New paper from former PhD student Angela Zoumplis ⁦Angela Zoumplis⁩ Impact of meltwater flow intensity on the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of microbial mats in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica | ISME Communications ⁦McMurdo LTER nature.com/articles/s4370…

Antarctica 1912 Antarctica 2022

Interesting artwork in my new office .. #sciart

California friends … this is a NY avocado..

Great time talking science with UofMemphisBiology Rachel Diner. Thanks very much!!

Oops I did it again 🤭 #TotalSolarEclipse

HUUUUUUGE!

Exciting opportunity alert! 🌟 Join my team at Institute of Evolutionary Biology UW Wydział Biologii UW! 🧬 Two weeks left to apply for a post-doc position in the Narodowe Centrum Nauki #OPUS project #MicroDivEr on #protist-bacteria interactions in freshwater. 🌊🔬 Apply by April 30, 2024. More info here: ibe.biol.uw.edu.pl/en/projects/mi…

Declined project proposals

Had to do an ‘abandon ship’ drill today.. i guess in case of any bees onboard.. or other catastrophes Anyways, my job is to keep people calm.

Great presentation by Stephen Noell on culturing unique Mt. Erebus bacteria! #SCAR2024

Stop by poster GA-S19-151 at #SCAR2024 to chat about polar night diatoms!!! …I’ll have snacks (stolen from the conference snack bar and kept warm in my pocket)

Little poster hanging out with all the big shot posters trying not to panic #SCAR2024

Introduction: I conclusively show Body: I tentatively explore Conclusion : I apologise

Apple pie ghosty summoned the fires of hell in my oven… still edible. Happy fall!

The MOANA tool is live now, so give it a try! A ready-to-run docker image of the app is available at hub.docker.com/r/bkolody/moan… prokaryotes (16S rRNA amplicons), hub.docker.com/r/bkolody/moan… eukaryotes (18S rRNA amplicons) and hub.docker.com/r/bkolody/moan… reconstructed genomes. Here are the

Many of you gave me so much encouragement when I posted here earlier about my 10 year long passion project to make a microbial map of the ocean. Pinch me because I can't believe I get to update you that today that research was published in the journal SCIENCE! (AAAS)

I watched a guy run a sub-six-minute mile pace ... uphill ... on skis while I ate a Reese's Blizzard from Dairy Queen (with extra Reese's)