Reposted by Izzy BakerIzzy Baker @izzyrbaker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026🚨JOB ALERT🚨 My wonderful department at UNC Chapel Hill is hiring not one but TWO assistant professors! Come join us! Biological Oceanography unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... Coastal Ecology unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... 012
Reposted by Izzy BakerBrett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Two Assistant Professor Positions in Evolutionary Biology and Mechanistic Processes - including microbes! faculty.utexas.edu/career/191568faculty.utexas.eduFaculty Careers - The University of Texas at AustinUnleash your intellectual power by joining a world-renowned faculty that is solving the world's most urgent problems. At UT Austin, we provide you the freedom to blaze trails, follow your curiosity, e... 01212
Izzy Baker @izzyrbaker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026🚨JOB ALERT🚨 My wonderful department at UNC Chapel Hill is hiring not one but TWO assistant professors! Come join us! Biological Oceanography unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... Coastal Ecology unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... 012
Reposted by Izzy BakerRauf Salamzade @raufs.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Microbes that have the greatest genomic potential for secondary metabolism tend to be multicellular. Here, we show that signatures of ancestral BGC expansions within 3 bacterial phyla and 2 fungal lineages coincide with origins of complex multicellularity [1/12] 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comComplex multicellularity is linked with expanded specialized metabolite production in microorganisms - Nature MicrobiologyThe evolutionary emergence of complex multicellularity in bacteria and fungi, such as the ability for mycelial growth, is strongly associated with increased genomic carriage of biosynthetic machinery ... 16838
Reposted by Izzy BakerMark Mandel @markjmandel.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Interested in a teaching faculty position in Bacteriology at UW-Madison? See the attached announcement! @uwbact.bsky.social 12440
Reposted by Izzy BakerBenjamin Gill @sedgeochem.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Happy #FossilFriday. Check out these awesome silicified Cambrian cyanobacteria fossils from the Harkless Formation from western Nevada from a publication in Palaios by @spicegirl.bsky.social. 🧪⚒️🔬 0183
Reposted by Izzy BakerNoah Fierer @noahfierer.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Looking for a tool to estimate abundances of aerobes versus anaerobes directly from metagenomes? Here you go: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.org 13514
Reposted by Izzy BakerPam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 27/03/2026While the situation is grim at NIH, it's closer to catastrophic at NSF. They're just not able to move any money out the door. It appears OMB has them on lockdown. www.science.org/content/arti.... 7361246
Reposted by Izzy BakerCameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Potential for metal-coupled methane oxidation by Candidatus Methanocomedenaceae in coastal sediments www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs 022
Reposted by Izzy BakerBeth Orcutt @deepmicrobe.bsky.social · 24/03/2026The US Congress House Science Committee is holding a hearing on #DeepSeaMining this Thursday. You can watch the livestream from the website. More info here: science.house.gov/2026/3/envir...science.house.govEnvironment Subcommittee Hearing - Beneath the Waves: The Science and Technology of Deep-Sea Mining 035
Reposted by Izzy BakerAmelia Rotaru @ameliarotaru.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Glad to see our paper published in Nature Communications We discovered how novel marine microorganisms interact via geoconductors to produce methane. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 2236
Reposted by Izzy BakerNichole Broderick, PhD @nabroderick.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Excited to announce our new journal from @isme-microbes.bsky.social ISME Host Microbe is live and now accepting submissions. Look forward to receiving your papers! #Microsky 🧫 🦠 312587
Reposted by Izzy BakerJeffrey Marlow @jjmarlow.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Boston / Cambridge - come on by April 15th to hear more about The Dark Frontier 🌊🦑🐋🦠 Get your ticket today! www.harvard.com/event/jeffre...harvard.comJeffrey Marlow at the Harvard Science Center | Harvard Book Storedownstairs at 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138 011
Izzy Baker @izzyrbaker.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Delighted to share that I will be joining the faculty in Earth, Marine, and Environmental Science at UNC Chapel Hill! The Baker Lab will be opening later this summer. Stay tuned 🦠🧫🔬 280
Izzy Baker @izzyrbaker.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Come to the Chesapeake Community Research Symposium and consider submitting an abstract to our session, “Molecular Approaches for Chesapeake Bay Ecology and Biogeochemical Functions: from Genes to Insights”! ccmp2026.chesapeake.org#abstractsubm...ccmp2026.chesapeake.orgChesapeake Community Research Symposium 2026 HomeThe Chesapeake Community Modeling Program will convene the 2026 edition of our biennial symposium June 1-3, 2026, in Annapolis, Maryland. 010
Reposted by Izzy BakerJeffrey Marlow @jjmarlow.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Yay methanotrophs! My favorite type of microbe... 🥰 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/c...nytimes.comThe Very Hungry Microbes That Could, Just Maybe, Cool the Planet 031
Reposted by Izzy BakerGemma Reguera 🌎 @microgem.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Lost in the many news of last week was this press release about the dissolution of the DOE Office of Science advisory committees and replacement with a new, integrated, single Office of Science Advisory Committee (SCAC): www.energy.gov/science/arti...energy.govDOE Establishes the Office of Science Advisory CommitteeThe Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the establishment of the Office of Science Advisory Committee (SCAC). 011
