Looking forward to attending and presenting on "coral bacterial pangenomes in the Anthropocene: at this conference in beautiful Valencia, Spain www.alocongress.com/pangenome2025 Join us! 🧪🪸🦠🧬🖥️

v2. Evidence for the acquisition of a proteorhodopsin-like rhodopsin by a chrysophyte-infecting giant virus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New tool for clustering bacterial genomes: PanGene-O-Meter, provides a higher level of granularity than ANI when classifying bacterial isolates of the same species. Work of the talented @haimashkenazy.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How diverse are the individual strains within your species? How broad is their Pangenome? How will you choose representatives from the whole collection? Look no further! PanGene-O-Meter is here for you! From @haimashkenazy.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I wrote about my recent experiences taking care of my 3-year-old, Sheila Heti's "Motherhood", and the discourse around polygenic embryo selection: kathrynpaigeharden.substack.com/p/openness-t...

קם פרויקט להעברת תרכובות הזנה לתינוקות (תמ״ל) בעזה, בהובלת ד״ר דייויד חסאן, והאיגוד האירופי לרפואת ילדים, שהצליח כבר להעביר אלפי בקבוקי פורמולה לעזה אחרי בירוקרטיה לא פשוטה, וגם בהובלת אנשי רפואה ישראלים. להלן הלינק לתרומות: www.thechildrensvillagegaza.org/eap אשמח אם תשתפו הלאה.

Please consider donating to Standing Together, a non-profit movement of Israeli Jewish and Palestinian people for a better future built from within. causematch.com/standing_tog...

Ilay David, brother of Israeli hostage Evyatar David, who was seen in a video published by Hamas on Saturday, said there is "immediate danger" to his brother's life, and that he will die within days if he does not receive food and medicine. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

our new paper on pelagic #Asgard archaea that use #rhodopsins with carotenoid antennas to harvest light energy in the oceans. Structural insights into light-harvesting by antenna-containing rhodopsins in marine Asgard archaea www.nature.com/articles/s41... @galitzlil.bsky.social

At Tübingen's art museum, having a flashback to one of my favorite #TCTeAC talks, cell-inspired home design and experiment-based architecture. By Yael Allweil from @technion.bsky.social

"In Gaza, the UN system & its related organizations are there. They have the resources and plans. The UN presented a plan on May 16, for extremely rigorous distribution, including monitoring to prevent the food from getting into the hands of Hamas," says Alex de Waal www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

1/3 New preprint led by Shanshan Wang, in collaboration with the Timmermans lab. Several groups have presented sc/snRNA-seq analyses of Arabidopsis leaves after bacterial infection before. Is there anything left to discover? Turns out: Yes. #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Paper led by @movillome.bsky.social on unbiased detection of (somatic) #TE insertions in #Arabidopsis with @pacbio.bsky.social long reads out after peer review. Thanks to academic editor Leandro Quadrana for shepherding it through the review process. #plantscience link.springer.com/article/10.1...?

Tel Aviv, July 31, 2025: Protesters with @standing-together.bsky.social (Omdim BeYachad) hold photographs of emaciated Palestinian children in Gaza.

"The situation in Gaza is likely the most extreme example of politically–driven starvation in the 21st century. An hour's drive from Gaza, there are enough calories & nutrients, packed in sacks & containers, to feed its entire population." @haaretzcom.bsky.social www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Our paper on cyanophages of marine sponge symbionts is finally out. It is the outcome of a great collaboration with Laura Steindler's lab and was led by Tzipora Perez.

#MicroSky job alert: Senior Research Technician in the Mausz Lab at Warwick, on responses of marine microbes to nutrient limitation & environmental changes. warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

Attending #2025ISMPMI? Let's talk about leaf-associated Pseudomonas and Sphingomonas evolution! Find me at Poster P-278 during Session 1, Tuesday 15th (10:00-11:30). Hope to see you there! @plantevolution.bsky.social

I just published: Why I’m skipping the Congress this year (And why you should still publish your posters) Publishing your poster creates a citable record and protects you from bad actors. #ISMPMI2025 #OpenMPMI #AcademicChatter #PhDchat medium.com/p/why-im-ski...

Please Re-Post. Our global GRUMP microbial ocean database is out in Scientific Data! Unfractionated, single universal PCR, with Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukaryotes all on the same scale with the same denominator. Pole to pole, depths to 6000m. Lots of metadata. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Biology or Theology? #TCTeAC @hagenom.bsky.social

A very short summary of "Data Visualization against fascism": Fascism conceals truths, disregards evidence-based decision-making, and jeopardizes the education of the next generation. Standing up against means: MONITOR, EXPOSE, and EDUCATE. As scientists we are ready for this! #TCTeAC

@helenajambor.bsky.social could not have enough party in site, so she keeps it up in the bus. #TCTeAC

On our way to dinner #TCTeAC

@helenajambor.bsky.social is back at sketching talks!!!

