Glad to see our paper on differences in bacterial and protist diversity patterns of brackish (Baltic) plankton out in @commsbio.nature.com! Thanks to @doubleanders.bsky.social and all the co-authors. #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky www.nature.com/articles/s42...

DNA-based monitoring uncovers contrasting salinity-driven diversity patterns of bacterial and protist plankton in the Baltic Sea area - Communications Biology

Communications Biology - DNA-based monitoring uncovers contrasting salinity-driven diversity patterns of bacterial and protist plankton in the Baltic Sea area

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What determines whether picocyanobacteria remain in surface waters or sink? 🦠🌊 A new DEEP-led study shows that aggregation and colony formation are key factors in their export to deeper waters in the Baltic Sea, shedding new light on marine carbon cycling. 🔗 www.su.se/english/divi...

Glad to see our paper on differences in bacterial and protist diversity patterns of brackish (Baltic) plankton out in @commsbio.nature.com! Thanks to @doubleanders.bsky.social and all the co-authors. #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky www.nature.com/articles/s42...

DNA-based monitoring uncovers contrasting salinity-driven diversity patterns of bacterial and protist plankton in the Baltic Sea area - Communications Biology

Communications Biology - DNA-based monitoring uncovers contrasting salinity-driven diversity patterns of bacterial and protist plankton in the Baltic Sea area

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Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel – awarded the 2026 medicine prize – discovered a remarkable protein, channelrhodopsin, in a single-celled alga. Hegemann wondered how Chlamydomonas, a single-celled alga, is able to swim towards a light source.

Read more about our recent publication on using the microbiome as a biosensor in News from Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre: www.su.se/english/divi... With @garefelt.bsky.social, @ktjurdzinski.eurosky.social, @doubleanders.bsky.social

A global mitochondrial genomic atlas illuminates freshwater microeukaryote diversity #microsky #protistsonsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Doing aquatic microbiology research in Sweden? Become part of the Aquatic Microbiome Research Initiative (AMRI) and join us for our next meeting in Stockholm this November! amri-sweden.github.io

Very important paper by @phylogenetrips.bsky.social "Genes and sites under adaptation at the phylogenetic scale also exhibit adaptation at the population-genetic scale" | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Genes and sites under adaptation at the phylogenetic scale also exhibit adaptation at the population-genetic scale | PNAS

Adaptation in protein-coding sequences can be detected from multiple sequence alignments across species or alternatively by leveraging polymorphism...

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Hiding in plain sight: Animals eat the natural bioplastic PHA We discovered that many animals can break down PHA. And many of these enzymes had been sitting unnoticed in genome databases. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Animal degradation of microbial storage polyhydroxyalkanoates - Nature Ecology & Evolution

This study shows that the degradation of microbial storage polyhydroxyalkanoates is not just restricted to microorganisms by finding that some animals also have the enzymes required to break down thes...

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Largest study of its kind finds that neighbourhoods with a rise in the number of undocumented migrants did not show a rise in violent crime rates go.nature.com/4gvBVyq

Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds

Largest study of its kind finds that neighbourhoods with a rise in the number of undocumented migrants did not show a rise in violent crime rates.

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Our paper identifying a stop codon reassignment in Eggerthellaceae species found in mammalian guts is now out! Great collaborative effort with Pierre Chaumeil, Maria Chuvochina, and Phil Hugenholtz (@xrefugee13.bsky.social). www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... @microbiologysociety.org

Stop codon reassignment to tryptophan in members of the bacterial phylum Actinomycetota

Reassignment of stop codons is a significant evolutionary event with recoding of UGA to tryptophan being previously identified in only three bacterial phyla, the Bacillota, Pseudomonadota and Verrucom...

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New preprint: We studied the population dynamics of Arctic #phytoplankton and #mycoplankton and found evidence for chytrid-mediated diatom bloom termination. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Congrats @paulinethome.bsky.social #protists #protistsonsky #algae #diatoms #chytrids

Salinity-driven adaptations and evolution of DNA viruses in estuarine-coastal ecosystems journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #jcampubs 🌊

Move to Eurosky today - hosted in Europe, governed by European law, open to everyone Use Bluesky as normal: your data & your connections all stay the same. Our commitment: we will never sell your content, your data, or profile you for advertising. move.eurosky.tech

Why choose a commercial entity that just went closed-source when a non-commercial one that builds in the open exists? (namely @eurosky.social) Didn't you just (exactly 2 weeks ago) reaffirm your support to open source “for Europe’s technological sovereignty”?

