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Ian Marshall @ianpgm.bsky.social · 1d

I'm recruiting a postdoc to figure out how aerobic methanotrophic bacteria oxidise methane in anoxic freshwater sediment environments: international.au.dk/about/profil... Come to Aarhus University in Denmark and work on this 2-year project funded by @villumfonden.bsky.social!

Postdoctoral position on methanotrophic bacteria - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Biology - Microbiology, Aarhus University

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Igor Pessi @igorspp.bsky.social · 1d

This is huge!
(Never mind the awful click bait title)

Nature @nature.com · 1d

Metagraph: the new search engine that can quickly sift through the staggering volumes of biological data housed in public repositories

go.nature.com/48lM8Kh

‘Google for DNA’ brings order to biology’s big data

MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery.

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David N. Thomas @dnthomas01.bsky.social · 1d

Great to have been involved in this work led by @igorspp.bsky.social
New insight into the degradation of #plastics in marine systems

bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 2d

Biodegradation of different bioplastics by specialised microbial communities in a coastal brackish environment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.07.679016v1

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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 2d

Biodegradation of different bioplastics by specialised microbial communities in a coastal brackish environment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.07.679016v1

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Igor Pessi @igorspp.bsky.social · 6d

“Biology”, “arts”… 🤦‍♂️

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 7d

An official website of the United States government.

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING 🇵🇸 Navigated by Captain Muhammad Kuchuktigin, the Mikeno ship broke the blockade of Gaza earlier this morning, bypassing the occupation's naval forces and entering Palestinian territorial waters.

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Igor Pessi @igorspp.bsky.social · 7d

Sorry, this appeared in my timeline and I couldn’t resist the contradiction…

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Igor Pessi @igorspp.bsky.social · 7d

Luxembourg showing that, yes, you can be a global leader in money laundering and tax fraud and still have free public transportation!

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 8d

There are a few people that are inspirations to almost all scientists that I know, and Jane Goodall was one of them. RIP. 😢

Jane Goodall, the celebrated primatologist and conservationist, has died

Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.

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Igor Pessi @igorspp.bsky.social · 8d

TRULY open metagenomic data, no strings attached, no small print! 🙌

Pamela Ferretti @pamferretti.bsky.social · Aug 15

Manually curated and harmonized metadata for over 110k metagenomic samples! (58k samples from the human gut alone!)🦠

Proud to have contributed to Metalog, the latest @borklab.bsky.social resource:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#microsky #microbiome

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Julia Kemppinen @juliakemppinen.bsky.social · 8d

One week to go! I am recruiting a postdoc, call ends October 7 🍃🌿☘️ In ecology, University of Helsinki is the leading university in Finland and the Nordics and the fifth-best in Europe (ShangaiRanking's 2024). And for 8 years in a row, Finland is still the happiest country in the world :-)

Julia Kemppinen @juliakemppinen.bsky.social · 27d

I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to conduct experiments on tundra plants and microclimates 🌱🌡️💧❄️ Call ends October 7! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Postdoctoral Researcher, Biodiversity Change

jobs.helsinki.fi

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Igor Pessi @igorspp.bsky.social · 8d

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Igor Pessi @igorspp.bsky.social · 8d

Can we please stop using LLM-generated images in scientific presentations? Why do we need to illustrate our slides with completely made up “organisms”? #rant

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Igor Pessi @igorspp.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you for clarifying. I think this distinction is not obvious in the paper, that’s why I and others were confused. Particularly for those like me who are not familiar with the way that JGI handles data accessibility

Igor Pessi @igorspp.bsky.social · 9d

Well, if data reuse would be conditioned to the approval of the data generator, one can withhold their consent to preserve their interests, be it from a fairness pov (protecting ECRs who generated the data) or from a more unethical pov (I don’t want people working with “my” data)

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Igor Pessi @igorspp.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you for the clarification. I understand where you are coming from and agree that this JGI issue is a huge problem. But I’m still not convinced that this is a generalised problem, I will read the paper once again.

Igor Pessi @igorspp.bsky.social · 9d

Yes, access to the data by the reviewers, which doesn’t mean that the it needs to be fully public right away

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Igor Pessi @igorspp.bsky.social · 9d

IMHO, what this paper proposes is a fix to the JGI problem that just adds a layer of subjectivity and creates huge potential for gatekeeping—please note that I’m not suggesting that this is your intention at all, but rather an adverse consequence that just makes the problem worse

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Igor Pessi @igorspp.bsky.social · 9d

All the datasets that I have generated so far have been made public when the manuscript was accepted, so I have never been scooped in that sense. I’m happy to be proved wrong but this looks to me more like a JGI problem rather than a generalised one.

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Igor Pessi @igorspp.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you for the clarification. Yes, I’ve read the paper but no, nothing is said specifically about this. I’m not from the US, and in the countries where I’ve worked (Brazil, Belgium and Finland) I have never come across such a policy, which is indeed very bad for ECRs.

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Igor Pessi @igorspp.bsky.social · 9d

“Following adoption by databases, authors and scientific journals would ideally integrate statements confirming that the best practices governed by DRI use were used in manuscripts and submission processes.”

What about this? Wouldn’t this effectively condition publication to these rules?

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Teppo Hiltunen @teppo-h.bsky.social · 9d

Professor (full) or Associate Professor (tenure track) in Microbial Genetics of Health (U. Turku Finland). Competitive starting package included! Please share.

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Professor or Associate professor (Tenure Track/Full) in Microbial Genetics of Health - Turun yliopisto - Työpaikat - Duunitori

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Igor Pessi @igorspp.bsky.social · 9d

Also, the poll data presented is massively biased towards the global north. And not one single author in this paper is from outside Europe, USA or Canada. Do you think that what is proposed here represents accurately the views of the global scientific community?

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