Super thrilled to share our labor of love from the Asian Skin Microbiome Program! We collected >3,500 skin samples, built metagenomic libraries w/ >70 billion reads and >10TB of data to study heterogeneity of the skin microbiome in the general population (200 adults, 18 sites) t.co/ZylbJMpvpw

millennials today (again)

It’s always “We launched these tardigrades into space!” “We froze them to absolute zero!” “We threw them into an erupting volcano!”

Never “We took these tardigrades on a holiday. They’re getting tiny massages and sipping little umbrella drinks on the beach.”

New to data science with #RStats or need a refresher? I always recommend R for Data Science (r4ds.hadley.nz) – a free online book by @hadley.nz that takes you from importing data to statistical modeling in a gentle, beginner-friendly way. #datascience #rladies #r4ds

Biology is the only science where multiplication is the same thing as division. 🧪

My first post here is a little bit egotistical, but I'm thrilled to share our latest paper on metagenomic analysis during anaerobic digestion of different renewable wastes. It took a long time, and I'm very happy and proud!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I LOVE REGULATION. I LOVE THE PEACE OF MIND KNOWING THAT A RESTAURANT IS SAFE TO EAT AND A PRODUCT WONT KILL ME. I WANT MORE REGULATION. I DONT WANT CORPORATIONS TO BREATHE WITHOUT GOVERNMENT PERMISSION.

More than 1,900 scientists write letter in ‘SOS’ over Trump’s attacks on science

Members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine warned Americans of ‘real danger in this moment’

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

There are days in life that shake you.

I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵

Hey #microbiome people,

Some time ago, I started compiling several lists (& still regularly updating them):

Bioinformatics learning github.com/SvetlanaUP/A...

Microbiome events github.com/SvetlanaUP/M...

Microbiome podcasts github.com/SvetlanaUP/M...

Pls add if I missed something!

Try our new in silico PCR (sPCR) tool sharkmer- github.com/caseywdunn/s.... You give it primers and fastq reads, it gives you sequences that would be amplified by PCR. Works in minutes on a laptop for high copy regions like rRNA, great for species id etc. Feedback welcome. #bioinformatics #ngs

Three keys to unlocking successful manuscripts

PDF Download
www.cell.com/matter/pdf/S...

@hologenomics.bsky.social we're super excited to announce the release of #MicrobialConnections - a new #podcast series where we together with #experts dive into the exciting aspects of #holobiont #biology 🦠

🎧Listen and subscribe👇
microbial-connections.simplecast.com

@dg.dk @ucph.bsky.social

This is a great idea for a program, and one that will hopefully help drive innovation and early career applied research!

Does anybody have cool photos/videos of bacteria that you'd be willing to share? (be it microscopes, agar plates, anything really!) I'm doing an outreach session with an infant school, talking to them about good and bad bacteria and I need more cool visuals to show them 😊 DMs are open
#scisky

My PhD work is now published in Nature Microbiology! Please, have a look!

A thread with some new starter packs in genomics and bioinformatics 🧵 1/13...

Are you a data creator/user in #metagenomics or other #omics? We’re working on standards for fair data reuse and would like your feedback. We welcome contributions by scientists from all career stages. 5-min anonymous survey here: shorturl.at/NOUW2 Please RT!