📢 New preprint is out on bioRxiv 📢: How much does virome prep influence our view of the human gut virome? Short answer: a lot. Long answer: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Different methods lead to distinct community structures, richness, and major virus-host abundance patterns. 🧵 1/5

Really enjoyed today's seminar and visit to @quadraminstitute.bsky.social Thanks Rosie Young for the invitation and many (@alisonmather.bsky.social @evelienadri.bsky.social @bioinf.bsky.social @drrobkingsley.bsky.social, Naiara Beraza, Mark Webber, Simon Carding, Natalie Juge) for catching up!

🚨New preprint out! We present a foundational genomic resource of human gut microbiome viruses. It delivers high-quality, deeply curated data spanning taxonomy, predicted hosts, structures, and functions, providing a reference for gut virome research. (1/8) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

🆕 Blog! This #WorldPhageWeek our PhD student @deuskamya.bsky.social from the @evelienadri.bsky.social ’s group explains the nuances of bacteriophages and their potential for live-saving treatments 🔬

Not a great day for sewage overflows in the South-East via www.sewagemap.co.uk

Another kitome paper: discovering new viruses is hard when there are viruses in the extraction columns! Controls so important... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Three Bicentenary research fellowships on offer at @officialuom.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social for exceptional ECRs with <3y postdoc experience 3yrs salary + £30k pa research expenses Do you have a great idea & want to join @mermanchester.bsky.social? www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/research/sup...

For those of you working on tailed #phages, this is the virus realm for you! #Duplodnaviria #virus #taxonomy The Profile in #JGenVirol provides the citable reference. More details in the chapter on the ICTV website: ictv.global/report/chapt...

Happy to say this has now been published in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social 🫁🦠 #Phages #Viromics www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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🆕 Blog! Our Quadram Student Forum committee share their top tips to help you make the most of your PhD in Norwich 🎓 @quadramsf.bsky.social

Incredibly proud of Dr Revathy who is inspiring the next generation of scientists around the world. And even though we can't see them through a foldscope, bacteriophages are still our favourite microbes 🤩 quadram.ac.uk/blogs/inspir...

Thrilled to share our two latest papers with the @tcostalab.bsky.social lab! In the first, we uncover a new mechanism of satellite transfer: cf-PICIs hijack tails from diverse phages to spread across species. @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

My plans to start a new university in Dorset have run into significant economic headwinds, but I am confident that the business case is solid

We have expanded our ICTV Virus Taxonomy profiles and chapters to include higher ranks, which have been recently introduced and may not be familiar to all virologists. You can find our 2-page Profiles (citable record) in JGV @microbiologysociety.org www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/ictv...

Three postdoc positions are now open for applications! Live and work on Kaurna land (Adelaide) in sunny South Australia. We have beach views, wineries, kangaroos, and koalas. Develop new synthetic biology to engineer and understand #phage, and computational tools for #phage and #microbiome analysis

Awesome opportunity to join an excellent young research group. #microsky #Klebsiella

The movie about phage therapy in Switzerland and beyond is available online now 🍿🎬💊 - link to the English version here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUMJ...

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

Here is a press release/ summary blog post about our new paper. Key conclusion: For every single professional use that scientists used to use Twitter for, Twitter is much worse now than it used to be, and Bluesky is better that Twitter currently is. www.southernfriedscience.com/twitter-suck...

Really pleased to see this study led by @raymondkiu.bsky.social now published in @natcomms.nature.com! We show that probiotics help modulate the preterm infant 👶#microbiome - to reduce ARGs, lower MDR bacteria 🦠 & increase beneficial Bifido ✨ Huge team effort! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New preprint about open science in eco-evo! We sampled 110 journals, 550 articles, and assessed whether data and code are accessible: (1/5) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... #ScientificPublishing #OpenScience #ecology #conservation #EvolutionaryBiology #paleobio #systematics #archeology

Interested in investigating the use of bacteriocins for the treatment of urinary tract infections? Come work with me and @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social Professor Lesley Hoyles as a research associate on an exciting project funded by The Urology Foundation vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

I’m very excited to be at the 26th #Evergreen Phage Biology Conference, now in Knoxville TN. We started yesterday with preconference workshops and have our first full day of talks today. I can’t wait to hear about all the great #phage research going on!

Amazing opportunity and seems like there's project for every type of phage researcher!

Congratulations to all our former PhD students who are graduating this summer! 🥳 Here you can see our former students Dr Bushra Schuitemaker and Dr Claire Elek who graduated earlier this month 📸 Discover more about our PhD and student opportunities 🎓 ➡️ buff.ly/3gSiDwt

We (with Clement Coclet, not on Bsky) had the chance to work on a broad "state of viromics" review. We tried to use this to give an overview of how the field changed over the last ~ 15 years, and also what we think are some of the major remaining challenges. Full-text access at -> rdcu.be/excHt

New online! Viromics approaches for the study of viral diversity and ecology in microbiomes

Our new #klebsiella O type nomenclature, codesigned with Chris Whitfield, is now live in @pathogenwatch.bsky.social! Need a quick explainer on the new names? Check out my blog post: tinyurl.com/y8yb3rbb (+link to full review article) #MicroSky @klebnet.bsky.social @tomstantonmicro.bsky.social

Looking forward to presenting the latest results from the PhageLand project during the ‘Phages in Health and Remediation’ session at 4.30pm in Brown 1&2 at @femsmicro.org #FEMS2025 #phagesky #microsky

Congratulations, Dr Elek! Your presence is sorely missed in the lab. You are an inspiration for everyone who follows. #phagesky #PhDone

We made structural predictions of representatives of each #PHROG from #phage genomes, and put the whole lot online. You can browse through montages or go to your favourite phrog directly and download its PDB. 💻🧬 #phagesky linsalrob.github.io/PHROG_struct...

Yesterday, I started my term as Editor in Chief of @asm.org journal #mSystems Looking forward to working with this amazing community to advance publication of our highest quality and most rigorous science! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

I'm super happy to share this preprint on ‘Distribution of capsule and O types in #Klebsiella pneumoniae causing neonatal sepsis in Africa and South Asia: meta-analysis of genome-predicted serotype prevalence and potential vaccine coverage’ doi.org/10.1101/2025...

What determines who a phage can infect? We tackled this question for temperate phages of Klebsiella — a bacterial pathogen — using a genome-wide association study (GWAS) and a massive protein testing effort. 👇 A thread!

🚨📆⏰ ABSTRACT SUBMISSION REMINDER 🧬🦠🧫 The ECR symposium abstract call closes in TWO WEEKS! Submit your abstract at tinyurl.com/BIM-abst... by July 8, 11.59PM EST! #BiM2025 #BlackInMicrobiology #EarlyCareerResearch

Thank you to everyone who attended the 3rd UK MGE workshop. What an incredible few days of science and community building! Next stop: York 2026, hosted by @pcmfogg.bsky.social. See you all next year! #UKMGE

Expansion of our virome investigations to the lungs: Ryan had a look at the bacteriophage contribution to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) severity. #phages #COPD #microbiome

Fascinating stuff! youtu.be/5PyM7iz_nX4?...

Join my lab as a postdoctoral research scientist to investigate the diversity of drug-resistant #Salmonella and how #bacteriophages can help future food safety. Apply by 2 July, details below!

Defence Systems are so hot right now 🔥 🔥 🔥 so check out our latest preprint to see how DSes contribute to niche adaptation, interact with each other, and drive accessory genome interactions in Pseudomonas aeruginosa 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New from The Strain Team: 🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊 Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗). Gross! 😀 1/n #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

I'm happy to announce the latest release of the GlobDB, available at globdb.org. The GlobDB is a database of "species dereplicated" microbial genomes, and as of release 226 contains twice the number of species-representative genomes (306,260) than the latest GTDB release.

The Wadsworth Center is expanding it's research focus on #virology /vector-borne diseases! www.asmcareerconnections.org/job/research-scientist-5-g-31/78488664/ This is a unicorn assistant prof equivalent position with 12-month hard money salary and no teaching commitments (!) Reposts appreciated 🙏

👀👀👀 A landmark paper (in the field of Kocuria rhizophila genomics). Thanks to @gemccallum.bsky.social @biostan.bsky.social and others to get this over the line.

Join my lab as a postdoctoral research scientist to investigate the diversity of drug-resistant #Salmonella and how #bacteriophages can help future food safety. Apply by 2 July, details below!

I appreciate the offers from other scientists to help Harvard (students, labs, etc) through this attack, but what would be most helpful is for you to use your position to contact your elected representatives and make it clear this fight isn't just Harvard, it will affect you, and their districts too

NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.

Phage DisCo! Our targeted phage discovery method in press today: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... Perfectly timed with our four summer undergrad's first successful phage hunt... disco lights in the lab to mark the occasion 🕺