Given that clonal biofilms of single bacterial species rapidly diversify into niche specialists, how do biofilms of multiple species evolve?
A 🧵 featuring new collaborative pubs:
1. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
2. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is brilliant
01.03.2026 19:38 — 👍 22 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0So I pleased to announce the conceptual spawn of FigTree: PearTree (acronym still to be finalised). If you want to dive right in it is hosted as a web app here: artic-network.github.io/peartree (click the “Example...” button for immediate candy and then click every button you can find).
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These wee birds are just zen
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28.02.2026 00:19 — 👍 27 🔁 5 💬 5 📌 3But this is so new that we 100% need more perspective and "cautionary tales" from people who have looked at these data in detail and thought deeply about these questions !!
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"not perfect" for prophages either, "very not perfect" for lytic viruses 😁
We touch on this a bit in our "host prediction" review www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
and the Sullivan lab has done benchmarking that highlights the potential noise in these data
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Also, g’damnit I need to write up the “Hi-C is not perfect when identifying plasmids and host cells” paper
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New @plosbiology.org code sharing policy. In this Editorial, @npariente.bsky.social and Lauren Cadwallader explain the policy and offer guidance on compliance, noting that code sharing remains less well understood than equivalent requirements for data and ethics.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
We’re recruiting new Research Group Leaders!
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On this day on February 26, 1948, the Max Planck Society was formally founded in Göttingen as the successor organization to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, in the cafeteria of the KWS's aerodynamic testing facility in Göttingen.
Happy birthday to....well, to us, actually! 😉🎂🥳 On this day on February 26, 1948, the Max Planck Society was formally founded in Göttingen as the successor organization to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, in the cafeteria of the KWS's aerodynamic testing facility in Göttingen.
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Courtesy of @martibartfast.bsky.social , we have a new release of AllTheBacteria which adds another 322,920 assemblies, covering all ENA (illumina, isolate) prokaryotes to May 2025.
allthebacteria.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ov...
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How do bacterial stress responses control prophage activation and horizontal gene transfer?
Join us at St Andrews to dissect Clp protease–mediated regulation in Staphylococcus aureus.
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Reflections on MVIF #46 (Feb. 9-11)
We brought together researchers across continents for an inspiring exploration of microbiome science. Whether joining from the Atlantic (ATL) or Pacific (PAC) regions, our community connected to advance knowledge that transcends borders.
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MicrobeAtlas is now published in Cell. 🌐🌎🦠
Explore the paper and resource to see what large-scale microbiome data reveal about global ecological patterns:
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
For a concrete application, see our recent work on “Community conservatism”:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Scientists: for a new story, I have one big question—>
What is a “good day” in the lab?
I’m looking for epic examples of the best day ever to general criteria for what constitutes a “good day” compared to a nothing-burger day.
Ping me if you have examples to share!
Re-posts appreciated!
Environmental microbiology connects climate change, the bioeconomy, and One Health—but not in the way most people think. Microbes control carbon, enable sustainable technologies, and shape health across ecosystems. Brian Badgley, Ph.D., explains why that matters now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fXq...
24.02.2026 20:05 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Now published: our work using phylodynamics from surveillance data to quantify and experimentally validate the fitness impact of antibiotic resistance determinants & how this changes with patterns of antibiotic use: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Our FY25 Progress Report is now live! We broke our own record by sequencing more than 1Pb of data in a year—on top of serving 2,627 users w/active proposals, plus 17K researchers making use of our data.
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Full report: https://jgi.doe.gov/user-science/science-stories/2025-progress-report
Happy 38th birthday to the #LTEE!
#BOTD in 1988.
Keep on evolving!
#science #evolution #microbiology
🧵 New paper out in @PlantPhysiology! We asked: how do trees talk to their fungal partners during ectomycorrhizal symbiosis? Turns out, tiny secreted peptides play a big role. 1/
Read the full paper here 👇
academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
Today, my mom asked me if I ever considered publishing in Science Magazine to reach a broader audience... Thanks, Mom. #oceanography 🌊🤦♀️🙄
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