Before the Wisconsin primary elections next week, check out our website to see what US House of Representatives candidates think about science policy issues! #sciopol #elections #Wisconsin snapcoalition.org/initiatives/...

Do you love amplicon sequencing? Do you want to sequence MORE amplicons, faster and at lower cost? Check out 💘CUPID-seq💘, a highly multiplexed library design that lets you sequence hundreds of amplicon samples (16S, 18S, and more!) on a single sequencing run! (1/n) 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The 3rd Hablemos de Ciencia Symposium was a success! I started this event to create a venue for researchers to communicate science in Spanish and fight monolingualism in science. This year, we had the amazing Dr. Filipa Godoy Vitorino from University of Puerto Rico as our keynote speaker!

Check out our new work investigating genome plasticity and horizontal gene transfer in Staphylococcus epidermidis!

Mo lab@molabuw.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Check out our lab's latest preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I’m excited to share our research published today with @springernature.com in @natcomms.nature.com! Here, we find that oxidative stress generated by the host immune system can prime tuberculosis to rapidly evolve antibiotic resistance, revealing how resistance may emerge before treatment #TB #AMR

Host oxidative stress primes mycobacteria for rapid antibiotic resistance evolution - Nature Communications

This study challenges the paradigm that resistance mutations precede fitness compensatory adaptations, showing that pre-existing alterations in mycobacterial oxidative stress responses can prime rapid...

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Troll-Like Receptors take home the first #KSBeyondAntibiotics26 trivia win 🏆

Thrilled to have had the opportunity yesterday to share my research to policymakers at the UW-Madison Day at the Capitol event! It's been so rewarding to dive into the world of science policy this past year with UW's Catalysts for Science Policy and @snapcoalition.org.

Join us for #StanceOnScience where we ask politicians where they stand on #SciencePolicy issues ahead of the midterm elections! #SciPol #MidtermElections #SciComm

Wisconsin Evolution is accepting applications for our Seminar Series' Early Career Scientist Award. Come share your evolution research and visit UW-Madison's evolution community. Open to grad students and postdocs (<5 yrs post PhD) from outside UW-Madison. Apply by Dec 15th here: shorturl.at/4a4O6

Early Career Scientist Awards 2026

Application to the UW-Madison Evolution Seminar Series - Early Career Scientist Awards.

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Super excited that the bulk of my PhD work is now preprinted! Here we used whole-community competition, or coalescence, experiments to quantify selection acting on genetically diverged strains within larger communities. (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Deadline for this is tonight! Now is the time to sign up!!

Scientist Network for Advancing Policy@snapcoalition.org · last yr.

SCIENTISTS. Participate in a congressional home office visit this August to advocate for science funding! SNAP will set up the meeting, train you, & support your message. Sign up by Aug 1 to join: forms.gle/sqcMeZn5YTsW... #DefendResearch #ScienceAdvocacy #SciencePolicy

The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601

Junior, Assistant, or Associate Specialist – Xue Lab

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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In @elife.bsky.social: Bacteriophage infection drives loss of β-lactam resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Bacteriophage infection drives loss of β-lactam resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

In methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, evolution of bacteriophage resistance causes trade-offs that re-sensitize the bacteriato β-lactam antibiotics.

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I'm excited to announced that the version of record of this article is out in @elife.bsky.social. With the other first coauthor My Tran, we found that phage resistance cause reduced beta-lactam resistance and reduced virulence phenotypes in diverse MRSA strains. elifesciences.org/articles/102...

Bacteriophage infection drives loss of β-lactam resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

In methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, evolution of bacteriophage resistance causes trade-offs that re-sensitize the bacteriato β-lactam antibiotics.

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Want to write to your community about the importance of science funding? Join me on zoom this Friday at 12pm ET / 9am PT to learn to write an op-ed as part of the #McClintockLetters initiative! Sign up to write a letter and register for the workshop here: blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...

(1/7) Very excited to share my first PhD preprint on the interactions of two of my favorite mobile genetic elements: phages and group II introns! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Prevalence of Group II Introns in Phage Genomes

Although bacteriophage genomes are under strong selective pressure for high coding density, they are still frequently invaded by mobile genetic elements (MGEs). Group II introns are MGEs that reduce h...

