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How hard is it to do science in a language that’s not your first language? We quantified the severity of #languagebarriers for non-native English speakers when reading/publishing papers and attending/presenting at international conferences. doi.org/10.1371/journa… 1/9

Great to see this out with ⁦⁦Microbiology Society⁩ Many congrats ⁦Billy McCarthy⁩ and ⁦Meghana Srinivas⁩ Isolation and identification of chlorate-reducing Hafnia sp. from milk microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…

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🏠Seeking Rental Help in South Dublin. Due to a house fire, we're urgently searching for a rental from Sep to Dec/Jan. No injuries, but handling this #shitshow from Germany. If you know of any options within budget for two #academics, DM me😢 #HousingEmergency Please retweet 🩷

#Microbiome twitter, we are looking for negative control samples from as many sources and kits as possible. If you've included blanks in your 16S or ITS amplicon seq project and the data is publicly available, drop a link in the thread! RTs appreciated!

ggCaller paper now out in its final form genome.cshlp.org/content/33/9/1… Call your genes, get your pangenome (and a great cover thanks to laurenbellcreative.com)

PSA to folks who have bioinformatics tools with required databases hosted on Zenodo: all the URLs for Zenodo data files have changed slightly. It may affect your DB set up scripts.

⁦N. Rose Edwin⁩ knocking it out of the park (digging in the weeds?) of soil microbiomes ⁦Microbiology Society⁩ Irish meeting

Our third speaker is J.O.K.Emmanuel🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, talking about Streptococcus suis as a model for phage based biocontrol agents #MicrobioIrish23 Microbiology Society Microbiology UCC SEFSUCC Ireland @UCC Mahony Lab

And now Meghana Srinivas speaking about her work to apply long read sequencing to metagenomics #MicrobioIrish23

Our latest work, out today in PLOS Biology suggests that not only do mammalian cells absorb bacteriophages, but they appear to use them as a resource to enhance growth! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar… This work was led by Marion Bichet and out on World Phage Week! #WorldPhageWeek

What are fermented foods and why should we care? @RamyaBalasubr13 presents her work on understanding the role of fermented foods in modulating the microbioata-gut-brain axis… #APCSymposium2023

MicrobeMod: A computational toolkit for identifying prokaryotic methylation and restriction-modification with nanopore sequencing biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

Happy to share my first pre-print with @EvelienAdri in my new role at Quadram Institute. We sequenced three human faecal viromes with Illumina and Nanopore, and tested a number of long, short and hybrid assembly approaches (1/10) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The final version of our short-read polishing manuscript (headed by Ryan Wick of course) is out in Microbiology Society MGen! Tldr: with R10.4.1+Dorado ONT assemblies, few errors remain, so short-read polishing can make assemblies worse at low depth; target >=25x doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0…

Great to see this finally published! GROND is a new 16S-ITS-23S rRNA database that will allow the full potential of long read sequencing be applied to amplicon-based metataxonomics

To celebrate World Microbiome Day APC Microbiome Ireland and VistaMilk Research Ireland Centre are co-hosting a Microbiome Masterclass with a phenomonal speaker line-up. Make sure to register eventbrite.ie/e/microbiome-m… EU Food Health CoDiet

Unassigning bacterial species for microbiome studies journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.11…

GWAS for Nobel prize laureates.

Are there virulent phages hiding in your bacterial culture? Here we find hundreds of virulent phage genomes in bacterial genome assemblies. Bioinformatic and experimental evidence indicate these are not contaminations, but represent persistent infections. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…