Fantastic work. Functional characterisation of another viral auxiliary metabolic gene. Cyanophage interference in marine photosynthesis gets another angle.

Anybody tried any mScarlet3 antibodies on a western blot and got any recommendations? Cheers!

In a bookstore in Lisbon @dorianlynskey.bsky.social

Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes Very cool paper and method. I was looking forward to this coming out of preprint (short thread below on why) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

PSA If your article/essay/blog post/LinkedIn post are sprinkled with emojis, bullet points (or the winning combo, emojis instead of bullet points) and those long dashes (—), I am not reading them. I know where ChatGPT is, I can ask it myself if I want to read a machine generated opinion on RNAseq

Come work with me! I am hiring a senior research technician to help me discover novel phage genes with antibiofilm properties. We will create metagenomic libraries, program robots, sequence viral metagenomes and many more fun things. The application deadline is 02-Dec-25. shorturl.at/GErUo

Check out our latest preprint in which we describe a new phage plaque sequencing pipeline which lowers the cost of sequencing by up to 10-fold while significantly shortening the time required to obtain the phage genome sequences www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Doing RNAseq analysis on Halloween

PhD opportunity in my lab: exploring how commensals and pathogens build biofilm communities on endotracheal (ventilator) tubes. Microbial ecology, medical microbiology and fancy imaging! Co-supervised with the fabulous Saskia Bakker and Jeremy Webb warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... #MicroSky

PhD project claxon!! Interested in phage functional metagenomics? Want to learn how to program a robot? Apply for a fully funded MIBTP PhD with myself, Rich Puxty, and @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social here at Warwick, working on viral anti-biofilm gene discovery. Apply here: tinyurl.com/phagegenomics

History. It repeats itself.

This map is really confusing

Weak and disappointing. If being a Nazi isn't enough to remove someone from the list of Fellows, what is?

Fascinating! Well done, so nice to see familiar names on this publication

Love my town.

Coming soon to the UK if Reform wins...

We have some full length 16S data from isolates that we'd like to match to ASV-level V4-V5 microbiomes from the same samples. It's pretty messy, especially for strains with multiple copies of 16S rRNA genes. Has anyone encountered this in their work, or in the lit? Any ideas how to approach this?

Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of single cell bacterial FACS? Have a few technical issues due to my tiny cells. Thanks!

our new paper on pelagic #Asgard archaea that use #rhodopsins with carotenoid antennas to harvest light energy in the oceans. Structural insights into light-harvesting by antenna-containing rhodopsins in marine Asgard archaea www.nature.com/articles/s41... @galitzlil.bsky.social

hey bluesky 👋 visa hurdles mean I’m looking for opportunities outside the US. I’m a computational biologist (bacterial + phage genomics, postdoc in Koonin’s group @ NIH). I am interested in teaming up on funding apps. reach out if this resonates!

This is a proof that you can get anyone, and I mean ANYONE, into any position, no matter how extreme or inhumane, given enough biased mass media manipulation. More than 50% of adults in this country support placing asylum seekers in concentration camps. We deserve everything coming our way.

West Coast - the Best Coast

How do diatoms cope with nitrogen and phosphorus colimitation? — Happy to share our new paper: "Nitrogen status exerts dynamic control over phosphorus sensing and acquisition via PSR1 in colimited marine diatoms" 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scia... @exetermarine.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social

Good read and important overview. Funny that the illustration shows one of the most common genes in marine phage genomes phoH which is commonly annotated as a phosphate-stress related protein without any proof that it indeed has any role in phosphate metabolism in bacteria, let alone in phage.

A great opportunity! If ypu are an environmental/marine microbiologist eager to learn new analytical skills and support research in a new group, this is for you!

Love this

Good read!

I like you Sheffield

Oh god no, not nationalisation of nationally important infrastructure. I would much rather it remains in the hands of self serving tycoons who will invest all profits into banking industry of Cayman Islands...

New paper! Dual proteomics of Aspergillus fumigatus #infection of ex vivo pig lung. Aaron Curtis & Kevin Kavanagh at Maynooth used fresh (immediately post-slaughter) lungs to show changes in fungal metabolism and host tissue remodelling over 96 hours #MicroSky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Nothing on vaccines? Flat Earth? I must say, I'm a bit disappointed :(

Wonderful @sheilaroitman.bsky.social

"These breaks are not your standard PTO—they’re intentional, unpaid time to rest and recharge" So it is like vacation, just unpaid. I swear, compared to Europe, America may be on a different planet.

Fantastic work, brilliant method, and extra points for having the figures in the context-relevant locations in the text instead of just sticking them in the end!!

We are looking for talented and curious students. If you are interested in joining, please contact me.

Fantastic outreach, public engagement coverage. Well done @fnobrega.bsky.social and the @phagecollection.bsky.social team!

We just got our 1st full-length 16S rRNA PacBio dataset back and it's a game changer (in the context of bacterial isolates)! Do folks have recommendations for archaeal or bac-arch primer sets for PacBio 16S runs?

New pre-print alert! 🚨🫁 COPD affects millions worldwide. While we know bacterial dysbiosis drives disease, the role of bacteriophages remains unexplored. We re-analysed 135 COPD metagenomes to characterise the lung virome for the first time 🫁 1/9 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

If Excel graph colour scheme is good enough for NEJM, it is good enough for me

I've just found out that Claude can make iTol annotation files. Fantastic!!!

sounds brilliant

CryoExM is such an exciting method, great to see it being used in so many wonderful ways!

@soreklab.bsky.social I hope you are all ok and that you will be able to get back on track very very soon.

Too little, too late. But better late than never.

Also here is nice. It's not only aboit what Twitter became. It is also about what Bluesky is

Not many things can serve as such a good argument against representative democracy like listening to a call-in radio show.

The MHRA today released new guidance for #Phage therapy in the UK. This will provide direction for scientists and researchers working to make this treatment a reality for patients. 🔬 🧪 🔗 www.gov.uk/government/n...

I keep falling in love with this little beauty. Such a brilliant piece of kit