Sarah Bagby

scbagby.bsky.social

02 July 2026 03:39

Out today in Nature Microbiology: a paper that started in 2021 with an email from @sullivan-lab.bsky.social. Subject line: "Crazy ideas". www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/23

Sarah Bagby

scbagby.bsky.social

02 July 2026 03:36

We also need funding for interdiscliplinary teams that can combine deep knowledge of site history, hydrology, biogeochemistry, informatics, modeling and more to not only do the work but also understand it in context and work out how to scale up to the wider world. 23/23

Sarah Bagby

scbagby.bsky.social

02 July 2026 03:36

If we want to keep pushing on these questions, we need sustained investment in long-term observation of model ecosystems. These analyses are data- and timepoint-hungry. When you're patching together stopgap funding to keep your team employed, you can't dream up a sampling plan like this. 22/23

SciComm Excellence

scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org

09 June 2026 01:49

For @drvanessapirotta.bsky.social , a fascination with the ocean became a mission to better understand and protect some of its most extraordinary inhabitants. 🐋 This #WorldOceanDay 🌊, she reminds us that whales are not only remarkable animals, but essential to healthy ocean ecosystems.

Sebastian Schmidt

tsbschm.bsky.social

29 May 2026 04:03

Our study describing `microntology` and annotations for >300k metagenomes is now online in Bioinformatics @academic.oup.com : academic.oup.com/bioinformati... Congratulations to @fullam.bsky.social @vishnuprasoodanan.bsky.social & @biocs.bsky.social ! See the thread below for more details.