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Host-Microbe Interactions - International MSc Program @hosmic.bsky.social · 18d

Oluwatobi's thesis: Analysis of the effects of microbial inputs on #soil #microbial #communities due to #pig #manure #fertilisation

Nadya'w thesis: Biogeographical analysis of the #microbiome of the #invasive skeleton #shrimp #Caprella scaura along the southern #coast of #Spain

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Host-Microbe Interactions - International MSc Program @hosmic.bsky.social · 18d

Happy and proud of our students Oluwatobi Fasiku & Nadya Pechnikova who successfully defended their theses this week!

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Host-Microbe Interactions - International MSc Program @hosmic.bsky.social · Aug 31

This year we were pleasantly surprised by the quality of our 35 applicants. We selected 14 of them (max positions is 15) and we can’t wait to meet our new students and start collaborating with them in the 2025-6 academic year! #msc

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MikroBioKosmos Scientific Society @mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social · Aug 31

Starting ticking the final tick boxes before #mbkceesme20025 kickoff !!!

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@scinews.bsky.social @esci.eu @chronicle.com @superbugs.bsky.social @scienseed.com #SciComm #ArchaeaSky
#ProtistsOnSky #MicrobesOnSky #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky

Welcome - 11th Conference of Mikrobiokosmos

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Host-Microbe Interactions - International MSc Program @hosmic.bsky.social · Aug 5

Promoting #transparency and innovation in #life #science #communication
@sciencenews.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social @phdvoice.bsky.social
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ASAPbio - Accelerating Science And Publication In Biology

A scientist-driven nonprofit accelerating discovery by promoting innovation and transparency in life science communication through preprints and open peer review.

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Host-Microbe Interactions - International MSc Program @hosmic.bsky.social · Jul 3

Our student Stahtis Alonaris will defend his thesis "Ecological water quality of Western Macedonian #Lakes based on classical #phytoplankton and #eDNA -based indicators" on 16 Jul. 2025, 14:00 Athens,GR time zone' please DM if interested to attend it remotely
#limnology

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Mar 17

Leadership from UC Berkeley.

"...we see recent actions going beyond those purposes in ways that threaten core values: academic freedom, freedom of inquiry, & freedom of expression.... we will be steadfast and unrelenting in our efforts to defend those core values."

Like many of you, we are gravely concerned about recent Federal government actions in regard to higher education. While we recognize that the government plays an important role in addressing discrimination and ensuring good stewardship of public resources, we see recent actions going beyond those purposes in ways that threaten core values: academic freedom, freedom of inquiry, and freedom of expression. We do not know what demands the Federal government may make of Berkeley, but do know that we will be steadfast and unrelenting in our efforts to defend those core values. A Berkeley without academic freedom, without freedom of inquiry, without freedom of expression is simply not Berkeley.

We recognize that some of you may find our statement too timid or too bold or deficient in some other way. That’s okay—a key to Berkeley’s excellence is our diversity of opinion and perspective. Robust debate is essential to scholarly advance. The purpose of a university is not to present us with ideas with which we are comfortable. To borrow from Clark Kerr, it is to make us safe for ideas.

We don’t know what will happen. In part because we don’t know what may be demanded of us and in part because we won’t be the only decision makers. But what we do know is that we will stand up for Berkeley’s values and defend them to the very best of our ability. For 157 years, through the education it provides and the research it produces, Berkeley has produced immense economic and societal benefit to its students, California, the nation, and the world; this societal jewel needs to be preserved and defended, and we will toil tirelessly to see that it is.

Fiat Lux.

