Emil Ruff
@emilruff.bsky.social
Microbial ecology and ecophysiology. Associate Scientist at The Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole. https://rufflab.org/ Science, music, art, graphics, comics.
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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
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November 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Please apply if you are interested in marine biogeochemistry and microbial dark oxygen production. Deadline: November 17th.
Looking for a cutting-edge and fun conference in 2026?
How about:
GRC Geobiology in Ventura, CA - January 11-16, 2026
www.grc.org/geobiology-c...
AbSciCon in Madison, WI - May 17-22, 2026
www.agu.org/abscicon
🤩The Ruff Lab will be there with sessions and presentations on Dark Oxygen Production 🥳
How about:
GRC Geobiology in Ventura, CA - January 11-16, 2026
www.grc.org/geobiology-c...
AbSciCon in Madison, WI - May 17-22, 2026
www.agu.org/abscicon
🤩The Ruff Lab will be there with sessions and presentations on Dark Oxygen Production 🥳
2026 Geobiology Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Geobiology will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
October 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Looking for a cutting-edge and fun conference in 2026?
How about:
GRC Geobiology in Ventura, CA - January 11-16, 2026
www.grc.org/geobiology-c...
AbSciCon in Madison, WI - May 17-22, 2026
www.agu.org/abscicon
🤩The Ruff Lab will be there with sessions and presentations on Dark Oxygen Production 🥳
How about:
GRC Geobiology in Ventura, CA - January 11-16, 2026
www.grc.org/geobiology-c...
AbSciCon in Madison, WI - May 17-22, 2026
www.agu.org/abscicon
🤩The Ruff Lab will be there with sessions and presentations on Dark Oxygen Production 🥳
🤩 BONCAT-Live for isolation and cultivation of active environmental bacteria 😍
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
BONCAT-Live for isolation and cultivation of active environmental bacteria | mBio
Dynamic microbial activity transforms environments and impacts health and disease
in associations with plants and animals, including humans. Identifying the contribution
of individual microbes to thos...
journals.asm.org
October 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
🤩 BONCAT-Live for isolation and cultivation of active environmental bacteria 😍
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Finally! This idea deserved to be broadly discussed for decades.
The obsession with economic output as a measure of human development puts sustainability on the back burner
go.nature.com/4pNC96G
go.nature.com/4pNC96G
End GDP mania: how the world should really measure prosperity
The obsession with economic output as a measure of human development puts sustainability on the back burner. Researchers can now help to devise better indicators.
go.nature.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Finally! This idea deserved to be broadly discussed for decades.
Spend the summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, conducting your own
original research. Applications open now.
grassfoundation.org/application-...
@mblscience.bsky.social
original research. Applications open now.
grassfoundation.org/application-...
@mblscience.bsky.social
Apply for the Grass Fellowship – The Grass Foundation
Priority Deadline: October 15, 2025 Applicants who apply by this date will have the opportunity to receive technical feedback and update their proposal accordingly prior to the final deadline. Letters of reference must be received by December 15, 2025.
grassfoundation.org
September 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Spend the summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, conducting your own
original research. Applications open now.
grassfoundation.org/application-...
@mblscience.bsky.social
original research. Applications open now.
grassfoundation.org/application-...
@mblscience.bsky.social
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We’re recruiting a PhD student (Fall 2026) to study the ecology & evolution of aquatic giant viruses! Research spans lab experiment, field sampling, & bioinformatics. Background in microbiology/bioinforamtics encouraged.
More info & contact email here: monirlab.com/join/
Please share. Thank you!
More info & contact email here: monirlab.com/join/
Please share. Thank you!
Join the Lab | Monir lab
monirlab.com
August 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
We’re recruiting a PhD student (Fall 2026) to study the ecology & evolution of aquatic giant viruses! Research spans lab experiment, field sampling, & bioinformatics. Background in microbiology/bioinforamtics encouraged.
More info & contact email here: monirlab.com/join/
Please share. Thank you!
More info & contact email here: monirlab.com/join/
Please share. Thank you!
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The White House budget proposal includes an $18B cut to NIH research funding in FY26. Explore the anticipated economic impacts in communities nationwide & click on any district to learn more and get a shareable scorecard.
New from our #SCIMaP team: scienceimpacts.org/fy26
New from our #SCIMaP team: scienceimpacts.org/fy26
SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research
View Projected Impact of the FY2026 Budget Cuts to the NIH
scienceimpacts.org
August 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The White House budget proposal includes an $18B cut to NIH research funding in FY26. Explore the anticipated economic impacts in communities nationwide & click on any district to learn more and get a shareable scorecard.
