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I am looking for an easy to handle commercial microdroplet generator for bacterial single cell encapsulation and subsequent cultivation. Any recommendations or experience to share?🧫🦠

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Check out BASys2: advanced bacterial genome annotation, 800% faster upgrades! 대launched 20 years post-BASys, leveraging new tech & algorithms. PMID:40308209, Nucleic Acids Res 2025, @NAR_Open https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf360 #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪

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A Preprint for our ~$40 USD, open source, 3D printed DNA Fluorometer, the #DIYNAFLUOR, has just been posted to bioRxiv outlining its performance and applications for #eDNA analysis!🦕🧪🧬 A big thanks to all the co-authors! Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Git tinyurl.com/yfh33dsx #science

submitted 139 days ago • 1 comment

I am very happy (and anxious) to share with you our most recent work in which we evaluated four of the most popular long-read assemblers, www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and tell you just a little bit about it in the following 🧵

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

A reminder that @aithyra.bsky.social has an open call for starting PIs. We offer some of the best conditions in Europe rivalling MP and ETHZ www.oeaw.ac.at/aithyra/news...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Visit our posters at #RECOMB2025 for: Structural: MSAs, Virus DB, Core Genes, Motif Discovery, Multimer Clustering & Search, pLM Foldseek, Environmental analysis Metagenomics: Classification & Metabuli App GPU-based & RNA search, Proteome clustering, Novel Ribozyme discovery & get Marv stickers!

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

I’m happy to share our recent review published in The ISME Journal! Here, we explore the role of CO and H₂ oxidisers in oligotrophic environments. This work was a collaboration with Philippe Constant, Gary King, and @hendrikschaefer.bsky.social. Hope you enjoy it! academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Introducing the "tree ring plot": a new way to visualize global surface temperatures. Each ring is a year, and each colored cell represents a day in global average temperatures (compared to a 1850-1900 preindustrial baseline).

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

Unique investigation of some errors in long read assemblers. In particular these remarkably chimeric contigs are 😱, if rare.... Improving long read assemblers is definitely the space to be in when it comes to the future of metagenomics, as short reads won't be part of it 😉

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Hi, everyone! My name is Alex. I'm a microbiologist/cell biologist/biochemist, and I'm sharing some of my career biography today for #YoungScientistNetworking. 1/

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Come join us at @mcgill.ca as an assistant professor in virus-host interactions! Please share widely. mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

LAST CALL to apply to the 2025 Gordon Conference on Applied and Environmental Microbiology "Bridging Scales to Unveil the Power of Environmental Microbiology"! We are filling up quickly. www.grc.org/applied-and-...

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I am considering having a class dedicated to “busting microbiological/molecular biological myths”. Please comment with ideas! Concepts should be things we all are/were told but in reality are more complicated. Example: “Eukarya have their DNA within a separate membrane bound compartment,…

submitted 12 days ago • 37 comments

A huge, new resource for plasmid research - PlasmidScope is a database of 852,000 #plasmid sequences with a rich set of annotations, automated online analysis and interactive visualisation academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

A small cohort of our Lab folks will be here this week! If you're attending, be sure to check Vivianna's work on culturing soil microbes, Jorge's work on vernal pools, and Caitlin's work on sediment archaea! @oceancait.bsky.social @mandussi.bsky.social

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

GTDB Release 10-RS226 (16th April 2025) has been published gtdb.ecogenomic.org

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

A 1.0 release for Sandpiper. 700,000 microbial community profiles (3x the last version, 4.7 Pbp metaG), searchable via the @ace-gtdb.bsky.social R226 taxonomy that just dropped. MetaGs are going exponential, but we are still nowhere near a MAG for all species. sandpiper.qut.edu.au #microsky 🧬🖥️ 1/2

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

I can highly recommend this workshop! I did this workshop as a postdoc and have been a teacher for the last couple of years.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Not really my announcement to make--I am but a lesser co-author--but IQ-TREE 3 has just been released! (Most credit to Minh Bui and @roblanfear.bsky.social and their labs) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

We used Great Oxidation Event as a planet-sized "fossil" to add ancient dates to the Bacterial tree of life. @theconversation.com and @science.org articles show oxygen was used by non-cyanos before that cataclysm, surprisingly. theconversation.com/1-trillion-s... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

Welcome our newest addition to the fleet! ⛴️ We're excited to announce the arrival of our new flagship vessel, R/V David Packard, at our headquarters in Moss Landing, California. This state-of-the-art ship will expand our capacity for ocean exploration. Learn more: www.mbari.org/news/mbari-e...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

