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Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social · 4d

Yesno.

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Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social · 4d

Getting old means going to your own Google Scholar and seeing "if you wrote a paper about something"

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Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks anyway, I can at least take a look at this :)

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Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social · 22d

Wouldn't that be true for all duplicated sequences though?

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Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social · 22d

But S. enterica does have one of those? Or is that also not the case?

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Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social · 23d

I must admit, PerplexityAI is really blowing my mind when it comes to literature searching. I've been avoiding it but I got stuck and decided to take a swing at it. It gave great papers, got my out of my bubble, and really gave me a fresh perspective. :)

Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social · 23d

Does anyone know a gene in E. coli that duplicated "fairly recently", as to compare and contrast it's sequence divergence with that found in mobile elements?

#sciencesky #microsky

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Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social · Sep 8

This picture is too low-res to include in a presentation in 2025, so I went full CSI 😂

I wonder though: even though it copies the copyright statement... this does count as a copyright violation? Thoughts?

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Eduardo Rocha @epcrocha.bsky.social · Sep 8

Willing to join us @pasteur.fr for a PhD for a project on how interactions between mobile genetic elements shape bacterial adaptation? Subject to be tailored to candidates with keen interest in evolution, genomics, computational biology, microbiology. Check www.pasteur.fr/en/education...

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Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social · Sep 3

A bachelor student gifted me this beautiful artwork she made based on my first year course, and I am sp excited I wanna share it with “the internet” ❤️

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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · Aug 13

We are also hiring a 4-year postdoc to study the dynamics and evolution of mobile genetic elements in the C-fixing Icelandic host-spring microbiomes

Join our exciting multidisciplinary team funded by @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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Kat Coyte @coytelab.bsky.social · Aug 12

A new 4 year PostDoc position in our lab! Modeling + experiments to explore dynamics of carbon fixing hot-spring microbiomes. Part of an exciting multidisciplinary team with Sophie Nixon, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social & others

Please share & get in touch if interested!

tinyurl.com/e7j7bha3

Research Associate in Microbiome Ecology:Oxford Road

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social · Aug 18

This is very cool. @sanmillan.bsky.social I wonder to what extend these non-random IS-dynamics are naturally selected for. Could it be the result of a long co-evolutionary history of ISs and bacteria? Are there differences in natural/non-natural antimicrobials?

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Plasmids promote antimicrobial resistance through Insertion Sequence-mediated gene inactivation

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a major threat to public health. Plasmids are mobile genetic elements that can rapidly spread across bacterial populations, promoting the dissemination of AMR genes i...

www.biorxiv.org

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Jorge Sastre Domínguez @jorgesastred.bsky.social · Aug 13

New paper out! 🔈🔈📣📣

Plasmids promote antimicrobial resistance through Insertion Sequence-mediated gene inactivation.

Combining experimental and computational approaches, we unveil how two of the most prevalent bacterial MGE accelerate the evolution of AMR. 🧵👇🏻

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Plasmids promote antimicrobial resistance through Insertion Sequence-mediated gene inactivation

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a major threat to public health. Plasmids are mobile genetic elements that can rapidly spread across bacterial populations, promoting the dissemination of AMR genes i...

www.biorxiv.org

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Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social · Aug 11

If I were me a few years ago, I would immediately apply. Wonderful environment to work in and Osnabrück is a (suprisingly 😝) fun city.

Christian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social · Aug 8

I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group.

The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects.

Please RT.

Details 👇:
shorturl.at/iiiOv

116 FB 5 Research Assistant (m/f/d) field of Theoretical Ecology and Evolution or Computational Biology: Uni Osnabrück

shorturl.at

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Chaitanya Gokhale @gokhalecs.bsky.social · Aug 10

Highly recommend this great opportunity to develop #theory together with @kostchristian.bsky.social and group who are simply a wonderful bunch!!

Christian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social · Aug 8

I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group.

The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects.

Please RT.

Details 👇:
shorturl.at/iiiOv

116 FB 5 Research Assistant (m/f/d) field of Theoretical Ecology and Evolution or Computational Biology: Uni Osnabrück

shorturl.at

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Christian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social · Aug 8

I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group.

The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects.

Please RT.

Details 👇:
shorturl.at/iiiOv

116 FB 5 Research Assistant (m/f/d) field of Theoretical Ecology and Evolution or Computational Biology: Uni Osnabrück

shorturl.at

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Olena Zhulyn @ozhulyn.bsky.social · Aug 9

We’re #hiring! 2 #post-doc positions for an interdisciplinary project funded by the @hfspo.bsky.social in #axolotl and #Drosophila #wound healing at @sickkidsto.bsky.social #Canada and @umontpellier.bsky.social #France @laghalab.bsky.social. Share and apply here: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Interdisciplinary Post-doctoral fellowships (2 positions) in wound healing - Toronto (City), Ontario (CA) job with The Hospital for Sick Children - Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Program | 1284...

Two Postdoc positions to identify & visualize translation dynamics & function of proteins that drive epithelial cell migration during wound healing.

www.nature.com

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Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · Aug 8

#microsky

Amelia Randich @ameliarandich.bsky.social · Aug 6

Charlie Mo: generic trade off in phage resistance leads to betalactam susceptibility and down-regulation of virulence genes in phage-resistant #MRSA strains #phages2025 🦠

elifesciences.org/articles/102...

Bacteriophage infection drives loss of β-lactam resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

In methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, evolution of bacteriophage resistance causes trade-offs that re-sensitize the bacteriato β-lactam antibiotics.

elifesciences.org

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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · Jul 2

Delighted to have started my tenure as an editor for mBio journals.asm.org/journal/mbio handling papers on Streptomyces, natural product evolution and biosynthesis, experimental evolution, bacteriophage resistance, Corynebacterium and engineering biology

mBio Journal Homepage

mBio covers the enormity of the interconnected microbial world: from symbiosis to pathogenesis, energy acquisition and conversion, climate change, geologic change, food and drug production, and even ...

journals.asm.org

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Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social · Jul 15

💃 Let's to to the beach-each, let's go get away! 💃

bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Are Fungal Disease Outbreaks Instigated by Starship Transposons?

Starships are massive transposons that can transfer virulence genes between fungal species, contributing to new plant disease outbreaks. We raise the possibility that Starships, a recently discovered...

bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social · Jul 3

Amazing stuff by one of the most hard working lab rats I’ve ever met. In a good way ;p

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Jumbo phage-mediated transduction of genomic islands

Bacteria acquire new genes by horizontal gene transfer (HGT), typically mediated by mobile genetic elements (MGEs). While plasmids, bacteriophages and certain integrative and conjugative elements (ICE...

www.biorxiv.org

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Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social · Jul 1

❤️

www.uu.nl/en/news/paul...

Paulien Hogeweg elected as EMBO Member

Paulien Hogeweg has been elected as a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). This highly regarded recognition highlights her groundbreaking work on the fundamental principles of...

www.uu.nl

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Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social · Jul 1

Oo, I remember this. Antagonism is such a powerful mechanism to maintain global diversity while it does the opposite locally. Always surprises me a little how, even at the strain level, so much energy is spent on producing stuff to repel others.

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ISME - International Society for Microbial Ecology @isme-microbes.bsky.social · Jun 26

ISME congratulates @ilafores.bsky.social from @usherbrooke.bsky.social as the winner of the Alma Dal Co Award, recognizing her as an exceptional early-career scholar who has made important contributions to microbial ecology.
isme-microbes.org/winner-of-th...
#MicrobialEcology #microbes #isme20

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