James Bradley

Ancient metagenomics reveals subglacial microbiomes driven by oxygen availability www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs

MICRO-ATTO team working on the 273m platform on the ATTO, deploying air samplers above the canopy of the Amazon rainforest. Credit: James Bradley

Elisa Magnuson climbing the ATTO. Credit: James Bradley

The Amazon rainforest from a lower platform (~60m) on the main tower. Credit: James Bradley

Hugely grateful to our collaborator Ricardo Godoi at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) in Curitiba, for working so hard to make this possible, and to our project partners, and the ATTO community for supporting our project! 🙏🌿🧬🔬

James Bradley climbing the ATTO, in the central Amazon. Credit: James Bradley

MICRO-ATTO team working on the 273m platform on the ATTO, above the canopy of the Amazon rainforest. Credit: James Bradley

The MICRO-ATTO field team at the ATTO camp. L-R: Felipe Baglioli, Elisse Magnuson, Jackie Goordial, James Bradley, Laura Molares Moncayo Credit: James Bradley

The Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO) – a 325m tall tower in the central Amazon, and the tallest structure in South America. Credit: James Bradley

Amazonas 🐆🐛🌴🇧🇷
We’re working at the ATTO - an atmospheric observatory 325m above the Amazon rainforest. Sampling the aeromicrobiome, far from major anthropogenic aerosol sources, above pristine tropical rainforest in the heart of the central Amazon 🦠🧬🔬⛅️
@hfspo.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

Environment Agency faces landfill tax bill worth millions to clear illegal waste Exclusive: ‘extremely unhelpful’ policy seen as deterrent to clearing thousands of dump sites across England

The government can’t afford to clear up the gigantic waste mountain because it would have to pay millions of pounds to the government.

#ERC_SIESTA

Merci @ibensens.bsky.social @normalesup.bsky.social
grateful to be invited & the opportunity to share our research & discuss #microbialdormancy #polarnight #deepbiosphere #aeromicrobiome #glacierecology #taraocean #survival #adaptationtoextremes #carboncycle @hfspo.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu 🧬🦠🔬❄️

#COP30 #ClimateAction
@cnrs.fr @univ-amu.fr @mioceanologie.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @hfspo.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrs-dr12.bsky.social @cnrs-insu.bsky.social

Laura Molares Moncayo presents cryosphere research funded by ERC Starting Grant SIESTA (James Bradley) and HFSP aeromicrobiology (Jackie Goordial, Chris Greening, Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert, James Bradley) at the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference COP30 in Belém, Brazil.

Laura Molares Moncayo presents cryosphere research funded by ERC Starting Grant SIESTA (James Bradley) and HFSP aeromicrobiology (Jackie Goordial, Chris Greening, Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert, James Bradley) at the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference COP30 in Belém, Brazil.

Laura Molares Moncayo at the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference COP30 in Belém, Brazil

Laura Molares Moncayo on an early career researchers panel, hosted by the Cryosphere Pavilion, at the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference COP30 in Belém, Brazil.

Why should microbes frozen in ice snow air & soils matter for global climate policy? #COP30 ❄️🌍🧬

Laura Molares Moncayo in Belém representing our #ERC_SIESTA research, bringing early-career voices & engaging with delegates about why microbial processes in the cryosphere matter in climate negotiations

Happy Polar Pride y’all 🏳️‍🌈❄️🐧🐻‍❄️🇦🇶
#PolarPride is a declaration of commitment to support, unite and uplift LGBTQIA+ people & enhance diversity in #PolarScience 😎🏳️‍🌈❄️
#PolarPrideDay #PolarPride2026 #PolarPrideDay2026 #LGBTSTEMDay #LGBTQSTEMDay #DiversityInPolarScience #DiversityInUKPolarScience

Soutenance|🔴 Laurina Oms @mioceanologie.bsky.social soutiendra sa thèse sur le sujet : Effet des fronts de fine-échelles sur les communautés phytoplanctoniques en région oligotrophe.
📅 20 novembre 2025 à 14h00
🏚️ Amphithéâtre OCEANOMED - Bâtiment Méditerranée - Campus de Luminy
➡️ lnkd.in/eeja2FfF

