Alexander Eiler
@alexeiler.bsky.social
Professor in Aquatic Biology, @biovitenskap.bsky.social, @uio.no, Norway
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How do new soils develop after glaciers vanish? ❄️🧬🦠🏔️
The first microbial colonisers use flexible chemoautotrophic strategies to overcome nutrient scarcity, including scavenging H2, CO and CH4 from the air! ⛅
Led by Francesco Ricci, Sean Bay @greening.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The first microbial colonisers use flexible chemoautotrophic strategies to overcome nutrient scarcity, including scavenging H2, CO and CH4 from the air! ⛅
Led by Francesco Ricci, Sean Bay @greening.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Metabolically flexible microorganisms rapidly establish glacial foreland ecosystems - Nature Communications
An enduring question in ecology is how new ecosystems form. Studying retreating glaciers, this study shows that life’s first foothold in these new environments is not established by photosynthetic org...
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January 16, 2026 at 4:08 AM
How do new soils develop after glaciers vanish? ❄️🧬🦠🏔️
The first microbial colonisers use flexible chemoautotrophic strategies to overcome nutrient scarcity, including scavenging H2, CO and CH4 from the air! ⛅
Led by Francesco Ricci, Sean Bay @greening.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The first microbial colonisers use flexible chemoautotrophic strategies to overcome nutrient scarcity, including scavenging H2, CO and CH4 from the air! ⛅
Led by Francesco Ricci, Sean Bay @greening.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New paper alert!
How do 2,600km of river shape a microbiome? We surveyed the #Danube to quantify bacterial turnover at a continental scale.
The key takeaway: Water Travel Time (WTT) is the master regulator of macroecological patterns, while local environment "fine-tunes" the response.
How do 2,600km of river shape a microbiome? We surveyed the #Danube to quantify bacterial turnover at a continental scale.
The key takeaway: Water Travel Time (WTT) is the master regulator of macroecological patterns, while local environment "fine-tunes" the response.
February 4, 2026 at 10:38 AM
New paper alert!
How do 2,600km of river shape a microbiome? We surveyed the #Danube to quantify bacterial turnover at a continental scale.
The key takeaway: Water Travel Time (WTT) is the master regulator of macroecological patterns, while local environment "fine-tunes" the response.
How do 2,600km of river shape a microbiome? We surveyed the #Danube to quantify bacterial turnover at a continental scale.
The key takeaway: Water Travel Time (WTT) is the master regulator of macroecological patterns, while local environment "fine-tunes" the response.
Check out how we use WTT to predict diversity and functioning of the microbiome in a continental river: academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... 🦠💧 #MicrobialEcology #Hydrology
Hydrological regime of a continental river system predicts bacterial macroecological patterns
Abstract. Modelling bacterial dynamics in large river systems is crucial for predicting continental-scale ecosystem functioning under anthropogenic pressur
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February 4, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Check out how we use WTT to predict diversity and functioning of the microbiome in a continental river: academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... 🦠💧 #MicrobialEcology #Hydrology
If you are interested in bacterial macroecology in river systems check out our newest preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Bacterial diversity turnover estimates in a continental river system
Understanding bacterial dynamics in large river systems is crucial for predicting continental-scale ecological functioning under anthropogenic pressures. Here, two consecutive surveys 6-years apart al...
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May 2, 2025 at 6:59 AM
If you are interested in bacterial macroecology in river systems check out our newest preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Vegetation modeling PhD position with great supervisor in Oslo www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
PhD Research Fellow in Arctic-Boreal vegetation modeling (278890) | University of Oslo
Job title: PhD Research Fellow in Arctic-Boreal vegetation modeling (278890), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, May 5, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
April 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Vegetation modeling PhD position with great supervisor in Oslo www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
A new plasmidome study that we were involved in is out. It shows that plasmid diversity behaves differently to chromosomal diversity along a pollution gradient where antibiotic resistance increases. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Anthropogenic imprint on riverine plasmidome diversity and proliferation of antibiotic resistance genes following pollution and urbanization
Plasmids are key determinants in microbial ecology and evolution, facilitating the dissemination of adaptive traits and antibiotic resistance genes (A…
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April 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
A new plasmidome study that we were involved in is out. It shows that plasmid diversity behaves differently to chromosomal diversity along a pollution gradient where antibiotic resistance increases. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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New accepted manuscript on greenhouse gas production kinetics and underlying metabolic rewiring in thawing permafrost under different redox conditions academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
Redox determines greenhouse gas production kinetics and metabolic traits in water-saturated thawing permafrost peat
Abstract. Redox conditions, influenced by the availability of oxygen, are expected to dictate the rate of CO2 and CH4 production and to shape the compositi
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March 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
New accepted manuscript on greenhouse gas production kinetics and underlying metabolic rewiring in thawing permafrost under different redox conditions academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
Wow. 65 open positions www.mn.uio.no/english/abou...
