Leaving behind the myth of the lab-built heroic strain for bioremediation & environmental recovery. Forefront SynBio-based research in large-scale env biotech needs to refocus on engineering ecological interactions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ricardsole.bsky.social @vmaull.bsky.social

Growth in confinement promotes Pseudomonas aeruginosa tolerance to antibiotics PNAS from Alex Persat www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Boom op het spoor bij Hoogeveen en stroomstoring bij Meppel. Noord-Nederland is weer eens volledig onbereikbaar. Man kwam uit Utrecht en is gestrand in Zwolle, hij overweegt nu om maar terug te gaan naar Utrecht. Lelylijn nu! www.oogtv.nl/2026/05/vert... #lelylijn

Check out my first PhD paper, a model investigating life-history trade-offs and the evolution of sex differences in longevity, just out in @natcomms.nature.com! doi.org/10.1038/s414... Big thanks to Xiang-Yi Li Richter and @lottedevries.bsky.social!

Thanks for the invitation and hosting me today @dbajic.bsky.social. The gift turned out to be extremely fitting.

De wereld produceert steeds meer groene energie, en dat is mooi. Maar zonneparken en windparken hebben ook zo hun nadelen, al vallen die in de praktijk nogal mee, blijkt uit onderzoek. Wat niet meevalt is de verspreiding van muggen die ziekten als chikungunya overbrengen substack.com/@renefransen...

Wu et al. explored the dynamics and genetic basis of repeated evolution by experimentally evolving fission yeast populations, suggesting that pseudogene revival is likely an important mechanism underlying repeated evolution. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag120 #evobio #molbio #yeast

Out Now! A sulfated bile acid from microbes calms sepsis #MicroSky

🧵 New preprint out! We asked: what happens to gut bacteria when the intestine is under chronic inflammation (IBD)? Turns out, the host's inflammatory state reshapes how they evolve, and the results are pretty striking. A thread 👇

Al sinds september heb ik kanker. De ziekte is nu weg, maar om terugkeer te voorkomen of vertragen is een medicijn nodig dat voor mij niet wordt vergoed. Gelukkig zijn mijn vrienden een crowdfunding gestart. Alle donaties zijn welkom en delen helpt ook! www.gofundme.com/f/help-floor...

"Function-specific epistasis shapes evolutionary trajectories towards antibiotic resistance". Huge parallel experimental evolution effort in E. coli under antimicrobial pressure by @gabypetrungaro.bsky.social at Bollenbach Lab at University of Cologne. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Additive effects of environmental and demographic variation shape the repeatability of evolution across replicated experiments.

Evolution induced state shifts in a long-term microbial community experiment (now out, but previously posted here as a preprint) with Ville Mustonen, Lutz Becks @jcairns.bsky.social & others. Experiment continues @utu.fi and now 5+ years www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Het ís ook oneerlijk dat gewone mensen in de steek worden gelaten en de allerrijksten profiteren van dit rechtse minderheidskabinet! nos.nl/l/2615977

The study revealed a link between climate change and antibiotic resistance genes in Salmonella www.theguardian.com/society/2026... The strongest climate-related increases were observed in the Middle East and North Africa, followed by South Asia & Sub-Saharan Africa www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Very excited about this special issue! Our goal is to bring together empirical and theoretical work across a wide range of “unusual” systems of aging. Sounds like a good fit? Consider submitting to our SI 🤩 Unsure? Feel free to contact us. And please spread the word!

Delighted to see this out in its final form! doi.org/10.1093/isme... We established a discussion group focussed on the history of community ecology and how it informs our understanding of microbiota. This review distils those discussions to provide a guide for microbiologists entering the field

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

De weersvoorspellingen voor volgende week lopen 'ietwat' uiteen.

Are interacting species showing more similar responses to environmental predictors than expected by chance? Is this similarity protecting species pairs from interaction disruption under climate change? If you want to find out, join us for a fully funded Ph.D. with @epic-biodiversity.org 🌎🧪

Please share widely! Abstract submissions open for the 2026 Jacques Monod conference: Ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions in a changing world! Held in beautiful Roscoff France from November 2- 6, 2026. Abstracts submission deadline : June 6 cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...

The fabulous folks at @ourworldindata.org have created an simulation model where you can plug in different fertility, mortality, and migration rates to see how population size and composition will change in the future at different levels. ourworldindata.org/population-s...

We are hiring! 🔬🧫 Join our lab at the Uni Southampton as a Research Technician working on bacteria-phage interactions to develop therapies for hard-to-treat infections. 2-year post Deadline: 27 May 2026 Position start date: 1 July 2026 or shortly after Apply: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Klimaatverandering bedreigt ook de volksgezondheid, waarschuwen experts

Being a PI is an intricate juggling act that requires tough decisions – intellectual, financial, strategic. Yet we are expected to navigate these dangerous waters with very little support. The solo PI model is deeply problematic. My latest blog post #AcademicSky occamstypewriter.org/mindthegap/2...

How do human gut microbiome species interact? Can we explain their communities and invasion patterns form environmental factors alone? PhD students Pim van Leeuwen and Pietro Gadaleta set out to test this! TLDR: Indeed, for the 10 common species we can! Paper out in mSystems: doi.org/10.1128/msys...

