Cell biology for a sustainable future – a call to action from early-career scientists url: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Don’t forget to apply to this beautiful Electron Microscopy course at @szndohrn.bsky.social in Napoli, Italy by February 12th! 🌊 ☀️ Stay tuned for the preliminary program, in the meantime take a look here: www.szn.it/index.php/it...

Now published in Nature Biotechnology:
go.nature.com/44P7nSm
If you missed it, the TL;DR is in my April thread below

Happy New Year from the BlueRemediomics team!

Oil spills released 10,000 tonnes in 2024, and 10M tonnes of toxic chemicals enter the environment each year, but solutions exist!

Discover how marine microbes can help in our new factsheet.

👉 blueremediomics.eu/wp-content/u...

Did you know a single mL of seawater can host up to 1M microbes, making up 90% of ocean biomass?

We’re excited to launch BlueRemediomics’ factsheet series with our consortium partners.

First up: marine biodiscovery & blue growth!

👉 blueremediomics.eu/wp-content/u...

New Policy brief launched: recommendations to implement the BBNJ Agreement - Blueremediomics The Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI) has released a new policy brief, with contributions from BlueRemediomics’ partner Abbe Brown of the University of Aberdeen, titled “Towards coherence and a...

🌊 New policy brief on the BBNJ Agreement!

Released by @deepstewardship.bsky.social with input from BlueRemediomics’ partner Abbe Brown.

It offers recommendations on governance, benefit-sharing, participation & accountability.

Read here: blueremediomics.eu/new-policy-b...

The Basque Coast Estuarine Sediment Gene Catalogue - Scientific Data Scientific Data - The Basque Coast Estuarine Sediment Gene Catalogue

The Basque Coast Estuarine Sediment Gene Catalogue www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊

Applications closing soon for our internship programme aimed at Master's students at French universities 🇫🇷

Are you studying bioinformatics, computer science or statistics? Check it out!

Deadline: 7 December 2025

www.ebi.ac.uk/about/jobs/i...

A collaboration with the French Embassy in London.

The GEOTRACES IDP2025 had a fantastic launch during the Summer School in Cape Town! 🌊

If you missed it, don’t worry—join us tomorrow, 25 November, from 05:00 to 06:30 UTC.
👇👇
www.geotraces.org/launch-of-ge...

@scor-int.bsky.social
@unoceandecade.bsky.social

#OceanData #OceanScience #IDP2025

We will be at @ccapoban.bsky.social in stunning Oban for the next two weeks fixing samples from their remarkable collection for #ExAME - thank you Ceci Mikey Jo Naomi and everyone at SAMS for the warm Scottish welcome ❤️

#ProtistsonSky #ExpandThemAll

@fmikus.bsky.social

microscopic pictures of a microbe with a spiralling shell full of tiny brown cells of symbiotic algae

Understanding the relationship between #foraminifera & their #symbionts can help corals phys.org/news/2025-09...

Specific host - #algae relationship, yet flexible bacterial #microbiome, in diatom-bearing foraminifera: Elsa Girard et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#Protists #Microbes #Diatoms

Portrait of Dr. Rita Colwell with short silver-gray hair, smiling warmly at the camera. She is wearing round glasses, pearl earrings, a pearl necklace, a white blouse, and a dark blazer. Her arms are confidently crossed, and she stands against a plain medium-gray studio background.

Microbiologist Dr. Rita Colwell was born #OTD in 1934. She is recognized for her study of global infectious disease spread through water sources. Her research on cholera helped save 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 lives.

She was the first female director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), 1998-2004. #WomenInSTEM

Ready to shift your world view? 🌎🌍🌏

👉🏽Explore our planet as you never have before: go.whoi.edu/ocean-world

Scaling Temperature Effects on Metabolism from Individuals to Ecosystems The effects of temperature on metabolic rates are a core component of ecological change, with surprisingly regular effects across diverse ecological systems. Metabolic scaling theories can provide qua...

