Luke Hillary
@lukehillary.bsky.social
Viral ecology of "brown stuff" 🏞️💩😷. Interested in how viruses impact their hosts in soils, sludge and stool. Particularly fascinated in RNA viruses. Postdoc at UC Davis working on the impacts of wildfire on soil virus communities.
No problem. A temperate phage can switch between being lysogenic or lytic, so can be either. A virulent phage can only be in a lytic lifecycle. There are also a bunch of alternatives doi.org/10.1098/rsob...
Black box of phage–bacterium interactions: exploring alternative phage infection strategies | Open Biology
The canonical lytic–lysogenic binary has been challenged in recent years, as more
evidence has emerged on alternative bacteriophage infection strategies. These infection
modes are little studied, and ...
doi.org
September 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
No problem. A temperate phage can switch between being lysogenic or lytic, so can be either. A virulent phage can only be in a lytic lifecycle. There are also a bunch of alternatives doi.org/10.1098/rsob...
Same. It’s not helped when lots of biotech companies, including Illumina, misuse the term.
September 21, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Same. It’s not helped when lots of biotech companies, including Illumina, misuse the term.
Also, as always, 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing != metagenomics
September 21, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Also, as always, 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing != metagenomics
I use BBC News for the same reasons and it’s so annoying how inconsistent it is between articles! I ended up switching to the Guardian which is still a voluntary subscription. Even seeing adverts on BBC News felt weird.
September 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I use BBC News for the same reasons and it’s so annoying how inconsistent it is between articles! I ended up switching to the Guardian which is still a voluntary subscription. Even seeing adverts on BBC News felt weird.