🦠🧫🧪🔬🌍🐝 🧬🖥 Awesome work led by Malick Ndiaye on paired strain-level #microbe - #phage metagenomes of SINGLE #honeybee guts, revealing diversity correlations at genus level... #Microsky #host-microbe

Good morning. I don't know who did this, but I love you.

The illusion of permanence: 𝐺𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑔𝑜 𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑎 has been teasing the planet with its falling leaves since dinosaurs walked the earth some 170 million years ago. Today it makes #Bern 🐻🇨🇭 look at its best under this lazy autumn sunday.

OTD in 1977 Carl Woese and George Fox redrew the tree of life. They proposed a third “urkingdom”—the “archaebacteria”—in addition to eukaryotes and bacteria. Woese later called this taxon “Archea.” AFAIK, he didn’t publish his famous tree diagram until the late 80s. 🐋🌱🧪 #HistSTM 🗃️🧠 #evobio 🐡

We are our best when we collaborate. 🧪🦠🔬🧬🌍🍄 This mural about the invisible #soil #biodiversity in Moers(🇩🇪) resulted from the collaboration between my friend Dr. Arne Schwelm, the people from sci:moers and the Stiftung für Umwelt und Entwicklung under the artistic direction of #cokyone.

There is NO ETHICAL WAY to BECOME or REMAIN a BILLIONAIRE. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

🧪🔬🦠🧫🌍🪲🐛 A membrane network of the nutritional symbiont 𝑆𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑢𝑠 woven with the cytosol of its host, the cereal-eating curculionid 𝑆𝑖𝑡𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑢𝑠 spp., to increase carbohydrate supply to the bacteria! Crazy amazing methods with amazing pics and vids! #BugSky #MicroSky #HostMicrobiome

Rather than trying to read entrails of some vaccine move by RFK Jr, just ask: a) Does it encourage vaccination? OR b) Is it one more step towards vaccination elimination? (Ex: MMR=> solo M, M, R.) Meanwhile, follow @gorskon.bsky.social & @joho.bsky.social, who've dissected RFK Jr actions for years.

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Happy Labour Day Aotearoa. #nzpol

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv. There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

We have the receipts as well. Please do your job and release the Trump-Epstein files.

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🖥🧬🤖👾🧪🔬🔭🧫🦠🌍 Ah, the irony of having an opinion article on the importance of sharing in science BEHIND A PAYWALL. Only in @nature.com #OpenScience #FAIR www.nature.com/articles/d41...

And it's posted! If you're interested and eligible, please consider applying through the UMD portal: umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j.... If you're a PI working in algorithmic genomics (& you can recommend my lab to your top graduating students ;P), please let them know!

🦋🪲🐞🐛🧪🔬 #BugSky Tracking of Monarch butterflies during migration!

We’re back! ✨ The next #MeeHubs26 is coming with 7 hubs across the globe and incredible lineups at each. Can’t wait to share more soon! meehubs.org

If the #NobelPrize is about "prestige and recognition" and "promote scientific progress"... why are they given to already prestigious researchers at the end of their career and not grant their PhDs and Postdocs tenure track or faculty positions of their choice? 1M USD = 8y 100,000 USD 🧪🔬🔭🧫🦠🖥🧬🌍🌱🏵🐝🪲🕷

🔬🦠🧫🧪 #MicroSky This is the most fantatic video I've ever seen: a Tardigrade strolling on a Volvox by Penny Fenton #NikonSmallWorld #DarkField www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...

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🧪🔬🦠🧫🧬🖥 #CRISPR - mediated immunity is a second level of defense against #phages after mutation... A fantastic manuacript by the Brockhurst lab...

📣 New bacterial order name change alert! 🦠 The uncultivated alphaproteobacterial order (formerly TMED127) is now "Methylaequorales" in @seqcode.bsky.social 📝 New AEM paper on these marine methylotrophs: journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10.... 🙏 Special thanks @rodriguez-r.bsky.social & SeqCode team

I'll never forget the abuse piled on public health workers like me by Bhattacharya, Kulldorff, and Prasad. Fact is, they won the pandemic, and the mindset that allowed them to do so is tearing our country apart.

🧪🦠🖥️🧬🧫🔬 The Roadmap for equitable use of public microbiome data -including the Data Reuse Information Tag (DRI)- by the #DataReuseConsortium. Must read if you use or produce microbiome data! Kudos to the Data Reuse Core Team for their hard work! doi.org/10.1038/s415...

“I have no idea how this paper could have made it through peer review” Journal investigating vaccine contamination paper before CDC committee retractionwatch.com/2025/09/18/c...

But isn't it kinda important though how you don't even have to click on the link to guess the answer is: "Because it was in a for-profit, low impact factor journal, that makes money through article processing charges and is therefore incentivized to publish as many articles as possible"?

Our mistake when we wrote _Calling Bullshit_ was to assume that people would deliberately abuse the flexibility of quantitative metrics to mislead. We devoted inadequate attention to people making up complete and utter nonsense with no possible grounding in fact.

The Heritage Foundation is going after me this morning calling me a terrorist because I am accurately stating what they are intending to do. Michael Knowles at CPAC explicitly called for the "eradication of transgenderism." I'll continue to speak the truth of what is being done to my community.

Thrilled that our work is now finally out in Nature Comms! rdcu.be/eG3vP We reveal cryo-EM structures of the MRN complex bound to DNA & TRF2 - showing how DNA breaks are sensed and regulated at telomeres. Fantastic work by first authors @yilanfan.bsky.social @filizkuybu.bsky.social & Hengjun!

A sweat bee busy looking for snacks. The flower is an aster and the center of the flower contains lots of small florets that produce pollen and nectar. Asters are a wonderful fall food source for lots of insects. #inverts (Augochlora sp.) PA

"Considering the long history of liars winning debates by lying, you would have thought that intellectuals might have learned to stop debating liars." @hormiga.bsky.social ...from old timey creationism "debates", to climate etc. social media today. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/debating-is-...

This was a word AND he cussed 😂

“Bloody Indians, Pakistanis and Indians, coming over here, inventing us a national cuisine.”

I made a chart you can share to any citizen concerned about the "cost" of immigrants www.datawrapper.de/_/fGPis/

We basically know what's coming and why. Might as well start planning messaging and concrete responses now. 'Racism tanked the economy. It has materially hurt you. We need immigrants. People who say otherwise can't be trusted and can never be allowed into power again. Period.'

🍅🍠🥕🫑🍆🥔🍎🌶👨‍🌾 Ds beste Wuche Gmües von Radieslihof! #Solawi #CommunityBasedAgriculture #cropsharing #FRACP #SharedAgriculturalRisk

🦠🔬🌍🧪🧫⚕️💊🏥 Once again microbial ecology comes to rescue medicine!

We can be morally outraged by an assassination and at the same time acknowledge that Charlie Kirk’s racism and misogyny were immoral. Whitewashing his behavior and beliefs betrays the collective by masking how we got to this place in America.

Me right now reading “It is also the 18th anniversary of ggplot2…”

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

Ezra Klein thinks that “black people are stupid” and “gay people should be stoned to death” is practicing politics the “right way” Can we stop pretending he is some political sage?

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.” So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.

Deciphering microbial spatial organization: insights from synthetic and engineered communities url: academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Charlie Kirk is getting more mercy & grace for getting shot than any of the scores of Black people a cop shot this year. We must have decorum & respect because he’s on TV & he’s a white man, regardless of how he lived. I don’t have to fedpost to delight in his misfortune. At least be indifferent.

If I’m understanding right, Aaron Clauset at Peer Review Congress showing that the strongest correlate of peer review outcomes at Science and Science Advances is the prestige of authors’ institutions. Also pretty big association with author geography, not much with author gender. #PRC10

As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...

𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲. 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲. Open source projects don’t fail because of bad technology. They fail because contributors burn out, communities fracture, or energy fades. Technical debt matters.

🦠🔬🧫🧪🧬🖥 apparently, bacteria cannot hoard all the guns!