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FWF "Tausend Ideen" for Hannes Schmidt Hannes Schmidt, Senior Scientist at TER, received funding from the Austrian Science Fund’s 1000 Ideas program (“Tausend Ideen”). Congratulations, Hannes!

Exciting news! Hannes Schmidt has been awarded funding from the #FWF 'Tausend Ideen' program for his project "SurfinSoil". Congratulations, Hannes!

🔗 Dive into the details here: cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...

Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches - Nature The discovery of chemosynthesis-based benthic communities at depths of 5,800 m to 9,533 m in the Kuril–Kamchatka and western Aleutian trenches challenges traditional perspectives on the energy sources...

Really cool

Discovery of the deepest and the most extensive chemosynthesis-based communities known to exist on Earth during an expedition to the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench and the western Aleutian Trench

#MicroSky 🧪

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Methane-powered sea spiders: Diverse, epibiotic methanotrophs serve as a source of nutrition for deep-sea methane seep Sericosura | PNAS Methane seeps harbor uncharacterized animal–microbe symbioses with unique nutritional strategies. Three undescribed sea spider species (family Ammo...

Really cool: A unique partnership between sea spiders of the genus Sericosura and epibiotic methane-oxidizing bacteria

#MicroSky 🧪

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Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs - Nature Mouse models show that respiratory infections from viruses such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2 can trigger metastasis of dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs, a finding supported by epidemiological d...

Nature publication: Analyses of cancer survivors from the UK Biobank and Flatiron Health databases reveal that SARS-CoV-2 infection substantially increases the risk of cancer-related mortality and lung metastasis compared with uninfected cancer survivors

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„The COVID pandemic began with a myth - that children are spared its ill effects. In contrast, many children were sick with COVID, and we now have a new chronic illness emerging. We are working hard to characterize long COVID in children and it will be critical for policymakers to assure that we have adequate resources to support and manage these children now and in the future." Lawrence Kleinman, professor and vice chair of the Department of Pediatrics, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Säuglinge und Vorschulkinder zeigen einzigartige Anzeichen von Long COVID

„Die COVID-Pandemie begann mit einem Mythos – dass Kinder von ihren negativen Auswirkungen verschont bleiben würden. Im Gegensatz dazu erkrankten viele Kinder an COVID, und nun haben wir es mit einer …

Wow! Wow!! Wow!!!

Jon Stewart mit einem Highlight seiner langen Karriere.

Es geht um Epstein, Trump, das Ende der Daily Show mit Stephen Colbert und Widerstand.

https://youtu.be/TwOLo_U6bTw

Copenhagen has taken bicycle commuting to a whole new level Cycling has been a part of that good life in Copenhagen for decades. In recent years, it has enjoyed yet another unfathomable surge in popularity — taken to the next level thanks to constantly improvi...

“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.”

#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing to go further each year.

Environmental Emergencies | iMooX Welcome to the MOOC "Environmental Emergencies: Navigating Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss and Environmental Pollution" !Across the globe, we are experiencing profound environmental change...

Human actions are transforming our planet, causing global warming, species extinction, environmental degradation and numerous related problems and conflicts. 🌎
The MOOC "Environmental Emergencies" will introduce you to multidisciplinary perspectives on environmental emergencies.

MS-Früherkennung durch Bluttest möglich Neu entwickelte Bluttests sollen eine Früherkennung von Multipler Sklerose (MS) ermöglichen – bereits Jahre vor Eintritt von Symptomen. Ein Forschungsteam der Wiener MedUni entwickelte Tests, bei dene...

Neuentwickelte Antikörpertests zur Früherkennung von Multipler Sklerose (MS) könnten in Zukunft eine Behandlung bereits vor Auftreten erster Symptome ermöglichen @meduniwien.ac.at #ElisabethPuchhammer-Stöckl #HannesVietzen #ZentrumVirologie #ThomasBerger #PaulusRommer #UniversitätsklinikNeurologie

Politökonomin und Nachhaltigkeitsexpertin Maja Göpel war zu Gast in der Sendung „Markus Lanz“ und diskutierte mit anderen Gästen über die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels und fordert eine andere Perspektive von einer Industrie der Zukunft.

Exclusive: NIH to dismiss dozens of grant reviewers to align with Trump priorities The move would undo years of work, leaving advisory councils understaffed, and without the full expertise needed for reviews.

NIH will disinvite dozens of scientists who were about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant applications. NIH staff members have been instructed to nominate replacements aligned with the priorities of the administration D. Trump

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Holger Friedrichs „Berliner Zeitung“: Der System­sprenger Die „Berliner Zeitung“ wird 80. Zum Geburtstag wächst intern der Unmut über den Verleger Holger Friedrich. Über die Abgründe eines Medienimperiums.

„Mehrere Mitarbeiter*innen, die unter Friedrich zur Berliner Zeitung wechselten, haben in der Vergangenheit für russische Staatsmedien gearbeitet.“ Sehr tiefgründiger, informierter Report über die Berliner Zeitung und ihren Verleger Holger Friedrich
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Das erste Halbjahr ist um, Zeit für eine Bilanz zur österreichischen #Stromversorgung - sie fällt leider nicht besonders rosig aus. Schön zu sehen am #Erneuerbaren-Anteil, der - bezogen auf den Stromverbrauch (bzw. Last) - bei 73,5% lag. Woran liegt das?

#Thread 🧵

New preprint by the team of @Sung-Keun Rhee. The picture of niche differentiation of #nitrifiers gets more and more complete. Here we show that hypoosmolarity is a key factor shaping the ecological niches & distribution of ammonia oxidizers

#Archaeasky #Microsky
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🚨 Fresh from the press! We created and analyzed over 100 in vitro cyanobacterial consortia using well-characterized model cyanobacterial hosts to better understand how cyanobacteria recruit and interact with their microbiomes.

