Another day, another record for the North Atlantic. Everything is happening so fast, it's hard to get a sense of the enormity of these anomalies, let alone their consequences.

Wonderful to attend Jim Prosser’s retirement dinner and ceilidh. Jim was my mentor when I got my independent position. Thanks Jim for all your wise words and jokes! Lovely to see many dear UoA Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition colleagues, some from many years ago! Thanks Graeme Nicol School of Biological Sciences

Novel ecotoxicity tools relying on single soil nitrifying species and synthetic communities!!!Two wonderful talks by Eleftheria Bachtsevani and Maria Kolovou that just left us looking forward to the very next results!!!

🦠🌍 microplanet.at 🌍🦠 Interested in working with us on how 'Microbiomes Drive Planetary Health'? >30 PostDocs and >16 PhDs positions across the environmental and medical microbiome reserach available in our new Cluster of Excellence #microPLANET.

Our latest review article on nitrification at acidic and alkaline environments, published in Essays in Biochemistry, with Bob Leung, @anne_daebeler, Jianhua Guo, Shihu Hu, Perran Cook, Graeme Nicol, Holger Daims and Chris Greening Link to open access: portlandpress.com/essaysbiochem/…

All interested in phages, lysogeny, host (interactions) control by phage => apply for PhD position available in my group at UL, Biotehniška fakulteta European Research Council (ERC) in beautiful Ljubljana, Slovenia 🇸🇮 Application deadline 31.08.2023. PhD start from October 2023! uni-lj.si/news/job_vacan…

Many thanks Joint Genome Institute! Super excited to see what we discover 🧬🦠 … and with Graeme Nicol Mia Sungeun LEE and Huaiyu Wang

Excited to be working with the JGI and a multi-national team to study wetland viruses linked to C-cycling. Christina Hazard @ashish_a_malik Karthik Anantharaman @CaitySing Graeme Nicol

A happy bunch of virions! Showcasing our soil viral ecology work at “Phages in Lyon” Phages.fr Christina Hazard Graeme Nicol 🎗Ella Sieradzki 🐈🐕

Excited to share our new preprint that describes in situ enrichment to capture high quality and complete virus genomes of soil nitrifiers! Mia Sungeun LEE Christina Hazard Graeme Nicol biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Despite bioRxiv doing some funky things to a few figures, pleased to see this out in the wild.

The Chateaubriand #Fellowship is a grant by the Embassy of #France in the United States. It supports outstanding #PhD students from #USA institutions who wish to conduct part of their doctoral research in France from 4 to 9 months. Open till Jan 19th👇👇 chateaubriand-fellowship.org

In the midst of snow, flight cancellations and delays, the ACTIONr consortium managed to hold an astonishing annual meeting in Lyon. Many thanks to our incredible hosts Christina Hazard and Graeme Nicol!!! Special thanks to our guest Prof. Dr. Lisa Stein for her valuable advice!

Stable biogeochemical cycles and ecosystem functions rely on microbial population and diversity. Jun Zhao of UF IFAS Solutions aims to link soil taxonomy and the recovery of key biogeochemical processes after environmental disturbances. UF Microbiology UF/IFAS FLREC Willm Martens-Habbena Graeme Nicol

Congratulations Brittany Baker! You did a stellar job.

Still accepting applications for 2-year postdoc position to model the atmosphere as an ecosystem (bioenergetics, habitability, structure, biogeochemical cycling). Based in Marseille, France. Please tell your colleagues!

Characterisation of isolated nitrite oxidiser Ca. Nitrobacter laanbroekii, originally enriched >35 years ago by Wietse de Boer during his PhD & named in honour of Riks Laanbroek. It also makes acidophilic Nitrosotalea behave a bit more like regular AOA! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New preprint! 📣 A continuation of our work on soil pH impacts on virus communities. Mia Sungeun LEE Graeme Nicol Christina Hazard biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Well it only took 13 years (or maybe ~1,600 generations) to get validated since the first publication, but now that it has entered its teenage years, Nitrosotalea is Candidatus no more! microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa… Laura Lehtovirta-Morley Cecile Gubry-Rangin Christina Hazard Soil Microbial Ecology Group

Congratulations to Eleftheria Bachtsevani for winning a prize for her presentation on using nitrifiers to characterize toxicity of pesticides 🥳🏆👏