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We're once again hosting the Human #Microbiome conference at @embl.org, organized by Ami Bhatt, Nicola Segata, Mani Arumugam and Peer Bork! We always have a great lineup of speakers, so register now and think about an abstract to submit (abstract submission deadline in June)

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📣 Explore cutting-edge breakthroughs in microbiome research, from methodological innovations to integrative approaches and personalised therapeutics. Join #EESMicrobiome!🦠 📅 16 – 19 Sep 2025 📍 EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual 📥 Submit your abstract by 24 June ➡️ https://s.embl.org/ees25-08-bl

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Collider bias is the trickiest one of these—I use this example too: If the true relationship between niceness & appearance is zero but you only look at people you've dated (i.e. adjusted for that collider) you're missing a whole quadrant—the result is wrong and only valid for part of the population

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Brochado and Maier labs in Germany are looking for a PhD student to study horizontal gene transfer in bacteria. ENDAMR Marie Curie doctoral network (endamr.eu) - an amazing opportunity to work with top scientists in the field all around Europe! www.cmfi.uni-tuebingen.de/mariecuriephd

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We're hiring a postdoc!🚨 Study human-associated microbial communities in health & disease. 🔬Requirements: - PhD in bioinformatics, microbiology, or related field - Expertise in omics - Strong publication record Apply now!🌟 jobs.vib.be/j/69697/post... @vibmicrobes.bsky.social

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I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork} www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

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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:

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Specificities of Chemosensory Receptors in the Human Gut Microbiota https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.11.637667v1

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Post-doc opening to join our lab @ebi.embl.org to develop&apply #bioinformatics and #machine-learning methods to study intra-/extra cellular networks to extract disease mechanisms from #single-cell and #spatial multiomic data - please share 🙏 : embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...

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🚨🚨🚨 New pre-print alert: "Stable states in an unstable landscape: microbial resistance at the front line of climate change" doi.org/10.1101/2025... Probably the most complex paper I have ever worked on. It took 4 (!) co-first authors to accomplish and literal years to decipher the story.

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Our new study in @naturecomms.bsky.social showing the recurrent assembly of microbial modules over polar day and night, based on four years of autonomous sampling in the Arctic www.nature.com/articles/s41... Fantastic teamwork by #AWI @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social @hhu.bsky.social & many others 🙂

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Starting my Bluesky adventure by highlighting a new paper from the lab!

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We have one postdoc position open with the Alliance Interinstitutional Postdoc Program. 🎈Details and applications here: 👇 health-life-sciences.de/opportunitie... 🎈Deadline: March 28, 2025, 5 pm CET. 🎈Project #128

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good news, finally submitted my grant to nsf on Technical biases in quantifying the inclusive fitness of minority alleles under diversifying selection in diverse microbial communities

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Happy to share our new paper in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social on mapping spatial relationships of the human gut microbiome. We identified distinct spatial hubs between gut bacteria that reflect sub-community assemblies at the micron-scale. Led by Miles Richardson & co. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Out now in @nature.com: Gut microbiome diversity across African populations - a valuable resource for further research and foundational for global health equity. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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New paper from my group and the group of @kiranrpatil.bsky.social: Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities By Ghada Yousif @metagenomez.bsky.social with @swagatika.bsky.social @isamirgiri.bsky.social Sharvari Harshe et al. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵👇

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In the beginning of the year, I moved to the Bio2Q Institute at Keio University in Tokyo (bio2q.keio.ac.jp). Really happy to be here and it's an amazing place to do microbiome research. We are looking for postdocs, so if you're interested please DM or email

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I'm very happy to announce that our group finally has a BlueSky account! 😱 Follow us at @tartumicrobiome.bsky.social‬ for updates on our latest research, publications, and other announcements. Check out our logo in real life! 🔽

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Get news from science institutes and universities, located in Dresden, Germany. Please add missing ones in the comments. go.bsky.app/BgRhagp

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Very cool. The "carpentered corner" story for the Müller-Lyer illusion is probably bullshit.

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Just coincidentally found GenBank Release 84.0 from 1994 in the neighboring lab. Anyone out there with an even older version?

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A rare sighting of the elusive semicolon in the title of a paper 😅 ... And an interesting metagenomics dataset as well!

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I am thrilled and deeply grateful to share that my latest work has been accepted for publication. 🥳 doi.org/10.1093/isme...

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@richardsever.bsky.social On @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social , links from RSS (like biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...) and even the RSS page linked from the homepage www.biorxiv.org/content/aler... just redirect to the bioRxiv homepage. Something wrong internally?

