Bacterial Mercury Resistance Reveals a Robust Species-Structured Human Antimicrobial Mobilome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.26.734528v1

Maquetas en simuladores sísmicos universitarios demuestran que fallar en entornos controlados es la mejor pedagogía. Siguiendo lecciones ancestrales como los muros incas, la flexibilidad supera a la rigidez. Reducir la masa y disipar energía evita la resonancia: los sistemas flexibles perduran.

En un mundo cuerdo habría órdenes de arresto internacionales que nombren a cada multimillonario del petróleo, gas y carbón por crímenes climáticos contra la humanidad

#TalDíaComoHoy en 2024 (repito, 2024), la bióloga Ana María Crespo de las Casas se convierte en la primera presidenta de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales de España, desde su fundación en 1847. #WomenInSTEM

Mapa de los palos del flamenco.

El océano cubre más del 70% de la Tierra y produce el 50% de todo el oxígeno. España fue el primer país europeo en ratificar el Tratado Global de los Océanos. Queremos que el 30% de los mares estén protegidos antes de 2030. La salud de los océanos es la salud de todos 🌊 #DíaMundialdelosOcéanos

🔵 Un equipo de científicos del Institut de Química Avançada de Catalunya ha innovado en la lucha contra el cáncer de mama, utilizando luz para activar medicamentos que eliminan células madre tumorales resistentes. Un avance que plantea nuevas esperanzas para la oncología. 👏👏👏👏👏👏

🧵🌡️Empezamos una serie de hilos en los que explicaremos las bases científicas del cambio climático. En esta primera entrega vamos a aprender a diferenciar cambio climático y calentamiento global. Os mostraremos gráficas que os ayudarán a entender los conceptos #AemetDivulga

Rebecca Young creó a los 12 años una manta térmica con paneles solares para ayudar a personas sin hogar. Su invento portátil genera calor y fue reconocido en Reino Unido por su impacto social.

Now out in AEM @asm.org! 🎉🧪 *High school student-isolated mutants 👉🏻 novel genetic causes of biofilm-associated adaptations *We learn how diversity arises quickly and is maintained *EvolvingSTEM enables scalable research in classrooms & promotes scientific literacy journals.asm.org/eprint/FBU9M...

Localizados en la bahía de Algeciras 34 pecios de naves naufragadas entre los siglos V antes de Cristo y XX. El Proyecto Herakles identifica 151 sitios arqueológicos de los que “no se tenía documentación previa”

This paper started as an idea @albertomarina.bsky.social had many years ago… which of course means he was right all along 😄. Some of us just needed a few years (and a lot of experiments) to catch up. Grateful (and slightly humbled) to be part of this. Thanks Alberto! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Claude escribe código, maneja archivos, rellena Excel... "Puede ayudar a cualquiera que use un ordenador", cuenta el analista de datos Kiko Llaneras, que lo usa para preparar facturas, predecir elecciones, agilizar su trabajo... Así lo utiliza 👇

We are pleased to share our last article rdcu.be/fabhM. It offers the most comprehensive analysis so far of Ab+non-Ab resistance genes in human gut microbiome, using an Indigenous population (low industrialization, chronic Hg exposure from gold mining) 6/6👇

Bacteria chromosomes contain Genomic Islands that provide virulence, antibiotic resistance, MGE-defence,... They transfer between cells, but the mechanism of most remains elusive. Here we explore the conjugative capacity of these mysterious Genomic Islands. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered federal agents to stop detaining and deporting refugees in Minnesota who were lawfully admitted to the U.S., granting a temporary restraining order, which halts for now the Trump administration’s operation. The administration is likely to appeal the ruling.

Wikipedia is needed now more than ever, 25 years on www.nature.com/articles/d41...

And what a beautiful @pnas.org cover @paularamiro.bsky.social and @jerorb.bsky.social !!!!!! You should be very proud!

Congratulations to @paularamiro.bsky.social and the @jerorb.bsky.social ´s group and collaborators! A must reading for understanding plasmid biology, bacterial evolution and evolution more broadly. Bravo! 👏👏👏 👇

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

❗ Investigadores españoles logran eliminar por completo tumores de páncreas en ratones utilizando una triple terapia. Este hito alcanzado por primera vez abre la puerta a tratamientos en humanos para uno de los cánceres más mortales

1/¿Podemos detectar la meningitis con ultrasonidos e IA? En este nuevo News From The Lab, la investigadora Sara Ajanovic (ISGLOBAL - Hospital Vall d’Hebron) nos presenta Neosonics, una innovadora herramienta que diagnostica de forma rápida y no invasiva. bit.ly/49dNGGb

'La angustia de no tener un hogar', la carta al director de Mireia Carrillo. Puedes leer más cartas al director aquí 👉 social.elpais.com/j9vci10

19/ 🔚We have reached the end of the event! Thank you for joining us and for your commitment to the future of health. Congratulations to all the selected projects!🎉👏 Stay tuned, we’ll be sharing more highlights and details from the ceremony soon!👀

1/ Antibiotic resistance causes ➕ than 1 M deaths each year and understanding why this happens is key to stopping it. With #HealthResearch support, @sanmillan.bsky.social#HealthResearchis investigating how different plasmids (DNA fragments) coexist in bacteria and confer resistance. https://tinyurl.com/3bysv6cr

2/ 🤝 This project is carried out at @cnb-csic.bsky.social is conducted in consortium with @tmcoque.bsky.social (Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria).

