The future of the @maxplanck.de is in good hands

We are proud to share that Ruth Ley @microbiome.bsky.social , Director of the Department of Microbiome Science, has been elected Fellow of The Royal Society @royalsociety.org . Congratulations!!!

Sean Eddy??!!! Speechless.

"Please provide a justification for the foreign collaboration." Science.

@kelseyhuus.bsky.social is also the recipient of a Max Planck partner group, which will give her some additional funds for 5 years! Go Kelsey go!! @maxplanck.de

Come and work with us in a beautiful corner of Germany: 5 years of funding for your microbiology research and lots of great colleagues 🦠🧫

It is apparently a hoax en.mediamass.net/people/craig...

It is with great sadness that we announce J. Craig Venter has died. 🧪🧬 www.jcvi.org/media-center...

"Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are." It turns out, microbes follow the same rule! Very proud to share our lab's new paper in @natmicrobiol.nature.com showing that bacteria don't just respond to their environment, they respond to each other. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hey Reviewer 2: I hope you are OK. If you are OK and you liked our microbiome-fever paper revisions at all, any chance you can send a quick note to the editor? 🦠🧫

Ya know a while back a senior microbiologist I was talking with was saying how we absolutely have got to stop saying gut flora because people are gonna think it’s plants and I was like “ha yeah” while thinking “nah come on people know starfish aren’t fish” and ope! he was right.

Here we show that buildup of uremic toxins during CKD generates nitrate in the colon. Nitrate supports expansion of Enterobacteriaceae, turning them into a major source of uremic toxins. Inhibiting nitrate production (iNOS inhibition) mitigates disease progression. www.science.org/eprint/YGNMK...

Announcing StrainVis! 🦠🧫🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... This nifty web-based tool allows you to visualize your strain level analyses. You can combine ANI and synteny based analyses and it will make all kinds of cool publication ready plots for you - examples follow. By Hagay Enav and Inbal Paz:

This is a great post doc opportunity- fantastic system, first-rate science, awesome PI

Join @berasymbionts.bsky.social , @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social and us for a postdoc on the remarkable developmental biology of symbiosis! Applications are due March 25th 🪲🦠 @johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

If you want freedom to work on what you are curious about with secure funding until you retire, and you love rural areas near the sea, this is for you. 🧫🦠

Fantastic work by @maxplanckcampus.bsky.social colleague @luisapallares.bsky.social showing how environmental perturbation increases gene expression variability and thereby unmasks genetic regulation for transcriptional robustness in #Drosophila www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

How specific are heritable symbioses? And what can we learn from swapping obligate symbionts across host species? We address this in our latest, led by @inespons.bsky.social & in our collaboration w/ @microbiome.bsky.social 🦠🪲 Out today in @natcomms.nature.com! 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

From now on I will sit on papers by guys. Either that or change my name to Rudy.

Great to see a new Professor Ruth!

Excited to publish another PhD project within the IMPRS at the University of Tübingen: 🧬 Find everything you need to know here: lnkd.in/gTfGNYR3 📅 Application Deadline: 19 January 2026 🔗 Apply here: lnkd.in/gWGf2w2g #PhDPosition #Bioinformatics#GenomeMining #Antibiotics #PhD #MicrobialGen

They’re stealing from us. They are stealing from us and we have to put a stop to this. This cannot stand.

Wait, is this a new taxonomy??

🦠🧫 a collaboration with the Institute for Tropical Medicine in Tübingen and CERMEL in Gabon @cmfi.bsky.social

Happy to share this paper by doctoral student Mirabeau Mbong Ngwese who assessed gut microbiome associations with soil transmitted parasites for adults and kids in Gabon and corroborated findings with data from other studies from Africa www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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You spend your life learning the natural history of the prokaryotes with all this complex taxonomy and then right when you are so proud of your well earned wisdom all the names change just in time for your brain to be too old to handle it

Congratulations Kelsey!!!! Can’t wait to follow your lab’s science adventures!🦠🧫

Come to be our colleague! Center of Paris, excellent facilities, research spanning the whole range of basic and biomedical life science topics, enthusiastic and collaborative colleagues, crème brûlée every Friday... What else could one want?

Cool new evolutionary angle on rumen microbiomes 🧫🦠

Spectral tuning and signaling of diverse and most red sensitive visual rhodopsins that drive high colour discrimination in Mantis Shrimp eyes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thanks for posting this gem. We have disappearing coffee mugs that threatens their population and the entire fork collection went extinct in one unchronicled event.

Yeah I don’t know Hassan. I’m Not sure upper management signed off on this “leaving” idea of yours

He’s the best!

#MicrobiologyMonday: The bacterial flagellum is built through a hierarchical assembly process and powered by a dynamic motor capable of astonishing speeds. What's new in our understanding of these complex nanomachines? Find out in #MMBRJournal: asm.social/2HB

Thank you ASU News for covering our recent paper! news.asu.edu/20251119-hea... @microbiome.bsky.social @asuhealthsolutions.bsky.social

NEW pub in @science.org 🥳 Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life? For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided. We provide new evidence suggesting that... 🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In mice yes: this type of “one-sided” selection experiment has been done in plants (with positive outcomes) and was tried in flies (no effect). So this is the second time it’s been tried in an animal and first time in a mammal @suzukilab.bsky.social 🦠🧫

www.the-scientist.com/gut-microbes... Thank you to The Scientist 🧫🦠

Nice write up of our paper here, thanks! 🧫🦠 dailyneuron.com/how-gut-micr...

Yes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.

We selected the laziest mouse at each round to inoculate the next batch of germfree mice: over rounds of selection and passaging, behavior shifted without changes to the mouse genome: rdcu.be/eM3rO 🦠🧫

I was working on the story and he just came out and said it

THESE PAGAN LIBTARD WAR DANCES CAN ONLY PRESAGE CALAMITY!! MEIN LEADER PRÄSIDENT TRUMP, HERR REICHSCOUCHVUCKER VON VANCE, HERR VERRÜCKTPSYCHO STEPHANMÜLLER, DER VOLK DEMAND YOU DEPLOY DIE PANZERBRIGADEN NOW!!! Vielen Damk für your attention to this matter

Thinking about a postdoc in microbiome science? Our lab at the MPI for Biology (Tübingen) builds on the culture I established at Cornell: collaborative, creative, and internationally diverse. Postdocs lead their own projects with secure funding. Join us! #PostdocJobs #HostMicrobe #AcademicJobs

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Happy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social