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Detmer Sipkema @detmersipkema.bsky.social · 8h

Great initiative. Please spread, please donate

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 8h

Please join me in raising funds for medical cargo buses and trucks with electric jamming for brigades of Ukraine's Khartiia Corps. These automobiles make the difference between whether people survive or not. We can do something very specific and meaningful to help.
www.help99.co/patches/timo...

Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action

Professor Timothy Snyder – a prominent voice of freedom, teams up with NAFO to fundraise for ten trucks and ten cargo buses with anti-drone jamming systems. These will transport and protect those who ...

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 10h

A new paradigm that integrates human and nonhuman communication and culture.

Melissa Leach and James Fairhead's Naturekind is now available. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

#Anthropology #Communication #Culture

Naturekind: Language, Culture and Power Beyond the Human by Melissa Leach and James Fairhead

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Ian Marshall @ianpgm.bsky.social · 10h

I'm recruiting a postdoc to figure out how aerobic methanotrophic bacteria oxidise methane in anoxic freshwater sediment environments: international.au.dk/about/profil... Come to Aarhus University in Denmark and work on this 2-year project funded by @villumfonden.bsky.social!

Postdoctoral position on methanotrophic bacteria - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Biology - Microbiology, Aarhus University

international.au.dk

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Detmer Sipkema @detmersipkema.bsky.social · 11h

Congratulations Susuma Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi. Happy that sponges get a Noble prize ;o)

Sciences @sciences.skyfleet.blue · 13h

2025 Chemistry Nobel Goes to Molecular Sponges That Purify Water, Store Energy, and Clean Up the Environment

Three scientists, including one from the U.S., share the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing “metal-organic frameworks,” versatile molecular cages that can trap contaminants, store energy and possibly deliver drugs to specific areas of the body.

www.scientificamerican.com

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Detmer Sipkema @detmersipkema.bsky.social · 1d

correlation or causation?

Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 1d

Important socio-culinary research from @unibirmingham.bsky.social colleagues

'Enjoying international cuisines makes people more tolerant, UK study finds'

www.theguardian.com/food/2025/oc...

Enjoying international cuisines makes people more tolerant, UK study finds

Frequent and varied eating found to reduce likelihood of perceiving immigrants as ‘cultural or economic threats’

www.theguardian.com

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Detmer Sipkema @detmersipkema.bsky.social · 6d

"rechtsorde"...... als je dit zo ziet zou linksorde een betere term zijn

Suzanne Kröger @suzannekroger.bsky.social · 6d

In een tijd waarin wereldwijd de rechtsorde onder druk staat, weet wat je kiest. 👇

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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 8d

Come and work with me and @ariannebabina.bsky.social on #Streptomyces evolution and antibiotic production

Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces

www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

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University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Underpinning Bioscience - Paul A Hoskisson

www.gla.ac.uk

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The Kelp Rescue Initiative @kelprescue.bsky.social · 7d

Spotted in the kelp forest this week, signs of seasonal shift! By early fall, bull kelp slows and softens. Epiphytes and larger opportunistic seaweeds can “hitchhike,” becoming micro-habitats for invertebrates and microbes. Even at the end of its life, bull #kelp supports #biodiversity.

Bull kelp with a green seaweed growing along its stipe

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Frederik Bak @fredebak.bsky.social · 6d

A 2-y postdoc position in my former group at University of Copenhagen is available in microbial ecology and bioinformatics.

See more: employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...

Feel free to contact me if you have questions about the environment.

Please share the ad.

Postdoc in Microbial bioinformatics

employment.ku.dk

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Sjoerd de Jong @sjoerdjong.bsky.social · 9d

dailynous.com/2025/09/28/j...

John Searle (1932-2025) - Daily Nous

Philosopher John Searle, well-known for his work on philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, has died. John Searle wrote extensively consciousness and the mind, intentionality, and speech act th...

