Anna Szekely

Sailing the bumpy seas of academia. Workin on microbial community ecology, environmental monitoring and WBE. From 🇭🇺 immigrant in 🇸🇪.

[Anna Szekely @mikromara]

I haven't done an update on SARS-CoV-2 and influenza A wastewater levels for awhile 🇸🇪🦠💩🚽 but there has been a clear increase in the past few weeks.
@SciLifeLab_DC @scilifelab @SLUmiljoanalys @COVIDPoops19 @malmberg_maja @StefanEngblom
@jedovarg https://t.co/RoKpBT91iX
1/5

[Lars Christensen @MaMoMVPY]

HOW HAS ORBÁN MANAGED TO STAY IN POWER IN HUNGARY FOR SO MANY YEARS?

One of the answers is massive electoral fraud. Or rather: control over some of Hungary's poorest areas, where votes are quite simply bought.

That is what a shocking new Hungarian documentary reveals. The film is called "A szavazat ára" — in English "The Price of a Vote".

Watch the film. It is shocking and exposes not only the Orbán regime's undemocratic methods, but also the appalling poverty that exists in parts of Hungary. And in that context, it may be worth noting that when communism fell in 1989, Hungary was one of the most prosperous of the former communist countries. Today, parts of Hungary resemble the poorest areas of Russia or Romania.

This is where Orbán pays for votes to keep himself in power.

The film was only released a few days ago, and it has already garnered over 1 million views on YouTube.

The film is in Hungarian but with English subtitles.

See here: https://t.co/QO6zNnJ1Oo

[Tominaga K. (tomiken) @pacyc1841]

Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples | bioRxiv https://t.co/u0CyRXdqOl

[Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash]

Diel Bacterioplankton Community Dynamics Under Contrasting Light Regimes https://t.co/c1ftruIfSS

[MIMS - Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden @mims_umea]

Together with @mims_umea  and the @scilifelab & Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS), @umeauniversity is looking for an excellent young life science or computational researcher to become Group Leader.
Apply before 11 May 2025.

https://t.co/n1RPxeFy02

[Anna Szekely @mikromara]

𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗾𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 🦠🌊🦠🌊🦠
Passionate about community ecology?
Apply to our fully funded PhD in 𝗨𝗽𝗽𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗮, 𝗦𝘄𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗻 with lots of field work, fun experiments & innovative data crunching.
https://t.co/5u7e8TvKoY

[Malin Olofsson @AquaticPhyto]

We have a fully funded PhD position out focusing on adaptation strategies in filamentous Cyanobacteria https://t.co/qDPaOFCIVB please share to those potentially interested 😊

[Ramiro Logares @ramalok]

Exciting news for aquatic microbial ecologists!

The 18th SAME meeting will take place in Barcelona (Sept 28–Oct 3, 2025) 🧬🌊

Interested? Pls, share your details here: https://t.co/LOPSv5FgjC—it only takes a minute!

Spread the word & save the date! 🗓️ @EMM_Barcelona @ICMCSIC

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

Vivek's "immigrant culture" argument ignores basic selection bias: immigrants are precisely the small subset of people willing to leave behind everything familiar in pursuit of success. We're not representative of our home cultures. We're the ones who left.

[Anna Szekely @mikromara]

@VPrasadMDMPH I agree with much of your content @VPrasadMDMPH but in the Fruit Loops saga, you're overlooking a key benefit: banning food colorants will make processed junk look unappealing, eventually reducing consumption—a slower but potentially more meaningful effect than reduced toxicity.

[Anna Szekely @mikromara]

@EvolvedBiofilm Nagyon gratulálok! Rendkívül izgalmas téma.

[Will Ratcliff @wc_ratcliff]

New preprint up! We sequenced hundreds of samples from across one of Earth's oldest living organisms - the Pando aspen clone - to understand how mutations accumulate and spread in long-lived clonal organisms. Our results were…surprising. 1/30

[Anna Szekely @mikromara]

@TTExulansic @peterboghossian I would have done exactly that and I am Hungarian.

[Anna Szekely @mikromara]

@TothGCsaba Easy explanation: Hungarian women prefer not to go back to work between children.

[Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 🌈 @NatRevEarthEnv]

New online! Marine biogeochemical nitrogen cycling through Earth’s history https://t.co/1lYf06uMVb

[Anna Szekely @mikromara]

Congrats to Pala and co, your work with nitrifies is truly amazing 🤩

[Michael Wagner @MichiWagner4]

Excited to see our paper on a new #comammox physiology published today in the print issue of Nature. Efforts to isolate new comammox strains with guanidine already on the way.

https://t.co/U2ejyf67uz

[Maliheh Mehrshad @mehrshmali]

Are you interested in phages and their interactions in aquatic ecosystems? we have a #PhD_position available and look forward to bring more curious people to our group! this position is part of my ongoing #ERCStG
#MULTIPHAGE

Please share!!

https://t.co/ve4hfEVKK1

[Maria Van Kerkhove @mvankerkhove]

Consider applying to be part of @WHO’s Technical Advisory Group for Virus Evolution (TAG-VE)

We are expanding to not only cover #COVID19, but other pathogens with epidemic and pandemic potential (eg #mpox #MERS-CoV #dengue and more)

Call for experts⬇️
https://t.co/lGaqEnusQe

[Anna Szekely @mikromara]

Our paper on community coalescence and stability is out. Thanks @EvolvedBiofilm for the endorsement 😊

[Akos T. Kovacs @EvolvedBiofilm]

Microeukaryote community coalescence strengthens community stability and elevates diversity

@FEMSmicro Microbiol Ecol by Máté Vass et al
with @AgnetaAndersso1 @mikromara

https://t.co/N1oGfhZrJQ

[Dr. Mirela G. Tulbure 🛰 🌎 + 🐍 + 🌊 @MirelaGTulbure]

Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment

Spoiler alert...NO!

#Grants #academia