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Silas Kieser

@silask.bsky.social
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Microbiome researcher, co-leader of a family of soon five, Developer of metagenome-atlas. silask.github.io

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Silas Kieser @silask.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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#phd #pancreaticcancer #bioinformatics #metagenomics #researchopportunity #universityofoulu #cancerresearch #translationalresearch #ngs | Silas Kieser
PhD Candidate Position in Pancreatic Cancer Metagenomics We're looking for a talented and motivated PhD candidate to join our translational research team at the University of Oulu! **The Opportunity...
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Silas Kieser @silask.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
New job opening in my previous lab: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... What we are looking for • Strong interest in bioinformatics and disease mechanisms • Programming experience and familiarity with Unix • Diploma/MSc degree for PhD applicants or PhD degree for postdoc applicants
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PhD_postdoc_bioinformatics | Matija Trickovic
Our group at the University of Geneva is looking for a new PhD student and/or postdoctoral researcher in bioinformatics to join our work on the microbiome, metabolism and cancer. The person will take ...
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Silas Kieser @silask.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
@garymarcus.bsky.social If the AI models hallucinate is it a good idea to let robots run free? www.perplexity.ai/page/study-f...
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Perplexity
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Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic @svetlanaup.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
New #MicrobiomeDigest is OUT microbiomedigest.com/2025/09/04/s... • subspecies of the human gut microbiota / @silask.bsky.social • red grouse microbiota / @microbes4ever.bsky.social • "Biopolis – into the microbiome" podcast • invitation for the next week #GloMiNe2025 & more. Happy Friday!
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September 5, 2025
See you next week at #GloMiNe2025! Gut microbiome Gut fungi are associated with human genetic variation and disease risk – Emily P. Van Syoc – Plos Biology The resident gut microbiome modulates the…
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Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org · 08/09/2025
There are two recent papers that use sourmash in creative ways - and it gladdens my heart! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40812187/ by @silask.bsky.social et al looks cleverly at human gut subspecies. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @rayanchikhi.bsky.social et al counts billions of k-mers. Super neat!
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Subspecies of the human gut microbiota carry implicit information for in-depth microbiome research - PubMed
Microbial strains within a single species can exhibit distinct functional characteristics due to variations in gene content and often show individual specificity, which can obscure unbiased associatio...
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Tim Straub @timothystraub.com · 29/08/2025
This looks really promising! It’s a step in the right direction to drill down to a more function based microbiome analysis while still maintaining taxonomic information.
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Silas Kieser @silask.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
New paper out: Subspecies of the human gut microbiota carry implicit information for in-depth microbiome research.
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Silas Kieser @silask.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
What do you think about our latest pre-print? 1/3 of human microbioal species have, mostly neglected, subspecies. Human gut microbiota subspecies carry implicit information for in-depth microbiome research doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Silas Kieser @silask.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
My supervisor finally agreed to post a preprint, but he said I should not publicize it on social media.. sad it is revolutionary...
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Silas Kieser @silask.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Google voice typing needed 2y to be on the same level as Whisper, but it still cannot distinguish if I speak french or english ,🙄
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Silas Kieser @silask.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
That will be the future?
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Magda Grabowska @mmgrabow.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I worry less about AI taking my job and more about how much of my job becomes 1) verifying AI-generated claims and 2) figuring out where the AI went wrong and fixing it.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 01/12/2024
10 INCREDIBLE ways to BOOST your immune system: The Measles vaccine The Mumps vaccine The Rubella vaccine The Tetanus vaccine The Diphtheria vaccine The Polio vaccine The HPV vaccine The Pneumonia vaccine The Hepatitis B vaccine The Covid-19 vaccine
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Antti Karkman @anttikarkman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
There’s an open postdoc position in our EIC funded project FIBRE-MATCH at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Further information in the ad. jobs.helsinki.fi/job-invite/3...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Bioinformatics of the Human Gut Microbiome
Postdoctoral Researcher in Bioinformatics of the Human Gut Microbiome
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Blaise Reymondin @reymondin.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
J’ai regroupé dans ce stack les outils #IA que j’utilise ou que je trouve dignes d’intérêt. 🤖 Cette liste est vouée à évoluer chaque semaine, vu les évolutions incessantes dans le domaine. N'hésitez pas à me dire s'il manque quelque chose 🙂 reymondin.notion.site/144643c1f676...
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Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Vaccines work.
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Silas Kieser @silask.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I didn't know ncbi actually made a CLI to download genomes and gene sets github.com/ncbi/datasets
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GitHub - ncbi/datasets: NCBI Datasets is a new resource that lets you easily gather data from across NCBI databases.
NCBI Datasets is a new resource that lets you easily gather data from across NCBI databases. - ncbi/datasets
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Luis Pedro Coelho @luispedrocoelho.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Reading "A realistic benchmark for differential abundance testing and confounder adjustment in human microbiome studies" from our friends in Berlin and in Leiden Quotes are from the paper (minor edits for space), non quoted text is me link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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A realistic benchmark for differential abundance testing and confounder adjustment in human microbiome studies - Genome Biology
Background In microbiome disease association studies, it is a fundamental task to test which microbes differ in their abundance between groups. Yet, consensus on suitable or optimal statistical method...
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 13/06/2024
African elephants address one another with individually specific name-like calls www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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African elephants address one another with individually specific name-like calls - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Machine learning analyses and playback experiments in wild African elephants suggest that individuals address conspecifics with name-like calls that do not rely on imitation of the receiver.
