So, Nat'ralists observe, a Flea Hath smaller Fleas that on him prey, And these have smaller yet to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum: -Jonathan Swift, 1733

News & views piece just dropped from @indragon.bsky.social and @billhanage.bsky.social discussing some of the coolest work I've read all year! Phages shaping cholera epidemiology AND experimental evolution mirroring the real-world evolution is 🔥 (Kim Seed also gives an amazing talk!) rdcu.be/fihkG

Dr. Indra Gonzalez Ojeda gave a great thesis defense this morning, including some wisdom for starting PhD students, or frankly, anyone.

Introducing CLARC in a GitHub near you :) If you like clever tricks and superman puns, read our paper to learn how studying selection in the pneumococcal pangenome led us to develop a bioinformatics tool to improve gene ortholog definitions! Shoutout to S. pneumoniae for being such a diverse guy.

New tool for pangenome analysis! CLARC refines bacterial gene clusters using functional annotation + linkage—not just sequence. New publication by @indragon.bsky.social & collaborators, advised by @mlipsitch.bsky.social & @billhanage.bsky.social. Read more at bit.ly/4ek0Y51

I'm so happy that I can finally share the results of my first postdoc paper with @baym.lol!!! Turns out plasmids are an amazing system to study multi-scale evolution and we can track within-cell and between-cell dynamics! (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/earl...