Join us for an exciting #AGU2026 session that integrates microbial trait inference, trait-based biogeochemical modeling, and the application of machine learning to link microbial genomics to elemental cycling across any Earth system environment. Submit by August 5th: agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr...

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

Sharing a leadership opportunity from our colleagues at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). ORNL is seeking a Division Director for Environmental Sciences to lead a superb research organization addressing critical environmental challenges. Learn more and apply: jobs.ornl.gov/job/Oak-Ridg...

Microbial traits for volatile production and consumption are diverse and consequential. Here's why they are ripe for interpretation through a trait-based lens... Led by UA PhD students Ledford and Geffre @parkergeffre.bsky.social in collab w/ LBNL team @elbrodie.bsky.social Marschmann Karaoz

Trends in Microbiology@cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Volatile traits expand the microbial playbook

🚴‍♂️ In a few weeks, I’ll ride 200+ miles and climb 15,000 feet in the 14th edition of our event supporting Safe & Sound, an amazing nonprofit working to end child abuse in the Bay Area. If you can, please consider supporting my ride—any contribution helps. donate.safeandsound.org/fundraiser/6...

Go Bears! 3/3 new faculty positions available at Berkeley ESPM. Come join one of the best Environmental Sciences Departments there is! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05082

Assistant Professor - Forest Health - Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Go Bears! 2/3 new faculty positions available at Berkeley ESPM. Come join one of the best Environmental Sciences Departments there is! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05084

Assistant Professor - Physical Climate Science - Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Go Bears! 1/3 new faculty positions available at Berkeley ESPM. Come join one of the best Environmental Sciences Departments there is! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05078

Assistant Professor - Environmental Geochemistry - Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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An important message on the need for Congress to step up and save American science by two former presidential science advisors. thebulletin.org/2025/06/time...

Time for Congress to save American science … and the nation

We believe the best hope for saving science and, perhaps, saving our form of democracy, is convincing at least a couple dozen Republican members of Congress that it’s up to them—that the stakes requir...

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US students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18. Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky

Very clever design and nicely presented. 👍

Guillaume Chesneau@chesneau-g.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨Excited to share our new publication! MetaFlowTrain, a highly parallelized and modular fluidic system to study exometabolite interactions between microbes-microbes-plants 🌱 @hacquardst.bsky.social @herpell.bsky.social S.Wolf S.Perin @mpipz.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNUf... 🧵Thread 5/5:

Dating Bacteria is hard due to the lack of maxima. Assuming aerobes likely postdated the GOE gave us better resolved ages, but also surprised us, but not Dr Dayhoff, showing O2 use predated its atmospheric rise by 900 Mys and helped oxygenic photosynthesis to evolve. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

So glad to see this editorial with helpful insights into how Nature Microbiology editors view submissions with numerical modeling. Models are critical to understanding complex systems with non-linear behavior and feedbacks - our brains struggle with this 😵‍💫

Nature Microbiology@natmicrobiol.nature.com · last yr.

📝 In this month's editorial, we talk about the power of mathematical modeling 🧮, its importance in understanding of complex microbiology 🦠 , and how we assess papers addressing mathematical modeling. Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Share your thoughts in the replies! #MicroSky #MathSky

Posting for Dr Nicole Hynson at the University of Hawai’i Manoa. She is looking for a postdoc on a cool project on fungal mediated vegetation shifts. You get to work in Hawai’i and Australia - details here ➡️ hynsonlab.com/2024/07/25/w...

We’re looking for postdocs!

Interested in joining The Hynson lab? Please read over this ad for highly qualified Postdoctoral Researchers to work on a Department of Energy (DOE)-funded study titled “How do plant-associated fungi ...

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You know the way we all talk about leveraging 'omics information to improve ecosystem/biogeochemical model performance - well here's a step in that direction - led by Zhen Li integrating across many scientific teams to make this happen www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A framework for integrating genomics, microbial traits, and ecosystem biogeochemistry - Nature Communications

Microbes drive the Earth’s biogeochemical cycles. Here, Li et al. present a framework for integrating genome-inferred microbial kinetic traits into ecosystem mechanistic models, and use it to benchmar...

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The 2025 Applied and Environmental Microbiology Gordon Research Conference & Seminar (AEM GRC/GRS) will be held in July! Apply soon - we expect the conference to fill up quickly so please apply early to guarantee a spot. Hope to see you at Mount Holyoke College! www.grc.org/applied-and-...

The Rare Plant RaMP offers a 1-year, fully funded research experience in rare plant science at 4 U.S. botanic gardens! Open to post-baccalaureates, with mentorship, networking, & science communication training. Apply by March 14, 2025! Details: atlantabg.org/conservation...

I work with many wonderful members of the federal workforce. Thoughtful, smart, and dedicated people all across the US. What they are going through now is appalling. Check out the table on what Agencies are best staffed. Says a lot about priorities. www.npr.org/2025/01/31/n...

Trump wants to cut the federal workforce. Who they are and what that means

President Trump's efforts to cut the federal workforce by 10% might not save as much money as hoped and could have unintended consequences. NPR explains why.

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T minus 10 days until move-in. 🥳 BioEPIC 💡🦠🔬🧬🌱💧~ 👬👭👫 storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/6f1d...

Biological and Environmental Program Integration Center

The new BioEPIC facility will enable capabilities to sense, study, and simulate biological-environmental interactions across scales.

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Touring BioEPIC, the new Biological and Environmental Program Integration Center on the @berkeleylab.lbl.gov campus. Great views of the San Francisco East Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge in the distance. #BestViewFromALab

Great new paper by @mjwilkins.bsky.social and @kcwrighton.bsky.social labs on wetland methane cycling. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Metabolic interactions underpinning high methane fluxes across terrestrial freshwater wetlands - Nature Communications

The authors created a multisite database to link microbial methane-cycling networks to CH4 fluxes across diverse wetlands, revealing differences in microbial cross-feeding and methanogen dynamics that...

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+1000% and Cam Newport’s book is a must read. www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Witho…

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over qu…

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Franciska de Vries 🟥@frantecol.bsky.social · 2y ago

This, this, 100 times this. My job consists of battling to keep some time free for thinking - the entire system seems to be designed to stop me doing so. bsky.app/profile/rrit...

Science takes time - a lot of time. Time that is more and more difficult to make available because of increased workloads. Time that exceeds the temporary contracts of postdocs and PhDs. I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature

Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...

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We are recruiting for a Research Associate focused on understanding soil microbial composition and function in both natural and managed ecosystems. More details and application can be found here: jobs.lbl.gov/jobs/climate...

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

Action Intent Links | Bluesky

Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...

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Honored to contribute to this review paper "Soil Science-Informed Machine Learning" lead by @budimansoil.bsky.social... bridging ML & soil science knowledge for better, more reliable predictions. 🌱🤖 [link] www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Soil Science-Informed Machine Learning

Machine learning (ML) applications in soil science have significantly increased over the past two decades, reflecting a growing trend towards data-dri…

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