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Christopher Madan @engra.me · 03/06/2024
"A random half of panelists were shown a CV and only a one-paragraph summary of the proposed research, while the other half were shown a CV and a full proposal. We find that withholding proposal texts from panelists did not detectibly impact their proposal rankings" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment - Scientometrics
Scientists and funding agencies invest considerable resources in writing and evaluating grant proposals. But do grant proposal texts noticeably change panel decisions in single blind review? We report...
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Silas Kieser @silask.bsky.social · 18/05/2024
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gut microbes linked to fatty diet drive tumour growth
Scientists know there is a link between obesity and some cancers. A study in mice and people suggests why that might be. Scientists know there is a link between obesity and some cancers. A study in mi...
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Silas Kieser @silask.bsky.social · 03/05/2024
Who had thought that something as basic as sequence alignment can still be improved www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.50...
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Silas Kieser @silask.bsky.social · 23/04/2024
And I complain, when my ssh connection is delayed for halve a second. What about coding with 22h delay blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024...
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Jesse Shapiro @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social · 19/04/2024
Now published: "Phage predation, disease severity, and pathogen genetic diversity in cholera patients" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Check out the podcast to hear co-senior author Eric Nelson talk about the twists and turns of our study (around 18:25): www.science.org/content/podc...
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Phage predation, disease severity, and pathogen genetic diversity in cholera patients
Despite an increasingly detailed picture of the molecular mechanisms of bacteriophage (phage)–bacterial interactions, we lack an understanding of how these interactions evolve and impact disease withi...
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Silas Kieser @silask.bsky.social · 07/04/2024
Inspiring! German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
Some exciting GLP-1 drug new randomized trial evidence for potential disease-modifying impact on Parkinson's disease (there are none). No progression of motor disability in the Rx group for 12 months. nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Suguru Nishijima @suguru-nishijima.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
Excited to share our latest preprint on a novel computational tool to predict fecal microbial load solely from relative species profiles! Our study revealed that fecal microbial load is a substantial confounder in microbiome-disease association studies. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Matt Olm @mattolm.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
A fantastic postdoc position in bioinformatic microbiome research is available in Justin Sonnenburg's lab at Stanford! I'm leaving after 4 great years to start my lab at Boulder, and Justin is looking to fill my position. DM me or email Justin (Admin_Sonnenburg@stanford.edu) for questions
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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
Expanding the human gut microbiome atlas of Africa www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Expanding the human gut microbiome atlas of Africa https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.13.584859v1
Population studies are crucial in understanding the complex interplay between the gut microbiome and
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Silas Kieser @silask.bsky.social · 17/02/2024
I thought the Biodynamic farm at EPFL was as low as it gets @skepteis.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Teach Indigenous knowledge alongside science
Evidence supports the teaching of Indigenous knowledge alongside sciences in the classroom
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John F. Cryan @jfcryan.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
When stress goes viral... Delighted to have this collaboration with Colin Hill's lab out in Nature Microbiology. Led by PhD student Nate Ritz we show that the gut virome plays a key role in the modulation of the microbiota–gut–brain axis during stress rdcu.be/dxP4s
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Adrià Auladell @adriaula.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
Postdoc afraid of 'how much the personal brand vibe has already infected my mind'
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Jim Shaw @jimshaw.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
We updated our metagenomic profiling + detection tool sylph to v0.5.1 (github.com/bluenote-157...). Sensitivity for low-abund species is much improved for Illumina now (thanks @fplazaonate for showing issue). bioRxiv updated with a few new benchmarks too.
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
Through homology search & pLMs, we identified an effective kynureninase that degrades a key immunosuppressor in cancer, reducing tumor weight in mice by 3.4x. 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Seek & rank your own protein based on only a handful of measures. ⛵ seekrank.steineggerlab.com
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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
Effective binning of metagenomic contigs using contrastive multi-view representation learning www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
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Effective binning of metagenomic contigs using contrastive multi-view representation learning - Natu...
Here, the authors present COMEBin, a metagenomics binning method based on contrastive multi-view representation learning that uses data augmentation to generate multiple fragments (views) of each cont...
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Silas Kieser @silask.bsky.social · 13/01/2024
Interesting PhD position eth-gethired.ch/en/jobs/deta...
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PhD student – Microbiome in the gut-brain axis of vervet monkeys
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Davide CIttaro @daweonline.bsky.social · 13/01/2024
This is why I enjoy coffee breaks so much www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Muriel Derrien @murielderrien.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher 👩🏼‍💻🔬to join our research group at @VIB_microbes in Jeroen Raes lab 🇧🇪, focusing on studying human-associated microbial communities in health and disease. Please apply here ⬇️ www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Zach Reitz @zachreitz.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
Are you running antiSMASH across many genomes? Check out multiSMASH, my simple wrapper that streamlines comparative BGC analyses by parallelizing antiSMASH runs and tabulating the results. Runs BiG-SCAPE too! WIP, so feedback and bug reports appreciated. github.com/zreitz/multi...
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Professor Lesley Hoyles @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
"...fermentation products cover between 1.8% and 12.1% of the daily energy demand of human hosts, substantially less than the 21% estimated for laboratory mice."
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Silas Kieser @silask.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
I will start a new position at the Geneva University Hospital working on microbiome and Alzheimer's. Stay tuned for some posts on the subject..
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Silas Kieser @silask.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
Seems I am already late to the party. This place looks like a good place for science. 👋 to all the old and new friends.
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