Sebastian Schmidt
@tsbschm.bsky.social
Lecturer in Microbiome & Health at @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social & @ucc.bsky.social
Alumnus @borklab.bsky.social
Microbiome, microbial ecology & metagenomics.
Alumnus @borklab.bsky.social
Microbiome, microbial ecology & metagenomics.
Reposted by Sebastian Schmidt
Our paper describing the GlobDB is now published in @bioinfoadv.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/bioa...
The GlobDB is the largest species dereplicated genome database currently available, containing 306,260 species representatives.
More information on globdb.org 1/5
🖥️🧬🦠
doi.org/10.1093/bioa...
The GlobDB is the largest species dereplicated genome database currently available, containing 306,260 species representatives.
More information on globdb.org 1/5
🖥️🧬🦠
GlobDB: a comprehensive species-dereplicated microbial genome resource
AbstractMotivation. Over the past years, substantial numbers of microbial species’ genomes have been deposited outside of conventional INSDC databases.Resu
doi.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Our paper describing the GlobDB is now published in @bioinfoadv.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/bioa...
The GlobDB is the largest species dereplicated genome database currently available, containing 306,260 species representatives.
More information on globdb.org 1/5
🖥️🧬🦠
doi.org/10.1093/bioa...
The GlobDB is the largest species dereplicated genome database currently available, containing 306,260 species representatives.
More information on globdb.org 1/5
🖥️🧬🦠
Reposted by Sebastian Schmidt
proGenomes4: providing 2 million accurately and consistently annotated high-quality prokaryotic genomes academic.oup.com/nar/advance-... #jcampubs
proGenomes4: providing 2 million accurately and consistently annotated high-quality prokaryotic genomes
Abstract. The pervasive availability of publicly available microbial genomes has opened many new avenues for microbiology research, yet it also demands rob
academic.oup.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
proGenomes4: providing 2 million accurately and consistently annotated high-quality prokaryotic genomes academic.oup.com/nar/advance-... #jcampubs
Congrats @fullam.bsky.social @pangenomics.bsky.social @borklab.bsky.social & team(s). Great to see this published!
proGenomes4: providing 2 million accurately and consistently annotated high-quality prokaryotic genomes: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
proGenomes4: providing 2 million accurately and consistently annotated high-quality prokaryotic genomes: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
proGenomes4: providing 2 million accurately and consistently annotated high-quality prokaryotic genomes
Abstract. The pervasive availability of publicly available microbial genomes has opened many new avenues for microbiology research, yet it also demands rob
academic.oup.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Congrats @fullam.bsky.social @pangenomics.bsky.social @borklab.bsky.social & team(s). Great to see this published!
proGenomes4: providing 2 million accurately and consistently annotated high-quality prokaryotic genomes: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
proGenomes4: providing 2 million accurately and consistently annotated high-quality prokaryotic genomes: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
Reposted by Sebastian Schmidt
🚨Job claxon 🚨
University College Cork is looking to appoint a lecturer in Medical Microbiology into a permanent, non-clinical post
A great opportunity in a microbiology powerhouse
For details go to my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... and enter reference number 092153
University College Cork is looking to appoint a lecturer in Medical Microbiology into a permanent, non-clinical post
A great opportunity in a microbiology powerhouse
For details go to my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... and enter reference number 092153
University College Cork Vacancies
my.corehr.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
🚨Job claxon 🚨
University College Cork is looking to appoint a lecturer in Medical Microbiology into a permanent, non-clinical post
A great opportunity in a microbiology powerhouse
For details go to my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... and enter reference number 092153
University College Cork is looking to appoint a lecturer in Medical Microbiology into a permanent, non-clinical post
A great opportunity in a microbiology powerhouse
For details go to my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... and enter reference number 092153
We've updated our recent @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social on 'Hidden but discoverable diversity in the global microbiome', led by @vishnuprasoodanan.bsky.social & @omaistrenko.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Hidden but discoverable diversity in the global microbiome
Cataloguing Earth's biodiversity remains one of the most formidable challenges in biology, and the greatest diversity is expected to reside among the smallest organisms: microbes. Yet the ongoing cens...
www.biorxiv.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
We've updated our recent @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social on 'Hidden but discoverable diversity in the global microbiome', led by @vishnuprasoodanan.bsky.social & @omaistrenko.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Tja…
"Heck of a job, Bobby."
"If the outbreaks cannot be extinguished by January, the anniversary of the first cases in Texas, the United States will lose what is known as “elimination status” as determined by the World Health Organization."
(gift link)
"If the outbreaks cannot be extinguished by January, the anniversary of the first cases in Texas, the United States will lose what is known as “elimination status” as determined by the World Health Organization."
