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

All travelers from ESTA countries (yes the ones on visa waiver programs) will have to disclose 5 years of social media + huge amounts of personal data to enter the US now. All US academic associations should now meet outside the US if we want to meet our international colleagues.

Impressive work on microbiota vs. HAI and great thread from first author @mfenk.bsky.social

MetaPointFinder: A new approach for detecting mutation-driven antimicrobial resistance directly from metagenomic reads. Fills a major gap in current resistome profiling by capturing chromosomal AMR mutations that metagenome tools miss. github.com/aldertzomer/...

Casper van der Kooi was gisteren te zien in het Klokhuis 🍎 Hij vertelde over kleuren in de natuur: waarom zien bloemen er zo uit als ze zien? Bekijk het fragment terug, vanaf 6:00 minuten 👇 hetklokhuis.nl/tv-uitzendin... @sciencenewsroom-ug.bsky.social

#PlanetaryHealth/ #OneHealth/ #GlobalHealthLaw meeting at Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health, opened by Marlies Wesselman. @rug.nl

🧪🦠🧫 #microsky #MEvoSky #UTISky #AMR

De deskundigengroep dierziekten, die het ministerie van Landbouw adviseert over vogelgriep, maakt zich "veel zorgen" over de huidige stand van de vogelgriep in Nederland. www.bnnvara.nl/vroegevogels...

Extensive horizontal transfer of transposable elements shapes fungal mobilomes @currentbiology.bsky.social by @jromeijn.bsky.social et al from @mfseidl.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

New preprint!👇 Pyruvate secreted by P. aeruginosa acts as a signaling molecule during infection, reducing oxidative stress, dampening immune activation and promoting persistence Bacterial metabolism isn’t just a background process but an active player in infection🦠🧫 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Hey friends. I’m looking for a postdoc interested in studying host-pathogen interactions and immunology of tuberculosis. Send me some good people! We have a great group here! Email me [email protected]. Thanks!

On scientific "style" for @undark.org: "[Style] is a positive feature of science that facilitates different routes to solving problems.....We can embrace differences in our approaches while still promoting rigor and clarity." undark.org/2025/12/04/o...

Ach nee, waar gaat de wereld naartoe. Ook Rail Away weg. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...

Amazing dataset describing the metabolic profiles of 66 E. coli transporter knockouts by @sulheim.bsky.social with Peter Doubleday and @nzamboni.bsky.social. The tool, set up by @lambdapp.bsky.social and Eric Ulrich allows you to explore for yourself. Enjoy! Pre-print here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Do you think transporters in E. coli contribute to metabolite release? No? Explore the effect of 66 different transporter knockout mutations on the exometabolome dynamics of ~300 metabolites yourself: keio.unil.ch Teaser: Increased proline in ΔputP #microsky #MEvoSky

We analyzed changes in physiology relative to menopause using two large scale studies that include millions of lab tests. Rather than align by age, we used statistical inference to align tests to final menstrual period. (1/2) arunamed.com/the-menopaus...

New preprint from our lab www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...! Andrea Dos Santos and Clément Vulin combine experiments and models showing how adding glucose can strengthen negative interactions between microbial species. This can be used in tandem with antibiotic treatment to inhibit pathogens!

The Vaginal Microbiome in Women Recently Experiencing BV and UTI https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.27.690987v1

Weer een aardig artikel van Maarten Keulemans, wetenschapsredacteur bij de Volkskrant, gespecialiseerd in klimaat en microleven. De zorgen om vogelgriep komen meer en meer op de voorgrond. #H5N1 www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/e...

I am very excited to announce that a fully funded PhD position is available in my group. Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates. Deadline: 11.01.26 More info: shorturl.at/f1TuF

Nice one by @jensorensen.bsky.social

PhD Opportunity: Advance UTI treatment with on-chip tech! 🔬🧫 Work at the microbiology-bioengineering interface with Hywel Morgan, @fnobrega.bsky.social and me. Program EPSRC/MOD CISDnS CDT cisdns-cdt.ac.uk Co-funded by IfLS Southampton tinyurl.com/infoUTI tinyurl.com/applyUTI Deadline: 8 Dec 2025