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Kostas Kormas 🐟🦞🐚🦭💩🔬🧪🧬📝 ✈️ 🏳️‍🌈
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Awed by tiny creatures!!
Host-Microbe Interactions MSc http://hosmic.uth.gr
Prof. @ https://www.uth.gr/en
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Last October, Pride in Microbiology members connected at the 33rd Brazilian Microbiology Conference (CBM)! 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌈 🦠 🧫

Shoutout to Paula (@paulasoaresz_), Tássio (@tassiobritoo), and
Bruno Vizzotto (@bvizzotto)! Our founder, Bruno Oliveira (@bfrancescol), was also there despite no photo evidence!
January 23, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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scifoodhealth.bsky.social SciFoodHealth @scifoodhealth.bsky.social · 3d
392 million analytical results from 25 years of EU food safety monitoring.
15+ million samples covering 4,000+ foods.

The #Holifoodproject has brought this data together in CHEFS, a unified database opening new possibilities for AI in #FoodSafety research.

👉 holifoodproject.eu/holifoods-ef...
Diagram showing how food safety data is processed into the CHEFS database and used for trend, food, and country-based analyses, with future applications including dashboards and AI.
January 22, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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relenski.bsky.social Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social · Aug 12
Excited to share new #program, STEPS, which can simulate #dynamics of the E. coli Long-Term Evolution Experiment (#LTEE) or other microbes in serial transfer regime.

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STEPS developed by @devinmlake.bsky.social, Zachary Matson, Minako Izutsu, and me.
STEPS To It
Announcing a new program, called STEPS, to simulate the dynamics of evolving microbial populations.
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January 20, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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The significance of microbial symbioses in #seagrass blue carbon ecosystems
@symbiostoic.bsky.social at the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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#SymbioSky #MicroSky #microbiomesky #Microbiology #symbiosis
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January 9, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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We are very happy and proud we have contributed to this amazing story:
An invisible force. A transparent substance. A forgotten woman.
The untold story of Fanny Angelina Hesse (1850-1934), who introduced agar to the lab.
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Fanny Angelina Hesse: A Graphic Novel
An invisible force. A transparent substance. A forgotten woman. The untold story of Fanny Angelina Hesse (1850-1934), who introduced agar to the lab
fanny-hesse-graphic-novel.site
January 8, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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A new preprint server welcomes papers written and reviewed
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A new preprint server welcomes papers written and reviewed by AI
With human peer review struggling to keep pace with machine-generated science, aiXiv enlists bots to help
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January 7, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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Πρώην στελέχη ισραηλινών μυστικών υπηρεσιών σε επιχειρήσεις προπαγάνδας της ΝΔ - INFO-WAR
Ποια είναι η Perception και οι Ισραηλινοί πρώην πράκτορες που έστησαν τις «επιχειρήσεις επηρεασμού» για τη ΝΔ.
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January 7, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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December 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Happy new year to all, with this last reading for 2025:
Role of #Microbiology in Balancing Nature During the #Anthropocene
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url: academic.oup.com/microlife/ar...
The Role of Microbiology in Balancing Nature During the Anthropocene
Fernando Baquero, Roberto Kolter, Kenneth Timmis; The Role of Microbiology in Balancing Nature During the Anthropocene, microLife, , uqaf044, https://doi.o
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December 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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The University of Alaska Fairbanks is now advertising for the position of Assistant Professor of Marine Biology. See the position description below. careers.alaska.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor of Marine Biology - College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences - Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences (CFOS) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position (9-month annual support) at the assistant professor lev...
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December 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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official-smbe.bsky.social Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · Dec 15
SMBE2026 Symposium 18 | Microbial evolution meets AI: genome architecture, immunity and microbial community dynamics

📨 Abstract submission
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📋 Programme details
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#SMBE2026
SMBE2026 Symposium 18 | Microbial evolution meets AI: genome architecture, immunity and microbial community dynamics
December 15, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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December 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Our new "Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership" project's website is on air! TRANSFORMING #SEAWEED #WASTE INTO #SUSTAINABLE #FISH #FEED
alfunfeed.eu
#alfunfeed for updates
Home - AlFunFeed
Transforming seaweed waste into sustainable fish feed. AlFunFeed develops fungal single-cell protein (SCP) from macroalgal by-products to create next-generation aquafeed for European seabass — closing...
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December 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision
Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.
www.nature.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Introducing the j-metric: a true measure of what matters in academia www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"As academia becomes McDonaldized — subject to the fast-food industry principles of efficiency, calculability, predictability and control — one phrase becomes relevant: ‘Do you want cites with that?"
Introducing the j-metric: a true measure of what matters in academia
Science has become obsessed with publishing numbers. With this new satirical proposal, have we reached peak metric?
www.nature.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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The problem with career planning in science www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The problem with career planning in science
Having too rigid a plan could result in exciting opportunities passing you by, warns Ottoline Leyser.
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November 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Are these the happiest #PhD students in the world? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Are these the happiest PhD students in the world?
Brazil, Australia and Italy have the highest satisfaction scores in Nature’s global 2025 PhD survey — but are these nations really the best places to do a doctorate?
www.nature.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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I eat what my mother eats. Maternal effects on food preferences in invasive amphipods neobiota.pensoft.net/articles.php...
I eat what my mother eats. Maternal effects on food preferences in invasive amphipods
Invasive alien species achieve their success through a set of traits that give them a fitness advantage over other species. Many of them are characterised by a generalist diet with an inclination to c...
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November 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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#Aquaculture shapes #antibiotic #resistance in #Mediterranean #gilthead #sea #bream farming: From #hatcheries to offshore cages 👉 tinyurl.com/yj99zz43
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Aquaculture shapes antibiotic resistance in Mediterranean gilthead sea bream farming: From hatcheries to offshore cages
Intensive farming in crowded cages increases antibiotic treatments, promoting antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in fish-associated bacteria. Combined wit…
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November 15, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Gut microbial topography across can be significant in wild fish, too! 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.fi...

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Localized gut tissue and digesta bacterial communities of five pelagic fish species from the Atlantic Ocean: Insights from 16S rRNA gene diversity
Gut microbes are now considered inseparable from their hosts. Compared to farmed fish, gut microorganisms of wild-living fish are largely understudied…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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In love with all Fridays always!!!

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November 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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jonpuritz.marineevoeco.com Jon Puritz @jonpuritz.marineevoeco.com · Nov 10
Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island.

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Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island. The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of the Environment and Life Sciences (CELS) at the University of Rhode Island (URI) invites applications for an academic year (9 month), tenure-track Assistant Professor position specializing in Marine Ecology. URI, the top public university in New England, is a land and sea grant research university located in Kingston, Rhode Island, a beautiful seaside community that is well connected by car, bus, and rail about 40 min from Providence, an hour from Boston and 3 hours from New York City.
November 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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A few days ago our student @morganokpara.bsky.social successfully defended this MSc thesis on #bovine #microbiome. Congratulations, Morgan!!!
November 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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scientits.bsky.social
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

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Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."
October 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM