My super department @warwicklifesci.bsky.social is hiring 6 assistant profs in the wake of recent retirements. We're looking for people in microbiology/infection, cellular disease / immunity; environmental biology; and plant/crop science. #MicroSky warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

this is cool because it's a very obvious concept but it's neat to see it laid out in data!

Global carbon emissions and decarbonization in 2025 - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes increased by +0.7% within 2025. However, large-scale deployment of clean electricity sources during the year avoided 10.3 Gt o...

Bad news - we'll soon blow through the carbon budget for stabilizing global temperature at 1.5C

Good news - progress on clean energy suggests it is possible to stabilize by 2C www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What does the science say? Neither is a magic threshold. Every bit of warming matters.

"The authors have gone to great lengths to address the concerns of the reviewers multiple times. If the reviewers would like to write a different paper, they are free to do so in future work."

WELL SAID, Dr. journal editor, well said! 🙌

Seminar 📅 Join us on Wednesday 29th April at 1 pm GMT where we will delve into soil fauna ecology with François-Xavier Joly (INRAE) and Carole Schöpfer (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL).
Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Crude doesnt cost any more to extract, or to refine

The bump in oil prices is just profit from war

It’s a great moment to remember that in the leadup to this popular uprising, the first major gut-punch was delivered by Budapest Pride. Poetic justice. 🇭🇺🏳️‍🌈

🚨🎉 The Green Party BEATS Reform!!!

😮 Greens came fourth here last year.

💚 Proving once again that Greens can win anywhere.

🙌🏽 Labour tanking and Greens beating Reform!

👉🏽 Join.greenparty.org.uk

Ecological and genomic variation in ectomycorrhizal fungal exploration types Ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF) produce mycelia with variable extension and complexity, which can be classified according to soil ‘exploration types’ (ETs). ETs have received attention as one of the few.....

Very happy to see this lab paper out in @newphyt.bsky.social - we identified genomic traits & environmental drivers of ectomycorrhizal fungal mycelium exploration in the soil and on roots.

Thanks to all our co-authors and to @tommansfield.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/nph....

SP26 Party Profile: Scottish Greens Currently headed for their best result in history, even accounting for a history of underperforming against polling, the Greens may become a truly national party for the first time this year.

SP26 Party Profile: Scottish Greens

Seemingly headed for their best ever result, SNP over-representation could harm the Greens. 11 or more MSPs would be a good result, especially if one was a constituency, whilst failing to hit double digits or still having gap regions would be disappoing for them.

Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

As Iran war exposes global dependence on fossil fuels, the biggest emitters are reaping the rewards Worst polluters hold world’s future in their hands as they benefit from higher fossil fuel prices, but global trends favour renewables

This illegal war on Iran is benefitting very few people and screwing everyone else now and in the future.

What does ecosystem #integrity mean in a rapidly changing #Anthropocene biosphere? I argue for a shift from static reference states toward 1) the ecological processes that sustain biodiversity & 2) evolutionary heritage➡️ doi.org/10.1111/rec....
#ecology #restoration #biodiversity #ecosystemintegrity

PLEASE SHARE. PhD Opportunity with me, Ben Raymond and Jan Engelstaedter and Andrew Letten at University of Queensland.

Experimentally testing mechanisms of how temperature may change selection and spread of AMR in E. coli. Coupled with some advanced modelling and sequencing.

🧪🦠 #microsky

#syncom

Roles of microbial interactions in determining the establishment and function of synthetic consortium inoculants for soil applications

Microbial phosphorus cycling in terrestrial ecosystems - Nature Reviews Microbiology In this Review, the authors describe current knowledge of microbial phosphorus cycling in terrestrial ecosystems and discuss how microbial communities respond to environmental and anthropogenic pressu...

Microbial phosphorus cycling in terrestrial ecosystems

@natrevmicro.nature.com by @jpreixach.bsky.social et al

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

Watch this extraordinary short video. 1) Here's a national leader with a coherent viewpoint & an ability to articulate it, who is 2) saying & doing the correct things in response to this crisis, & sticking to it in the face of 3) a more adversarial press than you'd *ever* see around Trump. Sigh.