Vacancies - The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.
www.mn.uio.no
February 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Wow. 65 open positions www.mn.uio.no/english/abou...
www.nature.com/articles/s41... - real enjoyed that read
Archaean green-light environments drove the evolution of cyanobacteria’s light-harvesting system - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Cyanobacteria use both chlorophylls and phycobilins to absorb light energy, and authors here use cultivation experiments, numerical simulations and protein phylogenetics to argue that cyanobacteria ev...
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February 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
www.nature.com/articles/s41... - real enjoyed that read
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Picturing plankton: Complementing net‐based plankton community assessments with optical imaging across diverse marine environments aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #jcampubs 🌊
February 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Picturing plankton: Complementing net‐based plankton community assessments with optical imaging across diverse marine environments aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #jcampubs 🌊
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A metagenomic ‘dark matter’ enzyme catalyses oxidative cellulose conversion www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
A metagenomic ‘dark matter’ enzyme catalyses oxidative cellulose conversion - Nature
A metalloenzyme capable of oxidatively cleaving cellulose, found in a microbial community specialized in lignocellulose degradation, could enable sustainable biofuel production.
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February 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A metagenomic ‘dark matter’ enzyme catalyses oxidative cellulose conversion www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
Reposted by Alexander Eiler
This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims
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Defense Against Dishonest Charts
This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.
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February 15, 2025 at 6:48 AM
This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims
flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
Reposted by Alexander Eiler
Impressive !
“4–5-week earlier mutation detection relative to NGS with comparable performance of mutation frequency quantification. Hence, hpPCR is shown to be a powerful complementary tool to the current workflow involving NGS and qPCR”
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“4–5-week earlier mutation detection relative to NGS with comparable performance of mutation frequency quantification. Hence, hpPCR is shown to be a powerful complementary tool to the current workflow involving NGS and qPCR”
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hyperplex PCR enables highly multiplexed analysis of point mutations in wastewater: Long-term SARS-CoV-2 variant surveillance in Sweden as a case study
Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) allows the analysis of pathogens, chemicals or other biomarkers in wastewater to derive unbiased epidemiological i…
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February 15, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Impressive !
“4–5-week earlier mutation detection relative to NGS with comparable performance of mutation frequency quantification. Hence, hpPCR is shown to be a powerful complementary tool to the current workflow involving NGS and qPCR”
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“4–5-week earlier mutation detection relative to NGS with comparable performance of mutation frequency quantification. Hence, hpPCR is shown to be a powerful complementary tool to the current workflow involving NGS and qPCR”
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Alexander Eiler
An inspiring research:
Ecological interactions amplify cumulative effects in marine ecosystems | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Ecological interactions amplify cumulative effects in marine ecosystems | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Ecological interactions amplify cumulative effects in marine ecosystems
Revealing overlooked threats in marine ecosystems explores cumulative effects of climate change and human activities on food webs.
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January 31, 2025 at 10:07 AM
An inspiring research:
Ecological interactions amplify cumulative effects in marine ecosystems | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Ecological interactions amplify cumulative effects in marine ecosystems | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
There are also open postdoc positions on the interface of data and marine sciences at our section. The EU funded DSTrain www.uio.no/dscience/eng...
DSTrain Postdoctoral programme - dScience – Centre for Computational and Data Science
Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.
www.uio.no
January 31, 2025 at 8:18 PM
There are also open postdoc positions on the interface of data and marine sciences at our section. The EU funded DSTrain www.uio.no/dscience/eng...
A first job related post. We have an open PhD student position in freshwater microbial ecology in our lab. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
PhD Research Fellow in freshwater microbial ecology (274477) | University of Oslo
Job title: PhD Research Fellow in freshwater microbial ecology (274477), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, February 28, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
January 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A first job related post. We have an open PhD student position in freshwater microbial ecology in our lab. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
On my way to Gothenburg setting up my new account. Looking forward to scientific interactions on this platform.
January 31, 2025 at 5:38 PM
On my way to Gothenburg setting up my new account. Looking forward to scientific interactions on this platform.