Dominique Chaput
@dominiquechaput.bsky.social
Microbial ecologist turned NHS Clinical Scientist in IPC @Scottish Microbiology Ref Labs, Glasgow. Works on built env / water microbiology, molecular diagnostics, pathogen surveillance, data viz/stats. Probably drinks too much coffee. 🇨🇦
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Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
October 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
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Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols.
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September 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols.
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Hope this is useful - consensus statement "Guidelines for preventing and reporting contamination in low-biomass microbiome studies" rdcu.be/er3Io
Guidelines for preventing and reporting contamination in low-biomass microbiome studies
Nature Microbiology - In this Consensus Statement, the authors outline strategies for processing, analysing and interpreting low-biomass microbiome samples, and provide recommendations to minimize...
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June 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Hope this is useful - consensus statement "Guidelines for preventing and reporting contamination in low-biomass microbiome studies" rdcu.be/er3Io
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We despise immigrants for not putting down roots, even as we make sure that it is impossible for them to do so. We do this because we have no idea what we want.
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
May 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM
We despise immigrants for not putting down roots, even as we make sure that it is impossible for them to do so. We do this because we have no idea what we want.
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
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“I woke up with a sense of dread…”
A moving, deeply personal account from an EU citizen in Cambridge on how Labour’s new rhetoric is shaking people’s sense of belonging.
Don’t miss this powerful open letter.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @cambsforeurope.bsky.social
A moving, deeply personal account from an EU citizen in Cambridge on how Labour’s new rhetoric is shaking people’s sense of belonging.
Don’t miss this powerful open letter.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @cambsforeurope.bsky.social
Letter: We are not strangers
Letter to the editor
eastangliabylines.co.uk
May 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“I woke up with a sense of dread…”
A moving, deeply personal account from an EU citizen in Cambridge on how Labour’s new rhetoric is shaking people’s sense of belonging.
Don’t miss this powerful open letter.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @cambsforeurope.bsky.social
A moving, deeply personal account from an EU citizen in Cambridge on how Labour’s new rhetoric is shaking people’s sense of belonging.
Don’t miss this powerful open letter.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @cambsforeurope.bsky.social
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🧬 Out today 🧬 - our TyphiNET
#AMR surveillance dashboard for #typhoid
Use TyphiNET to view genome-derived data on global and national annual trends in AMR and circulating pathogen genotypes via any standard web browser.
genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
#AMR surveillance dashboard for #typhoid
Use TyphiNET to view genome-derived data on global and national annual trends in AMR and circulating pathogen genotypes via any standard web browser.
genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
The TyphiNET data visualisation dashboard: unlocking Salmonella Typhi genomics data to support public health - Genome Medicine
Background Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Typhi (abbreviated as ‘Typhi’) is the bacterial agent of typhoid fever. Effective antimicrobial therapy reduces complications and mortality; ...
genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com
May 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
🧬 Out today 🧬 - our TyphiNET
#AMR surveillance dashboard for #typhoid
Use TyphiNET to view genome-derived data on global and national annual trends in AMR and circulating pathogen genotypes via any standard web browser.
genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
#AMR surveillance dashboard for #typhoid
Use TyphiNET to view genome-derived data on global and national annual trends in AMR and circulating pathogen genotypes via any standard web browser.
genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark
It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back
It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back
March 12, 2025 at 5:04 AM
About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark
It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back
It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back
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📢 Webinar: Stand Up for Science – A Global Necessity
Scientific integrity is under threat, we must act. Join us to discuss how to protect research & academic freedom.
📅 7 March, 13:00 CET
🎙 @charlottemar.bsky.social, @kityates.bsky.social, @martinmckee.bsky.social
🔗 Register: shorturl.at/Bsk3i
Scientific integrity is under threat, we must act. Join us to discuss how to protect research & academic freedom.
📅 7 March, 13:00 CET
🎙 @charlottemar.bsky.social, @kityates.bsky.social, @martinmckee.bsky.social
🔗 Register: shorturl.at/Bsk3i
March 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
📢 Webinar: Stand Up for Science – A Global Necessity
Scientific integrity is under threat, we must act. Join us to discuss how to protect research & academic freedom.