Reposted by Izzy BakerNagissa Mahmoudi @nagissa.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Interested in life’s co-evolution with planetary environments? 🌎🦠🧪 I'm looking for a postdoc to join my group at #McGill and happy to sponsor applicants for the TSI fellowship. Please reach out if interested! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30777academicjobsonline.orgMcGill University, Trottier Space Institute Job #AJO30777, Trottier Space Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, Trottier Space Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CA 01512
Reposted by Izzy BakerNagissa Mahmoudi @nagissa.bsky.social · 12/09/2025🚨New preprint from our lab!🚨 We trace the evolution of microbial exoenzymes and uncover their role in Earth’s oxygenation. By recycling nutrients, exoenzymes helped fuel cyanobacteria and set off feedbacks that sustained the long-term rise of O₂. #MicroSky 🧪 🦠 🌎 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgMicrobial exoenzymes catalyzed the transition to an oxygenated EarthMicrobial exoenzymes, extracellular enzymes secreted to degrade complex organic polymers, are essential for recycling carbon and nutrients, thus sustaining primary productivity in todays oceans. Yet, ... 24016
Izzy Baker @izzyrbaker.bsky.social · 05/06/2025We interrupt your regularly scheduled doom-scrolling with some science pics from our fieldwork on the Chesapeake Bay! 020
Reposted by Izzy BakerColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 02/05/2025I talked to Nature about the latest development at NSF, which is a five-alarm fire for American science. The scale of immediate impact is massive. We narrowly escaped this affecting @viralemergence.org for now, but will have to shut down in a few months if this stays. www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comExclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing onesUS science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’. 3269154
Reposted by Izzy BakerChris Rowan @allochthonous.bsky.social · 02/04/2025⚒️🧪 Even more sobering to me is that by removing the nodules, which take millions of years to form, the very slow ecosystem recovery will be to a very different state than what was there before. A signal of our thoughtlessness that could last until the ocean floor itself is subducted. 33418
Reposted by Izzy BakerGemma Reguera 🌎 @microgem.bsky.social · 06/03/2025I absolutely love this work❗️ Isolation of two strains belonging to the order proposed as FECA’s closest relative, ‘Hodarchaeales’, as members of a pure co- and tri-culture with methanogenic partners. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgEukaryotes’ closest relatives are internally simple syntrophic archaeaEukaryotes are theorized to have originated from an archaeal phylum Promethearchaeota (formerly ‘Asgard’ archaea)[1][1],[2][2]. The first cultured representatives revealed valuable insight[3][3],[4][4... 1127
Reposted by Izzy BakerMichael Baym @baym.lol · 21/02/2025Legitmately thrilled to share our latest work, in which @fernpizza.bsky.social solved an experimental challenge in plasmid biology as old as the field: measuring how plasmids compete and evolve within individual cells! 521887
Reposted by Izzy BakerLeslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Firings happening right now at the NSF. 43610406
Reposted by Izzy BakerSTCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 07/02/2025reposting from 𝕏 bc you know... @KensukeTadome (not on 🔵bsky) on Aug 10, 2023: "Cross section of 𝘙𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘢 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘴 🧐 As you can see, lichens are a symbiotic relationship between algae and fungi. The algae sparkle and are beautiful ☺️✨" #SymbioSky #Lichen 25013
Reposted by Izzy BakerKarthik Anantharaman @karthik-a.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Studies only making reads available may satisfy journal requirements but do not serve the larger community. If you work with any form of metagenomics/genomics data, and are for open access and FAIR data policies...Please consider making ALL your data public (genomes, proteins, reads, metadata). 072
Izzy Baker @izzyrbaker.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Check out the official logo for Mid-Atlantic #Geobiology 2025! Featuring North America’s largest estuary—the Chesapeake Bay! 321
Reposted by Izzy BakerErwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com · 10/01/2025NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C. 20958802764
Reposted by Izzy BakerCameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Resurrection of a diatom after 7000 years from anoxic Baltic Sea sediment academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs 13511
Reposted by Izzy BakerBrett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 03/01/2025After 24 years of work, I’m thrilled to announce the TYMEFLIES dataset, which comprises metagenomes from Lake Mendota (Madison, WI), collected roughly every 10 days (471 samples) for 20 years! @quendi.bsky.social @robinrohwer.bsky.social rdcu.be/d5put A thread…rdcu.beTwo decades of bacterial ecology and evolution in a freshwater lakeNature Microbiology - A 471-metagenome time series from Lake Mendota in Wisconsin, USA, reveals seasonal and decadal shifts in bacterial functional and ecological dynamics, especially in response... 3244101
Izzy Baker @izzyrbaker.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Merry Christmas to all those that celebrate, and to my fellow MOT, have a bright first night of Chanukah! 010
Reposted by Izzy BakerDr. Roxanne Beinart @symbiosisrox.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Reposting this again - We are looking for a postdoc to study the physiology, evolution, and cell biology of anaerobic ciliate-methanogen symbioses using 'omics, experiments, and/or microscopy. Still accepting inquiries, and I would love to hear from interested candidates. 12833
Izzy Baker @izzyrbaker.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Mid-Atlanticans, save the date and please share! The Mid-Atlantic #Geobiology Symposium will be Friday, February 28, 2025 at Johns Hopkins. See you then! 🧪🦠🌎🪱 www.midatlanticgeobiologysymposium.orgmidatlanticgeobiologysymposium.orgHome - Mid-Atlantic Geobiology SymposiumWe are excited to announce the 2025 Mid-Atlantic Geobiology Symposium! The symposium will be held on Friday, February 28, 2025 at Johns Hopkins University. We welcome attendees from any career stage a... 054