Eloi Martinez-Rabert
@drmartinezrabert.bsky.social
Postdoc at Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (MIO) & 🚴/🏃. The trick is to never stop looking, there's always another secret. 📍 Marseille, France Theoretical Models; Microbial Ecology; Aerobiology; Scientific Philosophy
Still accepting applications! ❄️
James Bradley@drbradbrad.bsky.social · 4w agoPaid Masters M2 internship: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere 🦠❄️🌡️ @erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA @lassezj.bsky.social 📢 PLEASE RT 🧬 Microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, ecological interpretation ☀️ Marseille, France @mioceanologie.bsky.social ‼️ Apply via email ASAP & before 15 Oct
Paid Masters M2 internship: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere 🦠❄️🌡️ @erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA @lassezj.bsky.social 📢 PLEASE RT 🧬 Microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, ecological interpretation ☀️ Marseille, France @mioceanologie.bsky.social ‼️ Apply via email ASAP & before 15 Oct
Mountain glaciers are losing mass increasingly fast world-wide over the past 75 years in response to #globalwarming. This and permafrost thawing can destabilize mountain sides and cause glacial collapse and flash floods. Graph: World Glacier Monitoring Service wgms.ch/global-glaci...
Ocean sea surface temperatures now at record levels! Anticipated but not welcomed... For more: climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-d... #ClimateAction 🌊🧪⚒️
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
Climate change will melt Antarctica’s ice, causing land to rebound and revealing previously inaccessible deposits of valuable mineral resources. eos.org/articles/as-...
As Ice Recedes and Land Rebounds, Antarctica’s Mineral Resources Come into Focus - Eos
Melting ice, rebounding land, and rising seas will change what resources are available in Antarctica, a new analysis finds.
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Antarctica isn’t owned by anyone and has no official flag, so when I travelled south for the #ERC_SIESTA #POLARIN project, I brought flags designed by schoolchildren, to send them photos of their amazing creations flying in Antarctica. Here are a few of their brilliant designs #AntarcticFlags 🤩🐧❄️🐋🇦🇶
In case you missed it: our review titled "Spatial structure: shaping the ecology and evolution of microbial communities" is out! 🚨 Let me hit you with some highlights on why spatial structure matters. (and why you should care!) Sharing is appreciated 🙏 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1093/fems...
A deeper than usual dive into Svalbard's evolving geopolitical landscape, as the power grab in Arctic territories intensifies @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/w...
The Tug of War at the Top of the World
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Strandline Glacier ❄️ Tethys Bay, Victoria Land, Antarctica 🇦🇶 #ERC_SIESTA #POLARIN @erc.europa.eu @hfspo.bsky.social @mioceanologie.bsky.social @cnrs.fr
Not a single day in 2025 was cooler than the 1991-2020 average, on a global scale. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
Hydrothermal vents spurred by seismic activity feed vital nutrients to Antarctic microbes. https://scim.ag/4qxojow
Deep-sea earthquakes fuel huge plankton blooms in Antarctica
Hydrothermal vents spurred by seismic activity feed vital nutrients to Antarctic microbes
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3 weeks (half way!) into our #ERC_SIESTA field campaign in East Antarctica ❄️🐧 with @drmartinezrabert.bsky.social we're investigating #microbialdormancy in the #cryosphere 🧬🦠🔬 @cnr-isp.bsky.social XLI Italian Antarctic Expedition, Zucchelli Station, Victoria Land 🇦🇶🇮🇹🇪🇺 #POLARIN
A free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication
A free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication
We create vector graphics of model organisms and emerging biological research organisms to enhance our publications. We’re sharing these editable graphics under a CC0 license for other scientists to...
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PhD opportunity to work in my lab at UEA, together with @drbradbrad.bsky.social and Marc Dumont “Linking AMR, global warming and CUE in deglaciated soils” www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Linking antimicrobial resistance, climate warming, and carbon use efficiency in Arctic soils (HERNANDEZ-GARCIA_UEA_ARIES26) at University of East Anglia on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Linking antimicrobial resistance, climate warming, and carbon use efficiency in Arctic soils (HERNANDEZ-GARCIA_UEA_ARIES26) at University of East Anglia, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Let's get negative about scholarly publishing – a new paper (first in a long time for me!) on proposals to tackle the problem of publication bias that emerged from a NINDS workshop held in May last year. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/... [Direct link to paper: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Let’s get negative about scholarly publishing | Reciprocal Space
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2 Postdoc vacancies: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere @erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA 📢 PLEASE RT Experimental: 🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, omics, biogeochem Modelling: 🖥️ Bioenergetics, thermodynamics, ecological, biogeochem ☀️ Marseille, France ‼️ Apply by 30 Sept
Sabemos que diminutas formas de vida, como las bacterias, flotan en nuestra atmósfera. Pero ¿también proliferan y forman comunidades en ella? Una nueva investigación sugiere un enfoque de modelado que podría ayudar a responder esta pregunta. eos.org/research-spo...
