SimUrine: a novel, fully defined artificial urinary medium for enhanced microbiological research of urinary bacteria journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Healthcare setting driven evolution: doi.org/10.64898/202...

So when we want Dutch government to leave X (I do), we'd better follow them here. A starter pack! Nederlandse overheden: ministeries, provincies, gemeenten Aanvullingen welkom go.bsky.app/V4Bf6mB

Happy to share the latest perspective piece from our lab! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How do interactions with resident nasal microbiota shape colonisation resistance to MRSA? Excited to share this preprint in collaboration with @mboum.bsky.social @anaellefait.bsky.social Silvio Brugger and Alex Hall. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New year, new conferences! Consider submitting to the symposium on Fitness landscapes and Genotype-phenotype maps, linking computational and experimental approaches (organising with @n-martin.bsky.social; @dbajic.bsky.social invited spreaker) at SMBE (28/6-2/7)! Abstract deadline February 3rd!

Please repost. #microsky

Weather update ❄️ UG buildings will close all day tomorrow, with a few exceptions. If possible, education will take place online. Today, most buildings will close at 5 p.m. Read more 👇 www.rug.nl/news/2026/01...

Creating bacterial genomic diversity through large-scale reconfigurations reveals phenotype robustness to organizational genome change doi.org/10.64898/202...

How does E. coli age? According to this #mBio study, the the decisive factor driving growth decline in E. coli is not the presence of protein aggregates, but the fraction of the intracellular space they occupy. Learn more: asm.social/2KZ

Why are heavy metal fans so nice? #heavymetal #metalheads #musicpsychology #mentalhealth #neuroscience #sciencecommunication

I'm excited to share that our preprint is now available on bioRxiv! Our study challenges the widespread use of molecular genetic diversity as a predictor adaptive potential, with important implications for how genetic data is used to inform conservation decisions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📣 preprint alert! We sampled #klebsiella isolates from💩 patients when they entered the hospital & 🩸 after development of infection. 🎯 We tracked phenotypic changes & correlate them w genotypic changes. @klebclub.bsky.social -in collab with Clermont-Ferrand lab #microsky 🧵 doi.org/10.64898/202...

Evolution isn’t always forward-looking. Experiments show that an early, beneficial mutation can trap E. coli on a local fitness peak, preventing ecotype diversification in structured environments and highlighting the role of G×E interactions. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

Really happy to have this study led by @ashleyweiss.bsky.social and Jilarie Santos-Santiago published in the Journal of Bacteriology (@asm.org) over the holiday break!! Always awesome to team up with the amazing @ritatamayo.bsky.social lab! #Cdiff #enterococci journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Single-cell growth rate fluctuations contribute independently from protein production to gene expression noise and decrease with average growth rate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs

🔊 Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bacterial Evolution. Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠 3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share! hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

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Happy New Year, everyone! First paper to share in 2026: (finally) a mechanistic study of cancer microbiome! pks+ E. coli's colibactin binds AT-rich DNA in minor groove and induces cross-links in colorectal cancer cells #microsky #microbiomesky 🧪🦠 www-science-org.remotexs.ntu.edu.sg/doi/10.1126/...

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.

Sneeuw! Fingers crossed voor onze reis naar Groningen.

Ha, sneeuwregen. Perfect weer voor Nieuwjaars Glühwein-borrel buiten.

Ik ben dringend op zoek naar een huurhuis in de stad / gemeente Groningen, waar ik met mijn zoons (14 en 12) kan wonen, dus met drie slaapkamers. De verhalen kloppen: Er zijn bitter weinig woningen beschikbaar, dus daarom ook dit bericht. Iedere tip (of huurbaas die die leest🙂) is meer dan welkom!

Stel je voor: dat alle mensen die de afgelopen dagen voor 129 miljoen euro aan vuurwerk kochten niet naar de vuurwerkboer waren gegaan, maar naar de boekwinkel. En dat ze daar per persoon voor honderden euro’s aan boeken hadden gekocht. En dat iedereen nu lekker onder een dekentje zat te lezen.

📣New preprint with @rberntsson.bsky.social👇We overturn the long-standing view that Gram-positive bacteria lack conjugative pili! We identify pili-forming proteins in a wide range of bacteria and show they're essential for the spread of #antibioticresistance #AMR 🧵1/6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Ga naar de kroeg. Lach autoritaire types uit. Geef aan een goed doel. Abonneer je op een kwaliteitskrant. Drink, dans, heb lief en leef! Op een mooier 2026 voor ons allemaal ❤️ www.volkskrant.nl/cs-bde87c2d/

Less than two 2 weeks to apply for this PhD position in my group. Please do not miss the opportunity to apply if the topic is of interest to you 👇

Nog steeds geen voorpaginanieuws. Nog een wetenschappelijk rapport dat zegt: we liggen op ramkoers met een onleefbare aarde. Wat ontbreekt is niet kennis, maar politieke moed. #planetaryhealthdiet #WorldScientistsWarning #StopWaitingStartDoing eos.org/research-and...

