Miloš Bielčik

PhD Programmes, Research Projects & Studentships in the UK & Europe FindAPhD is a comprehensive guide to PhD studentships and postgraduate research degrees

PhD opportunity in my lab!
We’re looking for a proactive student to join our project on how CO dehydrogenase is regulated in response to atmospheric mercury.

Investigating genetic markers and mechanisms of CO dehydrogenase regulation in response to atmospheric mercury FindAPhD.com

Differential phenological responses of plant functional types to the temporal repackaging of precipitation in a semiarid grassland - Plant and Soil Aims Large portions of the western United States have witnessed extended dry intervals between rainfall events due to an intensified hydrological cycle triggered by global warming. Semiarid ecosystems...

Happy to share a new paper with novel insights into the impacts of precip variability in a semiarid #rangeland ecosystem. Unfortunately, with unconstitutional layoffs at #USDA #ARS, we have been forced to transition this longterm experimental facility into dormancy. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage A Wiley journal has retracted a paper more than a year after a researcher reported the work was hers and had been stolen by a reviewer for another journal. As we reported in July, Shafaq Aftab, now…

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky

retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...

Only a few days to go… please share!!!

Function-Based Selection of Synthetic Communities Enables Mechanistic Microbiome Studies Abstract. Understanding the complex interactions between microbes and their environment requires robust model systems such as synthetic communities (SynCom

The main work from my time in Aachen is now out 🎉 if you have wanted to make a SynCom that captures the functional-landscape of microbiota, MiMiC2 makes that possible based on metagenomic data! 1/7 doi.org/10.1093/isme...

Petroff et al study the magnetotactic properties of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria from Little Sippewissett salt marsh.

Pore-Scale Mass Transfer Heterogeneity Shapes Nutrient Accessibility and Functional Assembly in Porous Microbial Ecosystems Abstract. Porous ecosystems represent ubiquitous microbial habitats across natural settings including soil, gut tract, and food matrices, where microscale

Pore-Scale Mass Transfer Heterogeneity Shapes Nutrient Accessibility and Functional Assembly in Porous Microbial Ecosystems academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs

Methane sink function of grassland soil microbiomes - negative effects of intensive management persist three years after land-use extensification Grassland soils are important methane (CH4) sinks through CH4 oxidation by methanotrophs, but intensive management with high nitrogen inputs and grazi…

Happy to announce my first collaboration on microbial methane cycling, led by PhD student Nils Volles.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Learning ecosystem-scale dynamics from microbiome data with MDSINE2 - Nature Microbiology This Bayesian statistical method uses timeseries microbiome data to infer interaction modules and is tested using a faecal transplant experiment in mice.

#Newresearch

This Bayesian statistical method uses timeseries microbiome data to infer interaction modules and is tested using a faecal transplant experiment in mice.

#MicroSky

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

Widespread analytical pitfalls in empirical coexistence studies and a checklist for improving their statistical robustness Modern coexistence theory (MCT) offers a conceptually straightforward approach for connecting empirical observations with an elegant theoretical framework, gaining popularity rapidly over the past...

This topic never grows old, does it? 😅

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I started this #Mycologists Starter Pack, aiming to get all professional fungal researchers on BlueSky in one place. DM if you want to be added.

go.bsky.app/UMrVSsp

I will join this, congratulations to Volker Grimm! Absolutely well deserved!

Hello, thanks for doing this and could you please add me?

Statistical algorithms have advanced rapidly in the last decades, but most researchers are still only taught how to do t-tests and worry about normality of residuals. At the heart of the reproducibility crisis lies scientific workflow, the often unprincipled and undocumented ways that scientific theories are related to statistical procedures and their results. I want to center scientific workflow in debates about open science and outline a research program for taking scientific workflow seriously.

I realize the world is burning, but here is the abstract of a talk I will give multiple times in different formats this month. With the feedback, I hope to write up something substantial on the theme in the remainder of the year.

