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Julia Frunzke @frunzkelab.bsky.social · 22h

Please RT:
We have an opening for a junior group leader position in „Phage Biology & Biotechnology“.
www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...

Interested candidates are encouraged to contact me via email for further details.

@spp2330.bsky.social; @mibinet.bsky.social

Junior Group Leader - Phage Biology & Biotechnology

As a leading research institution for microbial biotechnology the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences - Biotechnology (IBG-1, https://www.fz-juelich.de/de/ibg/ibg-1 ) at the Forschungszentrum Jülich foc...

www.fz-juelich.de

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Kevin K. Yang 楊凱筌 @kevinkaichuang.bsky.social · 6d

Test the activity of 300+ natural enzymes against 100+ substrates, discover 200+ new enzymatic reactions, and train machine learning models to predict which enzymes can do which reactions.

@aepaton.bsky.social @gabegomes.bsky.social @alisonnarayan.bsky.social

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

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Erin Green @erinrgreen.bsky.social · 4d

Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 19d

We have some full length 16S data from isolates that we'd like to match to ASV-level V4-V5 microbiomes from the same samples. It's pretty messy, especially for strains with multiple copies of 16S rRNA genes.

Has anyone encountered this in their work, or in the lit? Any ideas how to approach this?

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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.
Thread 1/n

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Martina Dal Bello @martinadalbello.bsky.social · 13d

Feel free to contact me for info about this open position and the project! Fully funded through @hfspo.bsky.social and in collaboration with @jacrickets.bsky.social and Shawn McGlynn

EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 14d

Postdoc opportunity in Dal Bello Lab at Yale EEB (starting Dec 2025). Focus is on microbial ecology and learning mechanisms. Apply via email to Martina with CV. More info: https://www.dalbellolab.com/ #postdoc

dal bello lab

www.dalbellolab.com

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Benjamin Wolfe @benwolfe.bsky.social · 22d

Such a delight to share our work on the evolution of a cheese rind fungus in @currentbiology.bsky.social.

This is the fantastic PhD work of @nicolasleonlouw.bsky.social and resulted from amazing collaborations, a wedding proposal(!), an undergrad course, & more!

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www.cell.com/current-biol...

Long-term monitoring of a North American cheese cave reveals mechanisms and consequences of fungal adaptation

Using a unique longitudinal sampling approach, Louw et al. demonstrate how a cheese-associated Penicillium population has adapted in an artisan cheese production facility in Vermont, USA. Adaptation i...

www.cell.com

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Matti Pronker @mfpronker.bsky.social · 26d

It seems trendy lately to have visualizations of 3D proteins structures generated by AI. These show very ugly artifacts, akin to AI pictures of humans with the wrong number of fingers. It is really not hard to make a visualization of a random protein structure using free software! #AI-slop

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 29d

Some incredible images in the SCUBA Diving Magazine 2025 photo contest!

www.scubadiving.com/2025-photo-c... 🦑🧪🌎

Announcing Scuba Diving's 2025 Underwater Photo Contest Winners

<p>Scuba Diving magazine announces the winning images from this year's contest. Prepare to be wowed. </p>

www.scubadiving.com

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 29d

Comparing EcoFab 2.0 results from 5 labs on 3 continents‼️

Breaking the reproducibility barrier with standardized protocols for plant–microbiome research

@plosbiology.org by Vlastimil Novak et al from Trent Northen @jgi.doe.gov

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Seth Bordenstein @symbionticism.bsky.social · Sep 8

🎙️ Job Announcement: Penn State is seeking an ASSISTANT PROFESSOR in MICROBIOLOGY (any subdiscipline) in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Learn more and Join the Microbiome Jubilee: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Assistant Professor in Microbiology

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com

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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · Aug 29

🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday!
During the C-CoMP March Cruise, Clio, the biogeochemistry AUV, was used to collect particle samples for proteomics and metagenomics from various depths within the water column. Check out some of these photos of Clio in action:

Michael Jakuba and Chip Breier, along with other members of the research team and crew of the Atlantic Explorer, ready Clio for deployment during the 2025 C-CoMP March cruise. Photo by Daniella Asturias.

Clio partially submerged at the ocean’s surface somewhere in the Sargasso Sea. Photo by Claire Garfield.

A view of Clio with its back panel removed. The panel is removed to access the stack of clamshells holding the filters containing microbial biomass that were filtered at depth by Clio. Photo by Daniella Asturias.

On the 2025 C-CoMP March Cruise, some members of the Clio team (from left to right: Daniella Asturias, Matt McIlvin, Fadime Stemmer, Loay Jabre) pose with a stack of Clio's clamshells shortly before removing and sectioning the filters for metaproteomics and metagenomics analyses. Photo by McKenzie Powers.

