Version 1.0 of my Microbe expansion for Terraforming Mars is finished. All cards are scientifically correct and thematic. Updates/changes described below. You can download them on my lab website (www.environmental-microbiology.com/media.html) or BGG (boardgamegeek.com/filepage/326...). Good gaming!

We're looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) for the ERC Synergy project “Archean Park”! 📍 Location: Essen, Germany ⏱ Duration: 36 months (Full-time | EG 13 TV-L) 📅 Start Date: As soon as possible ⏰ Application Deadline: September 2, 2026 www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...

📣 We’re hiring a postdoc for @hot-mes-asu.bsky.social ! 🦠🔬 We’re looking for someone excited about microbial interactions, ecology & evolution, and using molecular genetics and microfluidics to understand microbial communities. Come do fun science with us! apply.interfolio.com/190859

Marine and Environmental scientists, sign on to oppose seabed mining off the Virginia coast, deadline 21 August.

CSU COAST@csucoast.bsky.social · 2mo ago

@savingoceans.bsky.social is asking #marine #scientists to sign a letter opposing BOEM's new proposal for #seabed #mining off Virginia. #Offshore mining could devastate #seafloor #ecosystems, spread harmful contaminants, and put #fisheries and #coastal livelihoods at risk. Find the letter here:

Also die Daten sind mehr als eindeutig: Einige Orte in Europa (zum Beispiel London, wie hier dargestellt) hatten seit Mitte Mai kaum noch "normale" oder sogar niedrigere als durchschnittliche Temperaturen.

I give an invited talk "Revising a century-old paradigm: Diversity, ecology, and metabolic flexibility of thermoproteotal methanogens" in AS15.1, Biogeochemical cycles and greenhouse gas dynamics, at 14:30-15:00 on Thu Aug 20th in room Te paepae.

Kapiert eigentlich auch der letze "KLIMASCHUTZ KÖNNEN WIR UNS NICHT LEISTEN!!1!!"-Heinrich jetzt bitte endlich mal, dass man die Wirtschaft™ langfristig nur schützen kann, wenn man die Umwelt schützt? www.youtube.com/watch?v=56OJ...

Donau-Niedrigwasser: Ungarn und Rumänien mit drastischen Maßnahmen

YouTube video by tagesschau

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One week left to apply for a PhD position about phage-host interactions on the beautiful island Helgoland. Come and work with us on the importance of phages in oyster-pathogenic Vibrios and which effect different seasons have on phage-host interactions. jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/22... @awi.de

Ok, here's the final draft of my Microbe expansion for Terraforming Mars: tinyurl.com/4v4majy4. All thematic and scientifically correct! 44 projects cards, 4 prelude cards, 2 cooperations, 1 file w special tiles (+1 fixed colony card, 1 fixed project card). Will update after play tests. 🦠🔬

Ganz im Ernst. Die ganze Causa #Spahn ist so upgefucked... SEIT JAHREN steht im Raum: Vorteilsnahme, Korruption, Lügen, Kontakte zu rechtsextremen Netzwerken, Gast bei Nius, Hetzen gegen Migranten, Lügen über Grüne und Bürgergeld... Was bringt den Stuhl endlich ins Wackeln?! Ein gekauftes Kind.

Scientists--if your funding was cut over the last year (for research on climate, global health, DEI, LGBTQ or womens health, etc) but you managed to keep the research going, I want to talk to you for an upcoming article! Plz contact me: gewin at me dot com. Re-posts appreciated!

„Forschung ist kein Selbstzweck. Forschung muss zu Wertschöpfung, Produktion und Innovation in Deutschland und in Europa führen“, so der @bundeskanzler. Die Wissenschaftsfreiheit, wie sie Art. 5 Abs. 3 GG und das Bundesverfassungsgericht verstehen, setzt einen anderen Maßstab. 🧵 1/n

Ich erinnere daran, dass wir das stabile Klima des Holozäns (der letzten 10.000 Jahre) längst hinter uns gelassen haben. Ich forsche seit den 1990er Jahren zum Paläoklima. Ich kann nur dringend empfehlen, jetzt eine Notbremsung bei der fossilen Energienutzung zu machen! Für unsere Kinder. Bitte.

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social · 2y ago

Das stabile Holozän-Klima, in dem Homo Sapiens die Landwirtschaft erfunden & Städte gebaut hat, haben wir in atemberaubenden Tempo hinter uns gelassen. spiegel.de/wissenschaft... Was wir jetzt tun, bestimmt für die nächsten Jahrtausende unser Schicksal. #Europawahl ist #Klimawahl.

Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 🎉👏 Tiefsee- und Polarforscherin Antje Boetius ist mit 2 der bedeutendsten deutschen Auszeichnungen geehrt worden: dem Orden Pour le Mérite und dem Großen Verdienstkreuz mit Stern. mpi-bremen.de/Antje-Boetiu... @maxplanck.de (C) Fotografenmeister Amann

Nothing stops Chandni! 😃 Schöner Beitrag @ndr.de über die Forschung unserer Kollegin @chandnisidhu.bsky.social über die Auswirkungen von Windparks auf Meeresmikroben. 🦠🔬... und das, obwohl das Meer nicht gerade Chandnis Heimat ist 🙃 ... www.ardmediathek.de/video/hallo-...

