Oh no! A leaf has fallen on Steve! Somebody PLEASE HELP!!

birds: they will never email you. and that’s a promise.

“We must learn to live peacefully live the gentle dolphin”

Marine Biologist: these species of dolphin are entirely covered in scars from fighting all day every day. They hunt sharks for fun and the juveniles get high off of puffer fish.

It was a virology paper so I suspect “a recent paper” can be a decade old. A 15 year old assemblier (without any new updates) would be ancient 👴🏼

Speaker at a conference: it’s a good thing there’s a method published a few years ago. *Refers to a paper published in 2011*

M8, that’s 15 years ago 🫠

Now comes the annual “do I want to redo all my analysis with the new database” 🙂‍↔️

"They don't agree with each other half the time but things eventually get done"

"Pretty huge. It consists of 3 teams. Me, myself and I."

At this point, we should shame conference organisers for exploiting people 🚮

It’s the fish. The bastard knows how to pose 😤

A photo of a great tit

A photo of a European Robin

Maybe the real knowledge is the birbs we observed along the way

A selfie of me (in running gear) with the salmon of knowledge. There’s running stats on my shirt stating distance 22.01km, pace 5:13min/km, and a time of 1h 54m.

The salmon of knowledge refused to share its knowledge 😤

All the more reason to have an army of library dogs 🐕

New nominative determinism just dropped

All libraries need a fluffy dog. I don’t make the rules

A steel statue of a seal

The jog there consists of Sammy the seal 🦭

Two guys standing in front of the Belfast Victoria parkrun sign. Above it, there’s a Strava stat with a distance of 5.08km, pace 3:52min/km, and time of 19m 38s.

When in Belfast, do the fastest parkrun course in the UK 🏃🏽‍♂️⚡️

Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It has been too long. I defo miss all the random chats from pre Twitter exodus

I saw you’re giving a talk too! Look forward to catching up.

A blind chow chow dog with a pink bow

First skeet in a while. Travelling to #microbio26 today and met this blind baby with a bow 💝

Maybe I’m in the wrong side of microbiome research 🍫

Protein structure alignment significance is often exaggerated Machine learning has generated millions of high-quality predicted protein structures, creating a need for computationally efficient structure search algorithms and robust estimates of statistical sign...

"We show that unrelated proteins have a universal tendency towards convergent evolution of secondary and tertiary motifs, causing an excess of high-scoring FP alignment... previous methods routinely overestimate significance by up to six orders of magnitude."
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Really pleased to see this study led by @raymondkiu.bsky.social now published in @natcomms.nature.com!

We show that probiotics help modulate the preterm infant 👶#microbiome - to reduce ARGs, lower MDR bacteria 🦠 & increase beneficial Bifido ✨

Huge team effort!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Archaea produce peptidoglycan hydrolases that kill bacteria Archaea regularly interact with bacteria but reports of archaea killing bacteria are very rare. This study shows that many archaea encode peptidoglycan hydrolases, which specifically target bacterial ...

Archaea are often surrounded by bacteria. But is there ever active conflict between the two? Can archaea kill bacteria? If so, how do they do it?

Work by @romainstrock.bsky.social shows that some archaea can kill bacteria by secreting peptidoglycan hydrolases. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

I definitely agree with you there. I ended up biting the bullet and paying for premium. The ads on my phone just makes the whole experience horrendous. 🫠

Do you listen to ads on Spotify too?

Probiotics Can Help or Hinder Gut Recovery After Antibiotic Treatment

New paper is out from our lab showing that some probiotics can accelerate and prolong the return of colonization resistance to C. difficile after antibiotics.
news.ncsu.edu/2025/07/prob...

She should have tried harder and growled while she’s at it