One is non-profit, the other for-profit, too. EU picked for-profit over non-profit social good, that was recommended to them by the JRC report I just shared.

Moved my @bsky.app account over to @eurosky.social using the service move.eurosky.tech - everything stays the same (followers/posts/etc) just now my data is stored in the EU & not the USA! Super easy to do and with better protections! I am slowly moving all my services away from US-based providers.

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

🌊 After the 2022 Oder environmental disaster: Research-based recommendations for #policymakers and #authorities handed over to Federal Environment Minister Carsten Schneider. Full details + research findings from the ODER~SO project: www.igb-berlin.de/en/news/afte... #Odra #River #Research #Science

After the Oder environmental disaster: recommendations for action presented to politicis and authorities

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Our study on how and what we can predict using plankton metabarcoding data now out in @commsearth.nature.com! It was great to work on it together with @doubleanders.bsky.social, @emma-bell.bsky.social, @garefelt.bsky.social et al. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

The marine microbiome can accurately predict its chemical and biological environment - Communications Earth & Environment

Microbial DNA profiles from seawater can act as biosensors of environmental conditions and ecosystem status, demonstrating the potential of metabarcoding and machine learning in marine monitoring and ...

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Forgot the handle, #MicroSky

Krzysztof T Jurdzinski@ktjurdzinski.eurosky.social · 4mo ago

Our study on how and what we can predict using plankton metabarcoding data now out in @commsearth.nature.com! It was great to work on it together with @doubleanders.bsky.social, @emma-bell.bsky.social, @garefelt.bsky.social et al. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Our study on how and what we can predict using plankton metabarcoding data now out in @commsearth.nature.com! It was great to work on it together with @doubleanders.bsky.social, @emma-bell.bsky.social, @garefelt.bsky.social et al. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

The marine microbiome can accurately predict its chemical and biological environment - Communications Earth & Environment

Microbial DNA profiles from seawater can act as biosensors of environmental conditions and ecosystem status, demonstrating the potential of metabarcoding and machine learning in marine monitoring and ...

nature.com

A thing loosely related to my research but with high personal significance, since I grew up next to the Odra (ger. Oder) river. Though these are recommendations for policy makers in a specific case, it is an interesting read on challenges facing European rivers. www.igb-berlin.de/en/news/afte...

After the Oder environmental disaster: recommendations for action presented to politicis and authorities

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An awesome opportunity to work on multipartite ecology of phages in an unusually welcoming and intellectually stimulating environment.

Maliheh Mehrshad@mehrshmali.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🔬 We have an open PhD position at SLU Uppsala! We're looking for a curious & driven PhD student to join the #ECOPHARM project funded by @kawresearch.bsky.social and investigate plasmid-dependent phages in aquatic ecosystems. Pls share with anyone who might be interested! www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

New #ISEPpapers by @deemteam.bsky.social! Reversal to osmotrophy in eukaryotes www.nature.com/articles/s41... "Distant eukaryotic lineages convergently reverted from predation to osmotrophy through co-option of bacterial genes and their mobilization via eukaryote-to-eukaryote HGT" #Protists

🌎 🧬 🖥️ logan-search.org the tool to query all SRA sequences (Dec 2023 snapshot) — just got major updates. Here's what's new. 🧵 1/12

A recent work led by collaborators, on comparing metabarcoding and light microscopy for pelagic monitoring in the Baltic Sea. Proud to be a part of it. #MicroSky doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Beyond thrilled that our paper ‘Co-migration of hundreds of microbial species over metres drives selection and promotes non-motile hitchhikers’ has been accepted in Nature Communications! 🎉🦠 (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Revised 16S rRNA V4 hypervariable region targeting primers enhance detection of Patescibacteria and other lineages across diverse environments academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs