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📢 Join the first #HoliSoils webinar: open to all!

Challenges in Modelling Microbial Interaction in Soil Carbon Decomposition

🗓️ 17 September 2025
🕑 14:00–15:30 CEST

🔗 Register here: holisoils.eu/holisoils-we...

#SoilHealth #ClimateResearch #MicrobialEcology #CarbonCycle #Horizon2020 #HorizonEU

Come work at the UMich Biological Station as a Michigan Fellow (you don't have to be a biologist)! Apply today: societyoffellows.umich.edu/uncategorize...

YouTube video by Benn Jordan I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.

(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment - Nature Microbiology This Review discusses the evolution, emergence and expansion of environmental fungicide and antifungal drug resistance.

A little holiday news:

Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This started out as a little thought way back in early 2024 between @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social and I, and turned into a full on review! We hope it proves useful to the community.

✔️The programme for the #bc2basel tutorials & workshops is out! From #geneexpression analysis to #machinelearning or #datavisualization, beginner or advanced: boost your #bioinformatics skills!

👉 Register to make sure to secure your spot (limited seats): bc2.ch/registration...

🧠 Opportunity for a post-doctoral position on human neurobiology, funded by the @erc.europa.eu!
🧫You want to use human pluripotent stem cell based models to understand the evolution of human cerebellar neurons and disorders, this position is for you!
🔗Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Heard a very busy tailorbird today 😃🩵✨

July issue of #AppEnvMicro features a stunning image of Svalbard valley glaciers. Thajudeen et al. provide crucial baseline data on the composition & distribution of antibiotic resistance genes in vulnerable polar environments. @asm.org
Check out the issue 👇
journals.asm.org/toc/aem/91/7

🚨 15-month postdoc at LCPME (CNRS, France) – biointerfaces (AFM, electrochemistry, biofilms). 2–5 yrs experience. Great fit for CNRS track (CR). Start ASAP.
🔗 Apply 👉 emploi.cnrs.fr
#postdoc #CNRS #sciencejobs

Animals react to secret sounds from plants, say scientists It opens up the possibility that an invisible ecosystem might exist between plants and animals.

Animals react to sounds being made by plants, new research suggests, opening up the possibility that an invisible #ecosystem might exist between them. #BBC #research www.bbc.com/news/article...

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

These are top notch suggestions! Thanks for the discussion ✨😃

Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0 phenotypes grown on MS agar plates alone (MS) or in co-cultivation with the indicated SynComs (AtSC5, AtSC6, LjSC5, LjSC6), and after treatment with mock (Control), R401 wild-type (R401wt) or R401 ΔpvdY ΔphlD (R401mut) strain. Scale bar corresponds to 1 cm.

A plant's #microbiome can protect it against detrimental bacterial strains. @kathywippel.bsky.social &co show that competition among #Pseudomonas #bacteria in synthetic bacterial communities determines how well they can protect #Arabidopsis; one strain can suffice @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4o96mN1

Extremely worrying to see this dangerous thinking entering mainstream UK politics

(1) talk to the editor, not the authors
(2) use functional language
(3) don't speculate
(4) put your strongest points first
(5) make it as easy as possible for your points to be understood
(6) do not reveal anything about yourself
(7) cheer up, this is just Tuesday for some of us

I get this but i wonder if it is better to know, in explicit writing, that the grant agency will not discriminate or revoke eligibility based on that (in case it wasn’t mentioned and the applicant applied as is). If someone is trans, it might be good to not worry about it no?

How may theoretical ecology & evolutionary theory push microbiology forward?
At Environmental Microbiology, I am commissioning a series of Perspectives exploring that question. Excited to share them in the 🧵 below
The series is open, so do get in touch if you'd like to propose a new contribution!

Figuring out what next post thesis submission amidst turbulent dystopian times has been *challenging* but decided to focus on curiosity and on that vein, discovered how to animate in Krita. This little thing is easily the most accomplished I’ve felt in an anxious week 🥹 Will be posting more ✨😃

There is of course, a case to be made that AI is enriched in these words because of their training data (human works pre-dating AI) so is AI changing how we speak to how it used to be? chicken-egg situation innit, and then somehow from here i went on a deep dive on exercise psychology, more later 😅

Empirical evidence of Large Language Model's influence on human spoken communication From the invention of writing and the printing press, to television and social media, human history is punctuated by major innovations in communication technology, which fundamentally altered how idea...

Link to paper arxiv.org/abs/2409.01754

Came to rant how yt videos and podcasts being enriched in AI words is not a genuine representation of human speech but then, there was this gem in methodology. I mean, notebook LLM podcasts are very surreal and could easily pass this filter but the attempt is commendable 💯

Okay, I'm having trouble finding reviewers for an article on river morphology and its impacts. Lots declined and 1 late 21 days. Can anybody suggest a reviewer or volunteer to review? #AcademicSky #GeoSky

Someone asked Captain Steeeve on yt if the suspected human error in the air india crash would speed up replacement of pilots with Al ... seriously? Do people think Al makes no mistakes? Would you really trust, midair, an Al that is not subject to consequences? Really!?

📣 ERC Synergy Grant 2026 call for proposals is now open!

Application deadline 5 November 2025.

📝 Groups of 2-4 researchers
📝 Jointly addressing ambitious problems & with different skills

Application portal 👉 europa.eu/!XpwptY
General info 👉 europa.eu/!PR6gt8

#ERCSyG #FrontierResearch

“I wish they had computed a bit less and thought a bit more” is a quotation for our age.

You will be welcome to join us online to hear exciting talks from researchers and technical specialists from across the Norwich Research Park, including our team at the John Innes Centre, @earlhaminst.bsky.social @quadraminstitute.bsky.social and @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

Accessible Science at the Norwich Bioscience Institutes, save the date: Tuesday, 7 October

📢 SAVE THE DATE 🌟

Calling all teachers, A-level science classes and colleges - we're excited to announce the return of the Norwich Bioscience Institutes Accessible Science Talks!

🗓️ Tuesday 7 October 2025

Keep an eye out for the registration to join over the coming weeks 💻

Machine learning identifies key individual and nation-level factors predicting climate-relevant beliefs and behaviors - npj Climate Action npj Climate Action - Machine learning identifies key individual and nation-level factors predicting climate-relevant beliefs and behaviors

Climate change is one of the most pressing crises looming over humanity. But what are the best predictors of climate-friendly beliefs, and how do they compare across countries? In our latest paper, we use machine learning to explore this question across 55 countries. Read below:

A line graph of world newspaper coverage of climate change or global warming from 2004 to 2025 in continents around the world.

Newspaper coverage of climate change around the globe dropped 6% from May to June 2025 -- and by 28% compared to June 2024, despite increasing frequency and severity of climate-fueled extreme weather events.

Read more from the @media-climate.bsky.social here: mecco.colorado.edu/summaries/is...

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity – Rutgers University!
Join Ann Stock’s lab to study how Bacteroides regulate fiber and glycan metabolism via hybrid two-component systems.
Structural + regulatory biology | CryoEM, crystallography, gene regulation
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📧 stock@cabm.rutgers.edu #postdoc #microsky 🧪🦠