Michelle Munguia
@michibicho.bsky.social
Host-microbe interactions; ecosystem functioning; entomophagy; cuatro venezolano; salsa & bachata
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Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature
Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...
www.nature.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Beautiful piece about microbes, buildings, and health 🤩
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
The Probiotic Home
Architects and microbiologists are exploring whether making buildings hospitable to friendly microorganisms can improve human health.
www.nature.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Beautiful piece about microbes, buildings, and health 🤩
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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Excited to advertise a new interdisciplinary PhD opportunity at @geogdurham.bsky.social - "From ice to ecosystem: assessing the risk of glacier melt and legacy contamination for reindeer in Sápmi (Lapland)" ❄️ 🦌
To learn more about the project and how to apply visit: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
To learn more about the project and how to apply visit: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
October 13, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Excited to advertise a new interdisciplinary PhD opportunity at @geogdurham.bsky.social - "From ice to ecosystem: assessing the risk of glacier melt and legacy contamination for reindeer in Sápmi (Lapland)" ❄️ 🦌
To learn more about the project and how to apply visit: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
To learn more about the project and how to apply visit: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
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A powerful piece by @mountainogre.bsky.social on #microbes and #Arctic change, featuring our work on glacier ecology @aberdlsagb.bsky.social and work on methane cyclers by colleagues at UNIS
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Arctic glaciers face ‘terminal’ decline as microbes accelerate ice melt
Scientists in Svalbard in race to study polar microbes as global heating threatens fragile glacial ecosystems
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 11:24 AM
A powerful piece by @mountainogre.bsky.social on #microbes and #Arctic change, featuring our work on glacier ecology @aberdlsagb.bsky.social and work on methane cyclers by colleagues at UNIS
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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‘Anyone can do this’: Sleuths publish a toolkit for post-publication review
The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides (COSIG) aims to make “post-publication peer review” more accessible
Project headed by @reeserichardson.bsky.social
@cosig.net
retractionwatch.com/2025/06/04/c...
The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides (COSIG) aims to make “post-publication peer review” more accessible
Project headed by @reeserichardson.bsky.social
@cosig.net
retractionwatch.com/2025/06/04/c...
‘Anyone can do this’: Sleuths publish a toolkit for post-publication review
For years, sleuths – whose names our readers are likely familiar with – have been diligently flagging issues with the scientific literature. More than a dozen of these specialists have teamed up to cr...
retractionwatch.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
‘Anyone can do this’: Sleuths publish a toolkit for post-publication review
The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides (COSIG) aims to make “post-publication peer review” more accessible
Project headed by @reeserichardson.bsky.social
@cosig.net
retractionwatch.com/2025/06/04/c...
The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides (COSIG) aims to make “post-publication peer review” more accessible
Project headed by @reeserichardson.bsky.social
@cosig.net
retractionwatch.com/2025/06/04/c...
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If you'd like to read the 'Guide to communicating microbiomes in the media' document, as mentioned by Professor Lindsay Hall in their lecture this morning it's available here
Guide to commiunicating microbiomes in the media
From the use of bacteria to redefine our life on Earth to the role of microbes in space exploration, this issue looks to the opportunities microbiology provides for all of us.
microb.io
April 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
If you'd like to read the 'Guide to communicating microbiomes in the media' document, as mentioned by Professor Lindsay Hall in their lecture this morning it's available here
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Also, native pollinators *are* important for a resilient food system, including many common US crops! They often contribute as much as managed honeybees to pollination, even in agriculturally intensive areas: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Crop production in the USA is frequently limited by a lack of pollinators | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Most of the world's crops depend on pollinators, so declines in both managed and wild bees raise concerns about food security. However, the degree to which insect pollination is actually limiting current crop production is poorly understood, as is the ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
April 1, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Also, native pollinators *are* important for a resilient food system, including many common US crops! They often contribute as much as managed honeybees to pollination, even in agriculturally intensive areas: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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With Guillermina Ramirez-SanJuan we are very happy to announce the upcoming Latsis Symposium " Shaping microbial life in a changing environment" over July 8-10 at #EPFL
Registrations are open til May 23rd.
LINK: www.epfl-latsis-2025.org
Registrations are open til May 23rd.
LINK: www.epfl-latsis-2025.org
March 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
With Guillermina Ramirez-SanJuan we are very happy to announce the upcoming Latsis Symposium " Shaping microbial life in a changing environment" over July 8-10 at #EPFL
Registrations are open til May 23rd.
LINK: www.epfl-latsis-2025.org
Registrations are open til May 23rd.
LINK: www.epfl-latsis-2025.org
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Microbes are key to tackling climate change! A new report from the @asm.org and IUMS Scientific Advisory Group highlights microbial solutions to reduce carbon reliance, enhance food security and mitigate methane. Read the report: asm.org/climatesolutionsn.
March 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Microbes are key to tackling climate change! A new report from the @asm.org and IUMS Scientific Advisory Group highlights microbial solutions to reduce carbon reliance, enhance food security and mitigate methane. Read the report: asm.org/climatesolutionsn.
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We are losing ice, which more than just frozen water. Any interventions to save glaciers beyond reducing carbon emissions must protect icy ecosystems.
Out now in @nature.com building on work from @riverepfl.bsky.social @matthias-huss.bsky.social @aberdlsagb.bsky.social @aberuni.bsky.social
Out now in @nature.com building on work from @riverepfl.bsky.social @matthias-huss.bsky.social @aberdlsagb.bsky.social @aberuni.bsky.social
@riverepfl.bsky.social @matthias-huss.bsky.social
@arwynedwards.bsky.social Comment on technical interventions to reduce glacier melt published now. Thanks all!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@arwynedwards.bsky.social Comment on technical interventions to reduce glacier melt published now. Thanks all!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Glaciers are not just blocks of ice — plans to save them mustn’t overlook their hidden life
As glaciers begin to disappear, technological fixes to slow or halt ice melt are emerging. But regulations are urgently required before these fixes are used widely.
www.nature.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
We are losing ice, which more than just frozen water. Any interventions to save glaciers beyond reducing carbon emissions must protect icy ecosystems.
Out now in @nature.com building on work from @riverepfl.bsky.social @matthias-huss.bsky.social @aberdlsagb.bsky.social @aberuni.bsky.social
Out now in @nature.com building on work from @riverepfl.bsky.social @matthias-huss.bsky.social @aberdlsagb.bsky.social @aberuni.bsky.social
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SymbNET PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses 2025 with great lecturers:
J. Akorli,
@berasymbionts.bsky.social,
M. Blaser,
T. Bosch,
@nicoledubilier.bsky.social,
@fkttkm.bsky.social,
I. Gabanyi,
G. Dominguez-Bello,
and... 1/2
#SymbioSky #MicroSky gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s...
J. Akorli,
@berasymbionts.bsky.social,
M. Blaser,
T. Bosch,
@nicoledubilier.bsky.social,
@fkttkm.bsky.social,
I. Gabanyi,
G. Dominguez-Bello,
and... 1/2
#SymbioSky #MicroSky gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s...
PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses 2025
Symbnet PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM) & Católica Biomedical Research Centre (CBR) July 06...
gimm.idloom.events
March 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
SymbNET PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses 2025 with great lecturers:
J. Akorli,
@berasymbionts.bsky.social,
M. Blaser,
T. Bosch,
@nicoledubilier.bsky.social,
@fkttkm.bsky.social,
I. Gabanyi,
G. Dominguez-Bello,
and... 1/2
#SymbioSky #MicroSky gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s...
J. Akorli,
@berasymbionts.bsky.social,
M. Blaser,
T. Bosch,
@nicoledubilier.bsky.social,
@fkttkm.bsky.social,
I. Gabanyi,
G. Dominguez-Bello,
and... 1/2
#SymbioSky #MicroSky gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s...
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Gradual domestication of root traits in the earliest maize from Tehuacán www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
March 6, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Gradual domestication of root traits in the earliest maize from Tehuacán www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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🚨An exciting #PhD opportunity in my group🧫 @UniSurreyBioSci with Linda Oyama @QUB to work on #phage modulation of the poultry #microbiome and suppressing AMR. Closing date for applications is 3rd Feb
Apply here: tinyurl.com/y57huecd
Please share!!
#MicroSky #PhDSky #AcademicSky Details🔽
Apply here: tinyurl.com/y57huecd
Please share!!
#MicroSky #PhDSky #AcademicSky Details🔽
PhD Opportunities - FoodBioSystems
Four-year funded PhD projects are available in areas that span the food chain from farm to fork. Closing date: 3 February 2024 (10:00 GMT)
tinyurl.com
January 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
🚨An exciting #PhD opportunity in my group🧫 @UniSurreyBioSci with Linda Oyama @QUB to work on #phage modulation of the poultry #microbiome and suppressing AMR. Closing date for applications is 3rd Feb
Apply here: tinyurl.com/y57huecd
Please share!!
