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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 14/08/2026

Society Supported Conference Grants are now open. Check your eligibility and apply before the deadline 1 October at 23.59 BST: microb.io/4z61eP8. #Grant #Microbiology

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BM Land-& Forstwirtschaft, Klima-& Umweltschutz, Regionen&Wasser @bmluk.gv.at · 02/07/2026

🌿 Neue Ausschreibung des Österreichischen Biodiversitätsfonds gestartet! 5 Millionen Euro stehen für Projekte bereit, die Österreichs Natur stärken und wertvolle Lebensräume wiederherstellen. 📅 Einreichfrist: 15. September 2026 ℹ️ Alle Informationen zur Einreichung: biodiversitätsfonds.at

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TU Wien Water Quality Management @iwr-water.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

🌍The Call for Abstracts to #DIPCON conference is now OPEN 🌍 23rd #IWA International Conference on #DiffusePollution and #Eutrophication. 📍 #Vienna, Austria | 📅 24–27 November 2026 👉 iwadipcon2026.com #IWADIPCON2026 #WaterQuality #CallForAbstracts #TUWien 1/3

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Julia Vierheilig @4heilig.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Super happy to see this piece finally out! 🎉 #ProudPI moment to share this publication as part of Gabriela Eder's PhD—very well done! It’s been a real pleasure working with her & all coauthors on this work. #WastewaterSurveillance #WES #WBE #PublicHealth #AircraftWastewater #ESTWater

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TU Wien Water Quality Management @iwr-water.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

If you're looking for a compact overview of the state of knowledge and legal framework regarding #PFAS aquatic #pollution in German, check out the new ÖWAV expert paper “PFAS in the Aquatic #Environment”. www.oewav.at/Publikatione... 1/3

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Julia Vierheilig @4heilig.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

#ProudPI moment! 💙🎬 #FemCEE video feat. Gabriela Eder, PhD student in my group at @iwr-water.bsky.social. Her work on #wastewater #surveillance strengthens #PublicHealth & shows how #WaterQuality research benefits society. Happy to see her scientific achievements gaining well-deserved visibility.

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TU Wien @tuwien.at · 21/11/2025

Wien wird Standort eines Innovationshubs der neuen europäischen Initiative EIT Water! @bokuvienna.bsky.social & TU Wien bündeln ab 2026 ihre Expertise, um Innovationen im Wassersektor zu stärken, von Wasserknappheit bis Kreislaufwirtschaft. www.tuwien.at/tu-wien/aktu...

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BOKU und TU Wien bauen Innovationshub von „EIT Water“ auf

EIT Water bündelt Forschung, Wirtschaft und Bildung im Kampf gegen Wasserknappheit und ökologische Krisen. Ab 2026 entsteht in Wien, aufgebaut von BOKU und TU Wien, eines von acht zentralen Innovation...

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Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research @ineosoxford.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Have you registered your free place at the IOI ECR conference 2026 yet? It's a conference for early career researchers, designed by early career researchers. At the Saïd Business School on 20 March 2026, sign up for the chance to share your work with other early career researchers working in AMR!

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TU Wien Water Quality Management @iwr-water.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

ÖWAV #Februarseminar on 24./25.2.2026 at @tuwien.at! We are delighted to present an engaging programme designed & coordinated by Joerg Krampe on the technical, legal and operational challenges of treating #industrial #wastewater. Full Programme & Registration: www.oewav.at/Kurse-Semina... 1/3

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Julia Vierheilig @4heilig.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

New #EEA briefing published yesterday on European #Antibiotic awareness day: 👉 #AntimicrobialResistance in surface waters - developing #EnvironmentalMonitoring for better #RiskManagement Feeling very honoured to have contributed with my group ... #OneHealth #AMR #EAAD 1/2

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TU Wien Water Quality Management @iwr-water.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

A #podcast tip on Ö1 (in German): Norbert Kreuzinger discusses the presence of #pharmaceutical residues in #water systems, their impact on #aquatic #organisms, and what we still largely don't know about the 'cocktail effects' of their mixture in the environment. 1/2 oe1.orf.at/programm/202...

