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Remember when the movie Idiocracy was kinda funny?

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I'm so happy that I can finally share the results of my first postdoc paper with @baym.lol!!! Turns out plasmids are an amazing system to study multi-scale evolution and we can track within-cell and between-cell dynamics! (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/earl...

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Nearly 20 years ago, theory predicted that evolution can evolve “mutation sensors” to improve evolvability. Michael Barnett et all et al. now show this in a beautiful experiment! ❤️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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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...

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On January 6th, 1995, my (now ex) wife and I boarded a flight from Heathrow to JFK on a one way ticket. We had two suitcases and about $900 in cash - this was everything we owned and we were moving to the US. We thought it was maybe for 2-3 years. I had visited the US once, for a conference, and

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I misclicked an invitation to review for springer and I’ve tried to contact them multiple times. Now all I get is reminders that the deadline has past. Frustrating.

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Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Conjugative Plasmids Rarely Confer Antibiotic Resistance or Virulence https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.30.635773v1

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My favourite papers yield more questions than answers. This one is like that. Fascinating! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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I think we should get rid of the word “higher education”. When is was young I was doing “lower education” and my grades there were the lowest I’ve ever scored. It wasn’t “easier”, it was different. I just couldn’t think that way.

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If nothing else, at least the AI assistant made me laugh today.

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I’m thrilled ScienceTwitter is back, but… Let’s avoid bringing back the toxicity and performative behavior that hurt it before. Block trolls and bigots rather than fuel them. Let’s keep this a space for thoughtful, meaningful science communication, not virtue signalling. #ScienceBsky

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When you’re @frimanscience.bsky.social and you’re on stage, realising you still have to review that ****** paper.

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Hello Bluesky, Caliskan Lab is hiring! Our new Lab in Uni Regensburg has open #ERC funded PhD and postdoctoral positions (with long term employment opportunities) in viral #RNA-protein interactions regulating #translation, #transcription, #recoding and #single-molecule-analysis #RNA

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#microsky

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It’s official: The Microbiology Society is on Bluesky!

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Ecological histories govern social exploitation by microorganisms #ISMEJournal by @evokait.bsky.social et al from Greg Velicer academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

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🚨Postdoc position(s) alert🚨 If you like to develop new bioinformatic tools for human microbiome analysis, are interested by virus/phages, we (JGI Viral Genomics and Microbiome Data groups) may have a great position for you ! No official job posting yet, but email or DM if you are interested !

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We found that many bacterial species use exogenous peptidoglycan fragments - released by lysis of neighboring cells - as a general danger signal, triggering a danger response that protects bacteria against many dangers: biofilm formation. Details here 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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I have extended the deadline to apply for this post-doctoral role to work with me on the Biochemistry of Starship Transposon to this Sunday the 5th of January...original deadline set on a holiday set by HR (not me)! edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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I’m looking for a postdoc to join my team under a recently funded ERC Starting Grant. If you’re passionate about structural #virology and have experience in #cryoEM SPA and/or #cryoET, get in touch! Application deadline: January 19th. Please share with your networks 🙏 Job link: tiny.cc/7v33001

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Join our #MicroClock @microclockerc.bsky.social #ERCSyG team as #Postdoc to discover the components of a bacterial circadian clock Apply by 17 Jan 2025, if you have experience -with liquid handling robots/screening of bacterial strains -in molecular biology of model bacteria tinyurl.com/2d2c8fe5

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If every chip on the planet were swapped with the 1971 Intel 4004, the energy we normally burn through in an entire day would vanish in less than a nanosecond. Sure, using less technology can solve the energy crisis, but so does better technology, especially when combined with renewable energy.

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Happy to share our collaborative review on the expansion of the MutS gene family in plants and all the cool (and in some cases still unknown) roles of these genes. Now published in @theplantcell.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1093/plce...

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This needs a Doppler effect added

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Me when I have to learn matplotlib...

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Particle life. The longer you watch, the "wormer" it gets. tbb.bio.uu.nl/bvd/simulati...

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