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Ian Marshall @ianpgm.bsky.social · 12h

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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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 2d

Exercising fathers, enhanced endurance and metabolic heath in offspring, through sperm microRNAs (as demonstrated in mice)
www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

Paternal exercise confers endurance capacity to offspring through sperm microRNAs

Yin et al. show that paternal exercise improves offspring endurance capacity and metabolic health via sperm microRNAs that reprogram gene expression in early embryos, revealing how exercise benefits c...

www.cell.com

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Dr (of rocks) Marcus Badger @climatebadger.bsky.social · 16d

📢We're hiring!📢

We have a permanent Lecturer in Earth Sciences position available in @OU_EEE
@OpenUniversity

£47,389 to £56,535
Closing Date: 20 October 2025*

We are a friendly, research intensive school with supportive colleagues and great labs.

jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...

Lecturer in Earth Sciences

jobs.open.ac.uk

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Son of Eric @spiritof44.bsky.social · 4d

A BLIND ELDERLY man using a mobility cane is ARRESTED for holding a sign which read "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

#PalestineAction #GazaGenocide

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 5d

I wonder how much of the keeping up with friends decline is just the enshitification of Facebook and Insta. Facebook materially improved my life by reconnecting me with people, but then it became unusable, followed by actually evil.

Josh Nicholas @joshnicholas.com · 5d

This is kinda sad

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Kenneth Wasmund @kennethwasmund.bsky.social · 7d

I guess we can all make our own choices and boycott Royal Society journals, funding and meetings etc (or whatever they do!)!

The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 7d

"I am increasingly concerned over threats to the values that allow science to flourish." Read the full statement from the President of the Royal Society Sir Adrian Smith: royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...

A statement from the President of the Royal Society | Royal Society

A statement from the President of the Royal Society regarding threats to the values that allow science to flourish.

royalsociety.org

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 7d

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

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hp nieminen @hpnieminen.bsky.social · 11d

Not a radical thought. Radical thought is giving necessities into the hands of uncaring conglomerations of unchecked power. We should say this out loud more often.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11d

Nish Kumar, "What is the Green Party's vision for how we redraw the economy of this country?"

Zack Polanski, "The first thing is to have a big conversation about public ownership"

"Nothing we need, and need to use, should be in private hands. All of our utilities should be nationalised"

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 13d

Interested in removing particle-associated microbes from particles for eg flow cytometry, culturing, or other single-cell microbiology purposes? Led by graduating PhD stdnt Jordan Coelho:

Detergent-based separation of microbes from marine particles journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #jcampubs 🌊

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Kenneth Wasmund @kennethwasmund.bsky.social · 12d

Is this just becuase they dont compromise on academic standards, and dont get education conflated with student satisfaction, like in the UK?

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 13d

"The termination is the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

www.theguardian.com

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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 13d

Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols.
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cemess_vienna @cemess.bsky.social · 15d

Who fixes carbon in the dark ocean? A new study in @nature.com, led by @barbarabayer.bsky.social @univie.ac.at shows that ammonia‐oxidizing microbes contribute much less to dark carbon fixation than previously thought – leaving room for unknown players.
Read more: 🔗 dome.univie.ac.at/news-events/...

Who fixes carbon in the dark ocean?

A new study led by Barbara Bayer (CeMESS, University of Vienna) discovered that ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms contribute much less to carbon fixation in the ocean than previously assumed. The study...

dome.univie.ac.at

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Kenneth Wasmund @kennethwasmund.bsky.social · 15d

agreed -- and all because he tapped it in? Cheisa touch was sublime tho

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Roey Angel @roeyangel.bsky.social · 15d

📢 🦠 🏜️ Meet the first cultured methanogens from oxic soils! Using cultivation and comparative genomics, we descirbe Methanobacterium limanense sp. nov., Methanocella ebodanensis sp. nov., and a strain of Methanosarcina mazei as dwellers of desert biocrusts.
With @anne-daebeler.bsky.social and other

SEM images of the three newly cultured methanogens
from desert biocrusts. Methanobacterium sp. (A) with a long rod shape, Methanosarcina sp. (B)
with aggregated, coccoid cell clusters, and likely Methanocella sp.

