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KinarNicholas.bsky.social @kinarnicholas.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Hydrology Paper of the Day @geomicrosoares.bsky.social @sararassner.bsky.social on pyrite oxidation and microbial activity in a coal-based aquifer: spatial bacterial sampling and DNA extraction for 117 water samples; ion geochemistry; geological and geochemical controls; and microbial niches.

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Sara Rassner @sararassner.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Turns out that hydrogeologically units (mine water blocks) & coal rank explained most of the bacterial variation across sites. Great to finally have this out, thanks to co-authors, including @geomicrosoares.bsky.social @arwynedwards.bsky.social @garethfarr.bsky.social & 2 brilliant reviewers!

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Sara Rassner @sararassner.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

What do you do when three of your mine water sites are dominated by a pair of cooccurring SOB, while all other sites are dominated by a pair of cooccurring FeOB and the pattern can’t be explained by any of the measured variables? You start digging! doi.org/10.1093/fems...

Heatmap with average relative bacterial abundance (16S) of 7 genera across 12 mine water sites and one natural hot spring in the South Wales Coalfield at three times of year.

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Sara Rassner @sararassner.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

My printer just decided to print a PDF with all the slides mirrored! 🤯 I didn't even know it could do that and I will probably never find out how it happened. Also, using a dark background on slides you expect people to print out is just not nice.

Photo of a dark print out with pale boxes containing mirrored text in German.

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Sara Rassner @sararassner.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

For those new to Bluesky - you can get hourly #otters in your timeline. Hourly! bsky.app/profile/otte... #PublicServiceAnnouncement

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Sara Rassner @sararassner.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

I've had 40+ new followers overnight! It's been rather quiet here & I'm hoping we can get back to that fun and useful sharing of science that we once had on Twitter, but I am also going to miss my feed being filled with cute otters from Hourly Otters. It always brought me blissful calm on a busy day

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