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ericamhartmann.bsky.social @ericamhartmann.bsky.social · 3h

Beautiful piece about microbes, buildings, and health 🤩
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Architects and microbiologists are exploring whether making buildings hospitable to friendly microorganisms can improve human health.

www.nature.com

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 1d

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a
"delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

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Caroline Clason @carolineclason.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to advertise a new interdisciplinary PhD opportunity at @geogdurham.bsky.social - "From ice to ecosystem: assessing the risk of glacier melt and legacy contamination for reindeer in Sápmi (Lapland)" ❄️ 🦌

To learn more about the project and how to apply visit: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Reindeer in Ljungris, Berg Municipality, Jämtland County, Sweden. Arild Vågen.

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Arwyn Edwards @arwynedwards.bsky.social · 5d

Far too optimistic take on this. Be realistic - being a Nobel-level scientist is the best chance of having three whole weeks away from work email, and this sets a precedent that even then, someone will not heed your tripnote.

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Alex Probst @alexjprobst.bsky.social · 18d

New article on equitable reuse of public sequencing data, published in @natmicrobiol.nature.com!
Led by the Data reuse core team @lhug.bsky.social @environmicrobio.bsky.social Cristina Moraru, @geomicrosoares.bsky.social, @folker.bsky.social and with Anke Heyer and The Data Reuse Consotrium!

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Arwyn Edwards @arwynedwards.bsky.social · 19d

Just signed up to peer review an application for one of the largest science funders in the world.

Asked to confirm I was at least 13 years old. Might explain a lot about the grant review process if it's secretly dominated by teenagers.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 21d

Long-buried layers of saline permafrost seem to be accelerating climate change’s transformation of the Arctic. https://scim.ag/46AxH2E

Even subzero parts of the Arctic are thawing. Ancient salt is the culprit

Long-buried layers of saline permafrost seem to be accelerating climate change's transformation of the Arctic

scim.ag

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Aberystwyth University @aberuni.bsky.social · 28d

Our scientists are leading research into how a widely used vaccine can boost overall immunity in livestock 🐮

More: tinyl.co/3iC7

@aberdlsagb.bsky.social
@ukri.org

#AberTB#bovineTB#bTB#TB

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James Bradley @drbradbrad.bsky.social · Sep 10

2 Postdoc vacancies: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere
@erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA
📢 PLEASE RT

Experimental:
🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, omics, biogeochem

Modelling:
🖥️ Bioenergetics, thermodynamics, ecological, biogeochem

☀️ Marseille, France
‼️ Apply by 30 Sept

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Russ Morphew @russmorphew.bsky.social · Sep 7

Real pleasure to be part of the Helminth Eco-Health Hub UK. A real opportunity for experts to forge new connections. Information on the network will follow. @aberdlsagb.bsky.social @aberuni.bsky.social
www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/univers...

Aberystwyth University expert joins network to tackle devastating worm diseases

A parasitology expert from Aberystwyth University has joined a new UK-wide network to drive global research into combating parasitic diseases of humans and animals.

www.cambrian-news.co.uk

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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · Sep 6

Reminder that we are recruiting an Assistant Professor Bacterial Genomics @imibirmingham.bsky.social.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

Deadline 24 Sept.

Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Bacterial Genomics at University of Birmingham

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Bacterial Genomics on jobs.ac.uk!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Ursula Enzenhofer @yogaski.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sad views from southern #Svalbard 30.8.25 - melt has reached high up the mountains. From Hornsund to Amundsenisen barely any snow left… how should glaciers build mass like this? Svalbard is heating fast. Only steep mountain walls seem to help accumulate a bit and catch blown snow 📸from✈️
#Glaciology

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · Sep 1

Met Office stats confirm summer 2025 is officially the warmest summer on record for the UK.

The UK’s mean temp of 16.10°C surpasses the previous record of  15.76°C and pushes the summer of 1976 out of the top 5 warmest summers.

www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Summer 2025 is the warmest on record for the UK

Provisional Met Office statistics confirm that summer 2025 is officially the warmest summer on record for the UK.

www.metoffice.gov.uk

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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · Aug 28

Temporary lecturer in Microbiology post available at Bangor University. Apply by 15th September: jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....

Job Details | Bangor University Jobs

jobs.bangor.ac.uk

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Arwyn Edwards @arwynedwards.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thanks to @aberuni.bsky.social for highlighting the phenomenal hard work of Drs @geomicrosoares.bsky.social @sararassner.bsky.social and team in mapping the microbiota of the South Wales coalfield. Prospects for future energy emerges from the legacy of fossil energy. academic.oup.com/femsec/artic...

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Arwyn Edwards @arwynedwards.bsky.social · Aug 22

Did you ever find out? If it's SG I am tempted to say the Sorling hut, given the coastal position, elephant seals and mountains, but the shape of the roof is different in this photo I took in 2015.

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Sanne Moedt @sannemdt.bsky.social · Aug 22

Happy to share our new paper in L&O about autotrophic biofilms in subarctic lakes and streams 🦠 🏔️ @aslo.org aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Environmental controls of autotrophic biofilm biomass and community composition in subarctic lakes and streams in Greenland

Photosynthetic biofilms are key components of Arctic freshwater ecosystems, supporting primary production and forming the base of aquatic food webs. While several environmental factors regulating bio...

aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Arwyn Edwards @arwynedwards.bsky.social · Aug 15

Not bad, but not as gripping as S4C

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Liz Bagshaw Glaciology @lizbagshaw.bsky.social · Aug 15

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Thought provoking article to share with your families and friends when they ask what you do, featuring the ever excellent @arwynedwards.bsky.social

Arctic glaciers face ‘terminal’ decline as microbes accelerate ice melt

Scientists in Svalbard in race to study polar microbes as global heating threatens fragile glacial ecosystems

www.theguardian.com

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Arwyn Edwards @arwynedwards.bsky.social · Aug 15

Ah, but you do so much more and get to work with amazing gadgetry that pings data back from inside ice sheets and stuff.

I’m just here with a turkey baster…

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Arwyn Edwards @arwynedwards.bsky.social · Aug 15

A powerful piece by @mountainogre.bsky.social on #microbes and #Arctic change, featuring our work on glacier ecology @aberdlsagb.bsky.social and work on methane cyclers by colleagues at UNIS

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Arctic glaciers face ‘terminal’ decline as microbes accelerate ice melt

Scientists in Svalbard in race to study polar microbes as global heating threatens fragile glacial ecosystems

www.theguardian.com

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Arwyn Edwards @arwynedwards.bsky.social · Aug 15

For a smart watch it’s not always that clever…

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Arwyn Edwards @arwynedwards.bsky.social · Aug 15

A time for good decisions.

Taking a moment upwind to first calmly think through our optimal escape route away from a polar bear and her cub raiding nests in the distance. #fieldphotofriday #fieldworkfriday

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Kat Coyte @coytelab.bsky.social · Aug 12

A new 4 year PostDoc position in our lab! Modeling + experiments to explore dynamics of carbon fixing hot-spring microbiomes. Part of an exciting multidisciplinary team with Sophie Nixon, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social & others

Please share & get in touch if interested!

tinyurl.com/e7j7bha3

Research Associate in Microbiome Ecology:Oxford Road

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · Aug 7

When you see a paper in a top journal

that claims to be doing a global map of richness of a taxonomic group

yet there are huge lacunae in the global map of samples

from which they have done some fancy interpolation

you have to be just a little bit sceptical

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