Leonid Digel
@leodigel.bsky.social
Carlsberg Postdoctoral Fellow studying electric life using electron microscopy and electrochemistry. University of Cambridge. Former postdoc @CEMAarhus.
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SOLARSPOON has a PDRA position available in Cambridge, UK!
More info and apply here⤵️⤵️⤵️
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...
@biophotoelectro.bsky.social @reisnerlab.bsky.social
#PDRA #SOLARSPOON
More info and apply here⤵️⤵️⤵️
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...
@biophotoelectro.bsky.social @reisnerlab.bsky.social
#PDRA #SOLARSPOON
Post-Doctoral Research Associate: Bio-photoelectrochemical device assembly for semi-artificial photosynthesis (Fixed Term)
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 2 years in the first instance. Applications are invited for a post-doctoral research associate to join the groups of Dr Jenny Zhang,
www.cam.ac.uk
January 22, 2026 at 12:46 PM
SOLARSPOON has a PDRA position available in Cambridge, UK!
More info and apply here⤵️⤵️⤵️
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...
@biophotoelectro.bsky.social @reisnerlab.bsky.social
#PDRA #SOLARSPOON
More info and apply here⤵️⤵️⤵️
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...
@biophotoelectro.bsky.social @reisnerlab.bsky.social
#PDRA #SOLARSPOON
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Aarhus University is seeking a Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate Professor in Bioinformatics/Co… https://nat.au.dk/en/about-the-faculty/vacant-positions-and-career/job/tenure-track-assistant-professor-associate-professor-in-bioinformatics-and-or-computational-biology-at-aarhus-university-denmark #job
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Bioinformatics and/or Computational Biology at Aarhus University, Denmark - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - BiRC - Bioinformatics Research Center, Aarhus University
nat.au.dk
February 7, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Aarhus University is seeking a Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate Professor in Bioinformatics/Co… https://nat.au.dk/en/about-the-faculty/vacant-positions-and-career/job/tenure-track-assistant-professor-associate-professor-in-bioinformatics-and-or-computational-biology-at-aarhus-university-denmark #job
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We have a postdoc position open!
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...
Post-Doctoral Research Associate: Bio-photoelectrochemical device assembly for semi-artificial photosynthesis (Fixed Term)
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 2 years in the first instance. Applications are invited for a post-doctoral research associate to join the groups of Dr Jenny Zhang,
www.cam.ac.uk
February 6, 2026 at 6:52 PM
We have a postdoc position open!
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...
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In addition to the 2 postdoc jobs posted yesterday, we’re recruiting 2 PhD students (environmental microbiology/ molecular ecology) to join us from April. The projects will map microbial populations across niches in bioelectrochemical systems relevant to biomethanation & link them to performance.
Two fully funded PhD candidate positions in Electromicrobiology (3 years)
Application deadline: 4 March 2026 at 23:59 hours local Danish time
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:17 PM
In addition to the 2 postdoc jobs posted yesterday, we’re recruiting 2 PhD students (environmental microbiology/ molecular ecology) to join us from April. The projects will map microbial populations across niches in bioelectrochemical systems relevant to biomethanation & link them to performance.
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I’m looking for two postdoctoral scientists in experimental evolution to join my team from April 2026 (or soon after). Please share! fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Two postdoctoral positions (3-year) in Experimental Evolution of Methanogenic Microbiomes in Bioelectrochemical Systems
Application deadline: 4 March 2026 at 23:59 hours local Danish time
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:34 AM
I’m looking for two postdoctoral scientists in experimental evolution to join my team from April 2026 (or soon after). Please share! fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Some of Earth’s oldest fossils belong to microbes. I look at how these ancient fossils are preserved, how scientists study them, and what they reveal about early Earth and the origins of life.
Link: asm.org/articles/202...
Link: asm.org/articles/202...
How Microbial Fossils Illuminate Life’s Origins | ASM.org
Microbial fossils offer clues about how early prokaryotes shaped Earth’s chemistry, offering rare glimpses into the origins of life and the planet’s first ecosystems over 3.5 billion years ago.
asm.org
January 24, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Some of Earth’s oldest fossils belong to microbes. I look at how these ancient fossils are preserved, how scientists study them, and what they reveal about early Earth and the origins of life.
Link: asm.org/articles/202...
Link: asm.org/articles/202...
In an online-only environment, it is a rare pleasure to have your writing printed @bluescicam.bsky.social
January 22, 2026 at 6:43 PM
In an online-only environment, it is a rare pleasure to have your writing printed @bluescicam.bsky.social
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🌱 Calling researchers and innovators in chemistry and biotechnology! 🌱 Excited to share that the RSC Biotechnology Group is hosting the Biotechnology for Sustainability meeting on 15 April 2026 at the RSC Burlington House in London.
Biotechnology for Sustainability: From Discovery to Deployment
The Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BA, United Kingdom
www.rsc.org
January 18, 2026 at 4:27 AM
🌱 Calling researchers and innovators in chemistry and biotechnology! 🌱 Excited to share that the RSC Biotechnology Group is hosting the Biotechnology for Sustainability meeting on 15 April 2026 at the RSC Burlington House in London.
