Ian Marshall
@ianpgm.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Denmark 🇩🇰 working on microbial genomics, bioinformatics, cable bacteria, and other sediment microorganisms. https://www.au.dk/en/ianpgm@bio.au.dk/ 🇦🇺
This is fantastic, I laughed for about 3 minutes...
November 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM
This is fantastic, I laughed for about 3 minutes...
Crossing the bridge on my way to a meeting in Copenhagen. Bonkers that the Danes built their capital city on this island when they have perfectly good mainland available.
October 28, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Crossing the bridge on my way to a meeting in Copenhagen. Bonkers that the Danes built their capital city on this island when they have perfectly good mainland available.
In Antwerp and just about to head to campus for a PhD defense this afternoon - looking at Google Maps there's no doubt about where I need to be heading!
June 6, 2025 at 6:35 AM
In Antwerp and just about to head to campus for a PhD defense this afternoon - looking at Google Maps there's no doubt about where I need to be heading!
Lars Peter Nielsen and Andreas Schramm open Electromicrobiology 2025! From now until Friday afternoon it's all electromicrobiology all the time.
May 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Lars Peter Nielsen and Andreas Schramm open Electromicrobiology 2025! From now until Friday afternoon it's all electromicrobiology all the time.
I'm still trying to figure out how copy and paste this sequence from my paper copy of the book into BLAST.
But yes, it's a great book, five stars, read it!
6/6
But yes, it's a great book, five stars, read it!
6/6
May 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I'm still trying to figure out how copy and paste this sequence from my paper copy of the book into BLAST.
But yes, it's a great book, five stars, read it!
6/6
But yes, it's a great book, five stars, read it!
6/6
Just finished reading "Intraterrestrials" by @karenlloyd.bsky.social, it's a great read, I can't recommend it enough!
1/6
1/6
May 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Just finished reading "Intraterrestrials" by @karenlloyd.bsky.social, it's a great read, I can't recommend it enough!
1/6
1/6
Happy Birthday @larspeternielsen.bsky.social! The cake with happy cable bacteria decorations from his surprise party today:
April 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Happy Birthday @larspeternielsen.bsky.social! The cake with happy cable bacteria decorations from his surprise party today:
Unhinged anarchy in Aarhus this morning
April 11, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Unhinged anarchy in Aarhus this morning
Oxford Nanopore metagenome read length weirdness - TapeStation of the input library shows very dominant peak at 20 kbp, what we actually got from the MinION was mostly 10kbp or lower (mean read length ~5kbp). This didn't happen for pure culture genomes on the same run. Any ideas why, anyone?
February 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Oxford Nanopore metagenome read length weirdness - TapeStation of the input library shows very dominant peak at 20 kbp, what we actually got from the MinION was mostly 10kbp or lower (mean read length ~5kbp). This didn't happen for pure culture genomes on the same run. Any ideas why, anyone?
Aarhus University lake this morning
February 21, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Aarhus University lake this morning
Today I'm accepting the inevitable reality of students using generative AI in my course and helping them navigate it
January 29, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Today I'm accepting the inevitable reality of students using generative AI in my course and helping them navigate it
Looks like winter's finally arrived in Aarhus - November lasted until the end of December...
January 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Looks like winter's finally arrived in Aarhus - November lasted until the end of December...
This beautiful Fuller projection map of the world is now adorning the wall of our lunch room at the Department of Biology in Aarhus!
November 15, 2024 at 12:57 PM
This beautiful Fuller projection map of the world is now adorning the wall of our lunch room at the Department of Biology in Aarhus!
I've had a great week in Shanghai visiting JT Li's group at Tongji University. Thanks, especially to Lei Su for being such a great host!
November 8, 2024 at 6:56 AM
I've had a great week in Shanghai visiting JT Li's group at Tongji University. Thanks, especially to Lei Su for being such a great host!
Cable bacteria meeting electrodes, now on the cover of Applied and Environmental Microbiology
October 28, 2024 at 7:10 AM
Cable bacteria meeting electrodes, now on the cover of Applied and Environmental Microbiology
ONT amplicon sequencing really isn't as bad as I expected with the newest chemistry... mapping this Zymo mixture data SRR23176512 to the expected sequences gives surprisingly high identity values, lots in the 98%+ range.
October 4, 2024 at 9:02 AM
ONT amplicon sequencing really isn't as bad as I expected with the newest chemistry... mapping this Zymo mixture data SRR23176512 to the expected sequences gives surprisingly high identity values, lots in the 98%+ range.
I made it to the bottom of my inbox! This is rare! It's lonely down here - send me some emails!
October 2, 2024 at 2:29 PM
I made it to the bottom of my inbox! This is rare! It's lonely down here - send me some emails!
I got to tag along with some students on the Aarhus University research vessel Aurora yesterday, thanks to @christofpearce.bsky.social for letting me come along! This is the ship I'll be using for the Mariager Fjord expedition next year in August with Gonzalo Gomez, Sina Schorn, and Kasper Kjeldsen
September 25, 2024 at 6:33 AM
I got to tag along with some students on the Aarhus University research vessel Aurora yesterday, thanks to @christofpearce.bsky.social for letting me come along! This is the ship I'll be using for the Mariager Fjord expedition next year in August with Gonzalo Gomez, Sina Schorn, and Kasper Kjeldsen
Remember to celebrate the small victories when commenting your code
September 6, 2024 at 7:00 AM
Remember to celebrate the small victories when commenting your code
Why does outlook keep trying to suck the personality and nuance out of our emails? Who asked for this?
August 28, 2024 at 9:26 AM
Why does outlook keep trying to suck the personality and nuance out of our emails? Who asked for this?
Just in case anyone's curious: this is where Denmark ends up when you mix up latitude and longitude. Did I mention I will be co-leading a scientific cruise next year?
August 8, 2024 at 11:45 AM
Just in case anyone's curious: this is where Denmark ends up when you mix up latitude and longitude. Did I mention I will be co-leading a scientific cruise next year?
At Sandbjerg in Southern Jutland for a few days to talk about cable bacteria with cable bacteria friends from around the world. Lots of interesting new research being presented!
June 3, 2024 at 3:33 PM
At Sandbjerg in Southern Jutland for a few days to talk about cable bacteria with cable bacteria friends from around the world. Lots of interesting new research being presented!
Just arrived in Helsingør for the NNF CO2 Research Center annual meeting. This account is turning into some kind of a "castles of Europe" tour, here's a picture I just took of Kronborg.
April 25, 2024 at 6:28 AM
Just arrived in Helsingør for the NNF CO2 Research Center annual meeting. This account is turning into some kind of a "castles of Europe" tour, here's a picture I just took of Kronborg.
Thanks to @dome-vienna.bsky.social (including @michiwagner4.bsky.social, @loyteam.bsky.social, @barbarabayer.bsky.social and others) for a great couple of days discussing microbial ecology in this awesome castle! And yes this picture is from this morning - interesting spring weather :-)
April 23, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Thanks to @dome-vienna.bsky.social (including @michiwagner4.bsky.social, @loyteam.bsky.social, @barbarabayer.bsky.social and others) for a great couple of days discussing microbial ecology in this awesome castle! And yes this picture is from this morning - interesting spring weather :-)
Microsensor Analysis in the Environmental Sciences - a PhD course in Rønbjerg, Denmark in August that isn't taught every year, so 2024 is your chance!
February 26, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Microsensor Analysis in the Environmental Sciences - a PhD course in Rønbjerg, Denmark in August that isn't taught every year, so 2024 is your chance!