The Perpetually Curious!3h ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@theperpetuallycurious8/116053003356460369

🪐 Life may endure in places that seem silent and cold, as shown by the toughest organisms on Earth. These small survivors widen our sense of what is possible. If the larger story calls to you, the first post in this thread holds the full exploration.

#Astrobiology #Microbes #Science #TPC8

Scientific Frontline3d ago
Anaerobic sulfur-cycling #microbes are responsible for the exceptional three-dimensional preservation of marine fossils in oxygen-depleted environments by triggering chemical reactions that form structural minerals inside and around the bones prior to skeletal collapse.
#EarthScience #Paleontology #Geochemistry #Microbiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/es03262601.html
Scientists uncover the secret behind perfectly 3D preserved ‘sea reptile’ fossils

For years, scientists believed these fossils were preserved simply because the seafloor had no oxygen

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬3d ago
How #Microbes Got Their Crawl
#Prokaryotes arose more than four billion years ago. #Eukaryotes emerged much later, somewhere between 2.5 and two billion years ago. How complex eukaryotes evolved from simpler prokaryotes has left scientists scratching their heads for decades.
In the oceans and on land, scientists are discovering rare, transitional organisms that bridge the gap between Earth’s simplest cells and today’s complex ones.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/science/evolution-cells-asgard.html
https://archive.ph/0iskp
How Microbes Got Their Crawl

In the oceans and on land, scientists are discovering rare, transitional organisms that bridge the gap between Earth’s simplest cells and today’s complex ones.

The New York Times
NFDI4Microbiota4d ago

👋 We had a successful and fun conference at #vaam2026 together with our partners and collaborators @deNBI and @dsmz !

🙏 Thank you to all our booth visitors for the interesting questions and thought-provoking discussions. Talk to you soon about more free-of-charge tools, services and best practices for microbiology data and analysis.

👉 See you at other events soon: https://nfdi4microbiota.de/newsroom/events/

#microbiology #microbes #rdm #NFDIrocks

Norbert_R 🦣🐘5d ago

#ScientificAmerican - Dangerous #microbes may be hiding in drought-stricken soils

#Antibiotic_resistant #bacteria are #increasing, and a new study finds that #extreme weather may be juicing their rise

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dangerous-microbes-may-be-hiding-in-drought-stricken-soils/

Dangerous microbes may be hiding in drought-stricken soils

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are increasing, and a new study finds that extreme weather may be juicing their rise

Scientific American
ISEP5d ago

New #ISEPpapers! Single‐Cell Transcriptomes and Phylogenomic Analysis of Uncultivated #Oxymonads: Morelia Trznadel et al. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13002328/

"Oxymonads are divided into five families in a classification that has remained more or less unchanged for 35 years, but the relationships of these families are unknown... Here, we carry out the first phylogenomic analysis of oxymonads that includes all five families."

#Protists #Microbes #Evolution #TreeOfLife #Phylogeny

Show threadmichael6d ago
my features published in @CurrentBiology this year, issue 6: Microbial #Conservation only became a thing last year, so here's my first feature about it: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/03/save-microbes.html #science #ecology #microbiology #microbes #microbiota
save the microbes

Over the last few decades, there has been a growing awareness of the fact that commensal microbiota are important just about everywhere, fro...

NFDI4Microbiota6d ago

📢 Are you at #vaam2026 ?

👉 Stop by the NFDI4Microbiota booth to learn how we can support you with training, data analysis, and making your microbiome research easier to share, reuse, and scale.

And don’t miss today’s panel discussion at 1:30 in Lecture Hall B!

We’d love to meet you 👋!

#microbiology #microbes

NFDI4MicrobiotaMar 20

Are you at VAAM congress 2026?

👉 Join us for our lunch symposium and explore how and where wet-lab research meets AI—discussed by experts from the field.

This panel discussion brings together experts from experimental microbiology, applied microbiology, and computational biology to explore how AI is currently intersecting with wet-lab practice.

📅 Mon, 23 March
🕒 13:30–14:30
📍 Lecture Hall B

More info: https://tinyurl.com/y6vb5p78

…and come visit us at the booth 👋!

#microbiology #microbes

TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨Mar 20

🐿️🌋 In 1980 researchers helicoptered #gophers onto the barren slopes of Mount St. Helens to test their role as #ecosystem engineers.

By digging through volcanic #ash, the #rodents brought vital mycorrhizal #fungi to the surface and sparked a #plant explosion that's still visible four decades later.

👉 https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a70780384/gophers-mount-st-helens-eruption/

#volcano #ecology #nature #science #biology #washington #mountsthelens #microbes

43 Years Ago, Scientists Dropped Gophers Onto a Volcano. Today, They’re Tiny Heroes.

A bunch of gophers helped restore the plant life around Mount St. Helens after the devastating eruption in May 1980.

Popular Mechanics