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Susan Jones

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Editorial Director, Nature portfolio. Ex-Chief editor at Nature Microbiology & Nature Reviews Microbiology. Ex-Senior editor at Nature Biotechnology & PLOS Medicine. Microbiology& technology are my happy place. Here for the science, views my own.

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Susan Jones @jonesysoo.bsky.social · Aug 1

Delighted to announce here that @ritastrack.bsky.social is the new Chief editor of Nature Biomedical Engineering. Congratulations Rita!

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Susan Jones @jonesysoo.bsky.social · Sep 5

Cordyceps is the fungus in 'The last of us'. So this one caught my eye -- fascinating paper in the evergreen journal, Current Biology (one of my personal faves): www.cell.com/current-biol...

Fungal pathogen promotes caterpillar feeding and weight gain using a host-like trehalase

Zhao et al. report that Cordyceps militaris fungi induce feeding and weight gain in silkworm larvae using an insect-like trehalase. Fungal infection induces a sharp drop in insect blood sugars and the...

www.cell.com

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · Aug 14

There is still time to apply to become part of our team at Nature Biomedical Engineering! Please share! springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

a blue sign that says we are hiring

ALT: a blue sign that says we are hiring

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Susan Jones @jonesysoo.bsky.social · Aug 1

Delighted to announce here that @ritastrack.bsky.social is the new Chief editor of Nature Biomedical Engineering. Congratulations Rita!

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Susan Jones @jonesysoo.bsky.social · Apr 4

⭐ I'm hiring a new Chief editor for Nature Biomedical engineering, in New York, Beijing or Shanghai.

Please apply here: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · Mar 27

OUT NOW: Seed-borne bacteria drive wheat rhizosphere microbiome assembly via niche partitioning and facilitation

@dgarrs.bsky.social

#microsky 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Seed-borne bacteria drive wheat rhizosphere microbiome assembly via niche partitioning and facilitation - Nature Microbiology

A sequential propagation strategy shows how the microbes initially on seeds are key to building complex, reproducible and heritable plant microbiomes.

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · Mar 13

Together with fellow @biologists.bsky.social EiCs we've written about the unprecedented cuts & policy changes to research in the US

We stand with our US colleagues during this challenging time

Science transcends borders—setbacks in one nation affect us all

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times

As Editors-in-Chief of The Company of Biologists' journals, we have been watching with growing concern the policy changes in the United States of America (USA) and the challenges that these are creati...

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Susan Jones @jonesysoo.bsky.social · Mar 13

What a great PhD project! Check out the work of the Busby lab — includes forest canopy microbiome analyses agmicrobiome.org

Susan Jones @jonesysoo.bsky.social · Mar 9

Dog day afternoon, #GBGV style

Susan Jones @jonesysoo.bsky.social · Mar 4

📣Taking our ability to understand phage biology up a notch. Phage functional genomics platform, out now

🔓Open access, read it at your leisure
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@cresslab.bsky.social, @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Jan 15

Congratulations to the whole team! 🎉

Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com · Jan 15

Here we go! The first issue of Nature Reviews Biodiversity is now live🥳🎉🥂.
Thank you to our authors, reviewers, and community for the support! We hope you enjoy the reading. www.nature.com/nrbd/volumes...

Two birds of different species looking at each other from different sides of a river

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Nature Reviews Clean Technology @natrevcleantech.nature.com · Jan 15

Happy launch day everyone! We're really excited to share our first issue, which is now available to read online here www.nature.com/nrct/

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Susan Jones @jonesysoo.bsky.social · Jan 19

One (tired) man and his dog 😊

Susan Jones @jonesysoo.bsky.social · Jan 17

This is important: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Recommendations for mitochondria transfer and transplantation nomenclature and characterization - Nature Metabolism

This Consensus Statement provides a nomenclature framework and experimental recommendations for studying mitochondrial transfer and transplantation.

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Peter Sarkies @psarkies.bsky.social · Dec 11

Article by @fitz-james-lab.bsky.social and me summarising his Mol Cell study
www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/article/dna-...

