Jen Guthrie

When norovirus hits the Olympics: The science behind the spread Norovirus outbreaks at events like the Olympics are more than logistical setbacks. They reveal how the virus’s biology and the realities of mass gatherings make containment difficult.

theconversation.com/when-norovir...

How do bacterial pangenomes evolve, what controls their dynamics, why do they exist?
Fitting a mechanistic model to 450 species from allthebacteria.org suggesting fast vs slow gene exchange (i.e. amount of MGEs) is a major differentiating factor, correlated with phylogeny rather than lifestyle

Kick off the first Genomic Horizons webinar of the year with @bede.im on “Practical panhuman host sequence depletion for responsible data sharing”.

📅 12 February 2026
⏰ 14:00 – 15:00 UTC
🔗 Register here: bit.ly/4kiYW80

Open letter to the Honourable Mélanie Joly, minister responsible for Statistics Canada - CCPA Statistics Canada is a world leader and its work is at the heart of an informed democracy. Cuts to the agency must be reversed.

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'As we watch in horror the assault on knowledge and science in the United States—the assault on truth—cuts at Statistics Canada send precisely the wrong message. We urge you to reverse course.' @policyalternatives.ca

very true 😂

My final #ESCMIDGlobal session for Sunday is Tuberculosis: where are we now and where should we be.

Not really my announcement to make--I am but a lesser co-author--but IQ-TREE 3 has just been released!

(Most credit to Minh Bui and @roblanfear.bsky.social and their labs)

ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Third measles death This is not normal. For three reasons.

So far there have been three measles deaths in under six weeks in the ongoing US measles outbreak.

Prior to this year there had only been three measles deaths in the United States in total in the entire last thirty years.

Alan Christoffels: Building bioinformatics in Africa The leader of SANBI on efforts to address skills shortages and the lack of diversity

Due recognition. Cannot express my joy in seeing nature publish the pioneering role of Alan Christoffels and the South African National Bioinformatics institute in African capacity development. I started SANBI. Alan was one of our first graduates!

doi: doi.org/10.1038/d441...

ww (@ww@tldr.nettime.org) Attached: 2 images So, three nameservers out of seven for the pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov are broken. If you try to look at the web site, you stand a 3/7 chance of encountering something that is broken. ...

Yes, all of nih.gov going down is bad of course, regardless of whether it’s malicious or a technical oops that will get fixed eventually (tldr.nettime.org/@ww/11408997...), but I do encourage everyone to learn about the federated nature of the INSDC (including Genbank and PubMed)

Same!!

Given the MMWR isn’t coming out, CDC and NIH and FDA may or may not be operating again anytime soon and the rise of all these diseases which so happen to be airborne (TB, Flu, CoVID, Measles, Pertussis etc.), masking is going to become even more important.

I'm putting together a Microbial Bioinformatics starter pack to help get everyone connected in our community. Let me know if there are any bluesky users to be added and share so that twitter refugees can tune back in to the fantastic world microbes go.bsky.app/3ezLo7e

Home A tool for generating consensus long-read assemblies for bacterial genomes - rrwick/Autocycler

New year, new assemblies!
I'm excited to announce Autocycler, my new tool for consensus assembly of long-read bacterial genomes!
It's the successor to Trycycler, designed to be faster and less reliant on user intervention.
Check it out: github.com/rrwick/Autoc...
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Michigan reports a human case of H5N1 bird flu, the nation’s second linked to outbreak in dairy cows The second case of H5N1 bird flu in a human is linked to the current outbreak in dairy cows.

BREAKING: Michigan reports a human infection of #H5N1 #birdflu in a farm worker with exposure to infected dairy cows. www.statnews.com/2024/05/22/b...