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Branko Rihtman @cyanoney.bsky.social · 1d

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Branko Rihtman @cyanoney.bsky.social · 1d

ומפלגת הנמרים אוכלי הפנים רק עולה ועולה בסקרים...

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Branko Rihtman @cyanoney.bsky.social · 1d

This map is really confusing

Cyanotrans @cyanotrans.bsky.social · 1d

Spatio-Temporal Resolution of Microbial Functions and Taxa Associated With Cyanobacterial Harmful Algae Blooms Along a 500-Km Aquatic Continuum in the Lake Erie Watershed enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Spatio‐Temporal Resolution of Microbial Functions and Taxa Associated With Cyanobacterial Harmful Algae Blooms Along a 500‐Km Aquatic Continuum in the Lake Erie Watershed

The aquatic microbiome can influence cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms. Abundances of genes and transcripts for phosphorus acquisition, denitrification and nitrogen fixation were higher upstream, w....

enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Branko Rihtman @cyanoney.bsky.social · 7d

Ride now Myoviruses! Ride now! LYYYYSEEEEEEEE

The only person gifted enough to pull this off is @sianowen.bsky.social

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Branko Rihtman @cyanoney.bsky.social · 7d

<rows of phages on horses>

DEEEEATTHHHHHHHH
DEEEAAAAATHHHHHH

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Branko Rihtman @cyanoney.bsky.social · 7d

Weak and disappointing. If being a Nazi isn't enough to remove someone from the list of Fellows, what is?

The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 7d

"I am increasingly concerned over threats to the values that allow science to flourish." Read the full statement from the President of the Royal Society Sir Adrian Smith: royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...

A statement from the President of the Royal Society | Royal Society

A statement from the President of the Royal Society regarding threats to the values that allow science to flourish.

royalsociety.org

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Branko Rihtman @cyanoney.bsky.social · 9d

yeah colour me sceptical on this claim. There are hundreds, if not thousands of new bacteriophages being isolated on a huge variety of hosts every year. Infection across bacterial species, let alone genera, let alone family, let alone order, let alone class are exceptionally rarely observed.

Branko Rihtman @cyanoney.bsky.social · 12d

Fascinating! Well done, so nice to see familiar names on this publication

Nir Keren @nir-keren.bsky.social · 12d

We've tried to take a different view at the issue of nutrient limitations-looking for the shared basis rather than for specific response. This is the result:
www.jbc.org/article/S002...
Led by Hagit Zer with Stav Chen and David Rasin, in close collaboration with Miguel Hernandez–Prieto. Thanks!

A shared basis for nutrient limitation response in cyanobacteria

Cyanobacteria possess diverse regulatory mechanisms to adapt to nutrient limitation, yet the extent to which these responses are shared across different nutrient stresses remains unclear. Understandin...

www.jbc.org

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Branko Rihtman @cyanoney.bsky.social · 14d

I pay special attention to this "breadcrumbing" practice. Either cite the psper that has the experimental procedure detsiled or write the protocol in your own Methods

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Branko Rihtman @cyanoney.bsky.social · 14d

As a reviewer i have rejected papers that engage in obvious citation fraud by citing in methods only their previous papers in which they've used that method

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Branko Rihtman @cyanoney.bsky.social · 18d

Love my town.

Britain Elects @britainelects.com · 18d

✅ Labour HOLD

Yesterday's Leamington Clarendon (Warwick) council by-election result:

LAB: 30.3% (-18.7)
LDEM: 29.6% (+13.3)
REF: 16.3% (+16.3)
GRN: 12.7% (-6.2)
CON: 7.4% (-8.6)
IND: 3.8% (+3.8)

+/- 2023

andrewteale.me.uk/previews

Andrew’s Previews | Andrew Teale | Substack

"All the right votes, but not necessarily in the right order". Click to read Andrew’s Previews, by Andrew Teale, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

andrewteale.me.uk

Branko Rihtman @cyanoney.bsky.social · 19d

Coming soon to the UK if Reform wins...

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19d

Of all the stupid things that this regime has done, this is right up near the top. Postdoctoral researchers come to the US on H-1B visas. This will further destroy the US science enterprise. Stupid stupid stupid.

Trump administration to add $100,000 fee for H-1B visas

The Trump administration is targeting a visa widely used by tech companies and other employers to hire foreign workers.

www.cbsnews.com

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 19d

We have some full length 16S data from isolates that we'd like to match to ASV-level V4-V5 microbiomes from the same samples. It's pretty messy, especially for strains with multiple copies of 16S rRNA genes.

Has anyone encountered this in their work, or in the lit? Any ideas how to approach this?

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Hannah Pugh @hannahpugh.bsky.social · 20d

Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of single cell bacterial FACS? Have a few technical issues due to my tiny cells. Thanks!

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Branko Rihtman @cyanoney.bsky.social · 20d

Yeah, now writing it carries a professional hazard, ironically

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Branko Rihtman @cyanoney.bsky.social · 20d

Sounds like a book about how they made us all think that left-wing censorship was pervasive, is a good idea

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Branko Rihtman @cyanoney.bsky.social · 21d

נלקח בחשבון 😁

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Branko Rihtman @cyanoney.bsky.social · 21d

אההההה אני צריך לפתוח גוגל דוק עם כל ההמלצות האלה

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Branko Rihtman @cyanoney.bsky.social · 21d

לא. אני לוקח קצת הפסקה ממנו אחרי שני ספרים רצופים. בדיוק קניתי את ״בעל ירקון״ של נדב נוימן שגל המליץ עליו פה בתחילת השירשור אז אני אולי אחזור לשריד אחר כך. ״מגלה חולשות״ זו הומלצה טובה.

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Branko Rihtman @cyanoney.bsky.social · 21d

אכן. גם ״לימסול״ של שריד הוא טוב אבל אין לו את הזווית הפוסט-אפוקליפטית של ה-״שלישי״

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Branko Rihtman @cyanoney.bsky.social · 22d

"השלישי" של ישי שריד מתאר מציאות דומה אבל מנקודת מבט של בן של מלך יהודה, כאשר כל רצועת החוף הושמדה בתקיפות גרעין איראניות ובית המקדש השיליש הוקם בירושלים וממלכת יהודה בהיו"ש.

אני אבדוק את הספר הזה שאתה ממליץ עליו, נשמע מאוד מעניין

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BejaLab @bejalab.bsky.social · Aug 3

our new paper on pelagic #Asgard archaea that use #rhodopsins with carotenoid antennas to harvest light energy in the oceans.
Structural insights into light-harvesting by antenna-containing rhodopsins in marine Asgard archaea www.nature.com/articles/s41... @galitzlil.bsky.social

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Sofya Garushyants @garushyants.bsky.social · 23d

hey bluesky 👋 visa hurdles mean I’m looking for opportunities outside the US. I’m a computational biologist (bacterial + phage genomics, postdoc in Koonin’s group @ NIH). I am interested in teaming up on funding apps. reach out if this resonates!

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Branko Rihtman @cyanoney.bsky.social · Sep 5

This is a proof that you can get anyone, and I mean ANYONE, into any position, no matter how extreme or inhumane, given enough biased mass media manipulation.

More than 50% of adults in this country support placing asylum seekers in concentration camps.

We deserve everything coming our way.

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Branko Rihtman @cyanoney.bsky.social · Sep 4

As you say, it will probably depend on whether the bacteria are present in the cancer environment before it is a cancer. I can definitely understand bacteria being attracted to the cancer due to increased metabolic flux of nutrients and byproducts of rapidly dividing cells