Quick question: Hoping this finding is controlled for the fact that the mothers that don’t speak to their newborns, also don’t elicit the motion of speaking. So would there be a differential effect of perception of “face” that doesn’t look speaking?
I went down the rabbit hole of finding more and found these peckers to be a fascinating species. The most mind-blowing part being:
Delighted to see over 17 million new protein structure predictions from novel proteins in AllTheBacteria are now integrated into the AlphaFold Database at @ebi.embl.org !
Huge work from @gbouras13.bsky.social @oschwengers.bsky.social and friends to generate these.
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u...
Me trying to reach "expansion" from "increase" via inflation, growth, enlargement and swelling.
Could i just have asked Gemini or GPT - yes, but, where is the gaudiloquence in that?
#NatMicroPicks Baby-to-baby strain transmission shapes the developing gut microbiome - out now in Nature! 👶🦠👶
#microsky #microbiome @nature.com @cibiocm.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nature research paper: Construction of complex and diverse DNA sequences using DNA three-way junctions
go.nature.com/4qu2ExZ
Hello world! I am excited to announce my lab is open at the University of Utah in the Department of Biochemistry. We are looking for scientists at all levels interested in studying host-virus interactions in both bacteria and animals. Come join us in beautiful Utah! (photo is 10 steps from lab)
We’ve discovered how the superbug E. faecalis prevents chronic wounds from healing.
It’s not a toxin. It’s metabolism.
The bacteria use extracellular electron transport (EET) to electrochemically generate ROS, effectively "freezing" skin cells in place.
doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aeb5297
I've spent all day struggling to write a single page of a popular science article. I bang away at a word processor; give up; start diagramming on paper. Take some notes; draft a few sentences in pen; return to the computer...and very slowly I figure out what I was trying to say in the first place.
A 16h day in the lab comes to an end. An ambitious experiment, now in incubation, with about 700 ‘spots’ on those plates holding on to the answer of a curious question.
With the finals over, the campus is as empty as devoid the air is of winter-y cold. It is somewhat of a good night, I guess.
A brand-new Gordon Conference on Microbiomes!🦠 The opening session (Jan 2026) dives into microbiome editing - how fundamental research and new technologies can advance human health and environmental sustainability. Super looking forward!🧪 #microsky #microbiomesky #grc
www.grc.org/microbiome-e...
This morning, @isbscience.org's Dr. Mary Brunkow was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine! Dr. Brunkow shares the award with Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi. Read the press release here: www.nobelprize.org/.../medicine....
What a tremendous honor! Congratulations!
Friday Papers Club! 🍿In light of Pubmed going down, the collapse of social media, and my recent success at getting recommendations for interesting papers from those still around, I am starting a new tradition! - Recommend a good scientific manuscript! 👇
Amazing work by @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social and colleagues from @nikogeldner.bsky.social, Feng Zhou @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social labs in Science
Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#chemotaxis #MicroSky
Discovery of a new type of immune cell in fat tissue that promotes infllammaging (chronic inflammation with aging)
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Join us in Arizona!
The Fourth Annual Symposium on Mechanisms of Cellular Evolution will again be held at ASU. November 5-8, 2025, in Tempe, AZ. Theme: Unicellular Diversification of Cell Types and Division Systems.
na.eventscloud.com/cmesymposium2025
Out now!
🍫🦠A defined microbial community reproduces attributes of fine flavour #chocolate fermentation
By Gabriel Castrillo, David Salt & co
#microsky #microbiomesky 🧪
Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#phagesky
I am looking for phages infecting Streptococcus pneumoniae to test a phenotype - does anyone have some and willing to share ?
Repost appreciated :)
On my 14th hour of troubleshooting the code while ChatGPT tells me we are close for the 280th time.
Site-specific DNA insertion into the human genome with engineered recombinases www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
in other words... genome engineering to precisely insert large multi-kilobase sequences into specific sites without introducing double-strand breaks #synbio
Love everything on the .fun!
Internet Roadtrip is my favorite thing on the internet right now—it’s basically Twitch Plays Google Street View. They started in Boston, spent several weeks on a quest to cross the Canadian border, and are now exploring New Brunswick. neal.fun/internet-roa...
Started in Abhishek’s lab as a new postdoc without any coding skills, and now I've contributed to a bacterial-tracking library and debugged critical issues while at that - super happy with this.
Thanks to all my more-hardworking-coauthors on this one! Cheers and here is to many more 🥂.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Me: I was waiting for the Argon laser to warm up
TaxonKit v0.20.0 is adapted to recent rank changes in NCBI Taxonomy.
github.com/shenwei356/t...
Also updated
- taxid-changelog to May, 2025 github.com/shenwei356/t...
- gtdb-taxdump to GTDB r226 github.com/shenwei356/g...
- ictv-taxdump to VMR_MSL40 github.com/shenwei356/i...
New 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦 🦠
Personalized Nebulized Bacteriophage Therapy for MDR 𝘗𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 Infections in Cystic Fibrosis
In 9 patients, 10²–10⁴ CFU/mL drop in sputum bacteria, 6% median gain in FEV1
Post-treatment isolates showed trade-offs—reduced virulence, increased antibiotic susceptibility
