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The Struggling Scientists @thestrugglings4.bsky.social · 13h

Hell yea!

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 11h

Creative experiences such as dance, music, drawing, and strategy video games might preserve brain health. A study in Nature Communications shows that regular practice or short training in these activities is linked to brains that look younger and work more efficiently. go.nature.com/46GH8Pi 🧪

Three older adults are at easels painting. The man in the middle with a white beard wears a beige apron over a white sweater. Two women are on either side of him. One wears blue and the other white. Stock image.

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Jelena Godrijan 🫧❾🌊🦋 @godi.bsky.social · 3d

⚠️New paper ➡️ isolating >600 freshwater microbes using dilution-to-extinction and low-nutrient, lake-mimicking media.

🤯Expands cultured diversity to ~70 % of detected genera and enables physiological studies of streamlined oligotrophs.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#protistsonsky

Bringing the uncultivated microbial majority of freshwater ecosystems into culture - Nature Communications

A large fraction of aquatic bacteria remains uncultured. Here, the authors cultivated 627 strains of abundant freshwater bacteria from 14 European lakes, thus generating a collection that includes many previously uncultured, oligotrophic bacteria that may serve as model organisms.

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ASM @asm.org · 2d

Curious about creating agar art? 🎨Join Assistant Prof. Sebahat Öztekin’s workshop at Bayburt University in Turkey (Oct. 8–10) to learn how it’s done! Then, submit your art to the ASM #AgarArt contest—open until Oct. 26. Register for the workshop if you're in the area! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Agar Art Workshop Oct. 8-10, 2025. QR code linking to registration form

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Cyanotrans @cyanotrans.bsky.social · 16d

Cascade effects and ecological feedback of cyanobactericidal bacterium Bacillus sp. HH1 in cyanobacterial bloom control www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cascade effects and ecological feedback of cyanobactericidal bacterium Bacillus sp. HH1 in cyanobacterial bloom control

Harmful cyanobacterial blooms (HCBs) threaten aquatic ecosystems globally, but eco-friendly biological controls are limited by insufficient engineerin…

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Cyanotrans @cyanotrans.bsky.social · 19d

First report of microcystin-producing benthic cyanobacteria in Mexican mountain rivers: polyphasic characterization and HPLC toxin detection www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

First report of microcystin-producing benthic cyanobacteria in Mexican mountain rivers: polyphasic characterization and HPLC toxin detection

The detection and characterization of cyanotoxins produced by benthic cyanobacteria in rivers is an understudied topic compared to cyanotoxins produce…

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Cyanotrans @cyanotrans.bsky.social · 21d

Genetic and Metabolic Diversity of Cyanobacteria on the Rock–Water Interface in Mountainous Ecosystems | Environmental Science & Technology pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Genetic and Metabolic Diversity of Cyanobacteria on the Rock–Water Interface in Mountainous Ecosystems

Tintenstrich communities are specialized lithic biofilms dominated by free-living cyanobacteria, also occurring in lichen associations, forming a unique ecological interface between rock environments ...

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European Environment Agency @eea.europa.eu · Sep 4

The ecological status of European Union surface waters continues to decline. Only 39.6% of EU surface waters attained good status, according to our recently published indicator.

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Cyanotrans @cyanotrans.bsky.social · Sep 4

Nitrogen Substrate Impacts Microcystis aeruginosa Exometabolome Composition enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Nitrogen Substrate Impacts Microcystis aeruginosa Exometabolome Composition

We used untargeted metabolomics to identify differences in the compounds exuded into culture media by three strains of M. aeruginosa grown on three N substrate treatments (NO3−, NH4+, and urea). Resu...

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SETAC @setac.bsky.social · Sep 2

If you’re a #student member looking for support to attend the SETAC Europe 36th Annual Meeting in Maastricht, apply for a student meeting registration grant. 🎓🌍💸 Join #SETACMaastricht!

📅 Apply by 30 October
🔗 bit.ly/41ARCwx

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Vesna Grujcic @vesnagrujcic.bsky.social · Aug 30

How do microbes become permanent partners? 🌊🔬🦠 Check out our new study published in Current Biology showing how cyanobacterial genomes evolve step-by-step into endosymbionts of diatoms. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@currentbiology.bsky.social @mehrshmali.bsky.social

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Soapbox Science Berlin @berlin-soapbox.bsky.social · Aug 29

Don’t miss the chance to be a speaker at one of our events during Berlin Science Week ✨

⏰Apply now—only one week left until the deadline

#scicomm #wisskomm #womeninSTEM #womeninScience

Soapbox Science Berlin @berlin-soapbox.bsky.social · Aug 25

🚨 Call for Speakers! 🚨
We’re looking for women, non-binary and LGBTQIA scientists to join us at @berlinscienceweek.bsky.social 2025 ✨

Together with LGBTQ+ STEM Berlin, we’re hosting two amazing events.

