🦉 New publication! 🦆
BirT: A Novel Primer Pair for Avian Environmental DNA Metabarcoding
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Want to amplify birds from #eDNA samples? This new primer pair is the way to go!
@dirch3.bsky.social, Rachel Empey, Megan Cowperthwaite, Katerina Coveny #metabarcoding
Due March 31, 2026. Microgrant for 10 people from historically underfunded geographies/institutions to attend the Global eDNA Conference, Seattle, WA Oct 28-30. Covers 4 nights hotel and conference registration; does NOT cover travel and other expenses. #eDNA #grant forms.gle/99jEZj6K8cD7...
25.02.2026 18:23 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Check out this list of awesome #virome tools and be sure to add yours!
github.com/shandley/awe...
#phagesky #microsky
See you this Wedneday 😀
Join us for an evening of cutting-edge microbiology, industry insights, and great conversation!
📅 Wednesday, 25 February 2026
⏰ 6:00–7:30pm
📍 The Burrow (Beer Garden Room), West End
🍕 Free pizza provided!
👉 Register via the QR code on the poster.
Tool of the week: Comparing microbial #genomes just got easier. EDGAR – comparative genomics without the headaches. Publication-ready figures, genome similarity analyses, phylogenetic trees. All in one platform. 🧬
edgar3.computational.bio.uni-giessen.de
EMBL International PhD Programme - summer recruitment 2026! 👀
Research groups across EMBL are recruiting now! www.embl.org/about/info/e...
Don’t miss this opportunity to receive dedicated mentoring while doing interdisciplinary research.
Left: Probiotic strain abundance quantification in two probiotic intervention trials. Top left: Based on qPCR data, there was a significant enrichment in Akkermansia muciniphila and Bifidobacterium infantis probiotics in Validation Study A at Week 12 compared to Week 0. There was no enrichment of Clostridium beijerinckii, Clostridium butyricum, and Anaerobutyricum hallii probiotics. Bottom left: Based on shotgun metagenomic data, there was significant enrichment in Enterocloster bolteae, Flavonifractor plautii, Sellimonas intestinalis, and Clostridium symbiosum in Validation Study B at Week 12 compared to Week 0. Only E. bolteae and F. plautii showed notable enrichment above the relative abundance threshold of 0.005. Right: Switching from a low- to high-fiber diet in the Arivale cohort causes non-uniform shifts in MCMM-predicted butyrate production. Simulating a dietary shift from a low-fiber standard European diet (blue points) to a high-fiber diet (red points) results in a non-uniform increase in butyrate production across the study population (N = 1,786). Points from the same individual are connected by a horizontal gray line.
#Prebiotic & probiotic interventions can induce therapeutically relevant shifts in your #microbiome, but their effects vary. @gibbological.bsky.social &co show that metabolic models can predict #probiotic engraftment & shifts in SCFA production after intervention @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4asmMuV
20.02.2026 17:35 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Reminder: We are accepting nominations for the 2026 Microbiome Medal Laureate, honoring excellence in research, mentorship, and service!
🗓 Deadline: April 10
📩 Submit nominations to microbiomecenter@psu.edu
🔗 www.psu.edu/news/researc...
We would love to host a #postdoctoral fellow in Data-Driven Life Science!
If you have expertise in #microbiome analyses, #multi-omics studies and/or #machinelearning, please get in touch to discuss potential projects.
More infos:
www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...
#bioinformatics #datascience
You gotta be kidding me
gift link
www.wsj.com/tech/persona...
The 'but I like this meme'. Top panel: 'The public' referring to Jeremy Clarkson standing between two cars. The red car on the right says: 'Antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Jeremy says: "This is brilliant" Bottom panel: Jeremy points to the silver car which is captioned: 'Antibiotic resistance' and says: "But I like this"
The language we use in science is important.
Repeatedly, the public understands 'antibiotic resistance' over 'antimicrobial resistance'
Clarity > correctness. #AMR will continue until messaging improves
#AntibioticResistance #SciComm
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
The surge of HPAI in cattle has had an intersting side effect - way more research, and detections, of influenza D virus.
👉 www.science.org/content/arti...
a collage of 32 invertebrate drawings on a black background with the list of their scientific names in the middle. DToLtober 2024 1 | Thyatira batis 2 | Sphecodes monilicornis 3 | Halyzia sedecimguttata 4 | Bugulina stolonifera 5 | Meta bourneti 6 | Scaeva pyrastri 7 | Ocypus olens 8 | Vespa crabro 9 | Nematostella vectensis 10 | Papilio machaon 11 | Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale 12 | Alitta virens 13 | Allacma fusca 14 | Andrena fulva 15 | Anoplius nigerrimus 16 | Aporia crataegi 17 | Patella pellucida 18 | Bombylius discolor 19 | Chrysoperla carnea 20 | Diadumene lineata 21 | Calliphora vomitoria 22 | Apoderus coryli 23 | Gibbula magus 24 | Mimas tiliae 25 | Lineus longissimus 26 | Parasteatoda lunata 27 | Melolontha melolontha 28 | Marthasterias glacialis 29 | Emmelina monodactyla 30 | Gymnosoma rotundatum 31 | Laothoe populi extra | Nephrotoma flavescens
a large widescreen comic in yellow, light green, dark green, of scientists talking about their projects at the Vector Kolymbari Meeting 2024. Panels are split into days and Session numbers.
