Augustus (Gus) Pendleton
@augustuspendle1.bsky.social
Microbes 🤝 Lakes 🤝 Computers. Schmidt Lab @ Cornell. 🏳️🌈Scientist, 🇮🇪Fulbright, NOAA Davidson Fellow. Code-obsessed cat owner who likes to be outside.
https://gus-pendleton.github.io/
https://gus-pendleton.github.io/
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Our new interactive tool: MicrobeMapper – Schmidt Lab
Play with microbial data from Lake Ontario!
marschmilab.github.io
New blog post from the Schmidt Lab! Play around with environmental and microbial data from Lake Ontario, and make some pretty maps!
marschmilab.github.io/blog/microbe...
#rstats #microbiology #ecology #limnology #shiny
marschmilab.github.io/blog/microbe...
#rstats #microbiology #ecology #limnology #shiny
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We are recruiting several PhD students. If you are interested in conservation conflicts, population ecology, quantitative ecology, or biodiversity, check these projects out (links in the thread, feel free to reach out):
December 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
We are recruiting several PhD students. If you are interested in conservation conflicts, population ecology, quantitative ecology, or biodiversity, check these projects out (links in the thread, feel free to reach out):
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The sporulation phosphorelay protein Spo0B is membrane localized in Paenibacillus! The transmembrane domain appears to increase interaction with relay partners. Congrats to former lab undergrad @isabellalin.bsky.social and her grad mentor @cassidyprints.bsky.social
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
journals.asm.org
December 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The sporulation phosphorelay protein Spo0B is membrane localized in Paenibacillus! The transmembrane domain appears to increase interaction with relay partners. Congrats to former lab undergrad @isabellalin.bsky.social and her grad mentor @cassidyprints.bsky.social
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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This work was also our first time doing membrane localization (way to go Cassidy)! And so proud of Bella’s gorgeous Paenibacillus tree showing the distribution of the transmembrane containing Spo0B! Also it’s the lab’s first paper without ribosomes 🫨, but don’t worry - the ribosomes made the Spo0B!
December 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This work was also our first time doing membrane localization (way to go Cassidy)! And so proud of Bella’s gorgeous Paenibacillus tree showing the distribution of the transmembrane containing Spo0B! Also it’s the lab’s first paper without ribosomes 🫨, but don’t worry - the ribosomes made the Spo0B!
Looking for advice: we’re trying to extract HMW DNA from PES filters, so no bead beating. Pretty low biomass. Troubleshooting phenol-chloroform extractions right now but would love any advice or protocols if people are willing to share!
December 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Looking for advice: we’re trying to extract HMW DNA from PES filters, so no bead beating. Pretty low biomass. Troubleshooting phenol-chloroform extractions right now but would love any advice or protocols if people are willing to share!
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Love aquatic research, teaching, and outreach? Want to join us at our terrific field station and live on Yellow Bay, Montana? University of Montana seeks a new Director for Flathead Lake Biological Station. Position details here: apply.interfolio.com/178916
December 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Love aquatic research, teaching, and outreach? Want to join us at our terrific field station and live on Yellow Bay, Montana? University of Montana seeks a new Director for Flathead Lake Biological Station. Position details here: apply.interfolio.com/178916
My family split it up and baked all of the NYT cookie week cookies. Here are our rankings, if helpful:
1. Dark 'n' Stormy - showstoppers, delicious
2. Vietnamese Coffee Brownies - tasty and easy
3. Coconut Snowballs - yummy and colorful
4. Creme de Menthe - okay flavor, not favorite texture
cont...
1. Dark 'n' Stormy - showstoppers, delicious
2. Vietnamese Coffee Brownies - tasty and easy
3. Coconut Snowballs - yummy and colorful
4. Creme de Menthe - okay flavor, not favorite texture
cont...
December 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM
My family split it up and baked all of the NYT cookie week cookies. Here are our rankings, if helpful:
1. Dark 'n' Stormy - showstoppers, delicious
2. Vietnamese Coffee Brownies - tasty and easy
3. Coconut Snowballs - yummy and colorful
4. Creme de Menthe - okay flavor, not favorite texture
cont...
1. Dark 'n' Stormy - showstoppers, delicious
2. Vietnamese Coffee Brownies - tasty and easy
3. Coconut Snowballs - yummy and colorful
4. Creme de Menthe - okay flavor, not favorite texture
cont...
Very cool work!
Ecologists recognize the importance of integrating across scales, yet our models often target specific scales. Our new paper presents models of population growth that scale up to explain community-level patterns, including interactions of temperature, light & nutrients. doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
December 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Very cool work!
