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Dr. Roxanne Beinart @symbiosisrox.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks to the Kingdom of Tonga for enabling us to work at these interesting sites and for #NSF funding!

Dr. Roxanne Beinart @symbiosisrox.bsky.social · 5d

Happy to share our new paper led by Corinna Breusing about how the Hunga volcanic eruption's decimation of nearby hydrothermal vent snails and mussels led to a significant reduction in the genomic diversity of their bacterial symbionts.
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Dr. Roxanne Beinart @symbiosisrox.bsky.social · Sep 4

I had such a great time doing this podcast! Thanks @markowenmartin.bsky.social for the chance to talk about snails and their microbial friends.

Mark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social · Aug 29

New week-new episode of the #MattersMicrobial podcast!! Dr. Roxanne Beinart of the University of Rhode Island joins the #QualityQuorum to chat about the work her group does on deep sea chemoautrophic communities & symbioses! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord?

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Dr. Roxanne Beinart @symbiosisrox.bsky.social · Aug 26

Bon voyage to our lab member Katie Stone on the very last @urigso.bsky.social R/V Endeavor cruise! As the sole URI scientist aboard, Katie is the last URI scientist to sail on this historic vessel that began its work in 1976.

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Dr. Roxanne Beinart @symbiosisrox.bsky.social · Jul 31

Happy to share a new preprint from my lab about intraspecific variability in anaerobic ciliate-methanogen symbioses with pop. gen. of single cells! Led by @micrott.bsky.social and Corinna Breusing, in collaboration with Ivan Cepicka. Funded by @simonsfoundation.org. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Population genomic insights into syntrophic symbioses between marine anaerobic ciliates and intracellular methanogens

Symbiotic interactions are an ecologically and evolutionary significant phenomenon pertaining to virtually every organism on Earth. For eukaryotes inhabiting extreme environments, syntrophic symbioses...

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Raúl González-Pech (he/him) @raulgoch.bsky.social · Jun 11

Stoke to announce that I will be joining the Department of Biology @txst.edu this coming Fall semester as an Assistant Professor!

Looking for grad students with interests in #Symbiodiniaceae, #corals 🪸, microbial #symbiosis 🦠, comparative #genomics 🧬 and #phylogenomics soon. Feel free to reach out!

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Morgan Sobol @msobol.bsky.social · May 28

🚨 I’m hiring a postdoc for Fall 2025 with experience in microbial ‘omics data analysis and phylogenetics/genomics. Projects will be centered around ancient microbial ecology & evolution. Click here for more information: bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/wp.txstate.e...

Please share, thank you 🙏🏻

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holobiontbiology.bsky.social @holobiontbiology.bsky.social · May 24

Multiple-omics analyses of the Alviniconcha #holobiont reveal multi-faceted adaptations to deep-sea hydrothermal vents

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

Multiple-omics analyses of the Alviniconcha holobiont reveal multi-faceted adaptations to deep-sea hydrothermal vents

Deep-sea hydrothermal vents are ‘extreme’ environments with constantly fluctuating physicochemical conditions – but dense animal aggregations thrive primarily through symbiosis with chemoautotrophic b...

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Dr. Roxanne Beinart @symbiosisrox.bsky.social · May 23

@annaschreck.bsky.social might be able to help, she has done some of this before and looked into various tools for this - though I think it her case we ended up using Mantel tests

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Anna Schrecengost @annaschreck.bsky.social · May 20

Question for #protistsonsky #SymbioSky: what are examples of prokaryotic genera which form mutualistic symbioses with both animals and free-living protists? i know about methanogenic endosymbionts of protists/animals, and examples of pathogenic microbes e.g. with amoeba, looking for more examples!

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · May 14

The Molecular and Cell Bio department here at UConn is hiring an Assistant Professor in Residence - teaching track (not tenured, but promotion is part of the position). Courses to be taught are in areas of microbio/biochem jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49...

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · May 9

🎉 Join us in congratulating #URIGSO's @annaschreck.bsky.social as the recipient of a 2025 URI Research & Scholarship Excellence Award! She is a Ph.D. candidate in biological oceanography in the Beinart Lab @symbiosisrox.bsky.social, studying marine anaerobic ciliates & their prokaryotic symbionts. 🌊

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · Apr 22

🚨 Schmidt Ocean Institute Job Alert 🚨

Are you a scientific programmer, full-stack data wrangler, or technical solutions builder who loves ocean data? Join our team as our new data solutions engineer! Apply now: jobs.lever.co/schmidt-enti...