Here is what prophages do when noone is watching
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Secret life of prophages: template-directed synthesis of DNA superstructures via prophage activation and rolling circle replication in bacterial biofilms
Extracellular DNA (eDNA) plays crucial roles in biofilm formation and function, yet the role of bacteriophages (phages) in controlling eDNA synthesis, structure and activity remains obscure. Here, we ...
www.biorxiv.org
January 15, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Here is what prophages do when noone is watching
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Live within 70 miles of Norwich and think you might be low in vitamin D? 📍
Take part in our study investigating whether tomatoes biofortified through gene editing to be high in vitamin in D can help boost vitamin D levels🌞
@johninnescentre.bsky.social
buff.ly/L3PbkUD
Take part in our study investigating whether tomatoes biofortified through gene editing to be high in vitamin in D can help boost vitamin D levels🌞
@johninnescentre.bsky.social
buff.ly/L3PbkUD
The ViTal-D Study - Quadram Institute
Are you aged over 18 years, live within 70 miles of Norwich and think you may be low in vitamin D? You may be eligible to participate in the ViTal-D study. The ViTaL-D Study is investigating the…
buff.ly
January 15, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Live within 70 miles of Norwich and think you might be low in vitamin D? 📍
Take part in our study investigating whether tomatoes biofortified through gene editing to be high in vitamin in D can help boost vitamin D levels🌞
@johninnescentre.bsky.social
buff.ly/L3PbkUD
Take part in our study investigating whether tomatoes biofortified through gene editing to be high in vitamin in D can help boost vitamin D levels🌞
@johninnescentre.bsky.social
buff.ly/L3PbkUD
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'We have found that air pollution, including exposure inside homes, contributes substantially to premature death worldwide'
Read more ⬇️
Read more ⬇️
Indoor air pollution is a global health issue, not just a domestic heating one
Air pollution, including exposure inside homes, contributes substantially to premature death worldwide.
theconversation.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:49 PM
'We have found that air pollution, including exposure inside homes, contributes substantially to premature death worldwide'
Read more ⬇️
Read more ⬇️
Electromicrobiology in the latest issue ‘Unseen Worlds’ of BlueSci Cambridge University Science Magazine! Featuring a photograph I took a while back in Micropia Museum 🦠🧫
www.bluesci.co.uk/issue/
www.bluesci.co.uk/issue/
Past Issues | Bluesci
www.bluesci.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Electromicrobiology in the latest issue ‘Unseen Worlds’ of BlueSci Cambridge University Science Magazine! Featuring a photograph I took a while back in Micropia Museum 🦠🧫
www.bluesci.co.uk/issue/
www.bluesci.co.uk/issue/
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Join us in congratulating @karenlloyd.bsky.social, whose book Intraterrestrials has been longlisted for the 2026 @penamerica.bsky.social/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award! The winner will be announced in March 2026.
Explore her outstanding work here: hubs.ly/Q03YLJl10
Explore her outstanding work here: hubs.ly/Q03YLJl10
December 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Join us in congratulating @karenlloyd.bsky.social, whose book Intraterrestrials has been longlisted for the 2026 @penamerica.bsky.social/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award! The winner will be announced in March 2026.
Explore her outstanding work here: hubs.ly/Q03YLJl10
Explore her outstanding work here: hubs.ly/Q03YLJl10
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Link to the list of Student Projects: bio.au.dk/forskning/fo...
Student projects in Center for Electromicrobiology - Aarhus University
If you are interested in pursuing a student project within electromicrobiology and cable bacteria, read about our project suggestions or contact us.
bio.au.dk
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Link to the list of Student Projects: bio.au.dk/forskning/fo...
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Congratulations to Associate Professor @ianpgm.bsky.social for receiving a Villum Experiment Grant of DKK 2.5 million for his project: AGAMBLE – Anaerobic Growth of Aerobic Methanotrophic Bacteria in Lake Environments🎉
We’re excited to see how this grant will lead to new insights and discoveries!🌿🔬
We’re excited to see how this grant will lead to new insights and discoveries!🌿🔬
November 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Congratulations to Associate Professor @ianpgm.bsky.social for receiving a Villum Experiment Grant of DKK 2.5 million for his project: AGAMBLE – Anaerobic Growth of Aerobic Methanotrophic Bacteria in Lake Environments🎉
We’re excited to see how this grant will lead to new insights and discoveries!🌿🔬
We’re excited to see how this grant will lead to new insights and discoveries!🌿🔬
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Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems.
For more details and to apply please see
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
For more details and to apply please see
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
October 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems.