@anaisbailles.bsky.social took very seriously the advice "be your model organism" #TCTeAC

Meditation about being alive, or just sleeping through the after-lunch session? @barakrotblat.bsky.social will never know.... #TCTeAC

I choose to believe #TCTaAC

A lesson of resilience and patience in science: Lukas Kratochvil fed snakes for 1500 days (!!!) and like a caring dad checked if they ate or not. #TCTeAC

On my way to #TCTeAC giant lizards are judging my life choices

@helenajambor.bsky.social gets visually ready to talk about science visualisation, and how to fight fascism with science training #TCTeAC

What's going on with the Fish takeover in #TCTeAC? ?

"Can you turn on all genes in a cell at once?" @itaiyanai.bsky.social does not know. Does anyone? #TCTeAC

OUT NOW: Structural insights into light harvesting by antenna-containing rhodopsins in marine #Asgard #archaea @bejalab.bsky.social @labinoue.bsky.social #microsky 🦠🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am happy to introduce to you our new paper on pelagic #Asgard archaea that use #rhodopsins with carotenoid antennas to harvest light energy in the oceans. Structural insights into light-harvesting by antenna-containing rhodopsins in marine Asgard archaea www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs. Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng Custom Lab Hardware Turn Key Genetic Design Please repost for reach 💚

🌊 The SAME18 website is now live! 📍 Barcelona, Spain | 🗓️ Sept 28 – Oct 3, 2025 @prbb.org 🔗 same18barcelona.com 📢 Key dates: 📝 Abstract submission deadline: 25 May 2025 💳 Early bird registration deadline: 25 July 2025 We look forward to welcoming you to Barcelona! 🌞 Please repost!

🧪 February's most-read Biochemistry paper reconstructs the genome of #YerbaMate for the first time, teaching us about the convergent evolution of #caffeine: buff.ly/oM4Z6oR Have a paper people should see? See what our Editors look for: buff.ly/5uhc3La

Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime chance to join us at GMI as a permanent group leader! I am especially reaching out to all the incredible women who have made their mark in the field of plant biology, are outstanding community members and care about mentoring their junior colleagues. 1/2

New on #biorXiv: 'Inferring single-cell heterogeneity of bacteriophage life-history traits from population-scale dynamics'. A theory-experiment collaboration, led by @mariandm.bsky.social + Ran Tahan w/the Lindell group at Technion (and yes, I am excited). a 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/contenat/10....

Phages hitchhiking on nematodes through soil! So happy to see this work in print 😀 #phages #soil Fun collab with Mark Zwart @niooknaw.bsky.social and Lisa van Sluijs, Hans Helder at @w-u-r.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Please spread the word🙏: [PhD Position in Computational Evolutionary Transcriptomics] If you are interested in doing a PhD in gorgeous Scotland on 'Why embryo development goes wrong sometimes?', please consider applying and join our wonderful team in Dundee! www.dundee.ac.uk/phds/opportu...

If you're an undergraduate student interested in the mathematics of quantum physics and general relativity, consider the Tübingen International M.Sc. Program in #MathematicalPhysics www.math.uni-tuebingen.de/en/mmp Opens for applications today

If you would like to apply for a post-doc Marie Curie grant to study intercellular mechanisms of communication in marine cyanobacteria, and possible interactions with heterotrophs, please get in touch with Mari Muñoz-Marín @vesynech.bsky.social Further info: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...

In our latest @biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social preprint, we describe our approach to use PacBio HiFi reads to detect somatic TE transposition -- good enough to detect rare events that are present in only single cells. Led by Andrea Movilli. #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨 Job alert 🚨 — are you interested in understanding how mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? 🧬 🧪 🧫 🦠 2x 5-year research positions available in experimental evolution @mermanchester.bsky.social Join us! #microsky www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Register & submit your abstracts for the Society of Molecular Biology Meeting on "Origin, Maintenance and Evolution of Biological Noise" 📍Tübingen 🇩🇪 📆 3 to 5 June 2025 📝Abstract by: 28 Feb 📎More info: shorturl.at/7CgrC Less than 40 spaces left! @official-smbe.bsky.social @luisapallares.bsky.social

I have one open PhD position. Maybe one of the last PhD positions in the lab as I'm planning changes in what we do and how we will do it some five years from now. I'm offering freedom (pun intended), respect, an interesting project, and a good full time contract w. health insurance.