Excited to present at archaea power hour this week! We’ll be talking about microbial ecology in Great Salt Lake, as per our recent pre-print. Head to archaea.bio to sign up if you haven’t already!
Water your tree.
This study was done in collaboration with the Great Salt Lake Institute, students at Westminster U, folks at USGS, and Prof. Som Dutta’s lab at Utah State University.
One of the more interesting things is seasonal cycling of taxa related to known predators and parasites, a novel observation in hypersaline water! If you know about these bugs, we'd love to hear from you.
Hypersaline ecosystems display remarkable consistency across the world, but how do they change over time? Our new preprint shows off our first foray into investigating this with 16S seq and hydrodynamic modeling in Great Salt Lake during an especially variable water year. tinyurl.com/hc3zkvrf
Gandalf even got promoted.
So do some bacteria it turns out bsky.app/profile/natm...
Some keen Observations in Our October issue!
🦠 Cancer microbiome
🌊 Marine microbes in warming oceans
🌐 broad-range phages
🧬 genetically minimised Salmonella
🔧 Viral infection mechanisms
🧪 Oxaloacetate antiviral defence
and more, here: www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
You’re doing a great job. I was searching archaea because I need something to talk about at journal club tomorrow and was just chiming into conversations that popped up.
Yes, though this is a tad out of date because Asgardarchaea have been shown to be much closer to us than Thermoprotei.
CoE Deputy Director of Research, @chmoei.bsky.social @medunigraz.at, was on ArchaeaCast! She discussed human #Archaea, why there are no pathogenic Archaea (yet!), and her favorite topic – the human cow 🐄. Tune in! rss.com/podcasts/arc...
@fwf-at.bsky.social #archaeasky #microsky
We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people."
Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
(Except for the eugenics part 😬)
this is the last physics video for a bit.
and I didn't even get to do any physics.
Our article on equitable reuse of public sequencing data is out! Led by @alexjprobst.bsky.social, @lhug.bsky.social, Cristina Moraru, @geomicrosoares.bsky.social, @folker.bsky.social and myself -, co-authored by Anke Heyder, and developed in consultation with 167 scientists. tinyurl.com/n6yeanmk
Unironically stoked
This new video by @hankgreen.bsky.social is one of the best arguments for better science policy I’ve ever seen. Also I learned a ton about where these autism numbers are coming from. Necessary viewing IMO m.youtube.com/watch?v=BdpS...
I can't believe I have spent my entire life being told to shut up about feminism and now it's 2025 and women are not allowed to have acetaminophen.
Instant watch when the nebula notification came through.
Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change.
Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned
Not an original observation but I’m remembering that he internet is a machine that distributes information, collects every possible take, and delivers the most viral and engagement-baiting ones right to your senses in a death spiral that is driving the world insane.
Archaeal viruses with varying morphologies.
Archaeal viruses with varying morphologies.
Here's a new episode of Archaeacast! Listen to @archaealex.bsky.social and Priyanka discuss the many unique viruses which affect Archaea. Afterward Dr. Rachel Whitaker tells us about her labs work investigating these infectious virions!
rss.com/podcasts/arc...
#SciSky #AcademicSky #Microbiology
MAHA gold-standard science.
By @glaucomflecken.bsky.social
ArchaeaCast: A podcast about the coolest domain of life: Archaea. rss.com/podcasts/arc...
Back at my old postdoc after my science policy fellowship and, boy lemme tell you, turns out I really do love looking at DNA on the computer and then writing about it.
The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities.
It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree.
Likely to enter force within days.
Just to give the TL;DR on this one:
*The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.
Boosting because Drew is brilliant as well as being a very good hang.
Can’t wait for my swim home today.
Flood risk map for Thursday shows the DC area through Philly and to northern New Jersey in a Level 3 of 4 risk.
Flood risk Thursday bumped to a Level 3 out of 4. NWS warns of localized 8-inch totals possible, with 2-3 inches in an hour in some spots. Details on the rain and heat @ cwg.live.
