mutagen: extensions to dplyr's mutate for variable generation. Use these functions inside mutate (first MUTAte, then GENerate) gvelasq.github.io/mutagen/ #Rstats

Everything you always wanted to know about mushroom-forming fungi! Great collab with amazing mycologists. Thanks Laszlo Nagy for leading this effort! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

With our old friends Sergey, Luis and Guifré, we have published a minireview in @currentbiology.bsky.social about aphelids, the sister group to fungi, including why we think they are not fungi but, nevertheless, key to understand early fungal evolution. authors.elsevier.com/a/1mH793QW8S...

The GTDB website now has an ANI calculator based on skani that supports uploading of user genomes. Try it at gtdb.ecogenomic.org/tools/skani. Find more information about @jimshaw.bsky.social fantastic tool at www.nature.com/articles/s41....

GTDB is now cross-referenced from ENA genome assembly pages. Check it out: www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/.... Thank you to @ebi.embl.org for support with setting up these links!

If you ever need to fuzzy search some DNA, sassy is your tool. Please spread the word; I think many people just outside my own circle could benefit from this :) cc @rickbitloo.bsky.social github.com/RagnarGrootK...

🔥 A lottery-first system 🎲 makes research grants allocation cheaper, faster, and boosts funding for women, while "traditional" (patriarcal?) peer review drags everyone down. 🤔 Maybe randomness is fairer than the experts. 🔄 Time to rethink the whole game! 💣 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

Subcellular organization of the archaeal cell #archaea #microbiology sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Confused by all the histones that are cropping up in organisms that are decidedly NOT eukaryotes? check out our review - fantastic work by team NucEvo in the #Lugerlab The Expanding Histone Universe: Histone-Based DNA Organization in Noneukaryotic Organisms - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

🧬🦠🚨 Another new paper alert, this time led by @maureenbug.bsky.social ! In collaboration with the Emerson lab and @titus.idyll.org lab (@taylorreiter.bsky.social), both at UC Davis. Asking the question: what are we missing in short-read metagenome assembly, and why ? doi.org/10.1093/narg...

From @jhcepas.bsky.social and colleagues in the @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | eggNOG v7: phylogeny-based orthology predictions and functional annotations | #Bioinformatics #ProteinCentric #Database #OpenScience 🧬 🖥️🧪🇨🇭🇪🇸🇩🇪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

Every opportunity politicians provide for you to tell them about how chronic underfunding of research in Australia is affecting your particular fields, people, working conditions etc. is extremely important. Fill out the form here: lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG

Safeguarding microbial biodiversity: microbial conservation specialist group within the species survival commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature #microbiology #BioDiversity @isme-microbes.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

On the non-oxygenic origins of thylakoids #microbiology #photosynthesis #cyanobacteria @springernature.com www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Rolling-circle replication of extracellular DNA by prophage activation in bacterial biofilms ⭕🧬🦠 Biology is crazy and beautiful 🤯 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Harnessing droplet microfluidics and morphology-based deep learning for the label-free study of polymicrobial-phage interactions #phage #phagesky www.nature.com/articles/s42...

#phage #phagesky 💯: Addressing methodological bias in phageome research to clarify bacteriophage diversity www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Evaluation of phages as a signature of microbiome health: a systematic review & meta-analysis @bkoskella.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Arrows are tricky. For us, as the designer of the visual, it will be super clear what it means. But for someone looking at our visual for the first time, it can be highly ambiguous. Depending on the reader, the same arrow can mean sequence, zoom, range, label, movement,... 1/2

The rise of free oxygen may have initiated on marine mud www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Everyone shut thefuck up in that they discovered ribose and, for the first time in any extraterrestrialsample, glucose on Bennu. This adds to earlier this yr 14 of the 20 amino acids thatlife on Earth uses to make proteinsand all five nucleobases that lifeon Earth uses www.nasa.gov/missions/osi...

interesting side project picked up during development of gTranslate - discussed in the preprint

Check out my new article in The Conversation about some of our research on #Antarctic #moss 🌿 #Antarctica #AntarcticMoss #Research @uowenvirofutures.bsky.social @arcsaef.bsky.social

