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Arianna Krinos @akrinos.bsky.social · 14h

I am excited to announce that I am starting a lab at Stony Brook University in Fall 2027! Please reach out about collaborations! Note that the @departmentofenergy.bsky.social Computational Science Graduate Fellowship application has just opened; more later on this fantastic opp. krinoslab.github.io

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Dr Katherine Duncan @kateduncan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The EMBO workshop (March 2027) on marine microbial chemicals communication is open for abstract submission and registration (deadline 20th Oct 2026). The inaugural meeting in 2025 was fantastic and there are already some great speakers lined up, highly recommended. meetings.embo.org/event/27-mar...

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Marine microbial chemical communication

This EMBO Workshop on Marine Microbial Chemical Communication will bring together researchers at the forefront of understanding the chemical crosstalk of microbial interactions in the ocean. As micr…

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Beate Kraft @beatekraft.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

📣We have 5 PhD positions in hadal biogeochemistry and microbial ecology at the Danish Center for Hadal Research: lnkd.in/eJ6rp_Rk. 📣 Deadline: 4 May 2026 Please share widely! fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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PhD positions in hadal biogeochemistry & microbial ecology

Application deadline: 4 May 2026 at 23:59 hours local Danish time

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Michael Wagner @michiwagner4.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

🚨 Postdoctoral Opportunity for Female Scientists🚨 The University of Vienna is awarding at least 20 fully funded 4 year postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists Interested? Get in touch via direct message careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... #MicroSky 🧪 #PostDoc @univie.ac.at

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Vesna Grujcic @vesnagrujcic.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

How do microbes become permanent partners? 🌊🔬🦠 Check out our new study published in Current Biology showing how cyanobacterial genomes evolve step-by-step into endosymbionts of diatoms. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @currentbiology.bsky.social @mehrshmali.bsky.social

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Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Please re-post: If you know (or are!) somebody who might fancy doing a PhD (Oct 2026 start) in my group @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social, working on chromatin evolution in prokaryotes (or other things we're interested in), please have a look at www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/supervisors-...

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Supervisors and Projects

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Line Roager @lineroager.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

New Phaeobacter species are now out! 🦠🔬 We found two new species - I am especially fascinated by the really, really long cells P. cretensis makes, something we have never seen in Phaeobacter before! Please comment your thoughts about why that is 🤔 1/2 www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

A scanning electron microcrograph of a cluster of bacteria forming a rosette. 12 bacterial cells form the rosette on a surface with a scale-bar showing that the cells are around 1 micrometer in length.

A scanning electron microcrograph of a bacterial cell. One long rod-shaped bacterial cell is shown with a scale-bar showing that the cell is around 10 micrometer in length and 1 micrometer in width.

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Meriel J. Bittner @merielj3.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Huge thanks also go to Arianna Krinos for taking the lead on this work! @akrinos.bsky.social Let’s keep building inclusive and interdisciplinary research cultures! 🙌

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Meriel J. Bittner @merielj3.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Grateful for the shared vision, thoughtful discussions, and collective creativity that shaped this work. Thank you to BioGeoSCAPES and the Santa Fe Institute for hosting us and providing such a great and collaborative environment! @sfiscience.bsky.social @biogeoscapes.bsky.social

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Meriel J. Bittner @merielj3.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Thrilled to share our #Comment in @natmicrobiol.nature.com A collaborative effort by a fantastic group of researchers across disciplines! 💬We explored how interdisciplinary microbiology can thrive when early-career researchers are included and supported. 📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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A call for early-career teams in interdisciplinary microbiology research - Nature Microbiology

Early-career researchers play an integral role in building and maintaining interdisciplinary microbiological research.

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Rachel Gregor @rachelgregor.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

🌊🦠🧪 Delighted to share this work now out in @isme-microbes.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/isme... The currency of microbial life is chemistry, but there’s so much still unknown about how metabolic interactions shape communities. 1/

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Vitamin auxotrophies shape microbial community assembly on model marine particles

Abstract. Microbial community assembly is governed by the flow of carbon sources and other primary metabolites between species. However, central metabolism

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Glen Dsouza @nonresidentdesi.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Thrilled to share our new paper in @science.org describing our discovery that bacteria can switch from competitors to bonafide predators when resources run dry—arming nanoscale “spears” (T6SS) to stab & consume neighbours. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #MicroSKy #Microbiology

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Antagonism as a foraging strategy in microbial communities

In natural habitats, nutrient availability limits bacterial growth. We discovered that bacteria can overcome this limitation by acquiring nutrients by lysing neighboring cells through contact-dependen...

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