So happy to announce our new preprint, βA geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.β We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63Β°C (145Β°F) π₯ - a new record for euk growth!
#protistsonsky π§΅
25.11.2025 20:41 β π 477 π 163 π¬ 16 π 29
ποΈ New Microbes and Us Podcastπ¬
In our latest episode, we hear from the insightful Prof. Max HΓ€ggblom, as he shares his personal, inspiring journeyβfrom his first student publication in a FEMS Journal in 1987 to becoming Editor-in-Chief of FEMS Microbiology Ecology.
buff.ly/MkOmbBq
24.11.2025 14:45 β π 13 π 4 π¬ 1 π 1
Oh hey congratulations @oliverio.bsky.social @rmshepherd.bsky.social @hbrappap.bsky.social on the awesome thermophilic amoeba story!
25.11.2025 03:25 β π 19 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0
Book cover image with the title Breaking Through: My Life in Science.
Join us on Dec. 8 from 12-1 p.m. ET for a conversation with Nobel Laureate Dr. Katalin KarikΓ³, where sheβll share insights from her memoir "Breaking Through: My Life in Science"βa story of resilience, discovery and revolutionizing medicine. Register now: asm.social/2HH
24.11.2025 17:35 β π 12 π 6 π¬ 2 π 0
Reposting because itβs Sunday and maybe people have time for a podcast today. It was really fun to with @markowenmartin.bsky.social about my groupβs concrete project! (with bonus road salt content)
@sunyesf.bsky.social #microsky #concrete #builtenvironment
16.11.2025 14:51 β π 15 π 6 π¬ 2 π 1
Yay @micromaresca.bsky.social !!!
@sunyesf.bsky.social
15.11.2025 01:04 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Itβs Friday: a new episode of #MattersMicrobial! This week, Dr. Julie Maresca joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss microbes and concrete and road salt! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord? @ASMicrobiology @univpugetsound @microbe.tv
youtu.be/3JpbySeOO20?...
15.11.2025 00:36 β π 17 π 10 π¬ 1 π 4
We have become the stock ESF photo
14.11.2025 21:25 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
Perhaps a new phase in anti-academia actions
02.11.2025 01:53 β π 26 π 9 π¬ 1 π 1
Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Organic Chemistry. The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the College of Charleston invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position beginning in F...
Our department is hiring a tenure-track line in Organic Chemistry and related fields! We teach and do research with undergraduate students exclusively. For a PUI, we have very good facilities and instrumentation (400 MHz NMR, six mass specs).
@chemjobber.bsky.social
jobs.cofc.edu/postings/17246
10.10.2025 14:24 β π 7 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0
Our current carbon economy relies on fossil fuels, from which we isolate small organic molecules to produce medicines, plastics, cosmetic, or other chemicals that we use everyday. However, sustainability requires a more biomass-based carbon economy, where we engineer plants to produce precursor molecules, which can then be assembled to desired chemicals that we use daily. Plants have evolved an amazing diversity of metabolites, but these metabolites are not produced in every cell of the plant. Therefore, it is essential to understand how plants can express different metabolic pathways across different organs, tissues, and even cell types. We are interested in the following questions: How are metabolic pathways (especially specialized metabolism) controlled by cell fate? How can we reprogram plant cell fates for biomanufacturing? How can we toggle between differentiated cell states for metabolic engineering and totipotent cell state for genetic engineering?
It's grad school application season! My lab (cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab/ ) will be recruiting a PhD student via the MPS program at MSU (mps.natsci.msu.edu) for Fall 2026.
Happy to take inquires via email (which can be found in the lab website) if you are applying this cycle.
06.10.2025 22:42 β π 15 π 15 π¬ 0 π 0
Help advance water research in CNY! Participate in SHARCS on Sat Oct 4, a community science project led by SUNY ESF researchers!
Collect a quick water sample, snap a photo, fill out a short survey, and return the sample. Adults 18+ welcome! No experience needed. More info: bit.ly/CNYSHARCS.
29.09.2025 18:44 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Please share - an Assist Prof position in microbiology
employmentopportunities.umb.edu/mob/cw/en-us...
@asm.org
30.09.2025 00:04 β π 9 π 26 π¬ 1 π 0
Help advance water research in CNY! Participate in SHARCS on Sat Oct 4, a community science project led by SUNY ESF researchers!
