Ivan J. Moreno
@ivanjmoreno.bsky.social
Post doc researcher @ucsantabarbara | previously @Scripps_Ocean & @dominguezhills | North Long Beach grown 🇲🇽-🇺🇸 | he/him/el | Cyanobacteria, genomics, fútbol
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Please apply if you are interested in environmental microbiology topics such as microbial dark oxygen production and methane cycling under oxygen depletion.
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
July 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Please apply if you are interested in environmental microbiology topics such as microbial dark oxygen production and methane cycling under oxygen depletion.
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The idea that the president can randomly fire everyone in the administrative branch is toxic.
It’s enabling a slash and burn mentality across the federal government. What will be left in a couple of years?
Is anyone reporting on what’s going on at NASA?
It’s enabling a slash and burn mentality across the federal government. What will be left in a couple of years?
Is anyone reporting on what’s going on at NASA?
nasawatch.com
Hearing news that new Trump admins at NASA are telling staff they will be cut by 90% .
That it’s an administrative agency and Trump can fire whoever he want, regardless of what Congress says. Only news yet:
“NASA budget protest event at NASA HQ in Washington, DC next Monday from 7-11”
Hearing news that new Trump admins at NASA are telling staff they will be cut by 90% .
That it’s an administrative agency and Trump can fire whoever he want, regardless of what Congress says. Only news yet:
“NASA budget protest event at NASA HQ in Washington, DC next Monday from 7-11”
NASA Watch
This is not a NASA website. You might learn something. It's YOUR space agency. Get involved. Take it back. Make it work - for you.
nasawatch.com
June 27, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The idea that the president can randomly fire everyone in the administrative branch is toxic.
It’s enabling a slash and burn mentality across the federal government. What will be left in a couple of years?
Is anyone reporting on what’s going on at NASA?
It’s enabling a slash and burn mentality across the federal government. What will be left in a couple of years?
Is anyone reporting on what’s going on at NASA?
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If you're at #ASMicrobe, come see us today! I'm up at 8:15 in 403B, and our grad students: @oceancait.bsky.social at 9:15 in 403B and @astrobio-agb.bsky.social also at 9:15 in 402AB.
I'll be scrambling between the two rooms to see them!
I'll be scrambling between the two rooms to see them!
The Carini Lab will be at #ASMMicrobe 2025 in LA next week with THREE talks!
Come hear about dormant microbes, ancient archaea, and anaerobic cultivation.
Plus I have limited "Cultured by the Carini Lab" stickers to give away! 🧪✨
Thread below 👇
Come hear about dormant microbes, ancient archaea, and anaerobic cultivation.
Plus I have limited "Cultured by the Carini Lab" stickers to give away! 🧪✨
Thread below 👇
June 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
If you're at #ASMicrobe, come see us today! I'm up at 8:15 in 403B, and our grad students: @oceancait.bsky.social at 9:15 in 403B and @astrobio-agb.bsky.social also at 9:15 in 402AB.
I'll be scrambling between the two rooms to see them!
I'll be scrambling between the two rooms to see them!
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Tomorrow at 12:45-1:30 in the EEB Track Hub in the poster hall #ASMmicrobe I am talking about microbial diversity including Asgard archaea, and an expanded tree of life from marine sediments.
June 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Tomorrow at 12:45-1:30 in the EEB Track Hub in the poster hall #ASMmicrobe I am talking about microbial diversity including Asgard archaea, and an expanded tree of life from marine sediments.
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At ASM Microbe? Check out @drmartinezrabert.bsky.social poster EEB-SUNDAY-1162 - “Exploring Earth's Atmosphere as an Active Microbial Ecosystem Using Thermodynamic Principles and Bioenergetic Modeling” on Sunday 🦠🌥️⚡️🧬 @hfspo.bsky.social @asm.org #ASMicrobe
June 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
At ASM Microbe? Check out @drmartinezrabert.bsky.social poster EEB-SUNDAY-1162 - “Exploring Earth's Atmosphere as an Active Microbial Ecosystem Using Thermodynamic Principles and Bioenergetic Modeling” on Sunday 🦠🌥️⚡️🧬 @hfspo.bsky.social @asm.org #ASMicrobe
Wow, @tallcuppajoe.bsky.social, spot on design for the shirt this year 🎯 totally not biased, of course 🤭 #asmmicrobe #binningsingletons
June 20, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Wow, @tallcuppajoe.bsky.social, spot on design for the shirt this year 🎯 totally not biased, of course 🤭 #asmmicrobe #binningsingletons
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Hi #ASMicrobe go-ers!! I am convening a session tomorrow @8:15am PDT! (I may be half asleep bc my ✈️ gets in at midnight)
This session is about metal homeostasis in environmental 🦠 and includes topics like lanthanide metabolism, cable bacteria, Mn-oxidizing fungi, metal stress, and more!
#MicroSky
This session is about metal homeostasis in environmental 🦠 and includes topics like lanthanide metabolism, cable bacteria, Mn-oxidizing fungi, metal stress, and more!
#MicroSky
June 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Hi #ASMicrobe go-ers!! I am convening a session tomorrow @8:15am PDT! (I may be half asleep bc my ✈️ gets in at midnight)
This session is about metal homeostasis in environmental 🦠 and includes topics like lanthanide metabolism, cable bacteria, Mn-oxidizing fungi, metal stress, and more!
#MicroSky
This session is about metal homeostasis in environmental 🦠 and includes topics like lanthanide metabolism, cable bacteria, Mn-oxidizing fungi, metal stress, and more!
#MicroSky
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Attn ASM 2025 attendees interested in Mars, astrobiology, and sample return! I'll be speaking Fri June 20 (10:45am, AES Track Hub, Exhibit Hall) on the frontiers of microbial life detection in context of (potentially) returning samples from Mars. Hope to see you there! #ASMicrobe
June 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Attn ASM 2025 attendees interested in Mars, astrobiology, and sample return! I'll be speaking Fri June 20 (10:45am, AES Track Hub, Exhibit Hall) on the frontiers of microbial life detection in context of (potentially) returning samples from Mars. Hope to see you there! #ASMicrobe
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A short thread about the people in my lab who will present posters and give rapid talks at #ASMmicrobe: 🧵
June 19, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A short thread about the people in my lab who will present posters and give rapid talks at #ASMmicrobe: 🧵
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Oh wow. @nanoporetech.com has last minute canceled their participation in #ASMicrobe. This is sad. 😔 Wow.
June 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Oh wow. @nanoporetech.com has last minute canceled their participation in #ASMicrobe. This is sad. 😔 Wow.
Oh to be a first gen Mexican American from North Long Beach, scheduled to give a talk at ASM Microbe in Los Angeles, next week 🙃 … @asm.org how can I be sure that the safety of myself and that of my colleagues who feel the same isn’t at risk?
Be careful, you might exactly match the suspect. #AbolishICE Please share #laloalcaraz cartoons and also please support my staff position over at CaloNews.com and donate at CaloNews.com/lalodrive before they make it illegal to do so!
June 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Oh to be a first gen Mexican American from North Long Beach, scheduled to give a talk at ASM Microbe in Los Angeles, next week 🙃 … @asm.org how can I be sure that the safety of myself and that of my colleagues who feel the same isn’t at risk?
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Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific
A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.
www.richmondscientific.com
June 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
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Two tenure-track positions at Amherst College www.amherst.edu.
apply.interfolio.com/168795 (molecular genetics and biochemistry)
apply.interfolio.com/168794 (molecular/cellular neurobiology)
apply.interfolio.com/168795 (molecular genetics and biochemistry)
apply.interfolio.com/168794 (molecular/cellular neurobiology)
Home | Amherst College
www.amherst.edu
June 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Two tenure-track positions at Amherst College www.amherst.edu.
apply.interfolio.com/168795 (molecular genetics and biochemistry)
apply.interfolio.com/168794 (molecular/cellular neurobiology)
apply.interfolio.com/168795 (molecular genetics and biochemistry)
apply.interfolio.com/168794 (molecular/cellular neurobiology)
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An amoeba with teeth. When building its shell, Netzelia corona selects sharp grains of quartz and positions them around its aperture with the tips pointing inward. I took a few closeups, yesterday. #ProtistsonSky #amoebae #peatlands #MEvoSky
May 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM
An amoeba with teeth. When building its shell, Netzelia corona selects sharp grains of quartz and positions them around its aperture with the tips pointing inward. I took a few closeups, yesterday. #ProtistsonSky #amoebae #peatlands #MEvoSky
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For non-scientists: the funding rate is somewhere between 7% to ~25% (rare) for NIH or NSF grants, depending on where you are applying. Grants are reviewed by a panel of peers who read the grants, score them, then debate the ratings for 1-2 days to rank them. It is INCREDIBLY competitive already.