📅 7 March, 13:00 CET
🎙 @charlottemar.bsky.social, @kityates.bsky.social, @martinmckee.bsky.social
🔗 Register: shorturl.at/Bsk3i
Scientific integrity is under threat, we must act. Join us to discuss how to protect research & academic freedom.
📅 7 March, 13:00 CET
🎙 @charlottemar.bsky.social, @kityates.bsky.social, @martinmckee.bsky.social
🔗 Register: shorturl.at/Bsk3i
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Now over 900 signatures. Please keep signing and sharing to send a clear message to the Royal Society that we want them to stand up for values that we all hold dear: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
February 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Now over 900 signatures. Please keep signing and sharing to send a clear message to the Royal Society that we want them to stand up for values that we all hold dear: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Use the Human Microbiome Compendium data!
We made the data and code available, & created a website and R package to navigate the compendium. Links:
- Website: microbiomap.org
- Data: zenodo.org/records/1373...
- R package: blekhmanlab.github.io/MicroBioMap/
- Code: github.com/blekhmanlab/...
We made the data and code available, & created a website and R package to navigate the compendium. Links:
- Website: microbiomap.org
- Data: zenodo.org/records/1373...
- R package: blekhmanlab.github.io/MicroBioMap/
- Code: github.com/blekhmanlab/...
January 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Use the Human Microbiome Compendium data!
We made the data and code available, & created a website and R package to navigate the compendium. Links:
- Website: microbiomap.org
- Data: zenodo.org/records/1373...
- R package: blekhmanlab.github.io/MicroBioMap/
- Code: github.com/blekhmanlab/...
We made the data and code available, & created a website and R package to navigate the compendium. Links:
- Website: microbiomap.org
- Data: zenodo.org/records/1373...
- R package: blekhmanlab.github.io/MicroBioMap/
- Code: github.com/blekhmanlab/...
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We’re thrilled that our first paper on the Human Microbiome Compendium, an integrated dataset of over 168,000 uniformly processed human gut microbiome samples, is officially out today in Cell! @richabdill.com @blekhman.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Integration of 168,000 samples reveals global patterns of the human gut microbiome
The Human Microbiome Compendium is a unified database of publicly available human
gut microbiome 16S samples, built with the integrated data from hundreds of independent
projects. The compendium is us...
www.cell.com
January 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
We’re thrilled that our first paper on the Human Microbiome Compendium, an integrated dataset of over 168,000 uniformly processed human gut microbiome samples, is officially out today in Cell! @richabdill.com @blekhman.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Delighted to share the first peer-reviewed paper from our team @camvetschool.bsky.social where we investigate the ecological dynamics of Enterobacteriaceae in the human gut #microbiome: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social
Ecological dynamics of Enterobacteriaceae in the human gut microbiome across global populations - Nature Microbiology
Assessing more than 12,000 metagenomic samples from across the world using computational approaches, the authors determined interactions between species that co-colonize or co-exclude Enterobacteriace...
www.nature.com
January 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Delighted to share the first peer-reviewed paper from our team @camvetschool.bsky.social where we investigate the ecological dynamics of Enterobacteriaceae in the human gut #microbiome: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social
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High accuracy meets high throughput for near full-length 16S ribosomal RNA amplicon sequencing on the #Nanopore platform #microbiome
High accuracy meets high throughput for near full-length 16S ribosomal RNA amplicon sequencing on the Nanopore platform
Abstract. Small subunit (SSU) ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene amplicon sequencing is a foundational method in microbial ecology. Currently, short-read platforms
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November 15, 2024 at 5:00 PM
High accuracy meets high throughput for near full-length 16S ribosomal RNA amplicon sequencing on the #Nanopore platform #microbiome
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As the great migration from Twitter to Bluesky begins, I have created the "Clinical Microbiology" starter pack to help you find your colleagues. Please let me know if you would like to be added!
go.bsky.app/VTpSjBL
go.bsky.app/VTpSjBL
November 12, 2024 at 1:29 PM
As the great migration from Twitter to Bluesky begins, I have created the "Clinical Microbiology" starter pack to help you find your colleagues. Please let me know if you would like to be added!
go.bsky.app/VTpSjBL
go.bsky.app/VTpSjBL