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Microbial Ecology | Soil Carbon | Land Use & Climate Change | Lecturer @aberdeenuni | Global Citizen | Green Politics | All Things Indie |🏳️‍🌈 he/him

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Dr Ashish Malik
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Career update 🥳 I am joining @edinburghuni @GeosciencesEd in June as Chancellor’s Fellow (senior level) in climate & environmental sustainability I will continue to work on microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling & am happy to build new collaborations in Edinburgh/beyond.
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3 years
ERC grant REJECTED A real kick in the teeth. I thought the proposal was super cool. That's my 6th big grant rejection in as many years. I am tired of saying #rejectionistherule
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How are we supposed to get the most talented researchers to join our PhD programmes when the home office charges non-UK PhD students to the tune of £2500 for visa/heath surcharge?
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Hurray! 🎉 A big grant funding success after 7 failed proposals. Details soon. 🤓
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Happy to announce that I’ll be joining @aberdeenuni as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Biogeochemistry this autumn. Exciting times ahead as I start my research lab exploring the functional ecology of soil microbes. I’ll be looking for Masters/PhD students & Postdocs. #newPI
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“Understanding the mechanisms of microbial control on carbon cycling in soil” Enter your thesis title and let AI generate an artwork.
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I have 2 PhD opportunities in my lab for Oct '21 start. Application deadline: Jan '21 1. Eco-evolutionary responses of soil microbes to drought stress 2. Microbiome-mediated carbon sequestration in agri soils More details 👇 as it comes.
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Academia celebrates mobility. But we need to be aware that not everyone can afford it. Even if one can, it takes a toll on personal life. Friendships and relationships suffer and you entire social network disappears.
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Fantastic cartoon of terrestrial carbon cycle in a Tansley review in @NewPhyt by @AnthonyPWalker and colleagues. Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2
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I will be giving @MicroSeminar next week Friday. More details and webinar link soon. I will talk about a trait-based framework to link microbial & ecosystem ecology. Please join.
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Happy Pride Month. #NewProfliePic
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I voted for @TheGreenParty because our planet is crying for more Green voices and policies. #VoteGreen #GE2017
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Here we go! Humble beginnings of the #NewPI life. I need some books to fill the shelfs. ;)
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My webinar had everything: -unable to share screen -zoom bombing -kids shouting in my background -me fading in darkness
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For the first time, I voted for myself. 💚 #Green1 #localelections ⁦⁦ @scottishgreens ⁩
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Submitted my first big grant as #NewPI Need some luck because previous four attempts were unsuccessful (although they were independent fellowship applications).
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I had to decline a keynote speaker invitation because I can't be bothered to apply for another visa only to attend a 4-day conference. Totally normal for an immigrant academic. 🫤
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Two grant rejections this week. Did not feel a thing. I've become numb to failure. #rejectionistherule
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Paper abstract (सारांश) also available in Hindi. Its the first time I've translated my science in an Indian language. Thank you @FunEcology for providing this option.
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📢 New perspective paper in @FunEcology on a scalable trait-based framework to link microbes to ecosystem processes. Collab w/ @njbouskill Drought impacts on microbial trait distribution and feedback to soil carbon cycling.
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I have 3 PhD opportunities in my lab, all on soil microbial carbon cycling mechanisms. 1. Population-level genotype-phenotype linkages 2. Community physiology in peatlands under land use change 3. Modelling metagenomics-derived traits across gradients More info as it comes.👇
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1000 citations 😀 Privileged to be part of this community 🙏
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📢Hot off the press: new paper in @Nature led by Feng Tao and @YiqiLuo Microbial carbon use efficiency CUE promotes global soil carbon storage It has global datasets, meta-analysis, microbial-process explicit model, data assimilation & deep learning.
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Happy holidays from Goa. We don’t do Christmas but here’s my mum’s mixed vegetable curry. So rich. 😋
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New paper alert 📢 Rethinking ecological (CSR) theory to incorporate microbial metabolic diversity and foraging traits Led by @JW_ilikedirt in @ISMEJournal #OpenAccess
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Excited that an HFSP grant I led with Joanne Emerson @jemersonmicro , Karthik Anantharaman @KarthikGeomicro & Graeme Nicol @graemewnicol has been funded.🥳 We will study the impact of viruses on wetland methane cycle. 🚨FOUR postdoc/PhD positions will be available.
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🥳Congratulations to the 108 brilliant scientists awarded 2024 #HFSPResearchGrants !🎉 Your pioneering work in #lifesciences is shaping the future of #scientificinnovation 👏 Discover the visionary minds behind the breakthroughs: #2024AwardeesBooklet
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Submitted an @ERC_Research starting grant. I was consumed by it for more than a month but thoroughly enjoyed the process. Thanks to my mentors, collaborators and colleagues who made this possible. Would be splendid if I am successful.🤞
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Happy pride month to me. I can be seen waving the rainbow flag across the ⁦ @aberdeenuni ⁩ campus.
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Our perspective piece is out in a special feature in @FunEcology : emerging relationships among microbes, soil carbon storage & climate change. A fanatic set of papers. Drought impacts on microbial trait distribution and feedback to soil carbon cycling
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📢Funded PhD position available for Oct start, open to international candidates. Details to follow soon. Investigating carbon-nutrient exchange between plants, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi & soil decomposer communities. Supervised by me, @KatieField4 & Peter Orrell @MycoNourish
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4 years
Little celebration on paper acceptance. 🍻
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Academics: how do you manage to find time to read latest papers? I can't keep up with the literature.
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Oh wow. Not spam. #ISME18
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Next week I am contributing to an exciting new course @UoABioSci called Ecological genomics. Lectures on omics in microbial ecology and a data analysis session with R vegan package.
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Microbes in peatlands and links to carbon cycling: PhD student @WPallier presenting a poster in his first conference. #WCSS22
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📢 New perspective paper in @FunEcology on a scalable trait-based framework to link microbes to ecosystem processes. Collab w/ @njbouskill Drought impacts on microbial trait distribution and feedback to soil carbon cycling.
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4.30pm in Aberdeen. 🌚
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Soil dissolved organic matter is not intrinsically recalcitrant but instead persists in soil as a result of simultaneous consumption, transformation and formation. Microbes rule! From Gleixner Group following up on my PhD work, in @NatureGeosci
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Persistence of dissolved organic matter explained by molecular changes during its passage through...

