⏰ Timing is everything 🦠 as you will appreciate listening in! 🤓Keep abreast of the literature as @kknoop.bsky.social gives a round up summary of the review that inspired the latest @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social cover and guess the disease/pathogen with @ashu-mangalam.bsky.social ‘s Med Mystery 🎧

Our August issue is online now www.mucosalimmunology.org/current, featuring microbes that are “living on the edge” from Mahesh Desai www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...

Finally online! Our latest research is out @nature.com: We show that non-antibiotic drugs can disrupt colonization resistance, raising the risk of enteric infections. rdcu.be/ewwrG

Ever wondered why proton pump inhibitors raise the risk of C. diff infections? Is it due to pH shifts or direct antibacterial effects on the gut microbiome? We think it’s the pH. 🧪💡 Dive into Julia & Patrick’s new paper for the full story! 📖👇 #Microbiome #PPI doi.org/10.1080/1949...

It’s a bacterium-eats-bacterium world… www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

To celebrate this (urp 🤢) exciting new journal series, we made a mini game! Can YOU guess which journals are Discover, MDPI, or both? No cheating! There's even the challenge mode "APC Ladder." Share your high score with the hashtag #ResearchIntegrity pagoba.shinyapps.io/publi_guess/ FUN!! 🤮 6/n

Have you discovered the Night Science Podcast yet? @nightsciencepod.bsky.social

Very happy that HiBC is out: rdcu.be/ekSCO 🔥 @natcomms.nature.com Excellent team spirit, and, as always, great driving factor by @tcahitch.bsky.social ⭐⭐⭐⭐ We hope that these bacterial isolates from the human gut will facilitate many studies by others... 😀

Here are our ideas on developing tools and technologies for anaerobic bacteria! We hope you enjoy the read as much as we enjoyed brainstorming on the topic...

Our "Guide to communicating microbiomes in the media", created in collaboration @lindsaybroadbent.bsky.social aims to help navigate the complexities of communicating microbiome research. Click the link in our bio to read and download the guide.

Out now! Live bacteria can translocate to other tissues via Colonic goblet cell-associated passages which may be beneficial to the host! #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My colleague Sjoerd van der Post just quietly dropped a preprint defining the interaction of the #ETEC SPATE family enzyme EatA with intestinal Muc2, providing some fascinating insights into host specific #mucus degradation 🤯. Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A very helpful read on tackling procrastination @naturebiotech.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A must-read for any microbiome researcher 🦠📐and a new addition to our #bestpractices series Planning and describing a microbiome data analysis by @amydwillis.bsky.social and @davidandacat.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

IT'S HAPPENING! The Woodstock of Biology 2.0 meets Night Science @nightsciencepod.bsky.social 10-13 of June in Prague & the Woods of Bohemia... Be there or be REJECTED. #theconferencetoendallconferences

OUT NOW: SAMPL-seq reveals micron-scale spatial hubs in the human gut microbiome @harriswang.bsky.social & co www.nature.com/articles/s41...

OUT NOW: Carbohydrate-active enzymes from Akkermansia muciniphila break down mucin O-glycans to completion @lucyicm.bsky.social @cassiebakshani.bsky.social #microsky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dear mucosal immunologists! Registration for the European Mucosal Immunology Group (EMIG) meeting in Aachen, Germany is now open. Register and see you this July in Aachen! 👇🏼 emig2025.de @petterbrodin.bsky.social @wiag.bsky.social @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social @societymucosalimm.bsky.social

Ten species comprise half of the bacteriology literature, leaving most species unstudied https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.04.631297v1

OUT NOW: Metagenomic immunoglobulin sequencing (MIg-seq) reveals IgA coating of microbial strains in the healthy human gut by Justin Sonnenburg, Matt Olm, Sean Spencer & co #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Surgeons showed significantly greater manual dexterity compared with physicians, nurses, and non-clinical staff when assessed using a buzz wire game. But had the highest rates of swearing www.bmj.com/content/387/...

We are happy to announce that the MaAslin3 manuscript is now available on @biorxivpreprint! Check it out and feel free to post feedback on our forums! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Today we report that an engineered skin bacterium, swabbed gently on the head of a mouse, can unleash a potent antibody response against a pathogen. Could lead to topical vaccines that are applied in a cream. @djenetbousbaine.bsky.social led the charge... @natureportfolio.bsky.social 1/55

Everyone talks about "strains", but what are they? Within the lab, we often come back to the review "Diversity within species: interpreting strains in microbiomes" by Thea Van Rossum (2020) when discussing at which phylogenetic resolution we do see different signals www.nature.com/artic...