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Metabarcoding and Metagenomics @mbmg.pensoft.net · 1d

Researchers present the BaNaNA (Barcoding Nanopore Neat Annotator) pipeline and display the effectiveness of long-read Nanopore sequencing for protist biodiversity, ecology and evolution research.

🔗 doi.org/10.3897/mbmg...

@ankarn.bsky.social @fabnot.bsky.social

From short to long reads: enhanced protist diversity profiling via Nanopore metabarcoding

In the last decades, environmental metabarcoding has revolutionised biodiversity research, particularly for microbial organisms such as protists, enabling large-scale assessments of diversity and ecol...

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Pedro C. Junger @pcjungers.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing week shared with great scientists in the #same18 held in a stunning venue. Many thanks to the organizers! Moltes gràcies!

SAME18-BCN @same18-bcn.bsky.social · 7d

Group pic SAME18!

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Pedro C. Junger @pcjungers.bsky.social · Aug 26

Chapter 3 of my thesis is now available as a preprint in @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social

We compared 3+ years of coastal microbial time-series from an equatorial site (EAMO, 6°S) and a temperate site (BBMO, 41°N).

Our work reinforces the need for observatories across latitudes to track ocean change.

Ecological processes shaping marine microbial assemblages diverge between equatorial and temperate time-series

Marine microbial communities are structured by a complex interplay of deterministic and stochastic processes, yet how these vary across latitudes remains poorly understood. Most long-term microbial ob...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · Aug 8

#NatMicroPicks

Hidden microbial world in trees🌳

Living wood hosts trillions of bacteria making trees a complex ecosystems with major roles in forest health and function.

#PlantMicro #MicroSky

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

A diverse and distinct microbiome inside living trees - Nature

Microbiome analyses of living trees show that a single tree can host approximately one trillion bacteria, with microbial communities distinctly partitioned between heartwood and sapwood and with minim...

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Biodiversa+ (European Biodiversity Partnership) @biodiversa.eu · Jul 2

What’s next for biodiversity monitoring?
Our Barcelona Science Fair unpacked tools, trust, and tech gaps. Featuring:
🔬 R&I project highlights
🔍 Deep dives into eDNA, bioacoustics, & remote sensing
💬 Expert insights on data, scaling, & more

Takeaways:
👉 www.biodiversa.eu/science-fair...

Biodiversity Monitoring Science Fair Highlights

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Jesse McNichol @jcmcnch.bsky.social · Jul 2

So excited to announce the GRUMP paper is published! This global dataset provides relative abundances for plankton spanning Archaea to Zooplankton from unfractionated (>0.2µm) water samples using 3-domain universal primers that amplify 16S and 18S in one PCR reaction.

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

Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean

www.nature.com

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davidobura.bsky.social @davidobura.bsky.social · Jun 25

‘It’s death by a thousand cuts’: marine ecologist on the collapse of coral reefs.

More than anything #climate and #biodiversity crises make me angry. As few people are largely responsible, while all pay the price, mostly those least responsible.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘It’s death by a thousand cuts’: marine ecologist on the collapse of coral reefs

David Obura believes humans have been using nature for free, and tipping points at some reefs have already passed

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · May 2

Happy birthday SAR11! 35 years old today!
uncultured.carinilab.com/p/happy-birt...

Happy Birthday SAR11

SAR11 turns 33 this month

uncultured.carinilab.com

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Florian Trigodet @floriantrigodet.bsky.social · Apr 28

I am very happy (and anxious) to share with you our most recent work in which we evaluated four of the most popular long-read assemblers,

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

and tell you just a little bit about it in the following 🧵

Assemblies of long-read metagenomes suffer from diverse errors

Genomes from metagenomes have revolutionised our understanding of microbial diversity, ecology, and evolution, propelling advances in basic science, biomedicine, and biotechnology. Assembly algorithms...

www.biorxiv.org

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BejaLab @bejalab.bsky.social · Apr 27

A hell ant from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Pedro C. Junger @pcjungers.bsky.social · Apr 27

Assembling long-read meragenomes?

You should read this very important work carefully carried out by @floriantrigodet.bsky.social at al.

Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · Apr 25

Assemblies of long-read metagenomes suffer from diverse errors www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

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Steven Robbins @stevenjrobbins.bsky.social · Apr 26

Attention long read metagenomists! This feels like an important read.

