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Thomas Mock

@thomasmock.bsky.social

At OUC campus in November

November 22, 2025 at 6:27 AM

Thomas Mock

@thomasmock.bsky.social

A double helix in front of @viblifesciences.bsky.social

November 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM

Thomas Mock

@thomasmock.bsky.social

Thanks for the invite! See you tomorrow.

Plant Systems Biology @psb-vib.bsky.social · 23d

TOMORROW: SEMINAR by @thomasmock.bsky.social from @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social, invited by the groups of @stevenmaere.bsky.social and @yvdp.bsky.social. @viblifesciences.bsky.social

November 3, 2025 at 7:38 AM

Thomas Mock

@thomasmock.bsky.social

Our new preprint led by Emelia J. Chamberlain:

From microbial diversity to function: evaluating dimensionality reduction methods

#MOSAiC #Arctic #Ocean #microbiomes @norwichmicro.bsky.social

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

From microbial diversity to function; evaluating dimensionality reduction methods

Artificial Intelligence (AI), and more specifically Machine Learning (ML), have become an increasingly prevalent tool in microbial oceanography. The high dimensionality of microbial diversity data fro...

www.biorxiv.org

November 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM

Thomas Mock

@thomasmock.bsky.social

Our new methods paper led by AWI colleagues with the support of #OmicronCr. CRISPR-Cas for single-cell diatom microbiome research. @isme-microbes.bsky.social
@norwichmicro.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Genotype and culture condition effects on single-cell diatom microbiomes: enhanced detection of low-abundance taxa with CRISPR-Cas9

Abstract. Primary production in aquatic systems is governed by interactions between microalgae and their associated bacteria. Most of our knowledge about a

academic.oup.com

October 31, 2025 at 8:08 AM

Thomas Mock

@thomasmock.bsky.social

Seen today on our campus @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social

October 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM

Thomas Mock

@thomasmock.bsky.social

New issue of Journal of Phycology is out with our paper highlighted on the cover. 😀 Congrats to all authors and especially Longji Deng 👏 @ueaenv.bsky.social

First genetic transformation system in a heterotrophic #diatom

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15298817...

October 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM

Thomas Mock

@thomasmock.bsky.social

Fully funded #PhD Studentship in my lab! Get in touch 😀

The role of light-driven proton pumps in sustaining oceanic primary production #microbial #rhodopsins #diatom #ocean
@ueaenv.bsky.social

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

October 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM

Thomas Mock

@thomasmock.bsky.social

Our latest #preprint led by Yumary M. Vasquez & Frederik Schulz @jgi.doe.gov

The largest database of giant #virus MAGs (GVMAGs V2) with >18,000 genomes from #marine, freshwater, anthropogenic and terrestrial environments.

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

October 2, 2025 at 9:10 AM

Thomas Mock

@thomasmock.bsky.social

Congrats all! Exciting times ahead! Good luck everyone! 😊👍👏

Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social · Sep 30

Welcome, MarMic Class of 2030!! 👩‍🔬

13 students from 8 countries have arrived to our International Max Planck Research School of Marine Microbiology MarMic.
We’re very happy to have you & look forward to the years ahead!
www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Welcome-M...
@maxplanck.de #marinebiology

September 30, 2025 at 10:04 AM

Thomas Mock

@thomasmock.bsky.social

Congrats everyone including @paulgmock.bsky.social Good luck at @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social You are in good hands

www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Welcome-M...

Welcome, MarMic Class of 2030

www.mpi-bremen.de

September 30, 2025 at 8:39 AM

Reposted by Thomas Mock

Nature Ecology & Evolution

@natecoevo.nature.com

New Species Spotlight 👇

Patricia Sanchez-Baracaldo zooms in and out on cyanobacteria

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Free to read: rdcu.be/eHZSN

Blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Patricia Sanchez-Baracaldo zooms in and out on cyanobacteria.

www.nature.com

September 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM

Reposted by Thomas Mock

Axel Visel

@axelvisel.bsky.social

Sequencing methods 🧬 have come a long way from census counts 🔢 to assembling genomes and understanding the functions 🧪 of bacteria and viruses.

New review by @jgi.doe.gov's Gitta Szabó, @emileyeloe-fadrosh.bsky.social, Tanja Woyke with @jeffinerca.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A genomic view of Earth’s biomes - Nature Reviews Genetics

Genome-wide approaches have uncovered the vast microbial and viral diversity across ecosystems. This Review explores advances in metagenomics, single-cell sequencing and functional profiling to elucid...

www.nature.com

September 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM

Thomas Mock

@thomasmock.bsky.social

Worth reading: A genome-wide CRISPR screen reveals how #diatoms thrive in dynamic light. From Ellen Yeh's group

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

September 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM

Thomas Mock

@thomasmock.bsky.social

Cool preprint: Evidence for the acquisition of a proteorhodopsin-like #rhodopsin by a chrysophyte-infecting giant #virus

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

September 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM

Thomas Mock

@thomasmock.bsky.social

UK introduces landmark legislation to protect world’s ocean
www.gov.uk/government/n...

UK introduces landmark legislation to protect world’s ocean

The UK government introduces Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) legislation to help protect two-thirds of the world’s ocean.

www.gov.uk

September 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM

Reposted by Thomas Mock

Eoghan Daltun 🌍

@irishrainforest.bsky.social

Survey of 8 countries including Spain and the US finds 82% of people support setting aside 30% land + sea for nature.

All over the world, people WANT rewilding. Time our politicians started turning that clear wish into actual policy. Let's bring nature back!!!
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Public strongly backs aim of 30% of land and sea set aside for nature, poll finds

Survey of eight countries finds 82% of people support 30x30 biodiversity target, as progress stalls on protected areas

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September 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM

Reposted by Thomas Mock

The Marine Biological Association

@thembauk.bsky.social

Last few days for booking your online tickets!

Join leading coccolithophore scientists online at Advances in Coccolithophore Research 2025, 9-11 September. Full schedule including speakers and talks available - buff.ly/oaMjqZB

➡️ Book your ticket by Friday 5 September.

September 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM

Thomas Mock

@thomasmock.bsky.social

Our latest methods article led by Longji Deng. It enables to reverse engineer #photosynthesis in a eukaryotic heterotroph containing a "chloroplast": The #diatom Nitzschia putrida @ueaenv.bsky.social @norwichmicro.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

August 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM

Thomas Mock

@thomasmock.bsky.social

Our new paper just out in BMC Biology led by Johanna Winder: Environmental adaptations in #metagenomes revealed by deep learning. Artificial neural networks were used to classify ice-binding / substrate-binding proteins (DUF3494).

bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....