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Benoît Paix

@benoitpaix.bsky.social
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Researcher in microbiology and chemical ecology. Combining metabarcoding and metabolomics approaches to study holobionts. Currently working on Sargassum-microbiome interactions.

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Detmer Sipkema @detmersipkema.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
First large-scale study of phylosymbiosis in sponges at the family level, with Niels van der Windt and Nicole de Voogd @naturalis.bsky.social Sponge phylogeny plays a significant role in structuring microbiomes, even at finer taxonomic resolutions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Host Evolutionary History Drives Prokaryotic Diversity in the Globally Distributed Sponge Family Petrosiidae
Sponge microbial communities play a crucial role in marine ecosystem functioning and serve as a rich source of bioactive compounds. While host identity is recognised as a major determinant of microbi...
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Mar Benavides @marbenavides.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
PhD available in my group to work on polar nitrogen fixation www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Exploring new drivers for nitrogen fixation in polar oceans at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Exploring new drivers for nitrogen fixation in polar oceans at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 02/10/2025
#ChooseEurope for Science is live! With €22.5 million under #MSCA, we’re funding organisations to: 🔬 Host postdoctoral researchers in all fields 🔬 Offer stable jobs and great working conditions 🔬 Create long-term career prospects Europe is where science thrives. More → link.europa.eu/6JhtHp
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Eric Capo @ericcapo12.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
We just launched the Kickstarter campaign of MicroMates, a card game that brings the hidden world of microorganisms to life in a fun, colorful, and scientifically inspired way. Please back us up and spread the word! micromates.se
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Dr Margaux Steyaert 🪸 @margauxsteyaert.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
A list of #marinebiology starter packs! 🌊 go.bsky.app/4PTX62K Marine Ecology go.bsky.app/RS5zQHv Marine Biologists I go.bsky.app/8DoyTMs Marine Biologists II go.bsky.app/Qo5Gh2H Coral reef science go.bsky.app/E8vrnd6 LGBTQIA+ Grads go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo Ocean Women go.bsky.app/4wMsfX4 Ocean Women II
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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Thread of Starter Packs to network for PhD and postdoc positions in Biology (or adjacent fields)! 🧵 First up: Starter Pack for students looking for PhD positions! go.bsky.app/EFj87fi
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Cyanotrans @cyanotrans.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Organic metabolite uptake by diazotrophs in the North Pacific Ocean academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
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Organic metabolite uptake by diazotrophs in the North Pacific Ocean
Abstract. Dinitrogen (N₂) fixation by diazotrophs supports ocean productivity. Diazotrophs include photoautotrophic cyanobacteria, non-cyanobacterial diazo
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Mar Benavides @marbenavides.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
check out our new publication on DOM uptake by diazotrophs (and that is both autotrophic and heterotrophic ones!) academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... @mioceanologie.bsky.social @ird-fr.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk @ucscscience.bsky.social
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Organic metabolite uptake by Diazotrophs in the North Pacific Ocean
Abstract. Dinitrogen (N₂) fixation by diazotrophs supports ocean productivity. Diazotrophs include photoautotrophic cyanobacteria, non-cyanobacterial diazo
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Bettina Thalinger @bettinathal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Bye, bye #AquaEcOmics 👋🏻 What a well organized event! Extraordinary venue lots of fruitful discussions! Icing on the cake: Lauren Rodriguez taking home the @physaliacourses.bsky.social best presentation award for the @ewhale-dna.bsky.social team! 🤩 @aquaecomics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy #eDNA
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Metabarcoding and Metagenomics @mbmg.pensoft.net · 28/03/2025
Congratulations to Teun Everts (@teuneverts.bsky.social) and Thomas Reinhart for winning the Best Student Presentation awards at the #AquaEcOmics meeting in Evian, France! mbmg.pensoft.net/news/806 @aquaecomics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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Metabarcoding and Metagenomics recognises student talent at the AquaEcOmics meeting in Evian
The 2025 AquaEcOmics meeting was held in Evian, France from 17 to 20 March 2025.Described as "a meeting to explore aquatic ecosystems biodiversity, functioning and monitoring with eDNA and multi-...
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Francois Keck @francoiskeck.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Our study ‘The global human impact on biodiversity’ is out in Nature! Through an unprecedented synthesis (2133 studies!) we show that humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet. 🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
World map showing origin of the data
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eWHALE @ewhale-dna.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Congratulations Lauren Rodriguez! 🐳 Our #eWHALE #Phd student from @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social won the @physaliacourses.bsky.social best presentation award at the #AquaEcOmics conference for presenting #eDNA sampling optimization results! 👏🏻 @bettinathal.bsky.social
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Jeez. French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found
France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched
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Bettina Thalinger @bettinathal.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
@kamilhupalo.bsky.social introducing the „fish smoothie approach“ for detecting fish parasites! #AquaEcOmics @aquaecomics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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Nicolas Tromas @cyanophage.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
AquaEcOmics first day: awesome talk from karoline Faust! Microbetag looks great. #Aquaecomics #microbialNetwork
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Nicolas Tromas @cyanophage.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Great talk from Valérie Langlois on eDNA standards and iTrackDNA activities. #Aquaecomics
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AquaEcOmics @aquaecomics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2025
Good start with an ice breaker 😉 #aquaecomics meeting!! #evian #omics #metabarcoding #eDNA #metagenomics #metabolomics
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AquaEcOmics @aquaecomics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2025
In three days we'll be meeting in Evian 🙂 #aquaecomics meeting is coming!! #evian #omics #metabarcoding #eDNA #metagenomics #metabolomics
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AquaEcOmics @aquaecomics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2025
Excited to announce the preliminary program for the upcoming AquaEcOmics symposium. Registration closes on the 31th of January so it is not yet too late to secure your attendance. aquaecomics.symposium.inrae.fr #aquaecomics2025 #eDNA #omics […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
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Jason Stockwell @dvm-uvm.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Défendre la science avec mes formidables collègues français. Merci USMB-INRAE-CARRTEL pour votre hospitalité et votre soutien! @inrae-france.bsky.social @rosaliebruel.bsky.social @herverogissart.bsky.social @jean-guillard.bsky.social @cyanophage.bsky.social @allanraffard.bsky.social
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Benoît Paix @benoitpaix.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
🎉Exciting news! I’m extremely honored and happy to have been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship for my project CONSUMALG! At the @sbroscoff.bsky.social I’ll be studying how bacteria degrade marine macroalgae 🌊🦠🍃 I can’t wait to start this journey! #MSCA #CONSUMALG
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Mar Benavides @marbenavides.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
⚠️⚠️⚠️ New permanent job opportunity in Microbial Oceanography @noc.ac.uk careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/rese... Looking for people bridging microbial ecology and biogeochemistry, focus in the #ERC project EXPAND noc.ac.uk/projects/exp... @usocb.bsky.social @aslo.org @ismeoffice.bsky.social
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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Adaptive strategies of Caribbean sponge holobionts beyond the mesophotic zone www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Centre INRAE Lyon-Grenoble Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes @inrae-lyon-gre.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
📢 Save the date L'@umrcarrtel.bsky.social organise sa prochaine école d'été ! 🔍 Summer school “Biomarkers for lakes ecological monitoring” 📍 Thonon-les-Bains 📅 23-27 Juin 2025 ➡️ Infos et inscription (jusqu'au 28.02.2025) : tinyurl.com/s8na3w82
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Biodiversa+ (European Biodiversity Partnership) @biodiversa.eu · 22/01/2025
🧬 DNA metabarcoding of diatoms is ready for biomonitoring, but varying protocols hinder comparability. #DNAquaIMG ( #BiodivMon) shows successful protocol transfer across labs, proposing a strategy ensuring distinct protocols meet minimum standards.