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Arzneimittelrückstände im Wasser | DO | 25 09 2025 | 19:05

Österreichs größtes Kultur- und Informationsmedium – Nachrichten, Journale, Reportagen, Radiokunst und Musik.

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TU Wien Water Quality Management @iwr-water.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

With the start of the academic winter term, we are pleased to announce the beginning of our new #waterquality management #seminar #series. The series is part of the civil and environmental engineering curriculum, but it is #open to #everyone as a #forum for exchange and discussion. 1/4

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Uli Klümper @ulikluemper.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

🧬🦠💊 🚨NEW COLLECTION LAUNCH🚨 I'm editing a new collection in npj Antimicrobials & Resistance: "Ecological and Evolutionary Drivers of Environmental AMR" Calling for submissions on environmental HGT, selection, invasion, mutation & more Open till Apr 26 www.nature.com/collections/...

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Julia Vierheilig @4heilig.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Happy to see our new paper out in #WaterResearch! A pleasure 2contribute2 this collaborative effort led by Matthew Thornton & fantastic team at @bergthalerlab.bsky.social. It highlights how much the choice of virus enrichment #method shapes our view of the #wastewater #virome. #WBE #PublicHealth

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TU Wien Water Quality Management @iwr-water.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

This year, we once again took part at #Kinderuni and introduced the young students to the exciting world of #wastewatertreatment. We enjoyed giving an insight into our daily scientific work and hope to have inspired many children for this topic. @boehler-s.bsky.social @moritzpellegrini.bsky.social

Photo (von links nach rechts): Maximilian Wukovits, Sebastian Böhler, Moritz Pellegrini, Gabriela Eder

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EU-WISH @eu-wish.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

#EU_WISH people participated in the 22nd Health Related Water Microbiology Conference, held in the Netherlands. Workshops were done, side events held, oral presentations given. Find the full list of our contributions at www.eu-wish.eu/news Thank you for having us! #wastewater #episky #science

Group foto of EU-WISH people standing on a stage with the EU-WISH and watermicro logos in the background.

Some EU-WISH people stand for a group foto with a curtain in the background. On the curtain, a projector projects microbes like virusses, bacteria and protists in white light. From left to right: Blandine Fauvel, Elisabete Valério, Leslie Ogorzaly, Márta Vargha, Raphael Janssens, Henry-Michel Cauchie, Anke Meyers

A selfie of 4 EU-WISH members smiling. From left to right: Elisabete Valério, Henry-Michel Cauchie, Leslie Ogorzaly, Blandine Fauvel

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EU-WISH @eu-wish.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

As part of the #EU-WISH project, a serious game has been carried out during #WaterMicro2025. 💡 This interactive workshop gathered 50 participants to simulate key decisions in wastewater and environmental surveillance. #PublicHealth #WastewaterSurveillance #WES #episky #LIST

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Morten Kam Dahl Dueholm @mkddueholm.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

PICRUSt2-SC: an update to the reference database used for functional prediction within PICRUSt2. 🦠🧫 academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

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PICRUSt2-SC: an update to the reference database used for functional prediction within PICRUSt2

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ICC Water & Health @iccwaterhealth.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

💧 Wiener #Trinkwasser: Positive Zwischenbilanz ViWa 2020+ Im Frühjahr fand das MidTerm-Symposium der Forschungskooperation #ViWa2020+ statt – mit 130 Stakeholdern aus Wissenschaft, Verwaltung & Wasserwirtschaft. #WienerWasser #Forschung #Wasserqualität @wien.gv.at 📷 © Wiener Wasser/Zinner 1/6

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Stuart Neil @tetherin.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Comparative phylogeography and recombination patterns of SARS CoV-1 and SARS CoV-2 related viruses. Both are derived from recent recombinations in their host bats, and then emerged in human hundreds of miles from their wild reservoirs. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2

Recombination-aware evolutionary analyses of the entire genomes of SARS-CoV-1-like and SARS-CoV-2-like viruses indicate that SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 descend from bat coronaviruses that circulated as...

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Wow www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A cellular entity retaining only its replicative core: Hidden archaeal lineage with an ultra-reduced genome

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Will Gaze @willhgaze.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

We have a PhD available at our Exeter Cornwall campus in collaboration with the University of Queensland on AMR in agricultural environments tinyurl.com/3m4pkmup the project can be tailored to the student's interests and expertise with an opportunity to spend 6 months in sunny Brisbane!

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Award details | Funding and scholarships for students | University of Exeter

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Moreno Zolfo @azufre451.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Don't miss today's #MVIF 38: A special event on on #citizenscience & #microbiome! @patrickveiga.bsky.social @gilbertjacka.bsky.social @waldispuhl.bsky.social Mathieu Almeida, Claudia Cappello, Daniel McDonald Mikayla Borton & Sarah Ahannach. There's still time to register👉 cassyni.com/s/mvif-38

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Tillmann Lueders @luederslab.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Microbiology Postdocs from all over Europe and the Globe! 🦠😎👍 Application for the FEMS SSPD 2025 “Harnessing microbial solutions in environmental research and One Health” is now open 👇 2 – 10 Sept 2025 on Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia Co-Directors: Joana Falcao Salles and @luederslab.bsky.social

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FEMS Summer School for Postdocs 2025 - FEMS

Menu: Introduction – Applications – Programme This has been the most valuable and enjoyable scientific event I’ve attended so far. The atmosphere was incredible, with inspiring co-directors and mentor...

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Julia Vierheilig @4heilig.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Meine Forschungsgruppe "Molekulare #Mikrobiologie in der #Siedlungswasserwirtschaft" (@iwr-water.bsky.social, @tuwien.at) beschäftigt sich mit div. Aspekten der (Ab)wassermikrobiologie - mit dem Ziel aktiv zum Schutz der Gesundheit von Mensch, Tier und Umwelt beizutragen. 1/3

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TU Wien Water Quality Management @iwr-water.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Our dear colleague Norbert Kreuzinger has been honoured w/ the #Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria (Silbernes #Ehrenzeichen) by Elmar Pichl, Dir. Gen. of #BMBWF. This highly prestigious national decoration rightly recognises the important & pioneering role... 1/6

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FEMS @femsmicro.org · 27/01/2025

We are thrilled by the amount of abstract submissions we have received for FEMS MICRO Milan 2025. To ensure everyone has a fair chance to participate, FEMS has decided to extend the deadline to 31 January. Submit your abstract and be part of the conversation: buff.ly/40xqQ6T

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Julia Vierheilig @4heilig.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Happy to see our viewpoint article on enhancing the #policy relevance of #AMR data from #WBS published, shaped by great discussions at #EDAR7 with some of the leading experts in environmental AMR research. Big shout-out to Sheena Conforti & Amy Pruden for their outstanding lead! #microsky

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Victor de Lorenzo (CNB, Madrid) @vdlorenzo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

A large group of leading international microbiologists headed by Ken Timmis has just published a report/manifesto on how microorganism can be our best allies for building a better human future—a ray of hope precisely these days 👏 enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Microbes Saving Lives and Reducing Suffering

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Austrian Microbiome @amicimicrobiome.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

22. September 2025 Save the date for the 8th AMICI Symposium at the BOKU in Vienna, Austria🇦🇹 #microbiome #amici8 #microsky #microbiomesky 🧫🧪🧬🔬

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TU Wien Water Quality Management @iwr-water.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Thrilled 2 welcome @moritzpellegrini.bsky.social as new project assistant in our team! 🎉 Moritz joins @4heilig.bsky.social´s group as PhD candidate after MSc studies in #biophysics & thesis in #molecularbiology on intraflagellar transport in Tetrahymena thermophila at @tumuenchen.bsky.social 1/3

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Sarah Höfler @aquageo.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Highly recommend to follow @listifications.app. Thus, you get a message if you are blocked, added to a list, etc. Sometimes strange but also interesting 🤗

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Cecilia G. Flocco @ceciliaflocco.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

There's an open access venue @microbiomevif.bsky.social for those interested in microbiome research. Have a look at the 2025 inaugural schedule⬇ @chmoei.bsky.social @fatimacpereira.bsky.social @cladigar.bsky.social @hariszaf.bsky.social #microsky

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Updated CDC technical report on the Louisiana case is out. There are low frequency mutations in HA that indicate adaptation in a human host—specifically this human host. But this doesn’t really change much in terms of estimating pandemic risk. www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/spo...

