Cross-species #gut #microbiota #transplantation predictably affects host #heat #tolerance

https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.246735

Join the Agroecological TRANSITIONS Program next Thursday, ⏰ Feb 8, for a discussion with our implementing partners. TRANSITIONS aims to scale up agroecology through better metrics, digital tools, and public-private incentives & investment.

✍️ Register today: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BgpNXtGgR1WyRud3boFRKw#/registration

What Happens in 60 Seconds on the Internet? https://uk.pcmag.com/the-why-axis-serie/150116/heres-what-happens-in-60-seconds-of-global-internet-activity
In a single minute, 6.3 million Google searches are entered, and 241 million email messages are sent—and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

The strain on scientific publishing 📄:

The publishing sector has a problem. Scientists are overwhelmed, editors are overworked, special issue invitations are constant, research paper mills, article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?

Myself, pablo, @paolocrosetto and Dan have spent the last few months investigating just that.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884

A thread🧵1/n

#AcademicChatter #PublishOrPerish #Elsevier #Springer #MDPI #Wiley #Frontiers #PhDAdvice #PhDChat #SciComm

Why should early-career scientists publish in society journals

https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/mbio.01994-23

#ecr @IMPACTT @MicrobioJC #SciComm @academicchatter @academicsunite @openscience #peerreview

You know how we'll know if this #COP28 or any "plan" will be a success or failure?

When the #climate stabilizes.

Until then it's all blah, blah, blah.

🇬🇧 As part of a scientific community committed to #openness, we have decided to discontinue our engagement on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) by the end of this year. The account will remain, but we will no longer post or interact there. We are happy to exchange ideas with you here on Mastodon and on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/helmholtz-open-science-office/

#leavingtwitter #openscience (as)

We have now opened the call for nominees for the 2024 GBIF Graduate Researchers Awards!

This programme will recognize the work of two early-career researchers, awarding each €5,000 for their innovative research and discovery in biodiversity informatics.

The global deadline is 24 June 2024

Full call with details of national deadlines (as they become available):
https://www.gbif.org/news/0YedTUAf3Nk14JKZqBn0a/call-opens-for-nominations-to-2024-gbif-graduate-researchers-award

#GradResearchers

#Fecal and #skin #microbiota of two rescued #Mediterranean #monkseal pups during #rehabilitation

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.02805-23

@iucnredlist @iucnocean @iucn @redlist @IMPACTT @MicrobioJC #SciComm @academicchatter @academicsunite @openscience #gutmicrobes #hostmicrobiota #hostmicrobe #microbialecology #symbiosis #microbeinteractions @PeerJ

Nitrogen fixation in mangroves

Mangroves have to cope with a large variety of challenges. Low nutrient levels in the soil is one of them. A recent publication now documents one mechanism used by the plants thrive inspite of low nitrogen levels in the substrate: nitrogen fixing bacteria. (Citation: Inoue et al., (2023) Diazotrophic nitrogen fixation through aerial roots occurs in Avicennia marina: implications for adaptation of mangrove ..., New Phytologist, doi: 10.1111/nph.19442).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXkAdgL1OAw

These #microbes have been thriving without #mitochondria since the age of #dinosaurs!

7 years ago, we identified the first known #eukaryote that has completely lost its mitochondria in a humble inhabitant of #chinchilla's gut - #Monocercomonoides exilis.

Today, we can say with confidence, that this intriguing simplification of the cell is not unique to M. exilis, but shared with many of its relatives. This means that it happened at least 100 million years ago!

https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1011050

Mycotoxins in aquaculture - dissemination day

https://myconos.diae.uth.gr

Recent Advances in #Mycotoxin Determination in #Fish #Feed Ingredients

https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/28/6/2519

#aquaculture #aquacultureeurope #aquaculturenutrition #CIRCLESEU
@jess_rieder @faofish @raqjournal @raqjournal @EU_MARE

It’s hard not to say “AI” when everybody else does too, but technically calling it AI is buying into the marketing. There is no intelligence there, and it’s not going to become sentient. It’s just statistics, and the danger they pose is primarily through the false sense of skill or fitness for purpose that people ascribe to them.

@ethanwhite good to know, as this (and other) type of exclusions are spreading throughout in Europe too

We were just informed that due to a new Florida law we should no longer recruit grad students or postdocs from a number of "countries of concern" including China. We also "might have to withdraw existing offers".

I've benefited from many interactions with amazing Chinese students & postdocs in my career. This is a huge loss for everyone.

While there is an exception for students & postdocs already living outside of their home country, that will be a small & shrinking fraction of folks.

This.

A bunch of collaborators interviewed for this #NYT story about one of my co-workers at the Great Lakes Laboratory for Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. During electrofishing surveys of #Hamilton Harbour, Christine Boston regularly catches *huge #goldfish which had been released when they outgrew people's home aquariums. They disturb plants and littoral areas and have no predators because nothing can eat them.
#FisheriesAndOceans #InvasiveSpecies #GreatLakes #Canada
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/science/goldfish-invasive-great-lakes.html

Job vacancies in #microbiology

https://careers.appliedmicrobiology.org/?utm_source=AMIsocial&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Jbsocialrepeat&utm_id=Jbsocialrepeat

@jobRxiv @PeerJ @phdlife @PhD_Genie @phdstudents
#phdlife #highereducation #postdocjobs #postdocposition #postdoclife #research #studyabroad #OpenScience #peerreview #academia #science #AcademicMastodon #SciComm #teaching @academicchatter #MicrobiologyJobs

Single-celled #protists in the guts of #animals thrive without the powerhouse of the cell: #Genomic analysis suggests the oxymonad lineage lost their #mitochondria about 100 million years ago https://www.isep-protists.com/post/genomics-of-preaxostyla

New #ISEPpapers! #Genomics of #Preaxostyla #Flagellates Illuminates the Path Towards the Loss of Mitochondria https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1011050

#microbes #evolution #organelles #eukaryotes #bioinformatics #science #biology #discovery

#PhD Student Position in #Environmental #Microbiology

https://careers.uni-stuttgart.de/job/Stuttgart-PhD-Student-Position-in-Environmental-Microbiology/962885255/

@jobRxiv @PeerJ @phdlife @PhD_Genie @phdstudents
#phdlife #highereducation #postdocjobs #postdocposition #postdoclife #research #studyabroad #OpenScience #peerreview #academia #science #AcademicMastodon #SciComm #teaching @academicchatter #MicrobiologyJobs