What if Trump's and Miller's current antics around Greenland are just a devious and elaborate PR stunt to promote an upcoming Gerard Butler movie

This is, quite literally, Putin's playbook for Russia since around the year 2000.

Now published in Nature Biotechnology: go.nature.com/44P7nSm If you missed it, the TL;DR is in my April thread below

Three decades of biodiversity data, published one decade after we started the project! Our new paper in @NatureComms shows how airborne eDNA from archived aerosol filters can track ecosystem changes across the tree of life—2700+ genera, weekly resolution, 34 years. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is amazing. I once sang the „original“ (Chant des Oiseaux) with an 8 voice a Capella ensemble and this is still one of my fondest choral memories!

This column captures the core of my Trump shock. It’s not about this or that policy, as awful as most of them are, or about the US abandoning Europe. It is the moral decay, the turn against basic human decency, the lack of manners that keep any good society together. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...

At this point, Europeans should insist that Russia withdraws from Donbas, Luhansk, Crimea, Belgorod, Belarus,Transnistria, Abchasia, S Ossetia, Chechnya, Dagestan, Karelia and Königsberg as a prerequisite before a cease fire can even be discussed.

The Salomonic solution would be to give out bonds based on frozen Russian assets, but tie all risks of litigation directly to EU payments to Hungary and Slovakia. If Russia comes for the money (and wins in court), just take it out of allotments to HUN and SVK until the bill is settled. Win-win-win.

Viruses are found in almost every ecosystem across the planet. Now, researchers have released VIRE – a comprehensive viral genome database covering diverse ecosystems to advance understanding of viral evolution and ecosystem functions. Learn more: www.embl.org/news/science...

We're excited to release metaTraits.embl.de! 🦠 Interactively explore 140+ 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘁𝘀, harmonized & integrated from culture-derived collections 🔬 & genome-based predictions 🧬 for >2M MAGs & genomes. Publication at NAR: doi.org/10.1093/nar/... @narjournal.bsky.social #microsky 🧵 1/8

Happy to announce VIRE, a planetary-scale database of >1.7M viral genomes reconstructed from 100k+ metagenomes across diverse environments! In collaboration with @fullam.bsky.social, @tsbschm.bsky.social, and @borklab.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/nar/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nar/gkaf1225/8356007

Our paper describing the GlobDB is now published in @bioinfoadv.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/bioa... The GlobDB is the largest species dereplicated genome database currently available, containing 306,260 species representatives. More information on globdb.org 1/5 🖥️🧬🦠

proGenomes4: providing 2 million accurately and consistently annotated high-quality prokaryotic genomes academic.oup.com/nar/advance-... #jcampubs

Congrats @fullam.bsky.social @pangenomics.bsky.social @borklab.bsky.social & team(s). Great to see this published! proGenomes4: providing 2 million accurately and consistently annotated high-quality prokaryotic genomes: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

🚨Job claxon 🚨 University College Cork is looking to appoint a lecturer in Medical Microbiology into a permanent, non-clinical post A great opportunity in a microbiology powerhouse For details go to my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... and enter reference number 092153

We've updated our recent @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social on 'Hidden but discoverable diversity in the global microbiome', led by @vishnuprasoodanan.bsky.social & @omaistrenko.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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#Archaea, #DPANN, #phylogenetic_reconciliation New preprint online! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

“Bin Chicken” is now published in Nature Methods! It substantially improves genome recovery through rational coassembly 🧬🖥️. Applied to public 🌍 metagenomes, we recovered 24,000 novel species 🦠, including 6 new phyla. doi.org/10.1038/s415... @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @rhysnewell.bsky.social 🧵1/6

The world is a much better place because r/musicaljenga exists. www.reddit.com/r/musicaljen...

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Its a pretty safe bet that Donald Trump will be in the official champions photo after the World Cup 2026 final, standing in first line and holding the trophy.