For more details and to apply please see
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
For more details and to apply please see
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
October 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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🚨Exciting 🧪👩🎓🦠 job alert 🚨
Postdoc position on dark microbial O2 production in marine oxygen minimum zones with Bo Thamdrup and @beatekraft.bsky.social at @sdu.dk
Love fieldwork, stable isotopes, the sea and a fantastic team? Then apply -> fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoc position on dark microbial O2 production in marine oxygen minimum zones with Bo Thamdrup and @beatekraft.bsky.social at @sdu.dk
Love fieldwork, stable isotopes, the sea and a fantastic team? Then apply -> fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoc on microbial oxygen production in marine oxygen minimum zones
Application deadline: 17 November 2025 at 23:59 hours local Danish time
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
🚨Exciting 🧪👩🎓🦠 job alert 🚨
Postdoc position on dark microbial O2 production in marine oxygen minimum zones with Bo Thamdrup and @beatekraft.bsky.social at @sdu.dk
Love fieldwork, stable isotopes, the sea and a fantastic team? Then apply -> fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoc position on dark microbial O2 production in marine oxygen minimum zones with Bo Thamdrup and @beatekraft.bsky.social at @sdu.dk
Love fieldwork, stable isotopes, the sea and a fantastic team? Then apply -> fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Happy to be a part of this!
We are thrilled to welcome the members of our new Early Career Researcher Advisory Panel! Discover more about the researchers who are helping shape the future of scientific communication: buff.ly/5abtNWQ #ECR 🧪
October 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Happy to be a part of this!
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Pleased to share this work on cable bacteria. We demonstrate that E.aureum GS, a freshwater cable bacterium, can use extracellular electron transfer to gain energy in anoxic conditions. Many thanks to @leodigel.bsky.social , @ianpgm.bsky.social and other coauthors at @cemau.bsky.social
New preprint by @kartiksaiyer.bsky.social, @leodigel.bsky.social and others from @cemau.bsky.social about how cable bacteria grow using electrodes instead of oxygen: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Extracellular electron transfer in cable bacteria enables growth rates comparable to aerobic respiration
Cable bacteria are filamentous sulphide-oxidisers performing long-distance electron transfer in redox-stratified sediments by transporting electrons over centimetre-scale distances to reduce oxygen. H...
www.biorxiv.org
October 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Pleased to share this work on cable bacteria. We demonstrate that E.aureum GS, a freshwater cable bacterium, can use extracellular electron transfer to gain energy in anoxic conditions. Many thanks to @leodigel.bsky.social , @ianpgm.bsky.social and other coauthors at @cemau.bsky.social
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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
international.au.dk
October 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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!
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Thanks to @villumfonden.bsky.social for supporting my weird ideas again with a Villum Experiment project! Set to start next year: AGAMBLE – Anaerobic Growth of Aerobic Methanotrophic Bacteria in Lake Environments. Job ad for a 2-year postdoc position coming soon!
villumfonden.dk/en/nyhed/tra...
villumfonden.dk/en/nyhed/tra...
October 3, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Thanks to @villumfonden.bsky.social for supporting my weird ideas again with a Villum Experiment project! Set to start next year: AGAMBLE – Anaerobic Growth of Aerobic Methanotrophic Bacteria in Lake Environments. Job ad for a 2-year postdoc position coming soon!
villumfonden.dk/en/nyhed/tra...
villumfonden.dk/en/nyhed/tra...
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September 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Really, Robin? Another newsletter? 🫠
YES. and this one’s worth it:
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🪶 SciComm tips
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Once a month. Fun. Useful. Easy to read.
👉 Subscribe now to catch the very first edition: www.robintalksscience.com
#SciComm #ScienceCommunication
YES. and this one’s worth it:
🔥 News
🪶 SciComm tips
📅 Events
🧩 Puzzles
Once a month. Fun. Useful. Easy to read.
👉 Subscribe now to catch the very first edition: www.robintalksscience.com
#SciComm #ScienceCommunication
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The Senior Research Scientist will support the Group Leader with day-to-day running of the lab, including line management of staff, overseeing budgets, and leading the scientific direction.
💷 £45,450 to £56,750
🗓️ Apply by 2 October 2025
➡️ buff.ly/D6zr7fy
💷 £45,450 to £56,750
🗓️ Apply by 2 October 2025
➡️ buff.ly/D6zr7fy
September 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The Senior Research Scientist will support the Group Leader with day-to-day running of the lab, including line management of staff, overseeing budgets, and leading the scientific direction.
💷 £45,450 to £56,750
🗓️ Apply by 2 October 2025
➡️ buff.ly/D6zr7fy
💷 £45,450 to £56,750
🗓️ Apply by 2 October 2025
➡️ buff.ly/D6zr7fy
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Hey ISMET member ✋
Did you think we could use a new website too?
Well here it is: www.is-met.org.
It was a pleasure working with @ismetsociety.bsky.social to make their website more engaging and interesting for their members.
Do you also have a website that could use some polishing?
Did you think we could use a new website too?
Well here it is: www.is-met.org.
It was a pleasure working with @ismetsociety.bsky.social to make their website more engaging and interesting for their members.
Do you also have a website that could use some polishing?
September 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Hey ISMET member ✋
Did you think we could use a new website too?
Well here it is: www.is-met.org.
It was a pleasure working with @ismetsociety.bsky.social to make their website more engaging and interesting for their members.
Do you also have a website that could use some polishing?
Did you think we could use a new website too?
Well here it is: www.is-met.org.
It was a pleasure working with @ismetsociety.bsky.social to make their website more engaging and interesting for their members.
Do you also have a website that could use some polishing?