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Genetic Sequences of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Viruses Identified in a Person in Louisiana

CDC has sequenced the influenza viruses in specimens collected from the patient in Louisiana who was

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Alex Probst @alexjprobst.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Looking for a new target microbes for cultivation? Check out our new review on "Earth's most needed uncultivated aquatic prokaryotes"! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Alex Probst @alexjprobst.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

#PhD #position #alert 2 bioinfo PhD positions @ProbstLab @RESIST_CRC #1 on microbial & epigenetic stress response in rivers tinyurl.com/bdf8eu5a #2 on virus-host stress response in rivers tinyurl.com/43cjd6es (supervision Moraru) Please share!

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TU Wien Water Quality Management @iwr-water.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Jetzt anmelden für das #ÖWAV #Februarseminar 2025 an der #TUWien! www.oewav.at/Kurse-Semina... Mit der Veröffentlichung der neuen #Kommunalabwasserrichtlinie im EU-Amtsblatt tritt die Richtlinie endgültig in Kraft u die 30-monatige Umsetzungsfrist in nationales Recht beginnt. #KARL #Abwasser 1/4

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Kateryna Pantiukh @kpantiukh.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

🦠 Excited to share our new collection of human gut #archaea species! 🎉 🇪🇪From @ESTbiobank, we present a dataset of 144 strains across 21 species, including 9 entirely new species! A thread 🧵 #MAG #EstMB #TartuMicrobiome #microbiome #humangut

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A. Murat Eren (Meren) @merenbey.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

We are very happy to announce a free-to-attend #anvio workshop and ECR symposium in Oldenburg to discuss integrated microbial 'omics and learn applications of anvi'o. More information and application link (application deadline is Jan 10): anvio.org/workshops/20... Please apply and/or circulate 😇

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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

You can watch the excellent presentation (only 20 min) by Prof Adrian Egli on the Swiss AMR Genomics Surveillance network via YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=smi_... if you missed it at the @target-amr.bsky.social kick-off. Highly recommended!

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Molecular AMR Surveillance: From Local to International

YouTube video by TARGetAMR

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Julia Vierheilig @4heilig.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Very thrilled to have been involved in this exciting documentary, bringing the importance of #OneHealth and #AntibioticResistance to a broader audience. #AMR #WastewaterTreatment #Biodiversity #WaterQuality

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TU Wien Water Quality Management @iwr-water.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Full report of our research project #ReLaKAN available (in German): info.bml.gv.at/themen/wasse... Within this project, funded by #BML and led by Dr. Vanessa Parravicini, a new concept to reduce #NitrousOxide emissions in #WastewaterTreatmentPlants w/ anaerobic sludge digestion was developed ...1/2

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Endbericht zur Studie „ReLaKAN“

Lachgas ist der bestimmende Anteil der Treibhausgasemissionen auf kommunalen Kläranlagen. Um diese Emissionen zu reduzieren, wurde ein neues Konzept fü

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Stadt Wien @wien.gv.at · 05/12/2024

Ab 9.1. könnt ihr die Wiener Unterwelt von einer anderen Seite kennenlernen. Was euch im neuen Infocenter „Über Unten“ im 12. Bezirk erwartet, verraten Klimastadtrat @chairnohorsekey.bsky.social und Gemeinderätin Angelika Pipal-Leixner. Vor einem Besuch am besten anmelden: www.ueberunten.wien

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Axel Visel @axelvisel.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Mapping river microbiomes across the U.S.: GROWdb spans 90% of U.S. watersheds, uncovering the microbial communities driving nutrient cycles & breaking down pollutants. Achieved through a major crowdsourcing effort involving >100 sampling teams. Paper (OA): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

GROW sampling across the United States. The points mark the sampling location. Colour coding represents the microbiome analysis performed (metagenomics, red; metatranscriptomics, yellow; paired metagenomics and metatranscriptomics, blue).

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