Het rapport Bekedam maakte de aanbeveling aan de overheid om de dichtheid van veehouderijen en de aantallen dieren per bedrijf zo te verminderen dat er geen kans was op efficiënte overdracht van zoönotische ziektekiemen zoals vogelgriep tussen bedrijven. Tot nu toe is daar geen gevolg aan gegeven.

Microbiome interactions according to the kid.

Our recent paper in npj Antimicrobials and Resistance is a great example of scientific serendipity: after staring at thousands of bacterial growth curves over many studies, we started wondering whether the curve shapes themselves carry mechanistic information 1/9 🦠🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Manchester Institute of Biotechnology is looking for a new Professor. There are a few priority areas including microbial engineering (broadly defined, from pathways to cells to microbiomes). Closing 12 Jan. Join us in the best city in the UK 😜 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

De Heideroosjes! Al eeuwen niet meer gehoord <3 streams.pinguinradio.com/PinguinRadio... @pinguinradio.bsky.social #Snob2000

Column: aan artsen die nog denken dat long covid, ME ea PAIS ‘psychisch’ zijn - als ik dacht dat een psychiater m’n kind zou kunnen helpen, dan stonden we er morgen op de stoep. Maar ik zie de logica niet. Wat ik wel zie: een ziekte die lang niet serieus is genomen. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

“ In het plan stonden geen concrete acties, maar dat was juist de kracht ervan. Zo kon iedereen er zelf iets in projecteren.” Lekkere afscheidscolumn van Jan van Neerven https://delta.tudelft.nl/article/professoren

Preprint alert📢! 
Ever wondered how much bacterial parasites influence evolutionary outcomes of their host? ➡️ We co-evolved two bacterial strains in conditions in which the costs and benefits of prophage carriage varied Here is what we found. 
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 
#MicroSky #PhageSky 🧵

Lekker #snob2000 luisteren met uitzicht op de Matterhorn...... www.pinguinradio.com/snob @snob2000.bsky.social @ongewrdliedjes.bsky.social

🧵Enterococcus faecalis is not just an extracellular organism. 🧵 A growing body of work shows it can survive + REPLICATE inside host cells, and that intracellular life may seed persistence, dissemination, and reinfection. 1/n #MMBR @asm.org journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Out of curiosity: What is the virus that is going round which leads to high fever, in kids, and mostly only huge lymph nodes, dizzyness and general weirdness in adults?

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 -->

Grateful to share our paper on gene-specific selective sweeps in human gut microbiomes, now out in Nature! It has been a joy to work with @rwolff.bsky.social, whose insights and hard work made this possible. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

End of the year vibes.

Interesting new paper by @kimingeneva.bsky.social and colleagues 'Enterococcus faecalis persists and replicates intracellularly within neutrophils' journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

So excited to share this work led by @alexrob.bsky.social with Ben Kerr! We investigated a poliovirus capsid inhibitor that exploits a breakdown in the genotype-phenotype map to prevent drug resistance evolution. Or does it? See Alex's thread, but a few extras: #socialviruses #evosky #virosky 🧪

Onderzoek aan het genetisch materiaal van vogelgriepvirussen laat zien dat vrijwel alle besmettingen in Nederlandse stallen dit seizoen van wilde vogels zijn gekomen. Maar die wilde vogels zijn op hun beurt ook weer slachtoffers zijn van de pluimvee-industrie. www.trouw.nl/duurzaamheid...

🥁 NEW publication out www.nature.com/articles/s41... based on the ZOE PREDICT cohorts involving  33,596 healthy people from 5 cross-sectional studies from 🇬🇧 &🇺🇸 with gut microbiome samples, detailed individual information and dietary habits! Check out the 🧵of key findings ⬇️

Conjugative plasmids help spread AMR genes. @andrewmatthews.bsky.social @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social & @tatianadimitriu.bsky.social show that #AMR loss in evolving populations involves streamlined #plasmids that gain a transmission advantage by deleting AMR genes @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/48NM0BL

academic.oup.com/nar/article/... Collaboration with Y. Yamaichi. Killing donor bacteria in conjugation mixes using water enables transcriptomic profiling of early plasmid genes ! Superb tool for studying zygotic induction of these early genes, which include anti-SOS and anti-RM factors. #microsky