Nicolas Tromas
@cyanophage.bsky.social
Cyano lover, working on Cyanobacteria-cyanophages dynamic, bloom toxicity prediction, cyano microbiome.
Evolutionary ecologist, fake-bioinformatician & author of children book.
Evolutionary ecologist, fake-bioinformatician & author of children book.
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JOB OFFER #PhageSky
We have a postdoc position opening in my group to investigate phage-MGE interactions !
We're based in the very nice city of Lyon, France @mmsb-lyon.bsky.social
Contact me for more info !
>> Apply on the CNRS webpage emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
We have a postdoc position opening in my group to investigate phage-MGE interactions !
We're based in the very nice city of Lyon, France @mmsb-lyon.bsky.social
Contact me for more info !
>> Apply on the CNRS webpage emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Postdoctoral researcher Microbiology (M/F)
emploi.cnrs.fr
October 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
JOB OFFER #PhageSky
We have a postdoc position opening in my group to investigate phage-MGE interactions !
We're based in the very nice city of Lyon, France @mmsb-lyon.bsky.social
Contact me for more info !
>> Apply on the CNRS webpage emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
We have a postdoc position opening in my group to investigate phage-MGE interactions !
We're based in the very nice city of Lyon, France @mmsb-lyon.bsky.social
Contact me for more info !
>> Apply on the CNRS webpage emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Evolution induced state shifts in a long-term microbial community experiment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Evolution induced state shifts in a long-term microbial community experiment
Biological communities are complex, dynamic systems that underpin ecosystem functionality, yet their long-term dynamics and predictability remain poorly understood. Understanding how Darwinian evoluti...
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October 11, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Evolution induced state shifts in a long-term microbial community experiment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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We're hiring for several positions (a post-bac researcher in #transcriptomics, a #phage #postdoc, a senior researcher (broad topics) and a graduate student to work on #ciliates) - find info here: www.marine.usf.edu/genomics/app...
Apply - Genomics
www.marine.usf.edu
October 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
We're hiring for several positions (a post-bac researcher in #transcriptomics, a #phage #postdoc, a senior researcher (broad topics) and a graduate student to work on #ciliates) - find info here: www.marine.usf.edu/genomics/app...
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Elle était de celles dont on ne peut que s'inspirer. Son travail est juste énorme et j'espère que ses paroles et ses conseils continueront d'être partagés.
Elle était de celles dont on ne peut que s'inspirer. Son travail est juste énorme et j'espère que ses paroles et ses conseils continueront d'être partagés.
Jane Goodall, la primatologue qui a révolutionné le regard porté sur les chimpanzés, est morte
Pionnière de l’éthologie moderne, devenue ambassadrice de la protection de la faune sauvage, la chercheuse britannique est morte à 91 ans.
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October 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Elle était de celles dont on ne peut que s'inspirer. Son travail est juste énorme et j'espère que ses paroles et ses conseils continueront d'être partagés.
Elle était de celles dont on ne peut que s'inspirer. Son travail est juste énorme et j'espère que ses paroles et ses conseils continueront d'être partagés.
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September 23, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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#Arctic #algae aren't immobile or entombed. They're not just surviving either—they're gliding into record books phys.org/news/2025-09...
Ice gliding #diatoms establish record-low temperature limits for motility in a eukaryotic cell www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#protists #microbes #extremophiles
Ice gliding #diatoms establish record-low temperature limits for motility in a eukaryotic cell www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#protists #microbes #extremophiles
September 13, 2025 at 10:51 AM
#Arctic #algae aren't immobile or entombed. They're not just surviving either—they're gliding into record books phys.org/news/2025-09...
Ice gliding #diatoms establish record-low temperature limits for motility in a eukaryotic cell www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#protists #microbes #extremophiles
Ice gliding #diatoms establish record-low temperature limits for motility in a eukaryotic cell www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#protists #microbes #extremophiles
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📣We seek a talented and enthusiastic postdoc - 3 yrs
Join our team at #GEUS, and use environmental genomics applied to marine sediment cores from the #Arctic to decipher past dynamics of toxic #phytoplankton species. 🌊❄️🧬
#protistsonsky #ancientDNA #PHATE
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Join our team at #GEUS, and use environmental genomics applied to marine sediment cores from the #Arctic to decipher past dynamics of toxic #phytoplankton species. 🌊❄️🧬
#protistsonsky #ancientDNA #PHATE
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Postdoc in marine environmental DNA/sedimentary ancient DNA
The Department of Glaciology and Climate at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) is looking for a talented and enthusiastic postdoctoral resear
candidate.hr-manager.net
September 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM
📣We seek a talented and enthusiastic postdoc - 3 yrs
Join our team at #GEUS, and use environmental genomics applied to marine sediment cores from the #Arctic to decipher past dynamics of toxic #phytoplankton species. 🌊❄️🧬
#protistsonsky #ancientDNA #PHATE
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Join our team at #GEUS, and use environmental genomics applied to marine sediment cores from the #Arctic to decipher past dynamics of toxic #phytoplankton species. 🌊❄️🧬
#protistsonsky #ancientDNA #PHATE
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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A few more days to apply!!!
