline is Aug 11. 🔗Zoom Meeting ID: 663 0110 3523 | Passcode: 166876 Learn more here: nfdi4microbiota.de/n... #NFDI4Microbiota #OpenScience

Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.

Editor's Pick: Shen, Ye et al. review recent literature on the role of bacterial ribosome heterogeneity on facilitating rapid response to stress. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @asm.org #JBacteriology

Two more articles in our series on 'Scientific mobility in microbiology' are online now. Read @edelplopez.bsky.social and @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social's mobility-related experiences and their insights here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTnY,L%7E... & authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTnY_,2Ci...

For #AncientSiteSunday stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the colors of the reliefs and inscriptions within the building for...🧵1/2 📷 D. v. Recklinghausen

Day 3 at #fems2025 started with an exciting and inspiring keynote by Chris @greening.bsky.social on microbes living out of thin air @femsmicro.org

Bring your research to life with an engaging story 💬 Join my hands-on storytelling workshop at #FEMS2025 in Milano in July! Learn to transform your research into compelling stories for conferences, social media and more! @femsmicro.org www.femsmicro.org/programme #SciComm #ScienceCommunication

Bright summer morning over #Milan -and all is set for #FEMS2025! FEMS-MICRO 2025: Tackling Global Challenges through Microbiology We are looking forward to welcoming more than 2000 participants from over 90 countries and #Magnifying-Microbial-Impact together. 🧵⬇️ @femsmicro.org / #microsky

🚲 🚆 ✈️ on the way to #FEMS2025 Milan: tackling global challenges through microbiology. Check out the topical tracks: 💡 #EcoInnovations 🩺 #HealthHorizons 🔬 #Biotechnology 📈 #EngagementAndGrowth and stay tuned for the interactive session formats we prepared... 1/n #microsky femsmicro.org/topics

#Microsky #Biodiversität ⬇️

Apply until 18 August! 👋 Together with our partners, we invite early & mid-career researchers based in Germany to participate in the Indo-German Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. #FrontiersOfResearch 📅 11-14 March 2026 in Jülich www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/spo...

The unique #CellEnvelope of #corynebacteria: @tbharat-lab.bsky.social &co map the C. glutamicum cell surface, revealing a patchy S-layer & specific assembly of the PS2 protein, thereby informing our understanding of cell envelopes that contain #MycolicAcids @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3Y6JNgw

Re-directing the call toward the #Microsky antennae: 16th International Conference on Tetrapyrrole Photoreceptors of Photosynthetic Organisms (ICTPPO) will be held in Kaiserslautern (Germany) August 24.-27., 2025.

Incredible diversity of #pollen grains! Pollen autofluorescence acquired with @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social #superresolution Airyscan & color-coded for depth #microscopy #bioimaging #bioart #sciart #botany #plantscience #fluorescencefriday

As the availability and performance of #AI for language editing and #translation continues to improve, @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social @bowkerl.bsky.social & Andrew Burton-Jones imagine a future in which everyone can use their own language to write, assess and read #science. 🧪 plos.io/3TBbzie

www.unep.org/news-and-sto... "Against a challenging geopolitical backdrop and in a major move to protect people and planet, countries today came together to agree a new global science-policy panel to support the sound management of #chemicals and waste and to prevent #pollution." #scipol @unep.org

#OTD 1961 America's first astronaut Alan Shepard stepped from a trailer into the dark as searchlights illuminated his Redstone rocket. Flight Director Chris Kraft felt a wave of excitement as Shepard looked up at the rocket; light reflecting off his silver suit – he *looked* like a 'spaceman'.