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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s notable to me that TWO of the most recent women who have won a NoBel Prize were denied tenure from their institutions: Anne Carson and Katalin Karikó

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 07/10/2026

This 2014 piece by @edyong209.bsky.social is still very relevant 12 years later when trying to make sense of these comparisons of microbiomes. It's complicated! www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/o...

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Opinion | There Is No ‘Healthy’ Microbiome (Published 2014)

The same microbes can be helpful allies or dangerous threats.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 09/10/2026

Glad to share this new Microbial Primer on Mirror Biology written w/ Jolien Sweere. It's free to all in the @microbiologysociety.org journal Microbiology, edited by Steve Diggle. Thanks for this opportunity to outline our scientific knowledge of this significant topic. doi.org/10.1099/mic....

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Forbes @forbes.com · 09/10/2026

New York officials claimed the man was with a five-year-old child in his car while an ICE agent shot at him, although the child is physically unharmed.

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ICE Agent Shoots Man In New York—Mamdani, Hochul Say 5-Year-Old Was In Car

New York officials claimed the man was with a five-year-old child in his car while an ICE agent shot at him, although the child is physically unharmed.

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 09/10/2026

In awarding this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wants to remind the world that the rule of law – national and international – underpins the system we have set up to ensure peace and resolve conflicts non-violently. Peace requires justice.

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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Congrats to the @microbiome.bsky.social lab! I loved reading the preprint when it came out -- looking forward to reading the final product. Excited to see that MEDI (doi.org/10.1038/s422...) was useful for deriving more dietary insight in this study 🎉 @cdiener.com

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Metagenomic estimation of dietary intake from human stool - Nature Metabolism

Diener et al. present a method that allows the estimation of dietary intake from human stool by detecting food-derived DNA in faecal metagenomes.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

New @science.org A breakthrough in understanding why do we get fever and an inflammation response to vaccines. The gut microbiome chronic production of flagellin Paves the way to potentially prevent these acute phase side-effects in the future www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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The human gut microbiome primes fever after vaccination

Fever is a common adverse reaction to vaccination, contributing to vaccine hesitancy and reduced uptake. To understand variation in fever risk, we longitudinally profiled fecal microbiota, oral temper...

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 08/10/2026

This year’s #NobelPrize laureate Anne Carson was born in 1950 in Toronto, Canada. In 1981, she published her doctoral thesis in Classics entitled ‘Odi et Amo Ergo Sum’, and has, throughout her entire career, combined poetry writing with translation work and teaching at various universities.

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Matt Olm @mattolm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My final postdoc project is out today in Nature! We show microbes co-migrated with humans out of Africa; three independent methods agree, and timing matches archaeological / genetic evidence (Fig. 4c). Seeing Fig. 4c for 1st time was one of my most memorable "eureka" moments! doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Prehistoric global migration of vanishing gut microbes with humans - Nature

Microbial species disappearing from industrialized populations have evolved with humans over millennia and migrated worldwide with them—this may have consequences for human health.

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Nature @nature.com · 07/10/2026

None of this year's science Nobel Prizes have gone to women. The number of these prizes to go to women remains at 27 out of more than 600. See how many you can name in our quiz: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 07/10/2026

2026 Nobel Prize laureate Henri Kagan discovered a new way of manipulating chemical reactions, allowing a greater excess of one of the mirror images to be created than was previously assumed possible.

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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Anand Giridharadas: Cities are very unfairly labeled as these 'problem centers' by Donald Trump. One thing worth remembering is a large chunk of those people who end up in cities were failed in other parts of this country. We are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.

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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thanks to Russ Vought for exposing this woke research

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 06/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physics to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”

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Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

How the discovery of microbial opsins led to the development of optogenetics www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Here is a nice article on the origin of optogenetics in microbial rhodopsins, and first of all were the haloarchaea:

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Dr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

How has Vought et. al disrupted NIH funding? 1. Grants were awarded more slowly in 2025-2026. 2. Peer reviewed grants enter a digital black hole. 3. Most of the staff that process the awards is gone. 4. Grants are flagged if they contain banned words. 🧪 www.npr.org/2026/09/24/n...

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These 6 charts show how NIH research funding has been reshaped under Trump

Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. bi...

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why you should think about getting your flu shot right now. Flu is surging unusually early in some parts of the west, catching doctors by surprise, by @lenasun.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/... via @washingtonpost.com

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Why you should think about getting your flu shot right now

Flu is surging unusually early in some parts of the western United States, catching doctors by surprise.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

These deaths are on Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My inbox is being flooded with fully AI-generated emails from prospective students. I tried to work out why I can't bring myself to read them, and ended up with some thoughts and advice for writing cold emails in the age of AI. My new post: blekhman.substack.com/p/why-i-am-n...

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Why I am not reading your AI-generated email

I hope this email finds you well-aligned

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 05/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

PSA. Important.