Misassemblies stitching together bacteria, archaea, and euks all into the same contigs, yikes! Reports of circularisation isn’t robust. There’s a lot in here to ponder.

Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · Apr 25

Assemblies of long-read metagenomes suffer from diverse errors www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

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Juan Pierella Karlusich @jjpk.bsky.social · Apr 11

Patterns and drivers of diatom diversity andabundance in the global ocean rdcu.be/ehlG4

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The PR2 database @pr2-database.bsky.social · Apr 3

Announcing the new release of the PR2 database, version 5.1.
pr2-database.org/post/news/20...

Very big thanks to all the contributors: @fonamental.bsky.social @ambonacolta.bsky.social @krabberod.bsky.social and more...

A few highlights:

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SAME18-BCN @same18-bcn.bsky.social · Mar 31

🌊 The SAME18 website is now live!

📍 Barcelona, Spain | 🗓️ Sept 28 – Oct 3, 2025 @prbb.org

🔗 same18barcelona.com

📢 Key dates:

📝 Abstract submission deadline: 25 May 2025

💳 Early bird registration deadline: 25 July 2025

We look forward to welcoming you to Barcelona! 🌞

Please repost!

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Ramiro Logares @ramalok.bsky.social · Mar 29

Ofrecemos dos Becas JAEintro
1. Microbiomas ambientales: recolección, gestión, e integración de recursos del CSIC
2. Temporal patterns of marine protists' morphological and trophic traits in the North-Western Mediterranean Sea (w/ @pierreramond.bsky.social). +Info: www.icm.csic.es/es/oferta-tr...

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Pedro C. Junger @pcjungers.bsky.social · Mar 28

If you still needed further reasons to quit X, here we go...

Altmetric @altmetric.com · Mar 27

THREAD

The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter

In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X.

By quite a lot.

Release the Kraken...

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
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Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social · Mar 28

On hidden protist diversity (unfortunately the data is not available yet) #protistsonsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Global Metagenomics Reveals Hidden Protist Diversity

Protists, defined as unicellular eukaryotes distinct from animals, plants, and fungi, are a polyphyletic group that predominates the eukaryotic tree of life, exhibiting significant phylogenetic divers...

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · Mar 26

The path to dependence: stepwise genome evolution from a facultative symbiont to an endosymbiont in the N2-fixing diatom-Richelia symbioses www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

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ISME - International Society for Microbial Ecology @isme-microbes.bsky.social · Mar 20

Students and postdocs planning to visit a host institution outside of their country of study can apply for support with the Scholar Mobility Fund. There is only 1 week left to apply: submit now!
🔗https://isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar-mobility-fund-call-for-applications/
#MicrobialEcology #microbes

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SAME18-BCN @same18-bcn.bsky.social · Mar 22

🌊 Save the Date! 🌍
#SAME18 — Aquatic Microbiomes on a Changing Planet
📍 Barcelona, Spain | 🗓️ Sept 28 – Oct 3, 2025
At the iconic PRBB 🧬🌿
Join us to explore the frontiers of aquatic microbial ecology.

📢 Stay tuned for more info and follow us on Bluesky!

#MicrobialEcology #MarineMicrobiology #SAME18

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Biodiversity Data Journal @bdj.pensoft.net · Mar 21

We have established a special topical collection publishing OMICS data papers to facilitate high quality metadata descriptions and publication of omics data. This is the first paper in it, and you can learn more about the collection here doi.org/10.3897/bdj....

Next-generation publishing of omics data

Omics experiments are generating large quantities of data at an ever-increasing rate due to the constantly evolving technologies in the field of biology and environmental sciences. Commonly, omics dat...

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Biodiversity Data Journal @bdj.pensoft.net · Mar 21

Тhe first data release from the European Marine Omics Biodiversity Observation Network (EMO BON), an initiative of the European Marine Biological Resource Centre to fill the gaps in our current knowledge on biodiversity of the world's oceans: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · Mar 21

Horizontal transfer of bacterial operons into eukaryote genomes academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-... #jcampubs

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Javier del Campo @fonamental.bsky.social · Mar 21

Climate change will amplify the impacts of harmful microorganisms in aquatic ecosystems

Climate change will amplify the impacts of harmful microorganisms in aquatic ecosystems - Nature Microbiology

Here the authors discuss the influence of aquatic microbiomes on the health and economies of human populations and examine how climate changes might impact these dynamics.

www.nature.com

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