Dit is het gevolg van onafgebroken ophitsen door extreemrechtse groeperingen. Crimineel gedrag dat je niet af kan doen met zogenaamd ‘legitieme zorgen’. Het is een directe ondermijning van onze democratie. En bovendien levensgevaarlijk. nos.nl/artikel/2614...

Als Marokkaanse jongeren overal brand zouden stichten, hulpverleners aanvallen en buurten terroriseren, was allang een integratiecrisis uitgeroepen. De Kamer had spoeddebatten gehouden, talkshows waren dagenlang hysterisch geweest en politici hadden gepleit voor uitzetting & collectieve bestraffing.

Published at @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Bottom line: Investment in research and tools on rare and exotic viruses is smart - preparedness starts in peace time, not when the outbreak is there!

Nieuw Europees social media platform (based in Sweden): W Social: "I joined W because I believe we need a global, trusted social platform built and hosted in Europe, with human user verification and that respects privacy." Registratie en aanmelden (voor wachtlijst): wsocial.news

How social is social resistance? Check out our new mini-review, co-authored by Rosie Randall. Her first paper! 👏🏽 portlandpress.com/essaysbioche... Thanks to @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social and @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social for the invitation. @biology.ox.ac.uk @ilesla.bsky.social

Very excited to share our new paper out in Nature. Congrats to Xiaoqian (Annie) Yu and all the coauthors. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Important announcement!!! 💫 Would you have a tooth pulled if it helped your chances to get an important grant funded? Absurd question, but the funding situation is so bad, that I bet some of you actually considered it for a second… keep your teeth! we created something that might help! 👇 (1/16)

Managing microbial interactions in environmental biotechnology: can we scale interaction principles? @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Review by @wenyugu.bsky.social (EPFL), Xiang-Yi Li Richter, and Dave Johnson at @eawag.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/micro...

New results from our synthetic communities, antibiotics & resilience project: Eco-evolutionary dynamics and environmental detoxification jointly shape bacterial community response to antibiotic perturbation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Work led by @jcairns.bsky.social

Check our new preprint by Knopp M. et al.! Human gut microbiomes can impose strong +/- selection for resistant versions of resident opportunistic pathogens. In the case we follow up, selection is driven by altered carbohydrate utilisation that the resistant mutant evolves. doi.org/10.64898/202...

We have a PhD studentship open! (UK only sadly) but if you are or know a student keen to work on some *really* weird mycobacterial enzymes then get in touch! #glycotime Advert below www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

New paper out in @pnas.org 🎆! Across healthy humans, the same bacterium encounters markedly different gut microbiomes. How does this shape the ecological interactions it experiences? We explored this focusing on commensal E. coli.
 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Image: @illuzation.bsky.social

‘Wolfe, these things aren't even bacteria.’ The moment when only two people in the world knew about Archaea. Virginia Morell describes Carl Woese's discovery of a new branch of the tree of life, an idea that in 1997 when this was written, some still didn't accept. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

1/3 De vraag is niet of je DigID wel of niet in Nederlandse handen kunt brengen. Het is onzin dat dat niet zou kunnen, van contracten kun je altijd af. De vraag is hoe snel en wat is onze Digitale Identiteit ons waard nos.nl/artikel/2611... #digid

Planning your @escmid.bsky.social ESCMID GLOBAL 2026 trip? Marleen Hekker (UMCU) will present her poster 'Urine, vaginal, and vulval microbiome compositions of postmenopausal women with and without recurrent urinary tract infections' on Saturday 18 april, 12:00 -13:30, Hall B3, number P2408.

🌍 verkloot voor de kinderen 😢 “Ze vonden ‘n geschatte vertraging van 42% tot 58% in 2100, ‘n niveau dat wrs tot ‘n ineenstorting zal leiden.“ “Een ineenstorting zou W-Europa in extreem koude winters & zomerse droogtes storten & de zeespiegel rond de Atlantische Oceaan met 50-100 cm doen stijgen.”

Just a few days left‼️ Abstract submission deadline for MEEHubs2026 is April 19! Come present at one of the hubs August 3-5, 2026✨ Links and more info here: meehubs.org

Environmentally mediated interactions predict community assembly and invasion success in a gut microbiota synthetic community #mSystems from @meikewortel.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Interested in predicting the dynamics of antibiotic resistance? Come work with us! We're looking for two postdocs to develop predictive models of resistance. We're interested in a range of approaches (mathematical & statistical modelling, causal inference, machine learning). tinyurl.com/6c4y3jke

The VEO Group has a position open for a PhD student to investigate Fungi-bacteria interactions in complex communities! Check out this position and many more at the JSMC website 👇👇 www.jsmc-phd.de/admission/va...

Interspecies interaction alters the trajectory of antibiotic resistance evolution by amplifying negative fitness epistasis url: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

New preprint looking at the associations between maternal mortality and having sons in preindustrial Finland from work with León van Dorp during his master’s project. Also with Mirkka Lahdenpera, @lummaalab.bsky.social, and @hannahdugdale.bsky.social

Christiaan Both was een van de ontdekkers van de ‘mismatch’ tussen broedseizoen en voedselpiek: veel vogels broeden te laat, nu de lentes vroeger vallen. De vogels kunnen zich aanpassen, maar geldt dat voor alle soorten – en gaat het snel genoeg? Lees het artikel 👉 www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...