Republican Senator Katie Britt: We need to create a system "where the beat idea wins... This is our opportunity to make a dollar go further and to make it have a greater impact."
(NIH already generates $2.56 for every $1 spent it spends on research.)
(NIH already generates $2.56 for every $1 spent it spends on research.)
June 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
For non-scientists: the funding rate is somewhere between 7% to ~25% (rare) for NIH or NSF grants, depending on where you are applying. Grants are reviewed by a panel of peers who read the grants, score them, then debate the ratings for 1-2 days to rank them. It is INCREDIBLY competitive already.
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CalMatters just released an article about our lab's students that have been affected by the funding cuts 💔 Thanks to the journalists for amplifying their voices.
calmatters.org/education/hi...
calmatters.org/education/hi...
Another casualty of Trump cuts? California students pursuing science research careers
At least 24 UC and Cal State campuses lost science research training grants that provided their students with annual stipends of $12,000 or more.
calmatters.org
May 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
CalMatters just released an article about our lab's students that have been affected by the funding cuts 💔 Thanks to the journalists for amplifying their voices.
calmatters.org/education/hi...
calmatters.org/education/hi...
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Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab
May 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab
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New paper co-authored by CCAP Curator Ceci Rad Menéndez: "Evolution of far-red light photoacclimation in cyanobacteria"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Evolution of far-red light photoacclimation in cyanobacteria
Cyanobacteria oxygenated the atmosphere of early Earth and continue to be key players in global carbon and nitrogen cycles. A phylogenetically diverse…
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May 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
New paper co-authored by CCAP Curator Ceci Rad Menéndez: "Evolution of far-red light photoacclimation in cyanobacteria"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Upset about the President's budget request to eviscerate NIH, NSF, and all science in the US? Call your representatives! Push back - 77% of Americans recently polled do not want to cut research funding. The cures and economic benefits from research are popular - don't let your reps forget that. 🧪
Heading back from #FASEBOnTheHill and want to share what I learned and why I think all scientists need to be setting up meetings w their reps to talk about the impacts on science of the current chaos. #AcademicSky #NeuroSky @faseborg.bsky.social @apsphysiology.bsky.social 🧪
a man says call your senators with his hands folded
ALT: a man says call your senators with his hands folded
media.tenor.com
May 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Upset about the President's budget request to eviscerate NIH, NSF, and all science in the US? Call your representatives! Push back - 77% of Americans recently polled do not want to cut research funding. The cures and economic benefits from research are popular - don't let your reps forget that. 🧪
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While I was trying to wrangle reports of signs of life beyond Earth, @dangaristo.bsky.social was reporting on how ALL NEW RESEARCH GRANTS ARE BEING FROZEN AT THE NSF 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: Trump team freezes new NSF awards — and could soon axe hundreds of grants
The National Science Foundation is the latest US agency to be disrupted by Elon Musk’s DOGE.
www.nature.com
April 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
While I was trying to wrangle reports of signs of life beyond Earth, @dangaristo.bsky.social was reporting on how ALL NEW RESEARCH GRANTS ARE BEING FROZEN AT THE NSF 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Microtubules in Asgard archaea
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Microtubules in Asgard archaea
Discovery of heterodimeric, microtubule-forming tubulins in Asgard archaea, the closest
known relatives of eukaryotes, reveals snapshots of microtubule evolution.
www.cell.com
April 3, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Microtubules in Asgard archaea
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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NASA Astrobiology Research Needs Your Support astrobiology.com/2025/03/nasa... This white paper is being circulated in the #Astrobiology community. Please read through it and consider signing so as to add your support to this immensely important multi-disciplinary, multi-national research.
March 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
NASA Astrobiology Research Needs Your Support astrobiology.com/2025/03/nasa... This white paper is being circulated in the #Astrobiology community. Please read through it and consider signing so as to add your support to this immensely important multi-disciplinary, multi-national research.
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New year, new paintings!
Acrylic on wood panel
Acrylic on wood panel
February 6, 2025 at 11:59 AM
New year, new paintings!
Acrylic on wood panel
Acrylic on wood panel
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Does someone have a formal source on pauses on panels or funding for NSF?
January 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Does someone have a formal source on pauses on panels or funding for NSF?