We are recruiting‼️A permanent university lecturer position in BIOSTATISTICS is available at @helsinki.fi Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences. Great colleagues, excellent infrastructures and startup support 🙌🏻
DL 14 September
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
DL 14 September
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
University Lecturer in Biostatistics
University Lecturer in Biostatistics
jobs.helsinki.fi
September 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
A few more days to apply!!!
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We discovered a new horizontal gene transfer mechanism: tail-less cf-PICIs hijack free phage tails extracellularly, forming infectious chimeric virions that drive both intra- and inter-species transfer among bacteria. @jonaszpatkowski.bsky.social @tcostalab.bsky.social @jrpenades.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
We discovered a new horizontal gene transfer mechanism: tail-less cf-PICIs hijack free phage tails extracellularly, forming infectious chimeric virions that drive both intra- and inter-species transfer among bacteria. @jonaszpatkowski.bsky.social @tcostalab.bsky.social @jrpenades.bsky.social
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Ever heard of the Nous Group? A consulting firm that desperate universities hire to help with cost-saving and restructuring? Turns out they are actually vampires who parasitize tertiary education: drive.google.com/file/d/1_1Fk...
Nousferatu Are corporate consultants extracting the lifeblood from universities .pdf
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August 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Ever heard of the Nous Group? A consulting firm that desperate universities hire to help with cost-saving and restructuring? Turns out they are actually vampires who parasitize tertiary education: drive.google.com/file/d/1_1Fk...
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Three postdoc positions are now open for applications! Live and work on Kaurna land (Adelaide) in sunny South Australia. We have beach views, wineries, kangaroos, and koalas.
Develop new synthetic biology to engineer and understand #phage, and computational tools for #phage and #microbiome analysis
Develop new synthetic biology to engineer and understand #phage, and computational tools for #phage and #microbiome analysis
August 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Three postdoc positions are now open for applications! Live and work on Kaurna land (Adelaide) in sunny South Australia. We have beach views, wineries, kangaroos, and koalas.
Develop new synthetic biology to engineer and understand #phage, and computational tools for #phage and #microbiome analysis
Develop new synthetic biology to engineer and understand #phage, and computational tools for #phage and #microbiome analysis
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Are you a theoretical biologist that is intererested in the ecology and evolution of metabolic interactions among microorganisms?
Do you like to cooperate with experimentalists?
Do you have a PhD and experience in modelling and statistics?
Then this position might be for you👇:
shorturl.at/iiiOv
Do you like to cooperate with experimentalists?
Do you have a PhD and experience in modelling and statistics?
Then this position might be for you👇:
shorturl.at/iiiOv
August 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Are you a theoretical biologist that is intererested in the ecology and evolution of metabolic interactions among microorganisms?
Do you like to cooperate with experimentalists?
Do you have a PhD and experience in modelling and statistics?
Then this position might be for you👇:
shorturl.at/iiiOv
Do you like to cooperate with experimentalists?
Do you have a PhD and experience in modelling and statistics?
Then this position might be for you👇:
shorturl.at/iiiOv
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Planning capabilities double every 7mo→human-level in 5yrs? @yoshuabengio.bsky.social: "We still don't know how to make sure powerful AIs won't turn against us" AIs now lie to avoid shutdown, self-preserve. Solution: Non-agentic "Scientist AIs" + global governance beyond market forces 👇
August 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Planning capabilities double every 7mo→human-level in 5yrs? @yoshuabengio.bsky.social: "We still don't know how to make sure powerful AIs won't turn against us" AIs now lie to avoid shutdown, self-preserve. Solution: Non-agentic "Scientist AIs" + global governance beyond market forces 👇
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Nitrogen availability shapes evolution of phage resistance in cyanobacteria
-in #ISMEJ
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#phagesky
-in #ISMEJ
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#phagesky
Nitrogen availability shapes evolution of phage resistance in cyanobacteria
Abstract. Nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria play a key role in nitrogen and carbon biogeochemical cycles in aquatic ecosystems. Under nitrogen-limited conditio
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August 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Nitrogen availability shapes evolution of phage resistance in cyanobacteria
-in #ISMEJ
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#phagesky
-in #ISMEJ
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#phagesky
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We are also hiring a 4-year postdoc to study the dynamics and evolution of mobile genetic elements in the C-fixing Icelandic host-spring microbiomes
Join our exciting multidisciplinary team funded by @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Join our exciting multidisciplinary team funded by @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
August 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
We are also hiring a 4-year postdoc to study the dynamics and evolution of mobile genetic elements in the C-fixing Icelandic host-spring microbiomes
Join our exciting multidisciplinary team funded by @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Join our exciting multidisciplinary team funded by @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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I will never get over how creepy it is how the NIH X account is a full time propaganda machine now
August 12, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I will never get over how creepy it is how the NIH X account is a full time propaganda machine now
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Fully funded PhD position at the university of Turku. ats.talentadore.com/apply/vaitos...
Doctoral Researcher / Project researcher in Experimental Evolution of Host–Microbiota Interactions
The Faculty of Science at the University of Turku invites applications for a doctoral researcher / project researcher position at the Department of Biology. The position is fully funded 4-years. Emplo...
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August 8, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Fully funded PhD position at the university of Turku. ats.talentadore.com/apply/vaitos...
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Good question. We are starting to see longer and longer viruses in invertebrates with no clear evidence of proof-reading enzymes. To be resolved.
August 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Good question. We are starting to see longer and longer viruses in invertebrates with no clear evidence of proof-reading enzymes. To be resolved.
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Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊
August 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊
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Just out: metagenomics with internal standards yields phylogenetically resolved genome ("~cell") counts of bacteria, archaea, and photosynthetic eukaryotes per L of seawater, over the AMT29 Atlantic transect, via "single copy" genes (recA, radA, psbO). Compares with microscopy and flow cytometry.
Quantitative metagenomics for marine prokaryotes and photosynthetic eukaryotes #USC_MEB #jcampubs 🌊 academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
Quantitative metagenomics for marine prokaryotes and photosynthetic eukaryotes
Abstract. High-throughput sequencing has provided unprecedented insights into microbial biodiversity in marine and other ecosystems. However, most sequenci
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July 31, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Just out: metagenomics with internal standards yields phylogenetically resolved genome ("~cell") counts of bacteria, archaea, and photosynthetic eukaryotes per L of seawater, over the AMT29 Atlantic transect, via "single copy" genes (recA, radA, psbO). Compares with microscopy and flow cytometry.
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Europa dice adiós al exitoso programa LIFE, desmantelando un pilar básico para la financiación de proyectos de conservación de la naturaleza. La decisión afecta especialmente a las ONG, limitando sus posibilidades de participación en los programas de conservación.
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Bruselas borra del nuevo presupuesto el programa LIFE para la naturaleza y el clima - Climática, el medio especializado en clima y biodiversidad
Los proyectos para la recuperación del lince ibérico son el ejemplo más tangible de este programa comunitario en España.
climatica.coop
July 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Europa dice adiós al exitoso programa LIFE, desmantelando un pilar básico para la financiación de proyectos de conservación de la naturaleza. La decisión afecta especialmente a las ONG, limitando sus posibilidades de participación en los programas de conservación.
climatica.coop/bruselas-bor...
climatica.coop/bruselas-bor...
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Beautiful new review paper in preprint bridging microbial ecology and classic ecology led by Maggie Vogel, @olimeacock.bsky.social and @annasophieweiss.bsky.social, also by @juliensluneau.bsky.social and @lambdapp.bsky.social from our lab (not me :)) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Bridging the scales: what can microbial ecologists learn from classic ecology?
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July 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Beautiful new review paper in preprint bridging microbial ecology and classic ecology led by Maggie Vogel, @olimeacock.bsky.social and @annasophieweiss.bsky.social, also by @juliensluneau.bsky.social and @lambdapp.bsky.social from our lab (not me :)) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
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this paper is also the spiritual predecessor of this paper 👇 where we looked deeper into the causes and consequences of phage-resistance associated increases in Variovorax densities 👀 academic.oup.com/femsec/artic...
June 20, 2025 at 8:28 AM
this paper is also the spiritual predecessor of this paper 👇 where we looked deeper into the causes and consequences of phage-resistance associated increases in Variovorax densities 👀 academic.oup.com/femsec/artic...
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New paper alert! Polyculture reveals a more complex phage-host dynamics than when studying single phage-host pairs, suggesting complex interplay in natural communities. @microbiologysociety.org @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Bacteria–phage (co)evolution is constrained in a synthetic community across multiple bacteria–phage pairs
Bacteriophages can be important drivers of bacterial densities and, therefore, microbial community composition and function. These ecological interactions are likely to be greatly affected by evolutio...
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June 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
New paper alert! Polyculture reveals a more complex phage-host dynamics than when studying single phage-host pairs, suggesting complex interplay in natural communities. @microbiologysociety.org @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...