The children, the older people, the tienda, the bushes. Everyone rising together. Im not crying you are crying.

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New paper out! Here's a puzzle: phototrophy, the ability to use light for energy, is one of life's great innovations. It evolved early and transformed the biosphere. But it evolved 2x. Why not just once, why not more? Our work suggests the answer is priority effects. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

George Washington Carver developed 300 derivative products from peanuts among them cheese, milk, coffee, flour, ink, dyes, plastics, wood stains, soap, linoleum, medicinal oils and cosmetics. #BlackHistoryMonth

Helmet crab (Telmessus cheiragonus) hanging out in the sediment, as they do. 🦑 #oceans #scuba #diving #crustaceans #crabs #invertebrates #pacificnorthwest

reading about organisms that aren’t your specialty is like margins of the quorbus eplungulate, ploobular processes bent posteriorly towards the foobulum define term “eplungulate” - lacking plungae. synonym: thubulous

Diversity and ecological roles of hidden viral players in groundwater microbiomes www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Arctic in Disarry!! It’s been the story of the winter so far. Warm-Blocky Arctic displacing cold airmasses southward. It’s how a rapidly warming Arctic - at a rate 4X the global average - and record low Arctic sea ice - helps enhance the patterns that lead to mid-latitude cold air outbreaks… 1/

#ProtistsOnSky no 'swimming' by 𝘝𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘺𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢, definitively no 'staying still'. just a relaxed walk towards the lunch...

GOOD NEWS! For the FIRST time ever, researchers have developed a targeted combination therapy that has successfully AND completely ELIMINATED KRAS-driven pancreatic tumors in experimental models. Tumors regressed COMPLETELY with NO recurrence OR major side effects. Let’s talk about that!

Yellowstone’s colors aren’t just minerals. They’re living microbes. Heat-loving bacteria and archaea form bands as water cools, each pigment tuned to temperature and light. What looks like abstract art is a thriving ecosystem shaped by extreme heat and chemistry.

Scarlet Elf Cups in the woods this afternoon #mushrooms #fungi #fungifriends #mycology

Happy when I can get down low and shoot some fungi. #ShareMondays2026 #EastCoastKin #MacroMondays

Marjory Stephenson was born #OTD in 1885 + Helped establish modern microbial biochemistry + Wrote foundational textbook 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 (1930), shaping the discipline for decades + Co-founded, Society for General Microbiology + 1 of the first 2 women Fellows, Royal Society, 1945 #WomenInSTEM

So -- What are Ralstonia and why are they goopy? Ralstonia are bacterial pathogens of plants. They colonize and clog the water-transporting xylem vessels, causing rapid-onset wilt disease—they can fatally wilt plants within days. This timelapse by Jonathan Jacobs shows a sped-up time-course.

Treat yourself 🥰

Arent our lives small and dull comparatively? What a marvel we get to see things like this

We are accepting applications for up to 3 Peggy Cotter Travel Awards ($1,650 each) to support early-career professionals attending ASM Microbe 2026. Apply by Feb 16, 2026 by emailing a 1-page letter to [email protected]. ASM membership required; branch membership may be completed once that is live.

Unlocking genetic diversity in Colombian cassava landraces for accelerated breeding Zhao et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/VFUV6U...

Do I know any scientists based in Antarctica? Or who can put me in touch with someone? Reposts gratefully accepted!

Breast milk isn't just nutrition – it delivers live bacterial strains that colonize the infant gut and persist for months. Happy to share our new paper, where we used metagenomics to track bacterial strains between 195 mother-infant pairs over the first 6 months of life: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

📢 JOB OPPORTUNITY We are hiring a Research Technologist (Advanced Professional) to design, implement, support, analyze, and report on rigorous research in genetics, entomology, and host-microbe interactions. Please consider and share with others in need. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Staff/jo...

Looks like the pigeon spikes on roofs !!

Inspired by cicada wings, mechano-bactericidal surfaces are patterned with nanostructures that poke, cut and tear bacteria to death. Can they transform how we combat biofilms to protect human health? asm.org/articles/202...

Now we re stealing mitochondria!??

Human-made freshwaters are everywhere, let’s talk about how they function! We’re hosting a special session at #2026SFS on biogeochemical cycling in artificial aquatic ecosystems & welcome abstracts, due Jan 26. Organized by @jgerson.bsky.social, Anika Bratt, myself & @ajreisinger.bsky.social

This story is about how to help others when you are under unbelievable pressure yourself. Thank you OAA for another inspirational example from nature.

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Lichen thrive on the most inhospitable places because different species work together.

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪

#NollaignamBan During WWII Kay McNulty was one of the women who devised processing routines for the ENIAC machine, establishing how artificial intelligence developed. At the public launch in 1946 the women programmers were relegated to the role of hostesses. www.dib.ie/biography/mc...

Chocolate Tube Slime Mold (Stemonitis sp) on a spruce tree cone. The slime mold is about 1.5cm wide. #slimemold #fungifriends

ASIH is soliciting nominations for the 2026 Margaret Stewart Achievement Award for Excellence - to be awarded to a mid-career scientist in Herpetology. Deadline 20 April 2026. Info here: www.asih.org/awards/stewa... 🐸🦎🐊🐍🐢 Please share and repost!

Stare at a chicken in the eye today. That is my wish for you.

In case anyone needs it for their syllabi, my statement in gen-Ai from the minicomic I made as a syllabus for class last semester. All online and printable here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

Very strange!!

Cladonia #lichen. #Newoundland, Canada. Picture covers about 3 to 4cm left to right. #fungi #fungifriends While #hiking

I know many of you know Joe James (of Binning Singletons) Joe and his family had a terrible tragedy occur on Christmas. If you can give, this is a good family to help out gofund.me/5cbfe22fe

I have a postdoc position in metagenomic exploration available in my group. Candidates with documented experience in phylo & metagenomics and preferably with petabase-scale data mining and GLM workflows are encouraged to apply. Come join us! 🧬🦠💻 Please repost Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

Research Scientist position at the Cornell Biological Field Station: exciting opportunity for an aquatic ecologist/fisheries scientist to work with a 50+ year time series of fish and limnology data on Oneida Lake $90-95K/yr academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31352

Our friend the Herveo Plump Toad lives in cool, moist places high in the Andean mountains of Colombia! They are a small toad, growing to just over an inch long! (photo by Carlos A. Londoño Guarnizo)

📢 I'm hiring! 3-year postdoc in theoretical evolutionary ecology at University of Helsinki 🇫🇮 Apply: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Theoretical-Evolutionary-Biology/1348955157/ #AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter

illustration by the Austrian artist Felicitas Kuhn (1926-2022)

Is vampire a job?

Sounds really fun! Calling on artists of soil !!

You ready for our 2026 Valentines?? The art is ready for ya 😍 As with everything on our shop, sales of these valentines support @skypeascientist.bsky.social! This year's cards were designed by Philly artist @aprilfinfrock.bsky.social! Obsessed with how these turned out. order at SquidFacts.net

Coming to the @egu.eu General Assembly in 2026? Consider submitting an abstract to our mycorrhizae session if you are working on these organisms and their linkages to ecosystem functioning. Last year, this new session was a huge hit, so let's make year two even better!