Do you want to see the "big picture" on climate change?

Here it is.

Emissions are on the left, and include CO2, CH4, N2O, and f-gases. Natural CO2 sinks (from healthy forests & oceans) are on the right. And carbon removal, what little there is, is on the right, too. All expressed as GWP100.

Year‐round rhythms: Alpine plant species modulate soil and microbial dynamics during the growing season and under the snow Soil–plant–microbe interactions are integral throughout most terrestrial ecosystems, yet the importance of plant phenology and seasonal dynamism upon these relationships remains unknown. Given the pr...

📣 New publication by Adam Ruka and colleagues in @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social: Year-round rhythms: Alpine plant species modulate soil and microbial dynamics during the growing season and under the snow.

@ibotcz.bsky.social, bc cas, @czechacademy.bsky.social

Two postdoctoral positions (3-year) in Experimental Evolution of Methanogenic Microbiomes in Bioelectrochemical Systems Application deadline: 4 March 2026 at 23:59 hours local Danish time

Hiring: two 3-year Postdoc positions

We’re looking for postdocs who can design and run directed laboratory evolution experiments in microbial communities under electrochemical stimulation, and link adaptations to performance using shotgun meta-omics.

Now published in @isme-microbes.bsky.social Communications:
academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

In the next three years, my team at the Biology Centre CAS, including colleagues from the @ibotcz.bsky.social and @ter-cemess.bsky.social will try to develop standardised, high-throughput methods to measure how many #microbes are dormant at any given moment.

#soil #dormancy #StableIsotopes

Grateful to the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) for funding my new project: Quantifying microbial dormancy and growth in glacial forefield soils (is QoMA)!

The latest and most detailed review on a fundamental biochemical pathway: #glycolysis
#microbiology #biochemistry
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Unfortunately, currently not, but I'm always looking to support researchers interested in writing a Marie Curie grant or an incoming postdoc grant.
For various structural reasons, we have much higher chances of getting those compared to other European countries.

The position is still open.
Please apply here:
jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/277

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PhD /PostDoc positions available. Exploration of physiological functions of the cell fusogen Fusexin1 in Archaea.
In a collaborative project between the Albers lab (Freiburg) and the Podbilewicz lab (Technion) starting in January 2026.

WOW! Fluorescein-based dyes are not valid reporters of oxidative stress in bacteria, and conclusions based on their use must be reconsidered www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨 Come and work with us 🦠🧪🖥️
Postdoc position with lots of freedom available in my group

- 1.5 years with options to extend
- work on ecogenomics and physiology of N/CH4-cyclers
- remote work possible 🤓

more info here: isme-microbes.org/postdoc-ecog...

#microbesky

Please share this with anyone who may be interested in a post-doc in Germany:

jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20...

This is quite an exciting opportunity to push the boundaries of what is known regarding the molecular basis of the formation and demise of photosymbiotic relationships in marine habitats.

I bought the MDF-U500VX from Panasonic Healthcare, and I'm very happy with it.
You should get one with a backup/dual-cooling system in case of failure and also a mobile communication unit to SMS you in case of a power failure (always on a Sunday morning, of course)

The team at our research site in the alps

📣 New PhD student position opening in my lab!
Soils are full of microbes, but how many are active?
Surprisingly, we still lack reliable methods to answer this.
If you are interested in microbial dormancy and are fascinated by the Alps and glacier forefields, contact me.
🏔️ 🦠 💤 🧬 🎓

Coevolution and cross-infection patterns between viruses and their host methanogens in paddy soils
#microbiology #virology #methanogens #viruses #phages
@isme-microbes.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Aeration and mineral composition of soil mediate microbial CUE Abstract. In ecosystem studies, microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) is often used to estimate the proportion of organic substrate (glucose) consumed by microbial biomass that is not released from so...

🆕 New publication in SOIL journal!
📖 Aeration and mineral composition of soil mediate microbial CUE

👥 Niedźwiecka et al.

🔗 soil.copernicus.org/articles/11/...

#SoilScience #SoilJournal #Research #OpenAccess #EGU_SSS

📣Now finally with peer-review stamp of approval.
Thanks @ashish-malik.bsky.social for being the editor for this paper.
soil.copernicus.org/articles/11/...