(gift link)
C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Tja…
Reposted by Sebastian Schmidt
Reposted by Sebastian Schmidt
“Bin Chicken” is now published in Nature Methods! It substantially improves genome recovery through rational coassembly 🧬🖥️. Applied to public 🌍 metagenomes, we recovered 24,000 novel species 🦠, including 6 new phyla.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @rhysnewell.bsky.social
🧵1/6
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @rhysnewell.bsky.social
🧵1/6
November 13, 2025 at 10:09 AM
“Bin Chicken” is now published in Nature Methods! It substantially improves genome recovery through rational coassembly 🧬🖥️. Applied to public 🌍 metagenomes, we recovered 24,000 novel species 🦠, including 6 new phyla.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @rhysnewell.bsky.social
🧵1/6
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @rhysnewell.bsky.social
🧵1/6
Its a pretty safe bet that Donald Trump will be in the official champions photo after the World Cup 2026 final, standing in first line and holding the trophy.
You know the ending of this story, right?
FIFA president Gianni Infantino will award the first-ever FIFA Peace Prize during the 2026 World Cup draw in DC on December 5.
The prize will honour individuals who have helped unite people and promote peace.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino will award the first-ever FIFA Peace Prize during the 2026 World Cup draw in DC on December 5.
The prize will honour individuals who have helped unite people and promote peace.
November 6, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Its a pretty safe bet that Donald Trump will be in the official champions photo after the World Cup 2026 final, standing in first line and holding the trophy.
Reposted by Sebastian Schmidt
Great to see this finally published!
Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
now out in @narjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
now out in @narjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
Abstract. Metagenomic sequencing enables the in-depth study of microbes and their functions in humans, animals, and the environment. While sequencing data
academic.oup.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Great to see this finally published!
Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
now out in @narjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
now out in @narjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
Great to see this finally published!
Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
now out in @narjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
now out in @narjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
Abstract. Metagenomic sequencing enables the in-depth study of microbes and their functions in humans, animals, and the environment. While sequencing data
academic.oup.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Great to see this finally published!
Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
now out in @narjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
now out in @narjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
"As a scientist, how do you feel about the US Secretary of Health?"
October 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"As a scientist, how do you feel about the US Secretary of Health?"
Reposted by Sebastian Schmidt
Our @narjournal.bsky.social manuscript is out! It explores the growth of the GTDB (gtdb.ecogenomic.org) since its inception, as well as updates to the website, methodology, policies, and major taxonomic and nomenclatural changes over the past three years.
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
GTDB release 10: a complete and systematic taxonomy for 715 230 bacterial and 17 245 archaeal genomes
Abstract. The Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB; https://gtdb.ecogenomic.org) provides a phylogenetically consistent and rank normalized genome-based taxonomy
academic.oup.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Our @narjournal.bsky.social manuscript is out! It explores the growth of the GTDB (gtdb.ecogenomic.org) since its inception, as well as updates to the website, methodology, policies, and major taxonomic and nomenclatural changes over the past three years.
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
ICE footage from the US is just shocking. As a German it hits particularly hard because they act like the SS and SA did in 1930s Nazi Germany.
And I have been asked countless times, "why did regular people not stand up to the Nazis". Never thought we'd one day have to ask Americans the same thing.
And I have been asked countless times, "why did regular people not stand up to the Nazis". Never thought we'd one day have to ask Americans the same thing.
October 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
ICE footage from the US is just shocking. As a German it hits particularly hard because they act like the SS and SA did in 1930s Nazi Germany.
And I have been asked countless times, "why did regular people not stand up to the Nazis". Never thought we'd one day have to ask Americans the same thing.
And I have been asked countless times, "why did regular people not stand up to the Nazis". Never thought we'd one day have to ask Americans the same thing.
“It’s more of a comment than a question…”
October 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
“It’s more of a comment than a question…”
Reposted by Sebastian Schmidt
As I was saying…
Jimmy Kimmel is Back!
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
youtu.be
September 24, 2025 at 4:27 AM
As I was saying…
Reposted by Sebastian Schmidt
Psychologists everywhere frantically scribbling.
September 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Psychologists everywhere frantically scribbling.
Reposted by Sebastian Schmidt
I don’t think I’ve ever seen America so embarrassed in front of the entire world.
September 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I don’t think I’ve ever seen America so embarrassed in front of the entire world.
Fecal filtrate is less effective than donor stool (FMT) for the treatment of C. difficile recurrence. Now shown in a multicentre trial, out today in @lancetgastrohep.bsky.social .
Congratulations to Dina Kao @ualberta.bsky.social & team!
Gift link:
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lphg8nByr...
Congratulations to Dina Kao @ualberta.bsky.social & team!
Gift link:
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lphg8nByr...
authors.elsevier.com
September 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Fecal filtrate is less effective than donor stool (FMT) for the treatment of C. difficile recurrence. Now shown in a multicentre trial, out today in @lancetgastrohep.bsky.social .
Congratulations to Dina Kao @ualberta.bsky.social & team!
Gift link:
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lphg8nByr...
Congratulations to Dina Kao @ualberta.bsky.social & team!
Gift link:
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lphg8nByr...
A toothbrush! A toothbrush! My kingdom for a toothbrush!
The oral microbiome of King Richard III of England https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.21.677585v1
September 22, 2025 at 4:26 AM
A toothbrush! A toothbrush! My kingdom for a toothbrush!