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Roland Hatzenpichler

@environmicrobio.bsky.social

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archaea, methane, single cell physiology, single cell activity, next generation physiology / for evidence-based decision-making / I hold strong opinions / I don’t mince words / posts reflect personal views / www.environmental-microbiology.com

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · Nov 21

Physiology, the functioning of a cell at a given time and in a given set of physiochemical conditions, is an emergent property that cannot be reliably predicted from genomic data or metabolic reconstructions alone. #testthy(metagenomic)hypotheses

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Pilhofer Lab 🦠❄️🔬 @pilhoferlab.bsky.social · 1h

🧐Checkout our preprint revealing the stepwise firing💥 mechanism of a Contractile Injection System @xujwet.bsky.social [email protected] trapped the complex by structure-guided engineering🧪 in multiple intermediate states and imaged them by multimodal #cryoEM❄️🔬
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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 9h

Half of microbial eukaryote literature focuses on only twelve human parasites

-in #ISMEJournal by Joanna Lepper, @hbrappap.bsky.social and @oliverio.bsky.social

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Half of microbial eukaryote literature focuses on only twelve human parasites

Abstract. Although microbial eukaryotes comprise the majority of eukaryotic phylogenetic diversity and inhabit nearly all ecosystems globally, most researc

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Nagissa Mahmoudi @nagissa.bsky.social · 1d

Interested in life’s co-evolution with planetary environments?
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I'm looking for a postdoc to join my group at #McGill and happy to sponsor applicants for the TSI fellowship.

Please reach out if interested!

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McGill University, Trottier Space Institute

Job #AJO30777, Trottier Space Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, Trottier Space Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CA

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 5d

The DOE has cancelled 321 awards, all in blue states, worth 7.5B$. www.latitudemedia.com/news/scoop-t...

SCOOP: These are the 321 awards DOE is canceling

All of the awards, totaling $7.5 billion, are for projects in blue states.

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cryoEM papers @cryoempapers.bsky.social · 19d

Correlative MS Imaging for cellular identification and analysis of in situ cryo-ET www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.16.676641v1 #cryoem

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 5d

PubMed is in trouble

This is beyond bad for medical research

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 6d

Obwohl natürlich auch mal ein blindes Hund ein Korn finden kann gehe ich grundsätzlich davon aus, dass alles wogegen die FPOe wettert zu befürworten ist. Und in der Regel, je lautet sie kreischt, desto Unterstützung würdiger.

Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 7d

Oh it is. It was more tongue in cheek. But I do think arguments can be made for a two domain tree of life :)

Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 7d

According to this sheet red blood cells are prokaryotes because they lack a nucleus.

Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 7d

Wish I could be there for archaea specific meetings ;(

Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 7d

Second domain? Eukarya no more?!

Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 7d

I said it before and say it again. For every person who does metagenomics, we need 100 people who are doing the experimental work to test all the hypotheses raised by genomics.

Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 7d

I agree, there’s enough metagenomics data around to keep experimentalists busy for the next hundred years or more ;)

Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 8d

They'd pay a company to sequence and withhold the data from NCBI as long as possible. So I think your example is mostly theoretical.

Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 8d

I am not saying that the latter example is theoretically impossible but I assume that a person who doesn't want people to have access to "their" data wouldn't put them on a server before publication and they wouldn't work with a public sequencing center like JGI in the 1st place.

Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 8d

I am not saying that the latter example is theoretically possible but I assume that a person who doesn't want people to have access to "their" data wouldn't put them on a server or work with JGI in the 1st place. They'd pay a company to sequence and withold it from NCBI as long as possible.

Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 8d

As I said before in this thread, there's no way to enforce it. More importantly, we ask for contacting the creators ONLY if the dataset has no associated publication. Personally, I think this should just be common courtesy. I don't see it as a problem to ask if my analyses would scoop another person

Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 8d

Why do you think this creates a gatekeeping problem?

Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 8d

Even if this would be mainly a JGI problem, which is it is not, the fact is that a lot of sequencing data these days is generated by them. And because everyone in the world can use their sequencing facilities Everyone is affected.

Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 8d

The other group basically told everyone, not only my own group which by comparison was only minimally affected, to fuck off. Those problems effectively told me that I need to be more protective of the interests of my mentees.

Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 8d

To me personally, yes, problems with the JGI policy would cost me to be involved in this effort in the first place. My lab data was scooped twice in the last three years. in one case we came to an understanding with the other researchers who had made an honest mistake and we were able to correct it.

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Teppo Hiltunen @teppo-h.bsky.social · 8d

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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 8d

EXCITING NEWS!! We're searching for a new professor colleague at the Biozentrum🇨🇭. Ideal candidates are exploring novel biological questions with structure, biophysics, or high-resolution imaging. 🧪 🧶🧬 🔬

The call closes Nov 3. Please get in touch if you would like more information. Come join us! 👩‍🔬🤓

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 8d

That said, I agree that hearing from all community members and getting a broader support base would be better.

Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 8d

Separately, reviewers or journals often require data accessibility at time of review.