Who wants to know how plant roots and microbes conspire to induce anoxic microsites in the rhizosphere? Check out @soiltycoon.bsky.social's latest paper in New Phytologist! lnkd.in/eCwxkwT2.
THANKS to G Ceriotti, P De Anna, S. Borisov, J Berg, D Garrido-Sanz, C Keel, the NCCR Microbiomes and SNF.

Large-scale estimation of bacterial and archaeal DNA prevalence in metagenomes reveals biome-specific patterns journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) at University of Birmingham Explore an exciting academic career as a Research Fellow (Postdoctoral). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

Two post-doctoral positions open in our lab. We're looking for people with expertise in molecular microbiology and/or genome-scale tools. Initially 3 yrs, posts could be extended for upto 8 yrs. If you'd like to know more about us take a look at www.graingerlab.com

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQY475/r...

Postdoctoral scholarship (2 years) in mycorrhizal biogeography and species distribution modelling

Postdoc (2 years) in mycorrhizal fungal biogeography & species distribution modelling @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
Work with large-scale metabarcoding data and modelling.

Deadline is 30th April
www.umu.se/en/work-with...

Job opportunity!

Research Assistant / Research Associate

An opportunity to join our team to investigate the regulation of nutrient exchange during the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis.

Apply by Sunday 29 March 2026: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Image of the cover of the 1st volume of ISME Host Microbe a new official journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology. Cover images shows a plant stomata with bacteria around and entering.

Excited to announce our new journal from @isme-microbes.bsky.social ISME Host Microbe is live and now accepting submissions. Look forward to receiving your papers! #Microsky 🧫 🦠

Zack Polanski says Greens would ditch GDP targets and focus on wellbeing instead Leader uses first major economic speech to prioritise public services and reduction of inequality over growth

Zack Polanski says Greens would ditch GDP targets & focus on wellbeing instead. BRAVO!

Green leader prioritises public services & reduction of inequality over growth. HURRAH!

UK has enough wealth. It's just unfairly distributed

REDISTRIBUTE WEALTH !

River Microbiomes as Sentinels of National‐Scale Freshwater Ecosystems River biofilms are complex microbial assemblages that underpin aquatic food webs and play a central role in biogeochemical cycling. By responding to environmental signals over space and time, biofilm...

Using river biofilm microbiomes as sentinels of national-scale freshwater ecosystems

Very impressive coverage of England's river system with 700 sites included!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Professor or Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Restoration Ecology Professor or Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Restoration Ecology

Come to work with us!

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Plant diversity induces shifts from microbial generalists to specialist by enhancing niche differentiation, microbiome connectivity, and network stability in a temperate grassland - Environmental Micr... Background Soil microbiota are key players of terrestrial ecosystem functioning, including decomposition, soil organic matter formation, and nutrient cycling, and interact strongly with plants in the ...

New paper led by @bgc-jena.mpg.de colleagues:

"Higher plant diversity strengthens microbial functioning and enhances microbiome resilience, that is the capacity of the microbial community to maintain soil functioning despite environmental disturbances."

doi.org/10.1186/s407...

Density-dependent feedback and higher-order interactions enable coexistence in phage-bacteria community dynamics Abstract. Diverse phage-bacteria communities coexist at high densities in environmental, agricultural, and human-associated microbiomes. Phage-bacteria coe

🚨NEW PAPER @isme-microbes.bsky.social on phage-bacteria dynamics. Collab between us and @joshuasweitz.bsky.social labs. "Density-dependent feedback and higher-order interactions enable coexistence in phage-bacteria community dynamics". 👉 doi.org/10.1093/isme...

Plant diversity increases microbial resistance to drought and soil carbon accumulation We investigated how plant diversity influenced soil microbial processes during moist conditions and an experimental drought. Higher plant diversity increased below-ground plant input. This increased ...

Belated paper update from February:

A new study by @sarawinterfeldt.bsky.social et al shows that higher plant diversity boosts microbial drought resistance and promotes soil carbon storage 🌱🦠

doi.org/10.1111/1365...

@rousklab.bsky.social
@journalofecology.bsky.social

For the last 39 years, I have had the privilege of working with many of you on the fascinating #microbiology of #methane and #nitrogen cycling. On the 29th of May 2026, I will deliver a goodbye lecture. For details see link or picture attached MVH/ MJ. www.ru.nl/over-ons/age...