Check out Jarrett Lebov’s recent paper in which he evolves an environmental bacterium to become “host-associated” mbio.asm.org/content/11/4/e…

I will be spending AY21-22 on sabbatical at the new Swiss environmental synthesis center at EAWAG eawag.ch/en

Impact of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest on soil microbes (from our collaboration with Brazilian scientists) authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S01…

Congratulations to BohannanLab alum Felipe Campos-Cerda on his post-doc fellowship!

Checkout new sex education app from UO: SexPositive healthcenter.uoregon.edu/Home/SexPositi… Features video content from BB on the human microbiome and sex

check out Neil Hall's article on the Kardashian Index for Scientists. Very funny and thought provoking. genomebiology.com/2014/15/7/424

My Kardashian Index is 0.28, suggesting that I am undervalued as a scientist in the twittersphere. Inspiration to tweet more than yearly...

Our paper on the microbiology of cassava beer fermentation now available: peerj.com/articles/479/

Should NIH fund people or projects? Jocelyn Kaiser reports: sciencemag.org/content/345/61…

Elite colleges are great for networking but do they provide the best education? newrepublic.com/article/118747…

#uometa2014 can't stop thinking about David Schneider's fascinating talk this AM... see isdbweb.org/documents/file… for more

Ned Wingreen's paper on 16S analysis without clustering published last month by ISMEJ nature.com/ismej/journal/… #uometa2014

Need a new word for host-associated microbes that are maintained by dispersal; "transient" suggests unimportance, yet they can be abundant

What's the most useful metaphor for manipulating m'biomes: "restoration ecology" or "organ transplantation "? #uometa2014

#uometa2014 Compareads software mentioned by Miller has been replaced with Commet colibread.inria.fr/software/comme… Anyone used this yet?

I'm looking for a postdoc to apply ecoevo theory to microbes in hosts. See jobs.uoregon.edu/unclassified.p… for more info.

We all have our own personal #microbial clouds. Fascinating research by #UOExperts Jessica Green Brendan Bohannan ow.ly/SzMEx NPR

Please RT - and pass on to talented students: Graduate opportunities in E&E U Oregon. goo.gl/NhPBeF

Bohannan Lab member feliρe camρos just launched his fundraiser for bird nest microbiome research: experiment.com/projects/swabb…

The University of Oregon is looking for a new faculty member specializing in Microbial Ecology: careers.uoregon.edu/cw/en-us/job/5…