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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.

I don’t know that!!!

Yes it looks awesome! Some of us were coincidentally just going on about how the taxonomy keeps changing….this might save us!

That’s so logical- I am not sure microbiologists will be able to handle it

Wait, is this a new taxonomy??

🦠🧫 a collaboration with the Institute for Tropical Medicine in Tübingen and CERMEL in Gabon @cmfi.bsky.social

Infection with gut parasites correlates with gut microbiome diversity across human populations in Africa Soil-transmitted helminths (STH) are common in (sub)tropical regions and primarily affect impoverished populations. These parasites reside in the gut, where they interact with both the microbiota a...

Happy to share this paper by doctoral student Mirabeau Mbong Ngwese who assessed gut microbiome associations with soil transmitted parasites for adults and kids in Gabon and corroborated findings with data from other studies from Africa www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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I’m always saying “wait, is that in the gut? I’ve never heard of that!” And my lab members roll their eyes again. And in the meantime it was just B. vulgatus again.

Ok yes I knew this looked familiar! My grand mother used to be able to say the name of this place: we were always in awe. Whoever named it must have been dumped by a microbiologist.

Is that a Welsh species?

But who’s swooping in to save him?

You spend your life learning the natural history of the prokaryotes with all this complex taxonomy and then right when you are so proud of your well earned wisdom all the names change just in time for your brain to be too old to handle it

Congratulations Kelsey!!!! Can’t wait to follow your lab’s science adventures!🦠🧫

Yes

Come to be our colleague! Center of Paris, excellent facilities, research spanning the whole range of basic and biomedical life science topics, enthusiastic and collaborative colleagues, crème brûlée every Friday... What else could one want?

Cool new evolutionary angle on rumen microbiomes 🧫🦠

Excited to share our new @natecoevo.nature.com
paper. We identified microbes found across nearly all ruminants that act as the functional backbone of both the rumen ecosystem and the host, with major implications for food security and climate change mitigation. (1/8)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Spectral tuning and signaling of diverse and most red sensitive visual rhodopsins that drive high colour discrimination in Mantis Shrimp eyes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

They are referencing “Alice’s restaurant” the thanksgiving antiwar song by Arlo Guthrie. It’s very funny

Thanks for posting this gem. We have disappearing coffee mugs that threatens their population and the entire fork collection went extinct in one unchronicled event.

Yeah I don’t know Hassan. I’m
Not sure upper management signed off on this “leaving” idea of yours