Kathleen Williams wants Montana voters to help her restore civility and science sciencemag.org/news/2018/10/k…

🎉🎉Hopefully the next person won’t hate science as much as Mr. Zinke

Auburn University charts path for 21st century vision of U.S. aquaculture producegrower.com/article/auburn…

Strange looking algal biofilm visualized with the lipid stain Bodipy green. #biofilm #algae #biofuel

Algal biofilm with an associated microbial community. Cells are labeled with BONCAT, potentially revealing an active interplay within the phycosphere #biofilm @Center4Biofilm

New preprint out today in bioRxiv Microbiology: Accurate and Complete Genomes from Metagenomes LinXingChen Karthik Anantharaman Alon Shaiber A. Murat Eren (Meren) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

People from all over the country are flooding into Montana, and locals are really mad about it. But if you want to fully understand why, you need a serious history lesson. Listen to Land Grab: a podcast about the place we call Montana now! Find more at landgrabpodcast.com

Do you like #algae and #biotechnology? Do you want to get your PhD in a supportive group in beautiful #tromsø #Norway ? Our Microalgae & Microbiomes Research Group (M2RG) UiT Norges arktiske universitet is hiring a student to work with the amazing Daniela Morales-Sánchez ! Pls RT isme-microbes.org/jobs/phd-micro…

I've been spending the last few weeks researching carbon removal, specifically around how we might think about its costs and how we might fund it given its unique mixture of being highly urgent and very nascent. I've put most of my current thinking here scalingcarbonremoval.com

Montana State University is “relocating” 32 graduate students and their families from their homes on campus to make room for incoming undergraduates. This is a martyrization of graduate students for money. 1/4 Craig Ogilvie GEO of MSU

Our latest Feature Review comes from Matthew Fields and The Center for Biofilm Engineering Montana State University colleagues. It explains bacteria-algae dynamics and provides some engineering lessons for useful applications of mixed consortia of microalgae and other microorganisms: cell.com/trends/biotech…

This month's cover article comes from Matthew Fields and colleagues The Center for Biofilm Engineering Montana State University. It describes how the algal microbiome can be harnessed for increased industrial productivity: cell.com/trends/biotech…

97% of the fish from farm is eaten domestically in #Bangladesh: provides jobs and steady income, proteins, and food security, explains MSU and FSP scientist Ben Belton. Will this happen in #Myanmar too? The Economist Fisheries & Aquaculture WorldFish econ.st/2FoIked

The UN is starting talks to conserve areas of the high seas, which could be a pretty big deal! Scientists need to play offense and defense to prevent destruction of critical habitats and enable future discoveries to be made. My thoughts, via Undark Magazine undark.org/article/high-s…

Stephen Hawking, physicist and icon of science, has died at the age of 76 go.nature.com/2HzucMq

Our new minireview on modeling human microbiome is out: From Network Analysis to Functional Metabolic Modeling of the Human Gut Microbiota, tinyurl.com/y93wvbt4 EIC Jack Gilbert.

#Strawberries & #fish seem like an odd combination? The quality of these strawberries produced in #Oman is thanks to the #water fertilized by #fishwaste that recirculates through #aquaponics & grows quality fruit. #Innovation #waterscarcity #UNFAO fao.org/fao-stories/ar…

#BONCAT labeled rainbow #trout gut microbial community. The red cells are translationally active. @Center4Biofilm #microscopy #molecularbiology

Live stream TEDxBozeman today at 11:00 am MST. My friend @lukejustinmckay is giving a mind blowing talk about mac ‘n cheese, electrons and aliens. Go to tedxbozeman.com/livestream

How are important are microbiomes in nature? Important enough that 23 federal agencies came together to outline the future of microbiome research: bit.ly/2jjMM12