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Susheel Bhanu Busi
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Listening to blossoms falling and watching rocks grow - Group Head, Molecular Ecology @UK_CEH - Jack of all trades, Master of none!
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In October, @brionyjones.bsky.social presented at the European Commission's Joint Research Council in Ispra for a AI4SoilHealth meeting earlier in the month. The presentation title was 'Global F.A.I.R.ness of co-located microbial and soil health data in public genomic repositories.' 🌱🦠🧬
November 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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@laurens-colours.bsky.social was recently invited to present at a @britishecologicalsociety.org & @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social event on art & science 🎨

Lauren's full talk on scientific storytelling through merging logic and feeling can be found here ⬇️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGdA...
Scientific storytelling through merging logic and feeling with Dr Lauren Cook
YouTube video by British Ecological Society
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November 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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@lindsaynewbold.bsky.social also gave a talk recently on the National Honey Monitoring Scheme (NHMS) at the AgZero+ all staff meeting! 🍯

Find out more via the links below ⬇️

NHMS: honey-monitoring.ac.uk
AgZero+: agzeroplus.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:05 AM
📢 Check out below our latest work on national-scale river biofilms led by the brilliant @amycthorpe.bsky.social
Check out the latest from #MolecularEcology @ukceh.bsky.social

Led by @amycthorpe.bsky.social, new research highlights the utility of river #biofilm #bacteria for freshwater biomonitoring.
Excited to share our new preprint on #bacteria in river biofilms 🦠 🌊

"River biofilm bacteria as sentinels of national-scale freshwater ecosystems"

Read the preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
November 7, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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@oxonandrew.bsky.social has been on a paper publishing streak recently!

As well as the above he has also published a paper on emerging contaminants in urban streams in Sub-Saharan Africa 🧪💊💧

check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Effect-based and (non-)target chemical analyses reveal concerning levels of emerging contaminants in urban streams in Sub-Saharan Africa
Water contamination by micropollutants is a global issue, yet there is limited information from low-income regions. To address this, we evaluated surf…
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October 13, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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PhD opportunity to work in my lab at UEA, together with @drbradbrad.bsky.social and Marc Dumont “Linking AMR, global warming and CUE in deglaciated soils”

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Linking antimicrobial resistance, climate warming, and carbon use efficiency in Arctic soils (HERNANDEZ-GARCIA_UEA_ARIES26) at University of East Anglia on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Linking antimicrobial resistance, climate warming, and carbon use efficiency in Arctic soils (HERNANDEZ-GARCIA_UEA_ARIES26) at University of East Anglia, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Have you ever looked at some differentially occurring gene clusters in a microbial #pangenome and thought to yourself "I wonder if they contribute to any metabolic modules"?

With the most recent changes, the answer is a few clicks away in #anvio 😇
September 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Welcome to our "meet the researcher" series!👩‍🔬👨‍🔬

Tune in over the next week as we introduce you to our UKCEH Molecular Ecology PhD researchers and tell you a bit about their projects! 🧪🧬🦠
September 17, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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🧪 NEW: Emily Williams reflects on a recent visit to the Falkland Islands as part of a project working with UK Overseas Territories to tackle invasive non-native species — a major threat to island #biodiversity and livelihoods🌿

Read more: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...

#INNS #blog
Protecting the unique biodiversity of the Falklands
Emily Williams, an ecologist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, discusses a project to tackle invasive non-native species on the Falkland Islands, which included a recent visit to share knowled...
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June 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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🆕 Vacancy! If you want to work with sequencing data derived from cultivated and natural soil microbiomes to understand the role of prokaryotes in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, check our vacancy 🦠

@bioinf.bsky.social

💷 £36,720 to £42,000 p/a
🗓️ Apply by 08 July 2025
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June 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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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...
PostDoc in ecology and evolution of plasmids in polar waters at HIFMB (f/d/m)
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jobs.awi.de
June 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Rain or shine ☔️🌞, our #NERC-funded #MICROCYCLE teams are sampling Thames & Avon, uncovering how microbes influence the fate of organic matter🧫💧.

@amycthorpe.bsky.social
& #TimGoodall in #MolecularEcology in action at
@ukceh.bsky.social
🧪

🔗 tinyurl.com/46469ztn
#FreshwaterQuality #RiverHealth
June 4, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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🎂👏 Congratulations to the Natural Environment Research Council on 60 years of enabling world-leading environmental science and the launch of an ambitious new 10-year vision.

