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Ishan Bhatt
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How does conflict beget cooperation? All about microbes and evolution. He/him- but more a plant with human-readable emotions
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Creating bacterial genomic diversity through large-scale reconfigurations reveals phenotype robustness to organizational genome change
doi.org/10.64898/202...
January 8, 2026 at 7:36 AM
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Temperate phage evolve to integrate host stress and quorum signals in lysis–lysogeny decisions

@plosbiology.org by @jbbruce.bsky.social, Robyn Manley et al from Edze Westra and Sylvain Gandon

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Temperate phage evolve to integrate host stress and quorum signals in lysis–lysogeny decisions
Temperate phage face conflicting signals from host stress and quorum sensing when deciding between lysis and lysogeny. This study shows that bacteriophage integrate information on host condition via S...
journals.plos.org
January 7, 2026 at 11:18 AM
We're living in a world that urgently needs actualizing cooperative measures beyond national borders while also supporting individual values. For. Every. Human.
NEW: last night, the US govt launched an assault on the ‘global censorship industrial complex’, aka European tech researchers/campaigners.

It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever.

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
A message to America: we are not your enemy
Last night, the US launched an all-out assault on the "global censorship industrial complex", I respond with some deep breaths, solidarity and a vibey video (it's all I have)
open.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS.

I cannot imagine knowing stuff without getting sucked into a citation rabbit-hole / wonderland and then reflecting on how these works engage with each other.
Am I the only one who gets a real kick out of citation chains? Reading people's writing and footnotes, and making assessments and notes, finding the sources in the footnotes and reading them yourself, and making more notes?
I...love it?
Not for academics it isn’t. You learn by reading and by following citation chains and talking to other people in the field. Letting the AI do the summary is abdicating your job.
December 23, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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I've slowly been reformatting notes from my population and conservation genetics course at Montana State University into a web book—a rough draft is now live here: elinck.org/popgen_conge...
December 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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@peterfineran.bsky.social and colleagues develop Tn-seq for phages by leveraging anti-CRISPR (Acr) as a positive
selectable marker in the presence of CRISPR-Cas counter-selection, and identify essential genes in phage from non model orgs
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
December 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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I've spent all day struggling to write a single page of a popular science article. I bang away at a word processor; give up; start diagramming on paper. Take some notes; draft a few sentences in pen; return to the computer...and very slowly I figure out what I was trying to say in the first place.
December 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
The little 'focus' I can, I do.
December 17, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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No molecular evidence for Muller's ratchet in mitochondrial genomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.16.694700v1
December 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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This paper contains some good arguments about an issue that concerns me a lot when I hear my colleagues talking about LLM use in developing their research:

Whose ideas are you presenting as your own?

(Though the fatalist argument the authors make at the end of paper is disappointing/bizarre.)
December 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
open.spotify.com/show/4Enjjd3...

The book itself was a thoroughly poetic read in and of itself. Listening to it in Robin's voice elevates it to a soothing, intersectional masterpiece.
Spotify – Web Player
open.spotify.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Validate User
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December 6, 2025 at 1:51 AM
rustification abound! but why not call it... medusa?
Bioinformaticians are impatient👇
Conda is notorious slow...
then I found mamba github.com/mamba-org/m...,
then I found
pixi prefix.dev/blog/pixi_a... : Blazing fast cross-platform package management for teams.

By the creators of the mamba package manager. #bioinformatics
December 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I'm developing a science communication project on nested biological systems... Dare I say I'm getting into... Multilevel marketing?
December 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Zhao et al. analysed phylogenetic signal in OXPHOS genes, mtDNA genes and nuclear genes in 53 beetle species, detecting two major cases of mitonuclear discordance caused by introgressive hybridization and incomplete lineage sorting.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf291

#evobio #molbio
December 1, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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🧬 A new “Life Identification Number (LIN)” system aims to modernize bacterial classification with a clearer, more stable hierarchy. A step forward for genomic taxonomy!
📖 shorturl.at/vkQuS
✍️ @sylvainbrisse.bsky.social & coll.

@pasteur.fr @ox.ac.uk @monashuniversity.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Microbial rhythms – a new target to promote health?

@cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Opinion by Elizaveta Gorbunova, Marjolein Heddes, Daan van der Veen & Silke Kiessling

www.cell.com/trends/micro...

#ChronoMicrobiology #ChronoSky
Microbial rhythms – a new target to promote health?
Daily dynamics in the composition and function of the human gut microbiota have been recognized since 2014, yet the molecular mechanisms underlying these rhythms and their impact on human health remai...
www.cell.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Our new collaborative work led by @taliamycota.bsky.social
Jiajun Cui & Emma Caullireau between my lab @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @cloeucl.bsky.social & the Karasov Lab (tkarasovlab.org) @uofubiology.bsky.social
and collaborators: @plantricia.bsky.social et al.

tinyurl.com/5yx2wmz5

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November 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Dear LLM, let me introduce you to Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings.
November 21, 2025 at 10:26 AM