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Gemma Reguera 🌎 @microgem.bsky.social · 9d

Lost in the many news of last week was this press release about the dissolution of the DOE Office of Science advisory committees and replacement with a new, integrated, single Office of Science Advisory Committee (SCAC): www.energy.gov/science/arti...

DOE Establishes the Office of Science Advisory Committee

The Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the establishment of the Office of Science Advisory Committee (SCAC).

www.energy.gov

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Nagissa Mahmoudi @nagissa.bsky.social · 8d

Interested in life’s co-evolution with planetary environments?
🌎🦠🧪

I'm looking for a postdoc to join my group at #McGill and happy to sponsor applicants for the TSI fellowship.

Please reach out if interested!

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30777

McGill University, Trottier Space Institute

Job #AJO30777, Trottier Space Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, Trottier Space Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CA

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Nagissa Mahmoudi @nagissa.bsky.social · Sep 12

🚨New preprint from our lab!🚨

We trace the evolution of microbial exoenzymes and uncover their role in Earth’s oxygenation. By recycling nutrients, exoenzymes helped fuel cyanobacteria and set off feedbacks that sustained the long-term rise of O₂.

#MicroSky 🧪 🦠 🌎

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

Microbial exoenzymes catalyzed the transition to an oxygenated Earth

Microbial exoenzymes, extracellular enzymes secreted to degrade complex organic polymers, are essential for recycling carbon and nutrients, thus sustaining primary productivity in todays oceans. Yet, ...

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Izzy Baker @izzyrbaker.bsky.social · Aug 28

More dead fish this morning #Chesapeake #Anoxia

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Izzy Baker @izzyrbaker.bsky.social · Jun 5

We interrupt your regularly scheduled doom-scrolling with some science pics from our fieldwork on the Chesapeake Bay!

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · May 1

I talked to Nature about the latest development at NSF, which is a five-alarm fire for American science. The scale of immediate impact is massive. We narrowly escaped this affecting @viralemergence.org for now, but will have to shut down in a few months if this stays.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

www.nature.com

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Chris Rowan @allochthonous.bsky.social · Apr 2

⚒️🧪 Even more sobering to me is that by removing the nodules, which take millions of years to form, the very slow ecosystem recovery will be to a very different state than what was there before.

A signal of our thoughtlessness that could last until the ocean floor itself is subducted.

Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · Apr 2

There is something horribly sobering about this.

The deep sea abyssal plains of the Pacific have existed basically unchanged for roughly 80 million years. Over a period of just a couple of weeks in 1979, we changed it during an experimental mining operation.
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

Evidence of deep-sea mining still visible over four decades later | Natural History Museum

The impact it has had on the life living down there has been more mixed.

www.nhm.ac.uk

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Gemma Reguera 🌎 @microgem.bsky.social · Mar 6

I absolutely love this work❗️

Isolation of two strains belonging to the order proposed as FECA’s closest relative, ‘Hodarchaeales’, as members of a pure co- and tri-culture with methanogenic partners.

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

Eukaryotes’ closest relatives are internally simple syntrophic archaea

Eukaryotes are theorized to have originated from an archaeal phylum Promethearchaeota (formerly ‘Asgard’ archaea)[1][1],[2][2]. The first cultured representatives revealed valuable insight[3][3],[4][4...

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Izzy Baker @izzyrbaker.bsky.social · Mar 7

Today, we stand up for science.

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Izzy Baker @izzyrbaker.bsky.social · Mar 4

What 2 days of sampling looks like 😅

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · Feb 21

Legitmately thrilled to share our latest work, in which @fernpizza.bsky.social solved an experimental challenge in plasmid biology as old as the field: measuring how plasmids compete and evolve within individual cells!

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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · Feb 18

Firings happening right now at the NSF.

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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · Feb 7

reposting from 𝕏 bc you know...

@KensukeTadome (not on 🔵bsky) on Aug 10, 2023:
"Cross section of 𝘙𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘢 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘴 🧐 As you can see, lichens are a symbiotic relationship between algae and fungi. The algae sparkle and are beautiful ☺️✨"

#SymbioSky #Lichen

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Karthik Anantharaman @karthik-a.bsky.social · Feb 2

Studies only making reads available may satisfy journal requirements but do not serve the larger community.

If you work with any form of metagenomics/genomics data, and are for open access and FAIR data policies...Please consider making ALL your data public (genomes, proteins, reads, metadata).

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Izzy Baker @izzyrbaker.bsky.social · Jan 15

Please share! This is a great opportunity for early career geobiologists, geochemists, sedimentologists, microbiologists, and evolutionary biologists

Izzy Baker @izzyrbaker.bsky.social · Jan 15

More info here: www.midatlanticgeobiologysymposium.org

Home - Mid-Atlantic Geobiology Symposium

We are excited to announce the 2025 Mid-Atlantic Geobiology Symposium! The symposium will be held on Friday, February 28, 2025 at Johns Hopkins University. We welcome attendees from any career stage a...

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Izzy Baker @izzyrbaker.bsky.social · Jan 15

You can register and submit abstracts for the symposium here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Mid-Atlantic Geobiology Symposium Registration

The deadline to submit this form is January 31, 2025 for those wishing to submit an abstract for oral or poster presentations and for speaker nominations. The deadline for those wishing to attend with...

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Izzy Baker @izzyrbaker.bsky.social · Jan 15

Check out the official logo for Mid-Atlantic #Geobiology 2025! Featuring North America’s largest estuary—the Chesapeake Bay!

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Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com · Jan 10

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold.

We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940.

2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

Ridgeline chart showing the distribution of global daily air temperature differences from the pre-industrial reference period (1850-1900), for every year between 1940 and 2024. Each individual year resembles a hill, shaded in a darker shade of red and further to the right for warmer years. The trend is clearly towards warmer years, with 2024 standing out as first year above 1.5C.

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · Jan 3

Resurrection of a diatom after 7000 years from anoxic Baltic Sea sediment academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs

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Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · Jan 3

After 24 years of work, I’m thrilled to announce the TYMEFLIES dataset, which comprises metagenomes from Lake Mendota (Madison, WI), collected roughly every 10 days (471 samples) for 20 years! @quendi.bsky.social @robinrohwer.bsky.social

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A thread…

Two decades of bacterial ecology and evolution in a freshwater lake

Nature Microbiology - A 471-metagenome time series from Lake Mendota in Wisconsin, USA, reveals seasonal and decadal shifts in bacterial functional and ecological dynamics, especially in response...

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Izzy Baker @izzyrbaker.bsky.social · Dec 25

Merry Christmas to all those that celebrate, and to my fellow MOT, have a bright first night of Chanukah!

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Dr. Roxanne Beinart @symbiosisrox.bsky.social · Dec 2

Reposting this again - We are looking for a postdoc to study the physiology, evolution, and cell biology of anaerobic ciliate-methanogen symbioses using 'omics, experiments, and/or microscopy. Still accepting inquiries, and I would love to hear from interested candidates.

Dr. Roxanne Beinart @symbiosisrox.bsky.social · Oct 24

We are searching for a postdoc to join our team, focused on anaerobic ciliate-methanogen symbiosis. Please share widely!

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Izzy Baker @izzyrbaker.bsky.social · Dec 14

Ha no way! I loved geeking out about iron with you!

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Izzy Baker @izzyrbaker.bsky.social · Dec 14

It was great to see you, Jen!!

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