Rich Lyons

Chancellor

Ben Hermalin

Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost

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Kostas Kormas 🐟🦞🐚🦭💩🔬🧪🧬📝 ✈️ 🏳️‍🌈 @kkormas.bsky.social · Jun 25

Integrating isotopic #niche metrics and #gut #microbiota assembly reveals coexistence mechanisms in subtropical riverine #fish
#SymbioSky #MicroSky #microbiomesky #Microbiology
@superbugs.bsky.social @microbiomevif.bsky.social #phylosymbiosis #holobiont
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Integrating isotopic niche metrics and gut microbiota assembly reveals coexistence mechanisms in subtropical riverine fish

Understanding interspecific niche overlap is fundamental for evaluating resource partitioning and competitive interactions among sympatric species. Mi…

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Host-Microbe Interactions - International MSc Program @hosmic.bsky.social · Mar 27

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ISME - International Society for Microbial Ecology @isme-microbes.bsky.social · Mar 26

Welcome to Kelly Wrighton, Colorado State University, United States, who has been has been appointed as the new ISME Ambassador Program Director!
Find out more about Kelly and her new role:
isme-microbes.org/kelly-wright...
#MicrobialEcology #microbes

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Kostas Kormas 🐟🦞🐚🦭💩🔬🧪🧬📝 ✈️ 🏳️‍🌈 @kkormas.bsky.social · Jun 7

Targeted analysis of #metagenomes: divide and conquer

#SymbioSky #MicroSky #microbiomesky #Microbiology

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Targeted analysis of metagenomes: divide and conquer

The rapidly developing field of targeted analysis of metagenomes focuses on retrieving information about specific genes and/or genome(s) from environm…

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MikroBioKosmos Scientific Society @mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social · May 31

We are working on fitting the 185 submitted abstracts to the #mbkceesme2025 program. The abstracts came from 27 countries, 15 of which are from central and eastern Europe!
@isme-microbes.bsky.social
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Welcome - 11th Conference of Mikrobiokosmos

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Host-Microbe Interactions - International MSc Program @hosmic.bsky.social · Mar 27

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ISME - International Society for Microbial Ecology @isme-microbes.bsky.social · Mar 26

Welcome to Kelly Wrighton, Colorado State University, United States, who has been has been appointed as the new ISME Ambassador Program Director!
Find out more about Kelly and her new role:
isme-microbes.org/kelly-wright...
#MicrobialEcology #microbes

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Host-Microbe Interactions - International MSc Program @hosmic.bsky.social · Mar 21

NAFSA 2024 - University of Thessaly

https://hosmic.uth.gr/nafsa-2024-university-of-thessaly/

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Kostas Kormas 🐟🦞🐚🦭💩🔬🧪🧬📝 ✈️ 🏳️‍🌈 @kkormas.bsky.social · Feb 25

Everybody hurts and everybody needs love ... not just science ...
@thephdplace.bsky.social @phdvoice.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social @academiclife.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/nj73...

The care and maintenance of your adviser - Nature

Graduate students bear as much responsibility as their mentors for ensuring that they are well guided through their degrees, say Hugh Kearns and Maria Gardiner.

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Host-Microbe Interactions - International MSc Program @hosmic.bsky.social · Jan 26

Call for applicants!!! MSc Host-Microbe Interactions hosmic.uth.gr
#AcademicJobs #AcademicJob #phdlife #highereducation #postdocjobs #postdocposition #postdoclife #research #studyabroad

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Host-Microbe Interactions - International MSc Program @hosmic.bsky.social · Jan 19

@mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social @femsmicro.bsky.social #SciComm @scinews.bsky.social

Kostas Kormas 🐟🦞🐚🦭💩🔬🧪🧬📝 ✈️ 🏳️‍🌈 @kkormas.bsky.social · Jan 19

Do you know who "discovered" #agar? Corrado Nai and a team of scientists and artists are telling this exciting story with a graphic novel...! You could learn more about it & help the team by filling this VERY SHORT survey (it takes only 1 min to fill!): docs.google.com/forms/d/1N3d...
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DO YOU KNOW WHO "DISCOVERED" AGAR?

FANNY ANGELINA HESSE (1850-1934) introduced agar to the laboratory. Sadly, not many people have heard her story. With this VERY short questionnaire we want to understand what people know about this s...