Excited to share our fresh-off-the-press Annual Review on the role of temperature in metabolic scaling! We review the state of the field on this topic and unpack confusion about the various ways the term "scaling" is used in metabolic theories. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

We have a date for the free-to-attend #anvio workshop and ECR Symposium for 2026, and we look forward to meeting you at the @hifmb.de in Oldenburg, Germany!

Please find more information on the venue, program, and the application form here, and spread the word 😇

anvio.org/workshops/20...

Great conference happening at EMBL next year to highlight the amazing world of plankton. Exceptional line-up of speakers and lots of opportunities for selected talks. Register early and submit your abstracts !

Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples Abstract. Metagenomic sequencing enables the in-depth study of microbes and their functions in humans, animals, and the environment. While sequencing data

Great to see this finally published!

Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples

now out in @narjournal.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

Ocean-M: an integrated global-scale multi-omics database for marine microbial diversity, function and ecological interactions Abstract. Multi-omics analyses have significantly advanced the understanding of complex marine microbial communities and their interactions. Despite notabl

Ocean-M: an integrated global-scale multi-omics database for marine microbial diversity, function and ecological interactions academic.oup.com/nar/advance-... #jcampubs 🌊

#ProtistsOnSky

#protistsonsky

Exciting day for the lab: our 1rst paper is officially out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🥳 Wonderful collaboration wt @gautamdey.bsky.social showing how Cryo-ExM achieves consistent immunostaining in diverse diatoms, from the lab and the natural environment 1/n
#ProtistsOnSky
tinyurl.com/2zxaund7

🚨Our collaboration with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social is out today in @cp-cell.bsky.social
We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny.
#ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

How the first animals evolved – a new clue from a tiny relative Meet the choanoflagellates - the microscopic cousins of animals.

I've written a piece about great new article by @thibautbrunet.bsky.social, Chantal Combredet & Mylan Ansel. (www.cell.com/cell-reports... )

theconversation.com/how-the-firs...

JGI Portals | Joint Genome Institute Our data platforms are a key resource for the broader scientific community and require constant developments to meet the ever-changing demands of our users.

🚨NOTICE TO OUR USERS🚨

The Data Portal will soon replace the Genome Portal.

Portal users can book a session with our team for technical help, feedback or a guided walk-through of the new Data Portal. 🖥️🧬 🌱🦠🍄🧪

More information: jgi.doe.gov/analyze-data...

Carbon credits are failing to help with climate change — here’s why The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed.

The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed

go.nature.com/4925W5G

Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵

A graphic that reads Happy Ctenophore Day in glowing pink text twice between three rows of different ctenophore species. The top row is lobate ctenophores including Bolinopsis microptera, Leucothea pulchra, Mnemiopsis leidy, and the bloody belly comb jelly Lampocteis. The second row has three different Beroe species. The lowest row has Pleurobrachia bachei, Dryodora glandiformis, red-x, and Euplokamis dunlapae.

Happy Ctenophore Day!
🐙🦑🧪

Alice: fast and haplotype-aware assembly of high-fidelity reads based on MSR sketching We introduce Mapping-friendly Sequence Reduction (MSR) sketches, a sketching method for high-fidelity (HiFi) long reads, and Alice, an assembler that operates directly on these sketches. MSR produces ...

Our preprint on our new metagenomic HiFi assembler Alice is out 🥳 Based on a *new sketching method* (🧵1/6)
👉 Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
👉 Github github.com/rolandfaure/...

The job is still open. Get your application in ASAP. Or just pass it on to somebody that might be interested.

EcoFoldDB: Protein Structure‐Guided Functional Profiling of Ecologically Relevant Microbial Traits at the Metagenome Scale EcoFoldDB provides a curated database of protein structures for ecologically important microbial traits. Its companion annotation pipeline (EcoFoldDB-annotate) employs rapid structural homology searc...

EcoFoldDB: Protein Structure‐Guided Functional Profiling of Ecologically Relevant Microbial Traits at the Metagenome Scale enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs