#NewResearch Prion-like proteins in Escherichia coli trigger an abortive infection mechanism in response to phage infection—a process similar to amyloid-mediated immune signalling in fungi and animals. #MicroSky 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

💥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... 🧵...

We are hiring a postdoc - come work with us (www.koremlab.science) at the intersection of #microbiome, data science, and women's health! Message or email me if interested. 🖥️ 🧬

Excited 🥳 to share our latest work on gut phages! Big thanks to @epcrocha.bsky.social, Erick D, Camille d'H, @fplazaonate.bsky.social, Quentin LB, and all others involved for support and contributions! 🙌 Out in Cell Reports @cp-cellreports.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... Here's what we found 🤓

Really cool work, congrats Gechlang, Sean, and team! 👏🏽

Sucralose may interfere with cancer immunotherapy - exciting and important new research from @overacrelab.bsky.social in @theaacr.bsky.social! aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov... (AI-rendered illustration of the article's title) 1/🧵

🌿💡 Just dropped: our 4‑bug SynCom eats 8 herbicides (up to 99 % gone in a month) and revs up soil carbon metabolism. Microbes doing double duty for cleaner, richer black soils. Check the iMeta paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #SoilSci #Bioremediation

It's finally out!🎉 We known that the #microbiome confers colonization resistance against #pathogens, we know that some meds 💊 affect gut microbes 🦠 So, do 💊 alter colonization resistance? It turns out that some do! If you wanna know more, check out our latest work www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A gut microbiome metabolite promotes atherosclerosis by hijacking the immune system @nature.com nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

To learn more about SeqCoast including direct orders with transparent pricing, visit seqcoast.com Sequence smarter, discover more (said in a New Hampshire accent 😉)

⚡🦠I'm very excited to share our latest work on the gut microbiome and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is published in @natmetabolism.nature.com, with @hutlab.bsky.social & @longnguyen.bsky.social! 🔗Check out the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Our paper demonstrating that within-species warfare interactions are ecologically important on human skin is now published in Nature Micro! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Applications are now open for the 2026 Takeda Innovators in Science Award with Nature. Early-career researchers in GI & inflammatory disease, neuroscience or oncology: Win a share of US$400K and earn global recognition. Apply today: go.nature.com/4jBp3oM #Academicsky

I am once again pitching my romantic comedy: - two academics start dating - discover they are each other's terrible reviewer - hijinks ensue Working title: Love is Double-Blind

Research Saves Lives At Hopkins, we just went live with an expansive website showing the extraordinary value of research, the impact of cuts to research, what's at stake, resources for our research community, etc. Check it out: researchsaveslives.jhu.edu

our lab is blessed to have 3 new postdoctoral fellow positions. we would welcome scientists interested in...

Well, it being #Pride month and all, let's kick things off with a couple of starter packs I haven't shared in a while ... The awesome folks at @prideinstem.bsky.social have made it super easy for you to queerify your TL, by following the good folks in these three starter packs: 1/2 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

. @haleybiont.bsky.social have fun? 🙂

Antibiotics disrupt gut microbes, but what about their viruses? A new study finds that gut phages crash, bloom, and bounce back after antibiotics, helping restore microbial balance via kill-the-winner dynamics. ✍️ @eugenpfeifer.bsky.social & coll. 📖 shorturl.at/AtafX #MicroSky #AMR

✨ Job Alert: Bioinformatician & Data Manager ✨ Support our research on milk, microbiomes and maternal & infant health! 📍Remote (within Canada) or In-person 💵 $74K–$107K + benefits ⏱️ Full Time 🎓 MSc & 4+ yrs experience req'd Apply at: umanitoba.ca/careers/ (#38485) Pls share! 🙏🏻🧪

📣 #NatureMedicine is hiring a new editor with expertise in #AI, #DigitalMedicine and/or Health #Informatics! This job is open to applicants in NYC 🗽and Milano 🎭! Deadline is Fri, May 30th. Please share! springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu... cc: @natureportfolio.nature.com

Excited to share the Compendium Manager -- our new tool for scaling bioinformatics pipelines! Launch thousands of analyses, track progress, and maintain reproducibility. Developed by @richabdill.com. Check it out: arxiv.org/abs/2505.11385

Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.

AI perpetuates knowledge artefacts. Mind you, a look at PubMed will tell you that humans are pretty good at perpetuating these too.. theconversation.com/a-weird-phra... ht @cyrilpedia.bsky.social

A lot of what looks like microbial engraftment after FMT might actually be noise. Using placebo sequencing and culture-enriched metagenomics, we sort signal from noise. Our latest from the Surette lab: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @surettem.bsky.social @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social

Do non-nutritive sweeteners alter the human microbiome? And why is this question important? Check out our new review in Immunometabolism, spearheaded by @kcrakes.bsky.social, Lauren Questell & @subah.bsky.social and quick 🧵👇: journals.lww.com/immunometabo...

