Kate Howell

Hi there folks- turns out Aussie universities are looking for new people! Are you based in the US, tenured (is that what you call a continuing position?) and feel like the lure of the southern hemisphere is calling you? Happy to take questions :)

Send us your papers celebrating yeasts!

Good to find you over 'here'. Thanks for the great work you do.

HCMPH Symposium | Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health We are delighted to invite everyone to the seventh annual Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center (HCMPH) symposium on May 19, 2025. We are happy to

We are excited to announce that registration for our annual HCMPH Symposium is online. The symposium is on May 19th at HSPH. The theme this year is the microbiome's role in food systems but please join us for any and all microbiome discussion and research updates.

hsph.harvard.edu/research/mic...

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We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how:

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#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

‘Graveyard of corals’ found after extreme heat and cyclones hit northern Great Barrier Reef Marine scientists say one area around Cooktown and Lizard Island had lost more than a third of its live hard coral after bleaching event Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Reefs across the north of the Great Barrier Reef have seen “substantial losses” of coral cover after a summer of extreme heat, two cyclones and major flooding, according to the first results of surveys from government marine scientists. After the most widespread coral bleaching event seen on the world’s biggest reef system, the Australian Institute of Marine Science said one area around Cooktown and Lizard Island had lost more than a third of its live hard coral – the biggest annual drop in 39 years of monitoring. Continue reading...

‘Graveyard of corals’ found after extreme heat and cyclones hit northern Great Barrier Reef

Yes please!

FINALLY found the cool kids
go.bsky.app/PyUwqLU

Thinking about peer review: I reviewed 20 papers this year, and sent out 9 for review. What about you?

I'd love to join :)

The University of Melbourne Starter Pack is live! 🎉

Whether you're a researcher, student, or staff at #UniMelb, join in to connect with our amazing and growing community here. Know someone we missed? Tag them below and help spread the word! #HigherEd #Research #Melbourne #Australia

Hi Jen! I'm over here too :)

Want to make beautiful scientific figures? Easy!

The NIH released a library of 2000+ free scientific illustrations called *BioArt*.

Check it out! bioart.niaid.nih.gov

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky 🧠🟦 🧪

Oh yeah
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

bsky hibernation is over. I cannot take the 'stuff' on the bird anymore. 👋

Very pleased to see our collaborative paper out there in the world! Can plant-based fermented foods help with MetS and T2D? The answers are here.... doi.org/10.1017/S095...

mvif program october 2023

The FULL program w/ abstracts for #MVIF #22 is OUT www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/futu...

⭐️ Keynote: 
 🇦🇺 @linsalrob.bsky.social

⭐️ Selected talks: 
🇨🇦 Courtney Hoskinson
🇺🇸 Alex V Carr
🇸🇬 Minghao Chia

⭐️ Highlights:
🇵🇭 Aldwin Adiong
🇮🇳 Deep Chanda

BugSigDB captures patterns of differential abundance across a broad range of host-associated microbi... A database of microbial signatures is used for systematic comparison of differential abundance patterns.

There are limitations but this is a neat tool to play around with
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Search for a microbiome species/genus and it'll return studies in which that taxon was differentially abundant
bugsigdb.org

(I wish we had something like this for mechanistic microbiome studies)

#learning the ropes

Announcing publication of our new paper; a grand collaboration with colleagues in France and published in community journal PCI Microbiology. Read all about it here: peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....
@microbialus.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social

Loving the new socials! I feel fresh and new again.

Ah, you archea peeps are so cool 😎

Nice to meet you! What flavour of microbiology to you prefer? Me, yeasties.

Well hello! @academic-chatter.bsky.social just joined from the bird app. Nice to be here…anyone interested in microbiology?