Want to take the stage? Apply here 👇🏼

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Science Magazine @science.org · Aug 26

Dogs are humanity's best friend—but how long has it been that way? 🐕

This Science study investigated ancient dog genomes, revealing a complicated genetic legacy that reflects a long, shared history with humans.

Learn more on #InternationalDogDay: https://scim.ag/41mQvR6

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Nature Reviews Genetics @natrevgenet.nature.com · Aug 26

Happy #InternationalDogDay! To commemorate, here is one of our favourite NRG covers of all time, based on a review by Elaine A. Ostrander, Robert K. Wayne, Adam H. Freedman & Brian W. Davis on the canine genome go.nature.com/3JP9CNw

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Soapbox Science Berlin @berlin-soapbox.bsky.social · Aug 25

🚨 Call for Speakers! 🚨
We’re looking for women, non-binary and LGBTQIA scientists to join us at @berlinscienceweek.bsky.social 2025 ✨

Together with LGBTQ+ STEM Berlin, we’re hosting two amazing events.

Want to take the stage? Apply here 👇🏼

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · Aug 20

Nitrogen availability shapes evolution of phage resistance in cyanobacteria

-in #ISMEJ

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#phagesky

Nitrogen availability shapes evolution of phage resistance in cyanobacteria

Abstract. Nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria play a key role in nitrogen and carbon biogeochemical cycles in aquatic ecosystems. Under nitrogen-limited conditio

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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · Aug 19

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

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Erika Martínez @eri-bemr.bsky.social · Aug 18

Meet the uninvited guest I found chilling in my colleague's zooplankton culture 😍

#cyanobacteria

Microscopic view of tangled cyanobacteria filaments, with small green algal cells trapped

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · Aug 12

How do cyanobacteria glide in sync? 🌀

New research on Fluctiforma draycotensis shows that filament movement relies on tightly coordinated cellular forces, and when that coordination breaks down, the filaments twist and buckle.
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Erika Martínez @eri-bemr.bsky.social · Aug 13

This 👇🏼

Flor Yannelli *typo queen* 👽🌱🪁(she/her/ella) @floryannelli.bsky.social · Aug 13

Good to see data backing what we’ve long argued from disadvantaged countries in the Global South: pay-to-publish open access widens gaps in science, cutting participation from many middle-income nations.

#OpenAccess #EquityInScience

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Payment-based open access is biasing scientific participation from the Global South in ecology

Opening access to the products of scientific research is widely considered a key step toward both fairness and better science worldwide. Since the 1990s, different forms of open access (OA) to journal...

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Erika Martínez @eri-bemr.bsky.social · Aug 11

I was told today that my problem as a microbiologist is having very high “clean” standards… but I’m pretty sure most people would agree this flask is dirty 😬

#postdoclife

Erlenmeyer flask with dirty white residue on the inner wall

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Erika Martínez @eri-bemr.bsky.social · Aug 7

Such a great magic trick when the S-Bahn turned an 8-minute wait into a 18-minute one 🫠

a group of stuffed animals are sitting at a table with cups and saucers

ALT: a group of stuffed animals are sitting at a table with cups and saucers

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Flor Yannelli *typo queen* 👽🌱🪁(she/her/ella) @floryannelli.bsky.social · Aug 5

In the times of anti-science we are living, we really don't need this. We need to move away from judging academic "quality" by paper counts or big-name journals. These flawed metrics are biased, unfair and IMO driving the system to collapse.

Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · Aug 5

Quite troubling:

The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly | PNAS

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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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MINOR revision @minorrevision.com · Aug 6

#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #OpenScience #AcademicResearch #AcademicWriting #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter 🧪

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ASM @asm.org · Aug 5

Roughly 10% of all living organisms lack superoxide scavenging enzymes (SOSEs). How do they survive superoxide stress? Research in #mBio suggests redox-based metabolic reprogramming may compensate for loss of SOSEs in pathogenic bacteria. Get the story: asm.social/2wV

Pathogenic Leptospira spp. have lost their SOD

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