I'm looking for an enthusiastic student to join my team as a PhD candidate on archaeal genome evolution 🦠💻 Work in beautiful Utrecht, at @binfutrecht.bsky.social, an international group full of caring, amazing scientists, and with frequent cake breaks! www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please share! 🙏

At #ICRS2026? Come by at 230 today in room 515, I’ll be talking about coral disease biomarkers!

Brad Weiler@bradweilerdives.bsky.social · 3w ago

Heading to #ICRS2026🪸? Come by my talk where I discuss how machine learning can be used identify molecular and microbial signatures of #coral disease! Monday @ 230pm in room 515

Heading to #ICRS2026🪸? Come by my talk where I discuss how machine learning can be used identify molecular and microbial signatures of #coral disease! Monday @ 230pm in room 515

On my way to Auckland for #ICRS2026 🪸🇳🇿. Check out my talk on Corallicolids on Friday, July 24th at 9:15 AM during session 5A in NZICC 517! #CoralReefs #MicrobiomeSky

Hidden Fungal Diversity of the Precious Mediterranean Red Coral Corallium rubrum enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #symbiosis #corals #fungi

The symbiotic relationship between coral and algae was cemented when the animal began ferrying bicarbonate molecules into the symbiosome through a transporter protein, which the algae photosynthesized into glucose and then fed back to its host. “I think about it as an everlasting gobstopper” -Cleves

Christie Wilcox@nerdychristie.bsky.social · 4w ago

Corals and the algae that they host are touted as one of the greatest partnerships in nature. But this symbiosis probably didn't start out harmoniously. In this edition of #ScienceAdviser: the story of a beautiful friendship that began as a break-in www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org 🧪

Excited to share our new preprint led by Fred and me in collaboration with the archaeal community! We found that the molecular foundation of histone-based chromatin has pre-eukaryotic roots in Asgard archaea. (1/4) #ArchaeaSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Emergence of histone-based chromatin complexity in Asgard archaea

The emergence of the eukaryotes coincided with the diversification of histone proteins and their post-translational modifications by enzymes that constitute the core of eukaryotic chromatin. Yet the e...

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"Pokemon" is short for "pocket monsters". "Digimon" is short for "digital monsters". Therefore, "salmon" is short for "saltwater monsters". (You might object: salmon spend a big part of their life in freshwater. But pokemon spend a big part of their life outside pockets too!)

Bacteriophage replication strategies are associated with organic matter energy content on coral reefs journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

Amazing opportunity to work with incredible scientists🧑‍🔬. Please share widely!! #ProtistsOnSky #coralreefs

Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE)@ibe-barcelona.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 WE ARE HIRING! 📣 Join @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social with a new Laboratory Technician position in #delCampoLab!🤿🦠 🧬In the #CORALPROS project investigates the protists (unicellular eukaryotes) living within corals. #JoinOurTeam 👉https://shorturl.at/vGg1E

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Postdoctoral Associate - Coral Reef Futures Lab (University of Miami) Application deadline 30th June 2026 Learn more here: careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R1... #coralreefs #coralfutures #universityofmiami #postdoctoralassociate #coralreeffutureslab #careers #coralreefscience #jobs

1/10 For decades, cellular aggregation was considered an evolutionary dead end. Cells could come together temporarily. But complex multicellular organisms like animals? Our study, led by JP Gerdt, with Ruibao & @jennahed.bsky.social suggests it may be time to rethink that🧵 #ProtistsOnSKy

Our method, savont, for generating amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) for long-read amplicons is now on bioRxiv. Work with @lh3lh3.bsky.social and help from @mkddueholm.bsky.social and team (Marie Riisgaard-Jensen, @kirk3gaard.bsky.social, Kasper Skytte Andersen) github.com/bluenote-157... 1/6

bioRxiv Bioinfo@biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Sensitive long-read amplicon sequence variant recovery with savont https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.26.727271v1

We identified a high abundance of vibrios associated with ichthyocarbonates with the metabolic potential for CaCO3 precipitation. Specifically, we observe the expression of ureR by Photobacterium damselae subsp. damselae, which can induce the precipitation of CaCO3 via the production of bicarbonate!

New Discovery Report in PLOS Biology (@plosbiology.org)! Here we provide evidence that symbiotic bacteria within fish guts may play an important and overlooked role in the oceanic carbon cycle! doi.org/10.1371/jour... #MicroSky #SymbioSky #MicrobiomeSky

Symbiotic bacteria may support calcium carbonate precipitation in the Gulf toadfish

Marine fish play a significant yet understudied role in the oceanic carbon cycle through the production of calcium carbonate precipitates. This study of the gulf toadfish gut reveals a high abundance ...