Hallo Niedersachsen: Forschung zu Phytoplankton und Co. in Windparks - hier anschauen

Meeresbiologin Chandni Sidhu untersucht die Folgen für das Ökosystem, wenn Turbinen das Wasser durchmischen.

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Climate change is real! 🌍 How will the microbes react to the changes? 🦠 We used mesocosms to simulate future ocean conditions and an additional marine heatwave. We studied the community composition (16S sequencing), cell division and mortality rates (grazing and virus counts). What did we find? A🧵

Resilience and response of marine microbes to the future ocean and a marine heatwave – insights from a mesocosm experiment academic.oup.com/femsec/advan... #jcampubs 🌊

We now provide environmental metadata for the GlobDB genomes! 🖥️🧬🦠 More info here: globdb.org/news 🧵

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐬𝐲𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧? 🪸 Join us for a 3-year #Postdoc and help us find out! Our ERC-funded project at @hifmb.de offers excellent facilities and an international collaborative work environment. Apply by April 1st: jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/21... #ScienceJobs

Are you a postdoc or 4-5th year grad student working on any problem in environmental microbiology and are interested in giving a virtual seminar (via zoom) on your hard work to a crowd of interested researchers at Montana State's Thermal Biology Institute in spring? Email/DM me!

Congratulations @janbruewer.bsky.social to this appreciation of your excellent #PhD-thesis! mpi-bremen.de/en/Jan-Bruew... @unibremen.bsky.social

Jan Brüwer@janbruewer.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Whooaaa My zombie cells and I received the Bremer Studienpreis for my PhD 🤩🤩🤩🧟‍♂️ I received a special price sponsored by @brukercorporation.bsky.social Daltonics, who produce mainly mass specs. It was quite a surprise, considering I didn’t use mass spectrometry in my PhD. Why did they choose me? 🧵

Ribosome -less zombies in the ocean 🦠🧟

Globally occurring pelagiphage infections create ribosome-deprived cells - Nature Communications

SAR11 bacteria and their phages are abundant in the oceans. Here the authors quantify the number of phage-infected SAR11 cells using microscopy techniques and discover phage-infected cells without any...

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Whooaaa My zombie cells and I received the Bremer Studienpreis for my PhD 🤩🤩🤩🧟‍♂️ I received a special price sponsored by @brukercorporation.bsky.social Daltonics, who produce mainly mass specs. It was quite a surprise, considering I didn’t use mass spectrometry in my PhD. Why did they choose me? 🧵

I am very excited to announce that a fully funded PhD position is available in my group. Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates. Deadline: 11.01.26 More info: shorturl.at/f1TuF

🚨NEW paper: Benchmarking Hi-C for virus–host inference journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... A clear baseline for anyone mapping virus–host interactions that establishes robust, benchmarked thresholds for Hi-C linkages. Key results: 👇

Benchmarking with synthetic communities provides a baseline for virus-host inferences from Hi-C proximity linking

Virus discovery has accelerated but linking viruses to hosts remains challenging. This study uses synthetic microbiomes to optimize and benchmark Hi-C for virus-host linkage inference, and applies thi...

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Congratulations!! 👏👏 The Bremen Study Prize 2025 goes to @janbruewer.bsky.social for his outstanding #PhDThesis. Well deserved! 🥳 @brukercorporation.bsky.social special #award @unibremen.bsky.social Learn more about Jans research and the award: mpi-bremen.de/en/Jan-Bruew... (C)Jens Lehmkühler

Yes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.

Zombie cells in the ocean, a perfect topic for Halloween here at RD3 of GEOMAR. Great talk by @janbruewer.bsky.social it was great to have you here.

Jan Brüwer@janbruewer.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Had the great pleasure introducing Zombie cells 🧟♂️ and my start up thalassys.com during a visit at @geomarkiel.bsky.social today. Intense meetings, interesting feedback and always good to catch up! Thanks @utehentschel.bsky.social for inviting me! @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social

Zombie cells? 🧟😨 Sounds spooky, and it is past #Halloween. These #SAR11 are attacked by #viruses and in between life and death. Off #Helgoland, every 10th cell was a zombie. 🌊 Check it out: mpi-bremen.de/en/Zombie-ce... Let's look for more zombies with the simple sampling device by Thalassys.com

Jan Brüwer@janbruewer.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Had the great pleasure introducing Zombie cells 🧟♂️ and my start up thalassys.com during a visit at @geomarkiel.bsky.social today. Intense meetings, interesting feedback and always good to catch up! Thanks @utehentschel.bsky.social for inviting me! @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social

Had the great pleasure introducing Zombie cells 🧟♂️ and my start up thalassys.com during a visit at @geomarkiel.bsky.social today. Intense meetings, interesting feedback and always good to catch up! Thanks @utehentschel.bsky.social for inviting me! @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social