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The ERC welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from @ec.europa.eu for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering larger, longer-term grants, as announced by President Ursula Von der Leyen at the Sorbonne this morning. 👉 europa.eu/!NTYTTV

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A new preprint demonstrating the existence of circular 23 rRNA within ribosomes of diverse phyla of #archaea - www.biorxiv.org/cont...

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Thrilled to share that our manuscript on strain-level gut microbiome variation across diverse populations and human phenotypes is out today in @cellpress.bsky.social Curious about how strain diversity relates to human traits? Follow this thread! 🌍 (1/n) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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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/...

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

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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

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#Restoration efforts can not be scaled up globally to restore #coral reefs. Conclusion? More data-informed planning is needed in selecting where and through what methods to restore reefs - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Do you study mobile genetic elements and how these evolutionary catalysts interact with and effect micro- and/or macroorganisms? Then we have a symposium at the ESEB25 conference dedicated to you! Submit your abstract now - eseb2025.com/call-for-abs... - #evosky #MEvoSky #MicroSky #evobio #ecoevo

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Global diversity and abundance patterns of marine diatoms revealed through an extensive V4 and V9 metabarcoding dataset - www.nature.com/artic...

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TREC is now on Bluesky! The expedition has gathered samples all along Europe’s coasts – now scientists are exploring what the data tell us. We’ll be sharing insights into this amazing ongoing work! Spread the word! @embl.org @taraoceans-science.bsky.social @embrc-eu.bsky.social 📸Massimo Del Prete

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Efficient and robust search of microbial genomes via phylogenetic compression www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Through global metagenomics, >150,000 18S rRNA gene sequences of eukaryotes have been recovered, including representatives for novel high taxonomic ranks - www.biorxiv.org/cont...

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Very thankful of @mehrshmali.bsky.social&@taylorpriest.bsky.social for the invitation and organizing symposium #10 at the @eseb2025.bsky.social this summer at BCN! Be welcome for the discussion on "Eco-evolutionary dynamics driven by mobile genetic elements"Call 4 abstracts is open, don't miss out!

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Excited about microbiomes and want to study them at the single-cell level? Join our team to pioneer research using microfluidics paired with automated timelapse microscopy. We're hiring motivated postdocs to push the boundaries of microbial ecology! Apply now: apply.interfolio.com/165601

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Are you planning to join #ESEB2025? Our two amazing invited speakers will be discussing evo-evolutionary dynamics driven by mobile genetic elements at symposium 10! @eseb2025.bsky.social @taylorpriest.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social

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Cool new method for tracking genetic transfer in a microbial community - Information storage across a microbial community using universal RNA barcoding www.nature.com/artic...

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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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Wow this is a game changer. PhD scholarships and postdoctoral fellowships are now open to non-Canadians.

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Always heartbreaking to see news like this, particularly in siwtzlerand where I usually perceive that they are doing good on conservation measures! But killing so many wolves, including entire packs is unnecessary- www.swissinfo.ch/eng/alpine-e...

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Quantifying compositional variability in microbiomes using FAVA. A new method for comparing compositional variability that considers many samples at once as opposed to pairwise comparisons - www.pnas.org/doi/10....

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DRAMMA- a machine learning approach for novel antimicrobial resistance genes using sequence, amino acid and protein features - microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Very excited to announce that @mehrshmali.bsky.social and I will be chairing a symposium (S10) at ESEB25 this summer on 'eco-evolutionary dynamics driven by mobile genetic elements' (eseb2025.com/list-of-symp...) 🚨Abstract submissions are now open🚨

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We're looking for a postdoc on the Computational Analysis of Environmental #Microbiome Data! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... In the past two years, @embl.org scientists have gathered more than 3000 soil, sediment & water samples from Europe's coastlines within the #TREC expedition (1/2)

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Very cool! Long term evolution experiment on yeast that led to the evolution and selective maintenance of polyploidy

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Cool paper. "We developed a general genome-to-ecosystem (G2E) framework for integrating genome-inferred microbial kinetic traits into mechanistic models of terrestrial ecosystems .. benchmarking predictions against observed greenhouse gas emissions" doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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Exploring the horizontal gene transfer potential of virus-like particles and extracellular vesicles in the pelagic marine environment - www.nature.com/artic...

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Glacier ice algae are highly adapted to optimise nutrient uptake and exhibit high C:N and C:P ratios. Providing additional N and P does not enhance DIC assimilation - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Very cool discovery!

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Characterising marine organisms from the three domains of life using universal primers - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Although it has been often proposed that biological patchiness in the oceans relates to physical processes, a new global-ocean scale analysis reveals that patchiness of physical and biological parameters are uncorrelated- www.nature.com/artic...

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There's been a lot of developments in our understanding of defence/anti-defence systems in genomes and mobile genetic elements in the last few years - just came across this review that can get you up to speed on anti-defence systems in phages and plasmids - www.cell.com/current...

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AntiDefenseFinder: a tool for the automated annotation of 156 anti-defense systems in DNA sequences - academic.oup.com/nar...

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Reading this definitely just gives me more anxiety and makes me feel the pressure more for the next year or two of my life - publications and citations in your early postdoc years is connected with academic retention and faculty success - www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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Below ground warming in permafrost ecosystems may not drive major microbiome changes as previously proposed, with a surprising degree of microbiome stability supported by functional redundancy and dispersal

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Check it out, powerful new method for optical imaging of the live ECM, from @hhmijanelia.bsky.social Group Leader Kayvon Pedram #proudofalumni #glycotime www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Pretty positive results, I would say

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Very nice review on the land-ocean Arctic Carbon Cycle - www.nature.com/artic...

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This is cool!! Exogenous chromosomes introduced into yeast cells will either be transcribed and intermingle with host chromosome or be segregated and compartmentalised - their fate is determined by similarity in GC content to host chromosome

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The land–ocean Arctic carbon cycle www.nature.com/articles/s43... #jcampubs 🌊

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Our new study in @naturecomms.bsky.social showing the recurrent assembly of microbial modules over polar day and night, based on four years of autonomous sampling in the Arctic www.nature.com/articles/s41... Fantastic teamwork by #AWI @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social @hhu.bsky.social & many others 🙂

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Very happy to announce our new publication 🚨 we explored the taxonomic and functional dynamics of an arctic ocean microbiome over multi-annual scales and provide insights into mechanistic drivers and the role of environmental selection - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Very cool study revealing how short lived collisions drives cooperation between ribosomes for translating problematic RNA sequences - www.cell.com/cell/fu...

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