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Bacteria lover. Good, bad, or other wise. Beneficial, commensal, or pathogenic alike. Authorized GMB (Genetically Modified Bacteria) scientist

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽@needhibhalla.bsky.social · 1h ago

while referencing peer review, this statement almost automatically reminded me of this paper: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

The Diversity–Innovation Paradox in Science | PNAS

Prior work finds a diversity paradox: Diversity breeds innovation, yet underrepresented groups that diversify organizations have less successful ca...

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Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · yesterday

Big assoc between evaluation and prestige & paper topic "...raises an important question: To what extent do the editors and reviewers at elite journals tend to overlook great scientific contributions that lack these advantageous author and manuscript characteristics?" www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Natural Product Reports@natprodreports.rsc.org · 2mo ago

Don't miss this review by Mark Butler & Robert Capon at the University of Queensland providing a comprehensive account of the 217 natural product inspired antibiotics approved for human use from 1943-2025 #chemsky #natprod #medchem Check it out on our website👇

Natural product inspired antibiotics approved for human use – 1943 to 2025

Covering literature to September 2025 This review provides a comprehensive account of the 217 natural product inspired antibiotics that have been approved for human use from 1943 through to September…

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Vivek Mutalik@vivekmutalik.bsky.social · last wk.

🎉final print version in PLOS Genetics @sullivan-lab.bsky.social @biosci.lbl.gov journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

Cross-family and phage-specific gene requirements for Klebsiella infection revealed by scalable RB-TnSeq genetic screens

Author summary Bacteriophages, or phages, are viruses that infect bacteria and play central roles in shaping microbial communities across ecosystems. Despite their ecological importance, the bacterial...

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Vivek Mutalik@vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New paper 🔔 Collaboration @sullivan-lab.bsky.social Marissa Gittrich led the work Klebsiella phage biology has focused almost entirely on capsulated strains, but capsule loss is the #1 resistance mechanism under phage predation. We used a naturally acapsular host to reveal the receptor landscape

Bacteriophage data on capsular Klebsiella bacteria barcoded library
Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿@notjustdna.bsky.social · 2w ago

From last year: what is the pixel resolution limit of our eyes? – Open access research – What is “the maximum resolution at which further improvements bring no noticeable benefit” – It’s mostly higher than 60 pixels per degree (ppd) – Raises doubt on chroma sub-sampling in lossy image formats

Resolution limit of the eye — how many pixels can we see? - Nature Communications

This work determines the maximum display resolution that the human eye can discriminate. The limit was determined for achromatic and chromatic vision, for both the fovea and periphery.

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SETI Institute@setiinstitute.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dr. Simon George is a bioinorganic chemist who studies how living organisms use metals to power essential biological processes. His research explores how metal-containing proteins and enzymes work, how they evolved, and what they can reveal about the origins of life on Earth. #NotJustAliens 🧪

Text: #notjustaliens. Simon J. George, Astrobiology. Background: Starry night sky. Inset: Photo of Simon George. Text: Dr. Simon George is a bioinorganic chemist who studies how living organisms use metals such as iron, nickel, copper, and molybdenum to power essential biological processes. His research explores how metal-containing proteins and enzymes work, how they evolved, and what they can reveal about the origins of life on Earth. Background: Starry night sky with graphics of a star and exoplanets in front of it.Text: Since joining the SETI Institute in 2023, Simon has focused on astrobiology, investigating metal-based proteins in extremophiles and other organisms. Using advanced spectroscopy and custom-built instruments, he studies the chemistry of life in extreme environments and how metals may have influenced life's evolution and emergence in the universe. Background: Starry night sky with graphics of a star and exoplanets.SETI Institute logo. Graphics: (top) Black hole. (bottom) radio telescope dishes at the Allen Telescope Array. Background: Starry night sky.
Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research@pasteur.fr · 2w ago

Institut Pasteur researchers describe LIN codes in PLOS Biology: a standardized numerical system for identifying bacterial strains from genome data, now used in BIGSdb-Pasteur and Pathogenwatch for outbreak surveillance. @sylvainbrisse.bsky.social ↘️ doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003781

Life Identification Numbers: A strain nomenclature approach to aid epidemiological surveillance of bacterial pathogens

Unified bacterial strain taxonomies are needed for coherent communication of findings in microbiological research. This Essay provides an overview of a novel bacterial strain taxonomy and describes ho...

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