Thorsten Reusch
@thorstenreusch.bsky.social
Marine evolutionary ecology, genomics and restoration at GEOMAR Kiel, Germany's Ocean Institute. Fascinated with ocean life, its adaptation and protection. Focus Baltic Sea & other world areas. Pet species cod, seagrass, comb jellies, phytoplankton
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We are welcoming applications for a full professorship on Molecular and Evolutionary Zoology at Kiel Univerdity, Northern Germany, with fantastic facilities and infrastructure! @uni-kiel.de @crc1182.bsky.social @transevo.bsky.social www.nature.com/naturecareer...
W 3 professorship in Molecular and Evolutionary Zoology - Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein (DE) job with Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel | 12844416
Kiel University aims to attract more qualified women to professorship positions. The Institute of Zoology at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural...
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September 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We are welcoming applications for a full professorship on Molecular and Evolutionary Zoology at Kiel Univerdity, Northern Germany, with fantastic facilities and infrastructure! @uni-kiel.de @crc1182.bsky.social @transevo.bsky.social www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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And also see our new paper on the Role of microbial life history strategy in host-microbiome interactions in the ISMEJ. @crc1182.bsky.social url: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
Role of microbial life history strategy in shaping the characteristics and evolution of host-microbiota interactions
Abstract. Many host-associated microbes are transmitted between individual hosts via the environment and, therefore, need to succeed both within a host and
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August 7, 2025 at 7:22 AM
And also see our new paper on the Role of microbial life history strategy in host-microbiome interactions in the ISMEJ. @crc1182.bsky.social url: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
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Busy week Fucus sampling with our colleagues @gloriareithmaier.bsky.social @lies-nerd.bsky.social @karikaphegyi.bsky.social and lots of others for #Fubluc and getting ready for outreach with kids for #TheOceanRaceEurope @geomarkiel.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Busy week Fucus sampling with our colleagues @gloriareithmaier.bsky.social @lies-nerd.bsky.social @karikaphegyi.bsky.social and lots of others for #Fubluc and getting ready for outreach with kids for #TheOceanRaceEurope @geomarkiel.bsky.social
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🚨 In case you missed it… our 4-year time-series analysis of Arctic Ocean viruses is out now!
Near-monthly samples — including through the dark, cold, polar winter ❄️ — using long-read metagenomics.
Short thread 🧵👇
Near-monthly samples — including through the dark, cold, polar winter ❄️ — using long-read metagenomics.
Short thread 🧵👇
July 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
🚨 In case you missed it… our 4-year time-series analysis of Arctic Ocean viruses is out now!
Near-monthly samples — including through the dark, cold, polar winter ❄️ — using long-read metagenomics.
Short thread 🧵👇
Near-monthly samples — including through the dark, cold, polar winter ❄️ — using long-read metagenomics.
Short thread 🧵👇
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After a four-year investigation, a breakthrough study reveals the cause of sea star wasting disease (SSWD). A strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida is the culprit behind the marine epidemic that has killed billions of sea stars since 2013. Read the study: 🔗https://tinyurl.com/4rcb3xpf
August 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
After a four-year investigation, a breakthrough study reveals the cause of sea star wasting disease (SSWD). A strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida is the culprit behind the marine epidemic that has killed billions of sea stars since 2013. Read the study: 🔗https://tinyurl.com/4rcb3xpf
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Finally is this story out public!! With an amazing historical dataset from IMR (@havforskningsinstituttet) we demonstrate how human perturbations impact the genomic signal in one of the largest cod stocks in the world: the northeast arctic cod | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A century of anthropogenic perturbations impact genomic signatures of the iconic migratory Atlantic cod
Retrospective assessment of the iconic migratory Atlantic cod uncovers human-induced genome-wide changes during the last century.
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July 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Finally is this story out public!! With an amazing historical dataset from IMR (@havforskningsinstituttet) we demonstrate how human perturbations impact the genomic signal in one of the largest cod stocks in the world: the northeast arctic cod | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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🌊 Sponge genomes are helping unlock the secrets of aquatic symbioses — and thanks to @sangerinstitute.bsky.social, researchers now have access to 50+ genomes. Excited to see how these new samples help advance understanding of #AquaticSymbiosis. 🧬
Enter the absorbing world of sponges - Wellcome Sanger Institute Blog
Enter the absorbing world of sponges, the intricate animals that have evolved to inhabit all corners of our Earth’s waterways and oceans. Thanks to a worldwide collaboration of sponge scientists throu...
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July 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
🌊 Sponge genomes are helping unlock the secrets of aquatic symbioses — and thanks to @sangerinstitute.bsky.social, researchers now have access to 50+ genomes. Excited to see how these new samples help advance understanding of #AquaticSymbiosis. 🧬
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PhD opportunity in my group as part of the #CONCENTRATE TRR. Marine algae-glycan-bacterial interactions. Please apply or share! www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...
Research Assistant - Institute of Microbiology 25/Wi21
Stellenausschreibung Institut für Mikrobiologie, AG „Küstenmikrobiome“,
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July 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
PhD opportunity in my group as part of the #CONCENTRATE TRR. Marine algae-glycan-bacterial interactions. Please apply or share! www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...
There might be more seagrass species than you think - happy to share this fantastic collaboration with Xiaomei Zhang, @lei-yu.bsky.social and many others
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July 2, 2025 at 5:54 AM
There might be more seagrass species than you think - happy to share this fantastic collaboration with Xiaomei Zhang, @lei-yu.bsky.social and many others
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
One more week to apply! if you are a few years past your PhD and interested in advancing marine genomics and population genetics, come to Kiel, Northern Germany, to join a thriving, collaborative research and teaching environment.
Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics @geomarkiel.bsky.social / University of Kiel www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June
May 28, 2025 at 5:55 AM
One more week to apply! if you are a few years past your PhD and interested in advancing marine genomics and population genetics, come to Kiel, Northern Germany, to join a thriving, collaborative research and teaching environment.
Ever heard about “phantom recoveries” and “overfishing ratchets” ? These explain why still so many fish stocks are in a bad shape in European waters despite binding goals of the EU fisheries policy. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Systemic failure of European fisheries management
Overcoming shortsighted interests with politically independent ecosystem-based catch limits may end overfishing in EU waters
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May 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Ever heard about “phantom recoveries” and “overfishing ratchets” ? These explain why still so many fish stocks are in a bad shape in European waters despite binding goals of the EU fisheries policy. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Keep on going, Marine Molecular Ecology part is next!
Finally some practical #bioc-202 work for our MSc students in Biological Oceanography at #Geomar! Exposing bladderwrack populations to heat stress regimes to study photophysiology & local adaptation! Real science projects to support meadow conservation #ANK #FUBLUC with @lies-nerd.bsky.social
May 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Keep on going, Marine Molecular Ecology part is next!
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My knees tell me I’m aging—but do you also wonder what we can learn about aging by looking beyond humans? If you study aging in corals, duckweed, or other "unusual" systems, join us at @eseb2025.bsky.social to talk about aging outside the box! Abstract deadline: 5 May. eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...
April 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
My knees tell me I’m aging—but do you also wonder what we can learn about aging by looking beyond humans? If you study aging in corals, duckweed, or other "unusual" systems, join us at @eseb2025.bsky.social to talk about aging outside the box! Abstract deadline: 5 May. eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...
Fantastic team effort, a big thanks to the GEOMAR seagrass group
The first Baltic Blue Carbon sediment cores for the ZOBLUC project have been successfully taken last week by scientific divers of GEOMAR Kiel @geomarkiel.bsky.social @estho.bsky.social @thorstenreusch.bsky.social
April 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Fantastic team effort, a big thanks to the GEOMAR seagrass group
Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics @geomarkiel.bsky.social / University of Kiel www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June
April 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics @geomarkiel.bsky.social / University of Kiel www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June
very much looking forward to watch!
"After living for nearly 100 years on this planet, I now understand the most important place on Earth is not on land, but at sea." 🌊
New trailer just dropped for Sir David Attenborough's documentary Ocean, premiering May 8 to coincide with his 99th birthday.
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New trailer just dropped for Sir David Attenborough's documentary Ocean, premiering May 8 to coincide with his 99th birthday.
silverbackfilms.tv/shows/oceanw...
Ocean with David Attenborough - Silverback Films
David Attenborough: Ocean is a new feature-length documentary special produced by Silverback about the health of the world’s oceans.
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April 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
very much looking forward to watch!
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Here’s the press release about what we’re up to these days. What isn’t mentioned in the text is how amazing it is to work with people as enthusiastic as I am, how incredible it is to see students so engaged in this project, and how teamwork truly feels like teamwork 🌊
www.geomar.de/en/news/arti...
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Global Comparative Study on Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement Begins in Kiel
13.03.2025/Kiel. How do plankton communities respond to increased alkalinity in different oceanic regions? This question is at the heart of the international research project "Ocean Alkalinity Enhance...
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March 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Here’s the press release about what we’re up to these days. What isn’t mentioned in the text is how amazing it is to work with people as enthusiastic as I am, how incredible it is to see students so engaged in this project, and how teamwork truly feels like teamwork 🌊
www.geomar.de/en/news/arti...
www.geomar.de/en/news/arti...
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🏆 Research integrity consultant and image forensics expert @elisabethbik.bsky.social has uncovered fraudulent data in over 7,600 scientific papers and exposed the practices of ‘paper mills’ that produce counterfeit scientific articles. She is honoured with the €200K Individual Award. Congrats!
March 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
🏆 Research integrity consultant and image forensics expert @elisabethbik.bsky.social has uncovered fraudulent data in over 7,600 scientific papers and exposed the practices of ‘paper mills’ that produce counterfeit scientific articles. She is honoured with the €200K Individual Award. Congrats!
If you are looking for a postdoc and interested in 2nd generation restoration considering genetic factors in seagrass ecosystem, targeting our pet species Zostera marina, still 10 days left to apply!
and another 5-yr (!) postdoctoral position at GEOMAR Kiel on advancing seagrass assisted evolution, see details and link to apply www.geomar.de/en/karriere/.... Omics and pop genetics knowledge required, seagrass and coastal ecology desirable. @geomarkiel.bsky.social DM me for inquiries
March 10, 2025 at 7:29 AM
If you are looking for a postdoc and interested in 2nd generation restoration considering genetic factors in seagrass ecosystem, targeting our pet species Zostera marina, still 10 days left to apply!
Looking for a PhD position, and interested in in 2nd generation restoration considering genetic factors in seagrasses (aka assisted evolution)? - still 10 days left to apply!
The GEOMAR seagrass team is hiring. Time to make coastal restoration long-term sustainable. A fully funded 4-yr PhD position on eelgrass seascape genomics in the Baltic Sea, further details see here www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... @geomarkiel.bsky.social DM me for inquiries
March 10, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Looking for a PhD position, and interested in in 2nd generation restoration considering genetic factors in seagrasses (aka assisted evolution)? - still 10 days left to apply!
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What can we learn about ageing by looking beyond sexually reproducing unitary organisms? Very excited that our symposium (w/ Dr. Margaux Bieuville, not on bsky) "Ageing outside of the box: insights from unusual and non-model species" was accepted @eseb2025.bsky.social! eseb2025.com/list-of-symp...
List of Symposia – ESEB 2025. Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. Barcelona. Spain
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January 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
What can we learn about ageing by looking beyond sexually reproducing unitary organisms? Very excited that our symposium (w/ Dr. Margaux Bieuville, not on bsky) "Ageing outside of the box: insights from unusual and non-model species" was accepted @eseb2025.bsky.social! eseb2025.com/list-of-symp...
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This looks quite cool, latest paper from Frank Johannes on somatic mutations in trees:
Branching architecture limits the rate of somatic mutation accumulation in trees
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Branching architecture limits the rate of somatic mutation accumulation in trees
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
March 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This looks quite cool, latest paper from Frank Johannes on somatic mutations in trees:
Branching architecture limits the rate of somatic mutation accumulation in trees
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Branching architecture limits the rate of somatic mutation accumulation in trees
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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🏙️ Animal populations from urban areas show significantly higher resilience to stressful environmental conditions.
💡This was found by international researchers led by Dr Elizabeta Briski (GEOMAR). The study is published today in the journal Ecology Letters.
🔗 www.geomar.de/en/news/arti...
💡This was found by international researchers led by Dr Elizabeta Briski (GEOMAR). The study is published today in the journal Ecology Letters.
🔗 www.geomar.de/en/news/arti...
Urban environments promote adaptation to multiple stressors
19 February 2025/Kiel. Animal populations from urban areas show significantly higher resilience to stressful environmental conditions. This was found by an international team of researchers led by Dr ...
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February 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
🏙️ Animal populations from urban areas show significantly higher resilience to stressful environmental conditions.
💡This was found by international researchers led by Dr Elizabeta Briski (GEOMAR). The study is published today in the journal Ecology Letters.
🔗 www.geomar.de/en/news/arti...
💡This was found by international researchers led by Dr Elizabeta Briski (GEOMAR). The study is published today in the journal Ecology Letters.
🔗 www.geomar.de/en/news/arti...
The GEOMAR seagrass team is hiring. Time to make coastal restoration long-term sustainable. A fully funded 4-yr PhD position on eelgrass seascape genomics in the Baltic Sea, further details see here www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... @geomarkiel.bsky.social DM me for inquiries
February 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The GEOMAR seagrass team is hiring. Time to make coastal restoration long-term sustainable. A fully funded 4-yr PhD position on eelgrass seascape genomics in the Baltic Sea, further details see here www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... @geomarkiel.bsky.social DM me for inquiries
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Imagine that you are a low-copy extra-chromosomal genetic elements invading a host cell. What’s your best strategy to survive? Check our new study of prokaryotic #plasmid for the answer! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... led by Johannes Effe with @iwangtoknow.bsky.social and more! (not on bsky)
Persistence of large conjugative plasmids relies on the combination of active partitioning and addiction mechanisms
Extrachromosomal and mobile genetic elements, including transposable elements, plasmids, and accessory chromosomes, are found across all domains of life. The replication and segregation of elements in...
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February 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Imagine that you are a low-copy extra-chromosomal genetic elements invading a host cell. What’s your best strategy to survive? Check our new study of prokaryotic #plasmid for the answer! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... led by Johannes Effe with @iwangtoknow.bsky.social and more! (not on bsky)