I was in contact with the authors of the commentary but PNAS doesn't allow non-authors to 'support' these comments (like a consortium). I am in full support of this commentary - lack of evidence of methanotrophic growth by model methanogen. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Could someone who actually knows stuff compare current campus protests with the anti-Vietnam war protests in the early 70ies? Or someone point me to balanced assessments of the current protests?

The most idiotic reviewer comment I ever got was “your method section is too long” yes, because we believe in reproducibility and WANT people to use our protocols!

For some scientific questions there seem to be 10x more review/perspective articles than ACTUAL research papers and I hate it. A hypothesis without a meaningful test is intellectually entertaining but ultimately doesn’t advance science. Test your hypotheses!

If I would teach general microbiology, ‘Matters Microbial’ would be assigned homework! Hey
ISME ASM FEMS can you share to spread the word about this awesome podcast, please?! microbe.tv/mm/

More on N2-fixing endosymbionts of algae

A great combination of population-targeted (metatranscriptomics) and single cell resolved (heavy water NanoSIMS) approaches reveal the activity response of desert soil microbes to a rain event. Great work Dagmar Woebken Stefanie Imminger Dimitri V. Meier et al

Not restricted to bacteria, archaea can also gain energy from trace hydrogen and carbon monoxide in air! Our first archaeal focused study is now online (rdcu.be/dEKUI). Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute Chris Greening

When I use generative AI, for every 'wow, that's cool/helpful' encounter, I have 9 encounters that are 'you are a useless piece of s*^% and a waste of time'.

Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria in the Marine Environments Revealed by Raman/Fluorescence-Guided Single-Cell Sorting and Targeted Metagenomics | Environmental Science & Technology pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Meet the newest (identified) organelle, the nitroplast! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Awesome time lapse of Alvin sampling Pescadero basin! Cruise led by Dr. Mandy Joye 🇺🇦 🌻 including labs of Brett Baker Karthik Anantharaman and my own

Grateful to be part of this expedition on board @WHOl
vessel R/V Atlantis led by Dr. Mandy Joye 🇺🇦 🌻. We've already set up the lab, did emergency training, watch the eclipse and we're ready to do some science!
Karthik Anantharaman, Roland Hatzenpichler Brett Baker
Maggie Langwig #GulfofCali2024

Couldn’t agree more. Great opportunity for ECRs. Go for it!

We are underway - finally - and ~12 hours closer to the mouth of the Gulf of California. Enjoy the first sunset of the #GulfOfCali_2024 expedition. #NSF_funded @NSF_Geo UGA Research UGA Marine Sciences