📢 New paper in @nature.com

Microbes rock 🎸🤘 with sulfide and iron minerals

I am very excited to share our recent study, which describes a previously unknown microbial energy metabolism ⚡⚡⚡🦠🧫⚡⚡⚡

🆕 Microbial iron oxide respiration coupled to sulfide oxidation - MISO

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

How streptococci bacteria infect the brain to cause meningitis revealed in zebrafish

📹 Sumedha Ravishankar et al, School of Biological Sciences, UC San Diego in @plosbiology.org

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@antdlewis.bsky.social

What drives the self-organization of life? By linking three major ecological theories, we show that ecosystems maximize power at intermediate efficiency close to bifurcation points. Energy flux meets life's organizing principles. @sfiscience.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Join us at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research (@ter-cemess.bsky.social) as Full Professor of SOIL ECOSYSTEMS AND GLOBAL CHANGE. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research.

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phys.org/news/2025-06... I recently found this note. This is a good subject for discussion, I wish I knew more.

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📣 Our paper on the effect of microplastics on decomposition is out in Applied Soil Ecology: "No short-term response of microbial or isopod-driven litter decomposition to microplastics". ​

⚠️ Spoiler: We do not report any significant effect, and yes it matters.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Join us in at #ESEB2025 Barcelona for our symposium on microbial adaptation to changing conditions. Organised by @mtoll8.bsky.social @javierdelafuente.bsky.social and me. Amazing invited speakers @saramitri.bsky.social and Itzik Mizrahi!! @eseb2025.bsky.social

A milestone for @cemess.bsky.social , a milestone for me too. Thank you @univie.ac.at for the support and recognition, thanks to all team members past and present - you’ve been the real reward! cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...

Fantastic work by first-author Dr. Julia Wiesenbauer, who also defended her PhD-thesis on Monday. Big congratulations! 😀🥳🎉. 5/6

Not sure if this message is being spread yet but if not here it goes: I want everyone to have an opportunity to be a scientist! It is an amazing place to focus your energy and a wonderful community! I want people to know that they should all want this as an opportunity
for their kids.

Are cells like small liquid "brains"? Cells can gather and process complex sets of signals and respond in adaptive ways. How close are they to standard neural networks? Here's the seminal 1995 paper by Dennis Bray on cells as computers nature.com/articles/376...

In 2025, Vienna will celebrate the 200th birthday of Johann Strauss II - happy birthday! 🎉
Musicologist Michele Calella & theatre studies scholar Anke Charton discuss the socio-cultural context of Strauss the Younger’s life & work. His musical legacy continues to shape the City of Music to this day!

Can a microbial community become an evolutionary individual?

#CurrOpinMicrobiol by @salazarafra.bsky.social and @saramitri.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What do conspiracy theorists, incels & Trump supporters have in common?🤔 They are all connected to the concept of resentment - or as philosophers call it, ressentiment.
But what exactly is resentment, and is it always a negative force? Leah Ritterfeld, #PhD researcher at the #univie, explains this ⤵

TER - We had our annual Science Retreat yesterday. Great science, discussions, and fun!
#TerrestrialEcosystemResearch
@cemess.bsky.social

Congratulations to @kseniaguseva.bsky.social for becoming Senior Scientist at @ter-cemess.bsky.social, @cemess.bsky.social,
@univie.ac.at
Wonderful to have you on board!

ter.univie.ac.at/news-talks/n...

Design and regulation of engineered bacteria for environmental release

Review in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social by Yonatan Chemlaet al from Christopher A. Voigt

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

WWTF Grant awarded to CoE Key Researcher @davidberry1.bsky.social from @cemess.bsky.social at @univie.ac.at with Stefanie Widder from MedUni Wien. www.wwtf.at/funding/prog...

Microbial diversity and interactions: Synergistic effects and potential applications of Pseudomonas and Bacillus consortia

-in Microbiological Research

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panel A with reference to [83], while no numerical references in paper, so I assume Sun et al 2022 ISME J

A study in Nature Microbiology suggests that consuming more healthy plant-based foods could increase the proportion of gut microbes that favour human health. The findings are based on an analysis of more than 21,000 vegans, vegetarians, and omnivores. https://go.nature.com/40kHGqN 🧪

Ten species comprise half of the bacteriology literature, leaving most species unstudied www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

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