Robin Rohwer@RobinRohwer

Lake enthusiast: sailor, windsurfer, snow kiter, and microbial ecologist! @mcmahonlab alum, @NSF postdoc with @archaeal at @UTAustin 🌊🦠🕓 ➡️ 🧬🧬🧬 ➡️ 📊📈

 Austin, TX
robinrohwer.com/
Joined November 2015
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Mom asked, "I wonder when cherries bloom in Japan?" So I found 1200 years of data online and made her a plot.
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I’ve been dreaming of this paper for a decade. One PhD and one postdoc later, here it is! What do ecology and evolution look like in a 20-year freshwater time series? Turns out they blur together. @sarilog @quendi @archaeal @USLTER @NSF @jgi biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Bacterial ecology and evolution converge on seasonal and decadal scales

Ecology and evolution are distinct theories, but the short lifespans and large population sizes of microbes allow evolution to unfold along contemporary ecological time scales. To document this in a...

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A lot of this could be ecology OR evolution, depending on how species are delineated. Instead of considering feedbacks between eco & evo, we need to consider eco & evo as a continuum of the same processes unfolding. After all, they’re also both happening on the same time scales!
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On a personal note, writing this paper has spanned both medical leave and a pregnancy. I want to thank @quendi , @archaeal , and an amazing @NSF program officer for believing in me and supporting me through all of it.
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I am migrating to Bluesky! Find me at robinrohwer.bsky.social 🌦️🌥️⛅️🌤️☀️
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Come hear me talk at #ESA23 today in Portland: 4:45 in the Eco Evo section, room D139. Learn about shifts in bacterial genomes in my 20-year 471-metagenome time series! @archaeal @quendi
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Robin Rohwer retweeted
Trina McMahon 🌪@quendi
27 Jul 2023
One last bragging post on this dying platform? Awesome study by ⁦@BigMicrobeBen⁩ from ⁦@mcmahonlab⁩. “Metabolically diverse microorganisms mediate methylmercury formation under nitrate-reducing conditions in a dynamic hydroelectric reservoir nature.com/articles/s41396-0…

Metabolically diverse microorganisms mediate methylmercury formation under nitrate-reducing...

The ISME Journal - Metabolically diverse microorganisms mediate methylmercury formation under nitrate-reducing conditions in a dynamic hydroelectric reservoir

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Fun time talking about my work and how it ties into data science and open science today! #DSOS23 and if you missed the talk, I think you can still watch asynchronously on the YouTube link 😉
Hacking Limnology@HackingLimno
27 Jul 2023
Next up, we have @RobinRohwer working with @archaeal @UTAustin showing #DSOS23 her work on a 20-year 471-metagenome freshwater time series ! #AEMONJ
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Baker lab bats excursion! I'm lucky to work with such a fun group, where grad students, REUs, and volunteers all want to hang out with me on a night off 🥰 @archaeal
Baker lab members selfie in a round boat. Everyone with snacks and beverages and smiles.

ALT Baker lab members selfie in a round boat. Everyone with snacks and beverages and smiles.

Bats flying out from under a bridge at sunset in a long ribbon into the sky

ALT Bats flying out from under a bridge at sunset in a long ribbon into the sky

Evening view of Austin downtown buildings taken from under a bridge

ALT Evening view of Austin downtown buildings taken from under a bridge
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Was curious about Threads, but... No web version, not the first "threads" app to pop up in the play store, couldn't figure out how to make a new account (my insta is my cat's)... seems not quite ready for prime time? #threadsvstwitter
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So happy for @Leao_pel ! Many congrats!!
Pedro Leão@Leao_pel
6 Jul 2023
The word is out! I'm beyond excited to announce that I'll be joining the Microbiology Cluster of @RIBESresearch at @Radboud_Uni as a new PI to start my research group! That's a major step on a career/personal plan that I started 5 years ago, and now is coming into reality!
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