What happens when an energetic postdoc (@zepernickbn.bsky.social) takes a class to a local quarry to learn to limnology? Science!! (and pets are protected). Nice work by Britt, team and colleagues from the Great Lakes Center for Fresh Waters & Human Health. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The ornithine-arginine cycle supported a toxic, metalimnic Planktothrix rubescens bloom

Planktothrix rubescens is distinct from other cyanobacterial harmful algal bloom (cHAB) genera: the crimson-red cHAB thrives in the cold, low-light, n…

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Water is essential, but 1 in 3 people still lack access to safe drinking water. ASLO recently supported @agu.org and @asm.org in producing a report on how climate change fuels waterborne infections and how science can help. Check it out now: asm.org/reports/wate...

A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs

A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation

Microbial life has dominated Earth’s history but left a sparse fossil record, greatly hindering our understanding of evolution in deep time. However, bacterial metabolism has left signatures in the ge...

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NOAA's #GreatLakes Environmental Research Lab will be taking an "indefinite hiatus" from communications due to staff cuts. GLERL communicates critical weekly updates about the extent of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie - like the one that left my hometown of Toledo without drinking water in 2014

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email (klangin@aaas.org) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

Thanks to @theconversation.com for highlighting our work studying harmful algal blooms in the Winam Gulf of Lake Victoria! theconversation.com/lake-victori...

Lake Victoria is turning green – the deadly bacteria behind it

The organisms that cause greening are highly concentrated in Kenya’s shallow Winam Gulf.

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Metagenomics reveals spatial variation in cyanobacterial composition, function, and biosynthetic potential in the Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria, Kenya journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

Nice to see this important work make the news cycle when there is a lot of news in the world. Kudos to @laurenhart.bsky.social, @zepernickbn.bsky.social and others. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... And very nice of Newsweek to pick it up! www.newsweek.com/lake-erie-la...

Worrying signs for Lake Erie uncovered 7,500 miles away in Africa

New research from Africa's Lake Victoria has revealed critical clues about toxic algal blooms and their potential impact on Lake Erie and beyond.

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MIBiG is huge! This was such a great opportunity to work with world-class scientists on updating this repository, in particular @pmdagostino.bsky.social in the cyanobacterial biosynthesis world. Check out the 🧵 below...

Mitja M. Zdouc@mmzdouc.bsky.social · 2y ago

Are you working on natural products? We’ve just released version 4.0 of the MIBiG data standard and repository! It now includes 3059 biosynthetic gene clusters, thanks to the combined efforts of 288 expert contributors. A thread: (1/8) academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Bioinformaticist: Can't read the cup until I convert it to gff and open as a table in pandas

Chemjobber@chemjobber.bsky.social · 2y ago

Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Chemist: Why are we using Imperial measurements instead of metric?