www.nature.com/articles/s41... #phagesky #phage

Stoked to finally have a preprint out for Phold, our tool that uses protein structural information to enhance phage genome annotation #phagesky 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Scientists! @skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun! We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15 If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

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Incredible conversations at #ASMicrobe2025! Thank you to everyone who stopped by to talk phages, evolution, and the potential of phage steering in complex infections! @asm.org #PhageSky #PhageSteering

Phage tRNAs: decoding the enigma

Going to ASM Microbe 2025? Check out the in-depth symposium "Phage Ecology: From Prophage Decision Making to Ecosystem Modulation" hosted by Dr. Hernandez (@cathyhernandez.bsky.social) and I! We have some really cool talks lined up. Hope to see you there! 🧪🦠🔬 #Phagesky #Microsky

Hello everyone! I am pleased to share information on the first ever Computational Structural Virology Symposium, conducted August 4th on zoom and highlighting work in this emerging field. You can register for this event here: forms.gle/CNiqskMwQEuV.... Please re-post!

It's out! We used the T4P-dependent phage Luz19 to select against the type IV pilus virulence factor in P. aeruginosa, despite the presence of competing S. aureus.

🦑 This baby is COLOSSAL! 🦑 First confirmed live observation of the colossal squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, in its natural habitat. Filmed at about 600m near the South Sandwich Islands during the #SouthSandwichIslands expedition. youtu.be/lzPoG9H8Hlo

#NASA's #Chandra X-ray Observatory Vela Pulsar chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/v... NASA/CXC/Univ of Toronto/M.Durant/j. Roger

Susan today explains contractile injection systems of Streptomyces - see their cool paper in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... #KNVM2025

Fantastic new preprint of Vaughn Cooper's lab @vscooper.micropopbio.org - filamentous phages can get cancer and it's contagious. 🔥👇🏼 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our latest, out today in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social Bacteriocin production facilitates nosocomial emergence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium www.nature.com/articles/s41... @idpittstop.bsky.social

Beautiful video of inter-cellular signaling in a swarming response that I pulled from the other place, produced by @strickland-evelyn.bsky.social in collaboration with D. Irimia lab. The dye detects calcium flux that indicates a signal being received by each cell: you're seeing the 'alarm' go out.

Just because its fun~ This is one of my favorite videos I've taken in my PhD! Here is 60x imaging of neutrophils swarming to attack yeast targets in blue :)

We developed a microscopy-based technique🔬 to measure attachment of viruses #phages to host cells. 🦠 The paper was posted online today: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #phagesky #microsky

I had images in my head of what I wanted to capture on my recent adventure to the southern USA. I wanted storms and sprites with Bayou foregrounds. Man, it is a tough place to chase- dark skies are hard to find as are accessible, treeless areas to get a view.

Happy to see this out now in @asn-amnat.bsky.social! We combined experimental evolution and mathematical modeling to ask: can bacteria evolve to swim away from their viral parasites? 1/n #evosky 🦠 #phage 🧪 (gift link:) www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/TETM9...

Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Is anyone knowledgeable, or knows someone that is, about deciduousness in conifers? I’m curious what were the selective pressure(s) and evolutionary pathways that result in it. I’ve seen a few Tamarack larch (Larix laricina) here in Alaska, they’re amazing!

It’s my first time in Alaska and I’m enthralled. The temperate rainforest and rapid ecosystem shift as you move from coastline to jagged peaks is fascinating

Working on phage research? Dr. Catherine Hernandez and I are co-convening the "Phage Ecology: From Prophage Decision Making to Ecosystem Modulation" in-depth symposium at ASM Microbe 2025 and we want YOU to be part of it! Abstract submission is now open! More info below 🧪🦠🔬 #Phagesky #Microsky

Need a primer article on quorum sensing: how bacteria "talk" to coordinate group behaviors like biofilm formation & virulence? Find one here and also check out the full Microbial Primers article list #Microsky www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

I'm helping @jamesgurney.bsky.social restart @phagepapers.bsky.social I just wrote some code that once a day: 1. Searches some Pubmed keywords and adds the results to Google sheets 2. Posts a random link from the Sheets to Bluesky Would anyone like a writeup? Or expand beyond just phage papers?