Sweeteners may alter #gut microbiomes in ways that disrupt the body’s control of blood sugar, potentially leading to “type 2 diabetes as well as weight gain and obesity,” said @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social & MMI Asst Prof @suez.bsky.social, PhD, who studies the #microbiome undark.org/2025/04/21/r...

Introducing Eukfinder! A bioinformatics pipeline that identifies eukaryotic sequences from metagenomic data. The tool is valuable for reference-independent and cultivation-free studies of eukaryotic microbial genomes from environmental samples. #mBio: asm.social/2nl

Just signed up to be a mentor for the National Summer Undergraduate Research Project #NSURP2025 #nolabnoproblem www.nsurp.org - if matched, this will be the third year we host a @nsurp.bsky.social scholar in the lab and @haleybiont.bsky.social and I are excited to meet them!

Congratulations Baumgarth Lab @Nature Immunology paper out today Baumgarth Lab postdoc Antonio Cembellin Prieto is 1st author! This research shows how B cells use the neurotransmitter acetylcholine to modulate early lung antiviral inflammatory responses Paper here www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🐒🌿 Our team built a gut microbiome age clock using 13k+ samples from wild baboons! Age predictions reflect social rank, season, and sex—but don’t forecast survival. Another layer in the aging puzzle! Read in eLife 👉 doi.org/10.7554/eLif... #Microbiome #Aging #WildlifeScience

So, covid.gov now redirects to, uh, this... www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru...

Our commentary on the elegant in vitro microbiome coalescence experiments from @goldmandoran.bsky.social @ksxue.bsky.social et al is out. It was a pleasure to write about one of my favorite microbiome papers of the last few years. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Just out "Making sense of the virome in light of evolution and ecology" doi.org/10.1098/rspb... from super ⭐ team @meganawallace.bsky.social @duckswabber.bsky.social @jemmageoghegan.bsky.social @ryanmimrie.bsky.social @eddieholmes.bsky.social @xavh.bsky.social in Proc B @royalsocietypublishing.org

Super proud of our postdocs @kcrakes.bsky.social & @haleybiont.bsky.social for their outstanding talks at @camri-igs.bsky.social Mid-Atlantic #Microbiome Meeting, featuring exciting science from all over the region + keynotes by Sue Lynch (UCSF) & @benwolfe.bsky.social (Tufts) + phage swag! 😎 🦠

Funniest thing I’ve seen in response to CDC demanding that infectious disease researchers will protect the borders and secure rare earth minerals

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! 🧵...

Although we are not federally funded for this summer, WE WILL STILL RUN The National Summer Undergraduate Research Project (NSURP) in 2025. We remain committed to the work that needs to be done and will continue to meet people where they are. 1/4 nsurp.org

A reminder in these hard times. #sciencestrong

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:

I've worked really hard to get where I am today. Stuff like this makes me feel like my very existence and effort in getting here is a threat. Why do people want to erase my identity and path? Why do people want to erase my ability to help others? It is exhausting. clarksvillenow.com/local/books-...

It's not just Stonewall, it's all over NPS.gov - They're erasing Trans people from history. Those photos of Nazis burning books in 1933? Those were books on gender and sexuality. This is a 21st century book burning in the public square. It's Memoricide - a speedbump on the road to Genocide.

ASM stands firm in its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, as such efforts are critical to advancing the microbial sciences for everyone. Read our statement: asm.org/Press-Releas...

I benefitted so much from knowing @gilbertjacka.bsky.social - congrats on becoming an AAM fellow! So well-deserved! And what a privilege to be working with three JHU colleagues also named AAM fellows today - @goleylab.bsky.social , My next door neighbor Jane Carlton, and Trish Simner! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Dear Virology Community, please see ASV’s statement to our members and the scientific community. asv.org/asv-statemen...

BREAKING: A judge in Baltimore has blocked the Trump administration from conditioning federal aid to doctors/health care facilities on withholding health care services for transgender youth. Order was given from the bench with written ruling to come later.

New mechanism of gene transfer! With @tcostalab.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, we discovered that cf-PICIs form tail-less elements that, once released, spread among different bacterial species by hijacking tails from various phages. More exciting news soon! shorturl.at/kRJqE

Bravo 👏🏽 hope all other publishers follow

Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.

The way organizations are painting anything done by anyone who isn’t cis white man as “DEI” is truly heinous.