Announcing our next #NSFfunded workshop on "Telling Stories Through Data", co-lead by myself + @vgwschutte.bsky.social! It’s half bioinformatics data viz & half #SciComm - this year’s focus is host-associated microbiome datasets. Apply here to join us (form closes 1/10) bit.ly/TSTD2026 #symbiosky

As my time as a researcher at FSU Jena and @microverse.bsky.social in the group of Rosalind Allen comes to an end, I warmly thank all collaborators and colleagues for the excellent science and discussions! 🚨I am (yes, again...) on the job market, looking for higher positions -->

1/ We are excited to announce Parathaa: a new method for improving taxonomic classification of amplicon sequencing data. Parathaa aims to directly model sequence ambiguity to identify amplicons to the finest taxonomic level possible. academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Today I had the pleasure of meeting the 🇵🇹 Microbiome HD Lab Great to see Bich Ngoc Do's work on the Portuguese gut resistome data using argNorm (github.com/BigDataBiolo... by @bigdatabiology.bsky.social). Impressive, methodical research! @anasalmeida.bsky.social thank you for the invitation!

I'm very happy to share our latest manuscript published today in @nature.com !! ➡️ doi.org/10.1038/s415... We analyzed data from over 34,000 participants in the US and UK, revealing strong associations between specific gut bacteria and markers of cardiometabolic health and dietary habits.

☕ Grab your coffee and join our next NFDI4Microbiota Coffee Talk! 📅 Mon, 15 Dec 2025 | 14:30–15:30 CET 🎙️ Justine Vandendorpe (ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences) 💬 “Access Control, Data Protection & Security in Digital Microbiology Research”. More info here: tinyurl.com/5y7h6wfh

Hello from the @bioconductor.bsky.social community and our interns @tosina.bsky.social and @docteedee.bsky.social who will work with us on bugsigdb.org/Main_Page Happy internship start to all #outreachy interns!

Join #MVIF 44 cassyni.com/s/mvif-44 the Pacific team is ready to welcome you soon!

MetaPointFinder: A new approach for detecting mutation-driven antimicrobial resistance directly from metagenomic reads. Fills a major gap in current resistome profiling by capturing chromosomal AMR mutations that metagenome tools miss. github.com/aldertzomer/...

New #MicrobiomeDigest is OUT microbiomedigest.com/2025/12/04/d... • urinary biochem ecology / @mikeneugent.bsky.social • Microflora Danica atlas / @mkddueholm.bsky.social • gut lumen -> hypothalamus / ‪@pipethero.bsky.social See you next week at #MVIF 44 (@microbiomevif.bsky.social)!

New #MicrobiomeDigest is OUT microbiomedigest.com/2025/12/04/d... • urinary biochem ecology / @mikeneugent.bsky.social • Microflora Danica atlas / @mkddueholm.bsky.social • gut lumen -> hypothalamus / ‪@pipethero.bsky.social See you next week at #MVIF 44 (@microbiomevif.bsky.social)!

Thrilled to share that our recent work is out in npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. 🧵 (1/4) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy December! Join #MVIF 44 – we will discuss diverse #microbiome topics: human urinary, gut, oral and nasal microbiomes, extreme environments, and a new sequence alignment tool.

I finally wrote about my experience contributing to Bioconductor and BugSigDB over the past year. If you’re interested in joining an open-source science community, this blog is a great place to start. tosinadeshile.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/o... #opensource #outreachy #bugsigdb #bioconductor

💥CONTAM CALENDAR GIVEAWAY💥 Here's your chance to win a ContamCalendar 2026! 🗓️🍄🦠 Just follow @contamclub.bsky.social and repost this post to enter the competition Winner will be randomly selected from Bluesky or Twitter on Wednesday @ 6pm UTC

Join us in December for #MVIF 44! We will discuss diverse #microbiome topics: human urinary, gut, oral and nasal microbiomes, extreme environments, and a new sequence alignment tool.

🌍 We are proud to share highlights from Ethiopia’s first in-person Bioconductor workshop, held in Addis Ababa from 25-29 Aug 2025! The course united 26 participants for five days of hands-on training in R/Bioconductor and bulk RNASeq analysis. 🔗 Read more: blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2025-1...

Starting this week, I set aside one hour each week to meet ECRs outside my group who want to discuss career development, mentorship, or any non-technical professional questions. Here is a blog that explains my motivation for this and how to schedule a meeting: merenlab.org/2025/11/16/E...

📣 Join us for the 2025 @isbscience.org Virtual Microbiome Symposium, focused on "Gut Microbial Metabolites and Their Impact on Host Systems". co-director - @flash-point.bsky.social 🦠💥 It's free, & we have an amazing line-up of speakers! Dec. 12th. Please share! isbscience.org/2025-isb-vir...

This week we are happy to welcome you at #MVIF 43! We will discuss the new bioinformatics approaches, latest findings in drug development, cancer studies and more! There's still time to register: cassyni.com/s/mvif-43

Curious how scientists track microbes across diseases!🧫 That's #BugSigdb an open, community-edited database of microbial signatures. I contributed through #Outreachy, curating studies💙.Thanks @svetlanaup.bsky.social & all my mentors🙏 🔗 bugsigdb.org/Special:Cont... 💻: github.com/waldronlab/B...

New #MicrobiomeDigest is OUT microbiomedigest.com/2025/11/05/n... • FMT / @gangfang.bsky.social • soil / @mingming0105.bsky.social • drinking water / Paul W. J. J. van der Wielen & more. See you next week at #MVIF 43 (@microbiomevif.bsky.social)!

Interested in learning about the connections between the #microbiome and #AMR? Join us on Tuesday Nov 11 at 9-10:30am MT for the CAN-AMR-Net seminar on 'The Microbiome and AMR'. 💊🧬🏥 #IDSky #OneHealth #PublicHealth #MedSky #Genomics tinyurl.com/CANLkdIn7

New #MicrobiomeDigest is OUT microbiomedigest.com/2025/11/05/n... • FMT / @gangfang.bsky.social • soil / @mingming0105.bsky.social • drinking water / Paul W. J. J. van der Wielen & more. See you next week at #MVIF 43 (@microbiomevif.bsky.social)!

The next mSystems Thinking Series webinar is open for free registration! "One Health and the African Microbiome" Jan 9, 2026 09:00 AM, Eastern Time asmusa-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

New PhD project: Interested in host-microbiota interactions in infectious disease? "Decoding Lipid–Microbiome Crosstalk Controlling Respiratory Syncytial Virus-Exacerbated Asthma" - Dr Chengcan Yao (primary supervisor) Apply here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📢 Calling all microbiology researchers, software devs & data-management enthusiasts! Join the NFDI4Microbiota Knowledge Base Coding Sprint!💻 📅 Nov 24–25, 2025 | Jena + online ✅ Contribute to content & code for better data management in microbiology. 👉 Details: tinyurl.com/bddw5eva

TODAY 🎙️ There's still time to register: emea.illumina.com/events/webin... Note: If you cannot join live, no problem, just register now to receive access to the on-demand version later.

☕ Grab your coffee and join our next NFDI4Microbiota Coffee Talk! 📅 Mon, 27 Oct 2025 | 14:30–15:30 CET 🎙️ Daniel Straub (QBiC Tübingen) 💬 “Meta-omics Analysis at a Bioinformatics Core Facility – As FAIR as Possible”. More info here: nfdi4microbiota.de/c...

See you on Monday at the #illumina #MVIF event–a scientific webinar exploring recent advances in microbiome research enabled by NGS!

