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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 2d

I have a fabulous undergrad who has a lot of experience with QIIME2 & using R to analyze microbiome data. She is looking for a job starting in January. Would love to learn more bench and field skills (will be getting some in her last 2 months). Open to academic, industry, government jobs in the US.

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Leonor García-Bayona @lgbacteria.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks for the kind words!

Leonor García-Bayona @lgbacteria.bsky.social · 7d

#phageplasmids

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Leonor García-Bayona @lgbacteria.bsky.social · 9d

First publication from our lab!

Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 9d

The role of mobile genetic elements in adaptation of the microbiota to the dynamic human gut ecosystem

#CurrOpinMicrobiol from @lgbacteria.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Leonor García-Bayona @lgbacteria.bsky.social · Sep 8

Me cuentas cualquier dato útil que te pueda pasar para montar el lab :)

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Leonor García-Bayona @lgbacteria.bsky.social · Sep 8

EXCELENTE!!! Felicitaciones!

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The Gardiner Lab @thegardinerlab.bsky.social · Sep 2

Hello world! Today’s officially the first day of the lab! It’s an empty space currently only filled with ideas (that I don’t have card access to yet 😂) but I’m excited for the science that will happen here! -JCG

Photo of Jaye Gardiner, a Black woman with long curly black hair, wearing dark green glasses and a coral colored sleeveless top, holding an iPad with the words “Jaye’s 1st day” written largely. Underneath it’s written “as an assistant professor 9/2/2025” although that doesn’t come out as clear in the photo.

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Ben Good @benjaminhgood.bsky.social · Aug 16

Excited to share a new preprint w/ the Sonnenberg lab, led by Matt Carter, @zzzhiru.bsky.social & @mattolm.bsky.social. We analyzed the microbiomes of two non-industrialized populations from opposite sides of the globe to try to reconstruct the recent evolutionary history of our gut microbiota.

Prehistoric Global Migration of Vanishing Gut Microbes With Humans

The gut microbiome is crucial for health and greatly affected by lifestyle. Many microbes common in non-industrialized populations are disappearing or extinct in industrialized populations. Understand...

www.biorxiv.org

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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · Aug 6

Snails with human-like eyes?!

Published in @natcomms.nature.com, the @planaria1.bsky.social & @accorsi-alice.bsky.social Labs have established apple snails as a novel model for studying vision restoration. They have complex camera-type eyes & the ability to regrow them in 28 days: bit.ly/4mvaxkq

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Leonor García-Bayona @lgbacteria.bsky.social · Aug 8

"feels like" is correct because it gives the IMPRESSION of expertise. Just asked GPT5-Thinking a few questions I had asked my PhD students this week... let me tell you, our jobs are safe in this regard LOL
If you believe what it says, it's on you.

Tyler Borchers @tylerborchers.com · Aug 7

“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.

OpenAI Unveils GPT-5, Its Latest and Most Powerful Model, After Two-Year Wait

CEO Sam Altman said using the chatbot will be like talking with a doctorate-level expert in any topic.

www.wsj.com

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Leonor García-Bayona @lgbacteria.bsky.social · Aug 5

Keep in mind that this one only takes their super expensive proprietary tips. Or if people have found a way around it please let me know!

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Hatzios Lab @hatzioslab.bsky.social · Aug 4

Congrats to postdoc Zhe Zhou on her paper out today in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social showing that gut bacteria cross-feed a common dietary antioxidant to produce energy under anaerobic conditions. Thanks to collaborators Angela Jiang and Xiaofang Jiang at NIH.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Tiffany Lowe-Power 🌱🦠 @tlowepower.bsky.social · Jul 25

Microbiology professor, want to join a slack for microbiology professors, any career stage, diverse career types (pure teaching, med school, R1, community college, pure research fed PIs, ...)

Message me for an invite link if you are interested.

No imposter syndrome, if you are 1% micro, join!

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Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social · Jul 17

The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more.
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601

Junior, Assistant, or Associate Specialist – Xue Lab

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ap.uci.edu

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Leonor García-Bayona @lgbacteria.bsky.social · Jul 17

Ahhh, fair 🤣

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Leonor García-Bayona @lgbacteria.bsky.social · Jul 17

ohh so what you're saying is I should find myself a long conference so that I can finally get my grant writing done... 👀🧠

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Dr. Ari Kozik @drkozik.bsky.social · Jul 12

Thrilled to share the first preprint from my group! Prevotella are predominant but understudied members of the respiratory microbiome. They have a reputation for being hard to work with, but understanding them is likely important for understanding how they contribute to respiratory health. 🧫🔬

bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · Jul 5

Development of a basal media for carbon utilization assay and analysis of the starch utilization locus in Prevotella melaninogenica https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.04.663206v1

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Leonor García-Bayona @lgbacteria.bsky.social · Jul 8

Yet again burned by the "this Friday" vs "next Friday" ambiguity. whyyyyy English language, whyyyy

homer simpson from the simpsons is holding a cup in front of a picture

ALT: homer simpson from the simpsons is holding a cup in front of a picture

media.tenor.com

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Leonor García-Bayona @lgbacteria.bsky.social · Jul 2

Huge congrats!!!

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Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D @nataliyakosmyna.bsky.social · Jun 16

𝐍𝐨, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐮𝐬𝐞.

See our paper for more results: "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task" : www.brainonllm.com

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Leonor García-Bayona @lgbacteria.bsky.social · Jun 4

Any friends going to ASM Microbe? Let me know so we can catch up!!

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Ben Vezina @bananabenana.bsky.social · Jun 15

Cool paper showing 🦠 recipient response to #plasmid conjugation

Capsule blocks conjugation, preventing MPF between donor:recipient. However, conjugation exploits recipient strain heterogeneity of capsule thickness, conjugating to cells with less capsule

#MicroSky 🧪

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

Fluorescent microscopy image of donor cells (shown in green) and recipient cells (shown in dark blue). Light blue cells are transconjugants. Transconjugants are only next to donor cells.

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Sebastian Schmidt @tsbschm.bsky.social · Jun 3

The Koonin Law of Computatoinal Biology:

Whenever you think you have a great idea in computational or evolutionary biology, it will already have been published by Eugene Koonin in the mid 90ies.

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · Jun 10

We have two new positions, a PhD and a Post doc at #InstituteofBiologyLeiden within our @microclockerc.bsky.social #ERCSyG project to discover interaction of #circadianclocks between Bacillus subtilis and Arabidopsis

please share these with your network! 🙏

links below👇
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Leonor García-Bayona @lgbacteria.bsky.social · Jun 4

Any friends going to ASM Microbe? Let me know so we can catch up!!

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