Thanks for sharing! We have also run into walls with datasets from papers that were used to launch companies. So you have VC’s investing millions based on a single paper whose findings can’t be checked. Otherwise, though, there are still many good datasets out there and cooperative authors!
Hey Reviewer 2: I hope you are OK. If you are OK and you liked our microbiome-fever paper revisions at all, any chance you can send a quick note to the editor? 🦠🧫
Ya know a while back a senior microbiologist I was talking with was saying how we absolutely have got to stop saying gut flora because people are gonna think it’s plants and I was like “ha yeah” while thinking “nah come on people know starfish aren’t fish” and ope! he was right.
Here we show that buildup of uremic toxins during CKD generates nitrate in the colon. Nitrate supports expansion of Enterobacteriaceae, turning them into a major source of uremic toxins. Inhibiting nitrate production (iNOS inhibition) mitigates disease progression. www.science.org/eprint/YGNMK...
So why do MDs get way more money than PhDs for the same job?
Congratulations Lisa!
Yes. But it also levels the playing field (down, admittedly) for people whose English isn’t their first language. I use it all the time in German and am super super grateful for it. I hope Germans don’t immediately delete what I send them 🤔
How about you??
Here are cool network plots where strains cluster by how similar they are and you can color the data according to your metadata (here colors are countries)
Here it’s showing where along the genome strains vary - you can check what genes are involved
Here it’s plotting ANI against APSS so you can see how mutations vary according to changes in genome structure
Announcing StrainVis! 🦠🧫🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
This nifty web-based tool allows you to visualize your strain level analyses. You can combine ANI and synteny based analyses and it will make all kinds of cool publication ready plots for you - examples follow. By Hagay Enav and Inbal Paz:
This is a great post doc opportunity- fantastic system, first-rate science, awesome PI
But what about the PI who wanted it yesterday?
There is a lot of inertia in the system because of the cohort effect: the older the director, the more likely it’s a man. The MPG has been hiring women but the positions tend to only become vacant when a director (typically a man) retires. Once in a director position, people tend to stay.
Suma to boot! Way to set the bar!
And I look up to you!! I’m looking forward to following your work!
Join @berasymbionts.bsky.social , @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social and us for a postdoc on the remarkable developmental biology of symbiosis!
Applications are due March 25th 🪲🦠
@johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social
Great to see Liam @liamfitzstevens.bsky.social in this video!
If you want freedom to work on what you are curious about with secure funding until you retire, and you love rural areas near the sea, this is for you. 🧫🦠
Fantastic work by @maxplanckcampus.bsky.social colleague @luisapallares.bsky.social showing how environmental perturbation increases gene expression variability and thereby unmasks genetic regulation for transcriptional robustness in #Drosophila
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Congrats Hadeer!!
How specific are heritable symbioses?
And what can we learn from swapping obligate symbionts across host species?
We address this in our latest, led by @inespons.bsky.social & in our collaboration w/ @microbiome.bsky.social 🦠🪲 Out today in @natcomms.nature.com!
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hearing you speak German with a Swiss accent is almost as good as the beautiful videos they showed and the nice report!
very grateful to these authors for their clear thinking. I’ve used “co-evolution” in the past without understanding what I was writing (there is hardly any evidence for this in the human gut microbiome)
From now on I will sit on papers by guys. Either that or change my name to Rudy.
It hasn’t changed at all!
Great to see a new Professor Ruth!
Excited to publish another PhD project within the IMPRS at the University of Tübingen:
🧬 Find everything you need to know here: lnkd.in/gTfGNYR3
📅 Application Deadline: 19 January 2026
🔗 Apply here: lnkd.in/gWGf2w2g
#PhDPosition #Bioinformatics#GenomeMining #Antibiotics #PhD #MicrobialGen
They’re stealing from us. They are stealing from us and we have to put a stop to this. This cannot stand.