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Missed this one while I was away on fieldwork last week: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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🇩🇪 German speaker? Join us in Jena as a Professor of Bioinformatics and Digital Health: stellenticket.eah-jena.de/de/offers/19...

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Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean #USC_MEB #ResearchAtUSC www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs 🌊

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Halophilic archaea produce wax esters and use an alternative fatty acyl-CoA reductase for precursor synthesis academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs

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A must-read for any microbiome researcher 🦠📐and a new addition to our #bestpractices series Planning and describing a microbiome data analysis by @amydwillis.bsky.social and @davidandacat.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Polyphosphate: The “Dark Matter” of Bacterial Chromatin Structure onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs

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Hi everyone! We are still welcoming applicants for a computational postdoc position. If your profile fits our lab interests, please do reach out to me for more information or apply directly via the link below. I'm looking forward to reading your application! www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3488...

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#sciencejobs #womeninstem

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I am at the NATO meetings in Brussels. Trump and Putin are plunging the world into dark chaos. Here is my dispatch from day one of the meetings. I decided that it was time to go over the boards for Canada. Please read and share. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A new collaborative paper with Anja Spang, Wen-Cong Huang, @chrisrinke.bsky.social @ettema.bsky.social @ssolo.bsky.social Zheng-Shuang Hua Maraike Probst and Lenard Szantho. We investigated the phylogenetic position and metabolic evolution of Panguiarchaeum.

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We're searching for a postdoc to study insect-microbe symbiosis in our lab at UNC Chapel Hill. Application can be found here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/295...

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Want to lead a research group at a Max Planck Institute – with a #tenuretrack position & substantial resources? Apply for the Lise Meitner Excellence Program by @maxplanck.de. The program aims to promote exceptionally qualified #WomeninScience. Deadline: April 8, 2025 www.mpg.de/lise-meitner...

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Don't hesitate, time is almost up🧑‍🔬🧑‍🎓: Join us now at our #MaxPlanck #Research School #IMPRS #MarMic @maxplanck.de and take an interdisciplinary approach t #marine #microbiology 🦠🌊 👉 Apply by Feb 28 @marumunibremen.bsky.social #womeninstem #Bremen #marinescience #PhD #MSc @nicoledubilier.bsky.social

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Have/nearly have a PhD? ≤7 years post-doc experience? Working outside UK? Not a UK citizen? BA & Royal Society offering 2-yr Fellowships for early career researchers to come to the UK! 💷 Includes: Research expenses £12k Relocation up to £8k 🗓️ Deadline: Mar 18, 2025 (17:00 GMT) #ResearchFunding

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My lab's got a new website, check it out! microbialmarketslab.ca

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Our new paper highlights aerobic methane production from methylphosphonates by abundant Methylotenera in Pleistocene era groundwaters. Congrats to @shengjieli.bsky.social, colleagues, and partners at AEPA! academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

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Sounds like something that might be useful to many... resulting in a 10% increase high quality bins: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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📢 Our lab is looking for a bioinformatics postdoc. We have lots of exciting projects to work on, including single cell (epi-)genomics, microglia xenotransplantations and nanopore long reads splicing analysis. Look out for the official advert next week and get in touch in the meantime 🧬🧠

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👉 #JobAlert: We are looking for a #PhD-student on "Functional diversity and connectivity of #microbiomes in the #Arctic and #Antarctic #Oceans over space and time" 📆 #Apply by March 16, 2025 career.mpi-bremen.de/jobposting/e... @matthiaswietz.bsky.social #doctorate #sciencecareer #womeninSTEM

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Global carbonate chemistry gradients reveal a negative feedback on ocean alkalinity enhancement www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊

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PhyloFunc: phylogeny-informed functional distance as a new ecological metric for metaproteomic data analysis microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #jcampubs

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Join our symposium The evolution of microbial pangenomes at @eseb2025.bsky.social with @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social @annadewar.bsky.social (co-organized with @fbaumdicker.bsky.social and Jaime Iranzo)

