I am happy to see that this beautiful review about detecting rare organisms in metagenomics is now available: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F... congrats Marios Valmas and Sotirios Vasileiadis for leading and doing the heavy lifting!

You can now ✅ verify your #OpenCloning sequences using sequencing data 🧬 (Sanger or Nanopore). Just load your files 📂 and see where they align! 🎯 #OpenCloning is free & Open Source, and supports most cloning methods! 🔬🛠️ 👉 Try it here: opencloning.org 🎞️ Demo video: youtu.be/n0hedzvpW88?...

🦠 New preprint! 🌿 Our bioreporter shows heterogeneous alkB expression in Pseudomonas living on Arabidopsis leaves. Plant cuticular alkanes may be more than just a barrier, they could also be fuel for bacteria! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Join our lab in Amsterdam. We are looking for a Netherlands-based Technician/Analist (MBO-4 level) to apply advanced microscopy, imaging, and molecular techniques to study fungal-plant interactions. 2-yr position See link for details. Applications due Feb 23rd. workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/te...

Huge performance update in today’s dorado v0.9.1 release on Ampere 8.6/8.7 & Ada Lovelace 8.9 nvidia GPUs with up to 2x increase in throughput with hac calling and 3x sup! 🚀 Plus a whole bunch of updates for dorado polish and the odd misc bug fix. github.com/nanoporetech...

It’s finally out! The last paper from my PhD! enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In case you're wondering: FU and TU Berlin are not on the list of German universities who have just quit X on January 10, since they already left quite a while ago.

It has been a long way to get this published and I am very proud of it: enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... @rschlec.bsky.social last PhD thesis chapter about how additional species shape binary strain interactions in the phyllosphere at the population and µm resolution.

👉https://research-portal.uu.nl/en/publications/plant-driven-assembly-of-disease-suppressive-microbiomes

Happy to offer 2 PhD positions on sponge-microbe interactions (deadline Feb 16th, 2024) that are funded within the CRC 1182 Origin and Function of Metaorganisms. The link is now live: www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... www.metaorganism-research.com/about/

Cool, cool, why did I pay 10,000 euro for a flyorimeter again?

Berlin senat is about to decide upon cutting the next year's budget for universities and scientific institutes in Berlin. Currently they are aiming at a cut of about 8%. Our student numbers are rising and the graduates are dearly needed in education and science. #safebraincity

🎄 New Dorado release (v0.9.0) – and it's big! 🚀 Dorado polish command (experimental) for improving draft assemblies – faster & more accurate than Medaka ⚡ Faster modified base calling models 🔧 Usability & accuracy improvements: PolyA, Barcoding, 6mA calling github.com/nanoporetech...

Vibrio are just E. coli in Comic Sans

The list of concurrent sessions for 2025 IS-MPMI is now available—so many exciting topics to explore! I’ll be co-organizing the session “Spatial & Temporal Resolution of the Interaction Interface” with Unnati Sonawala (Cambridge). See you there! 🧬🌱🦠🔬 www.ismpmi.org/Events/2025C...

List of Keynote & Plenary speakers of 2025 IS-MPIMI Cologne. Looks quite interesting. I will be there! www.ismpmi.org/Events/2025C...

I want to believe we have some control here, but if we we definitely don’t have it if we don’t use it. Click below and then click on “subscribe” to choose whether to mute or block. Either is fine, IMO! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Amazing actual human artist @franzanth.bsky.social has curated a blocklist and created an account to host it (and also follow packs of real artists and science communicators) at @contentscrapers.bsky.social.

They are extremely successful on Threads and Twitter because their content gets engagement, regardless of how spammy and fake it is. And, or course, they immediately arrived on Bluesky. BUT BLUESKY IS FIGHTING BACK.

Content Scrapers are accounts that steal images and videos and then repost them without giving credit. Often they are AI or illustrations labeled as real photographs. Often they say they are one thing but are actually another.

Is this real? I am surprised this doesn't blow up. Any educated scientific opinions about the 5 arguments made that COVID comes from a lab vs. environmental origin? I don't have the time to read the whole report... oversight.house.gov/release/fina...

That sounds like an insightful meeting organised by good people

Not sure why, but this is suddenly amplified now. Suffice it to say, Denise and I have spent a lot of time fundraising already and the three of us have worked hard on putting together a great lineup of speakers and discussion leaders. www.grc.org/applied-and-... The program will be updated next week

Very excited that the Gordon Research Conference on Applied and Environmental Microbiology was approved. We are scheduled for July 13-18, 2025 in South Hadley, MA! The associated GRS will be July 12-13. Our fearless leader will be @deniseakob.bsky.social assisted by Thulani Makhalanyane and myself.

This! 👇👇👇

I guess I am finally feeling like a Prof. after figuring out that I opened two bsky accounts and forgot about it... Yey me