Fecal filtrate is less effective than donor stool (FMT) for the treatment of C. difficile recurrence. Now shown in a multicentre trial, out today in @lancetgastrohep.bsky.social . Congratulations to Dina Kao @ualberta.bsky.social & team! Gift link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lphg8nByr...

New to @nextflow.io?✨Join us for Nextflow Training all of next week! Work through instructor-led videos and hands-on exercises at your own pace. Plus, the chance to earn an official completion certificate. 🎓 👉 Register now: hubs.la/Q03Jf_Zp0

The next @nextflow.io Training Week is coming up - September 2025 📆 Grab the opportunity to book some time in your calendar and pester some of the nice Seqera folks who will be around to help out in the training office hours 😊

💥Personalized C. difficile colonization risk prediction and probiotic therapy assessment in the human gut💥 I'm very excited about this work, driven by Alex Carr & co-supervised by @cdiener.com @cp-cellsystems.bsky.social @isbscience.org @nitinbaliga.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-systems... 🧵...

Out in @natbiotech.nature.com: Metagenome taxonomy profilers usually ignore unknown species. SingleM is an accurate profiler which doesn't, even detecting phyla with no MAGs. Profiles of 700,000 metagenomes at sandpiper.qut.edu.au. A 🧵

New RESOURCE! Integrative genomic reconstruction reveals heterogeneity in carbohydrate utilization across human gut bifidobacteria @arzamasovalex.bsky.social @drlarsbode.bsky.social Andrei Osterman, Jeff Gordon & co #microbiomesky #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@kl-fil.bsky.social will be presenting her work in our lab tomorrow in the @femsmicro.org poster session. Definitely check it out if you're there! 🦠🧬+💻=♥️

This is my first time attending a big @femsmicro.org congress #FEMS2025 (thank you @cdiener.com 💚). I wanted to experience the FEMS congress since my baby PhD days in 2019 but did not get a chance to until now. It is absolutely exceeding my expectations, and I will tell you exactly why in the 🧵

Just published in @femsjournals.bsky.social🦠: Akkermansia muciniphila, Ruminococcus torques and Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron differ in their preferences for degradation of porcine gastric mucin O- and N-glycans. #microsky #microbiomesky #glycotime @mib-wur.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/fems...

Bluesky is now giving notifications for likes on reposts to the reposter. Excited that this may help folks recognize how high engagement is here. Just a reminder that reposts are critical here without the algorithm. Late reposts are especially helpful for those who log in infrequently.

CeMESS is hiring! Join us at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research (@ter-cemess.bsky.social) as Full Professor of SOIL ECOSYSTEMS AND GLOBAL CHANGE. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research. 🔗 Learn more: cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...

Today, June 27, marks World Microbiome Day! We're celebrating with the inaugural Austrian Microbiome Research Awards. Congrats to Cornelia Rottensteiner @cornelia-cr.bsky.social @cemess.bsky.social @univie.ac.at, Charlotte Neumann @medunigraz.at, and Daniela Wöber @AIT. @fwf-at.bsky.social Details👇

Our latest preprint is online @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social: "‪Metabolic modeling reveals determinants of synbiotic efficacy in a human intervention trial." www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... Amazing work here by postdoc Nick Quinn-Bohmann @isbscience.org 🧵...

📢 Big day for archaeal microbiology! Today, we jointly shed light on the mysterious world of archaeal extracellular vesicles from human gut archaea - published in @natcomms.nature.com ‬ in parallel with our precious colleagues around @mkrupovic.bsky.social 🇦🇹🤝🇫🇷.

We are launching the Austrian Microbiome Research Awards 2025! 🇦🇹🔬 Calling all Austrian microbiome researchers to submit your best MSc/PhD thesis or research paper by June 7, more info: microplanet.at @fwf-at.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

Nice blog post by @charlottetolonen.bsky.social from a couple of weeks ago about how to use conda for #bioinformatics without running afoul of anaconda licensing: blog.fulcrumgenomics.com/p/anaconda-l... 🧬 🖥️

A stich in time saves nine. New paper in @nature.com shows you gotta keep eating those fibres 🥦🥬🥗, an FMT later might not be as great! 💩 #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Gulbenkian Institute of Molecular Medicine (GIMM) is one of the best research institutes in Portugal. It's currently recruiting for three Group Leaders (junior or senior) across different areas, including systems biology and bioinformatics. gimm.pt/jobs/open-ca...

Come and work with me! The Nature Micro team is expanding and we're looking for someone to champion microbial ecology, plant micro & related areas for the journal Knowledge of microbial ecology/plant micro is desirable but we're open to applications from all microbiologists Link below 👇

Most bacterial gene families are biased toward specific chromosomal positions www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs

In a review led by @gilbertjacka.bsky.social in @natmedicine.bsky.social we highlight the state of clinical translation in microbiome research. We have gone from basic discoveries to FDA-approved therapies in <20 years, on par with the pace of mRNA vaccine development. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Me and a few of my mates got together and wrote a review on the current state of clinical translation of microbiome research. A great summary of the state of the art for microbiome research. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Microbial community-scale metabolic models (MCMMs) map gut microbiome composition & dietary context to functional outputs, at scale. Here, we describe these emerging tools & their utility to both basic & translational microbiome research. @natmicrobiol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share our preprint on the South American MicroBiome Archive (saMBA)! 🌎🦠. We analysed one of the regions with the fewest microbiome samples but some of the highest biodiversities. 📄: shorturl.at/Lmvp5 🧵: What did we find—and why? Find out 👇 #microbiome #gut-microbiome (1/8)

CoverM is published! CoverM: Read alignment statistics for metagenomics academic.oup.com/bioinformati... #jcampubs