➡️ @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrs-dr12.bsky.social @mioceanologie.bsky.social @funding.ukri.org @erc.europa.eu @agencerecherche.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @cnrs-insu.bsky.social @royalsociety.org

Credit: James Bradley

And honestly, the importance & implications of this work can’t be overstated

So will someone please fund us?!
@matehg.bsky.social, Marc, Shamik and I have been working tirelessly to secure funding to explore this important knowledge gap

If you’re asked to review our next proposal, please be kind!

Marcela Hernández and James Bradley on a glacier in Svalbard, summer 2025. Credit: James Bradley

Such a delight working w. @matehg.bsky.social Shamik Roy & Marc Dumont

We’ve started digging into these interactions, in the field and in the lab, thanks to small consumables budgets, studentships and fieldwork grants. But this only scratches the surface of what’s needed

Credit: James Bradley

Why this matters:

Soils store more carbon than the atmosphere and vegetation combined 🌲⛅

Even small reductions in microbial CUE could weaken soils as carbon sinks 🦠

This adds a biological feedback to climate change that is overlooked in carbon-cycle models 📈

Credit: James Bradley

We think that when soil microbes are exposed to antimicrobial compounds & warming, they may allocate more carbon to defence and maintenance, than to growth 🦠

This lowers their carbon-use efficiency, meaning more carbon is respired as CO₂ & less is retained in biomass and stored in the soil 🌱

Credit: James Bradley

Soils worldwide are warming - fastest in the Arctic 🐻‍❄️ where vast amounts of Earth’s carbon is stored 🌡️

Simultaneously, global antibiotic use is rising 💉 and antimicrobial compounds are increasingly leaking into natural environments 💊

What does this mean for the microbes controlling soil carbon? 🦠

Microbial interactions between climate warming and antimicrobial resistance threaten soil carbon storage and global health Abstract. Anthropogenic activities are impacting the environment in ways that may intersect and have compounding effects. In soil, the spread of antibiotic

Could rising antimicrobial activity in warmer soils make microbes less efficient at using carbon & push more CO₂ into the atmosphere?
🦠📈💊
Our new work in @isme-microbes.bsky.social explores how the combined effects of warming & AMR may alter microbial C processing
🧵👇
academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Attendees of the 8th International Symposium on Arctic Research, 2025, in Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan

James Bradley, Tokyo, 2025

Lunch with Nozomu Takeuchi and Laura Halbach, Hachioji Tokyo

Omoide Yokocho, Tokyo

A real pleasure to give an invited talk at the 8th International Symposium on Arctic Research in Hachioji, Tokyo 🇯🇵 on @hfspo.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA research exploring glacier & atmosphere microbiome connectivity @mioceanologie.bsky.social @cnrs-insu.bsky.social ❄️🦠☁️🧬

Postdoc vacancy: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere
@erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA
📢 PLEASE RT

🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, cell sorting, omics, ecological interpretation

☀️ Marseille, France
‼️ Apply ASAP & before 7 Nov
Link: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Looking forward to hosting Dominik Hülse at @mioceanologie.bsky.social in Marseille in a couple of weeks ☀️🌊🌍

Postdoc vacancy: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere
@erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA
📢 PLEASE RT

🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, cell sorting, omics, ecological interpretation

☀️ Marseille, France
‼️ Apply ASAP & before 7 Nov
Link: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Habitat-specificity in SAR11 is associated with a few genes under high selection Abstract. The order Pelagibacterales (SAR11) is the most abundant group of heterotrophic bacteria in the global surface ocean, where individual sublineages

I'm delighted our paper is out: doi.org/10.1093/isme...
With new SAR11 isolate genomes and time-series metagenomes, we reveal coastal and offshore SAR11 ecotypes, identify associated metabolic traits, and pinpoint selective gene sweeps as a likely evolutionary driver to niche partitioning. 🌊🦠

