Rock legend, naturalist team up to turn field recordings of animals into music YouTube video by 60 Minutes

Good story and interesting music by Stewart Copeland

www.youtube.com/watch?v=acrj...

Eco-Microbiology: A Frugal-Circular Framework for Biosafe, Low-Cost Practical Microbiology in Secondary Education.
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@shrylishreekar.bsky.social and me wrote a commentary on Chunhui Hao's and @stuwest.bsky.social et al.'s recent paper

"Cooperation and the evolution of bacterial niche breadth"

in PNAS.

Please find our commentary here:

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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...

Oxygen scavenging enables microoxic survival of the marine anammox bacterium Scalindua sp. academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs 🌊

Mastering Python for Bioinformatics - YouTube Mastering Python for Bioinformatics (O'Reilly, 2022) by Ken Youens-Clark demonstrates how to write effective Python code and how to use tests to write and re...

Found out today that @kyclark.bsky.social has made their great 'Mastering Python for Bioinformatics' book into a YouTube series.

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Marker gene phylogeny of ammonia oxidizing archaea genomes in the GlobDB annotated with their prevailing environmental categories

We now provide environmental metadata for the GlobDB genomes!
🖥️🧬🦠

More info here:
globdb.org/news

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13C-Labeled Single-Cell Raman Sorting Reveals Sulfur-Driven Dark Carbon Fixation in Coastal Sediments ABSTRACT. Chemoautotrophs drive carbon fixation in coastal sediments, but most of them remain uncultured with poorly characterized in situ activities. In t

13C-Labeled Single-Cell Raman Sorting Reveals Sulfur-Driven Dark Carbon Fixation in Coastal Sediments academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs

Evo-Devo (Despacito Biology Parody) | A Capella Science YouTube video by acapellascience

I had way too much fun introducing Developmental Biology in my Genetics class today with this awesome @acapellascience.bsky.social video set to Despacito. Fortunately, Justin Bieber is still a recognizable cultural reference for undergrads.

Super-cool work from @ivanhcenalmor.bsky.social and the @guijacquemet.bsky.social lab! LabConstrictor brings CI/CD-style automation to academic developers, turning Jupyter notebooks into one-click desktop apps. No terminal, works offline. A major tool for sharing computational methods across labs

I appreciate someone took the time to write this. I profoundly disagree with their view, but if I take the spirit of what they're saying as a good faith attempt to raise a mental issue, there's at least a conversation to be had.

Let's have it 1/🧵

www.science.org/content/arti...
#AcademicChatter

How to help everyday people suffering in Iran — and beyond Getting aid to civilians during wartime is difficult. Here’s the best approach.

IRAN & REGION

Viruses in marine sediments: a review of their effect on biogeochemistry and microbial interactions | Applied and Environmental Microbiology In the ocean, viruses are known to mediate the carbon cycle, keeping dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in the microbial loop and preventing its movement into secondary consumers (1). However, few direct measurements of this carbon flux exist, and recent considerations of the ocean system consider that viruses can not only loop carbon in the dissolved pool but also participate in a carbon shuttle through the creation of aggregates that pellet or can be part of a viral vent that releases carbon into the atmosphere (2). While the pelagic ocean has been well reviewed for viral contributions to microbial diversity and biogeochemical cycling, less attention has been paid in recent years to the sedimentary portion of the ocean, where carbon is potentially stored over geological time, but viral influence can still be felt. Here, we review the literature on viruses in sedimentary ecosystems and their potential role in biogeochemistry and microbial diversity.

Viruses in marine sediments: a review of their effect on biogeochemistry and microbial interactions | Applied and Environmental Microbiology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/aem.00275-25

Using Quarto to Write a Book I’ve spent the last couple of months revising my Data Visualization book for a second edition that, ideally, will appear some time in the next twelve months. As with the first edition, I’ve posted a c...

Using Quarto to write (and typeset) a book.

𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗽𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴! If you're involved in creating, processing, or publishing microscopy data, take a look at the new checklist for reporting requirements provided by @quarep-limi.bsky.social in @jcb.org 🔗 rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Neanderthals, modern humans, and the rules of attraction. Here's my story on a tantalizing study on mating preferences as far back as 250,000 years ago. Gift link: nyti.ms/4bcNzvy

Yet another awesome single-phage paper from Ido Golding's lab #phagesky

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Differential Contributions From Chemo‐ and Photoautotrophy to Winter Primary Production in a North Temperate Freshwater System Changing winter conditions influence snow and ice accumulation in inland waterbodies Diverse communities of primary producers are responsible for the fixation of inorganic carbon year-round Guil...

Love this new paper from @tjvmajors.bsky.social and colleagues - looking at contributions of chemosynthetic contributions to net primary productivity with a focus on interesting winter dynamics! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Giant multicellular magnetotactic prokaryotes in marine sediments academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs

New paper from my group in @science.org : "A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesise itself and its complementary strand" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Outstanding work by @edogia.bsky.social

Figure 1: The important dimensions of CAILs across research and education; clockwise from 12 o’clock: Con- ceptual Clarity is the idea that terms should refer. Critical Thinking is deep engagement with the relationships between statements about the world. Decoloniality is the process of de-centring and addressing dominant harmful views and practices. Respecting Expertise is the epistemic compact between professionals and society. Slow Science is a disposition towards preferring psychologically, techno-socially, and epistemically healthy practices. The lines between dimensions represent how they are interwoven both directly and indirectly.

New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence"

Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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the evolutionary and ecological consequences of cooperation

the evolutionary and ecological consequences of cooperation

Huge thanks to @asn-amnat.bsky.social for inviting our review on the evolutionary and ecological consequences of cooperation. @annadewar.bsky.social @asgriffin.bsky.social @lauriebelch.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

How did life arise from simple chemical building blocks?

New #LMBResearch led by @edogia.bsky.social in @philholliger.bsky.social group has identified a small self-replicating ribozyme that could be the answer.

Read more: mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/...

Bridging the gap from chemistry to life: discovery of a tiny RNA that can copy itself | MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Led by Edoardo Gianni, Philipp Holliger’s group in the LMB’s PNAC Division have identified a small self-replicating catalytic RNA (ribozyme), providing new ...

Have a look at the Insight on Research story on our Science paper www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... on the @mrclmb.bsky.social website: mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/... including a great little animation from LMB VisLab.

Limits to the evolution of metabolic dependency in spatially structured microbial communities In microbial communities, evolutionary processes can lead to loss of biosynthetic pathways, creating metabolic dependencies. The Black Queen Hypothesi…

Excited to share our new paper led by Divvya Ramesh: Limits to the evolution of metabolic dependency in spatially structured microbial communities 🧫
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Unveiling hidden variables in stressed bacteria

@cp-cellreports.bsky.social Review by @divyach.bsky.social and @maxencevincent.bsky.social

www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Spatial structure: Shaping the ecology and evolution of microbial communities Abstract. Most microbes grow in spatially structured communities, and this profoundly shapes their ecology and evolution. At the microscale, short interact

Spatial structure: Shaping the ecology and evolution of microbial communities

@femsjournals.bsky.social Microbiology Review by @marcelbaecker.bsky.social et al
from @bedutilh.bsky.social @bramvandijk.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/femsre/advan...

#MicroSky: ENVIRON BIOTECH: Vidal et al discuss that deep beneath Earth’s surface, life thrives in extremes. Subsurface microbiology reveals the limits and origins of life, and guides the search for biosignatures on Mars, icy moons, and distant exoplanets. Do not miss doi.org/10.1111/1751...

Metabolic blueprints of monocultures enable prediction and design of synthetic microbial consortia

A nice demonstration of how cross-feeding shapes small microbial community compositions

From Segré lab @dsegre.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Guinea-Bissau suspends US-funded vaccine trial as African scientists question its motives Officials at the US Department of Health and Human Services, which awarded funding for the controversial study, say it will proceed as planned.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“They’re trying to use African children to prove a case for reducing vaccines in the US,”

"That's problematic"...

No...it's beyond the pale.