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#ECNP2025 @ecnp.eu was a great experience! Big thanks to @jfcryan.bsky.social and @katherine-maki1.bsky.social for putting together a symposium on Microbes and mental health. I also really enjoyed the other talks by Jane Foster, Thomaz Bastiaansen and @sofiacus.bsky.social!

If this was a drug, it would be a blockbuster prevention vs Alzheimer's disease for APOE4 homozygotes, with 35% reduction of risk!

Lifestyle Medicine Pillars for Women's Heart Health: A 6-question clinician tool sparks the conversation—covering nutrition, movement, sleep, stress, substance avoidance, and social connection. Ready to transform cardiovascular care for women? Dive in: ow.ly/hkk150WM5EH #CardioSky #MedSky

Out now! 🍫🦠A defined microbial community reproduces attributes of fine flavour #chocolate fermentation By Gabriel Castrillo, David Salt & co #microsky #microbiomesky 🧪 Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fun fact: In reference 28 here, I used the word strain to mean something similar to the lineage level because a reviewer refused to let me use the word lineage. There is still a lot of confusion in this space, and I strongly recommend defining whatever terminology you use.

John Green Tackles An Injustice Called Tuberculosis www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...

NIH wants to hear from you. No really. Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

🎉 We’re launching BIOMS! The One Health Microbiome Center just received a $2.6M NIH T32 grant to train the next generation of microbiome scientists across human, environmental, and agricultural microbiome research. Full story 👉 shorturl.at/uKk0P

Meet the new Editor in Chief of mSystems journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

We are on the lookout for postdocs for two different projects at the intersection of ecology, evolution, and the human microbiome. See thread for more information and reach out!

So excited and honored to be part of the team! Looking forward to your vision and leadership to drive the science behind this incredible journal @ashley17061.bsky.social

Excited to be back at #mSystems (@asm.org), now as a Senior Editor, working to support our new Editor-in-Chef @ashley17061.bsky.social 🤩 Support society journals! If you have work at the boundary between microbiology & systems biology, send us your manuscript! journals.asm.org/journal/msys...

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

I am hiring a clinical research assistant for a project on adolescent cannabis use that will use MRI 🧠 and behavioral tasks 🎮 More information is available in the link below, and applicants can send a CV and cover letter to me. Please share—thank you! tinyurl.com/msn8h2ce

Genomics of host–microbiome interactions in humans www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

When the spot before your Times Square debut features a scent ad 😎 so proud of @drpaulejoseph.bsky.social for amplifying nursing research and science in general. Keep shining my friend ✨✨✨✨

If anyone who had a grant terminated (at Harvard or elsewhere) would like to partner with my scicomm channel (LetTheDataSpeak across platforms), I’m happy to work with you. I will feature an elevator pitch of your exciting science, then end with “this project was terminated” and a call to action.

There is remarkable extent of bi-directional cross-talk between the nervous system and Type 2 immunity (vs infectious parasites, allergens, irritants, and toxins). A new and superb review @sciimmunology.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

👀👀 Looking for recs 👀👀 Are there any summer/fall workshops on multi-omic, pathway or microbiome analyses where the application period has not already passed? Looking for some good options for my trainees! Appreciate any leads in advance #AcademicSky #Bioinformatics

The Pope at Game 1 of the 2005 World Series. No wonder the White Sox swept the ‘Stros

Proud mentor week!!! Choa (postdoc) and Shirleen (postbac) presented fabulous posters at the CCND poster and postbac poster sessions and heard from BIOM alum who got her first symposium presentation opportunity in her clin psych PhD program #thrivinginchaos

Clearly enjoying myself talking sleep science and all things gut - brain signaling at WSU Spokane! Not pictured @drewkesner.bsky.social

After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.

A must-read for any microbiome researcher 🦠📐and a new addition to our #bestpractices series Planning and describing a microbiome data analysis by @amydwillis.bsky.social and @davidandacat.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our study @cellpress.bsky.social finds healthy Canadians that consume a non-industrialized-type #diet can modulate their #microbiome, boost beneficial metabolites and improve their health. In just 3 weeks: LDL cholesterol ↓17% fasting glucose ↓6% CRP ↓ 14% www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

There is an urgent need to sufficiently fund the necessary infrastructure and staff to conduct human nutrition and metabolism studies to quickly elucidate root causes and mechanisms of diet-related chronic diseases!

