Delighted that our review on resistance to last-resort antibiotics in Enterococci has been published in FEMS Microbiology Reviews academic.oup.com/femsre/advan... (accepted manuscript version) TL;DR: the Enterococci are really good at evolving resistance to antibiotics in new and creative ways.

Bacteria can sense when a virus starts shredding their genome — by detecting methylated mononucleotides. Here’s the story of how we discovered the Metis defense system 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Love the idea of the "deletion test" posed by @needhibhalla.bsky.social & coauthors in their commentary about costs of cutting DEI efforts in science. What if that student were "deleted?" What will the costs be? Screenshots attached to enhance access. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf149 #climatechange #climatescience

Interesting paper 'Antimicrobial resistance among Gram-positive agents of bacteraemia in the UK and Ireland: trends from 2001 to 2019' TL;DR: - dramatic falls in MRSA - pneumococcal resistance rates low - E. faecium more prevalent (and more vanR) than E. faecalis pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41140273/

Interesting paper on bacteriophage genomics and bioinformatics 'Phage quest: a beginner’s guide to explore viral diversity in the prokaryotic world' by @sebwielgoss.bsky.social and colleagues academic.oup.com/bib/article/...

Professor (full) or Associate Professor (tenure track) in Microbial Genetics of Health (U. Turku Finland). Competitive starting package included! Please share. duunitori.fi/tyopaikat/ty...

Cool PNAS paper by @jordivangestel.bsky.social and colleagues Contributed by Carol Gross [reviewed by @polzlab.bsky.social and @wcratcliff.bsky.social] Bacillus subtilis in defense mode: Switch-like adaptations to protistan predation www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New paper alert! We suggest caution in the analyses of viral auxiliary metabolic genes and propose a new overarching term - 'auxiliary viral genes' (AVGs) to describe different types of such genes. @simrouxvirus.bsky.social #phagesky #Microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Longstanding collaboration with Scott Manalis where we have developed technology to measure single cell growth rates of bacteria in native seawater with some very surprising results. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Genome evolution of Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1 during laboratory domestication: acquired mutations impact competence and metabolism #ApplEnvironMicrobiol from Jeff Barrick journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

very cool work and a milestone in synthetic biology. how impressive are the new phage genomes? with generative bioML, i'm always looking at how similar the generated sequences are to known sequences. let's take a look

Exclusion systems, far from slowing down plasmid spread, are in fact essential to preserve host cell viability and thereby ensure the successful dissemination of conjugative plasmids and antibiotic resistance genes. @nfrk92.bsky.social @narjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Mittwoch! Passend zur Sommerszeit: eine kleine Geschichte der Sonnenbrille. Wir sprechen nicht nur über ihre Anfänge, sondern vor allem über die Bedeutung, die sie im Laufe ihrer Geschichte erhalten hat. https://www.geschichte.fm/archiv/gag512/

@eseb Distinguished Fellow Talk Dieter Ebert 🇨🇭, has been an ESEB member since his PhD and played a key role in the society all of his career. #eseb2025

"Overall, the message from this survey is positive– #evolutionary #biologists are readily employable outside of #academia, generally well-prepared for those jobs, and report high levels of satisfaction in their non-academic #careers" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.19.671061v1

Need advice on which of the many virus 🦠 prediction tools to apply for your phage research🔎? This guide equips you for your bioinformatic analyses in your "quest to explore the genetic diversity and biology of the smallest and most abundant replicators on Earth." ⬇️ doi.org/10.1093/bib/...

Excited to share new #program, STEPS, which can simulate #dynamics of the E. coli Long-Term Evolution Experiment (#LTEE) or other microbes in serial transfer regime. telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/s... STEPS developed by @devinmlake.bsky.social, Zachary Matson, Minako Izutsu, and me.

Interested in exploring prophages in your (meta)genomes, but don't know how and where to start? We've put together a beginners guide to exploring viral diversity in prokaryotes @marievasse.bsky.social @sebwielgoss.bsky.social @oxunipress.bsky.social

Our new review is out in Briefings in Bioinformatics Phage quest: a beginner’s guide to explore viral diversity in the prokaryotic world @ccwendling.bsky.social @marievasse.bsky.social @sebwielgoss.bsky.social @oxunipress.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/bib/...