Hello new phage phollowers! I am shamelessly self-promoting mine and Angus Buckling's relatively new review "Critically evaluating the relative importance of phage in shaping microbial community composition" www.cell.com/trends/micro...

Fun pre-print time! 🚨 PSR J0337+1715 is a bit of a unique system, it's got a pulsar and 2 white dwarfs orbiting it (triple). Excellent GR lab. This paper analyses an extended dataset and proposes models to explain low-frequency timing noise, incl. modelling the possibility of a pulsar planet! 🔭📡

Re-sharing our last paper on the effect of restriction-modification systems on conjugative plasmids: doi.org/10.1093/nar/... #MicroSky

Spending time with family and found the remaining exoskeleton of a dead wheel bug in the garage. They don’t appreciate my fascination with the wheel and piercing mouth part, but maybe someone on here will.

Critical to pay attention to this line "Bhattacharya coauthored an April 2020 study that drew a different conclusion: The coronavirus was far more widespread than previously assumed, suggesting its risks were overstated." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...

I had a great time sharing this work. Thanks for having me @sazimi.bsky.social !

Absolute shots fired. From: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360319924043957 #Science #academia #peerreview #research

This is SO COOL. Extremely rare soft crystalline seashells are washing up in Northern California right now [a thread 🧵]... 🦑🧪🌊🐙

If you see this, post a concert photo you took Glass Beams, Variety Playhouse, ATL, Oct 16.

🚧Glacier Ahead!🚧 This here is Iceland's remarkable Fjallsjökull glacier, towering some 6,600-ft above the horizon.

Praying Mantis Portrait Morning dew on a mantis . I took the opportunity to set up a 3 point studio light (my travel setup). @SonyAlpha #macro #photography #invertebrate🐙

Mobile Elements Starter Pack on BlueSky! Interested in plasmids, phages, ICEs, transposons, integrons, and all things accessory genome? Follow this curated list of researchers and labs doing exciting work in mobile elements.

tip for newbies: subscribe to this MAGA block list to preemptively block MAGAts on here :) (sorry I forgot to include the link before)

Göreme National Park in Cappadocia, Turkey. Millions of years ago, a volcano erupted nearby. The ash became the soft rock "tuff", which was then overlayed by basalt from magma flows. Erosion produced "tent rocks" or "fairy chimneys". (📷:Connors Bros./Shutterstock)

More collaborative Type IV pili work: Beautiful work from Phil Guo from Jun Liu's lab in collaboration with Lori Burrows and Lynne Howell on the in-situ architecture of the P. aeruginosa Type IV pilus machine where we played a small role. https://buff.ly/4fw9BZO

Seeing a bunch of new followers, so I just tidied up my Evolutionary Biologists starter pack—mostly trying to represent folks' fields right, and get in some topical journals/societies Hope it's useful, but I'd also love to see packs from other folks, to better cover the field go.bsky.app/TUNHbNu

M74: The Phantom 36x36 91x91 Oil on canvas Based on the JWST image of M74, The Phantom Galaxy

From todays’s extra edition of “We’re Here”:

I don't know if this will help anyone, but it's what I'm using to avoid spirals: "Don't borrow grief from the future."

For anyone who feels lost right now like I sure do, @hankgreen.bsky.social did a beautiful job of summarizing moving forward despite the circumstances. werehere.beehiiv.com/p/hank-s-ele...

Civic duty done! Now I guess I run a gel and dissociate or something.

Come. Sit with me. The world is wearing you down and you look in need of something wondrous. Let us consider a reality unfolding right here on Earth, parallel to yours, miles below the sea: Meet the ravenous, dancing, sparking world of the glitter worm... [a thread] 🌿🦑🐙🪼🧪

NGC 2977 by NIRCam. Processed by @thocarp.bsky.social www.flickr.com/photos/19746... 🔭 🧪

New JWST image posted by NASA & STScI: Smooth Disk Around Vega. science.nasa.gov/missions/hub... 🔭 🧪

Day 28, DNA DNA acts like a blue-print to make more of the organism. This phage has injected its DNA into the bacteria, which is then in turn directed by the incoming DNA to make more phages. #PhageSky #SciArt