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Kostas Kormas πŸŸπŸ¦žπŸšπŸ¦­πŸ’©πŸ”¬πŸ§ͺπŸ§¬πŸ“ ✈️ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

@kkormas.bsky.social

Awed by tiny creatures!! Host-Microbe Interactions MSc http://hosmic.uth.gr Prof. @ https://www.uth.gr/en All CV stuff ➑️ https://linktr.ee/kkormas Fellow of the European Academy of Microbiology @mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social delegate ➑️ FEMS

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Kostas Kormas πŸŸπŸ¦žπŸšπŸ¦­πŸ’©πŸ”¬πŸ§ͺπŸ§¬πŸ“ ✈️ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ@kkormas.bsky.social Β· 2w ago

Think #preprints are unreliable? Analysis of 70,000 studies might change your mind www.nature.com/articles/d41... @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social #SymbioSky #MicroSky @academic-chatter.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social @scinews.bsky.social @esci.eu @chronicle.com @scienseed.com #SciComm

Think preprints are unreliable? Analysis of 70,000 studies might change your mind

Central conclusions rarely change when biomedical preprints go on to be published in journals.

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com Β· 2w ago

Portland State Will Lay Off 36 Employees, Close 2 Departments The university announced its β€œfinal plan” on Tue. after negotiating with the faculty union for several months. The cuts will help address a $35M budget shortfall that the university must close in the next two...https://bit.ly/3TfDjfB

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Kostas Kormas πŸŸπŸ¦žπŸšπŸ¦­πŸ’©πŸ”¬πŸ§ͺπŸ§¬πŸ“ ✈️ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ@kkormas.bsky.social Β· last mo.

Using the amazing #protein sources of #lupin and the top invader fish #Lagocephalus sceleratus in #fishmeal, leaves the #european #seabass #Dicentrarchus labrax #gut #bacteria rather unmodified #SymbioSky #MicroSky #microbiomesky #gutmicrobes #hostmicrobe #microbeinteractions #aquaculture

bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social Β· last mo.

Consistent gut bacterial microbiota in European sea bass fed aquafeeds containing sustainable plant and invasive fish-based ingredients https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.26.733563v1

Kostas Kormas πŸŸπŸ¦žπŸšπŸ¦­πŸ’©πŸ”¬πŸ§ͺπŸ§¬πŸ“ ✈️ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ@kkormas.bsky.social Β· last mo.

A representative of a ubiquitous bacterial lineage parasitically feeds on host #RNA #SymbioSky #MicroSky #microbiomesky #hostmicrobe #symbiosis #microbeinteractions #holobiont @holobiontbiology.bsky.social @superbugs.bsky.social @hostmicrobelit.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A representative of a ubiquitous bacterial lineage parasitically feeds on host RNA

Cellular metabolism is widely understood as an integrated network of redox reactions, energy conservation, and biosynthetic pathways. Here we show that across diverse prokaryotic lineages, loss of red...

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Kostas Kormas πŸŸπŸ¦žπŸšπŸ¦­πŸ’©πŸ”¬πŸ§ͺπŸ§¬πŸ“ ✈️ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ@kkormas.bsky.social Β· 2mo ago

Another red alert for #American #science @academic-chatter.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social @phdvoice.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Another red alert for American science

Although research has bipartisan support in the US Congress, and trust in science is above 75% across the country, the Trump administration seems as determined as ever to mortally wound the nation’s s...

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Kostas Kormas πŸŸπŸ¦žπŸšπŸ¦­πŸ’©πŸ”¬πŸ§ͺπŸ§¬πŸ“ ✈️ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ@kkormas.bsky.social Β· 2mo ago

@hosmic.bsky.social @mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social

The Symbiosis Courses Alumni Network@symbiosisalumni.bsky.social Β· 2mo ago

Join us Wednesday, 24th June, at 4pm WEST (Lisbon time), for two Symbiosis Alumni Seminars by Rowan Hart and Naama Geva-Zatorsky. Zoom link upon free registration at gimm.idloom.events/symbnet_semi... @symbnet.bsky.social, @moorefound.bsky.social, @mblscience.bsky.social, ECODIM

Rowan Hart Title: Microevolutionary cophylogeny using ancestral recombination graphs Abstract: Cophylogeny provides insights into the specificity and sharedevolutionary history of host-symbiont interactions. While cophylogenetic analyses have primarily investigated macroevolutionary patterns, increasing population genomic data of host-symbiont systems opens opportunities to explore microevolutionary cophylogeny. This remains challenging, however, since the evolutionary history between individuals within a host species cannot be well represented with a single phylogeny. Here, we measure microevolutionary cophylogeny by comparing the ancestral recombination graph of the hosts with the phylogeny of their paired symbionts. This approach provides cophylogenetic measurements of genome-wide trends, as well as signals specific to host genomic loci. Through simulations, we investigate the effects of transmission mode, population structure, admixture, and allelic incompatibility on cophylogeny. We find that genome-wide cophylogenetic signals arise through shared population structure, and demonstrate how genetic interactions can cause transient locus-specific signals. We measure mitonuclear cophylogeny within the 1000 Genomes Project and observe substantial variation in genome-wide signals across human populations, as well as locus- specific enrichment for host nuclear genes involved in mitochondrial pathways. Using paired host-microbe genomic datasets, including the Human Microbiome project, we also explore microevolutionary cophylogeny between humans and their microbiome, elucidating how host-genetics shapes microbial strain diversity
Kostas Kormas πŸŸπŸ¦žπŸšπŸ¦­πŸ’©πŸ”¬πŸ§ͺπŸ§¬πŸ“ ✈️ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ@kkormas.bsky.social Β· 2mo ago