#MicroSky #PhDSky #AcademicSky Details🔽
Apply here: tinyurl.com/y57huecd
Please share!!
#MicroSky #PhDSky #AcademicSky Details🔽
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Want to do a PhD on the interactions and evolution between viruses and their hosts? I am one of many signed up supervisors to the ILESLA programme:
Two weeks to go until the application deadline for ILESLA. If you or anyone you know would benefit from full funding to carry out a PhD in Life and/or Environmental Science please visit/refer to our website page iles.web.ox.ac.uk/how-apply where you can see open day videos and get full guidance.
How to Apply and Funding
iles.web.ox.ac.uk
January 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Want to do a PhD on the interactions and evolution between viruses and their hosts? I am one of many signed up supervisors to the ILESLA programme:
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🚨🌍 SUMMER #INTERNSHIP ALERT (for Columbia University students only): We are currently seeking law students, undergraduates and graduates who are interested in working on cutting-edge #climatechange, #energy, and environmental policy issues. Please apply by 2/16.
Details ➡️ https://buff.ly/3tGRpKt
Details ➡️ https://buff.ly/3tGRpKt
January 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
🚨🌍 SUMMER #INTERNSHIP ALERT (for Columbia University students only): We are currently seeking law students, undergraduates and graduates who are interested in working on cutting-edge #climatechange, #energy, and environmental policy issues. Please apply by 2/16.
Details ➡️ https://buff.ly/3tGRpKt
Details ➡️ https://buff.ly/3tGRpKt
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Where are all the field studies?
This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer.
A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork)
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer.
A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork)
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Extinction of experience among ecologists
Fieldwork-based research and education in ecology are under multiple threats and are progressively declining. We call for greater attention to this ongoing loss of direct field experience within the ecology community, as it could have widespread consequences for science and education, ultimately hindering efforts to address the ongoing biodiversity crisis.
www.cell.com
January 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Where are all the field studies?
This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer.
A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork)
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer.
A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork)
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
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Anne Telnaes, Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post, has resigned.
The paper censored a cartoon that criticized billionaires.
Democracy dies in broad daylight, too.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
The paper censored a cartoon that criticized billionaires.
Democracy dies in broad daylight, too.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
anntelnaes.substack.com
January 4, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Anne Telnaes, Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post, has resigned.
The paper censored a cartoon that criticized billionaires.
Democracy dies in broad daylight, too.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
The paper censored a cartoon that criticized billionaires.
Democracy dies in broad daylight, too.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
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Fully-funded PhD scholarship at Massey University to study alpine insect microbiomes and ice nucleation. NZ$35,000 stipend/year for 3 years. Starts March 2025. More info: https://www.massey.ac.nz/study/scholarships-and-awards/phd-scholarship-freeze-tolerant-insects-and-the-microbiome/ #evoldir #phd
PhD Scholarship: Freeze-tolerant insects and the microbiome
Two fully funded PhD scholarship are available at Massey University Manawatū New Zealand to study the evolution of freeze-tolerant alpine insects.
www.massey.ac.nz
January 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Fully-funded PhD scholarship at Massey University to study alpine insect microbiomes and ice nucleation. NZ$35,000 stipend/year for 3 years. Starts March 2025. More info: https://www.massey.ac.nz/study/scholarships-and-awards/phd-scholarship-freeze-tolerant-insects-and-the-microbiome/ #evoldir #phd
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Want to improve your bioinformatics & data science skills? We’ve got you covered!
Our world-class Training programme empowers scientists at all career stages 🖥️🧬
On-demand training ⬇️
www.ebi.ac.uk/training/on-...
Upcoming live events ⬇️
www.ebi.ac.uk/training/liv...
@ebitraining.bsky.social
Our world-class Training programme empowers scientists at all career stages 🖥️🧬
On-demand training ⬇️
www.ebi.ac.uk/training/on-...
Upcoming live events ⬇️
www.ebi.ac.uk/training/liv...
@ebitraining.bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 9:45 AM
Want to improve your bioinformatics & data science skills? We’ve got you covered!
Our world-class Training programme empowers scientists at all career stages 🖥️🧬
On-demand training ⬇️
www.ebi.ac.uk/training/on-...
Upcoming live events ⬇️
www.ebi.ac.uk/training/liv...
@ebitraining.bsky.social
Our world-class Training programme empowers scientists at all career stages 🖥️🧬
On-demand training ⬇️
www.ebi.ac.uk/training/on-...
Upcoming live events ⬇️
www.ebi.ac.uk/training/liv...