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Minisyncoccus archaeiphilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a mesophilic, obligate parasitic bacterium and proposal of Minisyncoccaceae fam. nov., ... and Minisyncoccota phyl. nov. formerly referred to as Candidatus Patescibacteria or CPR www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... #jcampubs

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Closing out our winter premier, @florianwollweber.bsky.social will tell us about his investigations into the elusive cell biology of Asgard archaea using state-of-the-art imaging techniques! Show your love for archaea by tuning in on WEDNESDAY! Remember, they're everywhere, always watching 👀

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Applications for MEME are open! It's a research- and mobility-oriented Evolutionary Biology Master's Programme, where students have the opportunity to visit 4(+2) different universities in two years. Please spread the word! www.evobio.eu #EvoBio

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☎️ Calling #MEvoSky ☎️ 2x 5-year research associate / research assistant positions in experimental evolution ERC-funded project: How do mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? Join the friendly and exciting @mermanchester.bsky.social community in Manchester!

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O here's the link: www.cnn.com/2025/01/17/s...

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Dark Oxygen on CNN, starring @emilruff.bsky.social

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BBSRC fellowships are now open! If anyone is interested in applying to work in my team on Efflux and/or AMR mechanisms @imibirmingham.bsky.social then drop me a line! www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

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We are looking for a postdoc in bioinformatics interested in broad questions about the ecology and evolution of host-associated microbiomes using social bees as model. Please share with potential candidates and if interested apply here: career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

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Metabolic labour division trade-offs in denitrifying microbiomes academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs

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If there’s anyone out there who might want to move to Canada and is a senior-level scientist working on marine ecosystems and global change, check out this research chair position at @seos-uvic.bsky.social 🧪⚒️ @jaytcullen.bsky.social www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

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In case you missed it. My colleague sneaked out a @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social just before Christmas with an insane amount of HQMAGs from soil using a looooot of @nanoporetech.com data. Data should be public already. Have fun 🎉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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We have an open position PhD position in a project aiming to develop novel methodologies for phylogenomic reconstruction of plasmid evolution. See details and how to apply in the Ad. Candidates who will review the relevant literature (see Ad) have a higher chance to write a successful application.

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Microbial reaction rate estimation using proteins and proteomes academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs

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“We know that the appearance of crevasses can trigger a lot of feedback for ice loss... With so many feedbacks to enhance ice loss, crevasses are poised to play a large role in the faster-than-forecast response of the ice sheet to climate change.” - @glacierbytes.bsky.social

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New version of MetaErg Genome Annotation Pipeline is out, updated to GTDB 220, CDD to 3.21. The database now includes (113104, 189, 14447) taxa for (prokaryotes, eukaryotes and viruses). github.com/kinestetika/..., hub.docker.com/r/kinestetik...

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Happy Lunar New Year!

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Postdoc publications and citations link to academic retention and faculty success www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs

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#MicroSky #ArchaeaSky #Archaea

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Unraveling the influence of microbial Necromass on subsurface microbiomes: metabolite utilization and community dynamics academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs

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In Nature Chemical Biology today, we reveal how microbes clean our atmospheres by consuming carbon monoxide (CO) gas. A methodological tour de force from Ashleigh Kropp, Rhys Grinter, and David Gillett with broad implications for the atmosphere and bioenergetics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Amazing work by Florin Musat's team! #alkanogenesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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In case some people have missed it, I'm re-posting a link to our paper on the Anaeramoeba-Desulfobacter symbiotic system. This is one of the papers from my lab that I'm most proud of...and a huge amount of the credit goes to @jonhultqvist.bsky.social !!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Emergence and evolution of heterocyte glycolipid biosynthesis enabled specialized nitrogen fixation in cyanobacteria www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs

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Water Quality and Land Use Shape Bacterial Communities Across 621 Canadian Lakes enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs

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Bioenergetic trade-offs can reveal the path to superior microbial CO2 fixation pathways journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

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