Lucas Venegas

Decision letter for "The Role of Human-Pig Interactions in Modulating Gut Microbiota, Stress, and Performance"

Young pig waiting for a gentle human handling

Happy to share: The Role of Human–Pig Interactions in Modulating Gut Microbiota, Stress, and Performance, has been recently accepted in the Porcine Health Management journal.

I would like to congratulate all the authors, specially to Daniela Luna for all the work done ! Stay tuned for the next one!

A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community.

reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...

A view of Québec city after a huge storm.

A moment after the storm.

#Quebec
#Sunset

Planetary microbiome structure and generalist-driven gene flow across disparate habitats Microbes are ubiquitous on Earth, forming microbiomes that sustain macroscopic life and biogeochemical cycles. Microbial dispersion, driven by natural processes and human activities, interconnects mic...

Our new preprint is out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
In this study, we present the largest systematic analysis of microbiome structure and function, integrating 85K uniformly processed metagenomes from diverse habitats worldwide.
@podlesny.bsky.social @jonas-bio.bsky.social @borklab.bsky.social

Beautiful landscape ! Do you have any recommendations to visit in Bodø?

Blanking on blanks: few insect microbiota studies control for contaminants | mBio Our systematic review reveals a major lack of methodological rigor within the field of research on insect-associated microbiota. The small percentage of studies that control for contamination suggests...

On the importance of negative controls in microbiota research (this one with a focus on insect microbiota) journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

Ten simple rules for fostering creativity in research labs Research lab groups are hotspots for the education of the next generation of scientists, and making these units work as creatively as possible is essential for solving pressing issues in biology, the ...

Happy to share that my paper on creativity in research labs is out in the "Ten Simply Rules" article series.

Ten simple rules for fostering creativity in research labs

I hope you find it to be useful.

#AcademicSky

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In harmony? A scoping review of methods to combine multiple 16S amplicon data sets Robust evidence on relationships between the human microbiome and health are critical for understanding and improving the human condition. However, there is little information about methodological app...

Really excited to share a new preprint on data combination in 16S rRNA studies. I'm going to come back and do a skeetorial shortly, but I wanted to put it out first.
In 60 studies w/ 2+ microbiome datasets, we looked at data source, data description, bioinfo & analysis

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Stacks Journal | Create better science, together. A scientific journal designed for ethics and ease. Publishing articles, Special Issues, and entire journals.

Here is a great new initiative in #ScientificPublishing:

* Transparant and collaborative peer review
* Recognition for peer reviewers
* Affordable publishing: single article submission is only $400 !

www.stacksjournal.org

Bacterial Diversity Associated with Terrestrial and Aquatic Snails The introduction of the holobiont concept has triggered scientific interest in depicting the structural and functional diversity of animal microbial symbionts, which has resulted in an unprecedented w...

while looking at the literature, we realised how understudied is this animals as #holobiont, so we put together all the relative current knowledge in this paper "#Bacterial #Diversity Associated with #Terrestrial and #Aquatic #Snails"
doi.org/10.3390/micr...
#SymbioSky #MikroSky ##hostmicrobiota

Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

...that the evidence does not support the notion that probiotics help recover the microbiome from antibiotics.

This is in line with a recent meta-analysis performed by an independent group of researchers (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...)

‼️ This does not mean that probiotics are useless ‼️ 5/🧵

Today we report that an engineered skin bacterium, swabbed gently on the head of a mouse, can unleash a potent antibody response against a pathogen. Could lead to topical vaccines that are applied in a cream. @djenetbousbaine.bsky.social led the charge... @natureportfolio.bsky.social 1/55

Frustrating - I reviewed a paper that was highly problematic, mainly in scientific rigour undermining most of the conclusions, so I recommend Reject. However the editor decides to Revise presumably due to the more positive comments from reviewer 2... /1

Pleased to see this out in @peercomjournal.bsky.social @peercommunityin.bsky.social
The effect of dietary #fish #oil replacement by #microalgae on the #gilthead #seabream #midgut bacterial #microbiota
@hostmicrobelit.bsky.social #SymbioSky #SciComm
peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

The older I get the more I understand how little I really know. I shudder at the certitude of my youth. Actually, it wasn’t really certitude; it was ego. We spend too much time reinforcing what we wish to be true….instead of learning. IMO.

I wrote about the backstory of our recently published metagenomic profiler called sylph (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), partially to celebrate the new migration to bluesky

Check out the blog here: jim-shaw-bluenote.github.io/blog/2024/de... -- and I apologize in advance for the lack of brevity :)

Coffee consumption is associated with intestinal Lawsonibacter asaccharolyticus abundance and prevalence across multiple cohorts - Nature Microbiology Coffee consumption is associated with the presence and abundance of a specific member of the human gut microbiome, Lawsonibacter asaccharolyticus, and changes to the plasma metabolome.

Enjoying this deep dive into the link between coffee and the microbiome

They found a microbe (Lawsonibacter asaccharolyticus) that is 4- to 8-fold more abundant in coffee drinkers, and correlates with coffee intake in worldwide populations

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

Estimates of microbiome heritability across hosts - Nature Microbiology In this Perspective, Morris and Bohannan discuss heritability of microbiome-mediated traits across hosts and future research questions with implications for animal and plant breeding.

Estimates of microbiome heritability across hosts.
#Microbiome #NatureMicrobiology #BioSky #SciSky 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The disciplinary matrix of holobiont biology Uniting life’s seen and unseen realms guides a conceptual advance in research

🚀Thrilled to announce our new #Science perspective on #holobiont #biology! 🎉

💡Read how considering #host-microbe interactions, can revolutionise #food production, #conservation, #medicine and more.🦠🌾🧬

Find the paper here👇 science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🧵👇 #hologenomics #collaboration #network