1/7: Proud to present our next study on aging microbiome - a massive experimental effort led by the Rosenstiel and Sommer labs and contributions by @sci-witch.bsky.social. @uni-kiel.de @crc1182.bsky.social microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

New paper! We analyzed gut #microbiomes of 250+ individuals (ages 19–109). #Centenarians often show a high-methanogen “human cow” phenotype 🐄, with #Methanobrevibacter smithii dominance and youth-like archaeal profiles. #Archaea may stabilize networks in aging. Link: rdcu.be/egk03 @archaeasky

Interesting new mouse study on the microbiome & aging, out in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social "Gut metagenomes reveal interactions between dietary restriction, ageing and the microbiome in genetically diverse mice" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great news! New “Microbiome Science” Master Programme @univie.ac.at coordinated by CoE Key Researcher @jillianmpetersen.bsky.social. More brilliant minds with innovative ideas contributing to groundbreaking discoveries! 🦠🔬🌍 ❗Apply by April 7th! studieren.univie.ac.at/en/degree-pr...

A new Master in Microbiome Science 🦠🧫🔬👨‍🎓 👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓 @univie.ac.at Apply now! Registration till April 7th, 2025 studieren.univie.ac.at/en/degree-pr... #microbiome #master #uniwien #univienba #vienna #education #research #science #facts

Short reminder that you can still apply for this fully funded PhD until 3/21. Do you wonder how to make better pro- and synbiotics and are excited about microbiome projects that combine many fields? Then check it out: www.dienerlab.com/posts/phd2025/ #microbiome 🦠+🧪+🖥️+🧬=💖

Wow, just finished reading the @microbiome.bsky.social lab's preprint on how gut flagellin levels influence vaccine responses. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... In the paper, they leverage our MEDI tool (estimating dietary in take from fecal DNA) to come to a really surprising conclusion! 🧵...

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For my francophone friends out there, our MEDI paper (predicting diet from poop DNA) was covered on Radio-Canada yesterday: ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie... @cdiener.com @medunigraz.at @isbscience.org @natmetabolism.bsky.social

The latest from the StatDivLab -- guidance for your #microbiome data analysis with a focus on the #statistics. Planning, deciding, modeling, justifying, communicating, visualizing... "Papers Need Friends" blog post coming shortly.

Welcome to Bluesky @medunigraz.at 🥳 Feel so honored that one of your first post features our work. ❤️ Looking forward to the next ones 🦠+🧠=✨️

Ernährungsempfehlungen und #Darmgesundheit: Das Forschungsteam rund um @cdiener.com, @chmoei.bsky.social, @kl-fil.bsky.social und @gibbological.bsky.social hat mit MEDI eine innovative Technik entwickelt, um Ernährungsgewohnheiten aus DNA-Spuren in Stuhlproben zu analysieren

Happy to announce that MEDI, our method to quantify dietary intake through metagenomics is out now. 🧬 🧪🧫🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s42... #metagenomics #microbiome #microbiomesky So what is MEDI? A combination of two things:

For those who want a good summary of the ASM Town Hall. It was nice to see ASM own up to their mistakes rather than doubling down on their original press release. Time will tell if they do what they need to do to regain trust. #MicroSky

Open PhD position! Do you want to work with the human #archaeome and understand the potential effect on the #immune system? Please check the call, including another exciting opening of @cdiener.com on #microbiome research www.medunigraz.at/doktoratsstu... #microbiomesky #archaeasky #microsky

Hi, we have an open PhD position in our lab starting winter 2025. Join the great MolMed PhD program at a vibrant research institution and help us understand probiotic engraftment. More info at www.dienerlab.com/posts/phd2025/ . Application through the MedUni portal: phd-recruiting.medunigraz.at

If this sticks, it will destroy academic science in the US, and it will stifle technological innovation and economic growth. It cannot stand. Contact your representatives and senators.

www.nature.com/articles/d41... #MicroSky

This is very concerning. @asm.org -- do you have a response for why you edited the text of an article without the authors consent? How much unsanctioned alteration was done across the other articles that were 'under review'? This smells like obeying in advance and censorship to me.

Gutted and disappointed you would think that this is an appropriate statement. "Potential legal challenges" is such a weak argument for preemptively throwing all ethics aside and abandoning the part of your community that is actually resisting the new "landscape". 💔

NEW: Scientists angered their scientific society is scrubbing websites in "anticipatory obedience" of Trump orders. "For an organization that has championed diversity to make a complete 180, it's dizzying," @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social told me. www.statnews.com/2025/02/03/t...

Ok this is not ok. ASM actively sought out BMA and its members for Juneteenth and Black History month content for the last 4 years. Actively asked for black labor and then takes it down?! @asm.org this is unacceptable. You should be standing up for marginalized microbiologists not erasing them.

This 👇. Specifically, for people in the quantitative sciences, I recommend: - Have a well-tended ORCID - GitHub/GitLab repository with some of your research outputs - Personal webpage (e.g. quarto) on a static hosting service such as GitHub/GitLab Pages, Netlify, Posit Connect, ...

JOIN US! ✍️Two predoc positions: lavoraconnoi.unitn.it/en/research-... ✍️Two postdoc positions: lavoraconnoi.unitn.it/en/research-... lavoraconnoi.unitn.it/en/research-... Deadline for application: January 31 Feel free to contact Nicola Segata for any Qs!

The 2025 #MicrobesandSocialEquity virtual speaker series is open for registration! Each month, we'll hear talks on microbiology and health of people, animals, plants, and the environment. Registration is required but free. Check the lineup and register: microbesandsocialequity.org/events/speak...