And in soil microbes? Excuse me? www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/668...
Soil Bacteria Work In Similar Way To Antidepressants
UK scientists suggest that a type of friendly bacteria found in soil may affect the brain in a similar way to antidepressants.
www.medicalnewstoday.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
And in soil microbes? Excuse me? www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/668...
This is the link to the episode. Yay, microbes! Our wonderful abundant kin!
www.alieward.com/ologies/indi...
www.alieward.com/ologies/indi...
Indigenous Pedology (SOIL SCIENCE) with Dr. Lydia Jennings — alie ward
Soil! Dirt! Earth. Dr. Lydia Jennings, aka Native Soil Nerd, breaks down the stuff under our feet and explains everything from mining to why soil can be different colors. Also: medicine from microbes,...
www.alieward.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This is the link to the episode. Yay, microbes! Our wonderful abundant kin!
www.alieward.com/ologies/indi...
www.alieward.com/ologies/indi...
The researchers found that constipation, for example, led to an overabundance of microbes in the gut that produced kidney-harming compounds.
How often you poop can affect your health well beyond the gut, study suggests
The researchers found that constipation, for example, led to an overabundance of microbes in the gut that produced kidney-harming compounds.
nbcnews.to
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The researchers found that constipation, for example, led to an overabundance of microbes in the gut that produced kidney-harming compounds.
#ResistanceEarth
Will nature help us solve our plastic problem? Scientists have discovered microbes in the ocean that have evolved enzymes capable of digesting PET plastic. Bacteria with PETase variants were found in almost 80% of the 400 ocean samples tested.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Will nature help us solve our plastic problem? Scientists have discovered microbes in the ocean that have evolved enzymes capable of digesting PET plastic. Bacteria with PETase variants were found in almost 80% of the 400 ocean samples tested.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Plastic-eating bacteria discovered in the ocean
Beneath the ocean’s surface, bacteria have evolved specialized enzymes that can digest PET plastic, the material used in bottles and clothes. Researchers at KAUST discovered that a unique molecular si...
www.sciencedaily.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
#ResistanceEarth
Will nature help us solve our plastic problem? Scientists have discovered microbes in the ocean that have evolved enzymes capable of digesting PET plastic. Bacteria with PETase variants were found in almost 80% of the 400 ocean samples tested.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Will nature help us solve our plastic problem? Scientists have discovered microbes in the ocean that have evolved enzymes capable of digesting PET plastic. Bacteria with PETase variants were found in almost 80% of the 400 ocean samples tested.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Even better than just a gigantic spider megacity, this is actually a giant spider *arcology*, the spiders feed on flies that feed on sulfur vent microbes.
Michael Crichton-ass timeline phys.org/news/2025-11...
Sulfur cave spiders build an arachnid megacity and possibly the largest-ever spider web
Researchers may have discovered the world's biggest spider web, a massive subterranean structure spanning over 100 square meters in a sulfur cave on the Albania–Greece border. The multilayered web alo...
phys.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Even better than just a gigantic spider megacity, this is actually a giant spider *arcology*, the spiders feed on flies that feed on sulfur vent microbes.
We are basically mech suits for microbes.
This gets into a really good, largely unanswerable question: how much does it matter that "X amount of bacteria is on Y surface".
Okay. Right now there are dozens of species of bacteria scattered across the surface of your body. Your pits stink because of bacteria. Your nose is full of bacteria.
Okay. Right now there are dozens of species of bacteria scattered across the surface of your body. Your pits stink because of bacteria. Your nose is full of bacteria.
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
We are basically mech suits for microbes.
Our #microbiome is us. We are holobionts, as Lynn Margulis understood.
Thinking must be ecological, for every complex being is an ecology, as well as living in one.
#microbiotoxicity, the threat of damage to microbes, has to be on regulatory agendas
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thinking must be ecological, for every complex being is an ecology, as well as living in one.
