Unusual endemic plants in South Indian forests? Funny anecdotes of students floundering in the wild? B.G.L. Swamy's remarkable travels with his students into the thick South Indian forests is now translated to English. My review: kaumudiprabhakara.github.io/book%20revie... #kannada #botany #india

I really value: the dynamics of community assembly on 2 contrasting C sources. Daily sampling of communities derived from compost & maintained over 8 wks. No difference in diversity maintained on simple or complex C. AmaZinG. 🙏 all enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excited to share that our paper is now published in Environmental Microbiology! It's open access. Read on to find out how functionally and taxonomically diverse microbial communities assemble on cellulose and glucose. enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig - an uplifting read, especially for those feeling stressed. This is not my usual style of book, but I'm glad I read it and surprised by how much I enjoyed it. A definite pro for broadening my reading repertoire. My review: kaumudiprabhakara.github.io/book%20revie...

I bought this novel spontaneously in a museum because it was about an "Artificial Friend". Reading it made me ponder - When does AI become sentient? Can it have feelings? Maybe even come up with religion? My review here: kaumudiprabhakara.github.io/book%20revie...

As a physicist transitioning to microbial ecology and evolution, The Gene, an intimate history, by Siddhartha Mukherjee was an amazing read - informative and unputdownable! My review here: kaumudiprabhakara.github.io/book%20revie...

How every layer of science's "self-correcting machinery" failed when Iva Veseli and I simply wanted to reproduce the findings of a high-profile study on gut microbiome and autism: merenlab.org/2026/04/15/u...

Multiple fully funded PhD/postdoc positions available: experimental evolution of tumour suppression, egalitarian & fraternal ETIs, jumbo phage ecology & genetics. Related EoIs welcome. Email CV/statement of motivation written in own words. Open until filled. Grateful for reposting 🙏

A new preprint with Matthew Schmitt, @kiseokmicro.bsky.social and Vincenzo Vitelli makes a huge step forward in learning functional groups of components in complex biological systems. It's dimension reduction that speaks to biological function. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🧬 EvolCompGen presents: Michael Barnett on the Experimental Evolution of Evolvability 💡 Join us on Friday, December 5 at 11:00 AM EST through iscb.junolive.co Not an ISCB member? Create free Nucleus account here: iscb.swoogo.com/ISCBnucleus-...

Center for Living Systems -- seeking strong post docs at the interface of physics and biology. Consider applying by Oct. 13! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A new preprint! Data from a huge experiment by @prczhaoyansong.bsky.social show that similar microbial communities diverge depending on whether the carbon source is glucose or its polymer, cellulose. Diversity is comparable, but biomass, functions and taxonomy differ: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...