Eoin Brodie

Microbial traits for volatile production and consumption are diverse and consequential. Here's why they are ripe for interpretation through a trait-based lens...

Led by UA PhD students Ledford and Geffre @parkergeffre.bsky.social in collab w/ LBNL team @elbrodie.bsky.social Marschmann Karaoz

🚴‍♂️ In a few weeks, I’ll ride 200+ miles and climb 15,000 feet in the 14th edition of our event supporting Safe & Sound, an amazing nonprofit working to end child abuse in the Bay Area.

If you can, please consider supporting my ride—any contribution helps.

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Assistant Professor - Forest Health - Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

Go Bears! 3/3 new faculty positions available at Berkeley ESPM. Come join one of the best Environmental Sciences Departments there is!

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Assistant Professor - Physical Climate Science - Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

Go Bears! 2/3 new faculty positions available at Berkeley ESPM. Come join one of the best Environmental Sciences Departments there is!

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Assistant Professor - Environmental Geochemistry - Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

Go Bears! 1/3 new faculty positions available at Berkeley ESPM. Come join one of the best Environmental Sciences Departments there is!

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Time for Congress to save American science … and the nation We believe the best hope for saving science and, perhaps, saving our form of democracy, is convincing at least a couple dozen Republican members of Congress that it’s up to them—that the stakes requir...

An important message on the need for Congress to step up and save American science by two former presidential science advisors.
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US students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18.
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Very clever design and nicely presented. 👍

Outstanding work. Congrats @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social and co-authors!! 🔥

Dating Bacteria is hard due to the lack of maxima. Assuming aerobes likely postdated the GOE gave us better resolved ages, but also surprised us, but not Dr Dayhoff, showing O2 use predated its atmospheric rise by 900 Mys and helped oxygenic photosynthesis to evolve. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

So glad to see this editorial with helpful insights into how Nature Microbiology editors view submissions with numerical modeling. Models are critical to understanding complex systems with non-linear behavior and feedbacks - our brains struggle with this 😵‍💫

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We’re looking for postdocs! Interested in joining The Hynson lab? Please read over this ad for highly qualified Postdoctoral Researchers to work on a Department of Energy (DOE)-funded study titled “How do plant-associated fungi ...

Posting for Dr Nicole Hynson at the University of Hawai’i Manoa. She is looking for a postdoc on a cool project on fungal mediated vegetation shifts. You get to work in Hawai’i and Australia - details here ➡️ hynsonlab.com/2024/07/25/w...

Zhen Li - www.linkedin.com/in/zhen-li-9...

A framework for integrating genomics, microbial traits, and ecosystem biogeochemistry - Nature Communications Microbes drive the Earth’s biogeochemical cycles. Here, Li et al. present a framework for integrating genome-inferred microbial kinetic traits into ecosystem mechanistic models, and use it to benchmar...

You know the way we all talk about leveraging 'omics information to improve ecosystem/biogeochemical model performance - well here's a step in that direction - led by Zhen Li integrating across many scientific teams to make this happen www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The 2025 Applied and Environmental Microbiology Gordon Research Conference & Seminar (AEM GRC/GRS) will be held in July!

Apply soon - we expect the conference to fill up quickly so please apply early to guarantee a spot.

Hope to see you at Mount Holyoke College!

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Is that new? Dormancy as an example?

What’s in it? 🤢

The Rare Plant RaMP offers a 1-year, fully funded research experience in rare plant science at 4 U.S. botanic gardens! Open to post-baccalaureates, with mentorship, networking, & science communication training. Apply by March 14, 2025!

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Trump wants to cut the federal workforce. Who they are and what that means President Trump's efforts to cut the federal workforce by 10% might not save as much money as hoped and could have unintended consequences. NPR explains why.

I work with many wonderful members of the federal workforce. Thoughtful, smart, and dedicated people all across the US. What they are going through now is appalling.

Check out the table on what Agencies are best staffed. Says a lot about priorities.

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Biological and Environmental Program Integration Center The new BioEPIC facility will enable capabilities to sense, study, and simulate biological-environmental interactions across scales.

T minus 10 days until move-in. 🥳
BioEPIC 💡🦠🔬🧬🌱💧~ 👬👭👫

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Touring BioEPIC, the new Biological and Environmental Program Integration Center on the @berkeleylab.lbl.gov campus.

Great views of the San Francisco East Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge in the distance.

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Metabolic interactions underpinning high methane fluxes across terrestrial freshwater wetlands - Nature Communications The authors created a multisite database to link microbial methane-cycling networks to CH4 fluxes across diverse wetlands, revealing differences in microbial cross-feeding and methanogen dynamics that...

Great new paper by @mjwilkins.bsky.social and @kcwrighton.bsky.social labs on wetland methane cycling. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

+1000% and Cam Newport’s book is a must read. www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...

Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...

Science takes time - a lot of time. Time that is more and more difficult to make available because of increased workloads. Time that exceeds the temporary contracts of postdocs and PhDs.

I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x)
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We are recruiting for a Research Associate focused on understanding soil microbial composition and function in both natural and managed ecosystems. More details and application can be found here: jobs.lbl.gov/jobs/climate...

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Soil Science-Informed Machine Learning Machine learning (ML) applications in soil science have significantly increased over the past two decades, reflecting a growing trend towards data-dri…

Honored to contribute to this review paper "Soil Science-Informed Machine Learning" lead by @budimansoil.bsky.social... bridging ML & soil science knowledge for better, more reliable predictions. 🌱🤖 [link]
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