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ISME - International Society for Microbial Ecology @isme-microbes.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

As we close the year, the ISME Early Career Scientist Committee is glad to spotlight @duhitasant.bsky.social , Postdoctoral Researcher at Rutgers University, and her paper “Eco-evolutionary robustness of wild bacterial communities to experimental perturbation”. doi.org/10.1093/isme... (1/2)

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

New paper just out in Science Advances, led by Humboldt fellow Yongxing Cui in the lab: Productivity-driven decoupling of microbial carbon use efficiency and respiration across global soils @fubcp.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @humboldt-foundation.de www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Productivity-driven decoupling of microbial carbon use efficiency and respiration across global soils

Resource-dependent microbial adaptability decouples microbial growth from respiration and limits soil carbon storage.

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Tom Smith @ecologicaltom.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Really fun couple of days at #BESAG capped off by a great talk from Olivier Leger about his wildlife art! @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social

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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠 #microsky Please share the ad below with anyone who may be interested.

A teal flyer for a PhD opportunity to investigate how warming may change antimicrobial resistance. The project will use experiments on Klebsiella bacteria to answer questions about how temperature affects their response to antibiotics, plasmid transfer, and fitness costs. The research involves microbiology lab work, bioinformatics, and mathematical modeling. The flyer includes contact details for Dr. Daniel Padfield and the logos of the sponsoring institutions.

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Tom Smith @ecologicaltom.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Pleased to share this blog post about our recent work in FEMS Microbiology looking at aquatic microbial community responses to pollutants: fems-microbiology.org/femsmicroblo... #FEMSmicroBlog #FascinatingMicrobes

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Microbes are first responders to environmental pollution

This #FEMSmicroBlog examines if microbial communities could act as early pollution indicators in aquatic ecosystems. #FascinatingMicrobes

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Tom Smith @ecologicaltom.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Great to have our new tree hole paper out!

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