Microbial community characterization in Red Sea-derived samples using a field-deployable DNA extraction system and nanopore sequencing #microbiology #microbiome @microbiomej.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🦠🧪🧬🚨 New paper and database alert: the new IMG/VR release is now MetaVR ! We have a new website - meta-virome.org - with quick search capabilities for the >24M viruses, >12M vOTUs, and >42M protein clusters (including >790k with predicted structures !). academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

We're excited to release metaTraits.embl.de! 🦠 Interactively explore 140+ 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘁𝘀, harmonized & integrated from culture-derived collections 🔬 & genome-based predictions 🧬 for >2M MAGs & genomes. Publication at NAR: doi.org/10.1093/nar/... @narjournal.bsky.social #microsky 🧵 1/8

LorBin: efficient binning of long-read metagenomes by multiscale adaptive clustering and evaluation www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/LorMeBioAI/L...

Eukaryogenesis was a billion year spree, but the acquisition of mitochondria happened when the party was winding down www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New preprint out now! Comparative Assessment of Large Language Models for Microbial Phenotype Annotation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Physiological Significance of Bacterial Mn(II) Oxidation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

Rare Phyla, Such as CPR and DPANN, Shape Ecosystem-Level Microbial Community Structure Dissimilarities link.springer.com/article/10.1... #jcampubs

LoL-align: sensitive and fast probabilistic protein structure alignment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.24.690091v1

🧬 Come check out my poster on agtools, an open-source Python framework for analysing and manipulating assembly graphs at #ABACBS2025 Poster #106 • 💻 Github: github.com/Vini2/agtools 📄 Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Hey Team! What do you think are the best free digital notebooks these days. I've used: Evernote--great, but now it's paid TiddlyWiki wasn't bad, but got rid of scrollable code blocks Obsidian--basic, and I don't like not being able to scroll my code blocks like OG Tiddlywiki. Suggestions?

You know those labs that keep harming students, again and again? Some reflections on why it's so hard to stop this from happening and where our responsibilities lie. scienceforeveryone.science/bad-mentors-... 🧪

High-throughput cultivation and isolation of environmental anaerobes using selectively permeable hydrogel capsules. academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

So happy to announce our new preprint, “A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.” We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63°C (145°F) 🔥 - a new record for euk growth! #protistsonsky 🧵

From Sameer Velankar & colleagues in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | #AlphaFold #Protein #Structure #Database 2025: a redesigned interface and updated structural coverage | #Bioinformatics #Proteomics #OpenScience #AFDB 🧪🔓 CC/ @ebi.embl.org ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

New #ISEPpapers! Natural and artificial variations of the standard genetic code www.cell.com/current-biol... #Protists #TreeOfLife #Evolution #Microbes #Genetics

The IUCN Microbial Conservation Specialist Group, the first IUCN body focused on protecting microbial life, outlines its goals, framework, and initial action plan in an ISME journal editorial. Read the editorial: isme-microbes.org/iucn-expands... #MicrobialEcology #microbes #climatechange

We have a date for the free-to-attend #anvio workshop and ECR Symposium for 2026, and we look forward to meeting you at the @hifmb.de in Oldenburg, Germany! Please find more information on the venue, program, and the application form here, and spread the word 😇 anvio.org/workshops/20...

Excited to share our new review article on Viral Dark Matter led by PhD student @kosmopoulos.bsky.social. We talk about what is known and unknown in the world of viruses (specifically phage), and highlight future opportunities for research and biotechnology. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Omnipresent Allies: The Role of Temperate Phages in Microbial Adaptation Across Ecosystems enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs

gggenomes: A Grammar of Graphics for Comparative Genomics thackl.github.io/gggenomes/ #Rstats

Science is awesome ... www.cell.com/trends/biote... #violacein #pigments

#Archaea, #DPANN, #phylogenetic_reconciliation New preprint online! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Introgression impacts the evolution of bacteria, but species borders are rarely fuzzy www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Augmenting microbial phylogenomic signal with tailored marker gene sets www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Assembly, architecture and functional roles of microbial surface layers www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

NEW pub in @science.org 🥳 Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life? For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided. We provide new evidence suggesting that... 🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...