Glad to see Xinming Chen's paper on anomalous molybdenum isotope fractionation in Green Lake out today. authors.elsevier.com/c/1ndTw,Ig4g...
Despite driving here for a week, the Kiwis still don’t understand that when I put my wipers on full, I’m turning right!
Going to the ISME20 meeting in Auckland next week and decided to come a week early to hike in the South Island. Lovely, if rainy, first walk on the Sawpit Gully Trail in Arrowtown near Queenstown
What you do when you get to the middle of the lake and realize you left the messenger for your Van Dorn sampler in the lab. Always carry electrical tape!
Five year old girl on BBC News in item on Artemis II hopes we can find life on other planets so "we can be family with them.." Wish politicians would share her attitude to those who are different.
Congrats Mike Laub and Emily Mahoney! Lots more in the manuscript: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 7/n
DefensePredictor: A Machine Learning Model to Discover Novel Prokaryotic Immune Systems
Anti-phage defense systems protect bacteria from viruses. Studying defense systems has begun to reveal the evolutionary roots of eukaryotic innate immunity and produced important biotechnologies such ...
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Nature research paper: A membrane-bound nuclease directly cleaves phage DNA during genome injection go.nature.com/3P2jKFh
A membrane-bound nuclease directly cleaves phage DNA during genome injection - Nature
A widespread bacterial defence system called SNIPE is shown to localize to the cell membrane, where it identifies and cleaves the DNA of infecting phage as it is injected into the bacterial cell.
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Looking for a cutting-edge and fun conference in 2026? How about: GRC Geobiology in Ventura, CA - January 11-16, 2026 www.grc.org/geobiology-c... AbSciCon in Madison, WI - May 17-22, 2026 www.agu.org/abscicon 🤩The Ruff Lab will be there with sessions and presentations on Dark Oxygen Production 🥳
2026 Geobiology Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Geobiology will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Thrilled to share our new paper: Subsurface Life on Earth as a Key to Unlock Extraterrestrial Mysteries. 🧪 @melroselane.bsky.social, @drbradbrad.bsky.social , @geobiomaggie.bsky.social, @emilruff.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Subsurface Life on Earth as a Key to Unlock Extraterrestrial Mysteries
This paper discusses current research on subsurface microbiology. Exploring Earth's deep and extreme subsurface environments provides critical insights into life's limits and adaptability. Subsurface...
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
An Asgard Archaeon (Lokiarchaeum ossiferum) growing and retracting its arms
Redox conduction facilitates direct interspecies electron transport in anaerobic methanotrophic consortia www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs
Redox conduction facilitates direct interspecies electron transport in anaerobic methanotrophic consortia
Methane-consuming microbial partners use redox conductors to pass electrons.
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Petroff et al study the magnetotactic properties of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria from Little Sippewissett salt marsh.
eLife@elife.bsky.social · 11mo agoMagnetotactic bacteria swim along geomagnetic field lines to navigate sediments. Using microfluidics and simulations, this study shows their motility is optimised, revealing how evolution fine-tunes life for challenging environments.
Deep-branching magnetotactic bacteria form intracellular carbonates enriched in trace metals journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs
Diving through the purple sulfur bacteria layer of Fayetteville Green Lake with our ROV last month. This is the most intense density of PSB that I've seen in many years!
Putting my "Hands Off" protest sign in the front yard.
