New King lab paper @currentbiology.bsky.social led by the brilliant @luismsilva.bsky.social on parasite shedders and spreaders: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Transmission heterogeneity emerges from uncoupled parasite shedding and spreading

Silva et al. show that disease transmission emerges from multiple ecological bottlenecks rather than a single host trait. Separating parasite shedding from downstream infection success reveals why hos...

cell.com

it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy

Has anyone run NanoCaller on ONT microbial genome reads? Experiences?

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 "Deconstructing empirical fitness seascapes across scales of granularity" published in #G3 (@genetics-gsa.bsky.social) 1/2 The fitness landscape has been among the most influential instruments in evolutionary theory for nearly a century. But we often treat them as fixed and static.

Dear microbiome enthusiasts: I'm excited to be moving my lab to New York University this fall (& the NYU Institute for Engineering Health); with joint-appointment @isbscience.org I'm hiring a postdoc @ NYU to look at diet-driven evolution in the gut: apply.interfolio.com/189980 Please share! 🦠🤓

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 🙏

Gotta love the “or stocks” part. Like Gemini realized its first answer was nuts so it tried to wedge in a better one.

He serves in the branch that the Constitution specifically charges with the duty of removing the President for criming.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

I just published: The lab meeting, explained Open mic, one slide, and why Joe chairs instead of me. And do check the FAQ. kamounlab.medium.com/the-lab-meet...

The lab meeting, explained

Open mic, one slide, and why Joe chairs instead of me.

kamounlab.medium.com

Virginia Tech, Soil Judging World Champs

Sickos Committee@sickoscommittee.org · 2d ago

The 2025-2026 Non-NCAA National Championships (Part 2) presented by the Sickos Committee! Check out all the Non-NCAA Champions from the past year! Also if you know of more let us know below with links so we can make more graphics! More parts to come!

Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

@massimoamicone.bsky.social giving a fantastic talk on evolutionary rescue in simple microbial communities at MEEHubs 2026 @meehubs.bsky.social #meehubs2026

Preprint 🦠🚨: We are diving deeper into #T6SS effectors, and now in #Pantoea. We describe the largest, most diverse effector arsenal associated with a single T6SS, and it's in a plant pathogen that forms galls on beet roots. Sweet! 1/8 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Pantoea agglomerans T6SS effectors reside in hotspots with combinatorial offensive and defensive arsenals

Gram-negative bacteria deploy type VI secretion systems (T6SSs) to mediate interbacterial competition. Although numerous T6SS effectors have been identified, their pan-genomic repertoires and evolutio...

biorxiv.org

It really is hard to be this consistently wrong about everything

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

Wonder will Alex Berenson now change his health reporting? Or will start pushing a "died with" rather than "died from" framing?

So, bluesky, where is the discussion of the absolute insane things AI is doing in the realm of mathematics? It seems like we're nearly at the inflection point where the models are as good as human domain experts, and soon may well be better. Is that discourse only happening on twitter?

A stool transplant delivers billions of microbes into a sick gut. Almost none move in for good. We followed donor-recipient pairs from whole communities down to single nucleotides, and found the gut runs a ruthless strain-level filter. Out now in Cell Reports 🧵 www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Strain-level ecological filtering governs microbial colonization of the human gut

Baertschi et al. demonstrate that microbiota transplantation functions as a selective ecological filter. Although donor species frequently appear, only specific lineages achieve stable strain integrat...

cell.com

Universität Bern@unibe.ch · 3d ago

A strict “gatekeeper” decides whether a #fecaltransplant is effective: sohub.io/wruy. This is shown by a new study led by @bahtiyil.bsky.social from #unibern & @inselgruppe.bsky.social @dbmr-unibe.bsky.social

AH-MAZE-ING

Jay Shendure@jshendure.bsky.social · 5d ago

Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.6... This is the product of many years of effort, and particularly amazing summer teamwork by Qi Yu, Haedong Kim, @seidels.bsky.social @cxqiu.bsky.social and many others from Shendure Lab & SeaHub (a @alleninstitute.org @biohub.org @uwmedicine.bsky.social colab) 2/n

Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.6... This is the product of many years of effort, and particularly amazing summer teamwork by Qi Yu, Haedong Kim, @seidels.bsky.social @cxqiu.bsky.social and many others from Shendure Lab & SeaHub (a @alleninstitute.org @biohub.org @uwmedicine.bsky.social colab) 2/n

In vivo reconstruction of the cell lineage history of a developing mouse with DNA Typewriter, from zygote to late organogenesis

The complete cell lineage of C. elegans, mapped over four decades ago, was tractable because the animal is small, transparent, and lineage invariant. Most animals are none of these, having orders of m...

biorxiv.org

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Such an important (series of) comparison(s) for soil viromics, h/t @jrr-microbio.bsky.social and team !!

Preparation method shapes the recovery and ecological interpretation of DNA and RNA soil viral communities - Nature Communications

Profiling soil viral communities is challenging due to the inherent complexity of soil samples. In this study, the authors show that soil sample preparation strongly shapes which DNA and RNA viruses a...

nature.com

Young Zoomers, at least u didn’t have to live thru the peak of the “debate” about “intelligent design”

Happy Monday, I’m going to say something that sucks: it’s worth understanding that the clips of RFK on CNN are circulating in MAHA / MAGA world as an absolute fucking victory lap. Looks bad to us, but to them, it’s aura farming content gold. We have no idea how to counter that so far tbh

THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE POWER ACCOMPLISHES! Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who wrote comments, contacted Congress, and yelled! This is OUR WIN! @standupforscience.net www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul

Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.

politico.com

This is Zoë Goehring, owner of @cavepaper in Tucson, AZ, walking a group of #Botany2026 attendees through her paper-making process yesterday morning during a conference field trip. She's been honing her craft for years and it was magical to see her at work! #plantpeopleFTW

“‘victim misses’ had become ‘victim mrs.’” is the line of the year. @annierau.bsky.social, take a freaking bow

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 4d ago

this owns www.inverse.com/input/cultur...

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Anthrodiva Bot 2026@anthrodiva.bsky.social · 4d ago

I just now realized Lord Buckethead and Count Binface are two different characters.

Just remember: the trade deadline isn’t until Monday. #Dodgers still have plenty of time to trade for Mason Miller, C.J. Abrams and Adley Rutschman.

Pls share. Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences - Genetics/Genomics at Smith College. apply.interfolio.com/190342

Nothing convinced me more of the importance of publicly funded basic research more than my time in industry.

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 5d ago

Love this idea that industry should subsidize basic research. Industry famously is great at prioritizing timelines longer than a year or two

Man was blessed with a pair of lungs anyone on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera would be pleased to have. A foghorn. Teach your kids to project their voices with righteousness powerful enough to cram the forces of authoritarianism back into their hidey-holes.

Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 6d ago

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG