@cckeneally

Microbial ecology & biogeochemistry🔬🧬

 Adelaide, South Australia
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Joined July 2018
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The 5th and final paper from my PhD is out now 🎉 🎓🌿 In the Coorong Lagoon, salinity is the key driver of sediment microbial community assembly: specialists dominate at hypersaline extremes, while generalists persist at intermediate salinity. See here: doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.70…
Along the Coorong Lagoon's extreme salinity gradient, hypersalinity deterministically enriches halophilic specialists and reorganises sediment microbial networks. Network complexity peaks at salinity extremes, revealing pivotal ecological trade-offs that will steer nutrient cycling and lagoon resilience as coastal wetland salinisation accelerates.

ALT Along the Coorong Lagoon's extreme salinity gradient, hypersalinity deterministically enriches halophilic specialists and reorganises sediment microbial networks. Network complexity peaks at salinity extremes, revealing pivotal ecological trade-offs that will steer nutrient cycling and lagoon resilience as coastal wetland salinisation accelerates.

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Claude Science is incredible. I gave it some sequencing data, and in 8 hours it did a full analysis, generated figures, wrote a paper, submitted it for publication, got rejected, revised and resubmitted, got rejected again, it is now applying for positions in industry
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Most experiments fail, and negative results rarely get published. This means LLMs are unaware of the outcomes of most experiments.
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My excellent colleague @Tyler_N_Dornan 's brilliant honours work on climate, carbon dynamics, and dendrochronology in Bhutanese Blue Pine is out now! doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2025…
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SILVA in 2026: a global core biodata resource for rRNA within the DSMZ digital diversity #microbiology #16SrRNA #RNA @Leibniz_DSMZ_en @OUPAcademic academic.oup.com/nar/advance…
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Toxic algae blighting South Australia could pose a global threat | New Scientist

Researchers warn that the alga Karenia cristata, which has killed around a million animals in Australian waters in one of the biggest algal blooms ever seen, could harm marine life elsewhere

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M.Ushio@ong81815 Nov 2025
捨てられた煙草の吸殻からは周囲の土壌や植物よりもおおくの抗生物質耐性遺伝子が見つかって、それが公衆衛生リスクになるのかも、という論文。へぇぇ pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…

Discarded cigarette butts as overlooked reservoirs and amplifiers of antibiotic resistance genes...

Cigarette butts are widely discarded in urban green spaces, yet their microbial health risks remain poorly understood. In a nationwide survey acros...

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Organic Aggregate Microniches Govern Oxic Methane Emissions via Distinct Methanogenic Archaea and Bacteria Pathways | Environmental Science & Technology pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…

Organic Aggregate Microniches Govern Oxic Methane Emissions via Distinct Methanogenic Archaea and...

Abstract. Lakes are hotspots for natural methane (CH4) emissions. However, the microbial processes driving CH4 production in oxygenated surface waters rema

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Arctic CO2 emissions amplified by aerobic methane oxidation during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum #geology #methane #methanogens #methanotrophs @NatureGeosci nature.com/articles/s41561-0…

Arctic CO2 emissions amplified by aerobic methane oxidation during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal...

Nature Geoscience - Enhanced aerobic oxidation of methane in the Arctic Ocean intensified carbon dioxide emissions during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, potentially extending the...

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Long-term warming raises risks of seasonal seafloor methane release in the coastal Baltic Sea #methane #methanogens #microbiology @FrontMicrobiol frontiersin.org/journals/mic…
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Luke Mosley@envir_scientist3 Oct 2025
Developed a prototype interactive dashboard for tracking the harmful algal blooms currently in SA waters. Free and open access, simple visualisations. Explore here: sa-algal-bloom.streamlit.app…
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Cameron Thrash@jcamthrash15 Sep 2025
Bayesian inference captures metabolite-bacteria interactions in a microbial community biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Bayesian inference captures metabolite-bacteria interactions in a microbial community

Macro-ecosystems, including the human gut, host a vast and diverse set of microbes that indirectly interact with each other through consuming and producing metabolites. Disruptions in this microbial...

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Trace gas oxidation as a novel microbial dispersal trait #microbiology #hydrogen #methane sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Here's how we give the microbes their due.🎯 In a major milestone, @IUCN has a MICROBIAL CONSERVATION SPECIALIST GROUP as a global safeguard for microbial biodiversity! Hat tips to many. Article led by @gilbertjacka @peixotors. nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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Restoring nature with microbes: bioremediation in the world’s biodiversity hotspots journals.asm.org/doi/full/10…

Restoring nature with microbes: bioremediation in the world’s biodiversity hotspots | Applied and...

Currently, there are 17 countries on the list of megadiverse countries also known as the Like-Minded Megadiverse Countries: Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Perú, Ecuador, the United States, Australia,...

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Molecular evolution of the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway and the reductive glycine pathway in Thermodesulfobacteriota biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Molecular evolution of the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway and the reductive glycine pathway in Thermodesu...

Carbon fixation is a fundamental metabolic process that sustains ecosystems, yet its origins and evolutionary history remain largely unresolved. In this study, we focused on the Wood-Ljungdahl (WL)...

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Microbial communities demonstrate robustness in stressful environments due to predictable composition shifts biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Microbial communities demonstrate robustness in stressful environments due to predictable composi...

Environmental stress reduces species growth rates, but its impact on the function of microbial communities is less clear. Here, we experimentally demonstrate that increasing salinity stress shifts...

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The geologic history of marine dissolved organic carbon from iron oxides nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

The geologic history of marine dissolved organic carbon from iron oxides

Nature - A direct proxy for past dissolved organic carbon signatures using co-precipitated organic carbon in iron ooids enables reconstruction of marine dissolved organic carbon signals dating back...

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Cameron Thrash@jcamthrash11 Aug 2025
Do you like coastal/estuarine microbiology, time-series data, and/or metagenomics? Have we got a dataset for you #NSFfunded Metagenomes and 1,313 metagenome-assembled genomes from a northern Gulf of Mexico coastal time series nature.com/articles/s41597-0…

Metagenomes and 1,313 metagenome-assembled genomes from a northern Gulf of Mexico coastal time...

Scientific Data - Metagenomes and 1,313 metagenome-assembled genomes from a northern Gulf of Mexico coastal time series

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Luke Mosley@envir_scientist4 Aug 2025
We have advertised a PhD scholarship opportunity to join an excellent team on an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project on aluminium geochemistry in acid sulfate soils. Applications close 29Aug. scholarships.adelaide.edu.au…
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