@ebitraining.bsky.social
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My piece on what US government scientists can do to prepare for the Trump administration is featured in this list of the Revelator's top environmental commentaries of 2024. 🧪🌎
therevelator.org/environmenta...
therevelator.org/environmenta...
14 Must-Read Environmental Commentaries • The Revelator
In 2024 our experts explored subjects ranging from autocratic governments to green jobs and new ways to help endangered species.
therevelator.org
December 30, 2024 at 3:38 PM
My piece on what US government scientists can do to prepare for the Trump administration is featured in this list of the Revelator's top environmental commentaries of 2024. 🧪🌎
therevelator.org/environmenta...
therevelator.org/environmenta...
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A PhD opportunity funded by the BBSRC #FoodBioSystems DTP - Awakening the dormant soil microbiome. Based in @aberdlsagb.bsky.social with Dr Amanda Gibson, Prof Luis Mur and me, and @rwheatley8.bsky.social at QUB.
Please share!
research.reading.ac.uk/foodbiosyste...
Please share!
research.reading.ac.uk/foodbiosyste...
December 20, 2024 at 10:51 AM
A PhD opportunity funded by the BBSRC #FoodBioSystems DTP - Awakening the dormant soil microbiome. Based in @aberdlsagb.bsky.social with Dr Amanda Gibson, Prof Luis Mur and me, and @rwheatley8.bsky.social at QUB.
Please share!
research.reading.ac.uk/foodbiosyste...
Please share!
research.reading.ac.uk/foodbiosyste...
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Deadline is approaching (Jan 8) - reach out if you want to chat about this environmental microbiology PhD opportunity! @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social
#findaphd #newPI #phdopportunity #phd #education #ecology #sustainability #conservation #microbiology #microbiome
#findaphd #newPI #phdopportunity #phd #education #ecology #sustainability #conservation #microbiology #microbiome
PhD: Interested in conservation and enviro microbiomes? Want to work in a forest and in the lab + root-microbe interactions and root exudation? Apply for the IGNITE DTP to join my lab. Due Jan 8. Conservation ecology placement in the forest! #phd #findaphd
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Breaking Rhododendron: understanding the drivers of rhododendron success at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Breaking Rhododendron: understanding the drivers of rhododendron success at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 19, 2024 at 9:20 AM
Deadline is approaching (Jan 8) - reach out if you want to chat about this environmental microbiology PhD opportunity! @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social
#findaphd #newPI #phdopportunity #phd #education #ecology #sustainability #conservation #microbiology #microbiome
#findaphd #newPI #phdopportunity #phd #education #ecology #sustainability #conservation #microbiology #microbiome
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BBSRC funded PhD - evolution in the early stages of symbiosis, using Arsenophonus as model. tinyurl.com/Edgeofsymbio.... Apply by 30/01/2025. Available for UK and International students. With @brockhurstlab.bsky.social and @acdarby.bsky.social. #symbiosky
BBSRC NWD: On the edges of symbiosis: how insect symbionts evolve in newly established interactions at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - BBSRC NWD: On the edges of symbiosis: how insect symbionts evolve in newly established interactions at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com
tinyurl.com
December 18, 2024 at 5:02 PM
BBSRC funded PhD - evolution in the early stages of symbiosis, using Arsenophonus as model. tinyurl.com/Edgeofsymbio.... Apply by 30/01/2025. Available for UK and International students. With @brockhurstlab.bsky.social and @acdarby.bsky.social. #symbiosky
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🚨Job Alert
PhD opportunity with Manchester Fungal Infection Group at University of Manchester looking at mycobiome in response to fungicides🍄🟫💊
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
PhD opportunity with Manchester Fungal Infection Group at University of Manchester looking at mycobiome in response to fungicides🍄🟫💊
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com
December 16, 2024 at 5:00 PM
🚨Job Alert
PhD opportunity with Manchester Fungal Infection Group at University of Manchester looking at mycobiome in response to fungicides🍄🟫💊
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
PhD opportunity with Manchester Fungal Infection Group at University of Manchester looking at mycobiome in response to fungicides🍄🟫💊
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Microplastics in soil PhD project combining soil physics and microbiology - applications due by 17 January. Working with a multidisciplinary supervisory team including @micecoevo.bsky.social . www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
EASTBIO: Microplastics as degraders of soil biological habitat at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EASTBIO: Microplastics as degraders of soil biological habitat at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 13, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Microplastics in soil PhD project combining soil physics and microbiology - applications due by 17 January. Working with a multidisciplinary supervisory team including @micecoevo.bsky.social . www.findaphd.com/phds/project...