We look forward to working with NERC to make a meaningful difference.

🔗 NERC Forward Look: www.ukri.org/publications... 🧪
June 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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The Aquatic Ecosystems Group at UKCEH are hosting this great community engagement event a Loch Leven, Scotland. A chance to talk to our scientists about what the Loch means to you: eu1.hubs.ly/H0knhrs0

@ukceh.bsky.social #UKCEH_AquaEco 🧪💦
Select tickets – Loch Leven Matters – Kinross
Loch Leven Matters - Free water quality science events 11-13 June 2025! When high levels of nutrients from runoff or wastewater...
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May 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Hi all, have you seen that the Aquatic Ecology & Microbial Ecology Groups of the BES are holding a science conference at the Zoological Society of London in September?

Registration/abstract submission still open...

@bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social @bes-microbialgroup.bsky.social #BESAG2025

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May 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
@clairecarvell.bsky.social showing how collaborative work between @ukceh.bsky.social & @sangerinstitute.bsky.social leveraged the #BIOSCAN pipeline to uncover 135+ insect families sampled as part of the #UK @pomscheme.bsky.social

Presented at @ukdnawg.bsky.social conference at the #RoyalSociety
May 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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This weekend, Ellie Mackay from the UKCEH Aquatic Ecosystems Group will be talking to the community about the ecology of Windermere (by canoe safari!). A great public engagement event!

www.windermeresciencefestival.org/portfolio/ca...
#UKCEH_AquaEco @ukceh.bsky.social @ellie-mackay.bsky.social
Canoe Safari - Windermere Science Festival
Did you know that it takes around 260 days or 8.5 months for water to travel through Windermere? Take a canoe trip with freshwater ecologist Dr Ellie Mackay and learn...
www.windermeresciencefestival.org
May 10, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Are you an undergraduate student interested in a PhD? Apply now to gain experience in a NERC-funded Research Experience Placement this summer – UKCEH scientists are leading some of the projects!

E4 placements: e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/further-nerc...

GW4+ placements: www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/undrgrad-pla...
Research Experience Placements 2025 — NERC GW4+
www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk
May 2, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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📢 We're excited to announce the #ROBINHydro dataset & paper are published! 🌏

This makes available for wider use data for 2,386 global gauging stations with natural or near-natural catchments— a major step forward in accessible, global-scale streamflow data.

🔗 www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪
April 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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I’m happy to share our recent review published in The ISME Journal! Here, we explore the role of CO and H₂ oxidisers in oligotrophic environments. This work was a collaboration with Philippe Constant, Gary King, and @hendrikschaefer.bsky.social.

Hope you enjoy it!

academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
Metabolism of CO and H2 by pioneer bacteria in volcanic soils and the phyllosphere
Abstract. Trace gas degradation is a widespread metabolic adaptation in microbial communities, driving chemosynthesis and providing auxiliary energy that e
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April 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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🧪 How do you embed #FAIRdata principles into research workflows?

Our data stewardship team share how they've customised @fair-wizard.com to improve data management & collaboration—and support the wider NERC research community.

🔗 www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...

#EnvironmentalScience #OpenScience
Implementing FAIR Wizard at UKCEH
Our implementation of FAIR Wizard showcases the value of innovative tools in transforming research data management. By simplifying the creation of high-quality data management plans and promoting unde...
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April 17, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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GTDB Release 10-RS226 (16th April 2025) has been published
gtdb.ecogenomic.org
GTDB - Genome Taxonomy Database
The Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB) is an initiative to establish a standardised microbial taxonomy based on genome phylogeny.
gtdb.ecogenomic.org
April 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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A new @britishecologicalsociety.org report assesses the evidence around #RegenerativeAgriculture approaches 🌱🌾

Co-authors include UKCEH ecologists Prof Bridget Emmett (current President of BES) and Dr Lisa Norton, & contribution from greenhouse gas flux scientist Dr Jenny Rhymes

#soil #farming 🧪⤵️
Is #RegenerativeAgriculture the solution to delivering for both food and nature?

A new report by the British Ecological Society brings together 40 academics, practitioners and farmers across the UK to explore the evidence. 👇

https://shorturl.at/s9TM4
April 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM