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WATCH: “It’s ridiculous we’re moving with more urgency to ban COLD BEER 🍺 than to ban weapons of war from our streets.” Rep. Justin Jones Joe Towns, Jr. & the TN House Democrats blast Republicans for fast-tracking a bill over Rep. Gant’s accident, yet ignoring rampant gun violence.

My new book, "Microbes: The Unseen Agents of Climate Change" is now out. global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Oh this is so sad. Craig was such an inspiring person to work with on a project when I was a grad student. I learned so much from him. I'm so sorry for your loss.

The Astrobiology Graduate Conference (Astrobiology Graduate Conference) is now accepting abstracts for their 2024 meeting! This year's conference will be held at Cornell University, located in upstate New York. To learn more about the conference and submit an abstract, visit abgradcon.org

Just published! Large dataset for the BioScales project began 2020 at the height of COVID w/ one time funding. Designed to be a multi-omic, open-data, feature project for what was then the new National Microbiome Data Collaborative National Microbiome Data Collaborative (1/3) nature.com/articles/s4159…

This is awesome. Being able to measure per-cell respiration rates (rather than dividing bulk-measured rates by the total number of cells) in a low energy natural, anoxic setting is unprecedented!

Once again, kathy is my favorite photographer of all time. A colander in an eclipse. What a great idea!

Congratulations to Gage Coon Gage Coon , a microbiology undergrad researcher in the Lloyd lab Karen Lloyd , on receiving the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP)! Next fall, he joins Dr. Tanja Bosak’s lab at MIT pursue his PhD on microbial carbon capture.

The podcast I made with Radio3 Scienza is a finalist at the New York Festival Radio Awards, the only Italian podcast in this edition! I'm very happy for this recognition! Thank you all! You can find ABISSI also on Spotify

There's picture of me in here! And Jacopo was so unobtrusive when he took this shot of me in the field in Chile, I didn't even notice him taking it!

A new preprint is out with Ashley Bulseco, Ph.D., Julie Huber, PhD, and undergrad Wenzhou (Meg) Yang, where we look at how specific growth rate is distributed in natural microbial communities. Chemostats and models! doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

We're still looking for a postdoc in metabolic modeling and culture-based validation. If it sounds like you, reach out to discuss! isme-microbes.org/jobs/postdocto…

Big congrats to all, most especially the fabulous Ann Pearson at #Harvard

It's hard to do a global survey of the subsurface biosphere, because samples are hard to find. But with the Census of Deep Life, out of the Deep Carbon Observatory, we came pretty dang close! Kudos to @EmilRuff for herding all us cats and pulling this off! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Just published! An article using diatoms to trace particulate organic matter movement. This pub is special to me because it’s the final chapter of my PhD thesis. It was foundational for numerous later studies and I’m so happy it’s finally out there. frontiersin.org/journals/micro…

Another successful cruise on the RV Sharp getting in situ methanotrophy rates on the Atlantic slope! UROV helped us retrieve a lost lander - not bad-looking for sitting at the bottom of the ocean for a year. Great help from students Anna Hildebrand and Leland Wood too! U.S. National Science Foundation

I'm excited to announce that after 12 wonderful, supportive years at UTK Microbiology, I'm moving my lab to the Earth Sciences Dept. at U. Southern California USC Earth Science @USCDornsif. I can't wait to join all you great geobiologists on the west coast!

The first isolate of Asgard archaea, MK-D1, now has an official name: Promethearchaeum syntrophicum. The new archaeal kingdom, Promethearchaeati, is also approved! Huge thanks to Masaru K. Nobu and JCM members (加藤真悟) for their incredible efforts. microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…

Get to know our new faculty in the natural sciences! 🌏 Curious about the organisms thriving in Earth’s most remote regions? Karen Lloyd is, too. 🦠 Want to know how microbes survive in extreme environments? Drew Steen is on the cutting edge ⤵️ bit.ly/4d2Aum4

I consulted for a Kurzgesagt cartoon about the Deep Subsurface Biosphere, and it turned out AMAZING! These guys must have had a blast putting all this together. Check it out here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=VD6xJq…