“Ich komme regelmäßig nach Deutschland und werde seit Jahrzehnten von meinen Freunden und der Familie gemobbt, mit welch komischen Viren ich mich beschäftige. Jetzt plötzlich haben sie mich verstanden.” Sehr gutes Interview von @florianschumann.bsky.social und Anna Carthaus zum Hantavirus-Ausbruch

New book "A Primer for Experimental Evolution" with coauthors Michael Rose, Margarida Matos, and Joe Graves. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook... A compact primer for students and colleagues interested in planning and designing experiments to address questions in evolutionary biology.

Undetected drug-resistant TB doesn’t disappear. It survives, spreads, and comes back harder to treat. At #nanoporeconf, Carla Apaza will show how nanopore sequencing reveals hidden resistance, before it spreads. Check out the full agenda: https://bit.ly/4cSGe5c

#MaintenanceHoleMonday Stapleford

Phage host range: determinants, dynamics and applications www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

euBB in black-headed gulls and common terns in Germany - multiple independent incursions, high adult mortality in both species in 2023 + significant breeding pair declines in 2024 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Visiting the city of Tallin. I am lucky with the weather, which makes the city even nicer.

Even with a quarter it sounds too much...

Pipeline release! nf-core/taxprofiler v2.0.0 - v2.0.0 - Crazy Corgi! Please see the changelog: https://github.com/nf-core/taxprofiler/releases/tag/2.0.0

Visiting Bergen for a workshop from Elixir #norway #photography

Toward the light 📷 Kevin Nkrumah #monochrome #bnwphoto #bwlovers #noiretblanc #blancoynegro #blackandwhite #bnwphotography #bnw #monochromephotography #blackandwhitephoto #BWPhotography #bnw_captures #blackandwhitephotography #fineartstreetphotography #streetphotography #conceptual

I don’t game at all, but I write from this gaming chair Wheezy’s camo’d because it’s more comfortable than an office chair.

Dear Nanopore folks, could you give an advice about an issue that my lab has with direct RNA sequencing on MinION. We're doing RNA004 sequencing of various samples and again and again, there's a staggering amount of reads with just repetitive AAG triplet. This happens for weird IVT RNA and […]

The Teltow kanaal in the southern part of #Berlin was foggy in the morning light. #photography #square

Saw a reel making fun of people who were expressing skepticism of the #Artemis II images in Instagram comments and while it's true that a lot of folks are just spreading conspiracy theories, there are misconceptions that can just be addressed directly! 1/🧵

Nimrod de Wit (RIVM): Calibrating for absolute microbiome abundances without spike-ins See their bioRxiv here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #NIME2026

In Denmark, frequency dependant models, risk of HPAI from birds > cattle near German border. W density-dependant model, \regions with higher cattle densities. High risk period Dec - March, below 0.35 infections per week. No evidence of HPAI in Danish cattle. 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In addition to Holstein cows, experimental infections demonstrates Jersey cows are susceptible to H5N1 infection and their potential as an experimental model 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Hey, who knows what kind of #fossil this could be? The length is about 3 cm. We found it on a beach on the #Polish coast of the Baltic Sea.

Evening walk on the beach in #Poland #photography

Started my Easter weekend with a nice coffee in the sun. #photography

Verticality 📷 Kai Ziehl (Lisbon) #monochrome #bnwphoto #bwlovers #noiretblanc #blancoynegro #blackandwhite #bnwphotography #monochromephotography #blackandwhitephoto #BWPhotography #bnw_captures #minimalphotography #blackandwhitephotography #fineartstreetphotography #streetphotography #conceptual

Struggling to get complete microbial genomes at scale? Join the webinar to see how a nanopore‑only solution delivers reference‑quality assemblies — resolving plasmids, repeats and AMR genes in a single workflow. https://bit.ly/4lElUYe

What happens when you use a strain-resolved assembler on 720 Gbp of Nanopore metagenome sequence? Simultaneous strain-level resolution of multiple co-occurring lineages from hundreds of single contig high-quality genomes, including 78 Pelagibacter. @tnn1.bsky.social and myself:

I am excited to share our latest paper, Uniform bacterial genetic diversity along the gut, now out in Nature Communications! www.nature.com/articles/s41.... (1/n)

PopMAG: A Nextflow pipeline for population genetics analysis based on Metagenome-Assembled Genomes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧬💻🧪 github.com/daasabogalro...