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Joe Zackular @joeyzacks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We're hiring - come join our amazing community! Faculty search in the Division of Experimental Pathology at @chopresearch.bsky.social. The successful candidate will hold a Penn faculty appointment, with full access to resources at both CHOP and @upenn.edu Please share! apply.interfolio.com/193339

Assistant Professor - Tenure Track, Division of Experimental Pathology at CHOP

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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We are hosting a symposium at @isbscience.org in December on the frontiers of computational biology, with a focus on "AI, Multi-Omics, and the Future of Human Health." Join us! Virtual is free and it's $50 if you want to join in-person. isbscience.org/frontiers-in...

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Frontiers in Computational Biology - Institute for Systems Biology (ISB)

Symposium Schedule Learn more about our presenters below. 8:30–9 a.m. Registration, Coffee & Light Breakfast 9–9:10 a.m. Welcome & Opening Remarks by Jim Heath SESSION 1 Chair: Nitin Baliga, ISB

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Joe Zackular @joeyzacks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Congratulations to Zackular Lab postdoc @rcglover.bsky.social on being selected as an Emerging Voice in Microbiology by Infection and Immunity! Rochelle is super talented scientist and a rising star in our field. Check out her mini-review in the upcoming collection! journals.asm.org/journal/iai/...

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Emerging Voices in Microbiology

Annual initiative highlighting standout early-career Infection and Immunity researchers through invited, peer-reviewed minireviews in Emerging Voices.

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ISB @isbscience.org · 30/09/2026

What can the immune system tell us about #LongCOVID? Join ISB President Jim Heath, PhD, Oct. 13 for a free virtual Research Roundtable on persistent immune responses, autoantibodies and an upcoming NIH-sponsored Long COVID Hackathon using RECOVER data. Register: isbscience.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Nature @nature.com · 30/09/2026

People who underwent stem-cell transplantation and ate sugar-rich food had disrupted communities of gut microorganisms during antibiotic treatment. go.nature.com/4yukcye

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Sugar amplifies antibiotic disruption of gut microbes

People who underwent stem-cell transplantation and ate sugar-rich food had disrupted communities of gut microorganisms during antibiotic treatment.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On the same day Trump announces that top tech firms have signed an accord to "self-police" their own AI development, we learned that OpenAI employees and security researchers were reportedly ignored when they brought safety concerns to the company's top executives. See the problem here?

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OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models

Employees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but that OpenAI did not listen.

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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Congrats to @mmmicrobiomelab.bsky.social and the @globalmicrobiome.bsky.social for their well-deserved inclusion in the TIME 100 Most Influential Rising Stars! 🤩 Amazing scientists and wonderful humans. 🦠⚕️🌍 time.com/collection/t...

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Mathilde Poyet and Mathieu Groussin Is on the 2026 TIME100 Next

Find out why Mathilde Poyet and Mathieu Groussin is on this year’s list

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Exercise slowed epigenetic aging again. This time in a randomized controlled trial among breast cancer survivors. academic.oup.com/jnci/advance...

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Jesse Shapiro @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our latest, spearheaded by the truly indefatigable @emderrick.bsky.social in which we search for selective sweeps in nature and genetic targets of selection within a species in the context of a diverse background community @isme-microbes.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/isme... 🧵 1/n

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Validate User

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Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy to share that @averynoonan.bsky.social paper “Phylogeny-agnostic strain-level prediction of phage–host interactions from genomes using machine learning” is now published in @natmicrobiol.nature.com 🎉🎊 👉🏽 rdcu.be/nR2NizD7H5va

Machine learning workflow for GenoPHI platform

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Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation @laskerfdn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“I’m probably the first high school-dropout to sit on this stage,” 2026 Public Service Award winner Michael J. Fox says during his #LaskerAward acceptance speech. Fox reflects on his journey from founding the Fox Foundation in 2000 to the ongoing fight to “defeat Parkinson’s & all brain diseases.”🧪

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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 28/09/2026

An unelected political appointee is disobeying the will of Congress & the rule of law by withholding funds for programs approved with bipartisan support. Blatantly unconstitutional. Flagrantly anti-science. The latest example of authoritarianism from the Trump admin.

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What to know about the $810 million in spending canceled by President Trump

President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 22/09/2026

NEW Economist/YouGov Sep 18-21: The midterms Among likely voters, Democratic congressional candidates lead Republicans 52% to 38% — a 14-point edge, the largest of the cycle Among all registered voters the Democratic lead is 7 points (45% to 38%) yougov.com/en-us/articl...

A line chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Who is leading among registered voters and likely voters in the race for Congress in 2026."

The chart has the sub-headline: "In the elections for U.S. Congress in November, who will you vote for in the district where you live? (% of registered voters picking the Democratic candidate minus the % picking the Republican candidate)."

The chart has the note: "Note: Likely voters are U.S. adult citizens who meet two criteria: (1) They either are registered to vote or say they will be registered to vote by the November elections; and (2) They either say they will definitely vote in November or say they have already voted. The displayed question has been used since the August 14 - 17, 2026 survey. Prior surveys asked the question, "If the elections for U.S. Congress were being held today, who would you vote for in the district where you live?" Responses of "other," "not sure," "I would not vote," and "I will not vote" are not shown."

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