📢 🦠 🏜️ Meet the first cultured methanogens from oxic soils! Using cultivation and comparative genomics, we descirbe Methanobacterium limanense sp. nov., Methanocella ebodanensis sp. nov., and a strain of Methanosarcina mazei as dwellers of desert biocrusts. With @anne-daebeler.bsky.social and other

Microbiome sequencing has come so far in 2 decades. In my PhD— I used TRFLP…. am now doing long read sequencing of entire soil metagenomes! This review was great fun- thanks Gitta Szabó @emileyeloe-fadrosh.bsky.social Tanja Woyke of @jgi.doe.gov www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This meta-analysis finds that planting nitrogen-fixing species increases soil carbon compared with non-nitrogen-fixing species, potentially offering a nature-based solution to mitigate climate change for forestation, agriculture and land regeneration 🧪🌳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

📢 New preprint on work by my first PhD student William Pallier. Recovery of microbial ecophysiology and carbon accrual functions in peatlands under restoration. We demonstrate that microbial ecophysiology predictably changes with peatland ecosystem health. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

If this happens, it will tear apart families, and destroy the UK. Immigration is fundamental to our existence, our universities, health care system, creative arts & more would be destroyed. Reform are the biggest danger this country has faced in my lifetime www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So Reform / Farage want to deport hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of UK residents, turning the country into an effective police state, breaking treaties, and impoverishing the economy and health service? Just focus on all that. The moral gutter of politics.

Update: A Green Party of England & Wales spokesperson tells me they've just broken 78,000 members Which means the party has jumped 5,000 in less than 5 days. Picking up a lot of Your Party backers no doubt And it's up by 10,000 - about 15% - since Zack Polanski was elected leader. A big cash boost

Interesting article on public misconceptions about HE, including the value to the economy. And yet our govt seem happy to sit back and let it all go to shit. 🤷🏻‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/education/20...

In other words, 94% of those killed in Gaza since March 25 were civilians - up from 83% in the first 1.5 years of this genocidal war. Another symptom of stage 2 of the Gaza Genocide under Trump: fewer casualties so far, but targeting almost entirely civilians. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

📈 ICYMI The Green Party now has 75,000 members and counting! 🤝 Together we can turn this moment of fear into a moment of hope. 💚 Now is the time. Join the Green Party today ⤵️

The Northern Pacific Ocean is currently smashing temperature records. And it is reaching these levels far earlier than the current generation of climate models had expected. A short thread 🧵

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!

We are hiring! On the search for an ambitious post-doc with hot skills in metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and bioinformatics to join our EcoEnergeticS project with @michaeladippold.bsky.social Find the ad here: uni-tuebingen.de/zh/266340

📢 Funded PhD opportunities for UK candidates in beautiful Edinburgh. Get in touch if you're interested in a PhD on understanding the mechanisms of soil carbon cycling and the role of microbes. We work in different ecosystems: peatlands, forests and agricultural soils. Please repost/spread the word.

I would like this to be the peak magnitude of scandal that is rocking our communities, not the current political catastrophes. Please and thank you.

📢 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

🌟Join us for the 2nd ISME #UnityInDiversity Conference!🌟 📅Oct 21 |🕗8 AM PST · 5 PM CET · 11 PM Beijing 🎤 Speakers: @sewerynoz.bsky.social · Ho · @nanditagarud.bsky.social · Medina-Chavez · Moroenyane · Wan 🔗Register: isme-microbes.org/invitation-t... Celebrate diversity in microbial ecology!✨

record 17,058 Marie Curie proposals in 2025 vs. 10,360 in 2024!!! the reason is pretty obvious, but wow that is a huge jump marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...

If you are UK-based and working on any aspect of microbiomes (human, plant, insect, soil, animal, ...), please do sign up to Microbiome-Net for details of networking, funding and training opportunities. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

The scenes on our streets are shameful consequences of decades of austerity - government after government fanning the flames of anti migration instead of tackling inequality. We can & must make different choices. Solidarity to all communities under attack. We stand together.

🎉 Registration for the 4th Global Soil Biodiversity Conference is now OPEN 🎉 Early bird registration is open until December 15th ,2025 🦜 Registration page 👇 globalsoilbiodiversity2026.org/registration/

🚨New preprint from our lab!🚨 We trace the evolution of microbial exoenzymes and uncover their role in Earth’s oxygenation. By recycling nutrients, exoenzymes helped fuel cyanobacteria and set off feedbacks that sustained the long-term rise of O₂. #MicroSky 🧪 🦠 🌎 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Microbial traits for volatile production and consumption are diverse and consequential. Here's why they are ripe for interpretation through a trait-based lens... Led by UA PhD students Ledford and Geffre @parkergeffre.bsky.social in collab w/ LBNL team @elbrodie.bsky.social Marschmann Karaoz

See our new study examining how P additions in tropical rainforests affect tree growth and feedback to AMF and EMF communities. Very interesting links to EMF biomass production strategies. Great work led by Qingshui Yu 🍄‍🟫🍄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 postdoc position with Federico Maggi @sydney.edu.au on global soil carbon modelling: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

2 Postdoc vacancies: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere @erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA 📢 PLEASE RT Experimental: 🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, omics, biogeochem Modelling: 🖥️ Bioenergetics, thermodynamics, ecological, biogeochem ☀️ Marseille, France ‼️ Apply by 30 Sept

📢 We are thrilled to announce the International Soil Virus Conference 2026 in conjunction with the Saint Loup Research Institute. 🗓️ June 16 – 18, 2026 📍 Château de Saint Loup sur Thouet, France 👇 RSVP by October 31st, 2025 #virus #phage #ISVC2026

Listen to the British Society of Soil Science #podcast Soil Matters episode 4 where we joined Richard Bardgett @manchester.ac.uk to talk about #LongTermExperiments & their use by #soil scientists, & the Colt Park #LTE. bit.ly/4oYJmQY 🌏

Genomic recovery from rare terrestrial microbes enabled by DNA-based GC-fractionation | ISME Communications | Oxford Academic https://academic.oup.com/ismecommun/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ismeco/ycaf152/8246624?rss=1&login=false

The achievable carbon uptake from planting trees is much lower than previous estimates, and even lower than many nations have committed to. New paper by Wang et al. in Science. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪🌏🌳🌲🌐

'This country needs migrants' Zack Polanski, the new leader of the Green Party in England and Wales, speaks to #BBCBreakfast about his views on immigration

Congratulations! The result the country needs. He must now - take the fight to #Reform - fight for working people & show them why nature & reduction in warming is key to a healthy future - show Labour how to place citizens at the centre of politics

Save the Date: #MMEG2025 is coming to Birmingham! Join us on 15–16 December 2025 for the 31st edition of MMEG. This year's event is your chance to: 🔬 Share your research 🤝 Connect with peers 🦠 Discover the latest in molecular microbial ecology Register now: appliedmicrobiology.org/ems-event-ca...

Great to see the US climate scientists that Trump fired, fight back by setting up a parallel infrastructure website - climate.us - a crowdsourced nonprofit that aims to rebuild an independent version of the Government climate website that was closed down. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Very interesting! It’s not often that interests of defense, climate mitigation and nature restoration align.

Hot off the press! 📣 We demonstrate that soil physicochemical gradients alter virus community structure but not the presence of those infecting individual (cultivated) bacteria hosts 🦠🧫 @Sungeun Lee @graemenicol.bsky.social @christinahazard.bsky.social

When the World Sleeps - by Palestinian artist, Malak Mattar Malak was born in 1999 in the Gaza Strip and grew up under occupation and the military siege. She came to London in 2023 to study Fine Art More about this artist and her work, here: www.malak-mattar.com #art #Palestine #Gaza

I love this diagram

🔥 Fires in Portugal and Spain have sent huge plumes of smoke over the Bay of Biscay this morning. White is clouds, light brown is smoke:

Archaea are often surrounded by bacteria. But is there ever active conflict between the two? Can archaea kill bacteria? If so, how do they do it? Work by @romainstrock.bsky.social shows that some archaea can kill bacteria by secreting peptidoglycan hydrolases. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

We are also hiring a 4-year postdoc to study the dynamics and evolution of mobile genetic elements in the C-fixing Icelandic host-spring microbiomes Join our exciting multidisciplinary team funded by @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Call for manuscripts - joint special Issue #Geoderma / #GeodermaRegional - "Tropical Soil Science: Bridging Knowledge Gaps in Biogeochemistry, Plant-Soil Interactions and Climate change Mitigation" Geoderma: tinyurl.com/bdf2989c Geoderma Regional: tinyurl.com/3yarxaan photos: Sebastian Doetterl

2025. European Research Council has been ‘biased’ against researchers with novel ideas, study argues sciencebusiness.net/news/r-d-fun...

It’s hard to post about papers these days but I’ll try. Better slow than never. Here’s a blog post about our recently published paper. communities.springernature.com/posts/gettin...

Really exciting and important tree microbiome paper published in @nature.com ‘A diverse and distinct microbiome inside living trees’ 👏 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Recovery of microbial ecophysiology and carbon accrual functions in peatlands under restoration https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.01.668219v1

Makes sense that diverse microbial communities can be maintained on a recalcitrant substrate like cellulose, but on glucose, surely not? Surprisingly there is no difference 🤔 The first part is live 👇 but more to come (including answers). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group. The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects. Please RT. Details 👇: shorturl.at/iiiOv