Why should early-career scientists publish in society journals | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Why should early-career scientists publish in society journals | mBio

Society journals are deeply rooted in our scientific community and a vital part of it. They serve as a venue for the publication of high-quality articles while promoting the mission-driven activities ...

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Kostas Kormas πŸŸπŸ¦žπŸšπŸ¦­πŸ’©πŸ”¬πŸ§ͺπŸ§¬πŸ“ ✈️ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ@kkormas.bsky.social Β· 2mo ago

Don’t compete, collaborate: why collective funding applications are the future www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Don’t compete, collaborate: why collective funding applications are the future

Scientists with disparate expertise writing grants together can identify knowledge gaps and drive progress β€” but systems must change to incentivize them.

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Kostas Kormas πŸŸπŸ¦žπŸšπŸ¦­πŸ’©πŸ”¬πŸ§ͺπŸ§¬πŸ“ ✈️ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ@kkormas.bsky.social Β· 2mo ago

@mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social @hosmic.bsky.social

STCmicrobeblog@stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social Β· 2mo ago

#MicroSky It is not widely known that sporty bacteria have also mastered the art of backstroke swimming. Among them is 𝘊𝘒𝘣𝘒𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘯π˜ͺ𝘒 π˜ͺ𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘀𝘡π˜ͺ𝘀𝘰𝘭𝘒... smallthingsconsidered.blog/schaechter/2...

Kostas Kormas πŸŸπŸ¦žπŸšπŸ¦­πŸ’©πŸ”¬πŸ§ͺπŸ§¬πŸ“ ✈️ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ@kkormas.bsky.social Β· 2mo ago

#cattle #microbiome #holobiont #gutmicrobes #hostmicrobe #microbialecology #microbeinteractions

Host-Microbe Interactions - International MSc Program@hosmic.bsky.social Β· 2mo ago

πŸŽ‰πŸ‘ our student @morganokpara.bsky.social for his #thesis pub: Comparative Analysis of #Bovine #Fecal #Microbiota and Short-Chain Fatty Acids Variation During Dry Period, #Pregnancy & #Lactation" #scfaΒ #bunaji #SymbioSky #MicroSky #microbiomesky #Microbiology #symbiosis www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/14...

Kostas Kormas πŸŸπŸ¦žπŸšπŸ¦­πŸ’©πŸ”¬πŸ§ͺπŸ§¬πŸ“ ✈️ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ@kkormas.bsky.social Β· 2mo ago

Scientists' Warning to Humanity: Unnecessary #Bureaucracy Is a Global Impediment to Productivity, Advancement of Human and Planetary Wellbeing, #Science and #Sustainability enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Scientists' Warning to Humanity: Unnecessary Bureaucracy Is a Global Impediment to Productivity, Advancement of Human and Planetary Wellbeing, Science and Sustainability

Unnecessary bureaucracy is a global impediment to progress and productivity that increases stress and lowers workplace morale and motivation. In research it smothers creativity and innovation that ar...

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Maarten Paulusse@maartenp.bsky.social Β· 3mo ago

Good piece by Jefferson Pooley on how LLM-powered β€œresearch” tools like Google’s β€œDeep Research” and Elsevier’s β€œAI Discovery” likely strengthen the β€œMatthew effect”: highly-cited authors are amplified while undercited (often female) authors are increasingly ignored: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

The Matthew effect in AI summary - LSE Impact

AI research tools are trained on a literature that is structured by an unequal distribution of attention. Does their use simply recreate these biases ?

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Kostas Kormas πŸŸπŸ¦žπŸšπŸ¦­πŸ’©πŸ”¬πŸ§ͺπŸ§¬πŸ“ ✈️ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ@kkormas.bsky.social Β· 3mo ago

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Bjo:rn Schro:der@mucubacter.bsky.social Β· 3mo ago

We are recruiting a #postdoc in #bioinformatics! If you are passionate about #gutmicrobiome analyses, data-driven approaches and #guthealth, please have a look at our offer: umustipendie.varbi.com/en/what:job/... #DataScience #MicrobiomeSky #MicroSky #CSMicrobiome2026

Recruiting Postdoc in Bioinformatics
IPBES@ipbes.net Β· 3mo ago

This #PlantHealthDay, a reminder: plant health depends on biodiversity. Biodiversity loss reduces water availability, increases pathogen emergence and exacerbates some forms of water pollution, undermining human, plant and animal health.

A close-up photograph of bright green, glossy jade plant leaves (Crassula ovata) with the IPBES logo in the top right corner. The overlay text reads: "Biodiversity loss undermines human, plant and animal health. IPBES NEXUS ASSESSMENT".