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Alex Probst @alexjprobst.bsky.social · 12d

New article on equitable reuse of public sequencing data, published in @natmicrobiol.nature.com!
Led by the Data reuse core team @lhug.bsky.social @environmicrobio.bsky.social Cristina Moraru, @geomicrosoares.bsky.social, @folker.bsky.social and with Anke Heyer and The Data Reuse Consotrium!

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Arwyn Edwards @arwynedwards.bsky.social · 13d

Just signed up to peer review an application for one of the largest science funders in the world.

Asked to confirm I was at least 13 years old. Might explain a lot about the grant review process if it's secretly dominated by teenagers.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 15d

Long-buried layers of saline permafrost seem to be accelerating climate change’s transformation of the Arctic. https://scim.ag/46AxH2E

Even subzero parts of the Arctic are thawing. Ancient salt is the culprit

Long-buried layers of saline permafrost seem to be accelerating climate change's transformation of the Arctic

scim.ag

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Aberystwyth University @aberuni.bsky.social · 22d

Our scientists are leading research into how a widely used vaccine can boost overall immunity in livestock 🐮

More: tinyl.co/3iC7

@aberdlsagb.bsky.social
@ukri.org

#AberTB#bovineTB#bTB#TB

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James Bradley @drbradbrad.bsky.social · 28d

2 Postdoc vacancies: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere
@erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA
📢 PLEASE RT

Experimental:
🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, omics, biogeochem

Modelling:
🖥️ Bioenergetics, thermodynamics, ecological, biogeochem

☀️ Marseille, France
‼️ Apply by 30 Sept

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Russ Morphew @russmorphew.bsky.social · Sep 7

Real pleasure to be part of the Helminth Eco-Health Hub UK. A real opportunity for experts to forge new connections. Information on the network will follow. @aberdlsagb.bsky.social @aberuni.bsky.social
www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/univers...

Aberystwyth University expert joins network to tackle devastating worm diseases

A parasitology expert from Aberystwyth University has joined a new UK-wide network to drive global research into combating parasitic diseases of humans and animals.

www.cambrian-news.co.uk

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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · Sep 6

Reminder that we are recruiting an Assistant Professor Bacterial Genomics @imibirmingham.bsky.social.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

Deadline 24 Sept.

Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Bacterial Genomics at University of Birmingham

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Bacterial Genomics on jobs.ac.uk!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Ursula Enzenhofer @yogaski.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sad views from southern #Svalbard 30.8.25 - melt has reached high up the mountains. From Hornsund to Amundsenisen barely any snow left… how should glaciers build mass like this? Svalbard is heating fast. Only steep mountain walls seem to help accumulate a bit and catch blown snow 📸from✈️
#Glaciology

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · Sep 1

Met Office stats confirm summer 2025 is officially the warmest summer on record for the UK.

The UK’s mean temp of 16.10°C surpasses the previous record of  15.76°C and pushes the summer of 1976 out of the top 5 warmest summers.

www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Summer 2025 is the warmest on record for the UK

Provisional Met Office statistics confirm that summer 2025 is officially the warmest summer on record for the UK.

www.metoffice.gov.uk

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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · Aug 28

Temporary lecturer in Microbiology post available at Bangor University. Apply by 15th September: jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....

Job Details | Bangor University Jobs

jobs.bangor.ac.uk

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Arwyn Edwards @arwynedwards.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thanks to @aberuni.bsky.social for highlighting the phenomenal hard work of Drs @geomicrosoares.bsky.social @sararassner.bsky.social and team in mapping the microbiota of the South Wales coalfield. Prospects for future energy emerges from the legacy of fossil energy. academic.oup.com/femsec/artic...

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Arwyn Edwards @arwynedwards.bsky.social · Aug 22

Did you ever find out? If it's SG I am tempted to say the Sorling hut, given the coastal position, elephant seals and mountains, but the shape of the roof is different in this photo I took in 2015.

