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

Phosphite oxidizers 🤝 Methanogens
In our new paper on “Lithosyntrophy” we show that phosphite oxidation drives methanogenesis through interspecies H2 transfer. Lithosyntrophy establishes a novel mechanistic link between the #phosphorus and carbon redox cycles

Our story about microbial methane is out! We found that reducing the expression of a key gene of methanogenesis modulates the isotopic composition of the methane:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Check out also the coverage at the UC Berkeley News website:
news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/14/s...

But the ocean also consumes all that oxygen it produces so it's net zero. 🌊

The Ambiguous Genetic Code of Methanogenic Archaea that Grow on Methylamines www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

You know the way we all talk about leveraging 'omics information to improve ecosystem/biogeochemical model performance - well here's a step in that direction - led by Zhen Li integrating across many scientific teams to make this happen www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Come to #Prague for #Woodstock2025. What is it? A scientific conference unlike any other. Think #BurningMan or #MusicFestival but #science themed. It'll have two parts - decentralised sessions spread in #Prague (sightsee as you move around) & #campsite event to wrap it up (1/7)

Friends: Science is under threat! Worldwide, forces seek to make it corporate-like, focused on deliverables, or even the enemy of society. It's time to take a stand to celebrate the science we know and love.
Introducing: Woodstock.Bio2 + Night Science
June 10-13, Prague & Woods of Bohemia
Join us!

Global cement production has slowed / plateaued over the last decade after rapid growth in the 1990s and early 2000s.

ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

Archaea aficionados around the world, APH is now on BlueSky! Follow us for virtual conference announcements and more 🦠

Relevant to this audience! @nature.com asks: “Has Bluesky replaced X for scientists? Take Nature’s poll”: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Enter a Paleolithic ritual chamber deep within Manot Cave, Israel, where you’ll find a boulder engraved with designs from around 36,000 years ago. The site is the earliest known evidence of religious behavior in the Paleolithic Levant.

In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I’m proud to join more than 30 colleagues today in sharing our analysis of potential risks from “mirror life”. We summarize our findings in a @science.org article, and in greater detail in a 300pg technical report:

Article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Report: purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036

Congrats! Looking forward to see more exciting work from your group!

The first research outcome from my postdoc work at Berkeley, we show that gene expression controls the isotopic composition of microbial methane!

CRISPR-enabled control of gene expression sets the isotopic composition of microbial methane www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs