Cordyceps is the fungus in 'The last of us'. So this one caught my eye -- fascinating paper in the evergreen journal, Current Biology (one of my personal faves): www.cell.com/current-biol...

There is still time to apply to become part of our team at Nature Biomedical Engineering! Please share! springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

Delighted to announce here that @ritastrack.bsky.social is the new Chief editor of Nature Biomedical Engineering. Congratulations Rita!

⭐ I'm hiring a new Chief editor for Nature Biomedical engineering, in New York, Beijing or Shanghai. Please apply here: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

OUT NOW: Seed-borne bacteria drive wheat rhizosphere microbiome assembly via niche partitioning and facilitation @dgarrs.bsky.social #microsky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Together with fellow @biologists.bsky.social EiCs we've written about the unprecedented cuts & policy changes to research in the US We stand with our US colleagues during this challenging time Science transcends borders—setbacks in one nation affect us all journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Dog day afternoon, #GBGV style

📣Taking our ability to understand phage biology up a notch. Phage functional genomics platform, out now 🔓Open access, read it at your leisure www.nature.com/articles/s41... @cresslab.bsky.social, @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social

Congratulations to the whole team! 🎉

Happy launch day everyone! We're really excited to share our first issue, which is now available to read online here www.nature.com/nrct/

One (tired) man and his dog 😊

This is important: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Article by @fitz-james-lab.bsky.social and me summarising his Mol Cell study www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/article/dna-...

🤩 pair of papers here that begin to reveal the potential of topically-applied engineered bacteria.

BOOSTER, a newly identified orphan gene, supercharges photosynthesis and, when overexpressed, boosts height of poplars by up to 200% (at least in greenhouse) To make it even more interesting, part of the gene seems derived from a poplar fungus-farming ant 🐜 Paper: www.cell.com/developmenta...

And see this related preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Conserved jumbo phage factors required for protein import into a phage nucleus Yup. That does say "phage nucleus" and it really is a nucleus-like compartment.

It’s not a class issue. How about stopping deflecting misogyny using class war and owning your mistakes and apologising, Gregg? ‘Only’ 13 women complained. Just how many complaints is enough to take it seriously Gregg? Wow. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Interesting paper that identifies a murine ‘super donor’ FMT microbiome and then investigates what makes it ‘super’:

Great to be at OncoLille yesterday to discuss research culture and regulatory T cells!

We could go on about how we welcome publishers, we don't demote links, we encourage independent developers to build apps and extensions on top of Bluesky's network.... but instead, we'll show you. All thanks to the incredible community here! 🦋

Our dog is not spoilt. We merely made him more comfortable 😆

Excited to share “Bin Chicken”, substantially improving genome recovery through rational metagenomic assembly. Applied to public 🌍 metagenomes, it recovered 24,000 novel species 🦠, including 6 novel phyla. doi.org/10.1101/2024... @wwood @rhysnewell @CMR_QUT 🧵1/6

Absolutely thrilled to announce our newly awarded MRC @ukri.org project grant! 🍾 Together with @gpollara.bsky.social & @scottishwormboy.bsky.social, we'll seek novel bacterial virulence and host defence determinants using clinical #UTI samples in my lab's human urothelial microtissue model! #UTISky

🎶Best music book of 2024? For me, it was Michael Veal’s mind-expanding “Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, & Free Jazz, From Analog to Digital” He uses theories & frameworks from architecture, photography & design to help understand the most avant-garde albums from these 2 musical geniuses

Exciting times! Our latest preprint is now live 🤩! After nearly 16 yrs of running my lab, I truly believe this is one of the most significant contributions we've made. It offers fresh hypotheses about how pandemic Vibrio cholerae spreads globally. Let’s dive in!🧵..1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This work ‘might also guide the rational engineering of C4 photosynthesis in C3 crops to improve crop productivity and resilience’. Fascinating paper, check it out 👇

Want to know why menstruation matters? Read all about it in this Focus issue from @naturehumbehav.bsky.social www.nature.com/collections/...

Very excited to share the most recent work from #theonlylabever out in @jexpmed.bsky.social We show that a gut protozoan commensal acts as a natural adjuvant for IgA against oral and bacterial antigens to strengthen homeostasis. Hope you will find this interesting: doi.org/10.1084/jem....

A technology to directly map the protein substrates of a specific ZDHHC at the whole-proteome level, in intact cells. Published open access in Nature Biotechnology. Check it out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Postdoc available with Dr Léa Maitre on the EU-funded ENDOMIX exposome project (endocrine disruptors, immune biomarkers, microbiota, early life), at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)*. *possibly the nicest location you'll ever work – right next to the beach. #MicrobiomeSky

This looks like a great meeting 👇

New Year & looking for an exciting #AcademicOpportunity? University of Birmingham is offering 125th Anniversary Chair & Fellowships (latter at Associate Professor level & ECRs - Assistant/Lecturer level - with an exciting research portfolio can also apply) 👇https://fellowsandchairs.birmingham.ac.uk/

The links between Epstein-Barr virus infection and later multiple sclerosis are getting stronger: www.science.org/content/blog...

Currently, we have the following open positions in the Rinke Group for Microbial MultiOmics and Biorecycling (MMOB) @ the University of Innsbruck, Austria: 1x postdoc 3x PhD 1x RA More info @ rinkelab.org/index.php/op...

Integron cassettes integrate into bacterial genomes via widespread non-classical attG sites www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Open rank position in microbial ecology and evolution, broadly defined. Great opportunity to join my wonderful department of Microbiology at Michigan State. Best science and colleagues! careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/51...

Doing the big Christmas Eve cleanup? Then you need this on, very loud (otherwise you won’t be able to singalong whilst you hoover) open.spotify.com/album/6Hchzt...