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Sanne Moedt @sannemdt.bsky.social · Aug 22

Happy to share our new paper in L&O about autotrophic biofilms in subarctic lakes and streams 🦠 🏔️ @aslo.org aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Environmental controls of autotrophic biofilm biomass and community composition in subarctic lakes and streams in Greenland

Photosynthetic biofilms are key components of Arctic freshwater ecosystems, supporting primary production and forming the base of aquatic food webs. While several environmental factors regulating bio...

aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Arwyn Edwards @arwynedwards.bsky.social · Aug 15

Not bad, but not as gripping as S4C

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Liz Bagshaw Glaciology @lizbagshaw.bsky.social · Aug 15

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Thought provoking article to share with your families and friends when they ask what you do, featuring the ever excellent @arwynedwards.bsky.social

Arctic glaciers face ‘terminal’ decline as microbes accelerate ice melt

Scientists in Svalbard in race to study polar microbes as global heating threatens fragile glacial ecosystems

www.theguardian.com

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Arwyn Edwards @arwynedwards.bsky.social · Aug 15

Ah, but you do so much more and get to work with amazing gadgetry that pings data back from inside ice sheets and stuff.

I’m just here with a turkey baster…

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Arwyn Edwards @arwynedwards.bsky.social · Aug 15

A powerful piece by @mountainogre.bsky.social on #microbes and #Arctic change, featuring our work on glacier ecology @aberdlsagb.bsky.social and work on methane cyclers by colleagues at UNIS

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Arctic glaciers face ‘terminal’ decline as microbes accelerate ice melt

Scientists in Svalbard in race to study polar microbes as global heating threatens fragile glacial ecosystems

www.theguardian.com

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Arwyn Edwards @arwynedwards.bsky.social · Aug 15

For a smart watch it’s not always that clever…

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Arwyn Edwards @arwynedwards.bsky.social · Aug 15

A time for good decisions.

Taking a moment upwind to first calmly think through our optimal escape route away from a polar bear and her cub raiding nests in the distance. #fieldphotofriday #fieldworkfriday

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Kat Coyte @coytelab.bsky.social · Aug 12

A new 4 year PostDoc position in our lab! Modeling + experiments to explore dynamics of carbon fixing hot-spring microbiomes. Part of an exciting multidisciplinary team with Sophie Nixon, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social & others

Please share & get in touch if interested!

tinyurl.com/e7j7bha3

Research Associate in Microbiome Ecology:Oxford Road

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · Aug 7

When you see a paper in a top journal

that claims to be doing a global map of richness of a taxonomic group

yet there are huge lacunae in the global map of samples

from which they have done some fancy interpolation

you have to be just a little bit sceptical

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Josephine Z. Rapp @zoraur0ra.bsky.social · Jun 2

Excited to share our new study exploring chemoautotrophy in subzero Arctic brines. We identified cold-adapted Rubisco enzymes in Thiomicrorhabdus species, suggesting unique adaptations for carbon fixation in extreme conditions. Read more: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #Microbiology #Astrobiology

Chemoautotrophy in subzero environments and the potential for cold-adapted Rubisco | Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Autotrophy, or the fixation of inorganic carbon to biomass, is a key factor in life’s ability to thrive on Earth. Research on autotrophy has focused on plants and algae, but many bacteria are also aut...

journals.asm.org

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Arwyn Edwards @arwynedwards.bsky.social · Jul 27

Solid tally of beasts over the last few months in the field. Plus 3 Arctic foxes and too many reindeer & geese to count. Not all biodiversity is microbial, just most of it. @aberdlsagb.bsky.social

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · Jul 25

Melting over 80.6% of the area of the Greenland Ice Sheet. This is the highest value in our data set, which starts in 1981.

@polarportal.bsky.social

Screenshot from polarportal.dk, a website that makes research on the Arctic research conducted by Danish institutions available to the public and researchers. The image shows Greenland in tan and the Greenland Ice Sheet in red and white. The red part indicates melting and covers all except about 20% in the northeast, which is roughly the area higher than 2500 m above Se level.

Below the map is a chart that compares 2025 melting to the 1981-2010 average. The average melting peaks in mid-July at about 35%. For the last few days, melting has occurred over roughly 80% of the area of Greenland, with a maximum melt area of 80.6% on 24 July 2025. This is the highest value in our dataset, which starts in 1981.

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Arwyn Edwards @arwynedwards.bsky.social · Jul 25

Personally I wouldn’t think that’s for the best. This 500 kilo fella would concur.

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