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Proficiency testing and cross-laboratory method comparison to support standardisation of diatom DNA metabarcoding for freshwater biomonitoring
DNA metabarcoding of benthic diatoms has been successfully applied for biomonitoring at the national scale and can now be considered technically ready for routine application. However, protocols and…
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Chloé Pozas-Schacre @chloepzs.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
What a way to start the year 😌 ! My 2nd PhD chapter is now out in @commsbio.bsky.social ! We show that macroalgae generate complex chemical and microbial waterscapes. You like #coralreefs🪸, #fieldstudies🤿 and #multiomics🧪 !? That's for you ➡️ nature.com/articles/s42... #openaccess #moorea
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Invasive macroalgae shape chemical and microbial waterscapes on coral reefs - Communications Biology
A field study demonstrates that macroalgae generate complex chemical and microbial waterscapes, which could play essential roles in the function and resilience of coral reefs
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Frédéric Rimet @rimetfrederic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2025
Really happy of our new paper Proficiency testing and cross-laboratory method comparison to support standardisation of diatom DNA metabarcoding for freshwater biomonitoring By Valentin Vasselon, Sinzi Rivera and Benoît Paix et al […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
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Benoît Paix @benoitpaix.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Are diatom DNA metabarcoding protocols reproducible? How much variability between protocols affects quality assessment? 📖 I'm excited to share our new article with colleagues from #DNAqua-Net #DNAquaIMG published in MBMG! 👉 mbmg.pensoft.net/article/1332... #DNAmetabarcoding #Diatoms #Biomonitoring
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Proficiency testing and cross-laboratory method comparison to support standardisation of diatom DNA metabarcoding for freshwater biomonitoring
DNA metabarcoding of benthic diatoms has been successfully applied for biomonitoring at the national scale and can now be considered technically ready for routine application. However, protocols and m...
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Pieter Dorrestein @pieterdorrestein.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Here it is youtu.be/BZ7cttLDyA8?... there are also office hours in case you have questions. Shown at end of video.
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Reverse metabolomics - CMMC workshop
YouTube video by Dorrestein Lab
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Christophe Duplais 🧪🐛⚗️🦋🪴🪲🌾⌬ @chemistophe.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Hi #ChemicalEcologists, Just created a starter package for networking people in our field 😆 Please let me know if people need to be added! go.bsky.app/KzwBnhN
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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
As another #PhycologyFriday winds to a close, here's a starter pack of algal appreciators to follow! Lmk if you'd like to be added to the list. go.bsky.app/RwMphxS
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Dr.Kat Stewart @ecoevoedna.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Any other #eDNA folks going to AquaEcOmics in March? Who am I having beers with? 😁
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Florian Leese @leeselab.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Let‘s try a #metabarcoding starter pack to nucleate people interested. Welcome molecular #biodiversity monitoring people. Let’s try to keep us posted on updates regarding papers, projects, methods. Happy weekend.☀️#eDNA go.bsky.app/Qvqgknp
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Joana Xavier @joanaxavier.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Here’s a fun bunch 🙌 Let me know if you’d like to be added to it!
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Dr. Torrance Hanley @torrancehanley.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Many of the (great) starter packs focus on faculty in different fields. In an effort to help #EarlyCareerResearchers in #marine biology, ecology, evolution, & related fields (re-)connect, here is a list of ECRs. Please give them a follow (and reply to be added or suggest people). go.bsky.app/KhWvT4u
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Peter Girguis @pgirguis.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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
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Dr.Kat Stewart @ecoevoedna.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I started an #eDNA starter pack as one didn’t exist yet. Feel free to message me to get your name added. Open to all! go.bsky.app/U2vgV5Q
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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Biofilm Starter Pack on the Blue place go.bsky.app/HF1jeCQ
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Riikka Rinnan @riikkarinnan.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
We have two 3-year post doc positions open for applications at @voltcenter.bsky.social in Copenhagen, Denmark 1⃣ Microbial trait modeling 2⃣ Modeling Ecosystem Dynamics and Atmospheric Feedback t.co/TnyiaYHWGf VOLT is a Center of Excellence and Copenhagen a fantastic city. Contact me if Q's.
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Nicolas Tromas @cyanophage.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Registrations for the 2025 AquaEcOmics Have a look and select among the 7 great sessions hereby 📷 Submission deadline: soon! (but you still have few days :) ) aquaecomics.symposium.inrae.fr #aquaecomics2025 #eDNA #omics #metagenomics #metabarcoding #dPCR #marine #freshwater #ecology #biomonitoring
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Brian Strehlow @brianstrehlow.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Check out our new article to explore how some sponge species are able to live in the wild without oxygen for months at a time peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....
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Transcriptomic responses of sponge holobionts to in situ, seasonal anoxia and hypoxia
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