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In the last paper from my PhD (out now in Microbiome): how do deep-sea sponges survive where food is scarce? Their microbiomes oxidise ammonia & break down hard-to-degrade carbon to fuel mixotrophic growth. doi.org/10.1186/s401... #symbiosis! #Metagenomics 🧪 #Bioinformatics 🧬💻 #SymbioSky

Ammonia oxidation and recalcitrant carbon degradation fuel mixotrophic growth in the symbiont community of a deep-sea sponge - Microbiome

Background Sponges are important members of shallow-water, benthic ecosystems, where they often rely on their microbial symbionts to acquire organic or inorganic carbon. Sponges are also found in the deep sea, however, how they metabolically interact there with their symbionts remains underexplored. Here, we combined metagenomic, metatranscriptomic and stable-isotope labelling approaches to investigate the metabolic activities of the microbial community of the deep-sea sponge Calyx sp. Results Approximately 84% of the total estimated microbial abundance was composed of nine heterotrophic phyla, whilst the remaining 16% consisted of two autotrophic ammonia-oxidising archaea. Metatranscriptomic analysis revealed the high expression of genes involved in the degradation of recalcitrant polysaccharides of algal origin, suggesting that an undegraded fraction of marine snow plays a role in the nutrition of this deep-sea holobiont. Additionally, we detected active ammonia oxidation and carbon fixation pathways in the autotrophic community members and, through ex situ incubations with labelled carbonate show a potential to fix 13.67 mg CO2 per g dry weight in a year. Conclusions This study highlights the mixotrophic lifestyle of a deep-sea sponge microbiome, expanding our knowledge of the sponge–microbe symbiosis in the oligotrophic environment of the deep ocean. Video Abstract Graphical Abstract

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Thrilled to announce that the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington, School of Medicine is hiring at the Assistant Professor level (tenure-track)! The Pacific Northwest is an awesome place to live and do science 🧪🦠. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/185622 Applications due 8/1.

ISOP-sponsored symposium on protistan symbioses across the Tree of Life went fantastic! Thanks all contributors (Ondrej, Gillian, and @mixotrophe.bsky.social) and the best co-host, @nicolecoots.bsky.social! #ProtistsOnSky @protistologyopen.bsky.social

We are looking for a postdoc to help with a project on eelgrass genomics, in collaboration with the O'Connor and Rieseberg labs at UBC - see ad here tinyurl.com/2yd487p4! Come and join us in beautiful Vancouver 🌊🌾🏔️

JOB ALERT: Two 4.5 year postdoctoral positions to work on my Wellcome-funded project 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health'. Please share widely! CLOSING DATE: 23 April (the date on Jobs.ac.uk is apparently incorrect)

Excited to share our lab's new paper in Current Biology featuring MS student Sydney Schultz's work. We show that a polar alga carries large amount of giant viral DNA in its genome, and many of the viral genes respond to stress - with implications for host adaptation. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Extensive array of endogenous giant viral elements in a polar alga shows dynamic transcriptional response to abiotic stress

Schultz et al. show that polar algae harbor extensive endogenous giant virus elements that are transcriptionally active, stress responsive, and integrated into host regulatory networks, highlighting v...

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Single-cell transcriptomics reveals a new marine parasite: Characterization and distribution of Rozellomyces from the Gulf of Alaska ⛴️🔬🌊 Congrats Adarsh and all co-authors: @protistwtmostest.bsky.social, Gordon, @pjkeelinglab.bsky.social, and Naomi! #ProtistsOnSky

Single-cell transcriptomics reveals a new marine parasite: Characterization and distribution of Rozellomyces from the Gulf of Alaska

Parasitic microorganisms play critical roles in shaping aquatic ecosystems, yet many lineages, such as those within the phylum Rozellomycota, remain poorly understood. Here, we describe a new rozel...

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If you're a senior PhD student or recent graduate interested in doing work at the intersection of AI and microbial genomics and/or microbiomes, please feel free to reach out to discuss the possibility of applying together for an MIT Novo Nordisk Fellowship engineering.mit.edu/novo-nordisk

Novo Nordisk Fellowship

Potential areas of focus for postdoctoral fellows participating in the MIT-Novo Nordisk Postdoc Program include, but are not limited to, the following: Your complete application should include: In the...

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This is super cool!! This is a kind of ciliate called a suctoria (this one happens to be Acineta sp.) and it’s sucking up the contents of this egg! You can see it consuming the mush on the left hand side of the ‘martini glass’ (timelapse) #marineplankton 🦑

#ERGAReads | FANTASIA leverages language models to decode the functional dark proteome across the animal tree of life www.nature.com/articles/s42... @rosafernandez.bsky.social @commsbio.nature.com @csic.es @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social #LLM #proteome #functional #annotation #genomes

FANTASIA leverages language models to decode the functional dark proteome across the animal tree of life - Communications Biology

FANTASIA, a protein language model-based tool, enables large-scale functional annotation across ~1000 animal proteomes, revealing novel gene functions in both model and non-model organisms beyond…

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NF-κB: A Diverse and Multi-Functional Transcription Factor in Holozoans academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

NF-κB: A Diverse and Multi-Functional Transcription Factor in Holozoans

Abstract. Transcription factor nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB) and many upstream signaling components have been identified in a diversity of holozoan taxa,

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Postdocs and early-career researchers, this is for YOU! Join ASM’s FREE webinar, "Building Impact, Not Just CVs: Thriving with Limited Resources." 📅 April 7 | ⏰ 10–11 a.m. ET 💻 Virtual Register here: asm.social/2QY

Tara Coral 🪸🌊 L’@ibe-barcelona.bsky.social  participa en una expedició internacional al Triangle de Coral per estudiar la resiliència dels coralls al canvi climàtic. L’equip de Javier del Campo investigarà el microbioma dels coralls. 🧬 Més aquí👉https://shorturl.at/UpUBc

The MicrobeAtlas database: Global trends and insights into Earth’s microbial ecosystems www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #microbiome

We're pulling together the genomes for GlobDB release 232, which will be based on the upcoming GTDB release. We will also add new sources of genomes not in INSDC. Here's an overview of the data that will be included in the next GlobDB: globdb.org/news Please contact me if we've missed something!🦠🖥️🧬