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Unearthed @unearthednews.bsky.social · 15d

Revealed: The EU's export trade in banned pesticides has expanded dramatically in the past half-decade, despite the European Commission's promises to put an end to it

New investigation from Unearthed and Public Eye:

unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/09/23/e...

The image shows a map of Europe's export trade in domestically banned pesticides. In 2024, companies in the EU issued export notifications for 122,000 tonnes of pesticides that are banned from use on the EU's own farms. The exports were destined for 93 different nations, most of them low- or middle-income countries.

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Alan Cartmell @acartmell47.bsky.social · 17d

Happy to have this collaborative work out on Biorxiv on how Akkermansia muciniphila deploys it’s carbohydrate sulfatases to metabolise colonic mucin, and that processed glycopeptides/proteins of colonic mucin are a favoured carbon source #glycotime.

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

The role of Akkermansia muciniphila sulfatases in colonic mucin utilisation

Akkermansia muciniphila , an obligate mucin degrader, is a major member of the human colonic microbiota and has been associated positive health outcomes. Mucins are complex glycoproteins that contain ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 21d

Over the weekend, the world's richest man appeared on screens in central London to call for a race war and for the UK government to be overthrown. No arrests were made in connection with that communication.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 21d

Journalists have been detained and a van showing images of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein has been confiscated in Windsor. This follows a separate incident in which four people were arrested for projecting images onto Windsor Castle.

Journalists detained as ad van with image of Trump and Epstein seized

AN advertising van displaying an image of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein together has been confiscated by police, according to campaigners ...

www.thenational.scot

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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 22d

Carbon monoxide metabolism in freshwater anaerobic methanotrophic archaea https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.16.676500v1

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Prof Alex Ford @dralexford.bsky.social · 22d

A comprehensive analysis of combined stormwater overflow (CSO) discharges to coastal waters and data communications by a UK water company between 2021 and 2023 @envsci.rsc.org

pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

A comprehensive analysis of combined stormwater overflow (CSO) discharges to coastal waters and data communications by a UK water company between 2021 and 2023

Sewage discharges to aquatic environments present a real danger to human and ecosystem health. Event duration monitors (EDMs) from combined stormwater overflows (CSOs) are now fitted to over 90% of st...

pubs.rsc.org

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22d

The shape of politics in the US right now is increasingly that the media, political and economic elites are allied with the Trump regime against the actual people of the country who hate it

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 22d

trump approval hits a new low in today's yougov/economist poll. now worse than he was in yougov's data at this point in 2017 www.economist.com/interactive/...

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Ashish Malik @ashish-malik.bsky.social · 22d

📢 Funded PhD opportunities for UK candidates in beautiful Edinburgh. Get in touch if you're interested in a PhD on understanding the mechanisms of soil carbon cycling and the role of microbes. We work in different ecosystems: peatlands, forests and agricultural soils. Please repost/spread the word.

Poster showing the following text: PhD in microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling. Soil microbes shape the global carbon cycle in life and death. We study the effect of aboveground land management on belowground soil carbon cycling processes. We aim create a scalable understanding of microbial processes from single cells to populations to communities to ecosystems. Pictures with text: peatland restoration, sustainable agriculture and woodland regeneration.

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social · 24d

The first University to outright ban AI and assess on paper based exams and in person seminars will see the stock of their degrees magically soar in the corporate, scientific and intellectual world, and mysteriously wont go bust.

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Alex Loy @loyteam.bsky.social · 27d

Nice summary from Songcan & Marc 🙏 on our discovery of a new microbial energy metabolism 🦠 🧫 ⚡ 🔌

Microbial Iron oxide respiration coupled to Sulfide Oxidation (MISO)

@nature.com Research Briefing 😍 doi.org/10.1038/d415...

📰 Original paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#microsky #microbiomesky

Iron-respiring microbes could have a role in sulfur cycling

A species of bacteria grows when both ferrihydrite and sulfide are present, but not when either is absent.

doi.org

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