Thallusin biosynthesis finally revealed! This compound induces metamorphosis in Ulva algae and, to our surprise, occurs in diverse bacterial phyla from land to sea. Spearheaded by N. Kallscheuer, C. Jogler and T. Wichard #MicroSky @microbiomeresearch.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data.
@sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social
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Martin Sperfeld
We’ve documented more than 100 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo’s catalog
What is the scope of ISME Host Microbe, ISME's newest journal?
Effects of antimicrobial agents, human activities, immunity and environment on AND ecological studies, cross-kingdom studies, microbiome studies of host-microbiome/microbe interactions
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#MicrobialEcology
ISME - International Society for Microbial Ecology
🦠 Can microbes think?
🍄 Can they learn, remember, and react?
🤔 "Cognition without brains? Learning and memory in microorganisms" by @kostchristian.bsky.social lab raises some legit #Points2Ponder.
#MicrobeMatters #MicrobialMemory
Very excited to share our new preprint, led by Alyssa Henderson! We ask why auxotrophy is so widespread in bacteria, and find that phylogeny is the dominant predictor of autotrophy, as opposed to environmental context. Check it out! 👇
"The Case for a Validity Layer in Life Science Research" - a very interesting article by Meir Maor, QED's CTO.
Meir explains why biology is harder for AI than mathematics.
www.qedscience.com/blog/life-sc...
The version of record of our revised preprint is finally out today. In it, we introduce a fast and reliable methdology for the full factorial design of microbial communities, i.e. constructing every monoculture, pair, trio, four-member,... n-member co-culture of N strains.
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Five days left to apply! 🌊 Exciting #PhDPosition in #PlanktonEcology at the University of Koblenz, Germany!
Work on #marine #protists with a mix of 🔬 wet lab and 💻 bioinformatics in a 3-year, 60% position.
📅 Apply by 20 May 2026
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#ProtistsOnSky
“You would hope that German officials would support scientists’ advice, but they have ignored it,” says one marine biologist who asked not to be identified because they feared repercussions.
Must-read story by @martinenserink.bsky.social in @science.org. Feels like an encapsulation of our times
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Amino acid auxotrophy, the loss of biosynthetic potential for an amino acid, is a highly prevalent feature of microbial life, yet the evolutionary processes driving its distribution in nature remain u...
A rapid, inexpensive, and easy to implement experimental protocol enables the construction of combinatorially complete sets of microbial consortia.
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When OpenAI recently announced that one of its models had disproved a long-standing conjecture in discrete geometry, the scientific community took notice...
Revised 16S rRNA V4 hypervariable region targeting primers enhance detection of Patescibacteria and other lineages across diverse environments academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs
