Curtis Suttle
Purveyor of the Virosphere.
Professor Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Microbiology & Immunology, Botany, and the Inst for the Oceans & Fisheries - UBC
eoas.ubc.ca/people/curtissuttle
- Great Speech - well worth taking the time to read
- If we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu. In Davos, Prime Minister Mark Carney rejected a world of national “fortresses.” Shared resilience, he argued, is cheaper—and stronger. His pitch: a third path led by coordinated middle powers. thewalrus.ca/carney-speech-world…
- Are you a healthcare worker potentially interested in relocating to Canada? Check out the Healthcare infusion, a volunteer-driven national movement connecting doctors, nurses, and allied healthcare professionals with the people and places that need them most engageq.notion.site/infusionhosts
- 15 January is the deadline to file a brief Expression of Interest to be nominated for a Canada Impact Chair @UBC. Only candidates working and residing outside of Canada are eligible to apply, including expatriate Canadians. More info and the EOI portal are at research.ubc.ca/federal-rese...
- The Canada Impact Chair program has been announced for research leaders www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl.... The Chairs provide up to $12M in funding. If you think UBC might be the place to continue your career, please let us know by submitting an expression of interest at research.ubc.ca/federal-rese...
- The Canada Impact Chair program has been announced for research leaders www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl.... The Chairs provide up to $12M in funding. If you think UBC might be the place to continue your career, please let us know by submitting an expression of interest at research.ubc.ca/federal-rese...
- Applications are now open for two two-year UBC Biodiversity Postdoc Fellowships biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and.... $77,000 /y + benefits and $7000 /y research funds.
- When you peak inside an oyster, it's remarkable what one finds. Rather than "The world is my oyster" sensu William Shakespeare, it should be changed to "The world is an oyster", as a metaphor of the vast diversity of life residing within these humble molluscs; there are magnificent microbes within.
- In Pacific oyster, we identified a bacterium showing remarkable metabolic potential, including genes to degrade xenobiotics like PAHs, common pollutants from petroleum and industrial sources 🌱🧫. 👏Big thanks to our amazing team at @virosphere.bsky.social. Read it here 👉 dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour....
- Come join us at UBC!
- The Department of Physics and Astronomy in the Faculty of Science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver seeks an emerging research leader for a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair position in Medical Physics. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/307... @science.ubc.ca @ubcmedicine.bsky.social
- Another casualty of the time, after nearly four decades, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS) is shutting down www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDtm....
- Are you a recent PhD interested in a postdoc in Canada? Up to 20% of NSERC Postdoc Fellowships (70k/y for 2y) will be awarded to International applicants, who did their PhD outside of Canada. Deadline is 17 October. See: www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etu...
- Two covers for papers published on the same day www.pnas.org/toc/pnas/122... & www.nature.com/natecolevol/.... Proud of the team, especially #MelaniePrentice & @kevinzhong2006.bsky.social with @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social, @eoas.ubc.ca, @ubcoceans.bsky.social, @hakai.org and @science.ubc.ca
- Come join us at UBC, and flex your pedagogical vision!
- @science.ubc.ca is hiring a Black scholar for a tenure-stream Assistant Professor of Teaching! Seeking applicants in data, computer, computational, environmental sciences, or stats. ❗Deadline: Oct 15, 2025❗ 🔗Details: tinyurl.com/4xxt5nww @cs.ubc.ca @ubcoceans.bsky.social
- Coffee and snacks! 😲
- Congratulations! What a great group of researchers!
- Congratulations to the UBC Science researchers named Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada: Drs. William Cheung, Tamara Munzner, Ingrid Stairs, Allan Bertram & Joanna McGrenere. @src-rsc.bsky.social @ubcphas.bsky.social @chem.ubc.ca @cs.ubc.ca ubcoceans.bsky.socialscience.ubc.ca/news/2025-09...da
- Great opportunity to sharpen your climate chops, and get free pizza!
- @kevinzhong2006.bsky.social shows that Vibrio pectenicida strain FHCF-3 has the genetic potential to produce aerolysin-like toxins journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... that could be involved in SSWD that killed billions of seastars www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- We cannot definitively say that it was the cause, but we can show its association with a mass mortality event. This week we will collect more samples to see if it is associated with an ongoing mortality event.
- Pacific oysters in British Columbia died in a mass mortality event in 2020. A study identifies the cause: Pacific Oyster Nidovirus 1. The virus possesses one of the largest reported genomes for an RNA virus at 64,331 base pairs. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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- Biology would be great, but in many instances the viruses currently cannot be cultured, and of course many instances where hosts have not been cultured. Yet, we can definitively state that a particular uncultured viruses is infecting a specific hosts. In many cases, ERVs and EVEs can be identified.
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- The taxonomic landscape has become extremely complicated and too dynamic. That said, there are many instances in which viruses that are only known from sequences are seen repeatedly, are clearly infecting their hosts, and should be classified. I'm not sure of a tractable resolution.
- Join a fantastic educational leadership team in @science.ubc.ca. Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Teaching in STEM Public Engagement, a joint appointment in @ubcmicroimmuno.bsky.social and the Michael Smith Laboratories. See full details academicjobsonline.org/ajo/events/3...
- Very proud of the work from lab members and collaborators that coincidentally came out today www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... and www.nature.com/articles/s41.... A bacterial and viral pathogen associated with mass mortality in seastars and oysters. @kevinzhong2006.bsky.social @rhizalyssa.bsky.social
- B.C. scientists discover new oyster virus, solve mystery of sea star epidemic www.timescolonist.com/local-news/b...