Collect a quick water sample, snap a photo, fill out a short survey, and return the sample. Adults 18+ welcome! No experience needed. More info: bit.ly/CNYSHARCS.
29.09.2025 18:44 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Write your program officer and grants management official TODAY and thank them! It takes 30 seconds and its really appreciated. The only reason they're remotely this close is because those folks are working 60 hour weeks under immense pressure
23.09.2025 23:11 β π 21 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0
God this makes me want to cry. Increasing enrollment while cutting staff and placing blame on a staff increase and staff: student ratio shows a fundamental misunderstanding of his higher ed works.
SUNY has implemented *several* unfunded mandates across campuses in the last few years.
24.09.2025 01:53 β π 12 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
I definitely feel like Iβm in said slump if it does exist! I feel tired 24-7β¦..
β¦.Could also be related to the general state of the world and the dismantling of higher education as know it π€ͺ
24.09.2025 01:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Penn State approves raise for president making her second highest paid in USA (headline)
Penn state is closing its public radio and television stations (headline)
24.09.2025 01:51 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
A promotional flyer for a webinar in the CSU Bioinformatics Webinar Series. On the left side, it shows the date and time: β26 Sep | 12 PM PST.β It includes instructions to join via Zoom with Meeting ID: 886 2442 3158 and a QR code above. On the right, there is a photo of Dr. Elinne Becket, Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at California State University San Marcos, sitting outdoors with plants and trees in the background. Below, the title of the talk is displayed: βThe Soup that Blue up Twitter.β The description explains that Dr. Becket will discuss the shared curiosity of science, open science, and a story from February 2023 when leftover beef soup prepared by her mom turned bright blue. Scientists and people on Twitter collaborated to investigate, leading to a global effort among microbiologists and chemists. At the bottom, there are links to learn more about upcoming webinars at www.informatics.sdsu.edu and Dr. Becketβs website: https://elinneb.wixsite.com/becketlab
Giving a webinar on #BlueSoup this Friday, in case anyone wants to pop in during their lunch!
22.09.2025 17:55 β π 96 π 28 π¬ 10 π 8
he Department of Plant Pathology at the University of California, Davis is seeking applications for a fulltime, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Mycology, with a focus on plant pathogenic, symbiotic,
or mycotoxigenic fungi and fungal-like organisms (e.g., oomycetes). We are looking for a highly
motivated and creative scientist with a strong background in mycology and/or the biology of fungi and
fungal-like organisms that interact with plants. The successful candidate will be expected to develop a
world-class, externally funded research program that integrates both fundamental and applied aspects
of fungal biology within the context of plant pathology. We welcome applicants pursuing a wide range
of research topics related to plant-associated fungi, including but not limited to mechanisms of fungal
pathogenesis or symbiosis with plants, population genomics and evolution of fungal plant pathogens,
plant-associated fungal microbiomes and plant-microbe interactions, and/or one health approaches to
fungal diseases and antifungal resistance. Applicants working in other relevant research areas involving
pathogenic, symbiotic, or mycotoxigenic fungi or fungal-like organisms that affect plant health are also
encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will have significant opportunities for collaboration with
faculty in plant pathology, microbiology, genomics, and agricultural sciences, and to contribute to
addressing issues of importance to Californiaβs agricultural and natural ecosystems.
The appointee primary teaching responsibilities will be teaching Introductory Mycology, an upperdivision lab class, and SAS 30, Mushroom, Molds & Society, a general education class for non-majors.
Additional graduate and undergraduate teaching responsibilities may be assigned based on
departmental needs and the candidateβs expertise. The department offers modern instructional
facilities, including a newly renovated teaching laboratory.
Please repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist
Applications due Dec 1
Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339
Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)
22.09.2025 18:58 β π 57 π 101 π¬ 2 π 1
Six join FICUS program in 2026 | Joint Genome Institute
Pictured from left to right are: [above] Allegra Aron, Jana Pilatova and Ryan Ziels; [below] Andrew Vander Yacht, Itamar Shabtai and Victoria Orphan The JGI is excited to welcom
Our project was selected for support through DOEβs FICUS program!
jgi.doe.gov/user-science...
We will use a combination of long-read metagenomics, 15N analyses, and structural characterization of soil organic matter to explore fire-plant-soil-microbe feedbacks!
