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Aldert Zomer

@aldertzomer.bsky.social

Associate Professor at Utrecht University, Infectious Diseases & Immunology. (meta)genomes, AMR, zoonotic pathogens. Cookie and cake connoisseur. publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=nl&user=VHHhpoAAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

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Quadram Institute@quadraminstitute.bsky.social · 2w ago

🆕 Vacancy! We're looking for a well-rounded Postdoctoral Research Scientist to join a collaborative team working on the study of microbiome-host interactions using New Approach Methodologies with living microbiomes. 💷 £39,000 to £46,500 🗓️ Apply by 17 August 2026 ➡️https://buff.ly/ulMNG5O

Research Scientist vacancy graphic with microbes in the background that reads "Research Scientist. Study microbiome-host interactions using New Approach Methodologies with living microbiomes. Salary: £39,000 to £46,500. Contract until March 2028. Apply by 17 August 2026."
Andrea Vettiger@avettiger.bsky.social · last mo.

Excited to see our story published in @natmicrobiol.nature.com today! It’s been a long journey. We answered a major outstanding question: why does E. coli encode two aPBPs, yet only one plays a critical role in ensuring reliable PG fortification during cell division?

Paula Navarro@navarropaula.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨 New in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! We reveal how the antibiotic target PBP1b fortifies the E.coli division site against osmotic rupture. Proud this was completed in our independent labs @dmf-unil.bsky.social, with @avettiger.bsky.social. Congratulations to all authors! 🦠❄️🔬 #teamtomo bit.ly/3SCbOg1 👇

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“A slow, heavy desert lizard called the Gila monster can go months between meals. In the early 1990s, a physician-scientist named John Eng grew curious about how it keeps its blood sugar steady across those long fasts… Years later, a synthetic version of that molecule became the first GLP-1 drugs”

Brian J. Enquist@bjenquist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“The entire National Science Foundation budget is less than what we spent in the first week of the war with Iran. The National Institutes of Health,… accounts for a fraction of 1 percent of all federal spending” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

Antimicrobial resistance #AMR@antimicrobial.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Welcome for complicated UTIs w/ resistant bugs but oral carbapenem lower the last barrier protecting this important antibiotic class Convenience for patients must not become convenience for prescribers, otherwise we may pay with increased carbapenem resistance #AMR www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobia...

FDA approves new oral antibiotic for complicated urinary tract infections

Utebzi is the first oral carbapenem antibiotic approved in the US.

cidrap.umn.edu

Marie Phillips@mariephillips.bsky.social · 2mo ago

No, it's because only 3.1 percent of the Dutch population live in poverty as opposed to 20 percent of the British population. The Guardian really needs to stop publishing irresponsible lifestyle crap as news. (The Avondvierdaagse is a nice tradition though.) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Dutch children are unusually happy and healthy. Is it because of the Avondvierdaagse?

Once a year, Dutch kids, parents and teachers take part in a walking festival, heading out for four nights in a single week to explore their neighbourhoods, exercise and make friends. It’s a tradition...

theguardian.com

Zamin Iqbal@zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is awful to hear, describing how Sean Eddy (HMMER, infernal, pfam, rfam) has been defunded. The letter said his work "had been determined to be of absolutely no value to the US taxpayer, and therefore it was being specifically terminated," www.npr.org/2026/05/21/n...

Researchers say the Trump administration is finding new ways to punish science

Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The consequences, they say, are already becoming clear.

npr.org

Rob Patro@robp.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The people who believe that generative AI development & adoption everywhere is the ultimate goal & the first order predictor of success are insufferable. So are the people who think that AI can't ever produce anything useful and that everything they do produce is "slop". I miss reasoned arguments.

Patrick Jansen 🐾@patrickjansen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"De ongebreidelde concentratie van macht en geld in de handen van een kleine groep is niet alleen oneerlijk, maar ondermijnt zichzelf door de feitelijke en emotionele ontkoppeling die daaruit volgt." Uitstekende #column van Robbert Dijkgraaf. Tom en Daisy, houd ze tegen. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Column | Onverschillige mensen

Robbert Dijkgraaf: De groeiende achteloosheid in de geopolitiek en het bedrijfsleven heeft alles te maken met de toenemende ongelijkheid, schrijft Robbert Dijkgraaf.

nrc.nl

Aldert Zomer@aldertzomer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Just out in npj Antimicrobials & Resistance @natureportfolio.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s44... We looked at what actually happens to AMR on pig farms when you reduce antimicrobial use through real-world, coaching-based interventions.

Changes in antimicrobial resistance profiles of Escherichia coli and the metagenome on Dutch pig farms after antimicrobial usage interventions - npj Antimicrobials and Resistance

npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Changes in antimicrobial resistance profiles of Escherichia coli and the metagenome on Dutch pig farms after antimicrobial usage interventions

nature.com

Aldert Zomer@aldertzomer.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Our faculty has a particularly interesting PhD position open on antimicrobial resistance, effects of antibiotics treatment on the microbiome and resistome, restoration of the equine microbiome using FMT. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please contact Mathijs Theelen, email address in the link below.

PhD candidate in Equine Intestinal Microbiome and Resistome

Join this PhD project to study how the equine gut microbiome and resistome can improve gastrointestinal health and combat antimicrobial resistance.

uu.nl