Ian Marshall

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

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.

Microflora Danica: What can you learn from collecting and sequencing 10,000+ samples from a single country? Check out our new paper in @nature.com to find out. Incredible work led by Caitlin Singleton, Thomas B. N. Jensen, and Mads Albertsen from @aau.dk. 🦠🧫🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're excited to release metaTraits.embl.de! 🦠 Interactively explore 140+ 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘁𝘀, harmonized & integrated from culture-derived collections 🔬 & genome-based predictions 🧬 for >2M MAGs & genomes.

Publication at NAR: doi.org/10.1093/nar/... @narjournal.bsky.social #microsky 🧵 1/8

🔬Looking for a student project? We’re looking for students!

👉If you are interested in pursuing a project within electromicrobiology and cable bacteria, then you should check out our student projects on our webside, packed with project ideas. (Link in comment)

Just in time for me to cite in something I've been using GlobDB for

I feel this. A big part of my professional growth over the last few years has been the realization that I will not live to carry out the vast majority of my ideas. As a result, I'm much more open with sharing them than ever before.

An underrated cause of of the anxiety epidemic is that you can never see the f***ing filesystem anymore

I think I use a weird dialect of R resulting from both pre- and post-tidyverse learning...

Opportunity!
Anybody knows of young marine ecologists (within 7 years from earned PhD) that would like to come to Gothenburg, Sweden, for a nationally funded Assistant Professorship? It is highly competitive but well funded. (1) of (3)

This is fantastic, I laughed for about 3 minutes...

Insights on adaptive strategies and evolution of cable bacteria in saline lakes
#microbiology #bacteria #CableBacteria
aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Thanks! I'm glad it was useful to someone, it's exactly this kind of thing we were hoping for when we wrote it :-). I'm looking forward to reading the details about your work - is it available yet somewhere?

Thiovulum cultivated? This is fantastic news, I'm so happy to hear this! Congratulations!

'Hi it's me, Microsoft Outlook, the world's leading email client! You received an email with a meeting invite and a detailed agenda, and now you RSVPd? Let me just delete that email for you buddy :) I've hidden the agenda in your calendar, where evil Search won't find it. you don't need the mail :)'

Me: Hey outlook, I need to send a reply to this email.
Outlook: Sure, start writing!

Me: Hey I need to follow up, let me write another reply.
Outlook: Sure thing. But you just want to write to yourself, right?

🚨 Come and work with us 🦠🧪🖥️
Postdoc position with lots of freedom available in my group

- 1.5 years with options to extend
- work on ecogenomics and physiology of N/CH4-cyclers
- remote work possible 🤓

more info here: isme-microbes.org/postdoc-ecog...

#microbesky

Ultra-deep long-read metagenomics captures diverse taxonomic and biosynthetic potential of soil microbes AbstractBackground. Soil ecosystems have long been recognised as hotspots of microbial diversity, but most estimates of their microbial and functional comp

Want to know how diverse soil really is?
Our ultra deep sequencing is now published in GigaScience: academic.oup.com/gigascience/...
Soil is wild! Thanks for leading the study @canerbagci.bsky.social
#secmet #soil #metagenomics #bacterialdiversity

A view of a suspension bridge, the Great Belt Bridge between Fyn and Sjælland in Denmark.

Crossing the bridge on my way to a meeting in Copenhagen. Bonkers that the Danes built their capital city on this island when they have perfectly good mainland available.

Microbial oxidation significantly reduces methane export from global groundwaters | PNAS Methane is ubiquitous in groundwater, and its release to surface environments through pumping, discharge, or diffusion is an emerging environmental...

Microbial oxidation significantly reduces methane export from global groundwaters
#microbiology #methane
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

I agree, but what's really weird is how good Julia feels as an alternative to R - it's like if something goes wrong in R I just feel despair, if something goes wrong in Julia I feel like I'm learning.

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...

and guess what, Methylobacter again!

Extracellular electron transfer in cable bacteria enables growth rates comparable to aerobic respiration www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

Extracellular electron transfer in cable bacteria enables growth rates comparable to aerobic respiration Cable bacteria are filamentous sulphide-oxidisers performing long-distance electron transfer in redox-stratified sediments by transporting electrons over centimetre-scale distances to reduce oxygen. H...

New preprint by @kartiksaiyer.bsky.social, @leodigel.bsky.social and others from @cemau.bsky.social about how cable bacteria grow using electrodes instead of oxygen: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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!

🔍 On the hunt for cable bacteria again! 🔍
Last week, most of the Ecology team at CEM: Mie, Lea, Ugo, @larspeternielsen.bsky.social & Andreas had a great day in the field at Norsminde Fjord and Følle Vig, exploring the population dynamic and activity of cable bacteria along our local coasts🔬🌿🌊

Two full-time positions | Bioinformatician (m/f/d) + Applications Specialist (m/f/d) - Molecular Biology The Genome Facility at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön is seeking to fill two positions (full time) to support and expand our core facility services.

Two new positions are available at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology to support development of our genomics facility. Both stand to become permanent. Both offer a ton of opportunity to engage in a wide range of creative science.

Pls repost 🙏

www.evolbio.mpg.de/3838377/job_...