@benjjneb.bsky.social
Join us in Banff, CAN January 19-22 for the Keystone meeting on Microbiome Metabolism and Metabolites! Early scholarship deadline is September 23!
18.07.2025 13:08 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0My R35 renewal was pending for 9 months. It finally did get awarded though!
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Hope this is useful - consensus statement "Guidelines for preventing and reporting contamination in low-biomass microbiome studies" rdcu.be/er3Io
21.06.2025 19:59 — 👍 105 🔁 48 💬 2 📌 2
A screenshot of the termination notice showing "Outstanding Investigator Grants"
A screenshot of the termination notice with "This award is terminated effective the date of this award, due to unsafe antisemitic actions that suggest the institution lacks concern for the safety and wellbeing of Jewish students." highlighted
Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab
13.05.2025 23:37 — 👍 887 🔁 586 💬 146 📌 74
I had the opportunity to give my perspective to The Analytical Scientist about recent events. With this article, I hope to give a voice to others who may not have the ability to speak out. #StandUpForScience
theanalyticalscientist.com/business-edu...
A must-read for any microbiome researcher 🦠📐and a new addition to our #bestpractices series
Planning and describing a microbiome data analysis by @amydwillis.bsky.social and @davidandacat.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I am restarting the StatDivLab blog! Goal is rigorous but accessible statistics for microbiome science. Here's the new scope & welcome: 😽✉️📝
statdivlab.github.io/blog/index.h...
PS. I see you, friends. What a disaster. Please keep resisting, and encourage those around you to do the same.
Like most I don't know much but I have been starting every lab meeting with updates on the little I do know. There are also important reactions at my institution that folks in the lab need to understand -- like does the Uni's hiring freeze affect me as a rotating PhD student? (no)
18.02.2025 00:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We used this same idea in a recent paper in the vaginal microbiome context, and it appeared to pass the plausibility checks we were able to implement (i.e. inferred biomass went up in BV like communities). journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....
09.01.2025 20:00 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0This announcement is a little late (we're just starting to use bluesky), but #QIIME 2 2024.10 was release this October! Lots of exciting new features with many more still on the way!
forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime-2-20...
#microbiome
#bioinformatics
#microbiomesky
Assessing dietary intake of humans and animals is important to understand interactions in the gut, be it host-microbiota interactions or drug-microbiota-host interactions. We showed that #metaproteomics can serve as a tool for dietary assessment in stool samples.
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Updated references for taxonomic assignment in the DADA2 R package are now available: Silva v138.2, RDP v19 and Greengenes2 2024.09.
benjjneb.github.io/dada2/traini...
