Another banger from the @harriswang.bsky.social Lab this month! “Fecal exfoliome sequencing captures immune dynamics of the healthy and inflamed gut” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ten days left to apply to be a @crick.ac.uk Early Career Group Leader Closing date 27th November www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Larry Summers is a prime example of why I insist we already have conservatives in academia: misogyny and racism are conservative values that are actively maintained, if not encouraged, in academia

Fitness influencers promote high-protein diets, and protein-fortified foods and protein supplements have become popular. But how much protein do you really need? A feature in Nature highlights the research. 🍎📃 🧪

A healthy dose of skepticism on the microbiome's role in the etiology of autism: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

No one leaving New York City because of Mamdani, say two top real estate CEOs

I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?

Devastating piece on the human toll of Kavanaugh Stops. Especially infuriating to know that rich white guys like Brett K can simply close their eyes to the human suffering their racist jurisprudence has unleashed.

This is so so disturbing. Trump is now pardoning January 6th rioters for unrelated crimes, just to reward them for their violence to keep him in power. The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.

I remember as a little kid being so bored listening to my father, who taught high school US government, ranting about how Reagan ruined everything Taxes? What does an 8 year old care about taxes? I get it now, Dad 🫠

Some military service personnel have started seeking outside legal counsel about the missions Trump has assigned them. At least two members of the National Guard have already said they will defy orders to unlawfully occupy Oregon. This is what we need. Good people standing up to fascism.

Banana republic bullshit, where access to the U.S. consumer market is our natural resource (i.e., bananas). Oligarchy sucks. Let’s get rid of it. ☠️🍌

I posted yesterday about the shift to triaging 70% of NIH applications rather than 50%. This is apparently just a temporary step to catch up for all of the study section meetings cancelled due to the government shutdown. I hope NIH will collect some data to track the impacts of this change.

I just published my weekly newsletter to >10K subscribers: The truth about AI coding for bioinformatics divingintogeneticsandgenomics.kit.com/posts/ai-po...

I’ve long pushed for stronger ethics rules at the Fed. The American people should be able to trust that the Fed's decisions are not driven by the personal interests of individual officials or the political interests of Donald Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/b...

Great to see continued leadership from @murray.senate.gov www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murr... 1/2

This is could well be a historic midterm for Democrats. Don’t waste it on centrists who won’t come through when it matters. Run vocal progressives. You won’t end Trumpism without anti-corruption crusaders and warriors for social and economic justice who believe in taxes & big, universal programs.

What usually gets lost in the focus on what an evil racist James Watson was is just how colossal of a dumbass he was and just how far he set the field back. But @sramach.bsky.social and @cbo.bsky.social kept their eye on the ball.

2nd photo here, also by Vondruska 2/2

Incredible piece of data journalism here from @wsj.com. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!! We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

Very excited to share our latest work in Science on metagenomic editing (MetaEdit) of the gut microbiome in vivo & directly modifying unculturable immune-modulatory SFB bug in the small intestine. 🦠🧬🛠️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congrats to @gibbological.bsky.social, named a 2025 @clarivate.com Highly Cited Researcher for the fourth consecutive year. A clear reflection of the reach and influence of his work in #microbiome science. Full list: clarivate.com/highly-cited...

Oh, your favorite genetic locus only encodes one gene? That's boring. Amazing work from Jess Warren (www.hhmi.org/scientists/j...) to figure this out and prove it was real, given the wacky and challenging insect system we've got here. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Nice write up of our paper here, thanks! 🧫🦠 dailyneuron.com/how-gut-micr...

Can confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up. Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.

Join @isbscience.org on December 12 for a Virtual Microbiome Symposium highlighting new discoveries about how gut-derived metabolites affect neural, immune, and endocrine systems. Open to microbiome-curious researchers and practitioners everywhere. isbscience.org/events/2025-...

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

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

I’ve been in Toronto at the #astmh meeting these past few days and last night some very good news was presented here: A new malaria drug has proven efficacious in a large trial and could soon be approved.🧪 My story in @science.org (and 🧵on why it's important to come): www.science.org/content/arti...

Wilson wins!! 🌲❤️🌲

“Bin Chicken” is now published in Nature Methods! It substantially improves genome recovery through rational coassembly 🧬🖥️. Applied to public 🌍 metagenomes, we recovered 24,000 novel species 🦠, including 6 new phyla. doi.org/10.1038/s415... @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @rhysnewell.bsky.social 🧵1/6

📣 Join us for the 2025 @isbscience.org Virtual Microbiome Symposium, focused on "Gut Microbial Metabolites and Their Impact on Host Systems". co-director - @flash-point.bsky.social 🦠💥 It's free, & we have an amazing line-up of speakers! Dec. 12th. Please share! isbscience.org/2025-isb-vir...

House Democrats on Wednesday released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald Trump had “spent hours at my house” with one of the convicted sex offender’s victims, among other messages that suggested Epstein believed Trump knew more about his abuse than he has acknowledged. nyti.ms/441Dyxh

PSA for people with NIH grant periods starting January 1st (including most NIGMS MIRAs): your RPPR is due Saturday, but they haven’t sent out the usual automated reminders, presumably due to the shutdown

“Even when I was an assistant professor, I would say things like, ‘I’m a researcher.’ I wouldn’t say I’m a scientist.” Nobel Laureate Ardem Patapoutian made groundbreaking discoveries about the sense of touch. But he didn’t always have a sense of belonging in science.

Dr. Nick Quinn-Bohmann will present a Keynote Talk at this year's Future of the Microbiome Winter Summit (Nov. 18-20). He'll talk about his work on using community-scale metabolic modeling to design personalized, microbiome-informed interventions. futureofmicrobiome.com/winter-summi...

This point absolutely correct and I will add that Mamdani demonstrates that an insurgency, even one with real moral clarity and anger at the status quo, can still be cheerful and inviting.

Oh, look! A president being presidential. Remember when our leaders were decent? #VeteransDay youtu.be/uOMHPee65SU?...

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

This. Is. A. Different. Interview. Than. The. Other. Magnet. One.

“No, he didn’t say that” I thought to myself

Søren Solkær, 'BLACK SUN' www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...

Excited for the 'AI4ID Symposium: Bridging Infection and Artificial Intelligence' on January 28th at the Broad Institute. The symposium will unite infectious disease researchers, clinicians, and AI experts to discuss how AI can help address the most pressing challenges in infectious diseases.

Literally watching this scene *right now*

The heath benefits of multilingualism appear to be far beyond prior expectations erictopol.substack.com/p/multilingu...

Supreme Court won't overturn its landmark precedent recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage https://cnn.it/4nGnEiN

Tonight was a very bad night.