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Scientists, reach out to your local communities about the importance of funding science! Write an op-ed to your local newspaper as part of the #McClintockLetters. Please spread the word and sign up! DM me if you're interested and need help getting started. I'm trained as a writer and happy to help.

Isako Di Tomassi@isakoditomassi.bsky.social · last yr.

Yes! Scientists, let's share our work with the public. Write an LTE/op-ed/ or guest column in a LOCAL HOMETOWN PAPER, published June 16! #McClintockLetters #SciComm Share how we serve the public with fed dollars, & insights into fed funded research. Signup + more info: tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters

This is a fantastic initiative and I would highly encourage folks to participate!

Isako Di Tomassi@isakoditomassi.bsky.social · last yr.

Yes! Scientists, let's share our work with the public. Write an LTE/op-ed/ or guest column in a LOCAL HOMETOWN PAPER, published June 16! #McClintockLetters #SciComm Share how we serve the public with fed dollars, & insights into fed funded research. Signup + more info: tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters

I wrote/interviewed folx shortly after everything started to crumble in Jan, but I was re-reminded that communities prevail. There are amazing people doing beautiful things to improve our communities, and I’m excited to highlight their work. berkeleysciencereview.com/article/2025...

Cultivating science in the community

Sowing seeds for community wellbeing through urban agroecology

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Berkeley Science Review@berkeleyscirev.bsky.social · last yr.

Issue 48 is here and I love it. Take a trip through the therapeutic promise of psychedelics. Understand the beauty and necessity of the urban farm. Get the latest on advances in gene editing. Appreciate the invaluable work of air quality modelers. Read it all here: berkeleysciencereview.com

The 2nd Hablemos de Ciencia Symposium was a success! This event was started last year to create a venue for UW-Madison researchers to communicate science in Spanish. Science is done for and by speakers of different languages. The language(s) that we use to communicate science should reflect that!

Really honored to read this thoughtful perspective on our paper, thanks so much to @contaminatedsci.bsky.social!

Tami Lieberman@contaminatedsci.bsky.social · last yr.

Our commentary on the elegant in vitro microbiome coalescence experiments from @goldmandoran.bsky.social @ksxue.bsky.social et al is out. It was a pleasure to write about one of my favorite microbiome papers of the last few years. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

1/ Hey y'all, I'm excited to share my latest paper, which is out now in PNAS! We introduce FAVA, a statistical framework to measure compositional variability across microbiome samples. If you want to measure variability across a stacked bar plot, FAVA is for you! Paper: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

I’m thrilled to share my first ever publication, now published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... With mentorship from the amazing @ksxue.bsky.social, I looked at how the outcomes of species introductions to microbial communities are influenced by the number of introduced microbes.

shoutout to secretarybird, one of the most underrated birds

I feel incredibly lucky to have gotten to work with Katherine over the last five years, she’s a truly amazing and one of a kind mentor and person! Would highly encourage any interested students or postdocs to reach out to her!

Katherine Xue@ksxue.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hi friends new and old! I study how microbes interact and evolve in complex communities like the human gut microbiome.🦠🧬💩 I'm thrilled to share that I'm starting a lab at UC Irvine in April 2025 and am recruiting at all levels - please spread the word! kxuelab.com More about my work below...🧵1/n

Tried to put together a Microbial Evolution starter pack, but there were so many great people I didn't want to leave out it turned into 3 starter packs Comment or DM me if you were missed or would like to be added! A thread (1/3) go.bsky.app/6pkuYhi

If you do #viromics or study #phage communities, you’ve likely dealt with viromes & mixed-metagenomes. But how do viral communities differ between them? What does this mean for interpreting viral ecology? Find out in my latest paper with @karthik-a.bsky.social

Viromes vs. mixed community metagenomes: choice of method dictates interpretation of viral community ecology - Microbiome

Background Viruses, the majority of which are uncultivated, are among the most abundant biological entities on Earth. From altering microbial physiology to driving community dynamics, viruses are fund...

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