Ian Marshall

And The Microbes

OH MY GOSH I JUST FOUND THIS 😃

www.andthemicrobes.org

#comic #bacteria #phage #plasmids 🦠

14 more days left to apply for these two PhD positions in my team. Please share with your network!

14 more days left to apply for these two postdoc positions in my team. Please share with your network!

"Previously in this class we used Prokka by @torstenseemann.bsky.social to annotate bacterial genomes. This always gave me an excuse to show an adorable picture of my daughter next to a quokka when she was a baby. Unfortunately, we are now using Bakta by @oschwengers.bsky.social."

Please share!

PhD position at the University of Copenhagen. Start date: 1st of June!
 
The project integrates field work, RNAseq, MALDI-MSI & FISH to explore composition, regulation, and resilience of termite host-gut symbiont metabolism.
 
👉 employment.ku.dk/phd?show=156...
 
⏳ Deadline 23/2/26

Postdoc in Archaea Microbiology - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Biology - Microbiology, Aarhus University

Postdoc position on Asgard archaea in Thiago’s new lab for someone well trained in biochemistry, cloning, and protein purification:
international.au.dk/about/profil...

Microbial Diversity | Marine Biological Laboratory The goal of the course is to teach professors, postdocs and advanced graduate students how to discover, cultivate, and isolate diverse microorganisms catalyzing a breadth of chemical transformations, ...

Want to ride the front of the wave of all-things-microbiology; field work, cultivation, microscopy, molecular, bioinformatics and AI tools? Me too!
Please join us @mblscience.bsky.social for the 2026 Summer Microbial Diversity Course!
Applications due soon.
www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

Regnormsekskrementer = earthworm excrement, right?

Highly efficient bio-catalytic oxygen reduction coupled to long-range electron transport in cable bacteria www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs

Me too...

Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Oh that's cool, I'd never heard of shuf before. Neat exercise to try in other languages too, I just procrastinated from my real work by doing it in Julia:

using Random
shuffle(broadcast(*,["2" "3" "4" "5" "6" "7" "8" "9" "10" "J" "Q" "K" "A"],["♠","♥","♦","♣"]))

Uncovering hidden phylo- and ecogenomic diversity of the widespread methanotrophic genus Methylobacter The genus Methylobacter is far more diverse and ecologically versatile than previously recognized, comprising over 30 putative species with distinct genomi

Uncovering hidden phylo: and ecogenomic diversity of the widespread methanotrophic genus Methylobacter
#microbiology #methane #bacteria #MicroSky
@femsmicro.org @femsjournals.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/fems...

LPSN wird ELIXIR Core Data Resource! Zentrale Liste für Mikroben-Namen – einfach & topaktuell für Forscher. Check it: tinyurl.com/bddz9mew

#Mikrobenforschung #Wissenschaft #ELIXIR #Bio

Genomic adaptation strategies to habitat switching in Korarchaeota The adaptation of Korarchaeota across changing habitats tracks their coevolution with Earth throughout its dynamic history.

Genomic adaptation strategies to habitat switching in Korarchaeota www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

ISME20 Abstract guidelines are now available — start preparing your abstract to be able to share your latest research with the global community of microbial ecologists at ISME20, held in New Zealand, August 2026.
Learn more: isme-microbes.org/isme20-abstr...
#ISME20 #MicrobialEcology

@jakemckinlay.bsky.social's book "A Bacterium in Bangladesh" was awesome, not sure if he could do something like this for someone else...

2 U+0032 DIGIT TWO

2 U+2082 SUBSCRIPT TWO

Copy and paste into www.fontspace.com/unicode/anal... to see which one was used.

H2O vs H₂O written in Word, demonstrating the difference between formatting as subscript and using the Unicode character for subscript 2.

Tip for identifying LLM-generated text: most humans make subscripts using the subscript formatting tool in their word processor, LLMs use the unicode character for subscript 2 (unicodeplus.com/U+2082) so that formatting is better preserved when they copy and paste.

Landmark study in @Nature! 🇩🇰 The "Microflora Danica" project has created the first-ever national microbiome atlas. Led by Aalborg University, @fwf-at.bsky.social CoE Microplanet's Director @michiwagner4.bsky.social, and @daanspeth.bsky.social, Andrew Giguere @cemess.bsky.social analyzed nitrifiers.

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

Isolation of Crenothrix bacteria reveals the distinct ecophysiologies of filamentous methanotrophs and adaptations to redox stress At the dawn of modern microbiology, Cohn observed abundant filamentous bacteria in drinking water wells that he named Crenothrix polyspora. Subsequent research has revealed the methanotrophic metaboli...

A quick microbio present before the holidays 🎁 >150 years after their first description, filamentous "Crenothrix bacteria" are now in stable laboratory culture! In our pre-print, we probe the unique physiology & ecology of the "lacustrine" group of these enigmatic methane-oxidizing microbes... 1/2

Reading student writing in 2025 feels like I wished a monkey's paw for perfect grammar and spelling

@isme-microbes.bsky.social offers a great opportunity to publish uncultured microbes via #SeqCode using #genomes as type material. A fantastic step toward embracing the true diversity of microbes! But isolates are also welcome 🧫🔬🦠😁
@seqcode.bsky.social

💾 Prokka 1.15.6 is released!

This is the last major release of Prokka. But don't be sad, because @oschwengers.bsky.social already has an excellent replacement called Bakta you can migrate to.
#bioinformatics #microbiology #genomics

github.com/tseemann/pro...

Anaerobic growth of aerobic methane-oxidising bacteria (AnGer-MOB) | Carlsbergfondet.dk

Thanks to @carlsbergfondet.dk for supporting my Carlsberg Semper Ardens Accelerate project on aerobic methanotrophic bacteria growing anaerobically! www.carlsbergfondet.dk/det-har-vi-s...

The Microflora Danica atlas of Danish environmental microbiomes - Nature Microflora Danica—an atlas of Danish environmental microbiomes—reveals that although human-disturbed habitats have high alpha diversity, species reoccur, revealing hidden homogeneity.

The Microflora Danica atlas of Danish environmental microbiomes www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

It’s exciting to see converging evidence across systems! 😀
Alongside the new work on gutless worms, our study shows that organosulfur cycling is also essential in lucinid holobionts. Lucinid host provides DMSP to its symbionts, sulphur-oxidising Thiodiazotropha and, a new member, Endozoicomonas.

Congratulations @louison-nicolas.bsky.social !

Oxygen production as an electron overflow pathway in ammonia-oxidizing archaea www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs