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Teresa M. Coque
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Mother, Microbiologist. Crazy about eco-evolutionary aspects of bacteria. #IRYCIS
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❗ Descubren una nueva combinación de fármacos que reduce un 40% la mortalidad en cáncer de próstata recurrente
Nueva combinación de fármacos reduce un 40% la mortalidad en cáncer de próstata recurrente
    Los hombres cuyo cáncer de próstata regresa después de una cirugía o radioterapia ahora...
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October 20, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Asientos de avión cada vez más pequeños, prendas irreconocibles al segundo lavado, máquinas que te atienden por teléfono para cualquier trámite. El cuidado por las cosas bien hechas parece haber dejado de ser un valor que cuenta
El asombroso fenómeno de la calidad menguante
Asientos de avión cada vez más pequeños, prendas irreconocibles al segundo lavado, máquinas que te atienden por teléfono para cualquier trámite. El cuidado por las cosas bien hechas parece haber dejado de ser un valor que cuenta
elpais.com
July 12, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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mrillig.bsky.social
Ecological and evolutionary consequences of changing seasonality | Science

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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Ecological and evolutionary consequences of changing seasonality
Climate change and other anthropogenic drivers alter seasonal regimes across freshwater, terrestrial, and marine biomes. Seasonal patterns affect ecological and evolutionary processes at different eco...
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June 2, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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bethmorillo-hall.bsky.social
Its here! Finally published. www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
How to bring experimental evolution to the classroom
Pupils of all ages can benefit from witnessing evolution in real time - and it’s now possible in schools, say this researcher from the University of Bath
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May 31, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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garushyants.bsky.social
Cool work by Sanasar investigating how bacteria-phage dynamics affect the distribution of antiphage defense systems in the genome www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Evolution of antivirus defense in prokaryotes depending on the environmental virus prevalence and virome dynamics
Prokaryotes can acquire antivirus immunity via two fundamentally distinct types of processes: direct interaction with the virus as in CRISPR-Cas adaptive immunity systems and horizontal gene transfer ...
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May 31, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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antanij.bsky.social
Our latest preprint just dropped @paulturnerlab.bsky.social

We evolved bacteria on swim plates, against a phage that attacks through the flagellum. Motility trades off AND trades up(!!) with phage-resistance!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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phylogenomics.bsky.social
New paper from my lab (first author is Sonia Ghose): www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic...

Skin microbiomes of frogs vary among body regions, revealing differences that reflect known patterns of chytrid infection
May 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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davvi36.bsky.social
And this is also what we see experimentally! Defensive or co-invading CRISPR-Cas are always beneficial, but offensive CRISPR is severely limited by and even detrimental when there is TA.

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Figure 2 of the preprint
May 12, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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jhuisman.bsky.social
Our opinion piece on transmission timing in phages and plasmids graces the cover of @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social this month. Featuring the work of talented master student Andrina Bernhard, the illustration showcases cues that MGEs use to switch between horizontal and vertical transmission.
The cover of the May issue of Trends in Microbiology, featuring several cells with cartoon figures of phages and plasmids listening to environmental cues, e.g. by fishing for signaling molecules outside their host or staring at an empty pantry shelf.
May 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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fgonzalef.bsky.social
Good papers, like good wine, need maturing. I'm proud and thrilled to share our work on genomic epidemiology of K.pneumoniae in Valencia and differential transmission patterns of resistances, part of Neris Garcia's PhD thesis and the NLSAR consortium. go.uv.es/td8iL4c #publichealth #EpiSky 🧬🖥️
Genomic surveillance reveals different transmission patterns between third-generation cephalosporin and carbapenem resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae in the Comunidad Valenciana (Spain), 2018–2020 - ...
Background The emergence and spread of third-generation cephalosporins (3GC) and carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae pose a global critical challenge. Understanding the transmission dynamics wi...
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May 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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anukharelab.bsky.social
New preprint alert 🚨: We found that Steno maltophila senses a quorum sensing molecule from the co-infecting pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa and switches to multicellular aggregates as a protective mechanism. #MicroSky
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Stenotrophomonas maltophilia exhibits defensive multicellularity in response to a Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing molecule
Microorganisms commonly exist in polymicrobial communities, where organisms can respond to interspecies secreted molecules by altering behaviors and physiology, however, the underlying mechanisms rema...
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May 5, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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gbaucom.bsky.social
Calling all evolutionary biologists! 👇👇👇
sse-evolution.bsky.social Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · May 5
Join us in the evolution tri-societies Week of Action for NSF!

Call/write congress, engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding!

Scan the QR code on the attached image for instructions and scripts.

We must make noise! Pls RT!!!!
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
SSE, SSB, and ASN logos. Text: Tri-societies Week of Action for NSF. Science under siege: Over 1000 NSF grants have been terminated by political appointees- threatening the foundation of American innovation and education, and more cuts loom; entire research programs are being erased without explanation. What’s at stake? STEM education for K-12 students, jobs and infrastructure in rural communities, support for veterans in research and education, cybersecurity and national defense innovation, global leadership in science and technology. Join the week of action: Contact Congress: Switchboard: (202) 224-3121, tell them to protect NSF. Share your story: Post on social media #WithoutNSF #SupportNSF #SaveNSF, engage local media; use our media tool to reach out to local reporters and newspapers; engage others: communicate the importance of NSF to colleagues, friends, and family.
May 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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sagan.bsky.social
Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
May 2, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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knutdrescher.bsky.social
Biofilm architecture determines the dissemination of conjugative plasmids: We measured the spatiotemporal spread of plasmids in biofilms and found that plasmids only spread in some biofilm regions!

Collab with lab of @sbigot.bsky.social & Christian Lesterlin
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Biofilm architecture determines the dissemination of conjugative plasmids | PNAS
Plasmid conjugation is a contact-dependent horizontal gene transfer mechanism that significantly contributes to the dissemination of antibiotic res...
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April 28, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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nature.com
Several research institutes in Germany are joining a worldwide grassroots effort to save science data sets that researchers fear could be deleted by US President Donald Trump’s administration, Nature has learnt.

https://go.nature.com/42uEw50
Major European institutes join race to save US science data
As the administration of US President Donald Trump slashes budgets, crucial climate and other data sets could disappear.
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April 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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katholt.bsky.social
ESGEM, the ESCMID Study Group on Epidemiological Markers is launching a working group to develop standards for interpreting AMR genotypes. Much like EUCAST guidance for interpreting lab phenotypes as S/I/R, we want to define the AMRrules for interpreting genotypes.
April 29, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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elpais.com
La estadounidense Brooke Raboutou se convierte en la primera mujer en alcanzar el 9b+, una dificultad que solo habían superado ocho escaladores masculinos. Hija de dos leyendas de la escalada, Raboutou, de 24 años, encadenó la vía ‘Excalibur’
Brooke Raboutou, la primera mujer en alcanzar el 9b+, hace historia al escalar tan duro como los mejores hombres
La estadounidense logra superar el máximo grado de dificultad confirmado en el mundo de la escalada al encadenar la vía ‘Excalibur’
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April 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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sonjalehtinen.bsky.social
New paper: long-term trends in antibiotic resistance show signs of stabilisation (thread). journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
The evolution of antibiotic resistance in Europe, 1998–2019
Author summary Antibiotic resistance is an important public health threat: resistant infections are currently associated with 5 million deaths per year globally. This burden may increase further in th...
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April 7, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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sheppardlab.bsky.social
TWO postdoc positions in Computational Microbiology and/or biochemistry. Join our interdisciplinary group in the new Life and Mind Building @OxfordBiology, @UniofOxford, @IneosOxford
Please apply and share this post:
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Oxford
Discover Postdoctoral Research Associate jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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April 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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jrpenades.bsky.social
If you are interested in phage satellites, we hope you'll enjoy this. Fun collaboration with the Rocha, Seed, Bikard, and Chen labs! rdcu.be/efkvG
Genetics, ecology and evolution of phage satellites
Nature Reviews Microbiology - In this Review, Penadés et al. explore the genetics, potential origins and life cycle of phage satellites, and they discuss the impact of these elements on the...
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March 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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nytimes.com
The Trump Administration’s abrupt withdrawal of $400 million in federal funding from Columbia University cast a shadow over at least nine other campuses worried they could be next. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/u...
Two people walk through the dappled light of a courtyard in front of a brick building with a columned entrance, flanked on both sides by tall trees, on Harvard University’s campus. A headline reads: "Trump Pulled $400 Million From Columbia. Other Schools Could Be Next." Photo by Adam Glanzman for The New York Times
March 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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palomarando.bsky.social
Cualquier excusa es buena (la mención de ayer en los Oscar, por ejemplo) para volver a ver uno de los mejores finales de la historia del cine.

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When Harry Met Sally Ending Scene
YouTube video by Anthony Rocco Amaru
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March 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Looks interesting, plasmid assembly from multiple metagenomes
"On synthetic benchmark datasets, PlasMAAG reconstructed 50-121% more near-complete plasmids than competing methods and improved the Matthews Correlation Coefficient of geNomad contig classif. by 28-106%

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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hernando-amado.bsky.social
"An assault on science and scientists anywhere is an assault on science and scientists everywhere."
March 2, 2025 at 8:56 AM
tmcoque.bsky.social
Cardiometabolic benefits of a non-industrialized-type diet are linked to gut microbiome modulation: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Cardiometabolic benefits of a non-industrialized-type diet are linked to gut microbiome modulation
Is it possible to restore the human gut microbiome in industrialized settings and reintroduce microbial species that have been lost? In healthy adults, Li et al. found that consuming a diet mimicking ...
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February 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM