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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 2h

Got my new paper for next year’s discussion of endosymbiosis. This year will be the nitroplast.

Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 13h

The sad thing is that every scientist knows someone who ensists that what this hypothetical woman says is true without trying to be sarcastic.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Arithmetic in the "New Golden Age of Science" at NSF: Reduce $600M in STEM funding between FY25 and FY26 grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses... Propose to reduce NSF GRFP fellowships by $180M in FY27 nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202... Declare "success" w/a $100M "push" for US scientists.

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White House Makes $100 Million Push to Train American Scientists

The Trump administration is injecting more than $100 million into education programs for American researchers in STEM fields, as federal policies stanch the flow of foreign scientists to the US and po...

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Out today in @nature.com: our review on how single cells evolve into multicellular organisms. With Ozan Bozdag, @kaitong25.bsky.social, Peter Yunker, and @matthewherron.bsky.social. rdcu.be/9ZuiKow9twKa For an overview, check out the video below.

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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"chatGPT thinks I am a genuis" is just the modern version of "I think this stripper is in love with me"

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

RFK weiss dass es Viren nicht gibt, nur Miasmen.

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

At “the other M” (UoMontana in Missoula) today before some work in Yellowstone on Friday to measure in situ growth rates in a hot spring.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

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‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research

Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's mostly about the hugging face incident. It's worse than I thought. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujkD...

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AI Just Became Humanity’s Biggest Threat

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I also have been making a habit to ask every candidate what books they’ve been reading lately. And yes, I mean read. Listening to an audio book is not reading.

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And yes, you often can get a feeling of whether something is AI written. I had a suspicion about three emails last week, put all three into two different types of AI detector software and they all flagged them as 100% AI written

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Same here, with the difference that I am generally antiAI (as compared to the OP). If you don’t feel it’s worth your time to learn more about my lab and then contact me, I don’t see a need of wasting my time with you.

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Given they are tilted, I would say a water slide.

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

‘attributable to 12 infectious agents … Helicobacter pylori, HPV, hepatitis B and C viruses, Epstein–Barr virus, Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, Schistosoma haematobium, human T-cell lymphotropic virus, Opisthorchis viverrini, Clonorchis sinensis, Merkel cell polyomavirus, and HIV.’(Edited)

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Noah Fierer @noahfierer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A plea: If you are leading a faculty search and you expect 100s of applications - please do not request letters up front! You are basically telling your colleagues that you do not value their time.

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just to be clear, it’s not only that I’m against the colloquial use of generative AI. It was also that the errors were so blatantly obvious that it immediately makes me doubt the intellectual standards/integrity of the authors and, in consequence, the study.

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just to be clear the use of generative ai was not declared, but even if they would have declared, i’d to refuse to review it.

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Great work that pushes the field, Philipp! 🍾 Glad to see more experiment being done on Asgard. There are enough phylogenies and genomes, let’s do some hypothesis testing!!! Thanks for leading the way!

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 30/09/2026

At an event held by the MAHA Institute, RFK Jr said he wanted the federal government to feed Americans' private health data to AI to find evidence to support his anti-science ideology. He also said AI can make “better-informed” decisions than doctors, despite AI’s reputation for hallucinations.

News alert graphic featuring a photo of RFK Jr. against a data center background, with a headline reading "RFK Jr. wants to feed your private health data to AI"

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Almost happy to consider new collaborations :)

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Alex Session and I just wrote a textbook chapter on measuring microbial in situ activities :) It’s way more up to date than most reviews but obviously cannot go into the details of each technique.

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh, I’m sure you are well aware Alex. I’m putting this here for people who are not aware that papers in medical fields are not comparable with scientific journal articles.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Trump administration blocked the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium from reapplying for funding, terminating at least 2 clinical trials for children's brain cancer treatment.

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You have to consider that it is very common in the medical field to write up single case studies where they describe a single patient.

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And AI companies are conducting massive IP theft.

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My point was not about the specific algorithm they used, but that any computational search is very fast these days.

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

People who play with leopards report being surprised leopards eat their face.

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Concepts” should really say “problems”.

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Depends on what you wanna gain from it. Seconds to years of experimental work. AI company didn’t do experimental work so probably seconds to hours.

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I really wish journalists would put AI company statement into context. “Anthropic … said they instructed A.I. agents to search databases containing billions of gene sequences.” To a lay person that might sound incredible but any person can do that by simply BLASTing on genbank. It takes seconds.

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ich weiss nicht ob die SPOe sich im klaren ist dass sie sich zum Gespoett machen und dass sie den anderen Parteien eine Auflage geben. Ein Multimillionär, einer der top 500 Reichsten im Land, als Vorsitzender einer “Arbeiterpartei”. Ich weiss net ob das Satire sein soll, oder nur Einfalt/Dummheit.

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ein Multimillionär der reicher ist als 99.5% aller Oesterreicher als SPOe Vorsitzender. So dumm werdens wohl sein.

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Also die alten Weissen Maenner unterstuetzen sich gegenseitig. Einen Multimillionär der unter den top 0.5% der wohlhabensten Oesterreicher ist. Vertritt Arbeiter sicher super.

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The organisms are worked with as a postdoc could not be cultured and had an in situ generation time of 9 to 18 months. But this is how the real world looks like.

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The exception to this can be counted on one or maybe two hands like the work by Tristan Caro, Jen Pett-Ridge, Victoria Orphan, Bruce Hungate, and others… but that’s like one or two or three studies on a particular sample type (soil, importantly). We need a baseline understanding of all habitat types

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One of the most neglected, least understood, and willingly ignored concepts in microbiology is how fast cells grown in their native habitat. We just extrapolate from cultures, which is unrealistic. I wish I could get funds to measure growth in a bunch of habitats and do some foundational work ;(

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Science is a part of your brain you just don't turn off. In an $80 Motel Room, a Discovery to Shed Light on the Origins of Life 🎁 link www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/s...

Sciencing the shit out of this motel room

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I really cannot make up my mind of how much of these statements by AI folks are because they are just ignorant about anything they are talking about (i nice way to say they are uneducated) or are just simply scammers (who know the scam works well enough to squeeze money from some people).

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They pretty much did a variation of a blast search basically.

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Simonetta Gribaldo @sgribaldo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Interested in #archaea, #methane, #cell-envelopes? New paper out @nature.com ! We discovered an enzyme that specifically cleaves the cell wall of methanogens, revealing a new chemical structure of archaeal peptidoglycan, 50 yrs after its first description www.nature.com/articles/s41... #MicroSky 🧵👇

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Manuscript accepted in the Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education.

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That’s not Monika Oli but Estelle Couradeau.

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