Thanks @markowenmartin.bsky.social for choosing to highlight our recent article on archaeal-bacterial conflict in this week's episode of "This Week in Microbiology"! asm.org/podcasts/twi...

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...
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Please re-post: If you know (or are!) somebody who might fancy doing a PhD (Oct 2026 start) in my group @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social, working on chromatin evolution in prokaryotes (or other things we're interested in), please have a look at www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/supervisors-...

New Phaeobacter species are now out! 🦠🔬 We found two new species - I am especially fascinated by the really, really long cells P. cretensis makes, something we have never seen in Phaeobacter before! Please comment your thoughts about why that is 🤔 1/2
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Huge thanks also go to Arianna Krinos for taking the lead on this work! @akrinos.bsky.social

Let’s keep building inclusive and interdisciplinary research cultures! 🙌

Grateful for the shared vision, thoughtful discussions, and collective creativity that shaped this work.

Thank you to BioGeoSCAPES and the Santa Fe Institute for hosting us and providing such a great and collaborative environment!

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Thrilled to share our #Comment in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
A collaborative effort by a fantastic group of researchers across disciplines!

💬We explored how interdisciplinary microbiology can thrive when early-career researchers are included and supported.

📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#Comment

A call for early-career teams in interdisciplinary microbiology research

#MicroSky

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌊🦠🧪 Delighted to share this work now out in @isme-microbes.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/isme... The currency of microbial life is chemistry, but there’s so much still unknown about how metabolic interactions shape communities. 1/

Genome-resolved long-read sequencing expands known microbial diversity across terrestrial habitats www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Thrilled to share our new paper in @science.org describing our discovery that bacteria can switch from competitors to bonafide predators when resources run dry—arming nanoscale “spears” (T6SS) to stab & consume neighbours.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Solid phase extraction to measure B-vitamins in aquatic systems www.nature.com/articles/s43... #jcampubs