Our paper on nurturing a #PositiveResearchCulture within your #research #team published by @wellcometrust.bsky.social gives useful tips for your lab. As well as making you a good team leader, nurturing culture pays off in building your science: 1/11 wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-3...

We are excited to announce that registration for our annual HCMPH Symposium is online. The symposium is on May 19th at HSPH. The theme this year is the microbiome's role in food systems but please join us for any and all microbiome discussion and research updates. hsph.harvard.edu/research/mic...

A new resource rating >50,000 foods from 3 grocery stores (Walmart, Target, and Whole Foods) for degree of processing and breakdown of ingredients www.nature.com/articles/s43... Website for consumers www.truefood.tech

Prepping to teach intro evolution for the first time- what are everyone's favorite misconceptions about evolution? I've got a few: - evolution happens to individuals - evolution happens because it's needed - evolution is hierarchical/directional/has an end point

Another day, another paper 🙃 This paper was inspired by my journey as a cancer patient & the type of leader I am in the journey of trying to become A great read to start the year aiming to drive a more positive, equitable, and diverse research culture www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

Happy New Year everyone I'm back at work this week & working through my long to-do list I love working in January as it is usually a productive month Lots of writing for me this month, so let me share my most valuable writing tips: #1 "Write drunk, edit sober" (from @scidocmartin.bsky.social)

It’s nice to see interest in the interim results of our ongoing study investigating mechanisms of diets high in ultra-processed foods. www.wsj.com/health/welln...

Circadian clock communication during homeostasis and ageing @natrevmcb.bsky.social by Thomas Mortimer, @jacobsmithsci.bsky.social, Pura Muñoz-Cánoves & Salvador Aznar Benitah www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This makes my microbe loving heart so happy 🤗

Extremely excited to launch our new Brain & Body Lab website and branding today! It was a pleasure to work with the great team at @stellatecomms.bsky.social to create this. I am thrilled with the outcome. Please drop on over and check us out! www.brainandbodylab.psych.ucla.edu

OUT NOW Profiling lateral gene transfer events in the human microbiome using WAAFLE @hutlab.bsky.social @efranzosa.bsky.social @harvardchanschool.bsky.social @longnguyen.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

OUT NOW: Metagenomic immunoglobulin sequencing (MIg-seq) reveals IgA coating of microbial strains in the healthy human gut by Justin Sonnenburg, Matt Olm, Sean Spencer & co #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join the MicroClock team and work on the discovery of the Bacillus subtilis circadian clock components: #PostDocPosition in Leiden 🇳🇱 via the @microclockerc.bsky.social #ERCSyG project Deadline: 17 January www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20... please share with your network🙏

Prioritizing this and science communication are my affirmations for 2025 🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

To honour Mattiedna Johnson’s significant contributions in antibiotic research, DSMZ researchers named the strain Streptomyces johnsoniae (DSM 41886) after her. #herstory #HonoringWomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #antibiotics #microbiology

Another one on microbiota and pharmacokinetics! Here, authors highlight an important variation in gut microbial β-glucuronidase (GUS) enzymes' hydrolysis activity on administered glucuronidated tamoxifen metabolites (drug against breast cancer recurrence) journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

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International consensus statement on microbiome testing in clinical practice - just out in Lancet Gastro & Hepat www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I have been officially “displaced” as an NIH staff scientist. If anyone is looking for someone like me, I’m officially on the job market. 🧪

Sharing the @americanheart.bsky.social scientific statement about asssessing & addressing CV health in individuals who are transgender and gender diverse. Transgender care is health care, and I support optimizing the lives & hearts of all persons. 🏳️‍🌈 www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

Your semi annual reminder that Silva does not curate species and therefore you should consider the use of species labels from Silva *very* carefully. As in, dont do it. Species in Silva are the rubber chocolate of taxonomic assignments. They look real, but they're not and will taste terrible.

Huge congratulations to Dr. @larswilmes.bsky.social who successfully defended his PhD today - thanks to the examiners David Finn & ⁦‪Rachel Moloney for a great discussion. ⁦‪Ger Clarke‬⁩ & I are proud supervisors indeed. ⁦‪@apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social‬⁩