Leonid Digel

We are thrilled to announce that, thanks to the support of our institutional subscribers, all Royal Society subscription journals will be open access in 2026 through #S2O. Researchers can read all articles and publish #OpenAccess in our eight subscription journals for free buff.ly/4Lu9VpW

Darwin sketched the first “Tree of Life” in 1837. 🌳Today, the Darwin Tree of Life Project is sequencing all UK species.

The MBA collects and prepares marine organisms for sequencing, helping us understand marine biodiversity, evolution and how species respond to environmental change.

SOLARSPOON has a PDRA position available in Cambridge, UK!

More info and apply here⤵️⤵️⤵️

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...

@biophotoelectro.bsky.social @reisnerlab.bsky.social
#PDRA #SOLARSPOON

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Bioinformatics and/or Computational Biology at Aarhus University, Denmark - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - BiRC - Bioinformatics Research Center, Aarhus University

Aarhus University is seeking a Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate Professor in Bioinformatics/Co… https://nat.au.dk/en/about-the-faculty/vacant-positions-and-career/job/tenure-track-assistant-professor-associate-professor-in-bioinformatics-and-or-computational-biology-at-aarhus-university-denmark #job

We have a postdoc position open!
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...

Two fully funded PhD candidate positions in Electromicrobiology (3 years) Application deadline: 4 March 2026 at 23:59 hours local Danish time

In addition to the 2 postdoc jobs posted yesterday, we’re recruiting 2 PhD students (environmental microbiology/ molecular ecology) to join us from April. The projects will map microbial populations across niches in bioelectrochemical systems relevant to biomethanation & link them to performance.

Two postdoctoral positions (3-year) in Experimental Evolution of Methanogenic Microbiomes in Bioelectrochemical Systems Application deadline: 4 March 2026 at 23:59 hours local Danish time

I’m looking for two postdoctoral scientists in experimental evolution to join my team from April 2026 (or soon after). Please share! fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Some of Earth’s oldest fossils belong to microbes. I look at how these ancient fossils are preserved, how scientists study them, and what they reveal about early Earth and the origins of life.
Link: asm.org/articles/202...

In an online-only environment, it is a rare pleasure to have your writing printed @bluescicam.bsky.social

🌱 Calling researchers and innovators in chemistry and biotechnology! 🌱 Excited to share that the RSC Biotechnology Group is hosting the Biotechnology for Sustainability meeting on 15 April 2026 at the RSC Burlington House in London.

Secret life of prophages: template-directed synthesis of DNA superstructures via prophage activation and rolling circle replication in bacterial biofilms Extracellular DNA (eDNA) plays crucial roles in biofilm formation and function, yet the role of bacteriophages (phages) in controlling eDNA synthesis, structure and activity remains obscure. Here, we ...

Here is what prophages do when noone is watching
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The ViTal-D Study - Quadram Institute Are you aged over 18 years, live within 70 miles of Norwich and think you may be low in vitamin D? You may be eligible to participate in the ViTal-D study. The ViTaL-D Study is investigating the…

Live within 70 miles of Norwich and think you might be low in vitamin D? 📍

Take part in our study investigating whether tomatoes biofortified through gene editing to be high in vitamin in D can help boost vitamin D levels🌞

@johninnescentre.bsky.social

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Indoor air pollution is a global health issue, not just a domestic heating one Air pollution, including exposure inside homes, contributes substantially to premature death worldwide.

'We have found that air pollution, including exposure inside homes, contributes substantially to premature death worldwide'

Read more ⬇️

Now highlighted on the website 🚀:

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Electromicrobiology in the latest issue ‘Unseen Worlds’ of BlueSci Cambridge University Science Magazine! Featuring a photograph I took a while back in Micropia Museum 🦠🧫

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Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth by Karen G. Lloyd

Karen G. Lloyd

Join us in congratulating @karenlloyd.bsky.social, whose book Intraterrestrials has been longlisted for the 2026 @penamerica.bsky.social/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award! The winner will be announced in March 2026.

Explore her outstanding work here: hubs.ly/Q03YLJl10

Link to the list of Student Projects: bio.au.dk/forskning/fo...

Congratulations to Associate Professor @ianpgm.bsky.social for receiving a Villum Experiment Grant of DKK 2.5 million for his project: AGAMBLE – Anaerobic Growth of Aerobic Methanotrophic Bacteria in Lake Environments🎉

We’re excited to see how this grant will lead to new insights and discoveries!🌿🔬

Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems.

For more details and to apply please see

www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Postdoc on microbial oxygen production in marine oxygen minimum zones Application deadline: 17 November 2025 at 23:59 hours local Danish time

🚨Exciting 🧪👩‍🎓🦠 job alert 🚨
Postdoc position on dark microbial O2 production in marine oxygen minimum zones with Bo Thamdrup and @beatekraft.bsky.social at @sdu.dk

Love fieldwork, stable isotopes, the sea and a fantastic team? Then apply -> fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Happy to be a part of this!

Pleased to share this work on cable bacteria. We demonstrate that E.aureum GS, a freshwater cable bacterium, can use extracellular electron transfer to gain energy in anoxic conditions. Many thanks to @leodigel.bsky.social , @ianpgm.bsky.social and other coauthors at @cemau.bsky.social

Postdoctoral position on methanotrophic bacteria - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Biology - Microbiology, Aarhus University

I'm recruiting a postdoc to figure out how aerobic methanotrophic bacteria oxidise methane in anoxic freshwater sediment environments: international.au.dk/about/profil... Come to Aarhus University in Denmark and work on this 2-year project funded by @villumfonden.bsky.social!

Congratulations, Ian! 🎉

Thanks to @villumfonden.bsky.social for supporting my weird ideas again with a Villum Experiment project! Set to start next year: AGAMBLE – Anaerobic Growth of Aerobic Methanotrophic Bacteria in Lake Environments. Job ad for a 2-year postdoc position coming soon!

villumfonden.dk/en/nyhed/tra...

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The Senior Research Scientist will support the Group Leader with day-to-day running of the lab, including line management of staff, overseeing budgets, and leading the scientific direction.

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Hey ISMET member ✋
Did you think we could use a new website too?
Well here it is: www.is-met.org.

It was a pleasure working with @ismetsociety.bsky.social to make their website more engaging and interesting for their members.

Do you also have a website that could use some polishing?

Last week, Prof. @larspeternielsen.bsky.social was the opening speaker at the 20th Congress of the Argentinian Microbiological Society in Puerto Madryn, Patagonia🌎
Exciting to see cable bacteria joining electromicrobiology research in Argentina🔬👏We look forward to future collaborations with SAMIGE.