#microbiotoxicity, the threat of damage to microbes, has to be on regulatory agendas
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The nature extinction crisis is mirrored by one in our own bodies. Both have huge implications for health
Modern life is waging a war against ecosystems around us and inside us. Keeping our own microbes healthy is another reason to demand action to preserve the natural world
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Our #microbiome is us. We are holobionts, as Lynn Margulis understood.
Thinking must be ecological, for every complex being is an ecology, as well as living in one.
#microbiotoxicity, the threat of damage to microbes, has to be on regulatory agendas
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thinking must be ecological, for every complex being is an ecology, as well as living in one.
#microbiotoxicity, the threat of damage to microbes, has to be on regulatory agendas
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Strain displacement in microbiomes via ecological competition
#microbes #ecology #microSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#microbes #ecology #microSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Strain displacement in microbiomes via ecological competition - Nature Microbiology
Mathematical modelling and experimental tests reveal principles that govern displacement of a resident strain by an invader in microbial communities.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Strain displacement in microbiomes via ecological competition
#microbes #ecology #microSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#microbes #ecology #microSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Check out our new paper:
🔗 www.cell.com/structure/fu...
We explored how sulfate-reducing bacteria import isethionate, a sulfur-containing molecule found in the environment and produced by microbes in the human gut. We captured a structure of the IseQM TRAP transporter in a substrate-bound state.
🔗 www.cell.com/structure/fu...
We explored how sulfate-reducing bacteria import isethionate, a sulfur-containing molecule found in the environment and produced by microbes in the human gut. We captured a structure of the IseQM TRAP transporter in a substrate-bound state.
Structural basis of isethionate transport by a TRAP transporter from a sulfate-reducing bacterium
Newton-Vesty et al. used a megabody fiducial to determine the cryo-EM structure of
an isethionate TRAP transporter, revealing the substrate and Na+-binding sites. Transport
is dependent on Na+ and the...
www.cell.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Check out our new paper:
🔗 www.cell.com/structure/fu...
We explored how sulfate-reducing bacteria import isethionate, a sulfur-containing molecule found in the environment and produced by microbes in the human gut. We captured a structure of the IseQM TRAP transporter in a substrate-bound state.
🔗 www.cell.com/structure/fu...
We explored how sulfate-reducing bacteria import isethionate, a sulfur-containing molecule found in the environment and produced by microbes in the human gut. We captured a structure of the IseQM TRAP transporter in a substrate-bound state.
"All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it’s game over forever."
-- Margaret Atwood , Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam)
-- Margaret Atwood , Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam)
November 8, 2025 at 12:44 AM
"All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it’s game over forever."
-- Margaret Atwood , Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam)
-- Margaret Atwood , Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam)
Nature is fighting back against human pollution
Plastic-Munching Bacteria Found Across the Seven Seas
New enzyme motif shows how ocean microbes are evolving to digest plastic — and could help future cleanup efforts.
discovery.kaust.edu.sa/en/article/2...
Plastic-Munching Bacteria Found Across the Seven Seas
New enzyme motif shows how ocean microbes are evolving to digest plastic — and could help future cleanup efforts.
discovery.kaust.edu.sa/en/article/2...
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Nature is fighting back against human pollution
Plastic-Munching Bacteria Found Across the Seven Seas
New enzyme motif shows how ocean microbes are evolving to digest plastic — and could help future cleanup efforts.
discovery.kaust.edu.sa/en/article/2...
Plastic-Munching Bacteria Found Across the Seven Seas
New enzyme motif shows how ocean microbes are evolving to digest plastic — and could help future cleanup efforts.
discovery.kaust.edu.sa/en/article/2...
Me after having a can of each type of pre and probiotic 7$ seltzer water at work so the microbes and shit can duke it out in my tummy
November 9, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Me after having a can of each type of pre and probiotic 7$ seltzer water at work so the microbes and shit can duke it out in my tummy
Every cubic meter of air contains anywhere from 10 to 10 million microbes, depending on the altitude, location, season and time of day. At an observatory Watop Puy de Dôme, a 4,800-foot inactive volcano in France, microbiologists sample the aeromicrobiome.
