Well, their review was obviously discredited… But the journal did not disclose what actions were taken, other than to note they have seen an increase of such incidences and are working to determine how to handle it… imo, it should be reported to the home institution as scientific malpractice.
🚨 New paper! Very excited to have been part of this collaborative work looking at the effect of antibiotics on the gut microbiota even years after prescription. Amazing effort led by Gabriel @tovefall.bsky.social and many others published today in Nature Medicine!
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I'm hiring my first postdoc! Apply by 20/4/26, position #20443. Seeking an environmental microbiologist with experience in metagenomics (preferably viromics) and molecular biology. Experience with targeted metabolomics is a plus.
international.au.dk/about/profil...
Just read the abstract 🫠 via Alexander Magazinov. I don't believe he is on Bluesky.
The School of Biosciences at University of Birmingham is recruiting FIVE Assistant/Associate Profs in areas including fungal biology, plant science and bioengineering. Full details below 🍄🌾🧬🧫
Yesss Italy!!!
This is disgusting. Many of the brightest, most engaged students Ive taught - and the ones who graduate with the highest grades - have had no A levels. This white man on a 6-figure salary wants to slash access to higher education for people who aren’t clones of him and he is just plain wrong:
New paper out! We sat down and compiled all viral work in marine sediments. The water column has been getting a second look for viral interactions, its time for sediment to have the same!
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
🧵 1/10 New paper out in @natmicrobiol.nature.com from my postdoc at @mib-wur.bsky.social! 🎉
How eukaryote-like was the archaeal ancestor of eukaryotes? Sequence searches alone can't tell us — so we used protein structure prediction to look deeper. 🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
As the ‘growth agenda’ is increasingly dominating UK research funding, we scientists also need to push back against this drive to line the pockets of the super rich
Interested in microbial proteins and their diversity? 🖥️🧬🦠
We have recently released the Amino Acid Sequence Toolkit (AASTK). AASTK is designed to work with the GlobDB to create and work with datasets of protein sequences.
AASTK currently consists of 4 tools:
- CASM
- PASR
- CUGO
- Meta
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a figure from the linked paper which shows A) a world map and B) a schematic representation of various natural and artificial habitats, both annotated with information about which sulfur disproportionating bacteria have been found in the specific regions and environments
New paper from my 2nd PostDoc is now published in The ISME Journal by @isme-microbes.bsky.social!
#Sulfur disproportionation occurs globally across anoxic habitats & has multiple mechanisms of independent evolutionary origin academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
#Bacteria #Microbes #Evolution #DeepSea
A new era for #ONT amplicon sequencing?
We show that #ONT #amplicon sequencing now achieves accuracy sufficient for #ASV resolution using standard Illumina-based pipelines. We validated this by sequencing identical amplicons on #ONT and #PacBio. @nanoporetech.com www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Our new preprint introduces #kineochelins, a new group of #siderophores produced by the Antarctic soil actinomycete 🦠🔬🧫 #Actinokineospora sp. UV203
Kudos to the amazing Stanislava Králová & a fantastic team of collaborators 🤩
#microbiomesky
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Drop in overseas workers is ‘car crash’ for UK hospitals and care homes, say experts
In situ interrogation of microorganisms mediating hydrocarbon degradation journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs
The Epstein files grant us a rare glimpse into the kind of machinations that must be happening all the time. As @bylinetimes.bsky.social reveals, Trump's fixer, Steve Bannon, helped Boris Johnson overthrow Theresa May. Blatant foreign interference in our politics. 🧵
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...
Hiring: two 3-year Postdoc positions
We’re looking for postdocs who can design and run directed laboratory evolution experiments in microbial communities under electrochemical stimulation, and link adaptations to performance using shotgun meta-omics.
Turns out (says @jburnmurdoch.ft.com) it's not so much an oversupply of graduates in the UK (the same would be true of other similar countries but it's not) as an undersupply of the kind of jobs that a better-performing, more productive economy would supply.
Anaerobic riboflavin degradation by human gut Lachnospiraceae https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.13.705874v1
We already know that Russia has been using this technique for some time to train LLMs on their propaganda. This is without the danger of the tech-bros deliberately altering the output to match their own ideology.
At long last! Check out the link to our publication in @nature.com to learn more. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Doctoral researcher (m/f/d) Metalloenzymes in the nutrient metabolism of marine phytoplankton Scientist (m/f/d) Productivity and genetic connectivity of Baltic brown algae meadows Zwei Ausbildungsplätze (m/d/w) zum:zur Chemielaborant:in
🌊 Doctoral researcher (m/f/d) Metalloenzymes in the nutrient metabolism of marine phytoplankton
🌊 Scientist (m/f/d) Productivity and genetic connectivity of Baltic brown algae meadows
🌊 Zwei Ausbildungsplätze zum:zur Chemielaborant:in (m/w/d)
🔗 www.geomar.de/karriere-cam...
Our latest preprint: Together with the team of Jan Löwe, @danieltamarit.bsky.social and many others we discovered and characterized several Asgard tubulin genes and propose that microtubule architecture and dynamics evolved in Asgard archaea prior to eukaryogenesis
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Research into filamentous actinomycetes, the antibiotic producers, is in steep decline. Loads of natural products chemistry research worldwide but not much aimed at understanding their biology and ecology. The latter is key to unlocking their specialised metabolism
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New paper from my group in @science.org : "A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesise itself and its complementary strand" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Outstanding work by @edogia.bsky.social
Ok, I'm on board now. Time to abolish billionaires.
If you would like to help put pressure on the @royalsociety.org to finally take meaningful action on this issue, you can politely decline their requests for your labour (eg invitations to review or to sit on their editorial boards or grant panels), and refer to the arguments in this blogpost.
