Microbial Diversity 2026 @mblscience.bsky.social was outstanding this year! If you’d like to join us next year, apply in late January, early February and spread the word. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VUY...

Focus on: Microbial Diversity at Marine Biological Laboratory

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Papers with open peer-review reports are less likely to be retracted www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Papers with open peer-review reports are less likely to be retracted

Researchers say that transparent publishing practices could be associated with research quality, but more evidence is needed.

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Led by Lucas Ustick, who has a longer write-up here: www.linkedin.com/posts/lucas-... Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (5/5)

Planetary structure and drivers of diazotroph communities reveal key reservoirs of nitrogen-fixation potential | Lucas Ustick

I am very excited to share our preprint on NFixPlanet, a resource and planet wide analysis of diazotrophy. Releasing this preprint feels bittersweet, as it is my first manuscript since Peer’s passing...

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Very happy something like this is now available. In protist diversity research we use the rDNA extensively, but I for one doesn't know enough about it's structure, variation, and implications www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Organization of Ribosomal RNA Genes in Eukaryotes

In eukaryotes, ribosomal RNA genes (rDNA) encode the major ribosomal RNA molecules and are typically organized into a distinctive genomic structure involving tandem repetition of a polycistronic codin...

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French authorities evacuated thousands of people from suburbs near Bordeaux today as wildfires ⁠in areas around the city showed no signs of abating. (RTÉ News)

Level of wildfires 'never been seen before' - French PM

French authorities evacuated thousands of people from suburbs near Bordeaux today as wildfires ⁠in areas around the city showed no signs of abating.

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MyOcean Health is a free platform that transforms ocean observations into clear, interactive indicators of ocean health, making it possible for anyone to track changes to the planet's largest life-support system: https://bit.ly/45f10Y6 📹 Simon van Gennip, @mercatorocean.bsky.social

It's out! Excited to present the Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database (GBR-MGD), a comprehensive DB of 1000s of high-quality prokaryote, virus, plasmid, and chromosome-level eukaryote MAGs using Nanopore long reads. Subthreads incoming. Please share widely. 🙂 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The planktonic microbiome of the Great Barrier Reef - Nature

The Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database compiles prokaryotic, viral and eukaryotic genomes from seawater collected from the Great Barrier Reef, providing a rich resource for the study of mar...

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🔴⚠️🌡️🌊The unprecedented #heatwave over #Europe is bringing its effects also to the Mediterranean Sea. In the last few days the #Copernicus Sea Surface Temperature has rapidly increased and the latest anomaly data exceed 8°C ⬇️SST daily anomaly on 27 June 2026 #climateemergency

Battling darkness and cold, researchers on a drifting laboratory will probe the biology of the Arctic Ocean. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4oSliji

Yesterday was likely the hottest day in France since the last interglacial (125,000 years ago). There is going to be some terrible human news from this… #NothingToSeeHere #MoveRightAlong

The @unuinweh.bsky.social has published the Environmental Cost of AI’s Energy Use. Carbon, Water and Land Footprints. The report analyses the impact of AI beyond carbon footprint and calls for a responsible AI ecosystem 🔗 Learn more: https://ow.ly/fmjR50Zf38y

Each year, the environmental footprint of the world's richest 10% costs the planet—and society—up to $5.7 trillion www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Environmental damages of the top ten percent consumers exceed global climate and biodiversity funding gaps - Communications Sustainability

Biodiversity loss and carbon emissions dominate the damages caused by the top ten percent of consumers, with the highest bills seen in wealthier countries, according to a study monetizing this group’s...

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Did you think that filtering water with 0.2 μm pore size filters catches all the bacteria? Think again! And join us a we take a look at the smallest of the small, across three of the legenday seven seas of yore (Bay of Biscay, Mediterranean and the Red Sea) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The Elusive Fraction of Marine Plankton Diversity: Size, Abundance and Taxonomic Composition of 0.2 μm‐Filterable Prokaryotes Across Three Contrasting Coastal Environments

The existence of prokaryotes escaping filtration through 0.2-μm filters has been known for decades. Such ‘filterable’ prokaryotes (hereafter ‘FP’) might include true ultra-small groups (i.e., ultrami...

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📘 The OBIS Manual has just received a major update, with new content and a redesigned interface. It now includes Tutorials & Notebooks, features a direct link to report an issue, and a one-click PDF export of the latest available version. 👉 Check out the new OBIS Manual manual.obis.org

🧬 Diatoms are an extraordinarily diverse group of photosynthetic organisms, with tens of thousands of described species. Yet technical challenges still limit large-scale diatom genome production. EBP projects and biodiversity genomics R&D teams are working to solve them. 🌊🔬 #Diatoms #Biodiversity

Looking forward to visiting @mioceanologie.bsky.social for the first time to share part of my postdoctoral research at @ibensens.bsky.social. Come along if you are around Marseille! 🌎 🌊⛵🦠🧬

Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography - MIO@mioceanologie.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Séminaire @mioceanologie.bsky.social | 🔴 Pedro Junger, jeune chercheur à l’Institut de Biologie de l’École normale supérieure de Paris, donnera un séminaire : 📆 Mardi 16 juin 2026 - 11h00 📍 Amphithéâtre OCEANOMED, Bâtiment Méditerranée, Campus de Luminy, Marseille. ➡️ urls.fr/hFhhry

We are thrilled to announce the newest study from our lab (and great collaborators) is out now in @nature.com We show that #coral #microbes are untapped "biosynthetic reservoirs", full of unique natural products. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Coral microbiomes as reservoirs of unknown genomic and biosynthetic diversity - Nature

Reconstructing microbial genomes from 820 reef-building corals collected at 99 reefs across 32 islands throughout the Pacific Ocean highlights the importance of conserving coral reefs as vital reservo...