- Join marine researchers @UBC (ubcoceans.ubc.ca). CERC in Ocean Ecological Modeling (research.ubc.ca/media/file/c...). $8M to work at the intersection of oceanography, fisheries, ecology, biodiversity, etc, in the context of environmental change, ecosystems, biogeochemistry & living marine resources.
- Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦 friends and colleagues. This is a great time to reflect on what we share, and the special bonds that unite us. I have lived and spent time in many parts of the world, and this will always be home.
- Nice Wiki (wikipedia worthy) article on viral lysis of Emiliania huxlyii wiki.ubc.ca/Course:EOSC_...
- 2025 - Biodiversity Modelling Summer School. Coding biodiversity: building scenarios with a global ecosystem model August 18 to 22, 2025 - University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Apply now!!! www.usherbrooke.ca/ecoles-de-po...
- This is a great opportunity to pursue a PhD in marine virology, at a wonderful location, and terrific supervisors. Not to mention that it includes opportunities to do part of the work at UBC.
- PhD opportunity in marine virus eco-evo dynamics Joint CNRS–UBC program: @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social × @ubcoceans.bsky.social 📍 Banyuls-sur-Mer, France (LBBM UMR8176) 🗓️ Start: Oct 2025 | Duration: 3 years 🔍 Skills: Modelling, Bioinformatics, Marine Virology 🔗 Apply: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
- PhD opportunity in marine virus eco-evo dynamics Joint CNRS–UBC program: @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social × @ubcoceans.bsky.social 📍 Banyuls-sur-Mer, France (LBBM UMR8176) 🗓️ Start: Oct 2025 | Duration: 3 years 🔍 Skills: Modelling, Bioinformatics, Marine Virology 🔗 Apply: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
- This is a great opportunity to pursue a PhD in marine virology, at a wonderful location, and terrific supervisors. Not to mention that it includes opportunities to do part of the work at UBC.
- A nicely written piece mbim.ubc.ca/news/the-con... by sarah anderson @ubcmicroimmuno.bsky.social highlighting recent work led by @kevinzhong2006.bsky.social and supported by the GBMF and @hakai.org that shows that the #microbiome of Pacific #oyster spat is affected by T but not pH. @science.ubc.ca
- Many data sets held by NOAA are being "retired" in may, including datasets relevant to ocean sciences and climate. If you have need for these data, or are an archivist, it would be good to download this now. PLEASE SHARE WIDELY. www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...
- Sad that it has come to this: www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...
- Congrats - nicely done!
- Our work on cryptic infection of giant viruses was published today in @ScienceMagazine . We discovered a large virus hiding within a green algal genome producing virions. Collaborative effort spearheaded by Virginia Tech, University of Miami & NIOZ scientists. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Canada can be a world leader in science and innovation. We have world-class research universities, amazing talent and entrepreneurial spirit. Leadership, vision and commitment from all levels of government to support knowledge generation and translation will make it happen.
- If elected, Poilievre’s government will “put an end to the imposition of woke ideology in the federal civil service and federal funds for university research.” The phrase is almost identical to wording used by the Trump administration. Catharine Winstanley and @liisagalea.bsky.social write.
- If elected, Poilievre’s government will “put an end to the imposition of woke ideology in the federal civil service and federal funds for university research.” The phrase is almost identical to wording used by the Trump administration. Catharine Winstanley and @liisagalea.bsky.social write.
- Canada can be a world leader in science and innovation. We have world-class research universities, amazing talent and entrepreneurial spirit. Leadership, vision and commitment from all levels of government to support knowledge generation and translation will make it happen.
- Stand up for Science www.science.org/content/arti...
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- Welcome Asher!
- It's pretty great <3
- The NW Persian (Arabian) Gulf is a hypersaline negative estuary that harbors a vast galaxy of cyanophage and pelagiphage evolutionary groups that are highly uneven in abundance (www.int-res.com/articles/ame...). The remarkable diversity of phage genotypes in the sea continues to impress.
- The overturning of norms of collaborative research in the US continues, with #NOAA being targeted directly. www.wired.com/story/noaa-e...
- Thank you @aslo.org for emphasizing community, and that governments cannot change who we are: www.aslo.org/aslo-comment...
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- Great background info to place "news" in context
- Check out our new, Interactive Media Bias Chart! app.adfontesmedia.com/chart/intera...
- I rarely post outside my scientific lane, but I am so grateful for the wonderful and incredibly talented people that #UBC hired through examining and changing practices that are well-documented as being biased (e.g. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...). It has made for a much stronger, diverse academy.
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- Nice paper reinforcing the role of viruses & nutrient cycling! Would this fit the scenario of viral driven enhanced nutrient recycling i.e. www.int-res.com/articles/ame... and the shunt and pump affecting the stoichiometry of nutrient cycling via the shunt and pump www.nature.com/articles/nrm...?
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- Congrats Vaughn - This is excellent news!
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- the back of the envelope numbers I give to my marine micro students are mid-10^6/mL in productive coastal, mid-10^5/mL in oligotrophic offshore water, mid-10^4/mL in the deep cold ocean. Here are some sources: www.nature.com/articles/nmi...; www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Welcome Isabel Reche to Bluesky! @isabel-reche.bsky.social
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- Cool - I am going to share this today, in my Marine Microbiology class
- I am delighted to host Professor Adinortey during her stay at UBC. It is a great opportunity to expand scientific and personal connections between an exceptional scholar and @ubcoceans.bsky.social, @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social and @science.ubc.ca
- Dr Cynthia Adinortey ( @ceeadinortey.bsky.social ) is "excited and honoured to be chosen as one of the two inaugural fellows" and to work on the identification of indicator organisms for disease diagnosis in #Ghanaian #aquaculture. oceans.ubc.ca/2024/12/05/a...
- Very disappointing to see the shift in support for basic research in New Zealand www.science.org/content/arti...
