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GenomeFISH: genome-based fluorescence in situ hybridisation for strain-level visualisation of microbial communities Abstract. Fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) is a powerful tool for visualising the spatial organisation of microbial communities. However, traditio

Very excited to share the first paper out of my Postdoc @CMR:

GenomeFISH: genome-based fluorescence in situ hybridisation for strain-level visualisation of microbial communities.
@sjmcilroy.bsky.social @jamesvolmer.bsky.social @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social

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Scientists Discovered This Amazing Practical Use For Leftover Coffee Grounds We could be producing concrete that's 30 percent stronger by processing and adding charred coffee grounds to the mix, researchers in Australia found.

pyrolyzing breaks down the organic molecules, resulting in a porous, carbon-rich charcoal called biochar, that can form bonds with and thereby incorporate itself into the cement matrix.

Guidelines for preventing and reporting contamination in low-biomass microbiome studies - Nature Microbiology In this Consensus Statement, the authors outline strategies for processing, analysing and interpreting low-biomass microbiome samples, and provide recommendations to minimize contaminants.

New Consensus Statement in Nature Microbiology!
Working with low-biomass microbiome samples? From deep subsurface rocks to human lungs, contamination is a major challenge. We offer field-to-data analysis guidelines to help keep your results clean.
📖 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Phosphorus fertilization of grasses with dairy processing waste materials and contributions of soil microorganisms towards phosphorus uptake Dairy processing waste (DPW) is one of the largest agro-industrial residues globally and has the potential of reducing the dependency on mineral phosp…

📣♻️ Turning dairy processing waste into phosphorus fertilizer? Absolutely — with a little help from soil microbes! 🌱
Dive into the final chapter of Angel Velasco-Sánchez’s PhD thesis @geoderma.bsky.social, also with Gabriel Moinet and @jwvangroenigen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A general temperature dependence for biological nitrogen fixation across systems and levels of organization https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.17.660177v1

New paper out in Global Change Biology 🤩

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We built the first soil carbon model that includes microbial eco-evolution using game theory — and found that adaptation could nearly double global soil carbon loss by 2100. Here is how👇(1/7)

Unfolding the Potential of Soil Microbial Community Diversity for Accumulation of Necromass Carbon at Large Scale

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Microbes That Keep Ecosystems in Balance Can Fall Apart Easily, New Study Finds Microbial teamwork behind denitrification can collapse in polluted environments, threatening ecosystem balance and resilience.

New @isbscience.org research shows how microbial teamwork behind denitrification can collapse in polluted environments, threatening ecosystem balance and resilience. isbscience.org/news/environ...

Antagonism as a foraging strategy in microbial communities In natural habitats, nutrient availability limits bacterial growth. We discovered that bacteria can overcome this limitation by acquiring nutrients by lysing neighboring cells through contact-dependen...

Thrilled to share our new paper in @science.org describing our discovery that bacteria can switch from competitors to bonafide predators when resources run dry—arming nanoscale “spears” (T6SS) to stab & consume neighbours.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#MicroSKy #Microbiology

Global importance of nitrogen fixation across inland and coastal waters Biological nitrogen fixation is a key driver of global primary production and climate. Decades of effort have repeatedly updated nitrogen fixation estimates for terrestrial and open ocean systems, yet...

Today our huge N2-fixation in inland and coastal environments effort was published in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... I am so glad to have been part of this journey! #nitrogenfixtion

such a wonderful book. I love the way every author positions themselves and the way that many reflect on doing work outside of their communities even if it is with other Indigenous communities because we aren't interchangeable.

It’s bad because of all the collateral damage (us) but also good because we have so little to enjoy in American politics

Yep.

A montage. In the background is a view of liverwort. In front are seedlings, with their roots visible in the earth beneath them.

📝 What were root genes doing before they started building roots? 🧵
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Even plants that don’t have roots have genes to make them, so what is it that these genes are up to?

