Susan Jones
@jonesysoo.bsky.social
Editorial Director, Nature portfolio. Ex-Chief editor at Nature Microbiology & Nature Reviews Microbiology. Ex-Senior editor at Nature Biotechnology & PLOS Medicine. Microbiology& technology are my happy place. Here for the science, views my own.
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Susan Jones
@jonesysoo.bsky.social
· Aug 1
Delighted to announce here that @ritastrack.bsky.social is the new Chief editor of Nature Biomedical Engineering. Congratulations Rita!
Cordyceps is the fungus in 'The last of us'. So this one caught my eye -- fascinating paper in the evergreen journal, Current Biology (one of my personal faves): www.cell.com/current-biol...
Fungal pathogen promotes caterpillar feeding and weight gain using a host-like trehalase
Zhao et al. report that Cordyceps militaris fungi induce feeding and weight gain in
silkworm larvae using an insect-like trehalase. Fungal infection induces a sharp drop
in insect blood sugars and the...
www.cell.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Cordyceps is the fungus in 'The last of us'. So this one caught my eye -- fascinating paper in the evergreen journal, Current Biology (one of my personal faves): www.cell.com/current-biol...
Reposted by Susan Jones
There is still time to apply to become part of our team at Nature Biomedical Engineering! Please share! springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
a blue sign that says we are hiring
ALT: a blue sign that says we are hiring
media.tenor.com
August 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
There is still time to apply to become part of our team at Nature Biomedical Engineering! Please share! springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
Delighted to announce here that @ritastrack.bsky.social is the new Chief editor of Nature Biomedical Engineering. Congratulations Rita!
August 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Delighted to announce here that @ritastrack.bsky.social is the new Chief editor of Nature Biomedical Engineering. Congratulations Rita!
⭐ I'm hiring a new Chief editor for Nature Biomedical engineering, in New York, Beijing or Shanghai.
Please apply here: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
Please apply here: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
April 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
⭐ I'm hiring a new Chief editor for Nature Biomedical engineering, in New York, Beijing or Shanghai.
Please apply here: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
Please apply here: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
Reposted by Susan Jones
OUT NOW: Seed-borne bacteria drive wheat rhizosphere microbiome assembly via niche partitioning and facilitation
@dgarrs.bsky.social
#microsky 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@dgarrs.bsky.social
#microsky 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Seed-borne bacteria drive wheat rhizosphere microbiome assembly via niche partitioning and facilitation - Nature Microbiology
A sequential propagation strategy shows how the microbes initially on seeds are key to building complex, reproducible and heritable plant microbiomes.
www.nature.com
March 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
OUT NOW: Seed-borne bacteria drive wheat rhizosphere microbiome assembly via niche partitioning and facilitation
@dgarrs.bsky.social
#microsky 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@dgarrs.bsky.social
#microsky 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Susan Jones
Together with fellow @biologists.bsky.social EiCs we've written about the unprecedented cuts & policy changes to research in the US
We stand with our US colleagues during this challenging time
Science transcends borders—setbacks in one nation affect us all
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
We stand with our US colleagues during this challenging time
Science transcends borders—setbacks in one nation affect us all
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times
As Editors-in-Chief of The Company of Biologists' journals, we have been watching with growing concern the policy changes in the United States of America (USA) and the challenges that these are creati...
journals.biologists.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Together with fellow @biologists.bsky.social EiCs we've written about the unprecedented cuts & policy changes to research in the US
We stand with our US colleagues during this challenging time
Science transcends borders—setbacks in one nation affect us all
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
We stand with our US colleagues during this challenging time
Science transcends borders—setbacks in one nation affect us all
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
📣Taking our ability to understand phage biology up a notch. Phage functional genomics platform, out now
🔓Open access, read it at your leisure
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@cresslab.bsky.social, @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social
🔓Open access, read it at your leisure
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@cresslab.bsky.social, @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social
March 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
📣Taking our ability to understand phage biology up a notch. Phage functional genomics platform, out now
🔓Open access, read it at your leisure
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@cresslab.bsky.social, @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social
🔓Open access, read it at your leisure
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@cresslab.bsky.social, @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social
Reposted by Susan Jones
Congratulations to the whole team! 🎉
Here we go! The first issue of Nature Reviews Biodiversity is now live🥳🎉🥂.
Thank you to our authors, reviewers, and community for the support! We hope you enjoy the reading. www.nature.com/nrbd/volumes...
Thank you to our authors, reviewers, and community for the support! We hope you enjoy the reading. www.nature.com/nrbd/volumes...
January 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Congratulations to the whole team! 🎉
Reposted by Susan Jones
Happy launch day everyone! We're really excited to share our first issue, which is now available to read online here www.nature.com/nrct/
January 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Happy launch day everyone! We're really excited to share our first issue, which is now available to read online here www.nature.com/nrct/
One (tired) man and his dog 😊
January 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
One (tired) man and his dog 😊
This is important: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Recommendations for mitochondria transfer and transplantation nomenclature and characterization - Nature Metabolism
This Consensus Statement provides a nomenclature framework and experimental recommendations for studying mitochondrial transfer and transplantation.
www.nature.com
January 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This is important: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Reposted by Susan Jones
Article by @fitz-james-lab.bsky.social and me summarising his Mol Cell study
www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/article/dna-...
www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/article/dna-...
DNA origami: a new frontier in epigenetic inheritance across generations
In a collaboration between two labs spanning both sides of the English Channel, scientists have discovered a new way in which the organisation of DNA within our cells affects genes for generations
www.bioch.ox.ac.uk
December 11, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Article by @fitz-james-lab.bsky.social and me summarising his Mol Cell study
www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/article/dna-...
www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/article/dna-...
🤩 pair of papers here that begin to reveal the potential of topically-applied engineered bacteria.
Today we report that an engineered skin bacterium, swabbed gently on the head of a mouse, can unleash a potent antibody response against a pathogen. Could lead to topical vaccines that are applied in a cream. @djenetbousbaine.bsky.social led the charge... @natureportfolio.bsky.social 1/55
December 11, 2024 at 8:43 PM
🤩 pair of papers here that begin to reveal the potential of topically-applied engineered bacteria.
Reposted by Susan Jones
BOOSTER, a newly identified orphan gene, supercharges photosynthesis and, when overexpressed, boosts height of poplars by up to 200% (at least in greenhouse)
To make it even more interesting, part of the gene seems derived from a poplar fungus-farming ant 🐜
Paper: www.cell.com/developmenta...
To make it even more interesting, part of the gene seems derived from a poplar fungus-farming ant 🐜
Paper: www.cell.com/developmenta...
December 4, 2024 at 10:12 PM
BOOSTER, a newly identified orphan gene, supercharges photosynthesis and, when overexpressed, boosts height of poplars by up to 200% (at least in greenhouse)
To make it even more interesting, part of the gene seems derived from a poplar fungus-farming ant 🐜
Paper: www.cell.com/developmenta...
To make it even more interesting, part of the gene seems derived from a poplar fungus-farming ant 🐜
Paper: www.cell.com/developmenta...
Reposted by Susan Jones
And see this related preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Conserved jumbo phage factors required for protein import into a phage nucleus
Yup. That does say "phage nucleus" and it really is a nucleus-like compartment.
Conserved jumbo phage factors required for protein import into a phage nucleus
Yup. That does say "phage nucleus" and it really is a nucleus-like compartment.
Conserved jumbo phage factors required for protein import into a phage nucleus
Bacteriophages use diverse mechanisms to evade anti-phage defenses systems. ΦKZ-like jumbo phages assemble a proteinaceous nucleus-like compartment that excludes antagonistic host nucleases, while int...
www.biorxiv.org
December 4, 2024 at 11:16 PM
And see this related preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Conserved jumbo phage factors required for protein import into a phage nucleus
Yup. That does say "phage nucleus" and it really is a nucleus-like compartment.
Conserved jumbo phage factors required for protein import into a phage nucleus
Yup. That does say "phage nucleus" and it really is a nucleus-like compartment.
It’s not a class issue. How about stopping deflecting misogyny using class war and owning your mistakes and apologising, Gregg? ‘Only’ 13 women complained. Just how many complaints is enough to take it seriously Gregg? Wow. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Gregg Wallace says complaints came from ‘middle-class women of a certain age’
Wallace stepped back from role on MasterChef last week while allegations of sexual misconduct are investigated
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2024 at 12:57 PM
It’s not a class issue. How about stopping deflecting misogyny using class war and owning your mistakes and apologising, Gregg? ‘Only’ 13 women complained. Just how many complaints is enough to take it seriously Gregg? Wow. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Interesting paper that identifies a murine ‘super donor’ FMT microbiome and then investigates what makes it ‘super’:
New paper from the lab out in Cell Systems. “Spatiotemporal dynamics during niche remodeling by super-colonizing microbiota in the mammalian gut”
www.cell.com/cell-systems...
www.cell.com/cell-systems...
Spatiotemporal dynamics during niche remodeling by super-colonizing microbiota in the mammalian gut
Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) therapies hold promise but suffer from variable
transplantation efficiencies. Here, we examine microbiome spatiotemporal dynamics
post-FMT with a super-colonizin...
www.cell.com
November 30, 2024 at 10:59 AM
Interesting paper that identifies a murine ‘super donor’ FMT microbiome and then investigates what makes it ‘super’:
Reposted by Susan Jones
Great to be at OncoLille yesterday to discuss research culture and regulatory T cells!
