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Got to know George briefly since I came west, and what a magnificent, gentle, genuine and humble soul he was. I'll never forget geeking out in the mineral gallery one evening, and thinking how his excited curiosity was sincerely youthful and infectious.
🌊🪸 Just when they thought the #DeepSea was a barren "desert": scientists find a brand new species clinging to metal #nodules that mining companies want to scoop up 💔🧪🌑 #DefendTheDeep #StopDeepSeaMining 🐚💙
WOW!
An incredible discovery. The first ever image of a baby exoplanet embedded in the dust rings from which planets are forming around a star. Confirms the developing view of planet formation that we’ve never before seen in action.
🧪🔭
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Just gave this a spin on a paper I've been working on for too long and WOW. Even though it was outside its topic domains, the feedback it highlighted was oh so constructive and insightful. Highly recommended and congrats @odedrechavi.bsky.social and team on an awesome tool!
I still contend that >90% of the benefit of writing a review isn't the audience. It's for the author going through the literature, finding gaps in knowledge, learning how experiments are done, etc. It really isn't about writing a review. It's about doing the review yourself. AI can't do that for you
As night falls on Pasadena today after goodbyes to many colleagues and friends, it's important to remember that while places and their history are important, ideas and inspiration live within people. As a community we shouldn't forget holding strong those ties that nurture optimism and innovation
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
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
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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...
Defining ultra-slow-growing extremophilic microorganisms as aeonophiles #USC_earth #USC_MEB #jcampubs www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This, by Michael Lynch.
I'd include AI techbros as well.
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Out in Science! Zakem et al. mechanistically modeled global marine prokaryotic functional diversity, grounded with field data. Shifts in community composition drive respiration and thus biological C storage. This facilitates C cycle projections in a warming ocean
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Exciting! We have successfully deployed our in situ mass spectrometer, developed together with @marumunibremen.bsky.social, on their brand new #ROV #MARUM-QUEST 5000. It provides real-time information on gas concentrations in water 400°C hot and 4000m deep.
mpi-bremen.de/en/Diving-ro...
In the phosphorus-limited Sargasso Sea, microbes partition phosphorus uptake by time of day—bacteria in the morning, phytoplankton by day, and cyanobacteria at dusk—revealing a temporal niche strategy. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
New paper out!
We discovered a tiny archaeon with the smallest known archaeal genome — only 238 kbp!
Candidatus Sukunaarchaeum mirabile has almost no recognizable metabolic pathways and may rely heavily on a host to survive.
It also represents a novel, deep-branching lineage in the archaeal tree.
The crown of a crinoid sits just within smooth grey rock, its arms gently folded over one another as it lays on its side. A partial stalk extends from the bottom of the crinoid's crown (the calyx), appearing as if it's just been separated from the rest of its body.
A cropped image with a closer view of the crinoid's long, tendril-like arms and rounded calyx. Small, feather-like extensions (pinnules) hang from the arms and gently drape over one another.
Happy #FossilFriday, check out this beautifully preserved crinoid! These animals have inhabited the oceans for 480 million years, and they're relatives of sea urchins and sea stars. This specimen is long fossilized, but looks like it just died and fell into the seabed's embrace. (1/3)
#paleontology
40 years ago all of Genbank was published in print form by NAR. The same format today would require over 4 light seconds of shelf space. To a year of progress in 2025.
A figure from the preprint manuscript showing a phylogenetic tree with the three clases of molybdenum-dependent nitrogenases and their predicted structures
A screenshot of the preprint title "Nitrogenase structural evolution across Earth's history" by authors Bruno Cuevas-Zuviria, F Detemple, K Amirtkar, AK Garcia, LC Seedfeld, and B Kaçar
🧪🦠🌍 Nitrogenases are one of the most ecologically important enzymes on Earth. They're ancient too.
In this PREPRINT, Cuevas-Zuviría & Co. analyze how their structures tell the story of planetary-wide ecological changes
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
Useful benchmarking study
'Evaluation of DNA extraction kits for long-read shotgun metagenomics using Oxford Nanopore sequencing for rapid taxonomic and antimicrobial resistance detection'
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Now that we've had a migration of twitter people here, I figured it's a good time to re-share our most recent work, measuring the growth rates of individual microbial cells with Raman. Super cool technique if you're curious about quantifying microbial activity in/on minerals, plants, etc!
Life finds a way
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When I will respond to your email
If you are not aware, Giant Squid eyes are huge. #marinelife
Metabolomics folks / mass spectrometrists, are you looking for a cool postdoc opportunity? Dr. Anitra Ingalls @ the Univ. of Washington is hiring a postdoc to work with an international team (including yours truly) on the metabolites of marine critters. Come work with us!
apply.interfolio.com/150110
It's so nice to find the science tribe again 🥲