23.09.2025 01:43 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Most of these students have little or no science background. Many come from art/design backgrounds. But they ask such amazing and insightful questions and have such joy for learning about the microbial world! This has been one of the teaching highlights of my career!
16.09.2025 22:06 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Last week I joined our Master of Landscape Arch students at the Stone Quarry Art Park to lead a guest workshop on creating Winogradsky columns.
We did ab overview of microbial metabolism (using human metabolism as a grounding framework) and followed by using gathered materials to create columns.
16.09.2025 22:06 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Please check out our updated version of this preprint - now with even more transposable elements! π§¬π¦
No really, we added in a few more analyses about TEs and further compared Mycetohabitans to related bacteria, plus other treats. @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
16.09.2025 17:30 β π 15 π 9 π¬ 2 π 0
I study old-growth forests and climate change from trees to regions and seasons to centuries. A colleague termed it RetroEcology - https://broadleafpapers.wordpress.com/
Love music in 3/4, 6/8, 5/4, 11, & other offbeat signatures (no real pun intended)
Our global network is studentsourcing antibiotic discovery through an inspiring and innovative science curriculum. Headquartered at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at UW-Madison.
https://TinyEarth.wisc.edu
Head of Bioprogrammable Materials group at Leibniz Inst. for New Materials, Germany.
Engineered Living Materials
Dad of 2.
VR enthusiast.
Futurephilic.
Posts are mine.
Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinoisβ 43rd governor.
Political scientist and author. Researching Black politics, gender & sexuality, policing, and threat. They/them. Personal acct.
π±: Jennmjackson.com
π: linktr.ee/jennmjacksonphd
π: https://tinyurl.com/blackwomentaught
jennmjacksonphd.substack.com
REC is a group of NY residents and other citizens formed to address serious environmental health and quality of life problems associated with Waste Connection's Dunn C&D Landfill.
Rensselaerenvironmentalcoalition.org
Urban hydrology- water and cities. Pretending to be a geographer these days. Associate professor of Geosciences in Atlanta. Izzo πΎπ 7-19-24
Dad, husband, astrophysicist, dog herder. Samuel T. and Fern Yanagisawa Regents Professor in Astronomy at UT Austin. This is a personal account and the views expressed in my posts here are mine. https://mrbk.github.io
Evolution and ecology of plants. He/him.
Mycologist at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria and www.spun.earth
Southern hemisphere fungi | ππ±π¦Symbiosis | Cyclist π²π Climber | My own views
Fascinated by the roles of signalling molecules used during plant:microbe interactions; mycorrhizal fungi; phytopathogens; rhizobia
Bridging microbial ecology and biogeochemistry. Focus on global change ecology, greenhouse gasses, wetlands. I actually love to write π Postdoc at Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), WetNetBB, Berlin - Brandenburg
Assistant professor in the Department of Food Science at the University of Guelph
How can we harness the diversity of metabolism and other characteristics of yeasts for food applications?
https://www.uoguelph.ca/foodscience/people/linda-horianopoulos
Fungi, mycorrhiza, soil science, birds, deserts. pickleball. Cat dad. Past President, North American Mycological Assn. Co-founder Bay Area Mycological Society.
Professor, ecology, FU Berlin, own views, book author
Global change, soil, fungi, environment, microplastic, biodiversity π§ͺ
https://www.youtube.com/@mrillig
https://www.youtube.com/@lifeinthesoil
rilliglab.org
https://matthiasrillig.substack.com
Microbiologist & Plant physiologist. Symbiosis, Mycorrhizae, Genomics, Plant-microbe interactions, Microbial ecology. Views are my own
https://mycor.nancy.inra.fr/IAM/?page_id=10523
New Zealand mycology / bacteriology scientist at Manaaki Whenua working on π #fungi and π¦ #bacteria taxonomy mostly using 𧬠on π§«. Hobbies: #fountainpens, #cycling, #homebrew, #photography, and #archery website: https://rhizobia.nz/about
DrRabern.com | @DrRabern on socials
Curator of Fungi | Purdue Univ. Herbaria, Botany & Plant Pathology
UVA Wise/UMaine alumnus
Chytridiomycota | #chytrids | #Bd
Collection of Zoosporic Eufungi at the U of Michigan | CZEUM
He/Him | Posts mine
Fungal biologist, marine fungi, biosystematics, biodiscovery from filamentous microbes, antibacterial compounds, ecology
