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chuenlee.bsky.social
Ecologist, Microbiomes, Bioinformatics
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Final keynote today from @julianparkhill charting the remarkable evolutionary biology of Mycobacterium abscessus- an opportunist that infects Cystic Fibrosis sufferers and is transmitted between patients too. #CMINorwich25

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Lots of interesting talks and posters today at #CMINorwich25 @norwichmicro.bsky.social Grateful for the invitation to speak on the gut microbiome and senescence in a wild population @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social #Microbiome #Senescence Photo credit: @gabastorga.bsky.social

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Oh, this is us! With Tracey Chapman, Emily Fowler and Lucy Friend at UEA we have been trying to work out fine scale egg laying decisions by Drosophila females. Turns out it’s more complex than we thought (again)…🪰🧪

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent new paper from Chuen. However, we don't know why these transposase genes in the host gut microbiome increase with host age! Any suggestions welcome! DM us

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Last few days to apply! I am looking for a research assistant to support the group with our work on avian reproductive microbiomes.

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Our new paper, using shotgun metagenomics on the gut microbiome, shows small but interesting longitudinal changes with age in a natural population. 🧵1/5 academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Fieldwork opportunity: We're looking to hire a field assistant for the www.phenoweb.org project starting 1 April. Please repost. #phenology #fieldwork #birdringing

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

A brilliant preprint on differential gene expression 🥳

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🚨 New preprint alert! More siblings, fiercer competition, extra food—but stunted growth! 🐦🍕📏 In zebra finches raised in large broods, increased energy spent on begging—not less food—causes reduced growth. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

First paper from my PhD published! Sexual selection matters in genetic rescue, but productivity benefits fade over time. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #conservation @royalsocietypublishing.org @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Congratulations George! Amazing work on genetic rescue.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

🚀 Highly recommended for beginners and those looking to level up their R skills! By the end of this course, you'll gain the confidence to tackle complex programming challenges and create high-quality reports, figures, and dashboards in R. 📊💻 #RStats #DataScience @philipleftwich.bsky.social

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

FishPi software is freely available here: github.com/alicegodden/...

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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...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

When it comes to teaching students about the limitations of generative AI. One of the best tasks is to ask it to provide the answer and reasoning to literally any cryptic crossword clue...

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

Fine-scale spatial variation in fitness, inbreeding, and inbreeding depression in a wild ungulate. Paper by @annamhew.bsky.social using Rum Deer Research data #science #mammals academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

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Where are all the field studies? This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer. A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork) www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

submitted 47 days ago • 9 comments

1/ 🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 We’re thrilled to share our latest work exploring microbiome & genomic #Bifidobacterium co-evolutionary & functional signatures across diverse animal hosts. This has been a long time coming, & huge credit to Magda for her incredible hard work as first author! 🐾✨👇

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

In case you missed it: www.bbc.com/news/article... #SmartBirds #AnimalIntelligence #UniversityofCambridge @leverhulme.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

New paper: causes and short & long-term consequences of divorcing 💔. This papers highlights the shortcomings of studying divorce to date and provides methods to address them. Plus some new insights on divorcing in birds! See 👇 doi.org/10.1111/ele....

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment