Sebastian Schmidt
@tsbschm.bsky.social
Lecturer in Microbiome & Health at @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social & @ucc.bsky.social
Alumnus @borklab.bsky.social
Microbiome, microbial ecology & metagenomics.
Alumnus @borklab.bsky.social
Microbiome, microbial ecology & metagenomics.
Its a pretty safe bet that Donald Trump will be in the official champions photo after the World Cup 2026 final, standing in first line and holding the trophy.
You know the ending of this story, right?
FIFA president Gianni Infantino will award the first-ever FIFA Peace Prize during the 2026 World Cup draw in DC on December 5.
The prize will honour individuals who have helped unite people and promote peace.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino will award the first-ever FIFA Peace Prize during the 2026 World Cup draw in DC on December 5.
The prize will honour individuals who have helped unite people and promote peace.
November 6, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Its a pretty safe bet that Donald Trump will be in the official champions photo after the World Cup 2026 final, standing in first line and holding the trophy.
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Great to see this finally published!
Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
now out in @narjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
now out in @narjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
Abstract. Metagenomic sequencing enables the in-depth study of microbes and their functions in humans, animals, and the environment. While sequencing data
academic.oup.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Great to see this finally published!
Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
now out in @narjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
now out in @narjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
Great to see this finally published!
Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
now out in @narjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
now out in @narjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
Abstract. Metagenomic sequencing enables the in-depth study of microbes and their functions in humans, animals, and the environment. While sequencing data
academic.oup.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Great to see this finally published!
Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
now out in @narjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
now out in @narjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
"As a scientist, how do you feel about the US Secretary of Health?"
October 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"As a scientist, how do you feel about the US Secretary of Health?"
Reposted by Sebastian Schmidt
Our @narjournal.bsky.social manuscript is out! It explores the growth of the GTDB (gtdb.ecogenomic.org) since its inception, as well as updates to the website, methodology, policies, and major taxonomic and nomenclatural changes over the past three years.
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
GTDB release 10: a complete and systematic taxonomy for 715 230 bacterial and 17 245 archaeal genomes
Abstract. The Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB; https://gtdb.ecogenomic.org) provides a phylogenetically consistent and rank normalized genome-based taxonomy
academic.oup.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Our @narjournal.bsky.social manuscript is out! It explores the growth of the GTDB (gtdb.ecogenomic.org) since its inception, as well as updates to the website, methodology, policies, and major taxonomic and nomenclatural changes over the past three years.
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
ICE footage from the US is just shocking. As a German it hits particularly hard because they act like the SS and SA did in 1930s Nazi Germany.
And I have been asked countless times, "why did regular people not stand up to the Nazis". Never thought we'd one day have to ask Americans the same thing.
And I have been asked countless times, "why did regular people not stand up to the Nazis". Never thought we'd one day have to ask Americans the same thing.
October 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
ICE footage from the US is just shocking. As a German it hits particularly hard because they act like the SS and SA did in 1930s Nazi Germany.
And I have been asked countless times, "why did regular people not stand up to the Nazis". Never thought we'd one day have to ask Americans the same thing.
And I have been asked countless times, "why did regular people not stand up to the Nazis". Never thought we'd one day have to ask Americans the same thing.
“It’s more of a comment than a question…”
October 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
“It’s more of a comment than a question…”
Reposted by Sebastian Schmidt
As I was saying…
Jimmy Kimmel is Back!
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
youtu.be
September 24, 2025 at 4:27 AM
As I was saying…
Reposted by Sebastian Schmidt
Psychologists everywhere frantically scribbling.
September 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Psychologists everywhere frantically scribbling.
Reposted by Sebastian Schmidt
I don’t think I’ve ever seen America so embarrassed in front of the entire world.
September 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I don’t think I’ve ever seen America so embarrassed in front of the entire world.
Fecal filtrate is less effective than donor stool (FMT) for the treatment of C. difficile recurrence. Now shown in a multicentre trial, out today in @lancetgastrohep.bsky.social .
Congratulations to Dina Kao @ualberta.bsky.social & team!
Gift link:
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lphg8nByr...
Congratulations to Dina Kao @ualberta.bsky.social & team!
Gift link:
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lphg8nByr...
authors.elsevier.com
September 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Fecal filtrate is less effective than donor stool (FMT) for the treatment of C. difficile recurrence. Now shown in a multicentre trial, out today in @lancetgastrohep.bsky.social .
Congratulations to Dina Kao @ualberta.bsky.social & team!
Gift link:
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lphg8nByr...
Congratulations to Dina Kao @ualberta.bsky.social & team!
Gift link:
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lphg8nByr...
A toothbrush! A toothbrush! My kingdom for a toothbrush!
The oral microbiome of King Richard III of England https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.21.677585v1
September 22, 2025 at 4:26 AM
A toothbrush! A toothbrush! My kingdom for a toothbrush!
Miller giving Sportpalast vibes…
Dear USA, we’ve been through all this 80-90 years ago and really 0/10, can’t recommend. Regards, Germany.
Dear USA, we’ve been through all this 80-90 years ago and really 0/10, can’t recommend. Regards, Germany.
September 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Miller giving Sportpalast vibes…
Dear USA, we’ve been through all this 80-90 years ago and really 0/10, can’t recommend. Regards, Germany.
Dear USA, we’ve been through all this 80-90 years ago and really 0/10, can’t recommend. Regards, Germany.
Reposted by Sebastian Schmidt
GPU-accelerated MMseqs2 offers tremendous speedup for homology retrieval, protein structure prediction with ColabFold, and protein structure search with Foldseek. @martinsteinegger.bsky.social @milot.bsky.social @machine.learning.bio
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
GPU-accelerated homology search with MMseqs2 - Nature Methods
Graphics processing unit-accelerated MMseqs2 offers tremendous speedups for homology retrieval from metagenomic databases, query-centered multiple sequence alignment generation for structure predictio...
www.nature.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
GPU-accelerated MMseqs2 offers tremendous speedup for homology retrieval, protein structure prediction with ColabFold, and protein structure search with Foldseek. @martinsteinegger.bsky.social @milot.bsky.social @machine.learning.bio
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Sebastian Schmidt
Full thread will come later, but @annacusco.bsky.social's preprint on the dog pet gut microbiome is out!
Using ONT+Illumina, we get better MAGs than to corresponding species representative in public databases
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Using ONT+Illumina, we get better MAGs than to corresponding species representative in public databases
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
September 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Full thread will come later, but @annacusco.bsky.social's preprint on the dog pet gut microbiome is out!
Using ONT+Illumina, we get better MAGs than to corresponding species representative in public databases
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Using ONT+Illumina, we get better MAGs than to corresponding species representative in public databases
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Seems like the death of Charlie Kirk is really turning into the USA's Reichstagsbrand moment.
September 18, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Seems like the death of Charlie Kirk is really turning into the USA's Reichstagsbrand moment.
Reposted by Sebastian Schmidt
Manually curated and harmonized metadata for over 110k metagenomic samples! (58k samples from the human gut alone!)🦠
Proud to have contributed to Metalog, the latest @borklab.bsky.social resource:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#microsky #microbiome
Proud to have contributed to Metalog, the latest @borklab.bsky.social resource:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#microsky #microbiome
August 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Manually curated and harmonized metadata for over 110k metagenomic samples! (58k samples from the human gut alone!)🦠
Proud to have contributed to Metalog, the latest @borklab.bsky.social resource:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#microsky #microbiome
Proud to have contributed to Metalog, the latest @borklab.bsky.social resource:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#microsky #microbiome
Reposted by Sebastian Schmidt
We hope many of you will find it useful, and will continue to add data. Here's the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - hopefully coming soon to a NAR Database Issue near you 😅 Thanks to everyone in the @borklab.bsky.social @embl.org who contributed to this! 7/7
Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
Metagenomic sequencing enables the in-depth study of microbes and their functions in humans, animals and the environment. While sequencing data is deposited in public databases, the associated context...
www.biorxiv.org
August 15, 2025 at 8:07 AM
We hope many of you will find it useful, and will continue to add data. Here's the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - hopefully coming soon to a NAR Database Issue near you 😅 Thanks to everyone in the @borklab.bsky.social @embl.org who contributed to this! 7/7
Reposted by Sebastian Schmidt
We're very happy to release our new database Metalog metalog.embl.de ! It offers manually curated and harmonised contextual data for 110k metagenomics samples across the globe, incl. precomputed taxonomic profiles, for interactive browsing and for download 🧵 1/7
#microsky
#microsky
Metalog
Metalog is a repository of manually annotated metadata (or contextual data) for metagenomic sequencing data from across the globe.
metalog.embl.de
August 15, 2025 at 8:07 AM
We're very happy to release our new database Metalog metalog.embl.de ! It offers manually curated and harmonised contextual data for 110k metagenomics samples across the globe, incl. precomputed taxonomic profiles, for interactive browsing and for download 🧵 1/7
#microsky
#microsky
Reposted by Sebastian Schmidt
Putting the Global South on the Microbiome research map -
Really proud of Chilean PhD student @bvalderrama.bsky.social who championed this new important paper just out in @natcomms.nature.com
"If microbiome science is to benefit everyone, it must include everyone."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Really proud of Chilean PhD student @bvalderrama.bsky.social who championed this new important paper just out in @natcomms.nature.com
"If microbiome science is to benefit everyone, it must include everyone."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Putting the Global South on the Microbiome research map -
Really proud of Chilean PhD student @bvalderrama.bsky.social who championed this new important paper just out in @natcomms.nature.com
"If microbiome science is to benefit everyone, it must include everyone."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Really proud of Chilean PhD student @bvalderrama.bsky.social who championed this new important paper just out in @natcomms.nature.com
"If microbiome science is to benefit everyone, it must include everyone."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...