New from our #SCIMaP team: scienceimpacts.org/fy26
New from our #SCIMaP team: scienceimpacts.org/fy26
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Great publication from Maggie Wagner (KU) and Manuel Kleiner (NCS) on how to design microbiome (+ other Omic) projects with downstream statistics in mind!
A must read for trainees!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A must read for trainees!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How thoughtful experimental design can empower biologists in the omics era - Nature Communications
Here, the authors discuss principles of experimental design that are relevant for all biology research, along with special considerations for projects using -omics approaches, highlighting common expe...
www.nature.com
August 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Great publication from Maggie Wagner (KU) and Manuel Kleiner (NCS) on how to design microbiome (+ other Omic) projects with downstream statistics in mind!
A must read for trainees!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A must read for trainees!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This generous gift will have positive ripple effects throughout the entire community in and around Woods Hole. 🥂🧪🎊🔬🥳
www.mbl.edu/news/mbl-ann...
www.mbl.edu/news/mbl-ann...
MBL Announces Largest Ever Gift for Its Renowned Biological Education and Research Programs | Marine Biological Laboratory
Cell Biology Researcher Mark Terasaki’s $25 Million Unrestricted Gift Will Support Operations and Infrastructure Contact: Samantha Cummis scummis@mbl.edu; 973.800.4119
www.mbl.edu
July 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This generous gift will have positive ripple effects throughout the entire community in and around Woods Hole. 🥂🧪🎊🔬🥳
www.mbl.edu/news/mbl-ann...
www.mbl.edu/news/mbl-ann...
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Excited to present our DODGE project (#Safer2028) results on dark oxygen in the deep continental biosphere today at the #Goldschmidt2025 conference in Prague. It's session 9e in the Small Hall - see you there if you are around!
July 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Excited to present our DODGE project (#Safer2028) results on dark oxygen in the deep continental biosphere today at the #Goldschmidt2025 conference in Prague. It's session 9e in the Small Hall - see you there if you are around!
For ANME enthusiasts & for those who wonder how a methanogen turns into a methanotroph
👇New work by Orphanlab
Identification of key steps in the evolution of anaerobic methanotrophy in Candidatus Methanovorans (ANME-3) archaea
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@caltech.edu @mblscience.bsky.social
👇New work by Orphanlab
Identification of key steps in the evolution of anaerobic methanotrophy in Candidatus Methanovorans (ANME-3) archaea
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@caltech.edu @mblscience.bsky.social
Identification of key steps in the evolution of anaerobic methanotrophy in Candidatus Methanovorans (ANME-3) archaea
Modification of core carbon and energy metabolism aided a recent evolution of anaerobic methanotrophy in archaea.
www.science.org
June 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
For ANME enthusiasts & for those who wonder how a methanogen turns into a methanotroph
👇New work by Orphanlab
Identification of key steps in the evolution of anaerobic methanotrophy in Candidatus Methanovorans (ANME-3) archaea
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@caltech.edu @mblscience.bsky.social
👇New work by Orphanlab
Identification of key steps in the evolution of anaerobic methanotrophy in Candidatus Methanovorans (ANME-3) archaea
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@caltech.edu @mblscience.bsky.social
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Two Postdoc Opportunities in Environmental Microbiology!
Join us and work on microbial key players exposed to oxygen depletion.
Please share widely!
Deadline: 25 July
More information can be found here:
tinyurl.com/4kwzzt6p
Join us and work on microbial key players exposed to oxygen depletion.
Please share widely!
Deadline: 25 July
More information can be found here:
tinyurl.com/4kwzzt6p
Two postdoc positions on the ecology and physiology of microbial key players exposed to oxygen depletion
Application deadline: 25 July 2025 at 23:59 hours local Danish time
tinyurl.com
June 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Two Postdoc Opportunities in Environmental Microbiology!
Join us and work on microbial key players exposed to oxygen depletion.
Please share widely!
Deadline: 25 July
More information can be found here:
tinyurl.com/4kwzzt6p
Join us and work on microbial key players exposed to oxygen depletion.
Please share widely!
Deadline: 25 July
More information can be found here:
tinyurl.com/4kwzzt6p
Watch out for two new grad students at U of Amsterdam and U of Miami. We are so thankful, Eleanor and Jaden, for your fantastic work and all the wonderful times here at @mblscience.bsky.social
@jadenhansen.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/in/eleanor-g...
@jadenhansen.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/in/eleanor-g...
June 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Watch out for two new grad students at U of Amsterdam and U of Miami. We are so thankful, Eleanor and Jaden, for your fantastic work and all the wonderful times here at @mblscience.bsky.social
@jadenhansen.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/in/eleanor-g...
@jadenhansen.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/in/eleanor-g...
This week: Holden Thorp, Editor-in-Chief, Science Magazine talking about “Staying True to the Indispensable Values of Science”.
Don't miss MBL Friday evening lectures. Like every year the line-up is excellent. In person & virtual.
www.mbl.edu/events/frida...
@mblscience.bsky.social @science.org
Don't miss MBL Friday evening lectures. Like every year the line-up is excellent. In person & virtual.
www.mbl.edu/events/frida...
@mblscience.bsky.social @science.org
2025 Friday Evening Lectures | Marine Biological Laboratory
Join us for these venerable MBL events bringing our local and global communities together live.
www.mbl.edu
June 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This week: Holden Thorp, Editor-in-Chief, Science Magazine talking about “Staying True to the Indispensable Values of Science”.
Don't miss MBL Friday evening lectures. Like every year the line-up is excellent. In person & virtual.
www.mbl.edu/events/frida...
@mblscience.bsky.social @science.org
Don't miss MBL Friday evening lectures. Like every year the line-up is excellent. In person & virtual.
www.mbl.edu/events/frida...
@mblscience.bsky.social @science.org
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"We are speaking on behalf of hundreds of NIH staff who are standing up together to say: WE DISSENT.
I am so scared about doing this but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only gonna get harder to speak up."
Thank you to Dr. Jenna Norton and NIH scientists for your courage!
I am so scared about doing this but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only gonna get harder to speak up."
Thank you to Dr. Jenna Norton and NIH scientists for your courage!
June 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
"We are speaking on behalf of hundreds of NIH staff who are standing up together to say: WE DISSENT.
I am so scared about doing this but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only gonna get harder to speak up."
Thank you to Dr. Jenna Norton and NIH scientists for your courage!
I am so scared about doing this but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only gonna get harder to speak up."
Thank you to Dr. Jenna Norton and NIH scientists for your courage!
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We have a new 3-year postdoc position in our group at the @hifmb.de to study plasmids and plasmids systems of the marine environment to survey their utility in microbial responses to environmental change.
Please see the official job ad here, and spread the word:
jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20...
Please see the official job ad here, and spread the word:
jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20...
PostDoc in ecology and evolution of plasmids in polar waters at HIFMB (f/d/m)
Layout AWI HIPP extern, englisch
jobs.awi.de
June 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM
We have a new 3-year postdoc position in our group at the @hifmb.de to study plasmids and plasmids systems of the marine environment to survey their utility in microbial responses to environmental change.
Please see the official job ad here, and spread the word:
jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20...
Please see the official job ad here, and spread the word:
jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20...
Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
Application Deadline July 31, 2025
Application Deadline July 31, 2025
Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution
The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...
www.simonsfoundation.org
June 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
Application Deadline July 31, 2025
Application Deadline July 31, 2025
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Review of methane through space and time, coauthored with @planetdr.bsky.social, is out (OA) in @annualreviews.bsky.social.
Hopefully a helpful resource for community and courses. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Hopefully a helpful resource for community and courses. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
June 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Review of methane through space and time, coauthored with @planetdr.bsky.social, is out (OA) in @annualreviews.bsky.social.
Hopefully a helpful resource for community and courses. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Hopefully a helpful resource for community and courses. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪
NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people**
🧵 on some highlights...
NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people**
🧵 on some highlights...
May 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪
NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people**
🧵 on some highlights...
NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people**
🧵 on some highlights...
Yesterday’s lab retreat going whale watching in Boston. I feel so fortunate and happy! What a lovely group of inspiring and wonderful people! (We missed you Roo). Life is good, enjoy the weekend everyone.
May 30, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Yesterday’s lab retreat going whale watching in Boston. I feel so fortunate and happy! What a lovely group of inspiring and wonderful people! (We missed you Roo). Life is good, enjoy the weekend everyone.
Growing and monitoring methanogens in the lab at 100 bar pressure! Next-level cultivation by @emvidal.bsky.social
Real time monitoring of hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis under deep saline aquifers conditions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.05.652176v1
May 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Growing and monitoring methanogens in the lab at 100 bar pressure! Next-level cultivation by @emvidal.bsky.social
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Some good news ! New undergraduate astrobiology minor just launched at @gtresearchnews.bsky.social ! cos.gatech.edu/news/georgia...
Georgia Tech Offers New Astrobiology Minor
cos.gatech.edu
May 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Some good news ! New undergraduate astrobiology minor just launched at @gtresearchnews.bsky.social ! cos.gatech.edu/news/georgia...
