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James Bradley @drbradbrad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Still accepting applications! ❄️

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James Bradley @drbradbrad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Paid Masters M2 internship: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere 🦠❄️🌡️ @erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA @lassezj.bsky.social 📢 PLEASE RT 🧬 Microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, ecological interpretation ☀️ Marseille, France @mioceanologie.bsky.social ‼️ Apply via email ASAP & before 15 Oct

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Mountain glaciers are losing mass increasingly fast world-wide over the past 75 years in response to #globalwarming. This and permafrost thawing can destabilize mountain sides and cause glacial collapse and flash floods. Graph: World Glacier Monitoring Service wgms.ch/global-glaci...

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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 24/08/2026

Ocean sea surface temperatures now at record levels! Anticipated but not welcomed... For more: climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-d... #ClimateAction 🌊🧪⚒️

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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

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Eos @eos.org · 01/04/2026

Climate change will melt Antarctica’s ice, causing land to rebound and revealing previously inaccessible deposits of valuable mineral resources. eos.org/articles/as-...

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As Ice Recedes and Land Rebounds, Antarctica’s Mineral Resources Come into Focus - Eos

Melting ice, rebounding land, and rising seas will change what resources are available in Antarctica, a new analysis finds.

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James Bradley @drbradbrad.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Antarctica isn’t owned by anyone and has no official flag, so when I travelled south for the #ERC_SIESTA #POLARIN project, I brought flags designed by schoolchildren, to send them photos of their amazing creations flying in Antarctica. Here are a few of their brilliant designs #AntarcticFlags 🤩🐧❄️🐋🇦🇶

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Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

In case you missed it: our review titled "Spatial structure: shaping the ecology and evolution of microbial communities" is out! 🚨 Let me hit you with some highlights on why spatial structure matters. (and why you should care!) Sharing is appreciated 🙏 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1093/fems...

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James Bradley @drbradbrad.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

A deeper than usual dive into Svalbard's evolving geopolitical landscape, as the power grab in Arctic territories intensifies @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/w...

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The Tug of War at the Top of the World

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James Bradley @drbradbrad.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Strandline Glacier ❄️ Tethys Bay, Victoria Land, Antarctica 🇦🇶 #ERC_SIESTA #POLARIN @erc.europa.eu @hfspo.bsky.social @mioceanologie.bsky.social @cnrs.fr

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Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Not a single day in 2025 was cooler than the 1991-2020 average, on a global scale. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

A graph showing daily temperature anomalies since the 1940s

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James Bradley @drbradbrad.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

3 weeks (half way!) into our #ERC_SIESTA field campaign in East Antarctica ❄️🐧 with @drmartinezrabert.bsky.social we're investigating #microbialdormancy in the #cryosphere 🧬🦠🔬 @cnr-isp.bsky.social XLI Italian Antarctic Expedition, Zucchelli Station, Victoria Land 🇦🇶🇮🇹🇪🇺 #POLARIN

(L-R) Eloi Martinez-Rabert and James Bradley on a rocky outcrop above Tinker Glacier, northern Victoria Land, East Antarctica.
Credit: James A. Bradley

An ice-lidded cryoconite hole on Boomerang Glacier, northern Victoria Land, East Antarctica.
Credit: James A. Bradley

James Bradley collecting glacier surface ice samples on the Nansen Ice Sheet, northern Victoria Land, East Antarctica.
Credit: James A. Bradley

Eloi Martinez-Rabert with samples of cryoconite sediment from Hells Gate, northern Victoria Land, East Antarctica.
Credit: James A. Bradley

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Let's get negative about scholarly publishing – a new paper (first in a long time for me!) on proposals to tackle the problem of publication bias that emerged from a NINDS workshop held in May last year. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/... [Direct link to paper: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Let’s get negative about scholarly publishing | Reciprocal Space

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James Bradley @drbradbrad.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

2 Postdoc vacancies: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere @erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA 📢 PLEASE RT Experimental: 🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, omics, biogeochem Modelling: 🖥️ Bioenergetics, thermodynamics, ecological, biogeochem ☀️ Marseille, France ‼️ Apply by 30 Sept

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Eos @eos.org · 09/09/2025

Sabemos que diminutas formas de vida, como las bacterias, flotan en nuestra atmósfera. Pero ¿también proliferan y forman comunidades en ella? Una nueva investigación sugiere un enfoque de modelado que podría ayudar a responder esta pregunta. eos.org/research-spo...

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¿Pueden los microorganismos prosperar en la atmósfera terrestre o simplemente sobreviven allí? - Eos

Un enfoque de modelización ascendente podría acercar a los científicos a la comprensión de las comunidades de microbios en la atmósfera.

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Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Many years ago I wrote an unfunded😕 grant proposal to explore novel biogeochemical feedback loops in permafrost & marine cycles. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... Today, this remarkable reporting about a new type of microbial feedback loop operative in Svalbard, accelerating glacier decay. 🧪

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Arctic glaciers face ‘terminal’ decline as microbes accelerate ice melt

Scientists in Svalbard in race to study polar microbes as global heating threatens fragile glacial ecosystems

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Eos @eos.org · 07/08/2025

We know tiny life-forms like bacteria float through our atmosphere. But do they also proliferate and form communities there? New research suggests a modeling approach that could help answer this question. eos.org/research-spo...

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Can Microorganisms Thrive in Earth’s Atmosphere, or Do They Simply Survive There? - Eos

A bottom-up modeling approach could bring scientists closer to understanding communities of microbes in the atmosphere.

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Chris Greening @greening.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Our article showing energy production from air alone is in PNAS today. This paper provides an ultimate biochemical proof that microbes can survive simply by 'making' energy from air (making two ATP per molecule atmospheric H2 consumed) and has biotech applications. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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ATP synthesis driven by atmospheric hydrogen concentrations | PNAS

All cells require a continuous supply of the universal energy currency, adenosine triphosphate (ATP), to drive countless cellular reactions. The un...

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Alvaro Sanchez @asanchezlab.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

How may theoretical ecology & evolutionary theory push microbiology forward? At Environmental Microbiology, I am commissioning a series of Perspectives exploring that question. Excited to share them in the 🧵 below The series is open, so do get in touch if you'd like to propose a new contribution!

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James Bradley @drbradbrad.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

At ASM Microbe? Check out @drmartinezrabert.bsky.social poster EEB-SUNDAY-1162 - “Exploring Earth's Atmosphere as an Active Microbial Ecosystem Using Thermodynamic Principles and Bioenergetic Modeling” on Sunday 🦠🌥️⚡️🧬 @hfspo.bsky.social @asm.org #ASMicrobe

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 23/05/2025

Ammonia released from penguin guano may help to reduce the effects of climate change in the Antarctic by contributing to increased cloud formation, according to an analysis in Communications Earth & Environment. go.nature.com/4k8rAYU 🧪

Adelie penguins walking along the Antarctic coastline. Credit: Matthew Boyer

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James Bradley @drbradbrad.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Congrats to @drmartinezrabert.bsky.social @reymourot.bsky.social & Sibylle Lebert @mioceanologie.bsky.social for representing @erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA & @hfspo.bsky.social Atmosphere projects at JSM3 conference in Marseille ☀️ while I’m in Antarctica 🌚 #SD049 @cnrs.fr @cnrs-insu.bsky.social

Rey Mourot presents the ERC-funded SIESTA project at JSM3 2025 in Marseille

Eloi Martinez Rabert presents the HFSP-funded Atmospheres project at JSM3 2025 in Marseille

Sibylle Lebert presents the ERC-funded SIESTA project at JSM3 2025 in Marseille

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James Bradley @drbradbrad.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Come and join me in Marseille ☀️🌊🐟🔬🇫🇷🇪🇺

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James Bradley @drbradbrad.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

We currently have days of persistent positive degrees in the depths of winter in the high Arctic (79°N). Shocking temperature anomalies are becoming the norm. Already exceptionally high rainfall this winter, and thick ice covers the tundra instead of the usual snow. Unprecedented and terrifying 🌡️

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Eloi Martinez-Rabert @drmartinezrabert.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Are they [atmospheric microorganisms] also awake contemplating this marvellous sunset?

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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

In case some mentors may want to read this. #Nature #PhD #scisky #student #mentor Source: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Eloi Martinez-Rabert @drmartinezrabert.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

New paper online! 'Competitive and substrate limited environments drive metabolic heterogeneity for comammox Nitrospira.' In this study we aim to connect the early discoveries of comammox Nitrospira (one in aerobic conditions and the other <3.1uM O₂) using Individual-based Model. rdcu.be/dkEa6

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Eloi Martinez-Rabert @drmartinezrabert.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

"Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things" - Georgia O'Keeffe. Art and science in a single quote. I love it.

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Maria Rebolleda-Gomez @mrebolleda.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

Decided to post this here. It seems good that my first post is also the first preprint with an author from my lab! We used previously identified metabolic rules to predict microbial community assembly along a temperature gradient (1/12). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Predictive microbial community changes across a temperature gradient

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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Eloi Martinez-Rabert @drmartinezrabert.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

Hiya!! Here a theoretical ecologist and bike rider (for now on the road, but soon also in the mountains). In my first year of postdoc at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Nice to meet you!

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