HEY HEY #AMR people, the argNorm preprint is now available on QUT ePrints: eprints.qut.edu.au/252448 We* designed a tool for normalizing ARG annotations across currently popular tools and databases. * Svetlana Ugarčina Perović @VedanthRamji Hui Chong  Yiqian Duan Finlay Mclintock Luis Pedro Coelho 1/6

I'm very happy to report that Matthew S. Schechter's PhD work is now online as a pre-print: "Ribosomal protein phylogeography offers quantitative insights into the efficacy of genome-resolved surveys of microbial communities" biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Aaand here's a little 🧵 about it.

Check out our new paper experimentally demonstrating hub taxa in microbial networks are keystone microbes during community assembly. Published this month in Ecology Letters : tinyurl.com/keystonemicrobe So excited about this paper & proud of @amanda_rawstern & Damian Hernandez !👏

I am happy to share with you the new list of speakers for the Population Dynamics Virtual Seminars 2025! Subscribe to our mailing list sites.google.com/view/popdyn/ho… The first talk will be at the end of January

Members of the #Pseudomonas genus play diverse ecological roles. By analyzing 26363 Pseudomonas genomes, Udaondo et al. enhance our understanding of the genetic diversity, ecology, and interactions of Pseudomonas. buff.ly/4jmVI2L #FEMSMicrobiolRev

We're preparing 2 special #microbiome theme #MVIF events MARCH: Extreme Environments APRIL: Citizen Science microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/info/h… Abstracts that align w/ the event's theme will be considered. Unsure if your abstract fits? No worries, just email us: [email protected]

La sal del salar cubre a la lagartija muerta. La lagartija caminante que se camuflaba con el sol. Su viaje se detuvo una tarde de verano. La sal la envuelve como una cobija del tiempo. La lagartija vuelve a la tierra, se convierte en salar. #AmorPorLosSalares 🦎 #AmorMicrobiano

Ecosystem responses to environmental changes can be predicted by introducing a universal geometric framework that maps species-resource interactions onto vector spaces, showing fundamental limits to inferring these interactions from perturbation data. 🔗 go.aps.org/3QggFyL

Les invitamos a inscribirse a este taller donde aprenderemos genómica bacteriana 🦠🧫. Curso gratuito / modalidad híbrida. Corran que hay cupo limitado 🧬!!

🔍 "Adaptive adjustment of profile HMM significance thresholds improves functional and metabolic insights into microbial genomes"  is available in Bioinformatics Advances: doi.org/10.1093/bioadv… #MicrobialGenomics #FunctionalAnnotation #MicrobiomeAnalysis Authors include:

Earth's rapidly melting icy layer could cause sea levels to rise + slow down major ocean currents. #WHOI's Nick Foukal says the weakening of #AMOC is uncertain, but could have far-reaching impacts. 📲Learn more from Mongabay : go.whoi.edu/cryosphere

I was waited two years to see this out!! The genomic location of bacterial genes is not random. Congratulation on the authors (Martin Lercher and Team!). An impresive piece of work! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… A small thread !

The ISME ECSC is glad to spotlight Clara Arboleda-Baena (Clara Arboleda Baena) from the iDiv (@iDiv), and her paper "Microbial community and network responses across strong environmental gradients: How do they compare with macroorganisms?" doi.org/10.1093/femsec… (1/2)

📣🦠 Request for input! Have you used or thought about using the Digital Microbe framework (nature.com/articles/s4159…) in your research? If so, please send us a DM - we would love to hear from you!

Microorganisms produce a variety of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) with diverse functions. Manuel Salvador.bsky.social et al. review microbial VOCSs (#MVOCs) from #extremophiles and their potential applications. buff.ly/pdK1mdp #FEMSMicrobiolRev

Microbial model communities reveal widespread auxotrophies in abundant bacteria by Armando Pacheco-Valenciana et al. Our results highlight the value of cultivating microorganisms in groups to cultivate: 1) abundant microorganisms tinyurl.com/miintmodcom

Isabel Allende recalls how the agent of her first manuscript said "being a woman means that you will have to do double or three times the effort of any man to get half the recognition." Allende adds that Chile was "the last country that accepted the fact that I was a writer."

Lagunas Bravas, región de Atacama 🧡❤️ #DiaDeLosPatrimonios

Artículo de The Nobel Prize sobre nuestro trabajo de búsqueda de nuevos antibióticos en salares 🩷🦠 nobelprize.org/the-unseen-ene…