A nitrogen-fixing organelle, or “nitroplast,” has been identified in a marine alga. This discovery sheds light on the evolutionary transition from endosymbiont to organelle.

Learn more this week in Science: scim.ag/6yX

It's #WorldSeagrassDay ! Time to spotlight some of the amazing species I've found on Scottish seagrass beds over the last year 🫢 Looking forward to discussing all my work at ISBW15 later this year! #Seagrass #eDNA #metaprobes

New #preprint alert! What are the core symbionts of lichens? TLDR: we analyzed >400 lichen metagenomes from around the world and found that 4 bacterial groups are as frequent in lichens as the alga, one of the two main partners in the symbiosis. 🧵1/11 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

NEOF visitor & PhD researcher Susie Phillips Susie Phillips is using SNPs to understand genetic diversity and distinctiveness in water vole populations to help Cheshire Wildlife Trust Cheshire Wildlife Trust manage translocations and reintroductions #NEOFTraining

On the cover: The marine #lichen Lichina pygmaea at low tide in the eulittoral zone of the shore, at Plymouth Hoe. Image courtesy of Chris Parkes, MBA - Marine Biological Association.

Carbon exchange in marine cyanolichen, Chrismas et al. 👇

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Career update 🥳

I am joining @edinburghuni School of GeoSciences @ University of Edinburgh in June as Chancellor’s Fellow (senior level) in climate & environmental sustainability

I will continue to work on microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling & am happy to build new collaborations in Edinburgh/beyond.

Please retweet!! We’re recruiting a 4-year PhD student to investigate sources of biological nitrogen fixation in boreal forests. You'll work in beautiful northern Sweden and be based SLU in Umeå. See link for more details!🦠🌲🌳🍃🍂slu.se/en/about-slu/w…

my first waterbear!!🤩 closing out 2023 by hunting for these little guys in lichens/mosses! Crop from w/ Laowa - Venus Optics Aurogon Supermicro 20x at NA 0.15

#macrobiotidae #tardigrada #waterbear

That's how it's done

Those of us in York know this view well, and are fairly immune to floods at this level. Still, it's one of the higher 'normal' floods we've seen for a while.

📣TWO four-year PhD positions in Arctic plant 🌱 ecology/environmental science (with me and APE@GU). Please share and/or apply! Deadline Jan 19. web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/… 📷: Kai Sattler, of our field site 😍

PhD opportunity with me and Dr. Ellie Harrison studying soil phages with metagenomics and experimental system:
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Please pass on to anyone currently looking! Great collaborators too w/ edze westra Stineke van Houte Briony Jones and Rob Griffiths. 🧬🧫🧑‍💻

Josh Thurston Josh Thurston will also evaluate the efficacy of metagenomics in analysing the function potential of complex cryptogam (bryophytes, lichens etc) holobionts, comprising of both the host & its microbiome ACCE DTP Department of Environment and Geography #NEOFTraining #NEOFpilot

NEOF visitor Josh Thurston Josh Thurston will be analysing the microbiomes of three alpine cryptogams (mosses and lichens) to reveal the effect of seasonal environmental stressors on the community composition and structure. ACCE DTP Department of Environment and Geography #NEOFTraining

Love cryptogams? Love biogeochemistry? Love cryptogam biogeochemistry? Want to help us work out what cryptogams in the Cairngorms can teach us about future arctic and alpine environments? Still time to apply for this ace PDRA job at York. Join us!

Come study some cool (meaning both cold and 😎) stuff with us! Department of Environment and Geography #phdchat