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🇨🇦 Marc Strous

@marcstrous.bsky.social

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Canada Research Chair in Geomicrobiology. Fascinations include alkaline soda lakes and ancient groundwater.

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Marc Straus is an American oncologist, art collector, poet, and writer. He is the author of more than 40 scientific papers on the treatment of various types of cancer. Straus was among the first oncologists to introduce the use of continuous infusion for the delivery of chemotherapy, a practice that has since become standard. .. more

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🇨🇦 Marc Strous @marcstrous.bsky.social · 2h

Opportunity to join my lab for a postdoc or PhD student from outside Canada. Very short term. Very competitive. Send me your CV and cover letter before Jan 5. This runs via nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...

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Jed O. Kaplan @jedokaplan.bsky.social · 8d

I've updated the opportunities part of my website with fresh openings for researchers interested in climate and vegetation science, archaeology, history, and geography at all levels from undergraduate intern to postdoc. Take a look! jedokaplan.github.io/opportunities/

Work with me!

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🇨🇦 Marc Strous @marcstrous.bsky.social · 9d

Could we do that for environmental microbes and microbiomes? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Dr. Roxanne Beinart @symbiosisrox.bsky.social · 10d

New preprint led by @annaschreck.bsky.social that capitalized on the wealth of publicly available 18S rRNA datasets to explore the oceanic distribution and diversity of understudied anaerobic ciliates. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A meta-analysis of environmental sequencing data reveals the global distribution and hidden diversity of marine anaerobic ciliates

Anaerobic protists are diverse, ecologically important members of anoxic microbial communities, acting as grazers, nutrient cyclers, and partners in multi-domain associations, yet remain understudied ...

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Alex Loy @loyteam.bsky.social · 10d

📢 20 postdoctoral positions (full-time, 4 years) for outstanding female scientists 👩‍🔬 🔬 @univie.ac.at

The E-STEEM programme call opens January 7th, 2026 and closes March 3rd, 2026.
careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...

I participate as a host...

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Torsten Seemann @torstenseemann.bsky.social · 10d

💾 Prokka 1.15.6 is released!

This is the last major release of Prokka. But don't be sad, because @oschwengers.bsky.social already has an excellent replacement called Bakta you can migrate to.
#bioinformatics #microbiology #genomics

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Release Heading into the sunset · tseemann/prokka

The future This is probably the last release of Prokka. I won't be making any code changes except bug fixes. I will update the databases occasionally. I strongly recommend you use Bakta by @oschwen...

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Human Frontier Science Program @hfspo.bsky.social · 11d

Attention scientists from all over the world🙃
The Call for Letters of Intent for #HFSPResearchGrants 2027 is now open! 🧪
Get your international & interdisciplinary team. It's time to put your bold research idea into practice!
🔗https://bit.ly/48VsGCG
📅 15 Dec 2025–26 Mar 2026
#sts #LifeSciences

Call for Letters of Intent - HFSP Research Grants 2027

🇨🇦 Marc Strous @marcstrous.bsky.social · 13d

Nice work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Viral NblA proteins negatively affect oceanic cyanobacterial photosynthesis - Nature

Viral NblA accelerates the cyanophage infection cycle, directs degradation of the host phycobilisome and other proteins, and reduces host photosynthetic light-harvesting efficiency.

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Manuel Kleiner @manuelkleiner.bsky.social · 15d

Super excited to have this paper out. We developed a complex set of ground truth samples to test more than 110 statistical approaches for differential #metaproteomics
We can now give clear guidance on what tests perform well. Thank you Tjorven Hinzke and
@benoitkunath.bsky.social for the leadership

Evaluation of statistical approaches for differential metaproteomics

Metaproteomics characterizes and compares molecular phenotypes of organisms in communities by comprehensively analyzing their protein expression profiles using statistical methods. However, not all st...

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Qiyun Zhu @zhuqiyun.bsky.social · 15d

The scikit-bio paper in online in Nature Methods! Many thanks to our collaborators, community contributors and reviewers! We couldn’t have done it without you. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Bioinformatics #OpenSource

Scikit-bio: a fundamental Python library for biological omic data analysis - Nature Methods

Nature Methods - Scikit-bio: a fundamental Python library for biological omic data analysis

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Reposted by Sam Harper, A. E. Dessler, Michael Wehner , and 11 more Sam Harper, A. E. Dessler, Michael Wehner, Marc Strous, Caroline Krafft, Joshua Goodman, Valerie Mueller, Melanie C. Green, Lindsay M. Tedds, Scott A. Imberman, Eric Hehman, Claire L. Adida, James Cameron, Claire L. Niedzwiedz

Juan Moreno-Cruz @jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 17d

It's happening! Canada launched two programs to recruit international researchers.

Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (1 million/yr for 8 yrs +)
Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders.

I will do my best to facilitate the process for those interested. Hit me up.

www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...

The Government of Canada introduces new programs for international researchers - Canada.ca

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Reposted by Marc Strous, Jennifer Clark, David Murakami Wood , and 1 more Marc Strous, Jennifer Clark, David Murakami Wood, Kathleen Kennedy

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 20d

microsoft promised to "empower every user" and google to "revolutionise knowledge and technological innovation" but in reality what they have given us is an invasive surveillance dystopian nightmare hard to escape

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Microsoft Teams Starts Telling Your Boss Where You Are—Now Just 8 Weeks Away

Microsoft confirms start date for new Teams update — no more hiding places.

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Reposted by Marc Strous, Jeremy J. Schmidt

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 20d

If you missed the four tenure track positions' deadline (today) in my department, there's another position in Geography @ucalgary.bsky.social as Assistant Professor in Climate Change and the Critical Zone. Come be my office neighbour! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1710469... 🧪⚒️

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 22d

The rise of free oxygen may have initiated on marine mud www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

The rise of free oxygen may have initiated on marine mud - Nature Geoscience

The oxygenation of Earth’s atmosphere ~2.45–2.30 billion years ago may have initiated in the oxidized bottom waters of marine shelves, according to a synthesis of thallium and nitrogen isotopes and cy...

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🇨🇦 Marc Strous @marcstrous.bsky.social · 24d

Ok, I was slightly off: It was $45 (US) for 15 million paired end reads per sample, including lib prep, but excluding DNA extraction and labor, 192 samples pooled onto a NovaSeqX 3000M kit.

🇨🇦 Marc Strous @marcstrous.bsky.social · 24d

I believe 50-100M reads. Even though these are not well sampled environments, our pipeline does not rely on assembly or mapping and I believe we'll be able to get all the information we are looking for...

🇨🇦 Marc Strous @marcstrous.bsky.social · 25d

Anyway, at the same price and less work we get a nice metagenome of sufficient depth to get good community profiles as well as analysis of functional genes. No MAGs of course, but that is often not the objective.

🇨🇦 Marc Strous @marcstrous.bsky.social · 25d

This leads to higher costs, about 70 CAD per sample for amplicon sequencing perhaps including PCR and DNA extraction, but excluding the labor of manually extracting DNA and doing PCR, checking products with gels etc. That's the advantage of a large research conglomerate like Vienna I guess

🇨🇦 Marc Strous @marcstrous.bsky.social · 25d

Well that is really good value for your money! Here, we have problems making effective use of the higher sequencing capacity of the NextSeq instruments for amplicon sequencing as well as lacking effective robotics I guess. We have too few samples generated per month to reduce costs.

🇨🇦 Marc Strous @marcstrous.bsky.social · 25d

Just curious: what exactly do you get for those 12 euros and what is the turnaround?

🇨🇦 Marc Strous @marcstrous.bsky.social · 27d

That being said... good primers always welcome of course.

🇨🇦 Marc Strous @marcstrous.bsky.social · 27d

Perrsonally, I believe the days of amplicon sequencing are over. We now have #SingleM!

🇨🇦 Marc Strous @marcstrous.bsky.social · 27d

Personally I thought this paper was well done. AI has good use cases and CBC is using it transparently.

🇨🇦 Marc Strous @marcstrous.bsky.social · 28d

Wow, this is almost too good to be true! Fascinating that something as mundane as a fridge can still be innovated so radically. I want one! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Liquid-state dipolarcaloric refrigeration cycle with nitrate-based salts

The environmental burden of vapor compression refrigeration has driven interest in alternatives. Caloric refrigeration cycles offer a path forward, but most rely on solid-state materials with limited ...

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Sean Meaden @seanmeaden.bsky.social · 29d

Two fully-funded PhD openings in my research group at the University of York.
If you’re excited about viromes, phage biology, Nanopore sequencing, soils and the odd bit of alpine or agricultural field sampling, we’d love to hear from you!
🌱🦠🏔️

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A Farewell to Arms: The Trade-off Between Growth and Defence in Bacteria (York YBDTP Project) at University of York on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - A Farewell to Arms: The Trade-off Between Growth and Defence in Bacteria (York YBDTP Project) at University of York, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Mike Blazanin @mikeblazanin.bsky.social · 29d

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology url: academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology

Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R

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Robin A. Herbert @robinherbert.bsky.social · Nov 25

Very excited to share a big part of my dissertation work with the Deutschbauer lab at LBNL and @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social! BarTn7: A method for bacterial lineage tracking at sub-species resolution in population, ecological, and evolutionary experiments.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...