I have an immediate opening for a postdoc.

Interesting...the virome of the last eukaryotic common ancestor is bacterial, not archaeal. nature.com/articles/s4156… This may be evidence that a bacteria engulfed an ASGARD archaea, rendering it immune from viruses, not the other way around as is typically assumed. Cool!

“But the problem is that science is cumulative. It builds off past work. Industry research relies heavily on discoveries from academic science, over half of which is funded by the U.S. government. The public pays for academic research, but private corporations reap…the rewards.”

Exciting opportunity to work at both AAFC and McGill for your PhD! Venez travailler avec nous a AAC/McGill! (Please note we can consider only Canadian/PR applicants - Nous ne pouvons considérer que les candidats canadiens ou avec RP)

Our review on estimating CUE across scales and its impact on global soil carbon predictions is now published in Nature Communications! Huge thanks to Xianjin He for leading this effort! rdcu.be/dTQ98

SVbyEye: A visual tool to characterize structural variation among whole genome assemblies biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Plant diversity influences positive microbial positive associations enhancing microbial #CUE in agricultural soils! Check out these results! Empirical evidence showing the importance of #ecological intensification of #agriculture! nature.com/articles/s4146…

For only the second time in our 179-year history, the editors of Scientific American are endorsing a candidate for president. That person is Kamala Harris. | Editorial bit.ly/4daH36q

Also FYI the ASM LaTeX template is broken. I fixed it-- lmk if you want me to share. I'd love to save someone else this headache!

A very young person (recent grad) just wished me an eventful month. I think I’ll try!

New Paper Alert🚨! Is soil C turnover about energy or kinetics? Exciting work by Cam A highlights how energetic vs enzymatic constraints impact microbial decomposition over season cycles. Thx to collaborators Stanford Earth Soils Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) etc.pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

We are hiring! Immunologists wanted. Join a highly collaborative research community at College of Natural Sciences at UMass Amherst in beautiful Western Mass! (please retweet) careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/…

I am very happy to report that the review Jill Banfield and I wrote on Modern Microbiology just appeared in Cell Press: cell.com/cell/abstract/… Our celebration of microbiology also made it to the cover of this issue and we hope you will find yourself in it, too.

Come work at UMass! The Stockbridge School of Agriculture is hiring a full time TT Assistant Professor level position in Agroecology. Please RT careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/…

Part of a disturbing trend of universities punishing students that protest. We should all be worried about this 👇

Colonialism and capitalism killing the planet

So pleased to share this paper that is now out in Nature Ecology & Evolution synthesizing 16 years of data from our Soil Warming x Nitrogen Addition study Harvard Forest: rdcu.be/dUVT9 UNH Research Stuart Grandy SoilBioME

Dear friends who write NSF GRFP rec letters, this year rec letters are due BEFORE the applications, so about 10 days earlier than normal on Oct. 11. Please don't let NSF's deadline change on rec letters screw over the applicants in your lives.