“To bee or not to bee” Had so much fun at the poster session this evening, but my voice is all gone 😪 Thanks for everyone who stopped by! #IUSSI26

Excited share our honeybee microbiota-gut-brain axis research at @uissi-social.bsky.social next week. Here’s a sneak preview! Who else is going?

Bees Do So Much 🐝 for the environment!

Postdoc position coadvised by me, @jennytung.bsky.social, and Dr. Mercy Akinyi at the @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social to study microbiome transmission between humans, livestock, and wildlife in the Tana River Region of Kenya. More information and application link here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...

Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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Clouds obscured the view of any mountains in Zermatt, but saw lots of good dogs

My mom is visiting me in Switzerland and brought two suitcases with her. One for her stuff and the other packed with my stickers 😄

And here's a second NYU postdoc job ad, where I'm looking for a candidate that is interested in working on the gut-brain axis: apply.interfolio.com/189975 please share 🙏

Short-read metagenomic sequencing cannot recover genomes from many abundant marine prokaryotes due to high strain heterogeneity and platform-specific GC bias (likely viruses, too), but Nanopore long reads can address this. A results 🧵on our recent paper in @nature.com . bsky.app/profile/stev...

Steven Robbins@stevenjrobbins.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's out! Excited to present the Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database (GBR-MGD), a comprehensive DB of 1000s of high-quality prokaryote, virus, plasmid, and chromosome-level eukaryote MAGs using Nanopore long reads. Subthreads incoming. Please share widely. 🙂 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I haven’t been to a lot of scientific conferences, but this one has been one of my favorites I’ve attended as an early career scientist. Definitely recommend attending if you’re a later-stage PhD student or early-stage postdoc and your research intersects with microbial symbiosis.

Conference on Beneficial Microbes@benmicrobesmtg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The 2026 Conference on Beneficial Microbes will be co-organized with the International Symbiosis Society from July 19th - July 23rd. Its not too late to register! #BeneficialMicrobes10 #BeneficialMicrobesMtg #ISS #SymbioSky

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bioRxiv Ecology@biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Historical contingency shapes zebrafish host-microbiome responses to a subsequent biotic challenge https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.05.734762v1

🚨NEW STICKER DROP🚨 Mother I’d Like to Ferment Order yours here: gutmichaelbio.me/products/mil... #Kombucha #Scoby #Sticker

Swiss🇨🇭 travel hack: with the 35+C (~95F) heat in Geneva, avoid the expensive saunas and get a public transit day pass for $12 instead. You can sweat with friends & strangers while seeing the city at the same time! Then jump into the river to cool off. Rinse and repeat as much as you want.

First bit of smolswarm tech. Something called boids. Anyway check out some sliders at mega.mino.mobi/bees

📣 Postdoc opportunity in the StatDivLab (aka the Willis Lab) at the University of Washington. Amy Willis is doing the some of the most exciting/impactful work in microbiome biostats right now. Highly recommend. Job ad below👇 apply.interfolio.com/188571

I need to restock my #sciart presents for graduating students (undergrads and grad students). Drop a link to your favorite science-themed artists website/etsy/redbubble page below. (microbiology focus is a bonus)

They don’t name bacteria like they used to :/ Named after the entomologist Sir Vincent Brian Wigglesworth, of course.

Bee TV is now on air 🐝📺 @genevunige.bsky.social @sciencesunige.bsky.social

GutMichaelBiome@gutmichaelbio.me · 4mo ago

My colleagues in the Liberti Lab are running our latest tracking experiment to understand how the gut microbiota influences animal behavior using honeybees. You can watch the live stream here: geneva.tuleu.science/host/palaven... 🐝🧪 @joanitoliberti.bsky.social

My colleagues in the Liberti Lab are running our latest tracking experiment to understand how the gut microbiota influences animal behavior using honeybees. You can watch the live stream here: geneva.tuleu.science/host/palaven... 🐝🧪 @joanitoliberti.bsky.social

Polling the council of smart people again. What's the current state of the art tool(s) for calling/identifying AMR genes en masse--e.g. in metagenomic plasmids? Please share for reach. :-)

Does anyone have examples of their own or others of how to best structure a GitHub repository for a scientific peer-reviewed manuscript? #Science 🧪

Hey team! What are your favorite metagenomic plasmid identification tools these days? I have a list circa 1-2 years ago, but like to poll the audience every so often. I'd say GeNomad, PlasForest, PlasX, maybe PPR-Meta would be my go-tos. Any others you think should be included? Please share :-)

Host-asssociated, especially human, metagenomics colleagues! Is there a current best-practice pipeline for removing human (long) reads from a metagenome at this point? We usually just map against the host reference, but are their classifiers that really work well for this?

Curious, what's the best-practice tool at this point for taxonomically classifying long reads from metagenomes from less well-characterised environments? My impression is that Kraken will give lots of false positives and mis-classify taxa not in its database. Please share around for visibility.

Possums in your yard? News got you down? Fear not, I have made playlists for the A and B sections of my ongoing Statistical Rethinking course. Click the section of your choice, sit back, and forget the possums and decay of the international order while your brain updates. github.com/rmcelreath/s...

If you're doing innovative research about #microbiota and received an MD &/or PhD in last 10 yrs don’t forget to apply for the NOSTER & @science.org Microbiome Prize! Grand Prize: $25K & your essay published in Science Magazine Deadline: Feb 14th Enter: buff.ly/5GKZgUN

Happy “Bowel”-idays!

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Hey Team! What do you think are the best free digital notebooks these days. I've used: Evernote--great, but now it's paid TiddlyWiki wasn't bad, but got rid of scrollable code blocks Obsidian--basic, and I don't like not being able to scroll my code blocks like OG Tiddlywiki. Suggestions?

We're at 735 registrants and counting! 🎉🦠 If you haven't registered yet, don't miss out on this exciting (free) symposium on gut microbial metabolites and their impacts on host health. Please share with your networks. 🔗👇 isbscience.org/events/2025-...

2025 ISB Virtual Microbiome Symposium - Institute for Systems Biology (ISB)

The gut’s microbial ecosystem produces diverse metabolites that actively shape neural, immune, and endocrine function. Join leading researchers on December 12 as they share new discoveries into these ...

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Science in Seattle@scienceinseattle.com · 10mo ago

🦠 The @isbscience.org Virtual Microbiome Symposium is on December 12, 2025! This virtual symposium will dive into the influence of gut microbial metabolites on human #physiology. This event is perfect for everyone in academia, industry, and the clinic. Register now: https://bit.ly/4oe67iw

New PhD position in my lab at @uniofbath.bsky.social (with both @tweethinking.bsky.social & Dr Bethan Littleford-Colquhoun)! We're looking for someone keen on bioinformatics and microbiome evolution. Important info below on eligibility & URSA competition funding👇 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The overlapping microbiome: ecology, function and resilience beyond species boundaries at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - The overlapping microbiome: ecology, function and resilience beyond species boundaries at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com

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