En, De, עב | environmental microbiology | soil C and N | atmospheric trace gases | deserts | mountain climbing | senior research scientists at BC CAS, Czechia linktr.ee/roey.angelhttps://bsky.app/profile/roeyangel.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/roeyangel.bsky.social/post/3mtxozxzvdc2qNext thing they'll tell us computers don't actually need electricity to run, and prove it! 😭 #Microbiome #Microbiology https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.01028-26?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ASM&utm_id=falcon&utm_campaign=MicrobiologySpectrum26 Aug 2026 06:22 +0000at://did:plc:73ly4hzyw3jfottfrupimi63/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtxozxzvdc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/roeyangel.bsky.social/post/3mgx2smd5ps2k📣 New publication by Adam Ruka and colleagues in @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social: Year-round rhythms: Alpine plant species modulate soil and microbial dynamics during the growing season and under the snow. @ibotcz.bsky.social, bc cas, @czechacademy.bsky.social https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecm.7005513 Mar 2026 13:53 +0000at://did:plc:73ly4hzyw3jfottfrupimi63/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgx2smd5ps2khttps://bsky.app/profile/roeyangel.bsky.social/post/3mcwzducnvk2cNow published in @isme-microbes.bsky.social Communications: https://academic.oup.com/ismecommun/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ismeco/ycag013/8429598?guestAccessKey=8d85a5d2-ded0-4674-a3a9-8c6c24d21bda [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Jan 2026 15:46 +0000at://did:plc:73ly4hzyw3jfottfrupimi63/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcwzducnvk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/roeyangel.bsky.social/post/3m7sfookpp224Grateful to the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) for funding my new project: Quantifying microbial dormancy and growth in glacial forefield soils (is QoMA)! https://gacr.cz/en/next-year-czech-science-foundation-to-fund-400-new-projects-worth-over-czk-3-7-billion-e153-million/12 Dec 2025 15:28 +0000at://did:plc:73ly4hzyw3jfottfrupimi63/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7sfookpp224https://bsky.app/profile/roeyangel.bsky.social/post/3m6zafv6k7s2pThe position is still open. Please apply here: jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/277 [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Dec 2025 15:17 +0000at://did:plc:73ly4hzyw3jfottfrupimi63/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6zafv6k7s2phttps://bsky.app/profile/roeyangel.bsky.social/post/3m3376plfz22u📣 New PhD student position opening in my lab! Soils are full of microbes, but how many are active? Surprisingly, we still lack reliable methods to answer this. If you are interested in microbial dormancy and are fascinated by the Alps and glacier forefields, contact me. 🏔️ 🦠 💤 🧬 🎓13 Oct 2025 12:20 +0000at://did:plc:73ly4hzyw3jfottfrupimi63/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3376plfz22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/roeyangel.bsky.social/post/3m27nhvtzss2a📣Now finally with peer-review stamp of approval. Thanks @ashish-malik.bsky.social for being the editor for this paper. https://soil.copernicus.org/articles/11/735/2025/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Oct 2025 13:21 +0000at://did:plc:73ly4hzyw3jfottfrupimi63/app.bsky.feed.post/3m27nhvtzss2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/roeyangel.bsky.social/post/3lzj6humat22x📢 🦠 🏜️ Meet the first cultured methanogens from oxic soils! Using cultivation and comparative genomics, we descirbe Methanobacterium limanense sp. nov., Methanocella ebodanensis sp. nov., and a strain of Methanosarcina mazei as dwellers of desert biocrusts. With @anne-daebeler.bsky.social and other23 Sep 2025 14:54 +0000at://did:plc:73ly4hzyw3jfottfrupimi63/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzj6humat22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/roeyangel.bsky.social/post/3lzgeaihfnc24"36% of 7,177 manuscripts submitted between January and June 2025 were flagged by Pangram for suspected AI-generated text" I don't think we're ready for the amount of junk text coming our way 😬 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02936-622 Sep 2025 11:59 +0000at://did:plc:73ly4hzyw3jfottfrupimi63/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzgeaihfnc24https://bsky.app/profile/roeyangel.bsky.social/post/3lzgc7chk322pUnfortunately, the sauna was broken this time, but I guess you can't always have it all... [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Sep 2025 11:22 +0000at://did:plc:73ly4hzyw3jfottfrupimi63/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzgc7chk322phttps://bsky.app/profile/roeyangel.bsky.social/post/3lykhenkmfk2fThanks @luederslab.bsky.social and @femsmicro.org for the opportunity to be a Summer School mentor. I had so much fun and I really hope FEMS will continue this programme in the future. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Sep 2025 09:40 +0000at://did:plc:73ly4hzyw3jfottfrupimi63/app.bsky.feed.post/3lykhenkmfk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/roeyangel.bsky.social/post/3lurnnusqss2uNew collaborative work with colleagues from Biology Centre CAS about the role of tree species and soil depth in microbial necromass accumulation. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.7011125 Jul 2025 08:41 +0000at://did:plc:73ly4hzyw3jfottfrupimi63/app.bsky.feed.post/3lurnnusqss2u