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Purple sulfur bacteria, chemolithoautotrophic sulfur oxidizers, sulfate reducers, and their interplay with metal-sulfur geochemistry
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Big goals require a great team. 2025 is keeping us on our toes, but we’re making progress every day by working together.
December 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Multidisciplinary training, over time, produces the highest impact people

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance
Scientists have long debated the origins of exceptional human achievements. This literature review summarizes recent evidence from multiple domains on the acquisition of world-class performance. We re...
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December 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The chemolithoautotrophic sulfur oxidizer turned beautifully turbid at higher sulfide supplement concentrations! Good job, Sukaina!
December 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Participate in the mineral cup. Good opportunity to learn about new minerals!
September 16, 2025 at 3:43 AM
It has to be the V-containing mineral! The new gold 😀
September 16, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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jcamthrash.bsky.social
Redox conduction facilitates direct interspecies electron transport in anaerobic methanotrophic consortia www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs
Redox conduction facilitates direct interspecies electron transport in anaerobic methanotrophic consortia
Methane-consuming microbial partners use redox conductors to pass electrons.
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August 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Molybdenite 👍
mineralcup.bsky.social Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · Aug 29
Hark! Is that a mineral list I spy? www.mineralcup.org/2025/mineral...

Lots of new contenders this year as we increase to 75% turnover for #MinCup25.
Minerals List — Mineral Cup
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August 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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jcamthrash.bsky.social
The Marine Organic Sulfur Cycle www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... #jcampubs 🌊
The Marine Organic Sulfur Cycle | Annual Reviews
Organic sulfur (OS) in the ocean is produced in vast quantities by primary producers that fix inorganic sulfate into proteins, metabolites, and other ubiquitous biomolecules. As biogenic OS is transpo...
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August 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Researchers have been sneaking secret messages into their papers in an effort to trick AI tools into giving them a positive peer-review report

Read the full story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
July 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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🌊 ↪️↩️ Deep ocean currents play a pivotal role in shaping the diversity and function of microbial life across the South Pacific Ocean, according to a groundbreaking study led by @jcvi.org and Scripps Oceanography scientists. More on the study published by @science.org. ⬇️
Study Reveals how Deep Ocean Currents Shape Microbial Life across South Pacific
A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning circulation—play a pivotal role in shaping the diversity and function of microbial life ...
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July 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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hendrikschaefer.bsky.social
Whilst on holiday on Isle of Harris, I came across this amazing natural Sulfur cycle laboratory.

Sulfide galore from decaying seaweed and what looks like masses of phototrophic #sulfur #bacteria in pink patches on the sediment surface that exploit the H2S.

Amazing 🤩
Sandy sediment showing black sulfide patches and mass pink bloom of what must be phototrophic sulfur bacteria around decaying seaweed Sandy sediment showing black sulfide patches and mass pink bloom of what must be phototrophic sulfur bacteria
July 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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alexjaf.bsky.social
over a year later, this one out today!

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June 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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methanojen.bsky.social
Review of methane through space and time, coauthored with @planetdr.bsky.social, is out (OA) in @annualreviews.bsky.social.

Hopefully a helpful resource for community and courses. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Schematics of atmospheric CH4 cycling on (a) modern Earth, (b) Archean Earth, and (c) Titan. (a) On modern Earth (20% O2), CH4 emissions originate primarily from wetlands, ruminants, and the fossil fuel industry. Methane is oxidized chemically in the troposphere by hydroxyl radicals (OH), with an average lifetime of 10 years. Hydroxyl radicals originate from reactions between ozone (O3), UV radiation (<320 nm), and H2O vapor. The O3 layer originates from reactions between UV radiation and O2. (b) On the Archean Earth (<0.0001% O2), in the absence of O3 and O2, CH4 would have had a much longer atmospheric lifetime (∼10,000 years), with eventual destruction by UV photolysis, leading to H escape and/or, when CH4/CO2 was greater than 0.1, polymerization to yield organic haze in the upper atmosphere. (c) On Titan, with temperatures near the CH4 triple point, there is a CH4 cycle of evaporation, photolysis to yield ethane (C2H6) and H2 (lost to space), and condensation of C2H6, whereupon it participates in surface processes.
June 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Rachel’s second paper on Mo-Fe-sulfide system is out!
Formation of amorphous molybdenum sulfide in abiotic and biotic sulfidic conditions: A comparative study on molybdenum sequestration mechanisms | Geo-Bio Interfaces | Cambridge Core
Formation of amorphous molybdenum sulfide in abiotic and biotic sulfidic conditions: A comparative study on molybdenum sequestration mechanisms - Volume 2
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February 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Versatile nitrate-respiring heterotrophs are previously concealed contributors to sulfur cycle www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
Versatile nitrate-respiring heterotrophs are previously concealed contributors to sulfur cycle - Nature Communications
Beyond the long-established chemolithoautotrophs, a new study by Shao et al. uncovers heterotrophic denitrifiers as previously concealed contributors to sulfur cycling, with profound implications for ...
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February 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We are alive! Just busy taking care of some difficult microorganisms and developing some new methods. Results are coming!
January 26, 2025 at 2:25 AM