A view of the Ocean through a porthole on R/V Falkor.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · Apr 3

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Mar 12

🧪 The NSF director is lying to you.

Let’s fact check 7 claims from yesterday’s letter to the community, while pointing out 3 critical omissions. 🧵

Long letter from NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan, available here: https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/Letter-to-the-Community.pdf

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Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · Mar 12

It’s illegal for government employees to do personal business on gvmt property. People get fired for this.

But this Trump-Musk employee is firing thousands at SSA & VA who’ve done nothing wrong—while illegally doing her side hustle on the taxpayer dime.

www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/p...

Trump official tasked with defending DOGE cuts posted fashion influencer videos from her office | CNN Politics

As the Office of Personnel Management oversaw the layoffs of thousands of federal workers and pressed others to justify their positions, the agency’s chief spokesperson repeatedly used her office for ...

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · Mar 7

People—don’t fall for it

The smackdown on Columbia is NOT about what happened with those protestors (which I abhor)

Trump is using it as an excuse to start his campaign against universities, teachers, students, and ideas

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Cluster of Excellence 'MicroPlanet' @microbesplanet.bsky.social · Mar 5

Thrilled that CoE Key Researcher @jillianmpetersen.bsky.social was appointed Full Professor @cemess.bsky.social @univie.ac.at. Jill is a double ERC awardee, @fwf-at.bsky.social Board Member and Editor-in-Chief of @isme-microbes.bsky.social Journal. Congrats on this well-deserved achievement!

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · Mar 4

📢 Sign up now for the 2025 @ooifacilityboard.bsky.social Summer School on #Acoustics! 🧪 🌊

Participants will access, analyze & interpret complementary oceanographic data made available through the #NSFfunded OOI.

🗓️ July 14-18, 2025
📍 University of Washington, Seattle

Apply now! 🔗 bit.ly/42NFYQp

2025 OOIFB Summer School on Acoustics – Ocean Observatories Initiative Facility Board – OOIFB

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Jaime Palter @jaimepalter.bsky.social · Feb 25

Stand up for Science Rally Providence State House March 7, 2025! See you there

A flyer for Stand up for Science Rally Providence State House March 7, 2025 from 12-4. Visit bit.ly/RIregistration or standupforscience2025.org for more information

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Dr. Roxanne Beinart @symbiosisrox.bsky.social · Mar 3

The second was led by Dr. Corinna Breusing with coauthors Michelle Hauer, @chemosymbiosis.bsky.social Johann Becker, Brennan Phillips, and @pgirguis.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Contrasting genomic responses of hydrothermal vent animals and their symbionts to population decline after the Hunga volcanic eruption

Genetic bottlenecks are evolutionary events that reduce the effective size and diversity of natural populations, often limiting a population's ability to adapt to environmental change. Given the accel...

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Dr. Roxanne Beinart @symbiosisrox.bsky.social · Mar 3

Amidst all the bad news, I still want to share two new preprints from our lab group. The first is led by newly minted Dr. Michelle Hauer, in collaboration with @karthik-a.bsky.social @katiekliermicrobe.bsky.social and @maggielangwig.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Phage interactions may contribute to the population structure and dynamics of hydrothermal vent microbial symbionts

Deep-sea hydrothermal vent ecosystems are sustained by chemoautotrophic bacteria that symbiotically provide organic matter to their animal hosts through the oxidation of chemical reductants in vent fl...

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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · Mar 3

NEW: NSF is REINSTATING the 84 probationary staff who were terminated last month, in response to Friday's Federal court order.

The 84 "intermittent experts" are still fired.

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Dr. Stephanie Henderson @drsahenderson.bsky.social · Feb 28

There it is. DOGE is coming for our existing grants. Based on their careless gutting of agencies, I’m going to go ahead and assume this will be just as careless

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · Feb 25

Bad news: purple district Republicans like Juan Ciscomani talking more positively about the budget

GOOD news: as of right now there are four on the far right saying they'll vote no - and it only takes two to tank it.

ESPECIALLY if you have a Republican rep, please squeeze in one more call today!

Conservatives threaten to tank House budget vote needed to advance Trump agenda

Speaker Mike Johnson has been making progress with moderates who've raised concerns about potential Medicaid cuts, but a band of fiscal hawks are refusing to budge.

www.nbcnews.com

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