DNA origami: a new frontier in epigenetic inheritance across generations

In a collaboration between two labs spanning both sides of the English Channel, scientists have discovered a new way in which the organisation of DNA within our cells affects genes for generations

www.bioch.ox.ac.uk

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Susan Jones @jonesysoo.bsky.social · Dec 11

🤩 pair of papers here that begin to reveal the potential of topically-applied engineered bacteria.

Michael Fischbach @mfgrp.bsky.social · Dec 11

Today we report that an engineered skin bacterium, swabbed gently on the head of a mouse, can unleash a potent antibody response against a pathogen. Could lead to topical vaccines that are applied in a cream. @djenetbousbaine.bsky.social led the charge... @natureportfolio.bsky.social 1/55

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Axel Visel @axelvisel.bsky.social · Dec 4

BOOSTER, a newly identified orphan gene, supercharges photosynthesis and, when overexpressed, boosts height of poplars by up to 200% (at least in greenhouse)

To make it even more interesting, part of the gene seems derived from a poplar fungus-farming ant 🐜

Paper: www.cell.com/developmenta...

Figure from the paper, showing BOOSTER-overexpressing poplar plants that are about twice as tall as the negative controls. Googly eyes (not from original paper) look at the taller plants.

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · Dec 4

And see this related preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Conserved jumbo phage factors required for protein import into a phage nucleus

Yup. That does say "phage nucleus" and it really is a nucleus-like compartment.

Conserved jumbo phage factors required for protein import into a phage nucleus

Bacteriophages use diverse mechanisms to evade anti-phage defenses systems. ΦKZ-like jumbo phages assemble a proteinaceous nucleus-like compartment that excludes antagonistic host nucleases, while int...

www.biorxiv.org

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Susan Jones @jonesysoo.bsky.social · Dec 1

It’s not a class issue. How about stopping deflecting misogyny using class war and owning your mistakes and apologising, Gregg? ‘Only’ 13 women complained. Just how many complaints is enough to take it seriously Gregg? Wow. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Gregg Wallace says complaints came from ‘middle-class women of a certain age’

Wallace stepped back from role on MasterChef last week while allegations of sexual misconduct are investigated

www.theguardian.com

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Susan Jones @jonesysoo.bsky.social · Nov 30

Uses method published originally in Nature Biotechology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Spatial metagenomic characterization of microbial biogeography in the gut - Nature Biotechnology

The spatial distribution of bacterial species in the mouse gut is measured by microscopic ‘plot sampling’.

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Susan Jones @jonesysoo.bsky.social · Nov 30

TL DR: spatial AND temporal engraftment matter

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Susan Jones @jonesysoo.bsky.social · Nov 30

Interesting paper that identifies a murine ‘super donor’ FMT microbiome and then investigates what makes it ‘super’:

Harris Wang @harriswang.bsky.social · Nov 17

New paper from the lab out in Cell Systems. “Spatiotemporal dynamics during niche remodeling by super-colonizing microbiota in the mammalian gut”
www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Spatiotemporal dynamics during niche remodeling by super-colonizing microbiota in the mammalian gut

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) therapies hold promise but suffer from variable transplantation efficiencies. Here, we examine microbiome spatiotemporal dynamics post-FMT with a super-colonizin...

www.cell.com

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Adrian Liston @labliston.bsky.social · Nov 30

Great to be at OncoLille yesterday to discuss research culture and regulatory T cells!

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Bluesky @bsky.app · Nov 29

We could go on about how we welcome publishers, we don't demote links, we encourage independent developers to build apps and extensions on top of Bluesky's network.... but instead, we'll show you.

All thanks to the incredible community here! 🦋

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Susan Jones @jonesysoo.bsky.social · Nov 28

Our dog is not spoilt. We merely made him more comfortable 😆

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Samuel Aroney @aroneys.bsky.social · Nov 26

Excited to share “Bin Chicken”, substantially improving genome recovery through rational metagenomic assembly. Applied to public 🌍 metagenomes, it recovered 24,000 novel species 🦠, including 6 novel phyla.
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
@wwood @rhysnewell @CMR_QUT
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