November 30, 2024 at 7:33 AM
Great to be at OncoLille yesterday to discuss research culture and regulatory T cells!
Reposted by Susan Jones
We could go on about how we welcome publishers, we don't demote links, we encourage independent developers to build apps and extensions on top of Bluesky's network.... but instead, we'll show you.
All thanks to the incredible community here! 🦋
All thanks to the incredible community here! 🦋
The Engagement Is Better on Bluesky - Bluesky
Bluesky is the lobby to the open web. Find and build your community here.
bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 10:30 PM
We could go on about how we welcome publishers, we don't demote links, we encourage independent developers to build apps and extensions on top of Bluesky's network.... but instead, we'll show you.
All thanks to the incredible community here! 🦋
All thanks to the incredible community here! 🦋
Our dog is not spoilt. We merely made him more comfortable 😆
November 28, 2024 at 9:33 PM
Our dog is not spoilt. We merely made him more comfortable 😆
Reposted by Susan Jones
Excited to share “Bin Chicken”, substantially improving genome recovery through rational metagenomic assembly. Applied to public 🌍 metagenomes, it recovered 24,000 novel species 🦠, including 6 novel phyla.
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
@wwood @rhysnewell @CMR_QUT
🧵1/6
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
@wwood @rhysnewell @CMR_QUT
🧵1/6
November 26, 2024 at 2:45 AM
Excited to share “Bin Chicken”, substantially improving genome recovery through rational metagenomic assembly. Applied to public 🌍 metagenomes, it recovered 24,000 novel species 🦠, including 6 novel phyla.
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
@wwood @rhysnewell @CMR_QUT
🧵1/6
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
@wwood @rhysnewell @CMR_QUT
🧵1/6
Reposted by Susan Jones
Absolutely thrilled to announce our newly awarded MRC @ukri.org project grant! 🍾 Together with @gpollara.bsky.social & @scottishwormboy.bsky.social, we'll seek novel bacterial virulence and host defence determinants using clinical #UTI samples in my lab's human urothelial microtissue model! #UTISky
November 26, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Absolutely thrilled to announce our newly awarded MRC @ukri.org project grant! 🍾 Together with @gpollara.bsky.social & @scottishwormboy.bsky.social, we'll seek novel bacterial virulence and host defence determinants using clinical #UTI samples in my lab's human urothelial microtissue model! #UTISky
Reposted by Susan Jones
🎶Best music book of 2024?
For me, it was Michael Veal’s mind-expanding “Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, & Free Jazz, From Analog to Digital”
He uses theories & frameworks from architecture, photography & design to help understand the most avant-garde albums from these 2 musical geniuses
For me, it was Michael Veal’s mind-expanding “Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, & Free Jazz, From Analog to Digital”
He uses theories & frameworks from architecture, photography & design to help understand the most avant-garde albums from these 2 musical geniuses
November 26, 2024 at 9:38 PM
🎶Best music book of 2024?
For me, it was Michael Veal’s mind-expanding “Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, & Free Jazz, From Analog to Digital”
He uses theories & frameworks from architecture, photography & design to help understand the most avant-garde albums from these 2 musical geniuses
For me, it was Michael Veal’s mind-expanding “Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, & Free Jazz, From Analog to Digital”
He uses theories & frameworks from architecture, photography & design to help understand the most avant-garde albums from these 2 musical geniuses
Reposted by Susan Jones
Exciting times! Our latest preprint is now live 🤩!
After nearly 16 yrs of running my lab, I truly believe this is one of the most significant contributions we've made. It offers fresh hypotheses about how pandemic Vibrio cholerae spreads globally. Let’s dive in!🧵..1/n
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
After nearly 16 yrs of running my lab, I truly believe this is one of the most significant contributions we've made. It offers fresh hypotheses about how pandemic Vibrio cholerae spreads globally. Let’s dive in!🧵..1/n
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Diverse phage defence systems define West African South American pandemic Vibrio cholerae
Our understanding of the factors underlying the evolutionary success of different lineages of pandemic Vibrio cholerae remains incomplete. Interestingly, two unique genetic signatures define the West ...
www.biorxiv.org
November 25, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Exciting times! Our latest preprint is now live 🤩!
After nearly 16 yrs of running my lab, I truly believe this is one of the most significant contributions we've made. It offers fresh hypotheses about how pandemic Vibrio cholerae spreads globally. Let’s dive in!🧵..1/n
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
After nearly 16 yrs of running my lab, I truly believe this is one of the most significant contributions we've made. It offers fresh hypotheses about how pandemic Vibrio cholerae spreads globally. Let’s dive in!🧵..1/n
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...