Monir Moniruzzaman

Congratulations!!

Thanks for the shout out and congrats to my colleagues! Torella & Morita first recognized the abundance of viruses in seawater journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/..., and work led by @jedfuhrman.bsky.social and Gunnar Bratbak at Bergen primed the modern era.

Sub-daily virus sampling at the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series reveals diel and depth-structured population dynamics without community-level shifts Viruses are often studied in disease settings, but in the ocean they outnumber cells and shape ecosystems, yet their dynamics remain poorly understood. In this study, high-resolution sampling of blue-...

Bermuda Atlantic Time Series surface waters contain thousands of viral populations with diel rhythms, forming “archetypes” that vary in abundance patterns, predicted hosts, taxonomy, and gene functions @sullivan-lab.bsky.social @joshuasweitz.bsky.social

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Remember! Applied and Environmental Microbiology solicits minireviews. And they are free to publish!

There's 2 more I want to write. Time in my career to summarize and rant.

Thanks for the update! I was running it on a eukaryotic genome

Great tool! Seems like it would be extremely useful for resolving molecular underpinnings of virus-host interactions - in terms of PPIs between virus and host.

I tried to run it on a set of 11K proteins, but it failed on seqhub. Smaller set of 500 proteins seemed to work. Any possible solution?

Right!

Response to heat stress is mediated by reactive oxygen species accumulation that is enhanced in PtMCA-III triple KO mutants.

Metacaspases contribute to the cellular response to heat stress in a marine diatom

Sadeh et al. @vardilab.bsky.social

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Coral microbiomes as reservoirs of unknown genomic and biosynthetic diversity - Nature Reconstructing microbial genomes from 820 reef-building corals collected at 99 reefs across 32 islands throughout the Pacific Ocean highlights the importance of conserving coral reefs as vital reservo...

Coral microbiomes as reservoirs of unknown genomic and biosynthetic diversity www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊

#ASLO is honored to announce Dr. Debbie Lindell as the recipient of the 2026 Hutchinson Award for pioneering contributions to understanding how viruses shape marine microbial ecology, revealing host–virus interactions from single cells to entire ocean basins.
Read more: www.aslo.org/aslo-honors-...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)

Holy shit: it's an RFP for the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB). Hello old friend www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Hank Green (@hankgreen) on Threads IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT As of January 1st 2026, John and I are **no longer** the owners of Complexly (the educational media company we started 15 years ago that makes Crash Course, Eons, SciShow, Stud...

Wow.

Like many folks, I like Hank Green’s YouTube channel.

Instead of making a buck by selling it to private equity, he moved the whole thing to a nonprofit so they could focus on their MISSION and ACCURACY, not clicks and revenue.

Very cool!

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Many moons ago, I spoke with researchers at the University of Amsterdam for a study on the practice of watchdog science journalism, and now that publication is out as a preprint! This is a great chance to learn from dozens of (far more seasoned than me) reporters on how they approach their work.

The people of Bangladesh. Images from 2010, 2011 and 2023.
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#bangladesh #photography

Alaina is awesome!

New episode of #MattersMicrobial for 2026! This time, Dr. Alaina Weinheimer joins the #QualityQuorum to chat about marine jumbophages and related matters. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord? @microbe.tv @univpugetsound @ASMicrobiology

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Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow Imagine the tools a cow would make. This idea, humorously illustrated in Gary Larson’s Far Side cartoon, captures a widespread assumption: cows are ne…

This is remarkable. A cow using a tool to scratch herself! Highly recommend the video abstract!

#cowsareintelligent #cow

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🚨job alert🚨 - Coral scientist

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Application deadline for this postdoc position in my group closing next week 🦠 thank you all who have shared so far!

Desert
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October 2025. #photography #desert

Had a fun two weeks in Heidelberg visiting in the @floravincent.bsky.social and @gautamdey.bsky.social labs! Expanding diatoms and their evil little parasites was peak Halloween vibes 🎃 @embl.org #ExM #diatoms

Modern microbialites harbor an undescribed diversity of chromerid algae - Environmental Microbiome Background Chromerid algae are the closest photosynthetic relatives of apicomplexan parasites. While chromerids have been central to understanding the evolutionary transition from free-living algae to...

Out now in Environmental Microbiome! 🧬

By re-analyzing microbialite sequencing data, we show that chromerid algae (the closest photosynthetic relatives of apicomplexans) are consistent and widespread associates of microbialites across diverse marine and freshwater environments worldwide 🌎

Api New Year! 🎉 For anyone attending SICB next week, I will be presenting my work on marine apicomplexans in SYM-1A (Host-microbe interactions) on Sunday at 8:45 AM! 🪸🐟🪱 #SICB2026 #Protists

🎉 It’s been a big year for ocean science here at WHOI!⁠
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Celebrate with us! Check out what made the ocean world go round in 2025: whoi.edu/best-of-2025

Ecosystem health shapes viral ecology in peatland soils - Nature Microbiology Metagenomics shows that viral diversity and community structure are shaped by geography and ecosystem health status, positioning viruses as unexpected players in peatland restoration.

Our paper "Ecosystem health shapes viral ecology in peatland soils" is out in Nature Microbiology!

We show that peatland health strongly structures viral communities, shaping virus–host networks, and carbon and nutrient cycling. Please share.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#phagesky #Microsky

ENVERG Our approach to research

I am happy to announce the launch of my lab's website: www.enverg.ca After more than 5 years, I finally got the time to put something together. Its basic, but hopefully will grow over the upcoming months and years.

Widespread and intron-rich mirusviruses are predicted to reproduce in nuclei of unicellular eukaryotes - Nature Microbiology Environmental metagenomic explorations show that Mirusviricota lineages lack essential replication and transcription genes and contain spliceosomal introns, suggesting nuclear reproduction.

Check out our latest paper on mirusviruses, one of the most remarkable new groups of protist viruses - extremely diverse, carry lots of spliceosomal introns (including new homing introns) and are at the evolutionary crossroads between tailed phages and herpesviruses! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our work in collaboration with @jedfuhrman.bsky.social lab on the temporal dynamics of marine giant viruses published in ISME communications. PhD student Benjamin Minch is a co-first author. Please take a look!

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Assistant Professor in Paleoceanography - Marine Geosciences in Miami, Florida, United States of America | Faculty & Physicians at University of Miami Apply for Assistant Professor in Paleoceanography - Marine Geosciences job with University of Miami in Miami, Florida, United States of America. Faculty & Physicians at University of Miami

I hear that University of Miami is looking for a paleoceanography / paleoclimate scientist:

careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R1...