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!

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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!

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

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.

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

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!

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…

New editorial from Nature magazine, arguing that #DeepSeaMining should not be rushed. nature.com/articles/d4158…

And shout out to fellow Beaufort lover and Tar Heel Karen Lloyd for a fascinating plenary last night on the things that live(?) in the deep sea 🤿

The Astrobiology Graduate Conference (@AbGradCon) 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

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.

My new book, 'Microbes: The Unseen Agents of Climate Change' is now out.

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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.

Please check out our new paper on Cell Reports: Origin of eukaryotic-like Vps23 shapes an ancient functional interplay... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

OUT NOW A conserved interdomain microbial network underpins cadaver decomposition despite environmental variables Dr. Jessica Metcalf Zachary Burcham nature.com/articles/s4156…

Do microbial communities correlate with major shifts in subsurface geological provinces along a subducting arc? Our new data suggest that the answer is yes. Thanks Donato Giovannelli and Basili Marco for a great collaboration!

Thank you for you’re support we appreciate it

Dear colleagues, friends, & acquaintances,

Harvard University 's President Claudine Gay stepped down today. I would like to share a few thoughts about this decision, & hope that you will take the time to reflect on whether or not this was the right decision for Harvard and for us all.
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Nouvelle année, nouvelle aventure!
I’m thrilled to join the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography in Marseille, France as CNRS 🌍 Chaire de Professeur Junior in MIO & across l’OSU Institut Pythéas CNRS 🌍_INSU IRD.fr Aix-Marseille Université Université de Toulon Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne 🌊❄️🌎☀️🔬🇪🇺🇫🇷

Less than one week left to register for the Geobiology GRC in Galveston, TX, Jan 14-19, 2024, and the GRS for early career folks Jan 13! Deadline is Dec 16 for the GRS and Dec 17 for the GRC. Join us! And let us know if funding prevents your attendence. grc.org/geobiology-con…