Laura Molares Moncayo and team climbing to the páramo in the Santuario de Flora y Fauna de Iguaque. Credit: James Bradley

Frailejones - páramo in the Santuario de Flora y Fauna de Iguaque. Credit: James Bradley

Laura Molares Moncayo and Mailyn Gonzalez setting up our air samplers in the páramo of Santuario de Flora y Fauna de Iguaque. Credit: James Bradley

James Bradley, in the páramo of Santuario de Flora y Fauna de Iguaque. Credit: James Bradley

Third and final field site ⛅🇨🇴
Páramo of Iguaque ⛰️
Challenging 3 hour sunrise climb at ~3,600 m.a.s.l. carrying batteries, tripods, samplers, PPE - but so worth it to sample amongst the frailejones 🤩
Hugely grateful to Santuario de Flora y Fauna de Iguaque for allowing us to work in this sacred place

Laura Molares Moncayo (and James Bradley) presenting to members of the Conservation Genetics group at Instituto Humboldt, Bogotá. Credit: James Bradley

Instituto Humboldt, Bogotá. Credit: James Bradley

Laura Molares Moncayo preparing an air sample at Instituto Humboldt, Bogotá. Credit: James Bradley

An air sample (on a filter) after a 4-hour run at the Instituto Humboldt, Bogotá. Credit: James Bradley

Thank you Mailyn Gonzalez for hosting us @ Instituto Humboldt Bogotá 🌿
Honoured to share our work with your conservation genetics lab 🧬 whilst sampling the aeromicrobiome from the institute's beautiful grounds ⛅
@hfspo.bsky.social @mioceanologie.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @cnrs.fr

Credit: James Bradley

Credit: James Bradley

Credit: James Bradley

Credit: James Bradley

Some wildlife highlights while air sampling in Meta, Colombia 🇨🇴

Laura Molares Moncayo & Mailyn Gonzalez, with the air samplers Credit: James A. Bradley

Laura Molares Moncayo & Mailyn Gonzalez, recovering a filter from the air sampler Credit: James A. Bradley

Laura Molares Moncayo & Mailyn Gonzalez, celebrating successful sampling. Credit: James A. Bradley

From early morning set up to successful evening sample recovery – two back-to-back 4-hour air sampling runs at the Ecoreserva ASA "La Guarupaya” in Meta 🌿
with Laura Molares Moncayo @mioceanologie.bsky.social @nhm.org @qmulsse.bsky.social & Mailyn Gonzalez @ Instituto Humboldt, Bogotá

Last call for applications! Please send to any bioinformatics Masters students seeking an internship ❄️🧬 🦠

Part of @hfspo.bsky.social aeromicrobiology project with
@jackiegoordial.bsky.social @greening.bsky.social @drmartinezrabert.bsky.social Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert & others @mioceanologie.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrs-insu.bsky.social @cnrs-dr12.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

L:R – Laura Molares Moncayo, Mailyn Gonzalez & James A. Bradley at the Ecoreserva ASA "La Guarupaya” in Meta, Colombia Credit: James A. Bradley

Laura Molares Moncayo & Mailyn Gonzalez scouting field sites for air sampling in the Ecoreserva ASA "La Guarupaya” in Meta, Colombia Credit: James A. Bradley

Laura Molares Moncayo & Mailyn Gonzalezwalking through the grasses of the savanna, wearing PPE in order to prevent contamination of the air we are sampling. Credit: James A. Bradley

Buenas dias Colombia 🇨🇴
With it's equatorial setting & topographical complexity, we're sampling the aeromicrobiome across a steep altitude gradient from the savanna to the páramo ☁️🦠⛰️
First site: Ecoreserva ASA "La Guarupaya” in Meta, 400 m.a.s.l. 🌿
Collab. with Mailyn Gonzalez @ Instituto Humboldt

Please circulate among your bioinformatics students! 🧬🖥️❄️🦠