Thanks for linking it! I'll have a good look at it

There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research.

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Thank you for curating this starter pack. Can I be added as well?

Congratulations! We got published in the same Nature issue as well!

We also see that clusters of people co-occur with clusters of strains, suggesting the existence of social network niches wherein similar individuals share similar microbes.

After two years, we studied the microbiome of 301 individuals and found that socially connected people had become more microbially similar than those who were not connected

Your microbiome can predict who your friends are, better than shared sociodemographic characteristics. Additionally, we have evidence of transmission chains; your friend’s friend is sharing some strains with you as well.

Using strain-level analyses, we show that strain transmission occurs in different relationship types, even between people not living in the same household and friends. We saw more transmission between people who interacted with each compared to those who had no relationship at all.

We analyzed the microbiome of 1787 people living in 18 remote villages in Honduras and mapped their social relationships. Those villages are part of a larger cohort including 24702 people living in 172 villages.
doi.org/10.1126/scie...