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Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · Aug 1

Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊

Electron micrograph of two phage infecting a host cell side-by-side, with hearts between them

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Dr Katherine Duncan @kateduncan.bsky.social · Aug 8

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Roles of Marine Microbial Natural Products | Annual Reviews

Over billions of years, marine microorganisms evolved a vast genetic potential to produce the molecules we denote as natural products or secondary metabolites. While these molecules show promise as th...

www.annualreviews.org

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Pieter Dorrestein @pieterdorrestein.bsky.social · Aug 26

Yes reach out to Yasin for this project. It will allow a worldwide picture of the environmental metabolome. This can be already published or not yet published data but will need world coordinates.

Yasin El Abiead @yelabiead.bsky.social · Aug 26

Interested in a co-authorship?
We’re building a tool for repository-scale untargeted #metabolomics and #exposomics of #environmental data. To make it the best it can be, we’re looking for people willing to share high-resolution LC-MS/MS (DDA) data from #water, #soil, #sediment, and related samples.

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Yasin El Abiead @yelabiead.bsky.social · Aug 26

Interested in a co-authorship?
We’re building a tool for repository-scale untargeted #metabolomics and #exposomics of #environmental data. To make it the best it can be, we’re looking for people willing to share high-resolution LC-MS/MS (DDA) data from #water, #soil, #sediment, and related samples.

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Rachel Gregor @rachelgregor.bsky.social · Aug 25

2. Science is a team sport! I learned so many new things from my co-authors and mentor @oxcordero.bsky.social, including metagenomics (Rachel S) and modeling (Gabriel V). And a big thanks to reviewers at @isme-microbes.bsky.social for tough but fair feedback that 100% made this work better. 5/

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Rachel Gregor @rachelgregor.bsky.social · Aug 25

Two final thoughts: 1. Science is serendipitous! The seeds for this project were first planted by a virtual seminar on B12 I saw early in my postdoc. Vitamins turned out to be a perfect case study for microbial interactions, with the right amount of chem and bio complexity. 4/

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Rachel Gregor @rachelgregor.bsky.social · Aug 25

This project has been my loyal companion throughout my postdoc, faculty applications, and into my new lab. Fun fact, I've now wrestled with journal submission systems across 3 continents, including on vacation in Thailand (see exhibit A, "Problematic work-life balance"). 3/

Tablet open to journal submission system on beach in Thailand

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Rachel Gregor @rachelgregor.bsky.social · Aug 25

Here, we look at B vitamins in marine snow and find a whole world of vitamin dependencies and exchange underpinning community structure. In the latest version, we have added much more on vitamin precursors and cross-feeding through secretion and lysis- check it out! 2/

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Rachel Gregor @rachelgregor.bsky.social · Aug 25

🌊🦠🧪 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/

Vitamin auxotrophies shape microbial community assembly on model marine particles

Abstract. Microbial community assembly is governed by the flow of carbon sources and other primary metabolites between species. However, central metabolism

doi.org

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Andrew Roger @andrewjroger.bsky.social · Aug 25

I gave a symposium talk at the European Society for Evolutionary Biology 2025 (#eseb2025) meeting last week and this was my title slide showcasing how I was speaking as an independent scientist because @dalhousieu.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social has locked us out.

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Martina Dal Bello @martinadalbello.bsky.social · Aug 25

Check out our new paper led by brilliant @jhuisman.bsky.social about how microbial communities cope with stress due to increasing salinity in their environment. We have all your favorites: isolate phenotyping, pairwise competitions, community propagations, and theory. #microsky #mevosky #ecosky

Jana Huisman @jhuisman.bsky.social · Aug 25

Have you ever wondered what increasing environmental stress will do to microbial communities?

In our new preprint, @martinadalbello.bsky.social, Jeff Gore and I studied the impact of salinity on microbial community composition and function. 🧵 (1/5)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Microbial communities demonstrate robustness in stressful environments due to predictable composition shifts

Environmental stress reduces species growth rates, but its impact on the function of microbial communities is less clear. Here, we experimentally demonstrate that increasing salinity stress shifts com...

www.biorxiv.org

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Aug 21

Do I have any followers who are omega-6/PUFA researchers? I have some technical questions for an episode and I'd love to connect.

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · Aug 12

Not sure how many scientists here have tried Claude Code or similar command line coding assistants. I had a complicated family property tax problem that was best solved by a brute force Monte Carlo simulation approach, so I spent a few days coding up and analyzing a model with Claude Code.

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