#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/10)

Missed flight this morning, delayed flight this afternoon and may miss connecting flight. Is this a sign I should stay home?

Trump fired over 1,000 National Park staff in February, and most still haven’t been reinstated. The $45 million he’s wasting on a military parade for his birthday could have paid their salaries for over a year.

Farmer behavior toward herbicide‐free agriculture and conservation tillage Balancing conflicting policy goals is a key challenge in the transition to sustainable agricultural systems. An important example is herbicide use reduction potentially conflicting with conservation ...

‘Farmer behavior toward herbicide‐free agriculture and conservation tillage’

New paper in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, led by Viviana Garcia, with Yanbing Wang and Niklas Möhring

Open Acces doi.org/10.1111/ajae...

Brushing your teeth significantly and dramatically changes the oral microbiome

Global patterns of nutrient limitation in soil microorganisms | PNAS The availability of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) is essential for soil microbial activity and growth, yet global patterns of N and P limitation ...

New paper out in @pnas.org by lab member Yongxing Cui et al. w/ @drlimnology.bsky.social, @manudelbaq.bsky.social & many others 🍾🧪

Global patterns of nutrient limitation in soil microorganisms

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

it's going to take DECADES for science and research in the USA to recover from this shitshow of an administration and their lack of forethought in anything related to science research and funding.

Legitimately at least one lost science generation, probably multiple lost science generations.

Changing climate and socioeconomic factors contribute to global antimicrobial resistance - Nature Medicine Forecast models of bacterial antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance records from 101 countries reveal that the global burden of AMR is associated with the impact of climate change intertwined wit...

Climate change is projected to worsen #AMR in LMICs, due to poor healthcare infrastructure and environmental vulnerability. Development strategies (improving sanitation, healthcare access, immunization) are more effective combating AMR than reducing antibiotic use.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Does the C:N:P 1:1:1 Ratio Hold? Examining Log‐Transformation Bias in Enzyme Stoichiometry Microbial enzymes play a key role in recycling nutrients in soil, but common methods for analyzing enzyme ratios can introduce bias and reinforce misleading patterns. This article challenges the wide...

Excited to share my paper challenging the C : N : P enzyme stoichiometry 1 : 1 : 1 pattern as a logarithm artefact and advocating unit-independent approaches for clearer insights into nutrient aquisition
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #Enzymes #SoilMicroorganisms #CarbonCycling #OpenAccess

Just passed my comprehensive exams!

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit.

This cannot be allowed to happen.

Quantitative stable isotope probing (qSIP) and cross-domain networks reveal bacterial-fungal interactions in the hyphosphere - Microbiome Background Interactions between fungi and bacteria have the potential to substantially influence soil carbon dynamics in soil, but we have yet to fully identify these interactions and partners in thei...

Interesting use of #qSIP to detect microbial partners incorporating labeled substrates, enhancing understanding of fungal-bacterial interactions in soil. @jeffinerca.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#soilmicrobiology

Better genetics needed to improve crop and livestock output - Farmers Weekly Further genetic improvements are needed to meet the challenges of modern agriculture, according to scientists hosting a Transition Project farm walk. The

Better genetics needed to improve crop and livestock output - nice report on the @farmersweeklyuk.bsky.social
transition event held at Rothamsted last month... www.fwi.co.uk/business/bet...

Warming Disrupts Plant–Fungal Endophyte Symbiosis More Severely in Leaves Than Roots Warmer temperatures associated with climate change disrupt relationships between plants and the fungi living in their leaves and roots by reducing the abundance and diversity of these fungi—especiall...

Fungal endophytes may not be a reliable way to improve plant resilience to global change. Warmer temperatures disrupt symbiosis between plants and fungal endophytes by reducing fungal colonization and diversity in plant tissues, with stronger effects in leaves than roots.
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3rd day of questions for comps. This is taking a lot out of me. I think my hair grayed more in the last week! One more day to go!