We just planned this canyon and now we are diving to explore and collect samples. Watch live here - www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcea... #AsgardArchaea @schmidtocean.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social @texasscience.bsky.social @utmsi.bsky.social

Starting at 7pm Central I will be streaming from the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Uruguay! Feel free to join and ask questions. www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean

Did someone say Asgard? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The 1st annual Southern Geobiology Symposium will be hosted at UTMSI in fall 2026 Please fill out this interest form (forms.gle/znTuXQuxh9D2...) Questions may be directed to co-chairs, Penny Demetriades ([email protected]) and John Hinkle ([email protected])

Nature research paper: Redox-driven mineral and organic associations in Jezero Crater, Mars go.nature.com/4n0h3Am

Thursday! Episode 92 of #MattersMicrobial! Dr. Valerie DeAnda Torres of the University of Florida joined the #QualityQuorum to discuss the work of her research group in studying evolution of metabolic pathways in the deep ocean. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord! youtu.be/nNcXGmh9CZo?...

PANGAEA is working to rescue data from the US! Many datasets - e.g. from NOAA - are being decommissioned in May. PANGAEA has opened its archive to safeguard these valuable resources. "If you become aware of any endangered datasets, please don't hesitate to contact us. We ❤️ data!" www.pangaea.de

Thursday! Episode #86 of #MattersMicrobial with @karenlloyd.bsky.social of USC. She joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss her upcoming book "Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life On Earth." Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord? @microbetv.bsky.social @asm.org youtu.be/0c_JosnIGBM?...

Wrote up a few pages to provide information about the Stand up for science rally. The goal was to do this in a as non-partisan way as possible and contextualize this to my specific location and institution. Feel free to use and share! #standupforscience docs.google.com/document/d/1...

New, very exciting preprint where we identify polycyclic triterpenoids lipids in archaea (Asgards) for the first time. This was a wonderful collaboration with Paula Welander’s lab..… a thread… //www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.07.637177v1 @valdeanda.bsky.social and Hanon McShea

Drivers of methane-cycling archaeal abundances, community structure, and catabolic pathways in continental margin sediments www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic... #jcampubs

Complex bacterial diversity of Guaymas Basin hydrothermal sediments revealed by synthetic long-read sequencing (LoopSeq) www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic... #jcampubs

The “last act” of my undergrad is out now! Complex bacterial diversity of Guaymas Basin hydrothermal sediments revealed by synthetic long-read sequencing (LoopSeq) www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic...

High throughput long-read 16S rRNA gene sequencing finely resolves complex diversity and phylogenetic clades of sulfur-cycling microbes in Guaymas Basin. www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic... Nice study led by @johnehinkle.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social @molmoyn.bsky.social

After 24 years of work, I’m thrilled to announce the TYMEFLIES dataset, which comprises metagenomes from Lake Mendota (Madison, WI), collected roughly every 10 days (471 samples) for 20 years! @quendi.bsky.social @robinrohwer.bsky.social rdcu.be/d5put A thread…

Happy to share my 1st first-author paper in print! Asgard archaea modulate potential methanogenesis substrates in wetland soil. #ArchaeaSky 1/4 doi.org/10.1038/s414...