drawing of a beefly and mosquito standing in front christmas trees decorated with yellow lights’, both are standing by an AB blood bag with mugs, the beefly is worried, the mosquito has a christmas hat and spices in a mug full of red liquid.
hand holding an A4 sticker sheet with various famous memes redrawn with mosquitoes as the main characters. Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Together Captain Picard Facepalm Shia LaBeouf's Intense Motivational Speech / Just Do It Buzz And Woody This is Fine Take all my money Hide the Pain Harold I am cringe But I am free Math Lady Clown at computer Computer stare Spiderman pointing at Spiderman Treat. Yo. Self. Pepe Silvia Homer comfy cinnamon roll Spiderman computer desk Disaster girl Kermit sipping tea Drunk Kitty Peter and Miles crouching
Hello #PortfolioDay, I'm Petra, a staff scientist working on malaria mosquitoes, but I also try to make science more approachable and whimsical with my #SciArt doodles 🦟
14.01.2025 19:36 — 👍 187 🔁 36 💬 5 📌 2
Thanks to Robert Mitchell from UNIST, South Korea, who showed us how he can find beneficial bacteria in fecal samples to fight resistant E. Coli 🦠, and reduce animal testing with the Robogut 🤖, a lab simulation of the human gut! And, shoutout to Lorne's Uncle Donut! 🍩 #lornei&i
19.02.2026 00:52 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
Something very different and cool for my lab. Sequencing a 4.4mb TB genome using the Artic-style PCR amplicon method with >5128 primers in two reactions 🤯
Enables culture-free WGS for TB!
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
ISME20 Abstract Deadline Approaching
The call for abstracts for ISME20 closes 27 February.
Submit your abstracts > isme-microbes.org/call-for-abs...
#microbiology #marinemicrobiology #marinemicrobiome #microbiome #science #ocean #microbes #ISME20
Don’t forget – abstracts for #ASM2026 are open! www.theasmmeeting.org.au/abstract-sub...
11.12.2025 23:59 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 Don't forget late-breaking abstract submissions are open for #ESCMIDGlobal2026 until this Friday, 13 Feb. Submit your original research in topics such as new drugs, emerging pathogens and outbreak emergencies.
https://ow.ly/JohA50Y7M8r
#IDSky #clinmicro
Our new review in Clinical Microbiology & Infection lays out a roadmap for the clinical impact of microbiome research built on:
🔬 scientific credibility
⚖️ regulatory & funding readiness
🤝 stakeholder engagement
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reducing haystacks to needles - ViralClust: A #Nextflow pipeline to cluster viral sequences www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧬💻🧪 github.com/rnajena/vira...
31.01.2026 10:28 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The upcoming edition of the #eDNA #Metabarcoding course is almost full - only 2 seats left.
If interested: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
Use the Human Microbiome Compendium data!
We made the data and code available, & created a website and R package to navigate the compendium. Links:
- Website: microbiomap.org
- Data: zenodo.org/records/1373...
- R package: blekhmanlab.github.io/MicroBioMap/
- Code: github.com/blekhmanlab/...
One of my favorite covers at Cell, so wallpaper-esque with a myriad of virus types. The cover represents a cool paper from Mang Shi, @eddieholmes.bsky.social et al
Using artificial intelligence to document the hidden RNA virosphere
shorturl.at/uMag5
@cellcellpress.bsky.social #sciart #AI
SegFinder: an automated tool for identifying RNA virus genome segments through co-occurrence in multiple sequenced samples https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.19.608591v1
19.08.2024 23:47 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Our lab's paper describing the North American H5N1 epizootic is out now in Nature! So thrilled to have this out, and congratulations to @lambod50.bsky.social for all the fantastic work on this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
12.11.2025 19:33 — 👍 139 🔁 66 💬 6 📌 7
📢Join us for the next ECR #Viromics Webinar
"How viral evolution is shaped during long-term infections of immune-compromised hosts"
🎙️Jonas Fuchs, University Hospital Freiburg, Germany
🗓️11 Feb 2026, 4 PM CET
📍Online/Zoom (register for login details)
👉 evbc.uni-jena.de/events/ecr-v...
A hex sticker with a text that reads Hello Data Science with green, yellow and pink scatterplot points in the background. There is a web address www.hellodata.science
📖 Big news! We just released the first five chapters of our new book, Hello Data Science. It is a fully open-access resource written for beginners. Please help us spread the word! A few points about the book are below 👇
🔗 www.hellodata.science
#rstats #datascience #tidyverse
LAUNCH DAY🎙️
We're thrilled to share the very first episode of #MVIFconversations w/ Jack Gilbert 💫
Stefanie Malan-Müller & @cpavloud.bsky.social talked with @gilbertjacka.bsky.social about how microbes shape our health and the invisible living world around us.
Give it a listen & spread the word!
Planning is underway for the 2026 Metagenomic Virus Discovery workshop. Last years workshop was a great success with 22 participants representing 11 countries. If you would like to know more, get in contact with our organising committee at mvdworkshop2025@gmail.com
16.01.2026 12:17 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
In our recent @nature.com Communications study, we compared traditional #poultry swabs with environmental #metagenomics, sampling #air, cage surfaces, carcass wash water, and drinking water in two Cambodian live bird markets. 🦠😷🔬🧪🐓🥼
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
