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Oxford Nanopore metagenome read length weirdness - TapeStation of the input library shows very dominant peak at 20 kbp, what we actually got from the MinION was mostly 10kbp or lower (mean read length ~5kbp). This didn't happen for pure culture genomes on the same run. Any ideas why, anyone?

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The analogy of omics data normalization and cooking: some processing is usually necessary, overcooking makes it bland, highly over-processed foods are unhealthy, and the quality of the ingredients matters.

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#OnThisDay in 1878: First recorded use of the word 'microbe' 🦠 Derived from Greek ('mikros' = small and 'bios' = life), the term is credited to Charles-Emmanuel Sédillot - one of the pioneers of modern medicine and surgery.

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Sometimes it feels like being good at bioinformatics is knowing what software to to avoid using

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Hey #MicroSky, there was a recent paper that I cannot find again that talked about recent confusion in prokaryotic nomenclature and how "old names" can still be validly used, especially in a regulatory or clinical context. Does anyone know what I'm talking about or was I hallucinating?

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Aarhus University lake this morning

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Humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas in genome space (each dot is one genome) 🧪 arcinstitute.org/manuscripts/...

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I've heard so many stories from students like "I was meeting with my advisor and then they just started staring in the distance without talking, isn't that weird?" and now I realise that in most of these cases the professor was probably just tired.

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New blog post! Ever seen a genome assembly in FASTQ format instead of FASTA? Dorado polish from @nanoporetech.com can do it, and I took a closer look: rrwick.github.io/2025/02/19/f...

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Published online! Everything you wanted to know about different cable bacteria and their electrical conductivity. @cemau.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s443...

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🌟 Hello BlueSky! 🌟 We’re thrilled to join the community! 🚀 Abstract submissions are OPEN for Electromicrobiology Conference 2025 🧪⚡ In the upcoming weeks we'll highlight the wonderful keynote speakers! 📝 Submit today: conferences.au.dk/electromicro... #Electromicrobiology2025

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✨We are hiring!✨🧪🏛️🧬 The @nhmdk.bsky.social at the University of Copenhagen is seeking a permanent, full-time Molecular Biology Lab Manager to help us establish and run our National Facility for #Museomics in the heart of one of Europe's most beautiful cities! Please reskeet!

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ESCRT-III is an ancient complex, present in Archaea, with only two proteins and all membrane remodelling functions. Great work by @javierespadas.bsky.social, @diorgeps.bsky.social, @sami-c.bsky.social, thanks to the @buzzbaum.bsky.social lab! Drawing by Julie Polge. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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It was wonderful attending the first A-ISMET conference in Egypt. Great to see the ISMET society going global. The cultural trip exploring Egypt's ancient civilization was fantastic. Plus there were some nice cable bacteria in the Red Sea!

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Dorado v0.9.1 now includes a bacterial model for genome polishing, so I put it to the test! How does it compare to Medaka? And does move-table data improve polishing accuracy? Read my analysis here: rrwick.github.io/2025/02/07/d...

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Exciting news for aquatic microbial ecologists! The 18th SAME meeting will take place in Barcelona (Sept 28–Oct 3, 2025) 🧬🌊 Interested? Please, share your details here: forms.gle/XUTfGqq3tpgL... only takes a minute! Spread the word & save the date! 🗓️

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I keep recommending this website for multivariate analyses for microbial ecology: sites.google.com/site/mb3gust...

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I'm writing a grant about methods for amplicon-based sequencing for characterisation of microbial communities, also applicable for eDNA. What's our favourite word for this at the moment? Metabarcoding? Metataxonomics? Microbiome? Community amplicon sequencing? What's everyone's favourite?

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Stromatolites xkcd.com/3046

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Methanol transfer supports metabolic syntrophy between bacteria and archaea www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Today I'm accepting the inevitable reality of students using generative AI in my course and helping them navigate it

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Save the Date! The 28th #Nitrogen Cycle meeting will take place in beautiful Vienna, Austria, from 8–11 September 2025. Join us for an exciting program featuring fantastic keynote speakers Stay tuned—our website & registration will open soon! We look forward to welcoming you to Vienna this fall!

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Amazing work by Florin Musat's team! #alkanogenesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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First day of the Molecular Microbiology lab course yesterday. As always, some students made mistakes. This year, I finally managed to improve the protocol to help avoid these mistakes while still fresh in my memory and make a folder called protocols_2026. I may never be as organised as this again...

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Post-Doc position for 3 years available jointly between University of Tartu (Estonia) and University of Aarhus (Denmark) on soil microbiome and biogeography. Skills required: bioinformatics, metagenome analysis, microbiology Contact: [email protected]

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Electromagnetic induction properties of filamentous bacteria in sediment doi.org/10.1093/pnas... by Fuxing Kang, Robin Bonné, and @larspeternielsen.bsky.social

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This program makes me wish I was still a PhD student...

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The Center for Electromicrobiology (@cemau.bsky.social) has just joined BlueSky! This is the @dg.dk Center for Excellence at @aarhusuni.bsky.social. Follow @cemau.bsky.social for news about cable bacteria!

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I've just finished reviewing a 6-page grant proposal for about 6000 euro. The hidden cost of preparing, administering, and reviewing (external review...) this proposal must be almost as much as the grant itself, right?

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A new paper of Saskia Wilmsen and me on "Defining organismality" just came out in Biological Theory . Open access: rdcu.be/d6but 🧵👇

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