Great to see this finally published! Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples now out in @narjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

Great to see this finally published! Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples now out in @narjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

"As a scientist, how do you feel about the US Secretary of Health?"

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Our @narjournal.bsky.social manuscript is out! It explores the growth of the GTDB (gtdb.ecogenomic.org) since its inception, as well as updates to the website, methodology, policies, and major taxonomic and nomenclatural changes over the past three years. academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

ICE footage from the US is just shocking. As a German it hits particularly hard because they act like the SS and SA did in 1930s Nazi Germany. And I have been asked countless times, "why did regular people not stand up to the Nazis". Never thought we'd one day have to ask Americans the same thing.

“It’s more of a comment than a question…”

As I was saying…

Psychologists everywhere frantically scribbling.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen America so embarrassed in front of the entire world.

Fecal filtrate is less effective than donor stool (FMT) for the treatment of C. difficile recurrence. Now shown in a multicentre trial, out today in @lancetgastrohep.bsky.social . Congratulations to Dina Kao @ualberta.bsky.social & team! Gift link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lphg8nByr...

Scientific proof: Dutch is just drunk German. nltimes.nl/2025/09/19/i...

A toothbrush! A toothbrush! My kingdom for a toothbrush!

Miller giving Sportpalast vibes… Dear USA, we’ve been through all this 80-90 years ago and really 0/10, can’t recommend. Regards, Germany.

GPU-accelerated MMseqs2 offers tremendous speedup for homology retrieval, protein structure prediction with ColabFold, and protein structure search with Foldseek. @martinsteinegger.bsky.social @milot.bsky.social @machine.learning.bio www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Full thread will come later, but @annacusco.bsky.social's preprint on the dog pet gut microbiome is out! Using ONT+Illumina, we get better MAGs than to corresponding species representative in public databases doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Seems like the death of Charlie Kirk is really turning into the USA's Reichstagsbrand moment.

Manually curated and harmonized metadata for over 110k metagenomic samples! (58k samples from the human gut alone!)🦠 Proud to have contributed to Metalog, the latest @borklab.bsky.social resource: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microsky #microbiome

We hope many of you will find it useful, and will continue to add data. Here's the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - hopefully coming soon to a NAR Database Issue near you 😅 Thanks to everyone in the @borklab.bsky.social @embl.org who contributed to this! 7/7

We're very happy to release our new database Metalog metalog.embl.de ! It offers manually curated and harmonised contextual data for 110k metagenomics samples across the globe, incl. precomputed taxonomic profiles, for interactive browsing and for download 🧵 1/7 #microsky

Putting the Global South on the Microbiome research map - Really proud of Chilean PhD student @bvalderrama.bsky.social who championed this new important paper just out in ‪@natcomms.nature.com‬ "If microbiome science is to benefit everyone, it must include everyone." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fun party game idea. Guess the researcher based on G Scholar citation stats:

Our study on disentangling the impact of #obesity, #diet, host factors, and #microbiota on small intestinal #antimicrobialpeptide expression is now published in Gut Microbes! Fantastic work by Fabiola Puértolas-Balint et al! #microbiomesky #microsky #GastroSky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ich bin in Gelsenkirchen geboren und habe dort Abitur gemacht. Dieser Artikel macht mich unendlich wütend und traurig. Und leider entspricht das Geschilderte komplett meinen Erfahrungen mit Münsterländern und verbeamteten Lehrer*innen. www.zeit.de/2025/31/lehr...

"We will all go together when we go." Well, Tom Lehrer is gone now and maybe he wasn't wrong after all. Unrelated, the collective sigh of relief from the New England pigeon population was audible this side of the Atlantic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIoB...

As a German, I've often wondered what 1933/34 must have felt like for people outside Germany. Now I'd rather not have found out.

The metagenomic datasets used in this study are from SPIRE. academic.oup.com/nar/article/... If you are interested in the planetary microbiome, see also recent MicrobeAtlas preprint from von Mering group: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...