Looking for ideas: I have both sequencing data (relative abundances of cyanobacteria in a sample) as well as flow cytometry data (autofluorescence in multiple channels) for many mixed, environmental samples. I want to find fluorescence signatures for a few specific genera.
December 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Looking for ideas: I have both sequencing data (relative abundances of cyanobacteria in a sample) as well as flow cytometry data (autofluorescence in multiple channels) for many mixed, environmental samples. I want to find fluorescence signatures for a few specific genera.
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very cool: hydroacoustics shows "daily migration of both fish and mysid shrimps spanning several hundred meters throughout Lake Superior" -- in the Fall IAGLR Lakes Letter
iaglr.org/ll/2025-4_Fa... 👏
iaglr.org/ll/2025-4_Fa... 👏
December 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
very cool: hydroacoustics shows "daily migration of both fish and mysid shrimps spanning several hundred meters throughout Lake Superior" -- in the Fall IAGLR Lakes Letter
iaglr.org/ll/2025-4_Fa... 👏
iaglr.org/ll/2025-4_Fa... 👏
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Starting at 7pm Central I will be streaming from the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Uruguay!
Feel free to join and ask questions.
www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean
Feel free to join and ask questions.
www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean
Schmidt Ocean
Our Purpose: to excite interest and inform the wise stewardship of our planet.
Our Mission: Catalyze the discoveries needed to understand our ocean, sustain life, and ensure the health of our planet ...
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Starting at 7pm Central I will be streaming from the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Uruguay!
Feel free to join and ask questions.
www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean
Feel free to join and ask questions.
www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean
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Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
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Excited to recruit a new PhD student for Fall 2026 in my lab at Cornell! Looking for someone interested in evolutionary genomics + fisheries/conservation applications. Quick timeline this year—reach out soon. More details: www.therkildsenlab.org/join-us.html
Join Us
The lab of Nina Overgaard Therkildsen in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at Cornell University invites applications for a PhD position starting in Fall 2026. Our group works...
www.therkildsenlab.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Excited to recruit a new PhD student for Fall 2026 in my lab at Cornell! Looking for someone interested in evolutionary genomics + fisheries/conservation applications. Quick timeline this year—reach out soon. More details: www.therkildsenlab.org/join-us.html
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“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
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Marine Ecologist tenure track job, here at URI. Come join a thriving research environment with a major focus on all things marine!
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
Assistant Professor in Marine Ecology
The search will remain open until the position has been filled. First consideration will be given to applications received by December 12, 2025. Applications received after December 12, 2025 may be re...
jobs.uri.edu
November 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Marine Ecologist tenure track job, here at URI. Come join a thriving research environment with a major focus on all things marine!
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
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tmap or ggplot2 for maps? 🗺️
David O’Sullivan breaks down the trade-offs in a blog post.
URL: dosull.github.io/posts/2024-1...
#RStats #RSpatial #Maps #tmap #ggplot2
David O’Sullivan breaks down the trade-offs in a blog post.
URL: dosull.github.io/posts/2024-1...
#RStats #RSpatial #Maps #tmap #ggplot2
tmap vs. ggplot2 for mapping – Geospatial Stuff
For me at least the choice between ggplot2 and tmap is an ongoing question. Here are my latest thoughts on the subject (with code).
dosull.github.io
November 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This paper combines so many things I love! Community assembly, an appreciation for absolute abundance, and carefully selected (and interpreted!) alpha and beta diversity. Fun to see generalized concepts we're measuring in freshwater systems also get their due in host-associated microbiomes.
New paper showing how immigration alters the ecological processes structuring the assembly and variation in #Monarch caterpillar gut #microbiomes.
w/ @jaapderoode.bsky.social, @gabe-dubose.bsky.social, Joselyne Chavez, Lydia Fuller-Hall
Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
w/ @jaapderoode.bsky.social, @gabe-dubose.bsky.social, Joselyne Chavez, Lydia Fuller-Hall
Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Experimental Immigration Mediates Ecological Selection and Drift in Monarch Microbiome Assembly
The distribution of biodiversity depends on processes operating across scales, yet multiscale paradigms have struggled to permeate host-microbiome research. By integrating multi-scale ecological theo...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This paper combines so many things I love! Community assembly, an appreciation for absolute abundance, and carefully selected (and interpreted!) alpha and beta diversity. Fun to see generalized concepts we're measuring in freshwater systems also get their due in host-associated microbiomes.
