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Chris Knight
@knightjar.bsky.social
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Evolutionary genetics: microbes, microbial communities, models; academic at the University of Manchester

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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · Mar 2
Looks interesting, plasmid assembly from multiple metagenomes
"On synthetic benchmark datasets, PlasMAAG reconstructed 50-121% more near-complete plasmids than competing methods and improved the Matthews Correlation Coefficient of geNomad contig classif. by 28-106%

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Will Smith @willpjsmith.bsky.social · Jan 9
Joy! Published today in PNAS: multi-toxin T6SS attacks limit resistance evolution in competitors!

Big thanks to our wonderful team of collaborators for all their help: @coytelab.bsky.social @knightjar.bsky.social @basler-lab.bsky.social @brockhurstlab.bsky.social 🎉

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Danna Gifford @dannagifford.bsky.social · Dec 6
🦠🎇Congratulations to the soon-to-be Dr Rosie Clover 👩🏼‍🎓! The O.G. MERMan PhD student, and the first student to graduate from the Gifford lab, proud supervisor moment 🥺😄 @mermanchester.bsky.social 🎓
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Norman van Rhijn @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social · Nov 28
🚨Please share🚨

I’m hiring a PhD student to start Sep 2025 on an exciting project on fungal pathogens🍄‍🟫, soil health and microbiomes, together with dr. Filipa Cox and @knightjar.bsky.social

If you have any good candidates, please let them contact me directly.

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Franciska de Vries 🟥 @frantecol.bsky.social · Nov 28
Science takes time - a lot of time. Time that is more and more difficult to make available because of increased workloads. Time that exceeds the temporary contracts of postdocs and PhDs.

I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature
Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...
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Chris Knight @knightjar.bsky.social · Nov 27
Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events
We’re out in Nature !! doi.org/ntzk Very exciting for my first bluesky post! – it’s been a long haul by an excellent team from across Europe, led by @frantecol.bsky.social
Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature
Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...
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Franciska de Vries 🟥 @frantecol.bsky.social · Nov 27
It’s out!! We subjected soils from 30 different locations across Europe to extreme events and found that soil fungal and bacterial communities showed consistent responses that could be predicted from their origin! With @knightjar.bsky.social and many collaborators!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature
Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...
www.nature.com
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