For those writing code with agents, this *excellent* article by Timo Bingmann (who wrote COBS, for kmer geeks) is super interesting on how one can conceptualise it in terms of dependencies, and how it affects development. V fun analogies (QWERTY, cooking, money) panthema.net/2026/0318-Vi...

Madness. A bacterium with a 10kb genome, lost replication initiation, translation.., relies on symbiotic host. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rijd wat langzamer. youtube.com/shorts/DiiPu...

🚨NEW PAPER @isme-microbes.bsky.social on phage-bacteria dynamics. Collab between us and @joshuasweitz.bsky.social labs. "Density-dependent feedback and higher-order interactions enable coexistence in phage-bacteria community dynamics". 👉 doi.org/10.1093/isme...

New research article Lineage dynamics of invasive Escherichia coli isolates in the Netherlands from 1975 to 2021: a retrospective longitudinal genomic analysis www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR #OpenAccess #OA

𝗔𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗥𝗦𝗩 𝘃𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲, 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲𝘀. To support this work, we have launched a call for experts to join a new Scientific Expert Panel on RSV vaccination in adults. #RSV #Vaccination #Immunisation

Do people have any recommendations for in silico PCR command-line software? I need to look at a bunch of relatively small genomes. Would prefer not to roll my own...

S7 Ahrensfelde #Berlin #HackesMarket #RapidTransit #SBahn #train #station #UrbanGaze #people #StreetPhotography #HumansOfBluesky #35mm #BlackAndWhite #ClassicMono #photography #art 📷: #EOSR3 ISO: 100 ⭕: #RF35mmF14LVCM @ƒ/5.6 ⏱️: 1/30 sec 📆: 2026-03-03 🔗: flic.kr/p/2rZr1wi

Bacterial Schlafen proteins mediate phage defence (new work from @anemudraia.bsky.social and @artemnemudryi.bsky.social labs) www.nature.com/articles/s41... Schlafens are an ancient, mechanistically conserved family of tRNA-targeting immune effectors.

1/5 Introducing SimPlot-CL! 🧬 Recombination plays an important role in viral evolution. Similarity plots are a great way to visualize recombination patterns, but generating them across many genomes can be cumbersome (Work with my student, Keno Strotjohann!) 📂 github.com/hodcroftlab/simplot-cl

Went for a walk at Südgelände. #berlin #photography #square #graffiti #sunlight

Road to Brigadoon ᨒ #Stunday #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #bluesky #photo #PhotographersUnited #landscape #art #nature #classicmono #mono #monochrome #bw #bnw #blackandwhite #mist #fog #trees #mood #moody #dark

➡️ preprint from the lab! Bacteria have loads of antiviral defences in their mobile genetic elements (MGEs). So when MGEs move between bacteria, the defences move with them, generating a fast turnover of defences in bacteria. But what about the antiviral defence turnover in the MGEs themselves? 🤔 🧵👇

We’ve published a wee pilot study assessing the utility of metagenomics & full-length 16S sequencing for the detection of seasonal pathogens (and AMR) in our local urban recreational swimming hot-spot Check it out if you’re into that stuff :) www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

What the F are Trump and his bunch thinking... this will go into a tailspin...

Whiteness #photography #square #norway #snow #B&W

Out today in the Nordmarka of Oslo, #norway It is good to be out in the snow with my cross county ski's.

Last year, we proposed a model of plasmid evolution via fusion and fragmentation (via mge mediated recombination) generating mosaics, by studying historical isolates. Excited to see a MASSIVE paper from @jrpenades.bsky.social , @epcrocha.bsky.social expanding on this www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

starting March 1, 2026, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences are prohibited from using central government funds to pay Article Processing Charges for high-priced OA journals, specifically Nature Communications and Science Advances.

The stuff you don't need but more than half Americans take every day gift link nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...

A snowy mushroom. #photography #berlin #square #black&white #B&W #bench

It is so refreshing to see some european leaders stand up for Europe's values. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...