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Please apply if you are interested in marine biogeochemistry and microbial dark oxygen production. Deadline: November 17th.
📣Postdoc opportunity @nordcee.bsky.social , University of Southern Denmark! 📣
Join us and work with Bo Thamdrup and me on microbial dark oxygen production in marine oxygen minimum zones!
Please share widely!
Deadline: 17 November
More information can be found here:
tinyurl.com/2vuur3wh
Join us and work with Bo Thamdrup and me on microbial dark oxygen production in marine oxygen minimum zones!
Please share widely!
Deadline: 17 November
More information can be found here:
tinyurl.com/2vuur3wh
Postdoc on microbial oxygen production in marine oxygen minimum zones
Application deadline: 17 November 2025 at 23:59 hours local Danish time
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Please apply if you are interested in marine biogeochemistry and microbial dark oxygen production. Deadline: November 17th.
Pitchfork is down...quick everyone just enjoy the music you like without feeling judged
October 31, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Pitchfork is down...quick everyone just enjoy the music you like without feeling judged
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Prospective PhD students - here is a brilliant opportunity to explore how bacteria and viruses evolve in liquid environments like the ocean 🌊
The LSI is a great place to explore microbial evolution, and you'll be working with fantastic, interdisciplinary supervisors. Email Wolfram if interested 👇
The LSI is a great place to explore microbial evolution, and you'll be working with fantastic, interdisciplinary supervisors. Email Wolfram if interested 👇
Even more biased: I'm excited about the project 'Turbulent Partners: Unravelling Host-Virus Coevolution in Dynamic Environments' with Adam Monier and Daniel Kattnig. Drop me an email if interested! www.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/rese...
October 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Prospective PhD students - here is a brilliant opportunity to explore how bacteria and viruses evolve in liquid environments like the ocean 🌊
The LSI is a great place to explore microbial evolution, and you'll be working with fantastic, interdisciplinary supervisors. Email Wolfram if interested 👇
The LSI is a great place to explore microbial evolution, and you'll be working with fantastic, interdisciplinary supervisors. Email Wolfram if interested 👇
Too cool!!
I’m very happy this is finally out! Here, we showcase the combination of BONCAT and SIP metaproteomics to uncover rare and active microbes driving anaerobic acetate turnover. We are excited to see what other microbial metabolisms and ecosystems this approach can help to illuminate! 🦠
OUT NOW Activity-targeted metaproteomics uncovers rare syntrophic bacteria central to anaerobic community metabolism by @ryanziels.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Too cool!!
Dream job alert 🚨🚨
📣 New PhD student position opening in my lab!
Soils are full of microbes, but how many are active?
Surprisingly, we still lack reliable methods to answer this.
If you are interested in microbial dormancy and are fascinated by the Alps and glacier forefields, contact me.
🏔️ 🦠 💤 🧬 🎓
Soils are full of microbes, but how many are active?
Surprisingly, we still lack reliable methods to answer this.
If you are interested in microbial dormancy and are fascinated by the Alps and glacier forefields, contact me.
🏔️ 🦠 💤 🧬 🎓
October 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Dream job alert 🚨🚨
Anyone have access to this article and would like to share it as a gift link? It's a topic near-and-dear to my heart 😅
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...
Why Is This Lake ‘Burping’?
www.nytimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Anyone have access to this article and would like to share it as a gift link? It's a topic near-and-dear to my heart 😅
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...
Anyone have access to this and might be willing to send me a pdf?
academic.oup.com/etc/article-...
academic.oup.com/etc/article-...
Environmental factors affecting the formation of methylmercury in low pH lakes
Abstract. Recent studies have demonstrated elevated levels of mercury in fish from remote, low alkalinity and low pH lakes. The mechanisms of this enhanced
academic.oup.com
September 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Anyone have access to this and might be willing to send me a pdf?
academic.oup.com/etc/article-...
academic.oup.com/etc/article-...
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Yesterday I headed over to Fremont, WI on the Wolf River to help prep for wild rice seeding that the Brothertown Indian Nation is doing. We collected some sediment at two sites, mixed up seeds for several sources, and made mud balls for seeding. They are seeding today and tomorrow! #restoration
September 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Yesterday I headed over to Fremont, WI on the Wolf River to help prep for wild rice seeding that the Brothertown Indian Nation is doing. We collected some sediment at two sites, mixed up seeds for several sources, and made mud balls for seeding. They are seeding today and tomorrow! #restoration
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3 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen jobbnorge.no/en/available... please repost
September 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM
3 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen jobbnorge.no/en/available... please repost