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Fiona J Whelan @whelanfj.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

morning, Liverpool :: My brain is buzzing this morning from a great day of science talks, posters, and chats yesterday. I can’t wait for day two today! #microevo25

Image of the River Mersey with tide out and sun peaking out from behind the clouds.

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Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

New in @asm.org #MMBR Computational function prediction of bacteria and phage proteins. How to annotate your #phage and #bacteria genomes by @susiegriggo.bsky.social @bedutilh.bsky.social @gbouras13.bsky.social and Bob #phagesky #microsky journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10....

Examples of protein annotations across functional classification schemes. Yellow: hierarchical classification schemes, red: orthologous/homologous groups, and blue: methods using protein domain information. Protein structures were generated using the ColabFold Alphafold MMseqs2 interactive notebook (version 1.5.2) (57) and visualized using ChimeraX (58). (A) Functional labels associated with the glycogen synthase protein in Escherichia coli (UniprotKB P0A6U8). (B) Functional labels associated with Kehishuvirus sp. tikala major capsid protein (NCBI WEU69752.1).

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Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Homeward Bound! Yes, the #LTEE is homeward bound. After a few thousand generations in Texas, the lines are coming back to #MSU, along with Jeff Barrick, and his team. telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/h...

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Homeword Bound

With apologies to Rhymin’ Simon

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Avocet wading into your timeline #birds 🌿

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Glen Grambo 🇨🇦 @glengrambo.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Apparently, I’m photographing only grebes right now…. oh well! These two horned grebe chicks hatched a few days apart and the little one definitely wants to hang out with its older sibling while they explore their marsh home! #Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶

Two grey and white striped horned grebe chicks float together on a calm marsh. The green water reflects the surrounding foliage. They are both young enough to still have the red mark on their stripey heads, but the one on the left is much smaller as it hatched a bit later.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

OMG you guys! I was totally surprised and thrilled today to learn today that my pine grosbeak photo is an honourable mention in the 2025 @birdscanada.bsky.social calendar photo contest! You can check out the story with other cool photos here: shorturl.at/iXPy9 #birds

Silver bird with rusty head cap perched on and framed by frosty branches with silver bokeh background.

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Dr. Dawn Bowdish @msmacrophage.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I wish all our institutions, leaders, and politicians would do the same. Come on @mcmasteru.bsky.social - do the right thing!

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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

mark, dare to ask dianne about 👇

screen capture from dianne newman's talk at the ISME18 meeting, lausanne

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Fiona Brinkman @fionabrinkman.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

So humbly honoured to have this recognition. But as we all of know, it really does take a village. This is a tribute to many. It’s important we look wholistically at what enables research innovation. I also invite you to think of all those who support you and be so grateful for them all - as I am.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT Please watch the workshop video and COMMENT by 5:00 Monday 7/14 This is the source of the "no more model organism only grants in NIH-funded research" decree.

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

The new version of MetaPhlAn v4.2.2 released! 📌taxonomic profiling of long-read metagenomes for the first time 📌new version of the MetaPhlAn db (vJan25_202503) containing >21k new SGBs Try it out & @hutlab.bsky.social and we are looking forward to your feedback! forum.biobakery.org/t/metaphlan-...

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MetaPhlAn 4.2.2 release (initial long-read sequencing support and database update)

Announcement We are pleased to share that MetaPhlAn 4.2.2 is now available, which incorporates taxonomic profiling of long-read metagenomes for the first time and includes a new version of the MetaPhl...

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Just learned that Frank Stahl (of the Meselson and Stahl DNA replication experiment ("the most beautiful experiment in biology") died at the beginning of April, to no fanfare. Here's a lovely video of them reminiscing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-tn...

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The Most Beautiful Experiment: Meselson and Stahl

YouTube video by Science Communication Lab

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MERMan Research Group (University of Manchester) @mermanchester.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The MERMan contingent at #microbio25 headed home today after a great week in Liverpool for the @microbiologysociety.org annual conference - Thanks to the society and organisers for putting on a great event, and supporting us in presenting 6 talks and 5 posters packed full of microbial evolution!

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Freya Harrison @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Paper! @phoebesilva.bsky.social's labour of love* optimising synthetic #CysticFibrosis mucus for growth of NTHi is out #MicroSky #Biofilm www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... *more like seething resentment as the bugs steadfastly refused to grow in most things we threw at them ^_^

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Optimizing synthetic cystic fibrosis sputum media for growth of non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae

Non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) is an early pathogen isolated from the lungs of children with cystic fibrosis (CF). However, its role in the progression of CF lung infection is poorly under...

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Another fabulous way to celebrate the #Solstice

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Angel? Spent some time with Forster’s terns last weekend. Incredible aerial acrobats #birds

White tern in the sky, head pointed down and wings and tail feathers spread. Background is blank sky.

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Sonja Lehtinen @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Looking for examples of beautiful, controversial or impactful microbial modelling papers - ideally a mixture of the above! It’s for teaching in the context of microbial eco/evo/epi. The modelling should be relatively easy to understand for a master’s student with a biology background.

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Steven Robbins @stevenjrobbins.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Attention long read metagenomists! This feels like an important read. Misassemblies stitching together bacteria, archaea, and euks all into the same contigs, yikes! Reports of circularisation isn’t robust. There’s a lot in here to ponder.

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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

AFESM: a metagenomic guide through the protein structure universe! We clustered 821M structures (AFDB&ESMatlas) into 5.12M groups; revealing biome-specific groups, only 1 new fold even after AlphaFold2 re-prediction & many novel domain combos. 🧵 🌐 afesm.foldseek.com 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

I was reading Botstein's "A theory of modular evolution for bacteriophages" (1980) and thinking about how concise the arguments are, and about all the ways reviewers nowadays would demand changes that mess up such an elegant paper. #phagesky nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Bradley K. Sherman @bradleyksherman.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

The sequel: youtu.be/EFCQoObWtvQ

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