Nature Geoscience - Dissolved organic matter is persistent in soil owing to continuous consumption and transformation rather than owing to its recalcitrant molecular properties, according to...

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Proud and happy to see the outcome of this project in @NatureComms Loss of soil carbon with land use intensification is linked to decreased microbial biomass and growth efficiency. Also, soil pH is a key driver.
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Land use driven change in soil pH affects microbial carbon cycling processes

Nature Communications - Land use intensification could modify microbial activity and thus ecosystem function. Here, Malik et al. sample microbes and carbon-related functions across a land use...

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Funded PhD opportunity: come work with us! Role of interactions between soil microbes in shaping ecosystem carbon cycling. @EastbioDTP @BBSRC
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I am joining the Council of British Society of Soil Science - BSSS @Soil_Science Excited to work with the President Jack Hannam @Dirt_Science and others on the council to take forward research and study of soil science.
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It was a pleasure to give @MicroSeminar although it was a bit strange to talk to the screen. If there's any interest here's the link: A trait-based framework to link microbial & ecosystem ecology under anthropogenic change.
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Microbial ecologist have descended on Aberdeen to celebrate the extraordinary career of Jim Prosser, a late retirement party.
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Lulia Llie, an ⁦ @MPI_BGC ⁩ IMPRS alumni, highlighting the pro and cons of leaving academia based on her experience.
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After a booster dose and two -ve PCR tests, I've made it to Goa. Jet lagged and in home quarantine for 7 days but totally worth it. ☀️
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Soil organic matter SOM symposium is an excellent meeting to discuss soil biogeochemistry, planned in South Korea next year. A great program and a diverse line-up of speakers have been announced. I've been invited as a keynote speaker.
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Today Jim Prosser retires from an active career. Thread. His work is well known but just wanted to highlight some of his achievements with help from @graemepaton007 . It was a pleasure to be working alongside him @UoABioSci albeit for a short duration.
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Paper accepted in @ISMEJournal 😄 Online in a few weeks but preprint available in @biorxiv_micrbio In this manuscript we present a trait-based life history framework to help link microbial processes to systems-level functions.
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First soil sampling for PhD student @WPallier from a local heather moorland to practice DNA extractions. His project will look at physiology of peat microbes. He's new on here, show him some love.
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I sneaked out to South of France for a long weekend getaway. 🍊☀️
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Probation completed ✅
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I can’t wait for #ISME19 in Cape Town. #ISME18 was amazing, surpassing all expectations. It’s truly the golden age of microbial ecology.
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Found this gem while sending some of the old family pictures to my parents. Taj Mahal, September 2019
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Happy #WorldSoilDay I’ve had the privilege to work on soil biodiversity and carbon research for the past 11 years. What a phenomenal time to be a soil scientist! #nodirt
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I am a microbial ecologist and a #NewPI @aberdeenuni working on soil microbial processes from population and community to ecosystem scales. I also tweet about climate action, social justice and my travels, music, culture. #PoCinSTEM #LGBTQSTEM 🥼🤎🏳️‍🌈
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Hello followers! If you are a BAME/POC #microbiome #microbialecology scientist, please retweet with a summary of your research and we will amplify your voice! Also looking to create a database for speakers 🦠🔬🧬🥼🤎🖤 @BritishEcolSoc
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Lovely fieldwork Friday in the Cairngorms with PhD student @WPallier We are studying microbes and carbon sequestration in peatlands. #restoration
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An Isle of Skye soil profile. Moors store so much carbon.
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I gave a "farewell" @UoABioSci seminar to sum up all the cool science we've done over the last 4+ years.
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Great talk this afternoon by @ashish_a_malik showing the work ongoing by everyone in our lab!
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Who’s attending #ISME18 ? My talk is on Friday but if you want to discuss traits, microbe-ecosystem linkages, omics, isotopes, carbon, research culture or chat about your work and career please give a shout.
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Interested in microbial trait-based ecology, links from single populations to communities and implications for ecosystem processes? Come to my talk tomorrow Friday 10:30am, room 3ABC in the session 'Microbes in a changing world'. #ISME18
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🚨20!! Yes, 20 tenure-track fellowships available @aberdeenuni Some of the topics include: 🌎Nature-based solutions to global change ⚕️Environment,health and food systems 🖥️Environmental Analytics
