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Thomas Mock @thomasmock.bsky.social · 6d

Fully funded #PhD Studentship in my lab! Get in touch 😀

The role of light-driven proton pumps in sustaining oceanic primary production #microbial #rhodopsins #diatom #ocean
@ueaenv.bsky.social

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Thomas Mock @thomasmock.bsky.social · 13d

Our latest #preprint led by Yumary M. Vasquez & Frederik Schulz @jgi.doe.gov

The largest database of giant #virus MAGs (GVMAGs V2) with >18,000 genomes from #marine, freshwater, anthropogenic and terrestrial environments.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Thomas Mock @thomasmock.bsky.social · 15d

Congrats all! Exciting times ahead! Good luck everyone! 😊👍👏

Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social · 15d

Welcome, MarMic Class of 2030!! 👩‍🔬

13 students from 8 countries have arrived to our International Max Planck Research School of Marine Microbiology MarMic.
We’re very happy to have you & look forward to the years ahead!
www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Welcome-M...
@maxplanck.de #marinebiology

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Thomas Mock @thomasmock.bsky.social · 15d

Congrats everyone including @paulgmock.bsky.social Good luck at @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social You are in good hands

www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Welcome-M...

Welcome, MarMic Class of 2030

www.mpi-bremen.de

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 20d

New Species Spotlight 👇

Patricia Sanchez-Baracaldo zooms in and out on cyanobacteria

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Free to read: rdcu.be/eHZSN

Blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Patricia Sanchez-Baracaldo zooms in and out on cyanobacteria.

www.nature.com

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Axel Visel @axelvisel.bsky.social · 23d

Sequencing methods 🧬 have come a long way from census counts 🔢 to assembling genomes and understanding the functions 🧪 of bacteria and viruses.

New review by @jgi.doe.gov's Gitta Szabó, @emileyeloe-fadrosh.bsky.social, Tanja Woyke with @jeffinerca.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A genomic view of Earth’s biomes - Nature Reviews Genetics

Genome-wide approaches have uncovered the vast microbial and viral diversity across ecosystems. This Review explores advances in metagenomics, single-cell sequencing and functional profiling to elucid...

www.nature.com

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Thomas Mock @thomasmock.bsky.social · 27d

Worth reading: A genome-wide CRISPR screen reveals how #diatoms thrive in dynamic light. From Ellen Yeh's group

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Thomas Mock @thomasmock.bsky.social · 29d

Cool preprint: Evidence for the acquisition of a proteorhodopsin-like #rhodopsin by a chrysophyte-infecting giant #virus

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Thomas Mock @thomasmock.bsky.social · Sep 12

UK introduces landmark legislation to protect world’s ocean
www.gov.uk/government/n...

UK introduces landmark legislation to protect world’s ocean

The UK government introduces Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) legislation to help protect two-thirds of the world’s ocean.

www.gov.uk

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · Sep 5

Survey of 8 countries including Spain and the US finds 82% of people support setting aside 30% land + sea for nature.

All over the world, people WANT rewilding. Time our politicians started turning that clear wish into actual policy. Let's bring nature back!!!
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Public strongly backs aim of 30% of land and sea set aside for nature, poll finds

Survey of eight countries finds 82% of people support 30x30 biodiversity target, as progress stalls on protected areas

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The Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · Sep 2

Last few days for booking your online tickets!

Join leading coccolithophore scientists online at Advances in Coccolithophore Research 2025, 9-11 September. Full schedule including speakers and talks available - buff.ly/oaMjqZB

➡️ Book your ticket by Friday 5 September.

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Thomas Mock @thomasmock.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thanks Nic. Extremly motile. This is why we had to use FACS to get clones. They are very fast on plates.

Thomas Mock @thomasmock.bsky.social · Aug 14

Our latest methods article led by Longji Deng. It enables to reverse engineer #photosynthesis in a eukaryotic heterotroph containing a "chloroplast": The #diatom Nitzschia putrida @ueaenv.bsky.social @norwichmicro.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Thomas Mock @thomasmock.bsky.social · Aug 11

Our new paper just out in BMC Biology led by Johanna Winder: Environmental adaptations in #metagenomes revealed by deep learning. Artificial neural networks were used to classify ice-binding / substrate-binding proteins (DUF3494).

bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....