“This data won’t be published.” 😱 That’s what my PhD supervisor told me in 2018. He was right — at the time.
As an independent researcher, I revisited it on my own terms. Now, it’s a peer-reviewed publication.
Would you classify it as perseverance 😇 or stubbornness 😈?
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Very interesting article 🤓 It is rare that we can access natural laboratories like this. Kudos to the Icelandic government for protecting this ephemeral island!
Science is coming to a park near you! 🌳
As part of BIOCUE , we’re sampling parks to explore how nature-based urban rewilding affects soil health, compared to traditional grass lawns. Today, we took samples from Grøndalsparken in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 to do some preliminary tests. 🌱 Stay tuned for more! 🌱
Side note: One often thinks they're not recovering low-abundance taxa because they're low-abundance. But with Illumina, it's also likely because they're low-GC and Illumina has strong GC bias. You can fix this with wetlab intervention like this, or using ONT instead, which doesn't have a GC-bias.🧵
A sad but necessary article 😕
Isn't it nice when you're evaluating a difficult sampling site and you find out that someone already made a path that you can use? 😁
Another one of my PhD papers finally came out last week!! 😁
Here, we studied the taxonomy and physiology of two bacterial isolates from Northern Greenland... And we conclude that they belong to two novel species, previously unknown to science 😎
Check it out here 👉 doi.org/10.1099/ijse...
🎄Early Christmas news! Chapter IV of my PhD thesis has been accepted for publication in @femsmicro.org Microbiology Ecology 🤘
We show how three Greenlandic bacteria shift their VOC profiles along a salt gradient.
Read it here👉 doi.org/10.1093/fems...
Stay tuned for another paper coming out soon! 🤞
In today's lunchtime meeting at @voltcenter.bsky.social @kajsaroslund.bsky.social gave a super update on all the projects she has been working on: from caves in the south of Portugal, to remote Greenland!
Abstract. Isoprene, a highly reactive biogenic volatile organic compound (VOC) emitted by terrestrial vegetation, influences atmospheric chemistry but its
Strains CF4.4T and KK5.5T, previously isolated from samples of biocrust and permafrost, respectively, collected from Northern Greenland, were characterized using a polyphasic approach. Both strains we...
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Abstract. The High Arctic deserts of remote northern Greenland are expected to become warmer and wetter due to climate change. Precipitation changes will i
It apPEARs more exPEARiments are needed. The PEARameters are imPEARcise, and it is imPEARative to PEARform PEAR-wise comPEARisons.
Miguel Ángel Salinas-García
Miguel Ángel Salinas-García
Miguel Ángel Salinas-García
Miguel Ángel Salinas-García
Miguel Ángel Salinas-García
BIOCUE
Nasmille Larke-Mejía, PhD
Steven Robbins
VOLT Center
VOLT Center
The story of Surtsey.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Genomic recovery from rare terrestrial microbes enabled by DNA-based GC-fractionation | ISME Communications | Oxford Academic https://academic.oup.com/ismecommun/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ismeco/ycaf152/8246624?rss=1&login=false
What does a warmer Arctic winter look like? 🥵🌡️💦
We went to Svalbard to study the frozen winter but encountered 4.7°C & rain 🌧️
Shocked, unsettled & forced to rethink our entire plan, we document in @natcomms.nature.com what we saw & what it means for a rapidly changing Arctic
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tinyurl.com/r85d3bpf
The volcanic island of Surtsey emerged in the 1960s, and scientists say studying its development offers hope for damaged ecosystems worldwide
Abstract. Genome reconstruction from metagenomic samples has dramatically increased our understanding of uncultivated lineages of life. However, untargeted
The Arctic winters are changing fast. In February 2025, Svalbard endured rain, thawing tundra, and pooling meltwater. The Comment by Bradley and coauthors describes how winter warming is reshapin...
