Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social

18 September 2026 10:19

🎉Hooray – our new directors @tatianailyina.bsky.social and JB Raina have been officially welcomed yesterday!🎉 It was a wonderful event with lovely people, great music & lots to celebrate. We are all joyfully excited & look forward to what lies ahead. mpi-bremen.de/en/Page6809.... Pics: K. Rolfes

Cameron Thrash

jcamthrash.bsky.social

28 May 2026 03:30

Ammonia oxidation and recalcitrant carbon degradation fuel mixotrophic growth in the symbiont community of a deep-sea sponge link.springer.com/article/10.1... #jcampubs

Ben J Woodcroft

benjwoodcroft.bsky.social

26 May 2026 07:34

Sandpiper 2 is up. 913,000 metagenomic community profiles w @ace-gtdb.bsky.social R232, 200k more than 1.0. sandpiper.qut.edu.au GlobDB coming. Thanks to @aroneys.bsky.social @thepatientwait.bsky.social @iambrettb.bsky.social and especially the new kid @nhstefan.bsky.social

ARC Tracker

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19 May 2026 05:35

That's a whopping $100M invested in grants! Wow. Despite huge number of applications – presumably 'coz this is the last advertised round of Linkage Projects – there's enough money to give a success rate of 44%! Normally only ~175 grants are *submitted* in round 2, but here 178 have been funded.

ARC Tracker

arc-tracker.bsky.social

19 May 2026 01:39

Wouldn't it be wonderful if this was the picture across all ARC grant schemes, all the time?! My guess: Having curtailed many schemes while expecting to implement a whole new grant system, the ARC now have more money to spend per scheme while that new system is delayed pending Ministerial approval.