Check it out: doi.org/10.1093/isme...

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Data Steward The University of Vienna plans to expand the existing Research Data Management services by offering discipline-specific support through a new Data Stewardship program tailored to meet the discipline-s...

We're hiring! Join CeMESS @univie.ac.at as a DATA STEWARD and help shape the future of research data management. Collaborate with top researchers and drive innovation in Open Science.

Apply now! 🔗 cemess.univie.ac.at/career-educa...

Dass FSME über Rohmilch übertragen wird, ist seit Jahrzehnten bekannt
Den größten FSME-Ausbruch durch Rohmilch mit 660 Erkrankten (>250 hospitalisiert) gab es bereits vor über 70 Jahren in der Slovakei
Diese Übertragung ist heute sehr selten u. betrifft wenige Leute, aber es gibt sie nach wie vor..

We are hiring: Full Professor of Environmental Biogeochemistry of Metals Human activities are driving rapid environmental change on a global scale, with pollutants playing a critical role in pushing planetary systems beyond safe limits. These changes have profound conseque...

CeMESS is hiring!

Join us at the Division of Environmental Geosciences (@edge-vienna.bsky.social) as Full Professor of ENVIRONMENTAL BIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF METALS. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research.

🔗 Learn more and apply: tinyurl.com/47bev45k

Wie soziale Amöben den Blick auf die Evolution von Chlamydien verändern Einige Chlamydien können sich direkt von Wirtszelle zu Wirtszelle verbreiten

Chlamydien sind bekannte #Krankheitserreger des Menschen. Ein Team von Mikrobiolog*innen der Uni Wien konnte nun zeigen: Einige #Chlamydien verzichten vollständig auf eine infektiöse extrazelluläre Form und verbreiten sich stattdessen direkt von Wirtszelle zu Wirtszelle. 🦠 🔬 ⤵️ @cemess.bsky.social

New Paper: Chlamydiae give up extracellular stage to thrive in social amoebae Many intracellular bacteria rely on an extracellular stage to move between hosts – but what happens when that’s no longer needed? A new study, now published in Current Biology, reveals a striking exam...

Exciting new research! Matthias Horn & Lukas Helmlinger from #CeMESS uncover how chlamydiae thrive in social amoebae by skipping their extracellular stage.

Read their groundbreaking study in Current Biology (@currentbiology.bsky.social):

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We are hiring: Full Professor of Soil Ecosystems and Global Change Soil ecosystems form the foundation of planetary health and play a critical role in climate feedback mechanisms. However, they are also vulnerable to the impacts of global change.

CeMESS is hiring!

Join us at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research (@ter-cemess.bsky.social) as Full Professor of SOIL ECOSYSTEMS AND GLOBAL CHANGE. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research.

🔗 Learn more: cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...

Soils rock, obviously. And microbes too!

Professorship opening @ter-cemess.bsky.social. Fantastic team and world-class research environment!
Join us at @cemess.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at

Offizieller Instagram-Post der US-Botschaft Bern mit dem US-Wappen auf dunkelblauem Hintergrund. Der Text informiert, dass ab sofort alle Antragsteller*innen für ein F-, M- oder J-Visum ihre Social-Media-Profile auf ‚öffentlich‘ stellen müssen, um ihre Identität und Zulässigkeit für die Einreise in die USA zu überprüfen.

Jeden Tag fasse ich mir auf‘s Neue an den Kopf, wenn ich daran denke, wie mir engste Verwandte über Jahre erklären wollten, dass demokratische Eliten den Überwachungsstaat vorbereiten und daher nur Trump und Seinesgleichen eine echte Alternative darstellen.

“Children deserve every opportunity to grow up healthy and thrive — and that includes protecting them from preventable long-term illness."

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Functional amyloid proteins confer defence against predatory bacteria - Nature Escherichia coli uses curli fibres, oligomers of the functional amyloid CsgA, as a barrier to protect against the predatory bacteria Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus and Myxococcus xanthus in a mechanism th...

Functional amyloid proteins confer defence against predatory bacteria | Nature #MicroSky #Microbiomesky 🦠🧫
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Trump’s Betrayal of Ukraine Bridget Brink, the former ambassador to Ukraine, on that country’s war with Russia, America’s betrayal of Ukraine, and why she resigned

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Post a song from the year you turned 12

Iggy Pop - The Passenger - immer noch wunderbar

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Michael Wagner - Deputy Head - Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science: "Now launching: ViCAS, the University of Vienna's new Center for Advanced Studies - an international hub for all disciplines, offering prestigious 9-month fellowships for bold, transformative research in one of Europe's most inspiring cities."

Manuela Baccarini, Vice Rector for Research and International Affairs Systems Science: "Join us at ViCAS and become part of a vibrant community of scholars committed to pushing the boundaries of multi- and transdisciplinary research from the humanities to the natural and life science."

Join us at #ViCAS - a new interdisciplinary Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Vienna! 🏛️
Application for Senior #Fellowships and Early-Career Fellowships are now possible. 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬
📅 Deadline for Application: 1st September 2025.
Apply now: ⤵️
vicas.univie.ac.at
#PhDSky #AcademicSky

Congratulations to Megan Sørensen on receiving an FWF-ASTRA Award! We’re thrilled to announce that Megan Sørensen has been awarded a prestigious FWF-ASTRA grant to investigate at CeMESS how microbial partnerships have shaped evolution.

We’re thrilled to announce that Megan Sørensen has been awarded an FWF-ASTRA for her upcoming research at #CeMESS on microbial partnerships and evolution!

Read more about the grant and project 🔗 cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...