🦠 Among #Methylococcales, the genus #Methylobacter has the most genomes and MAGs deposited in the dbs. We found interesting stuff, e.g., some M. spp. encode all three MMOs: pMMO, pXMO, sMMO! Have a look at our ms: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

with @anne-daebeler.bsky.social, Vojta, Justus&Julius

Poster showing the following text: PhD in microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling. Soil microbes shape the global carbon cycle in life and death. We study the effect of aboveground land management on belowground soil carbon cycling processes. We aim create a scalable understanding of microbial processes from single cells to populations to communities to ecosystems. Pictures with text: peatland restoration, sustainable agriculture and woodland regeneration.

📢 Funded PhD opportunities for UK candidates in beautiful Edinburgh. Get in touch if you're interested in a PhD on understanding the mechanisms of soil carbon cycling and the role of microbes. We work in different ecosystems: peatlands, forests and agricultural soils. Please repost/spread the word.

A genomic view of Earth’s biomes - Nature Reviews Genetics Genome-wide approaches have uncovered the vast microbial and viral diversity across ecosystems. This Review explores advances in metagenomics, single-cell sequencing and functional profiling to elucid...

Microbiome sequencing has come so far in 2 decades. In my PhD— I used TRFLP…. am now doing long read sequencing of entire soil metagenomes! This review was great fun- thanks Gitta Szabó @emileyeloe-fadrosh.bsky.social Tanja Woyke of @jgi.doe.gov

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

Cultivation and genomic characterisation of novel methanogens from a desert biocrust Methanogens are strictly anaerobic archaea capable of energy conservation by methane production, yet their presence in oxic and arid environments challenges existing paradigms. In this study, we enric...

These methanogens are globally distributed in oxic soils and can withstand frequent desiccation periods and high oxidative stress.
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Genomes: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/?term=PR...
Species description: registry.seqco.de/registers/r:...

SEM images of the three newly cultured methanogens from desert biocrusts. Methanobacterium sp. (A) with a long rod shape, Methanosarcina sp. (B) with aggregated, coccoid cell clusters, and likely Methanocella sp.

📢 🦠 🏜️ Meet the first cultured methanogens from oxic soils! Using cultivation and comparative genomics, we descirbe Methanobacterium limanense sp. nov., Methanocella ebodanensis sp. nov., and a strain of Methanosarcina mazei as dwellers of desert biocrusts.
With @anne-daebeler.bsky.social and other

AI tool detects LLM-generated text in research papers and peer reviews Authors and peer reviewers are failing to disclose the use of LLMs despite journal policies limiting their use.

"36% of 7,177 manuscripts submitted between January and June 2025 were flagged by Pangram for suspected AI-generated text" I don't think we're ready for the amount of junk text coming our way 😬
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Unfortunately, the sauna was broken this time, but I guess you can't always have it all...

Thanks @luederslab.bsky.social and @femsmicro.org for the opportunity to be a Summer School mentor. I had so much fun and I really hope FEMS will continue this programme in the future.

The @femsmicro.org SSPD 2025 is going strong! 💪

An amazing crowd of postdocs and mentors from all over the globe has gathered for highly inspiring and illuminating discussions of microbiology and career development on the shores of the beautiful Lake of Ohrid - City of Light. 🦠🌞🇲🇰

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Huge thanks to co-director Joana Falcao Salles and mentors @roeyangel.bsky.social, @gabrieleberg.bsky.social, Martina Cappelletti, Rodrigo Costa, Max Häggblom, @matehg.bsky.social, @kolb2018.bsky.social, @ashley17061.bsky.social, András Táncsics and ofc. Antonio Ventosa for contributing! 🤩

Genomic and physiological characterization of 'Candidatus Methylocystis sumavensis', a novel acid-tolerant methanotroph from peatland Methanotrophic bacteria in peatlands mitigate emissions of methane (CH4), a potent greenhouse gas. Yet, the identity, physiology, and adaptive traits of methanotrophs inhabiting acidic peatlands are s...

📢 🦠 A new methanotroph from Czech peat! Through an effort led by PhD student in my group Justus Nweze we isolated and describe a new CH4-muncher. Potential for a flexible (annaerobic) metabolisms and cool pH adaptations.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#microbesky #microbiomesky