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Host-Microbe Interactions - International MSc Program @hosmic.bsky.social · Jan 15

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Kostas Kormas 🐟🦞🐚🦭💩🔬🧪🧬📝 ✈️ 🏳️‍🌈 @kkormas.bsky.social · Jan 15

Train PhD students to be thinkers not just specialists
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@thephdplace.bsky.social @phdvoice.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social @academiclife.bsky.social #highereducation #research

Train PhD students to be thinkers not just specialists

Many doctoral curricula aim to produce narrowly focused researchers rather than critical thinkers. That can and must change, says Gundula Bosch.

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PCI Microbiol @pci-microbiol.bsky.social · Dec 10

A new contribution from @pci-microbiol.bsky.social to @peercomjournal.bsky.social 🐟🦠🧪

So nice to work hand in hand for #openscience

Kostas Kormas 🐟🦞🐚🦭💩🔬🧪🧬📝 ✈️ 🏳️‍🌈 @kkormas.bsky.social · Dec 10

Pleased to see this out in @peercomjournal.bsky.social @peercommunityin.bsky.social
The effect of dietary #fish #oil replacement by #microalgae on the #gilthead #seabream #midgut bacterial #microbiota
@hostmicrobelit.bsky.social #SymbioSky #SciComm
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The effect of dietary fish oil replacement by microalgae on the gilthead sea bream midgut bacterial microbiota

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Kostas Kormas 🐟🦞🐚🦭💩🔬🧪🧬📝 ✈️ 🏳️‍🌈 @kkormas.bsky.social · Dec 4

Do you like #fish? #freshwater fish? showing (some) #phylosymbiosis? Then here is a good read: Variable phylosymbiosis and #cophylogeny patterns in wild fish #gut #microbiota of a large #subtropical #river
#SymbioSky #hostmicrobe #microbialecology #symbiosis #evolution
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Variable phylosymbiosis and cophylogeny patterns in wild fish gut microbiota of a large subtropical river

The persistence and specificity of fish host-microbial interaction during evolution is an important part of exploring the host-microbial symbiosis mechanism. However, it remains unclear how the enviro...

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Host-Microbe Interactions - International MSc Program @hosmic.bsky.social · Nov 27

We are happy to host Vasilis Kokkoris from The Free University of Amsterdam sharing with us his work on #arbuscular #mychorriza #fungi #SymbioSky #symbiosis
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Host-Microbe Interactions - International MSc Program @hosmic.bsky.social · Nov 25

Extremely proud of our two new graduates Alexandros Kanellopoulos and Domna Nikolaidou. Congratulations!!!
@mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social @phdvoice.bsky.social @insidehighered.com #SymbioSky #highereducation #studyabroad

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Kostas Kormas 🐟🦞🐚🦭💩🔬🧪🧬📝 ✈️ 🏳️‍🌈 @kkormas.bsky.social · Nov 15

#Fulbright Advocacy Alert
#StandforFulbright

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Advocacy Overview

Advocacy Overview Our Role The Fulbright Association serves as the unified voice of the Fulbright community in advocating for the program to the U.S. Congress. We pursue a strategic and non-pa...

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Gulnara Tagirdzhanova @metalichen.bsky.social · Nov 7

Here is something to distract you from the gloom: What can metagenomics tell us about the taxonomic composition of lichen symbioses? A peer-reviewed version of our analysis of >400 lichen metagenomes from around the world is now out in @PLOSBiology 1/12 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🦠 🧫 #SymbioSky

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Host-Microbe Interactions - International MSc Program @hosmic.bsky.social · Nov 10

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Philipp Engel @pengellab.bsky.social · Nov 6

PhD position available in our lab in 🇨🇭! Interested in microbial ecology and evolution in the context of #Symbiosis, #Microbiota, #Bees? Like to analyze shotgun metagenomics data with the possibility for fieldwork and experiments? This is for you. Apply here: shorturl.at/swHf1 #SymbioSky

Opportunités de carrière : PhD position in gut microbiota ecology and evolution (21945)

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Kostas Kormas 🐟🦞🐚🦭💩🔬🧪🧬📝 ✈️ 🏳️‍🌈 @kkormas.bsky.social · Oct 22

International #MSc courses at the #University of #Thessaly

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