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Today we report a new compendium of human gut microbiomes with >168,000 samples By analyzing this massive dataset, we discovered distinct microbiome patterns across the globe, and show we can predict where a person lives just from their gut bacteria Now out in Cell: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Very nice article in @nature.com about how bringing labs into the field is an incredible opportunity for environmental sciences & how it's a dream come true for many of us. Meet @nikobiota.bsky.social, head of @embl.org Mobile Labs. #protistsonsky #jcampubs www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Proud to share this result of our collaboration between us @dkfz.bsky.social and the Elinav Lab at WIS on the Metagenome-informed #Metaproteomics (MIM) methodology for functional decoding of #host - #microbiome dietary contributions to human physiology @cellpress.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

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🚨Utmost importance the food we eat & the #GutMicrobiota we have🔥 Fascinating study #CellCellPress 🆕 🎯#Metagenome-informed metaproteomics of the human #GutMicrobiome,🦠 host, & #dietary exposome uncovers signatures of #health & #InflammatoryBowelDisease‼️ 👉 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac... #IPHOMED #IBD

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This paper has been a long time coming: We looked at the genomes of historical bacterial samples over a century to look for trends of antibiotic resistance genes, finding multiple instances of them in infections before the age of antibiotics, but an increase in both frequency and mobility after

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I’m very excited to finally share the results of a passion project that has been on my mind for nearly a decade. You can find the pre-print below, but what follows is the saga of how this project came to be:

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I'm very happy to report that Matt Schechter's PhD work is now online as a pre-print: "Ribosomal protein phylogeography offers quantitative insights into the efficacy of genome-resolved surveys of microbial communities", www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Here's a little 🧵 about it.

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Our first post since the migration to bluesky! Follow our group for news on our efforts to map protein function on species the human gut microbiome.

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The Institut Pasteur has decided to leave X (formerly Twitter) to join BlueSky! 🦋 The Institut Pasteur made this decision due to several serious issues observed on the X platform since its acquisition. Join us here to continue advocating for science. www.pasteur.fr/en/home/pres...

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#tdgr 16.01. Hamburg 17.01. Hannover 18.01. Bamberg 18.01. Kassel 18.01. Oldenburg 18.01. Magdeburg 19.01. Herrenberg 25.01. Halle Saale 25.01. Köln Heumarkt 25.01. Grevesmühlen 30.01. Schorndorf 08.02. München 08.02. Gießen 14.02. Gelnhausen 14.02. Fulda 15.02. Frankfurt 15.02. Düsseldorf

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35% increase in applications to the ERC consolidator grants. This is not sustainable and it will result in too low acceptance rates. The ERC budget needs to be drastically increased. erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

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We are delighted to announce The Health Privacy Challenge, an interactive opportunity for advancement at the intersection of computational biology and privacy research, brought to you as a part of CAMDA Conference at #ISMB/ECCB2025 🫐🍅 Register to participate: benchmarks.elsa-ai.eu?ch=4

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Early life microbial succession in the gut follows common patterns in humans across the globe | @naturecomms.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Excited to share our opinion piece with the KC Huang Lab. Check it out here: Harnessing gut microbial communities to unravel microbiome functions doi.org/10.1016/j.mi... @typaslab.bsky.social

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Delighted to share the first peer-reviewed paper from our team @camvetschool.bsky.social where we investigate the ecological dynamics of Enterobacteriaceae in the human gut #microbiome: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social

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Metagenomic estimation of absolute bacterial biomass in the mammalian gut through host-derived read normalization. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.07.631807v1

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Quantifying Metagenomic Strain Associations fromMicrobiomes with Anpan https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.06.631550v1

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The gut microbiome signature from different diets in 20,000 individuals. Red meat intake correlated with reduced cardiometabolic health; the opposite for plant-based foods or in omnivores with enriched plant-based intake www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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After 24 years of work, I’m thrilled to announce the TYMEFLIES dataset, which comprises metagenomes from Lake Mendota (Madison, WI), collected roughly every 10 days (471 samples) for 20 years! @quendi.bsky.social @robinrohwer.bsky.social rdcu.be/d5put A thread…

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I’m excited to share our new paper published in Nature Communications! In our work, we discovered TANB77, a bacterial clade previously obscured by a polyphyletic grouping in conventional taxonomy, as a reliable biomarker across diverse immunotherapy recipient groups. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Lasst uns auf die Straßen gehen, die Debatte zurückerobern und gemeinsam für eine lebenswerte Zukunft kämpfen. Deshalb rufen wir zum bundesweiten Klimastreik vor der Wahl auf – am Freitag, 14. Februar 2025 überall in Deutschland!

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Yesterday, the Baron of Siberia posted my investigation into Tortoise on Twitter. I responded saying the Guardian is cancelling my contract after 19 years, so I'd be happy to go to the Indie to carry on investigating Evgeny's dad, the ex-KGB spy. This was a joke! However, here are some facts.. 1/

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🚨 We're hiring a postdoc! 🚨 Study human-associated microbial communities in health & disease. 🔬 Requirements: PhD in bioinformatics, microbiology, or related field Expertise in omics Strong publication record jobs.vib.be/j/69697/post... Apply now! 🌟 @vibmicrobes.bsky.social

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