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de Volkskrant @volkskrant.nl · 12d

Zeesterren en anemonen floreren rondom gezonken bommen en mijnen uit Tweede Wereldoorlog

www.volkskrant.nl

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Detmer Sipkema @detmersipkema.bsky.social · 14d

This

Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 14d

“Everyone should read it”: Nature reviews Human Nature
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Fighting climate change takes more than data — it needs wonder, love and hope

An informative and highly accessible book discusses climate change, its impacts and challenges to mitigating global warming through a compelling personal account.

www.nature.com

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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 15d

Two decades in the making, last week's UN #HighSeasTreaty ratification is a crucial step towards the ambitious goal of conserving 30% of the world’s ocean by 2030.

🤔What will it take to get there? #WHOI researchers weigh in: go.whoi.edu/30x03

#30x30 #BBNJ

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Detmer Sipkema @detmersipkema.bsky.social · 16d

This is great news!

Blue Planet Society @blueplanetsociety.bsky.social · 18d

Historic High Seas Treaty is a "turning point for humanity"

A United Nations treaty designed to protect the marine life and ecosystems of the high seas has received the 60th and final ratification needed to come into force.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/c...

Hard-Fought Treaty to Protect Ocean Life Clears a Final Hurdle

www.nytimes.com

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Detmer Sipkema @detmersipkema.bsky.social · 17d

Laten we in oktober stemmen voor politici die weten wat politiek is en die iets gaan doen. Iets.

Bas Heijne @basheijne.bsky.social · 17d

Prinsenvlag, VOC-logo's, nationalistische leuzen, hysterische opruiing, journalisten en politiemannen aangevallen, ruiten partijkantoor D66 ingegooid.
VVD-er Heinen: 'Laten we niet alles politiek maken.'
De VVD is een verachtelijke partij.

Omroep WNL @omroepwnl.bsky.social · 17d

Minister Heinen (VVD) reageert op Jetten na rellen in Den Haag: 'Laten we niet alles politiek maken' #WNL

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Kees Klomp @keesklomp.bsky.social · 17d

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Lee K @bselected.bsky.social · Dec 15

America is failing!

Meme FDR Beware of the small group of selfish men who clip the wings of the American eagle to feather their own nest.

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marinemicrobiome.bsky.social @marinemicrobiome.bsky.social · 20d

Happy International Microorganism Day #internationalmicroorganismday

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Hubert Smeets @hubertsmeets.bsky.social · 21d

Met grote precisie is Oekraine bezig de olieraffinage in Rusland lam te leggen. Doel is om benzine-schaarste bij de pomp te creëren. Breng de oorlog naar de gewone burger in Moskou, is het parool der Oekraïners. Gelijk hebben ze. Recente column 👇
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

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Sonja-Verena Albers @archaellum.bsky.social · 21d

Happy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social

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Detmer Sipkema @detmersipkema.bsky.social · 26d

Agree, but a 64% increase in applications suggests that there are no other funding resources available? Or that many more people feel comfortable in writing research proposals?

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Detmer Sipkema @detmersipkema.bsky.social · 27d

That is insane. One of them applied with me. Everyone I am talking to at the sponge conference in Vila do Conde also applied with someone.

European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 27d

The 2025 call for #MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships drew 17,058 applications worldwide.

A 64.6% increase from 2024, it's the most popular call in over four decades.

Excellence thrives where it is enabled, protected and shared — and Europe provides that environment.

→ europa.eu/!jcnGgP

#ChooseEurope

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Michael Wagner @michiwagner4.bsky.social · 28d

New preprint from our team! Experimental evidence that ammonia-oxidizing archaea in sponges use branched chain amino acids as substrates - possibly also key for host interaction

#Nitrification
#MicroSky 🧪 #ArchaeaSky
@bglasl.bsky.social @kathikitzinger.bsky.social

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

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Marnix Medema @marnixmedema.bsky.social · Sep 8

We are looking for a 3-year postdoc to work with Daniel Probst, Justin van der Hooft and myself on an exciting project involving federated learning and integrative omics for discovery of new antibiotics from natural products.
Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
Please share!

www.wur.nl

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