Finally, our paper, "A Conserved Bacterial Genetic Basis for Commensal-Host Specificity," has been officially published in Science. "A conserved bacterial genetic basis for commensal-host specificity" science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

Hey y'all... Come over to Bluesky! You don't need an invite code anymore and all the folks you used to follow here and reasons you joined this platform are now over there ➡️

Fully Funded #PhD Position with @WheatleyRM and me as part of @NorthWestBio1 @bbsrc SPACE INVADERS: GENETIC AND METABOLIC FACTORS UNDERPINNING SUCCESSFUL PSEUDOMONAS INVASION INTO MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/docto…

This is a really cool piece of work from @EvoDivMet et al A host shift as the origin of tomato bacterial canker caused by Clavibacter michiganensis microbiologyresearch.org/con… #PublishingForTheCommunity @MicrobioSoc

Congrats to @EvoDivMet @nselem35 and team who just published some really cool work the Clavibacter-tomato origin story Lots of findings in this study, but my favorite is that RiPP BGCs (and likely their products) are implicated in this host association microbiologyresearch.org/con…

Interested in #MSImaging? Check out our work on the distribution of conium alkaloids in poison hemlock, including some on-tissue derivatization. Featured as front cover art of today's issue of the Journal of Natural Products. 🎉 doi.org/10.1021/acs.jnatprod… @ACS4Authors

Stop using ‘summer’, ‘winter’ and the rest when inviting researchers to events — it’s a small step, but it’s necessary and inclusive go.nature.com/4dUMxT0

Join our team as a postdoc if the below 👇 sounds like you!! In collaboration with @UniLeiden #CompMetabolomics #RiPPs

Durante la XII edición de los Premios Losada Villasante, se presentó este video del increíble trabajo de nuestra compañera Conso sobre biofertilizantes basados en cianobacterias.🌿 🎥¡Dale un vistazo y descubre su impacto en la agricultura sostenible! @IBVF_Sevilla @cicCartuja

🚨You can still apply for the NPLinker eScience Workshop to be held in March 2025, in Wageningen, the Netherlands! Applications will close at the end of October!!🚨 😎 #integrative #genomics #metabolomics Please find more information in the link below 👇 linkedin.com/posts/jjjvander…

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#Streptomyces are special (as many other taxa), they should be classified with special care

#OnThisDay in 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered #penicillin – a group of antibiotics that fight a wide range of bacteria. 96 years on, antimicrobial resistance is an urgent global threat, find out how to get involved in our Knocking Our AMR project: microb.io/3tIpadW

For the second day of #PeerReviewWeek we’d like to thank all our reviewers for the work they do to support us as a not-for-profit publisher, strengthening the credibility of the society and their journals.

Lixin Zhang reminding us in a beautiful speech at GIM2024 in Shnghai of the incredible work and impact of the late Mike Goodfellow in the field of Taxonomy of Actinomycetes.

I am very happy to report that the review @BanfieldJill and I wrote on Modern Microbiology just appeared in @CellPressNews: cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092… Our celebration of microbiology also made it to the cover of this issue and we hope you will find yourself in it, too.

Bijna 3 oktober 🎉🥳🎈🎶 Spectaculaire tentoonstelling LEIDEN VIERT FEEST – 450 JAAR OPTOCHTEN … is vandaag al geopend in Museum de Lakenhal!! 👉🏼 lakenhal.nl/nl/verhaal/450-j…

📣 We are hiring! 📣 With Prof. Celia Berkers from Utrecht Uni, we are looking for a postdoc who will will develop both targeted and untargeted LC-MS methods to measure predicted and unknown #microbiome products in urine and reconstituted microbial communities! #metabolomics

Major academic publishers are getting sued for unlawfully appropriating billions of dollars. Prof. Lucina Qazi Uddin, a neuroscientist at UCLA, has sued these six academic publishers Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Sage, and Springer Nature. The lawsuit claims that these publishers violate antitrust laws on the following three grouds: 1. The publishers have colluded to fix the price of peer review at zero. 2. These publishers agree to not compete with each by making it obligatory for researchers to submit their work to only one journal at a time. 3. These publishers prohibit scholars from sharing scientific advancements while they are under peer review, which can take up to a year. Here's a comparison of the publishers' revenue and what they pay authors and reviewers Elsevier: $3.9 billion Springer Nature: $2 billion Wolters Kluwer: $1.6 billion Wiley: $1.8 billion Taylor & Francis: $800 million Sage: $500 million They pay: Authors: $0 Peer reviewers: $0