¿Pueden los microorganismos prosperar en la atmósfera terrestre o simplemente sobreviven allí? - Eos
Un enfoque de modelización ascendente podría acercar a los científicos a la comprensión de las comunidades de microbios en la atmósfera.
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Many years ago I wrote an unfunded😕 grant proposal to explore novel biogeochemical feedback loops in permafrost & marine cycles. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... Today, this remarkable reporting about a new type of microbial feedback loop operative in Svalbard, accelerating glacier decay. 🧪
Arctic glaciers face ‘terminal’ decline as microbes accelerate ice melt
Scientists in Svalbard in race to study polar microbes as global heating threatens fragile glacial ecosystems
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"Why would anyone want to be a scientist?" journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Why would anyone want to be a scientist?
It is difficult to fathom why anyone intelligent enough to be a scientist would actually choose to be one. Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently...
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We know tiny life-forms like bacteria float through our atmosphere. But do they also proliferate and form communities there? New research suggests a modeling approach that could help answer this question. eos.org/research-spo...
Can Microorganisms Thrive in Earth’s Atmosphere, or Do They Simply Survive There? - Eos
A bottom-up modeling approach could bring scientists closer to understanding communities of microbes in the atmosphere.
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Does the atmosphere harbour a resident, growing microbial ecosystem? ⛅ Here in @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social we outline how theoretical tools 📝 & modelling 💻 can bring us closer to the answer Congrats lead author @drmartinezrabert.bsky.social @mioceanologie.bsky.social 🧵 thread 👇 tinyurl.com/7pdfm7uw
Investigating the Atmospheric Microbial Ecosystem Through Theory, Bioenergetics, and Numerical Modeling: A Breath of Fresh Air for Aeromicrobiology
Aerobiology research is hindered by several technical challenges facing experimental studies, sampling, and monitoring strategies Theoretical approaches and numerical modeling tools provide power...
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Our article showing energy production from air alone is in PNAS today. This paper provides an ultimate biochemical proof that microbes can survive simply by 'making' energy from air (making two ATP per molecule atmospheric H2 consumed) and has biotech applications. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
ATP synthesis driven by atmospheric hydrogen concentrations | PNAS
All cells require a continuous supply of the universal energy currency, adenosine triphosphate (ATP), to drive countless cellular reactions. The un...
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How may theoretical ecology & evolutionary theory push microbiology forward? At Environmental Microbiology, I am commissioning a series of Perspectives exploring that question. Excited to share them in the 🧵 below The series is open, so do get in touch if you'd like to propose a new contribution!
"across Titan's vast ocean, the overall weight of life could measure "only a few kilograms at most – equivalent to the mass of a small dog," Affholder explains" flip.it/9OT9hu
Titan Could Have An Alien Biosphere – But It Might Be Dog-Sized
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, could harbor life in its hidden underground ocean – yet Titan's entire aquatic biosphere may weigh no more than a miniature poodle, according to new research.
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At ASM Microbe? Check out @drmartinezrabert.bsky.social poster EEB-SUNDAY-1162 - “Exploring Earth's Atmosphere as an Active Microbial Ecosystem Using Thermodynamic Principles and Bioenergetic Modeling” on Sunday 🦠🌥️⚡️🧬 @hfspo.bsky.social @asm.org #ASMicrobe
Ammonia released from penguin guano may help to reduce the effects of climate change in the Antarctic by contributing to increased cloud formation, according to an analysis in Communications Earth & Environment. go.nature.com/4k8rAYU 🧪
Congrats to @drmartinezrabert.bsky.social @reymourot.bsky.social & Sibylle Lebert @mioceanologie.bsky.social for representing @erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA & @hfspo.bsky.social Atmosphere projects at JSM3 conference in Marseille ☀️ while I’m in Antarctica 🌚 #SD049 @cnrs.fr @cnrs-insu.bsky.social
We currently have days of persistent positive degrees in the depths of winter in the high Arctic (79°N). Shocking temperature anomalies are becoming the norm. Already exceptionally high rainfall this winter, and thick ice covers the tundra instead of the usual snow. Unprecedented and terrifying 🌡️
