Huge credit to the EMCR-led team behind JAMS15 Brisbane last week showcasing a vibrant microbiology community in the region. It's great to see our EMCRs stepping up to lead. 👏 Congratulations to the organisers @brisjams.bsky.social and all award winners. A job well done!

JAMS Brisbane@brisjams.bsky.social · yesterday

🏆 Celebrating our JAMS15 Award Winners! 🏆 Congratulations to our 2026 award recipients: 🎤 Best Talk Award – Brodie Gillieatt 👏 People's Choice Talk Award – Glen Lamb 🥇 Best Poster Award – Mirei Okada ⭐ People's Choice Poster Award – Heyu Lin

🎉🐨 Huge congratulations to our own Dr Michaela Blyton on being named a 2026 Queensland #YoungTallPoppy! Michaela's work helps us understand how microbes contribute to #koala health. A well-deserved honour, and proof that sometimes great scientists really do come with koalas! #WomenInSTEM

Congratulations @ace-gtdb.bsky.social to make one of the finalists for the Eureka Prize for Excellence in Data Platforms this year!! @xrefugee13.bsky.social

Australian Museum Eureka Prizes@eurekaprizes.bsky.social · last wk.

Genome Taxonomy Database @xrefugee13.bsky.social is a finalist in the @ardc.edu.au Eureka Prize for Excellence in Data Platforms. Learn more: youtu.be/1nztCU6Oz-E #EurekaPrizes

JAMS Brisbane happening this Friday is a great opportunity for all microbiologists reagrdless of career stages to share, connect and learn from each other jams.org.au/index.php/ja...

JAMS Brisbane@brisjams.bsky.social · 2w ago

📅 31 July 2026 📍 Translational Research Institute (TRI), Brisbane ⏰ 9:00 am – 5:30 pm 🎟️ Registrations are still open—secure your place today! Scan the QR code on the poster.

My lab at @stonybrooku.bsky.social Dept of Ecology & Evolution is recruiting a 2-year Postdoc! They will split time between genomics and symbiosis dynamics of cnidarians 🪸, and the development of STAGdb. Start date as early as Sept 2026. Please share this post with anyone who might be a great fit!

ACE researchers @chancx.bsky.social @hisatakeishida.bsky.social shared their work in coral hologenomics & symbiont genomics at #ICRS2026 🪸 alongside the GBR-MGD @nature.com presented by @markoterzin.bsky.social this week. Marine genomics continues to make an impact! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cheong Xin (CX) Chan@chancx.bsky.social · 2w ago

My first #ICRS2026 @icrs.bsky.social: so glad to share what we've been working on in the areas of coral hologenomics and Symbiodiniaceae genomics. It's been an exciting, productive meeting with wonderful people! Tagging @hisatakeishida.bsky.social here for his excellent talk. Go k-mers!

New work led by @stevenjrobbins.bsky.social @markoterzin.bsky.social finally published - we now have a reference of microbial genomic resources from the Great Barrier Reef. The paper came out just hours after the work presented by Marko at #ICRS2026 @icrs.bsky.social See thread here for more detail

Steven Robbins@stevenjrobbins.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's out! Excited to present the Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database (GBR-MGD), a comprehensive DB of 1000s of high-quality prokaryote, virus, plasmid, and chromosome-level eukaryote MAGs using Nanopore long reads. Subthreads incoming. Please share widely. 🙂 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our new work @natecoevo.nature.com shows Karenia cristata produces brevetoxins and is the dominant player in the prolonged bloom & mass mortality event in Southern Australia. Glad to be part of this work with Shauna Murray & the whole team! rdcu.be/fse9r The Conversation: tinyurl.com/3rnyxrnj

A catastrophic marine mortality event caused by a complex algal bloom including the brevetoxin producer Karenia cristata

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Genomic characterization and toxicity assays identify Karenia cristata as a brevetoxin-producing species that is the dominant component of the prolonged microalgal...

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Nature Ecology & Evolution@natecoevo.nature.com · 4w ago

Genomic characterization and toxicity assays identify Karenia cristata as a brevetoxin-producing species that is the dominant component of the prolonged microalgal bloom causing mass marine mortality in South Australia 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please check out our recent preprint from @ace-uq.bsky.social researcher’s @stevenjrobbins.bsky.social, @xrefugee13.bsky.social, and former ACEr @pam-engelberts.bsky.social on their work generating the Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database (GBR-MGD).

Steven Robbins@stevenjrobbins.bsky.social · last yr.

Very excited to present the Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database (GBR-MGD), a comprehensive DB of 1000s of high-quality prokaryote, virus, plasmid, and chromosome-level eukaryote MAGs using Nanopore long reads. Subthreads incoming. Please share widely. 🙂 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🦠 The first JAMs event of 2025 is happening on Feb 19th at The Burrow. Don’t miss out! #JAMs2025 #microbiologyseminars

Hi all, come join us for the first JAMS of the year! And please share @brisjams.bsky.social stuff around so we can rebuild our following on BlueSky. We’re new here and the intent is to shut off our Twitter account.

JAMS Brisbane@brisjams.bsky.social · last yr.

🦠 The first JAMs event of 2025 is happening on Feb 19th at The Burrow. Don’t miss out! #JAMs2025 #microbiologyseminars

Please check out AIMS and ACE researchers @markoterzin.bsky.social and @stevenjrobbins.bsky.social’s new manuscript in Microbiome identifying potential bioindicators of reef health!

Steven Robbins@stevenjrobbins.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hi all! Please check out @markoterzin.bsky.social's new paper in Microbiome investigating the relative reliability of taxonomy vs metagenomic gene predictions as bioindicators of 17 physicochemical variables (temp, nitrogen, etc) on the Great Barrier Reef. Spoiler: genes > taxonomy. Link below.

Hi all! Please check out @markoterzin.bsky.social's new paper in Microbiome investigating the relative reliability of taxonomy vs metagenomic gene predictions as bioindicators of 17 physicochemical variables (temp, nitrogen, etc) on the Great Barrier Reef. Spoiler: genes > taxonomy. Link below.

Hey all! If you’re a Brisbane based microbiologist that’s interested in catching up with other microbiologists every few months over a beer, good food, and cool science, please follow @brisjams.bsky.social’s new Bluesky page to stay up to date.

I created a long-read sequencing starter pack. I'm still finding people on here, so apologies if I missed you. Please suggest people who should be added and I'll add them! go.bsky.app/JGkefsJ

It's all built to this...the starter pack of starter packs...😂 One Pack to rule them all, One Pack to find them, One Pack to bring them all and in the Blueness bind them.

Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal@mubashariqbal.com · 2y ago

Starter packs are genius, but I was surprised there wasn't a list of them for people to find. So I built it: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack... The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database. Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.

Hi everyone, I tried assembling a Microbiome & friends starter pack. 🦠🧫🔬 Still learning to use bluesky and might have missed you, let me know if you would like to be included. go.bsky.app/Fq36egy

Wow, Bluesky really took off in the last couple of days! The first microbiome starter pack is full now and I started a second one with non-overlapping profiles. Check out these people below and please let me know if you would like to be included! go.bsky.app/6vPBEty

Love this idea for helping the community make the transition to Bluesky, so I’ve compiled a woefully incomplete list of microbial ecologists and -omics peeps I know are here. Please make suggestions and share. Let me know if you’d like to be added. go.bsky.app/TQpaTqF