Microbes Also Change the Climate. Could That Help Us? | Quanta Magazine
A collection of short dispatches from the field of climate microbiology conveys the contributions that single-celled life forms make to our climate system, and how we can work with them to address…
www.quantamagazine.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Every cubic meter of air contains anywhere from 10 to 10 million microbes, depending on the altitude, location, season and time of day. At an observatory Watop Puy de Dôme, a 4,800-foot inactive volcano in France, microbiologists sample the aeromicrobiome.
As a parent, I've also seen the hygiene hypothesis -- the idea that it's better for children to encounter allergens and harmless microbes in the environment earlier in life to develop their immune systems -- applied to infectious disease, which is not accurate. 1/
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
As a parent, I've also seen the hygiene hypothesis -- the idea that it's better for children to encounter allergens and harmless microbes in the environment earlier in life to develop their immune systems -- applied to infectious disease, which is not accurate. 1/
A study in Nature Communications finds that relative abundances of stress-sensitive gastrointestinal microbes at 2 years old predicts internalizing symptoms, such as depression and anxiety, in middle childhood through altered emotion-related brain network connectivity. #microbiome #medsky 🧪
Childhood gut microbiome is linked to internalizing symptoms at school age via the functional connectome - Nature Communications
Here, the authors find that relative abundances of stress-sensitive gastrointestinal microbes at age 2 years predicts internalizing symptoms in middle childhood through altered emotion-related brain network connectivity.
go.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
A study in Nature Communications finds that relative abundances of stress-sensitive gastrointestinal microbes at 2 years old predicts internalizing symptoms, such as depression and anxiety, in middle childhood through altered emotion-related brain network connectivity. #microbiome #medsky 🧪
The world’s coldest microbes are waking up.
Warming across the cryosphere — from melting glaciers to thawing permafrost — is accelerating microbial activity, reshaping carbon and nutrient fluxes, and amplifying climate feedbacks
(review)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Warming across the cryosphere — from melting glaciers to thawing permafrost — is accelerating microbial activity, reshaping carbon and nutrient fluxes, and amplifying climate feedbacks
(review)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Current and projected effects of climate change in cryosphere microbial ecosystems - Nature Reviews Microbiology
The cryosphere remains one of the least-understood microbial ecosystems on Earth, but as climate change accelerates, cryosphere microbial communities will have an increasingly prominent role in Earth’...
www.nature.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The world’s coldest microbes are waking up.
Warming across the cryosphere — from melting glaciers to thawing permafrost — is accelerating microbial activity, reshaping carbon and nutrient fluxes, and amplifying climate feedbacks
(review)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Warming across the cryosphere — from melting glaciers to thawing permafrost — is accelerating microbial activity, reshaping carbon and nutrient fluxes, and amplifying climate feedbacks
(review)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
this suggests a pathway to treating brain fog, but not likely to curing it, at least not an immediate one. the trouble is that suppressing microglial activity is inherently immunosuppressive, at best selectively so, and would make the brain at least a little more vulnerable to invasion by microbes
November 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
this suggests a pathway to treating brain fog, but not likely to curing it, at least not an immediate one. the trouble is that suppressing microglial activity is inherently immunosuppressive, at best selectively so, and would make the brain at least a little more vulnerable to invasion by microbes
🚀 New in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
EMCG — droplet-based single-particle genomics method 🧬⚠️Sequencing marine microbes one by one — in nL of seawater!
Ultra-high resolution — no culture, no bulk averaging. A new way to see the invisible 🫥 🌊 rdcu.be/eOsUF #protistsonsky @bigelowlab.bsky.social
EMCG — droplet-based single-particle genomics method 🧬⚠️Sequencing marine microbes one by one — in nL of seawater!
Ultra-high resolution — no culture, no bulk averaging. A new way to see the invisible 🫥 🌊 rdcu.be/eOsUF #protistsonsky @bigelowlab.bsky.social
Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes
Nature Microbiology - Environmental micro-compartment genomics provides efficient and high-throughput single-particle DNA sequencing that captures overlooked members of microbial communities.
rdcu.be
November 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
🚀 New in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
EMCG — droplet-based single-particle genomics method 🧬⚠️Sequencing marine microbes one by one — in nL of seawater!