Check out this new article on null model selection for multiple stressor research. Fantastic work by Iris Pimentel from @leeselab.bsky.social within the @crc-resist.bsky.social.
Freely available at: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Europas grüne Verteidigung: Moore als Schutz gegen Invasionen? Wissenschaftler fordern eine Kette aus renaturierten Feuchtgebieten entlang der EU-Ostgrenzen. Das Konzept verbindet Klimaschutz mit militärischer Sicherheit.

"Eine Kette aus renaturierten Flussauen, Mooren und Wäldern soll die EU-Ostgrenze vor einer russischen Invasion schützen, schlagen Wissenschaftler vor."

Ziemlich bedrückend, sich von dem Thema her der Wiedervernässung von #Mooren zu nähern...

Lesenswerter Artikel.

Very interesting! It’s not often that interests of defense, climate mitigation and nature restoration align.

Higher-order microbial interactions revealed by comparative metabolic modeling of synthetic communities with varying species composition Abstract. Understanding how microbial interactions scale with community complexity is key for microbiome engineering and ecological theory. This study inve

Higher-order microbial interactions revealed by comparative metabolic modeling of synthetic communities with varying species composition

#ISMEComms

academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

No deal, and no answers, after brief Trump-Putin talks on Ukraine in Alaska US president claims ‘great progress’ with Russian leader but ends press conference abruptly without taking questions

"Extremely productive meeting", "great progress", "precious efforts". And then also, more details available once Europeans manage to decode and translate into the real world that delusional chaos US administration debriefed them. United we stand! 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 🇪🇺
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The epistemological implications of species extinction: An overview - Ambio The epistemological implications of species extinction remain widely underexplored. This theoretical paper addresses this gap by examining the linkages between extinction and epistemology across three...

New publication:
The epistemological implications of species extinction: An overview

Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Cool study on aerotolerant methanogens! Options they might protect themselves from O2 include biofilm formation in response to O2 exposure and antioxidants (F420-H2-oxidases, rubredoxins, thioredoxins, and peroxiredoxins). This opens up a vareity of new possible habitats for methanogens.

Applying ecological principles to microbiome engineering - Nature Microbiology This Perspective discusses the application of ecological principles of macro-ecosystems to microbiome engineering. The authors propose research priorities necessary to facilitate the application of th...

#Perspective

In this perspective, the authors propose research priorities necessary to facilitate the application of these ecological principles to improve microbiome functionality.

#MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 🦠

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

Climate disinformation media fellowship 2025 | Heinrich Böll Stiftung | Brussels office - European Union For the third time, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union | Global Dialogue, in partnership with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Washington, DC, is looking for a select number of journalists reporting o...

🟢 We are looking for journalists reporting on #climate #disinformation
📝 Apply if you have research ideas on the threat of climate denialism, the relation between big tech & climate obstruction or similar 👇 eu.boell.org/en/climate-d...
⏳ Deadline: 9 Sept 2025, 23:59 CEST
@zorasiebert.bsky.social

Progress regarding @zalf.bsky.social ECO's new low-cost DIY CO2, ET and CH4 autochambers (video and Prototype by our PHD Milan Kretzschmar)!

Giant study finds a research field that’s mostly reproducible Researchers assessed more than 1,000 results from fruit-fly immunity research published between 1959 and 2011. The majority of findings look verifiable.

I am probably not the only one who reads this title with feelings mixed between great news and dark irony (as this should probably not make news to begin with). Well, great that a giant study managed to find that one field 😁
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Many thanks @elsaelsam.bsky.social for letting us invade your home, and thanks to your partner for all that great home made pizza!

...and gives wine, right? :)

How may theoretical ecology & evolutionary theory push microbiology forward?
At Environmental Microbiology, I am commissioning a series of Perspectives exploring that question. Excited to share them in the 🧵 below
The series is open, so do get in touch if you'd like to propose a new contribution!

The peat map issues are in the Times today (@catframpton.bsky.social and I are quoted) - www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

More and more peat map issues identified. If only all ML maps used in academic research got the kind of painstaking sanity-checking that Cat's been doing