@KateShaw has made a new episode, featuring salinella, a creature I've never heard of before:

https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2025/08/11/episode-445-salinella/

huh, turns out the veracity and interpretation of the scientist's observations are under some dispute

#microbes

Wild Microbes Take the Evolutionary Road Less Traveled!

Summary & Analysis by Deepika Gunasekaran of “Multivariate Divergence in Wild Microbes: No Evidence for Evolution along a Genetic Line of Least Resistance” by Gluck-Thaler et al.

Read now! https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-2025-Gluck-Thaler.html

#microbes #evolution #divergence #genetics #resistance

🦠 Synthetic biology could support future outposts on the moon and Mars

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-synthetic-biology-future-outposts-moon.html

#space #technology #manufacturing #molbio #biotech #biology #microbes #moon #mars

How can #STS expand the view of #microbes beyond the pathogenic, the human, and toward complex #ecologies?

👀 Read Cañada Sariola, and Rest's introduction of the thematic collection Microbes and STS: https://doi.org/pzvj

#humanmicroberelations #situatedknowledge

Novel research reveals thriving microbial life in trees https://phys.org/news/2025-08-reveals-microbial-life-trees.html

A diverse and distinct #microbiome inside living trees https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09316-0

"A single tree hosts about one trillion #bacteria in its woody tissue... #microbes are partitioned between heartwood and sapwood with each having its own unique microbiomes with minimal similarity to other tissues... They are actively producing gases and cycling nutrients... these communities may have coevolved with #trees over time"

I am excited to introduce our new @EvolLetters paper that has just come out:

https://academic.oup.com/evlett/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evlett/qraf026/8223096

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#temperature #adaptation #enzyme #microbes #ProteinStructure

How can #STS expand the view of #microbes beyond the pathogenic, the human, and toward complex #ecologies?

👀 Read Cañada, Sariola, and Rest's introduction of the thematic collection Microbes and STS: https://doi.org/pzvj

#humanmicroberelations #situatedknowledge