#Paper_Alert! Did you ever wonder why there is such a large morphological diversity in #shell-bearing #amoebae and what is the #function of shells anyway? It was long assumed shells are for #defense, well let me try to convince you that their purpose is #attack! A thread🧵👇

submitted 144 days ago • 2 comments

#Postdoc position - at the University of Marburg (Germany), funded within our ERC Advanced Grant "C-SWITCH" Focus: CTP-dependent molecular switches as a new principle of cellular regulation in bacteria (including bacteriophages) Apply by 04 May: stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/2...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

We are looking for a postdoc with microbiology background for #superresolution #singlemolecule #ERC tracking project. Apply by 27.4.2025. 🦠🔬🧫 Pls share! www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

If you are interested in a postdoc opportunity in Europe, I'd suggest you to consider the EU Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship: ec.europa.eu/info/funding... If you are into marine microbial ecology and evolution, I'd love to support your application (see more at merenlab.org). E-MAIL ME NOW! :)

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

One week left! The application deadline for the new @univie.ac.at Master’s program Microbiome Science is April 7. Explore microbial communities and their role in health, ecosystems & the environment – coordinated by @cemess.bsky.social 🔗 Apply now: studieren.univie.ac.at/en/degree-pr...

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

📣 Exciting opportunity! We're hiring a #postdoctoral fellow in #gutmicrobiome research to explore the activity and function of the gut microbiome in situ and its regulation by the immune system.🦠🔬 Post based at @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social Apply here 👇 jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

IMBA is recruiting a Junior Group Leader! Are you interested in starting your own lab, pursuing curiosity-driven basic research in the life sciences? Apply now to our group leader position. The deadline is May 28. Link is below.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

www.cell.com/trends/bioch...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Something I've learned over the years is, even as an editor, giving talks at meetings opens up opportunities and connections for you that simply attending does not. This is just one small reason why organizers supporting ECRs and underrepresented scientists as (keynote) speakers is so important.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

On the 4th of April (Friday next week), Cornelia Welte @cuwelte.bsky.social will give her inaugural lecture as professor in Microbial Physiology at Radboud University! The lecture is titled 'Invisible yet powerful'. www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Don't forget to register for #ICON9, deadline for Early Bird registration is April 22, 2025! #conference #nitrogen #science #Bremen

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Gordon Research Conference - Marine Microbes, June 7 - 12, 2026. Barcelona, Spain www.grc.org/marine-micro...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Lower survival rate among trainees in labs with highly productive mentors raises important concerns about what we value in academia. Many interesting things to stew over with this paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 47 days ago • 4 comments

Working on a little educational/sci-comm project about microbial life and symbiosis 🦠🧫 Pls share and send me your favorite and most interesting symbiont or pathogens from any form of life :) 👽 Happy to acknowledge all of your contributions! 🥳 #MicroSky #SymbioSky

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

Heading home and looking good doing it🚢⁠ ⁠ MBARI’s new vessel, the R/V David Packard, is making its homeward journey to Monterey Bay. ⁠The crew is hard at work keeping the vessel running smoothly and continuing to upgrade and outfit the ship before its arrival. Follow along: odss.mbari.org/odss/

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

We have a 2-year postdoc position available in the Lind Lab at Umeå University, Sweden! Predicting and steering experimental evolution of antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Reposts appreciated. umu.varbi.com/en/?jobtoken...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Please repost: Postdoc position in antibiotic discovery in a large multidisciplinary project combining high-throughput approaches, microscopy, AI, and hit-to-lead optimization at @umontreal.ca and @mila-quebec.bsky.social. Apply to [email protected]. See lnkd.in/dVVk4N3s. #microsky

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Our group @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social spent the day at our #ScienceFestival telling kids how important and cool are microbes&microbiomes. 🦠🧫 Lets hope the importance of science will never be forgotten by the new generations!

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Both of these will be very good! Please join them if you are working on (or are interested in) AMR genomics. See www.targetamr.org.uk for more info and follow @target-amr.bsky.social on here.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Happy International Women's Day I made a Women In Phage Research starter pack (+ me because I dont know how to remove me) Please share & let me know who to add #phagesky #microsky #microbiomesky 🧬🖥️🔬 go.bsky.app/BGugi2N

submitted 58 days ago • 13 comments

joined the march for science in vienna yesterday, in support of and in solidarity with the many colleagues in the US

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING! To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

submitted 59 days ago • 27 comments