Yet another functional group that is not as restricted as we thought for 25 years. This is an important reminder that microbes are metabolically more diverse than we give them credit and yet another reminder that 16S rRNA surveys are ignorant about metabolism. Just bc you detect some ANME =/= AOM.

Don’t Perish! A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Paper (2026 edition) Great science deserves to be read — not buried under unclear writing. This is the updated 2026 edition of your favorite guide to writing…

I just published Don’t Perish! A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Paper (2026 edition)

Great science deserves to be read—not buried under unclear writing. This is the updated 2026 edition of your favorite guide to writing scientific papers.

medium.com/p/dont-peris...

An Asgard archaeon from a modern analog of ancient microbial mats (Current Biology)

Beautiful microscopy of an Asgard archaeon, in the same family as Lokiarchaea, in syntrophy with a sulfate-reducing bacteria

Very very nice paper we saw in preprint form:
www.cell.com/current-biol...

Deadline is April 20th! Let’s get those viruses

Emergent predictability in microbial ecosystems A long-standing hypothesis of microbial ecology is that simple patterns might persist despite community complexity or even emerge because of it. However, the concept of “emergent simplicity” remains partly intuitive. Here, we defined emergent ...

Moran et al. in Science
Emergent predictability in microbial ecosystems

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

12.7 million battery electric vehicles were sold globally in 2025.

In 2010, the number was barely 10,000.

In China, 1 in 2 new cars sold last year was electric.

The transition is happening faster than almost anyone predicted.

Postdoc in Soil viral ecology - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Agroecology - Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Aarhus University

I'm hiring my first postdoc! Apply by 20/4/26, position #20443. Seeking an environmental microbiologist with experience in metagenomics (preferably viromics) and molecular biology. Experience with targeted metabolomics is a plus.
international.au.dk/about/profil...

Again looking for (self)nominations of/by grad students and postdocs to give virtual talks (via zoom) in the fall seminar series of MSU's Thermal Biology Institute. Does >not< need to be on thermophiles. Email me!

We evaluated quantification methods for #metaproteomics and found that area under the curve quantification (AUC) outperforms spectral counting. Importantly, using match between runs for AUC quantification results in lots of false detections and should not be used www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Hard to focus on my science with all the bad things happening in the world

Genomic and evolutionary factors influencing the prediction accuracy of optimal growth temperature in prokaryotes journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

New genetic codes in bacteria and archaea identified with a fast k-mer based algorithm www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs

Job Alert!!! - We are hiring a Postdoc for the NASA ICAR OxyMoRon program

Join my lab at Marine Biological Laboratory and an international team of geomicrobiologists and geochemists.

Details here, please share widely:
recruiting.ultipro.com/MAR1033MBL/J...

@mblscience.bsky.social #darkoxygen ⚒️🧪

PhD positions in hadal biogeochemistry & microbial ecology Application deadline: 4 May 2026 at 23:59 hours local Danish time

📣We have 5 PhD positions in hadal biogeochemistry and microbial ecology at the Danish Center for Hadal Research: lnkd.in/eJ6rp_Rk. 📣

Deadline: 4 May 2026

Please share widely!

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Structural and functional study suggests DnfC is a putative glutamine amidotransferase in the dirammox pathway Microbial ammonia oxidation is essential for biogeochemical nitrogen cycling and wastewater treatment. Besides the well-studied nitrification and anae…

Structural and functional study suggests DnfC is a putative glutamine amidotransferase in the dirammox pathway #heterotrophic #Nitrification
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We tested the efficacy of semi-permeable capsules to capture protists from cultures and environmental samples using the Onyx from @atrandi.bsky.social. Tremendous effort from everyone in the lab and led by Marco Fantini and Nik Brask - check out the videos here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Welcome to RustQC Fast quality control tools for sequencing data, written in Rust.

Super excited to be launching two things today: #RustQC 🦀🧬 and rewrites.bio 🚀

I used AI to rewrite 15 RNA-seq QC tools into a single Rust binary (I've never written any Rust). It ended up being over 60x faster. Here's the story 🧵

seqeralabs.github.io/RustQC/

Should have posted this yesterday. Art and Idea by Marike, my love, who is not on Bsky.

An exciting new study in PNAS led by postdoc Andrea Unzueta Martinez and Prof. @pgirguis.bsky.social lab shows that oysters coordinate with microbes living inside of them to build their hard shells! A game changer for understanding ocean resilience as waters become more acidic from #climatechange

I thought it was quite mind boggling to see that around 10% of the protein in a standard yeast based bread is actually yeast protein! Here our #metaproteomics analysis of microbial protein in fermented foods
pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A...
Congratulations to first authors Laura Winkler and Ayesha Awan

Myloasm, our long-read metagenome assembler, is now published! w/ @mgmarin.bsky.social and @lh3lh3.bsky.social

Very rewarding after > a year of development and countless hours thinking about assembly. Thanks to beta testers, Li lab, and reviewers who gave very helpful feedback.

rdcu.be/famFj

ANIr-based methodology to determine if two sequence-discrete populations are identical and identify cosmopolitan prokaryotic populations academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs

Come work with us in Vienna and along European coasts! We look for a creative Postdoc (4year contract) in Evolutionary Genomics to cooperate with physiologists, ecologists, see: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoc-... Please share! @univie.ac.at

A complete set of canonical nucleobases in the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu - Nature Astronomy Samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu contain all five canonical nucleobases (A, G, C, T and U). Their presence in Ryugu and Bennu supports the hypothesis that carbonaceous asteroids contributed to the prebiotic chemical inventory of early Earth.

Samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu contain all five canonical nucleobases (A, G, C, T, U). Their presence in Ryugu and Bennu supports the hypothesis that carbonaceous asteroids contributed to the prebiotic chemical inventory of early Earth. http://dlvr.it/TRWtVp ☄️

Predicting protein-protein interactions (PPIs) at proteome scale can take months with co-folding models due to the massive all-vs-all comparisons required.

We are excited to announce FlashPPI, a contrastive learning framework that predicts proteome wide physical interfaces in minutes. 1/🧵

This is a cool use of Hi-C within microbiology.

Genomic Perplexity and the Evolution of Context-Dependent Function Abstract. The fundamental principle that selection acts on a gene’s function often assumes implicitly that this function is fixed and intrinsic. However, e

New paper out in MBE! 🧵
"Genomic Perplexity and the Evolution of Context-Dependent Function"
The big idea: genes don't have fixed functions. Function emerges from context - genomic, cellular, environmental. And we can quantify this. academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Rapid directed evolution guided by protein language models and epistatic interactions Protein engineering is limited by the inefficient search through a high-dimensional sequence space to find combinations of synergistic mutations. Traditional approaches use stepwise mutation stacking,...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congratulations, @jcamthrash.bsky.social !

Map showing locations of groundwater microbiome samples

#China and #Canada lead the world in groundwater microbial ecology... map from nice new paper from our Chinese colleagues www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...