Kostas Kormas 🐟🦞🐚🦭💩🔬🧪🧬📝 ✈️ 🏳️‍🌈

European Academy of Microbiology The European Academy of Microbiology (EAM) is a leadership group of eminent microbiology experts founded by the Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS) to promote and recognize excelle...

I feel honoured & thankful to the electors who chose me through their peer-review process as a Fellow of the European Academy of #Microbiology. This reflects upon my teachers/supervisors, students and colleagues of the past 25+ years on environmental & animal microbiology.
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Integrated Responses: Multi-dimensional Evidence of #Diet-#Microbiome Coupling of #Fish across a #River Continuum in a Dry-Hot Valley
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Overcoming barriers that limit the impact of ecological research Ecology and conservation researchers have diverse goals that often include both personal career aspirations and desires to enhance the well-being of the natural world and its inhabitants. Perception ...

Overcoming barriers that limit the impact of ecological #research
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Chinese scientists actualize near-complete #genome assembly of protected #fish species
#Bagarius #rutilus #conservation
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We are expanding our matching program for 2SLGBTQIA+ microbiologists! Whether you need a mentor, a collaborator, or community support, we can help you.

🔗 Mentorship & Geo-matching:
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#Microbiology #QueerInSTEM

We're delighted to share we've been awarded the 2026 Microbiology Society EDI Award!

Our founders, Landon Getz, Bruno Oliveira, and Edel Pérez-López, will receive the award and talk about our accomplishments in Belfast (UK) from April 13 to 16.

Read more:
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Last October, Pride in Microbiology members connected at the 33rd Brazilian Microbiology Conference (CBM)! 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌈 🦠 🧫

Shoutout to Paula (@paulasoaresz_), Tássio (@tassiobritoo), and
Bruno Vizzotto (@bvizzotto)! Our founder, Bruno Oliveira (@bfrancescol), was also there despite no photo evidence!

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@mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social @femsmicro.org @isme-microbes.bsky.social @asm.org

and here is the link for the talk new.diavlos.grnet.gr/el/room/5032...

The significance of microbial symbioses in #seagrass blue carbon ecosystems
@symbiostoic.bsky.social at the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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#SymbioSky #MicroSky #microbiomesky #Microbiology #symbiosis

Fanny Angelina Hesse: A Graphic Novel An invisible force. A transparent substance. A forgotten woman. The untold story of Fanny Angelina Hesse (1850-1934), who introduced agar to the lab

We are very happy and proud we have contributed to this amazing story:
An invisible force. A transparent substance. A forgotten woman.
The untold story of Fanny Angelina Hesse (1850-1934), who introduced agar to the lab.
fanny-hesse-graphic-novel.site

A new preprint server welcomes papers written and reviewed by AI With human peer review struggling to keep pace with machine-generated science, aiXiv enlists bots to help

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A new preprint server welcomes papers written and reviewed
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Farooq Azam, as the microbial loop extends beyond the marine realm.

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The Role of Microbiology in Balancing Nature During the Anthropocene Fernando Baquero, Roberto Kolter, Kenneth Timmis; The Role of Microbiology in Balancing Nature During the Anthropocene, microLife, , uqaf044, https://doi.o

Happy new year to all, with this last reading for 2025:
Role of #Microbiology in Balancing Nature During the #Anthropocene
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url: academic.oup.com/microlife/ar...

The University of Alaska Fairbanks is now advertising for the position of Assistant Professor of Marine Biology. See the position description below. careers.alaska.edu/jobs/assista...

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Home - AlFunFeed Transforming seaweed waste into sustainable fish feed. AlFunFeed develops fungal single-cell protein (SCP) from macroalgal by-products to create next-generation aquafeed for European seabass — closing...

Our new "Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership" project's website is on air! TRANSFORMING #SEAWEED #WASTE INTO #SUSTAINABLE #FISH #FEED
alfunfeed.eu
#alfunfeed for updates

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What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.

What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Introducing the j-metric: a true measure of what matters in academia Science has become obsessed with publishing numbers. With this new satirical proposal, have we reached peak metric?

Introducing the j-metric: a true measure of what matters in academia www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"As academia becomes McDonaldized — subject to the fast-food industry principles of efficiency, calculability, predictability and control — one phrase becomes relevant: ‘Do you want cites with that?"

The problem with career planning in science Having too rigid a plan could result in exciting opportunities passing you by, warns Ottoline Leyser.

The problem with career planning in science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Are these the happiest PhD students in the world? Brazil, Australia and Italy have the highest satisfaction scores in Nature’s global 2025 PhD survey — but are these nations really the best places to do a doctorate?

Are these the happiest #PhD students in the world? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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I eat what my mother eats. Maternal effects on food preferences in invasive amphipods Invasive alien species achieve their success through a set of traits that give them a fitness advantage over other species. Many of them are characterised by a generalist diet with an inclination to c...

I eat what my mother eats. Maternal effects on food preferences in invasive amphipods neobiota.pensoft.net/articles.php...

Aquaculture shapes antibiotic resistance in Mediterranean gilthead sea bream farming: From hatcheries to offshore cages Intensive farming in crowded cages increases antibiotic treatments, promoting antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in fish-associated bacteria. Combined wit…

#Aquaculture shapes #antibiotic #resistance in #Mediterranean #gilthead #sea #bream farming: From #hatcheries to offshore cages 👉 tinyurl.com/yj99zz43
@organicaquaculture.bsky.social @asc-aqua.bsky.social #AMR #Sparus @aei-ir.bsky.social #SymbioSky #MicroSky #microbiomesky #symbiosis #holobiont

Localized gut tissue and digesta bacterial communities of five pelagic fish species from the Atlantic Ocean: Insights from 16S rRNA gene diversity Gut microbes are now considered inseparable from their hosts. Compared to farmed fish, gut microorganisms of wild-living fish are largely understudied…

Gut microbial topography across can be significant in wild fish, too! 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.fi...

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In love with all Fridays always!!!

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