Ultra-high resolution — no culture, no bulk averaging. A new way to see the invisible 🫥 🌊 rdcu.be/eOsUF #protistsonsky @bigelowlab.bsky.social
EMCG — droplet-based single-particle genomics method 🧬⚠️Sequencing marine microbes one by one — in nL of seawater!
Ultra-high resolution — no culture, no bulk averaging. A new way to see the invisible 🫥 🌊 rdcu.be/eOsUF #protistsonsky @bigelowlab.bsky.social
I really want to try gochujang sometime, but apparently those microbes need sun, and you gotta stir it but if moisture leaks in it's ruined...not sure I trust Texas weather enough to try that one.
November 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I really want to try gochujang sometime, but apparently those microbes need sun, and you gotta stir it but if moisture leaks in it's ruined...not sure I trust Texas weather enough to try that one.
Pretty amazing experience - even as Franconian having visited many breweries, I learnt a lot today (maybe also, because many brewers avoid sharing the details 😅).
Now, the countdown towards the start of the @terra-cluster.org @unituebingen.bsky.social is on (counted by microbes): 🍻🥨🍺
Now, the countdown towards the start of the @terra-cluster.org @unituebingen.bsky.social is on (counted by microbes): 🍻🥨🍺
Event of the Day: Brewing the TERRA Kick-off Beer with, at & by Ronny Schöneberg:
A dark stout - perfect for the cold season - and just ready when #TERRA will come to life in January.
Very much looking forward to tasting this product of TERRA's first "microbial incubation at intermediate scale" 🍻🍺
A dark stout - perfect for the cold season - and just ready when #TERRA will come to life in January.
Very much looking forward to tasting this product of TERRA's first "microbial incubation at intermediate scale" 🍻🍺
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Pretty amazing experience - even as Franconian having visited many breweries, I learnt a lot today (maybe also, because many brewers avoid sharing the details 😅).
Now, the countdown towards the start of the @terra-cluster.org @unituebingen.bsky.social is on (counted by microbes): 🍻🥨🍺
Now, the countdown towards the start of the @terra-cluster.org @unituebingen.bsky.social is on (counted by microbes): 🍻🥨🍺
My #Bio350 #Micronauts often find the most unusual things to show me. Here is a swab from the straw of a water bottle. The clear areas are most likely gliders, pushing other microbes away. Phage are unlikely since the background is many of many taxa. #WildMicrobesRule #ObservationIsKey
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
My #Bio350 #Micronauts often find the most unusual things to show me. Here is a swab from the straw of a water bottle. The clear areas are most likely gliders, pushing other microbes away. Phage are unlikely since the background is many of many taxa. #WildMicrobesRule #ObservationIsKey
Why should I be interested in a machine that says yes when trees have complex methods of communication via microbes that we're only beginning to understand
www.npr.org/sections/hea...
www.npr.org/sections/hea...
Trees Talk To Each Other. 'Mother Tree' Ecologist Hears Lessons For People, Too
Ecologist Suzanne Simard says trees are "social creatures" that communicate with each other in remarkable ways — including warning each other of danger and sharing nutrients at critical times.
www.npr.org
November 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Why should I be interested in a machine that says yes when trees have complex methods of communication via microbes that we're only beginning to understand
www.npr.org/sections/hea...
www.npr.org/sections/hea...
If you are at the Emerging Applications of Microbes conference in Leuven, go to poster #24: Engineering growth control to modulate circuit host dependencies, by @angeles-hg.bsky.social. This is a brilliant story about growth rates vs. genetic circuit function. And, of course, noise! #synbio
November 7, 2025 at 6:57 AM
If you are at the Emerging Applications of Microbes conference in Leuven, go to poster #24: Engineering growth control to modulate circuit host dependencies, by @angeles-hg.bsky.social. This is a brilliant story about growth rates vs. genetic circuit function. And, of course, noise! #synbio