Brandon R. Briggs

Apparently I needed new material. A student just gave this to me.

Aerial photo of Grindavík, Iceland, after the new fissure started to erupt between January 13 and 14, 2024. The town is again under evacuation order. [📸 almannavarnir]

A “little” visitor in my backyard today

So happy to see this paper come out. This is Megan's first first-author paper. We found that in a glacial influenced river microbes employ Feo systems to collect Fe in the freshwater but that changes to more siderophore production in estuary environments onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/3…

Excited to be a part of this collaborative effort on bioweathering of REEs from Alaskan coal sources..pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

@DevEnviron @EnvSciTech @srijan_ak Great to see this finally come out

Our recent article published in @EnvSciTech ACS ES&T Engineering discusses the novel bioweathering approach for recovering rare earth elements from Alaskan coal mines @srijan_ak @extrememicrobe #rareearthelements #criticalminerals #biorecovery pubs.acs.org/articlesonrequ…

Interested in Life in Extreme Environments and Astrobiology? We are looking for talented and motivated prospective graduate students to join a new project looking at microbial life at high pressure and the habitability of Ocean Worlds with @AudePicard.

Just funded! "HabMars: Habitability estimates for heterotrophic metabolisms on Noachian Mars". This @NASA project funds one full Ph.D (retweet!) and a trip to Iceland! see you.stonybrook.edu/royprice/ and stonybrook.edu/commcms/somas/… for more info. Grad school applications due Dec 15th!..

Just your regular reminder that PCA is not the same as PCoA

Come work with me! @UAABioSciences is hiring an assistant professor in #Genetics #genomics (any system). Particularly interested in people who can/ will incorporate indigenous ways of knowing into their teaching and/or research. Apps due Oct 22nd. Pl RT careers.alaska.edu/en-us/job/5257…

What is microbial dormancy? cell.com/trends/microbi…

Extreme environments offer an unprecedented opportunity to understand microbial eukaryotic ecology, evolution, and genome biology nature.com/articles/s4146…

Sorry wife I can’t come right now. The animals have different plans for me.

@DrJenBiddle OMG! I completely forgot about that. Ok, my kids have odd tastes but the sandwiches are good

@DrJenBiddle Yes, and we all would talk with a British accent 🤭. For awhile that was the only way my kids would eat cucumbers.

@DrJenBiddle Cucumber sandwich. Bread, butter, and cucumbers.

PSA: check your tires when renting a car. These are not safe.

I've had a hard time securing reviewers for manuscripts as an editor these days. If you study microbes in the wild (any ecosystem) using almost any technique then I'd love to hear from you. Especially early career researchers!!! forms.gle/AKty3bixkgSYG5…

It took 10 years, but GreenGenes is back! nature.com/articles/s4158…