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Christie Bahlai @cbahlai.bsky.social · Sep 19

The analyses are done transparently, the methods and results are reported faithfully.

And reviewer 2 hates it.

Somehow, despite suggesting different people each time, we've actually ended up with the same (self-identifed) R2 at two journals.

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · Sep 20

I just published: People, not papers? A good mentor guides students to publish their work #AcademicSky link.medium.com/9a2WGeSsfDb

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Sep 22

Most academics know that MDPI is not the most reputable publisher but this is particularly grim: a special issue in which 27th of the 28th papers are authored by the two guest editors.

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/processes/special_issues/Biologics_Botanicals

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Alessio Cavallaro @alecava.bsky.social · Nov 30

Check our last manuscript now up on biorXiv! We analyzed the inhibitory capabilities of isolated aquatic bacteria towards different Legionella spp. and discovered variable outcomes, while reinforcing the role of biosurfactants (we specifically detected viscosin) as anti-Legionella compounds.

Variable inhibition of different Legionella species by antagonistic bacteria

The genus Legionella includes opportunistic pathogens inhabiting engineered aquatic ecosystems, where managing their presence and abundance is crucial for public health. In these environments, Legione...

www.biorxiv.org

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Frederik Hammes 🇨🇭🇿🇦 @drinkmic.bsky.social · Jul 15

Co-culturing different colours of bacteria for the microbial art project 🙂🦠🧫

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Frederik Hammes 🇨🇭🇿🇦 @drinkmic.bsky.social · Jul 11

My artistic skills need to develop a bit, but I nearly have all the colours needed for an agar art project ! 🦠🧫

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Frederik Hammes 🇨🇭🇿🇦 @drinkmic.bsky.social · Jul 11

Red bacteria vs white bacteria 🙂

Rolf Kümmerli @rkmicrobes.bsky.social · Jun 10

We are looking for a highly motivated postdoc to work on pathogen interactions. Please send in your application via

jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

UZH: Postdoctoral researcher in microbiology

The Department of Quantitative Biomedicine is an interdisciplinary biomedical research unit that combines basic science with biotechnological and medical research, using both experimental and computat...

jobs.uzh.ch

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Frederik Hammes 🇨🇭🇿🇦 @drinkmic.bsky.social · Jun 8

The air sampler collects through a grid with these nice concentric circles

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Frederik Hammes 🇨🇭🇿🇦 @drinkmic.bsky.social · Jun 8

The air sampler samples through a grid onto the agar...

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Frederik Hammes 🇨🇭🇿🇦 @drinkmic.bsky.social · Jun 8

R2A with charcoal and trace element solution

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Frederik Hammes 🇨🇭🇿🇦 @drinkmic.bsky.social · Jun 8

Air sampling gives a nice reminder about about how many fungi we are breathing... 🦠🧫

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Frederik Hammes 🇨🇭🇿🇦 @drinkmic.bsky.social · May 20

The start of a new agar art project..... 🧫🦠

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Frederik Hammes 🇨🇭🇿🇦 @drinkmic.bsky.social · May 18

SundayScience is kitchen top beer brewing and water analysis 🙂 🦠 🧫

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Frederik Hammes 🇨🇭🇿🇦 @drinkmic.bsky.social · May 7

📣 JOB ALERT
We have a fully funded postdoc position open in our group, to work on the topic of Legionella, temperature, buildings and climate change...!
🧫🦠

apply.refline.ch/673277/1255/...

Post-doctoral researcher (80 – 100%) in the field of Legionella spp. response to temperature

The Department of Environmental Microbiology (Umik) has a vacancy for a

apply.refline.ch

Frederik Hammes 🇨🇭🇿🇦 @drinkmic.bsky.social · Mar 12

It's not everyday that you find purple colonies... Non-chlorinated tap water on R2A agar 🦠🧫

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Frederik Hammes 🇨🇭🇿🇦 @drinkmic.bsky.social · Feb 20

Sure. Some students volunteered their own shower hoses; we then cut them in subsections, extracted the biofilms through scraping, quantified the biomass with crystal violet staining and observed biofilm heterogeneity along the length of the entire hose.

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Frederik Hammes 🇨🇭🇿🇦 @drinkmic.bsky.social · Feb 18

Teaching the next generations of young scientists a practical course about biofilms in building plumbing potable water... these are some fabulous images from their own shower hoses 🦠🧫

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Frederik Hammes 🇨🇭🇿🇦 @drinkmic.bsky.social · Jan 20

Fungi growing on used coffee grounds in my office...

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Frederik Hammes 🇨🇭🇿🇦 @drinkmic.bsky.social · Jan 18

SaturdayScience: Making the microbes work on the weekend.... Garlic Brioche for dinner 🙂

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Frederik Hammes 🇨🇭🇿🇦 @drinkmic.bsky.social · Jan 6

Happy new year everyone!
Day one back in the lab (new year's resolution), testing potable water biofilm staining with crystal violet 🧫🦠

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Frederik Hammes 🇨🇭🇿🇦 @drinkmic.bsky.social · Dec 27

SciArt for the day. Winter series. Blue drinking water biofilm.

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Frederik Hammes 🇨🇭🇿🇦 @drinkmic.bsky.social · Dec 27

Cooking dinner with a work-appropriate splatter board for inspiration 🙂

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Frederik Hammes 🇨🇭🇿🇦 @drinkmic.bsky.social · Dec 21

Academia rule 1
If you submitted a paper before x-mas holidays you have to review a paper during said holidays......

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Frederik Hammes 🇨🇭🇿🇦 @drinkmic.bsky.social · Dec 7

These three are pretty decent, although not so many bacteria images as I would like to have!
SciDraw: scidraw.io
BioIcons: bioicons.com
NIH BioArt: bioart.niaid.nih.gov

SciDraw | Scientific Drawings

SciDraw - an open repository of science drawings

scidraw.io

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Frederik Hammes 🇨🇭🇿🇦 @drinkmic.bsky.social · Dec 6

decided to ditch biorender, so now I have to draw the biofilms myself . Autumn series, 5 species. 🦠🧫

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Frederik Hammes 🇨🇭🇿🇦 @drinkmic.bsky.social · Dec 2

🦠 🧫 Our hunt for the natural enemies of Legionella is now out on preprint !

Alessio Cavallaro @alecava.bsky.social · Nov 30

Check our last manuscript now up on biorXiv! We analyzed the inhibitory capabilities of isolated aquatic bacteria towards different Legionella spp. and discovered variable outcomes, while reinforcing the role of biosurfactants (we specifically detected viscosin) as anti-Legionella compounds.

Variable inhibition of different Legionella species by antagonistic bacteria

The genus Legionella includes opportunistic pathogens inhabiting engineered aquatic ecosystems, where managing their presence and abundance is crucial for public health. In these environments, Legione...

www.biorxiv.org

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Marco Gabrielli @mgabrielli.bsky.social · Oct 24

Last but not least, I want to thank @drinkmic.bsky.social
and @alecava.bsky.social for all the discussions and support through this journey into the Legionellaceae family!

n/n

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Frederik Hammes 🇨🇭🇿🇦 @drinkmic.bsky.social · Sep 13

Tomorrow is open door day at Eawag and we are doing a community science project, looking at the #biofilm in peoples shower hose, and using that as a platform to discuss #legionella and #drinkingwaterquality. Photo shows diverse biofilms from 12 shower hose 😀
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Frederik Hammes 🇨🇭🇿🇦 @drinkmic.bsky.social · Jul 12

I cannot be the only microbiologist who thinks cleaning a drain is just awesome.... 😂 🦠 🧫

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