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I had a lovely week off in Goa celebrating the Ganesh festival with my extended family, after not being able to make it for almost a decade. 🙏
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A poster I can like. #soilwin
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So this happened last weekend: with @scotgov minister for green skills, circular economy and biodiversity @lornaslater #sgpconf
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Tweet or perish.
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An amazing *randomized trial* on Twitter+academia: 112 papers were randomly chosen to be shared on twitter by a group with ~58k followers or to not be shared. Papers that were tweeted accumulated 4x more citations compared to non-tweeted papers over 1yr.
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We took a group photo in Cruickshank gardens. We are so lucky to have this beautiful space around our labs.
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Glad my union @ucu is fighting for PhD students as staff in the UK. In many European countries this is normal. PGRs must have employment contracts, access to a pension schemes, long term sick leave, parental leave & more. Full manifesto 👇
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Practicals! We are measuring carbon fluxes: ecosystem C flux for plant-soil systems and leaf photosynthetic rate using infra red gas analysers.
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Glasgow bound for the @WorldSoils2022 congress. Going through the slides for my talk on Tuesday but getting distracted by the view of the North Sea coast.
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World congress of soil science @WorldSoils2022 will take place in Glasgow. I am organising a session on👇 Biogeochemical cycles in the soil - processes linking the abiotic and biotic realms. Submit an abstract before 31st Oct and join us next year.
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📢Funded PhD position for Oct start, open to students worldwide. Apply by May 24. Link below. Please RT. Investigating carbon-nutrient exchange between plants, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi & soil decomposer communities.
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A paper 6 years in the making.. draft sent to co-authors. 🥹
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Intriguing stuff: Relationship between soil CO2 fluxes and soil moisture: Anaerobic sources explain fluxes at high water content.
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Grant rejection, fifth in a row. Proposal rated excellent by @BBSRC but clearly not enough. #RejectionIsTheRule At least I got lingering upper back pain thanks to working on it for a ridiculous number of hours at home without a functional desk.
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Beautiful posters 😍 #ISME18
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Some exciting news: first postdoc to join my group this summer, a @DaphneJacksonTr fellowship recipient funded by @NERCscience . #newPI
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Kenneth Nealson delivering Tiedje award presentation. Award for his lifetime achievements - discovery of quorum sensing, extracellular electron transport and more. Reviewer 2 had rejected his bioluminescence paper saying “bacteria don’t do this”. Don’t give up! #ISME18
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In other news, I’ve taken up an elected role in the local branch of @scottishgreens . I’ll serve as the vice-convenor of @AberdeenGreens The need for urgent climate action led me to be more active in Green politics.
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Happy new year to me -- paper accepted.
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Defining trait-based microbial strategies with consequences for soil carbon cycling under climate change Our perspective piece is out in @ISMEJournal Highlights in this thread 👇
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Drought and plant litter chemistry alter microbial gene expression and metabolite production. Out now in @ISMEJournal We highlight how trait-based life history strategies can be inferred from omics datasets.
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Morning chai.
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I’ll be voting #GreenBecause 🏳️‍🌈 Unequivocal LGBTQ+ support 🌎 Urgent climate action 🌳 Nature restoration 🇪🇺 Staunchly pro-EU 🚊 Better public transport 💷 Fairer taxes 💚 @scottishgreens
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Happy festive season to all from our research group. We are attending MMEG at Queen Mary University of London. PhD students presented talks and posters. 🎄
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I've joined the Scottish Greens @scotgp Climate action cannot wait any longer.
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Quarantine in Goa: not too shabby.
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Happy to join @EGU_SOILjournal as a topical editor covering soil biodiversity subject areas. SOIL is a not-for-profit journal dedicated to publication of high-quality soil system research across all disciplines.
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Somewhere in the highlands. #newprofilepic
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Its university rankings season. Sample this: non-oxbridge unis do well on many research and teaching scores but perform poorly on reputation metrics. Reputation scores come from a survey that is invitation-only which reinforces elitism. This is a self-perpetuating process.
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Stoked to get another paper in @ISMEJournal this year. Should be out in some weeks but here's the preprint.
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Physiological adaptations of leaf litter microbial communities to long-term drought

Drought represents a significant stress to soil microorganisms and is known to reduce microbial activity and organic matter decomposition in Mediterranean ecosystems. However, we still lack a...

www.biorxiv.org
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📢PhD position available for a funded project Impact of multiple climate stressors on microbial processes and carbon sequestration in peatlands Part of @NERCscience @SUPERDTP1 Apply before 26th Jan. Link👇
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Goan fish thali. 🐟😋
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That’s a lot of overnight snow: Aberdeen snowed under.
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Fascinating paper demonstrating how an aquatic bacterium forms colonies when growing on complex polysaccharides but switches to solitary state when simple sugars are available. By @nonresidentdesi in @ISMEJournal
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Nutrient complexity triggers transitions between solitary and colonial growth in bacterial popula...

AbstractMicrobial populations often experience fluctuations in nutrient complexity in their natural environment such as between high molecular weight polys

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5 years
Not hot off the press but this recent review in @NatureMicrobiol by @edkhall et al. is such a masterpiece. Very well written with a clear coherent message. Journal clubs, take notice. Understanding how microbiomes influence the systems they inhabit. …
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Sunset tales from Goa. #NewProfilePic
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Viral lysing can alleviate microbial nutrient limitations and accumulate recalcitrant dissolved organic matter components in soil "experimental evidence that the 'viral shuttle' exists in soils" in @ISMEJournal
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Viral lysing can alleviate microbial nutrient limitations and accumulate recalcitrant dissolved...

The ISME Journal - Viral lysing can alleviate microbial nutrient limitations and accumulate recalcitrant dissolved organic matter components in soil

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3 years
Final push to convince Aberdeen voters through these beautiful leaflets. #ActiveGreens
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🚨Funded PhD opportunity for Oct '22 start. Please RT. Eco-evolutionary responses of soil microbes to drought stress Details: Apply:
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Out now: #soil microbial communities with greater investment in resource acquisition have lower growth yield.
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On #WorldSoilDay here's one of my little contributions on how soil microbes help build carbon, a project I truly enjoyed working on.
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