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 · 18h ago

🏆 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

Thank you @merenbey.bsky.social for your thoughtful read of the pre-print and for spotlighting our work, it’s an honor to have this highlighted on the Meren Lab blog! 📃 Link to the pre-print: lnkd.in/dwXamVet

A. Murat Eren (Meren)@merenbey.bsky.social · 2d ago

What makes human guts and coral reefs similar? Here is a blog post with some thoughts on ecosystem stability, stress, and microbiome, following a fresh pre-print by Marko Terzin et al: merenlab.org/blog/coral-r...

🎉🐨 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

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!

The Riginos/EvoReef lab group was well represented in Auckland @icrs.bsky.social #ICRS2026. Everyone absolutely nailed their talks ✨ @seaprof.bsky.social @zoe-meziere.bsky.social @ecolology.bsky.social @hisatakeishida.bsky.social @annie-guillaume.bsky.social

A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution identifies Karenia cristata as a brevetoxin-producing species that is the dominant component of the prolonged microalgal bloom causing mass marine mortality in South Australia. go.nature.com/3RjXCaZ 🌎🌊🧪

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...

A balanced, evidence-based piece about the ongoing harmful #algal #bloom #hab in South Australia. A good long read about how it all began, what do we know, what have been (and not been) done, and where do we go from here. www.themonthly.com.au/december-202...

The fatal shore

The search for a scientific explanation for South Australia’s unprecedented algal bloom – which decimated marine life, perhaps irreparably – is being frustrated by a political desire for easy answers

themonthly.com.au

Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences Xmas party time 🎄💃🍻🌈😎 @chancx.bsky.social @fabianruperti.bsky.social

New postdoc opportunity in #marine #microbial #genomics and #bioinformatics at UQ and @ace-uq.bsky.social ! uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...

Don't miss out on the 3rd West Pacific Marine Biology Symposium @ UQ Brisbane, 25–28 Nov. Reg & abstracts open: tinyurl.com/wpmbs2025 Early-bird regos now extended to 14 Oct, so you can still secure discounted registration rates! @cnrs.fr @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social UQ Centre for Marine Science

Join us at the 3rd West Pacific Marine Biology Symposium @ UQ Brisbane, 25–28 Nov. Take advantage of this heavily subsidised joint UQ-CNRS international conference! Reg & abstracts open: tinyurl.com/wpmbs2025 Early bird ends 30 Sept @cnrs.fr @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social UQ Centre for Marine Science

OUT NOW: Structural insights into light harvesting by antenna-containing rhodopsins in marine #Asgard #archaea @bejalab.bsky.social @labinoue.bsky.social #microsky 🦠🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Structural insights into light harvesting by antenna-containing rhodopsins in marine Asgard archaea - Nature Microbiology

Uncultured open-ocean Asgard archaea can harvest light energy using rhodopsins and diverse hydroxylated carotenoid antennas.

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NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.

Fantastic work led by @stevenjrobbins.bsky.social @ace-uq.bsky.social describing the most comprehensive (to date) microbial genomic resources from the Great Barrier Reef FINALLY, powered by @nanoporetech.com!

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...

Not really my announcement to make--I am but a lesser co-author--but IQ-TREE 3 has just been released! (Most credit to Minh Bui and @roblanfear.bsky.social and their labs) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Eukfinder: a pipeline to retrieve microbial eukaryote genome sequences from metagenomic data #protists #protistsonsky journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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Computer scientists and bioinformaticians address four key questions to help rookie coders to make the right choice https://go.nature.com/42UuoT3

Which programming language should I use? A guide for early-career researchers

Computer scientists and bioinformaticians address four key questions to help rookie coders to make the right choice.

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GTDB release 10 based on RefSeq 226 (R10-RS226) is live at gtdb.ecogenomic.org. This release covers 732,475 genomes (22% increase) and has 143,6141 species clusters (37% increase). Release notes at: forum.gtdb.ecogenomic.org/t/announcing.... Release statistics at: gtdb.ecogenomic.org/stats/r226.

On Twitter/X, @SciGuardians, ScienceGuardians, is promising to 'uncover' some big conspiracy of fraudulent @pubpeer.com users. But in reality, the account appears to be run by a disgruntled scientist with dozens of problematic papers. 🧵

We used Great Oxidation Event as a planet-sized "fossil" to add ancient dates to the Bacterial tree of life. @theconversation.com and @science.org articles show oxygen was used by non-cyanos before that cataclysm, surprisingly. theconversation.com/1-trillion-s... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

1 trillion species, 3 billion years: how we used AI to trace the evolution of bacteria on Earth

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

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