"Mothers in Science" has launched the #BreakTheBiasSTEMM campaign, which raises awareness of maternity bias, parenthood stigma, & the hidden barriers that continue to shape women’s careers in STEMM. See you at the SciMom Chats on October 22! 👋 www.mothersinscience.com/scimomchats

Saturday reading ☕ Applications and challenges in human, animal and environmental microbiomes by @microbiologysociety.org online.flippingbook.com/view/7778675...

Do not miss the Illumina #MVIF webinar: Nicola Segata, @serenamanara.bsky.social, and Amadou D. Gueye will discuss the latest NGS advances in microbiome reseach! Registration free!

🚀 New on the Bioconductor Blog: GPU Support in Bioconductor Bioconductor is building better support for GPU-accelerated package development for faster and more scalable analysis workflows Learn how package maintainers can leverage this new GPU infrastructure: blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2025-1...

#mbkceesme2025 discussion on science communication with @cpavloud.bsky.social and Mary Allen 📸 @sparagkamian.bsky.social

Join #MVIF 42 cassyni.com/s/mvif-42 and #MeetTheSpeakers 🇺🇸Peter Turnbaugh will talk about a microbiome-informed approach to pharmacology!

💫 #MVIF Season 5 💫 Feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open: www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/how-to... #MVIF is proudly supported by #illumina @corundumsb.bsky.social and our non-commercial co-organizing partners Seerave Foundation @cunysph.bsky.social

On Friday, Episode #110 of #MattersMicrobial became available. The brilliant Dr. Sean Gibbons joined the #QualityQuorum to describe what the microbiome can tell us about numbers, nutrients, and health. I learned so much. Sean is the #MicrobiomeWhisperer. @microbe.tv youtu.be/wdwTma0gV4k?...

New #MicrobiomeDigest is OUT microbiomedigest.com/2025/10/02/o... • Shanghai dog microbiome / @annacusco.bsky.social • microbetag / @hariszaf.bsky.social • invitation for the #MVIF 42 / @microbiomevif.bsky.social & more.

Interested in learning how to be a good speaker and give effective talks? Season 2 of the NYC Postdoc Night Science Club begins October 15th. Join us NYC Postdocs for a 2hr workshop and maybe also a drink at a bar! Free registration (usually ~100 come): docs.google.com/forms/d/1dII...

New #MicrobiomeDigest is OUT microbiomedigest.com/2025/10/02/o... • Shanghai dog microbiome / @annacusco.bsky.social • microbetag / @hariszaf.bsky.social • invitation for the #MVIF 42 / @microbiomevif.bsky.social & more.

Our starter pack UPDATED. go.bsky.app/D8cSja3

SAVE THE DATE for #MVIF 42! Pacific time and date in your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/c... Atlantic time and date in your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/c...

#MVIF Season 5!

👏 “To promote more inclusive scientific discussions with international colleagues at our conferences, virtual delegates based in Lower and Middle-Income Countries can register for free”

Reflections after #mbkceesme2025: the Science Communication round table with Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic (@svetlanaup.bsky.social), Mary Allen, Danny Haelewaters & Christina Pavloudi was inspiring - a reminder that science is also about sharing knowledge. Thanks @mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social! #edusky

Stay tuned for the afternoon session where I will talk about forests! More precisely, the response of soil microbes to forest disturbances. Results from @holisoils.bsky.social and Lifegenmon projects. 🍄🍄🍄 Thank you for support @isme-microbes.bsky.social @mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social #mbkceesme2025

Have you noticed a new #MVIF talk terminology? #MVIF Highlights #MVIF Keynote Talk #MVIF Talks Can't wait to start #MVIF 42!

our software, microbetag, for the annotation of microbial co-occurrence networks with phenotypic traits & metabolic complementarities was just published A Cytoscape app is also available to make your life easier (and prettier) #microbiome #metabolic-modeling #networks

Today is a great day to register for #BiM2025 #BlackInMicro Week. Get ready to join our online celebration: linktr.ee/BlackInMicro#BiM2025#BlackInMicroor see link in bio)