A pleasure and an honour to have received this prestigious grant with my admired colleagues and friends @sanmillan.bsky.social and @asanchezlab.bsky.social . More about AMR under plasmid lens!. My sincere gratitude to @caixaresearch.bsky.social @microryc.bsky.social @esgem-sg.bsky.social

❗ Descubren una nueva combinación de fármacos que reduce un 40% la mortalidad en cáncer de próstata recurrente

Asientos de avión cada vez más pequeños, prendas irreconocibles al segundo lavado, máquinas que te atienden por teléfono para cualquier trámite. El cuidado por las cosas bien hechas parece haber dejado de ser un valor que cuenta

Ecological and evolutionary consequences of changing seasonality | Science @jdtonkin.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Its here! Finally published. www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Cool work by Sanasar investigating how bacteria-phage dynamics affect the distribution of antiphage defense systems in the genome www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our latest preprint just dropped @paulturnerlab.bsky.social We evolved bacteria on swim plates, against a phage that attacks through the flagellum. Motility trades off AND trades up(!!) with phage-resistance! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper from my lab (first author is Sonia Ghose): www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic... Skin microbiomes of frogs vary among body regions, revealing differences that reflect known patterns of chytrid infection

And this is also what we see experimentally! Defensive or co-invading CRISPR-Cas are always beneficial, but offensive CRISPR is severely limited by and even detrimental when there is TA. 4/6

Our opinion piece on transmission timing in phages and plasmids graces the cover of @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social this month. Featuring the work of talented master student Andrina Bernhard, the illustration showcases cues that MGEs use to switch between horizontal and vertical transmission.

Good papers, like good wine, need maturing. I'm proud and thrilled to share our work on genomic epidemiology of K.pneumoniae in Valencia and differential transmission patterns of resistances, part of Neris Garcia's PhD thesis and the NLSAR consortium. go.uv.es/td8iL4c #publichealth #EpiSky 🧬🖥️

New preprint alert 🚨: We found that Steno maltophila senses a quorum sensing molecule from the co-infecting pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa and switches to multicellular aggregates as a protective mechanism. #MicroSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Calling all evolutionary biologists! 👇👇👇

Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

Biofilm architecture determines the dissemination of conjugative plasmids: We measured the spatiotemporal spread of plasmids in biofilms and found that plasmids only spread in some biofilm regions! Collab with lab of @sbigot.bsky.social & Christian Lesterlin www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Several research institutes in Germany are joining a worldwide grassroots effort to save science data sets that researchers fear could be deleted by US President Donald Trump’s administration, Nature has learnt. https://go.nature.com/42uEw50

ESGEM, the ESCMID Study Group on Epidemiological Markers is launching a working group to develop standards for interpreting AMR genotypes. Much like EUCAST guidance for interpreting lab phenotypes as S/I/R, we want to define the AMRrules for interpreting genotypes.

La estadounidense Brooke Raboutou se convierte en la primera mujer en alcanzar el 9b+, una dificultad que solo habían superado ocho escaladores masculinos. Hija de dos leyendas de la escalada, Raboutou, de 24 años, encadenó la vía ‘Excalibur’

New paper: long-term trends in antibiotic resistance show signs of stabilisation (thread). journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

TWO postdoc positions in Computational Microbiology and/or biochemistry. Join our interdisciplinary group in the new Life and Mind Building @OxfordBiology, @UniofOxford, @IneosOxford Please apply and share this post: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMP641/p...

If you are interested in phage satellites, we hope you'll enjoy this. Fun collaboration with the Rocha, Seed, Bikard, and Chen labs! rdcu.be/efkvG

The Trump Administration’s abrupt withdrawal of $400 million in federal funding from Columbia University cast a shadow over at least nine other campuses worried they could be next. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/u...

Cualquier excusa es buena (la mención de ayer en los Oscar, por ejemplo) para volver a ver uno de los mejores finales de la historia del cine. youtu.be/g4ODPyUxLNw?...

Looks interesting, plasmid assembly from multiple metagenomes "On synthetic benchmark datasets, PlasMAAG reconstructed 50-121% more near-complete plasmids than competing methods and improved the Matthews Correlation Coefficient of geNomad contig classif. by 28-106% www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...