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Apusomonad rhodopsins: A new family of ultraviolet to blue light–absorbing rhodopsin channels www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Apusomonad rhodopsins: A new family of ultraviolet to blue light–absorbing rhodopsin channels | PNAS

Apusomonads are sediment-dwelling bacterivorous protists that are sister to all Opisthokonta. They have been found to show a negative phototactic r...

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In the largest study of its kind, scientists in the Bork Group at EMBL have found that a small subset of microbes can carry and transfer genes across disparate habitats, creating a planet-wide, interconnected network of microbiomes 🌍 🦠 🔗 Read more here: www.embl.org/news/science...

Excited to co-chair with @clareostle.bsky.social our #WCMB2026 session Plankton Biodiversity Observation for Ocean Health in Bruges (17–20 Nov 2026). We invite abstracts on all approaches to monitoring marine plankton. Deadline: 17 March 2026 (23:59 CET). 🌊🔬💙 @thembauk.bsky.social

Ecological Processes Shaping Marine Microbial Assemblages Diverge Between Equatorial and Temperate Time-Series onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs 🌊

We're excited to release metaTraits.embl.de! 🦠 Interactively explore 140+ 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘁𝘀, harmonized & integrated from culture-derived collections 🔬 & genome-based predictions 🧬 for >2M MAGs & genomes. Publication at NAR: doi.org/10.1093/nar/... @narjournal.bsky.social #microsky 🧵 1/8

Our latest. Led by the very talented @ahoiching.bsky.social Cell cycle dysregulation of globally important SAR11 bacteria resulting from environmental perturbation www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊

Cell cycle dysregulation of globally important SAR11 bacteria resulting from environmental perturbation - Nature Microbiology

Without key cell cycle control genes, SAR11 cells experience aneuploidy and growth inhibition when exposed to changes in nutrients, carbon sources or temperature stress, a vulnerability that may repre...

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🌊 Calling marine sites worldwide! Join eDNA Expeditions (2026-2028), a project using #eDNA to support local marine biodiversity monitoring & boost global ocean knowledge. ✅Apply by 15 Feb ☑️ Kits, training & support 👉 emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/contribut... @vliz.be @emodnet.bsky.social @obis.org

Shameful decision

Nature@nature.com · 8mo ago

The US is leaving some of the world’s oldest and most influential scientific networks involved in biodiversity research, climate science and conservation go.nature.com/4a48Ney

We just released #anvio v9, "eunice" 🎉 This version represents over 2,000 changes in the codebase since v8, increasing the total number of programs in the anvi'o ecosystem to 176. Read the release notes: github.com/merenlab/anv... Visit our up-to-date web page: anvio.org

Closely related microbes tend to live in similar communities across Earth’s environments. We call this pattern community conservatism - extending established ecological patterns to the microbial world. 🧬🌍 #MicrobialEcology #Evolution Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

I'm thrilled to share that this work has just been published: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... We compared to contrasting observatories: 🌴 ☀️ Equatorial Atlantic (EAMO, 6°S), one of the first in low-latitudes 🍂 🌸 A well-studied temperate site (BBMO, 41°N) in the Mediterranean Sea 🧵⬇️

Ecological Processes Shaping Marine Microbial Assemblages Diverge Between Equatorial and Temperate Time‐Series

Marine microbial communities are structured by a complex interplay of deterministic and stochastic processes, yet how these vary across latitudes remains poorly understood. Most long-term microbial o...

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Pedro C. Junger@pcjungers.bsky.social · last yr.

Chapter 3 of my thesis is now available as a preprint in @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social We compared 3+ years of coastal microbial time-series from an equatorial site (EAMO, 6°S) and a temperate site (BBMO, 41°N). Our work reinforces the need for observatories across latitudes to track ocean change.

New paper up - inspired by the periodic table of the elements, we attempted to organize bacterial diversity in genome-inferred trait space academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Constructing a “periodic table” of bacteria to map diversity in trait space

Abstract. Despite an ever-expanding number of bacterial taxa being discovered, many of these taxa remain uncharacterized with unknown traits and environmen

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Now published in Nature Biotechnology: go.nature.com/44P7nSm If you missed it, the TL;DR is in my April thread below

Troubleshooting common errors in assemblies of long-read metagenomes - Nature Biotechnology

Long-read sequence assemblies from metagenomes contain frequent errors.

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Florian Trigodet@floriantrigodet.bsky.social · last yr.

I am very happy (and anxious) to share with you our most recent work in which we evaluated four of the most popular long-read assemblers, www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and tell you just a little bit about it in the following 🧵