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Julia Frunzke @frunzkelab.bsky.social · 11h

Please RT:
We have an opening for a junior group leader position in „Phage Biology & Biotechnology“.
www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...

Interested candidates are encouraged to contact me via email for further details.

@spp2330.bsky.social; @mibinet.bsky.social

Junior Group Leader - Phage Biology & Biotechnology

As a leading research institution for microbial biotechnology the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences - Biotechnology (IBG-1, https://www.fz-juelich.de/de/ibg/ibg-1 ) at the Forschungszentrum Jülich foc...

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Sheila Roitman @sheilaroitman.bsky.social · 16d

www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/202...

עבורי זה לא ערב חג. זה עוד ערב כואב של המתנה לקריאה לבוא לאסוף את איתן | דעה

"איך ההרגשה בערב חג נוסף בו בנך עדין בשבי?". כך נפתח כל ראיון בשבוע האחרון. אז אלו הן המחשבות בערב השנה החדשה ובפתחו של שבוע נוסף של פחד, כאב וגעגוע לבני הצעיר

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Mónica Medina @momedinamunoz.bsky.social · 22d

Looking forward to attending and presenting on
"coral bacterial pangenomes in the Anthropocene: at this conference in beautiful Valencia, Spain www.alocongress.com/pangenome2025 Join us! 🧪🪸🦠🧬🖥️

PANGENOME2025

The biology of prokaryotic cells is directly dependent on the differential gene pools that characterize each cell or strain. This has been a fundamental aspect of epidemiology for delimiting outbreaks...

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BejaLab @bejalab.bsky.social · 23d

v2. Evidence for the acquisition of a proteorhodopsin-like rhodopsin by a chrysophyte-infecting giant virus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Sheila Roitman @sheilaroitman.bsky.social · Sep 5

Nu?? I'm curious!

Happy birthday🥳

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · Sep 2

New tool for clustering bacterial genomes: PanGene-O-Meter, provides a higher level of granularity than ANI when classifying bacterial isolates of the same species. Work of the talented @haimashkenazy.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Sheila Roitman @sheilaroitman.bsky.social · Sep 2

How diverse are the individual strains within your species?
How broad is their Pangenome?
How will you choose representatives from the whole collection?

Look no further! PanGene-O-Meter is here for you!
From @haimashkenazy.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social

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

PanGene-O-Meter: Intra-Species Diversity Based on Gene-Content

Bacterial genome evolution is shaped to a great extent by horizontal gene transfer, detectable as genes with a presence-absence pattern of variation that does not follow phylogenetic relationships acr...

www.biorxiv.org

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Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · Aug 11

I wrote about my recent experiences taking care of my 3-year-old, Sheila Heti's "Motherhood", and the discourse around polygenic embryo selection: kathrynpaigeharden.substack.com/p/openness-t...

Openness to Risk in Motherhood and "Motherhood"

Some Thoughts Related to Polygenic Embryo Screening

kathrynpaigeharden.substack.com

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RayV @rayv.bsky.social · Aug 3

קם פרויקט להעברת תרכובות הזנה לתינוקות (תמ״ל) בעזה, בהובלת ד״ר דייויד חסאן, והאיגוד האירופי לרפואת ילדים, שהצליח כבר להעביר אלפי בקבוקי פורמולה לעזה אחרי בירוקרטיה לא פשוטה, וגם בהובלת אנשי רפואה ישראלים.
להלן הלינק לתרומות:
www.thechildrensvillagegaza.org/eap
אשמח אם תשתפו הלאה.

EAP | The Gaza Children

Support our emergency appeal with EAP to provide life-saving baby formula to newborns and young children in Gaza. Your donation helps deliver critical nutrition to those suffering from severe hunger a...

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Sheila Roitman @sheilaroitman.bsky.social · Aug 4

Please consider donating to Standing Together, a non-profit movement of Israeli Jewish and Palestinian people for a better future built from within.
causematch.com/standing_tog...

Fighting for Life - Standing Together Crowdfunder

Donate now to Standing Together, the largest grassroots Jewish-Palestinian movement in Israel

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · Aug 4

Ilay David, brother of Israeli hostage Evyatar David, who was seen in a video published by Hamas on Saturday, said there is "immediate danger" to his brother's life, and that he will die within days if he does not receive food and medicine.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Hostage Evyatar David's brother: Video released by Hamas 'broke' our father

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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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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · Aug 3

www.thechildrensvillagegaza.org/eap

EAP | The Gaza Children

Support our emergency appeal with EAP to provide life-saving baby formula to newborns and young children in Gaza. Your donation helps deliver critical nutrition to those suffering from severe hunger a...

www.thechildrensvillagegaza.org

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Sheila Roitman @sheilaroitman.bsky.social · Aug 3

לא ראיתי, האמת, אבל היה חלק שלא הספקנו, אז אולי יש

Sheila Roitman @sheilaroitman.bsky.social · Aug 3

כמובן, אפילו הגענו בזמן לסיור ילדים. תערוכה על ארכיטקטורה ותכניות ארכיטקטוניות למגורים במאה הקודמת.

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Sheila Roitman @sheilaroitman.bsky.social · Aug 3

@kamounlab.bsky.social encourages everyone to publish their posters. Go ahead!

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Sheila Roitman @sheilaroitman.bsky.social · Aug 3

I think you have the right to add thr article to your publications list

Sheila Roitman @sheilaroitman.bsky.social · Aug 3

At Tübingen's art museum, having a flashback to one of my favorite #TCTeAC talks, cell-inspired home design and experiment-based architecture. By Yael Allweil from @technion.bsky.social

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · Aug 2

"In Gaza, the UN system & its related organizations are there. They have the resources and plans. The UN presented a plan on May 16, for extremely rigorous distribution, including monitoring to prevent the food from getting into the hands of Hamas," says Alex de Waal

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

'Pasta won't help. Gaza is on the brink of an exponential surge in starvation deaths'

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · Aug 2

1/3 New preprint led by Shanshan Wang, in collaboration with the Timmermans lab.

Several groups have presented sc/snRNA-seq analyses of Arabidopsis leaves after bacterial infection before. Is there anything left to discover? Turns out: Yes.

#plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · Jul 31

Paper led by @movillome.bsky.social on unbiased detection of (somatic) #TE insertions in #Arabidopsis with @pacbio.bsky.social long reads out after peer review. Thanks to academic editor Leandro Quadrana for shepherding it through the review process.
#plantscience
link.springer.com/article/10.1...?

Long-read detection of transposable element mobilization in the soma of hypomethylated Arabidopsis thaliana individuals - Genome Biology

Background Because transposable elements (TEs) can cause heritable genetic changes, past work on TE mobility in Arabidopsis thaliana has mostly focused on new TE insertions in the germline of hypometh...

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · Aug 1

Tel Aviv, July 31, 2025: Protesters with @standing-together.bsky.social (Omdim BeYachad) hold photographs of emaciated Palestinian children in Gaza.

Protesters in Tel Aviv hold photographs of emaciated Palestinian children in Gaza, July 31, 2025

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · Aug 1

"The situation in Gaza is likely the most extreme example of politically–driven starvation in the 21st century. An hour's drive from Gaza, there are enough calories & nutrients, packed in sacks & containers, to feed its entire population."

@haaretzcom.bsky.social

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

What Israel must do to stop the starvation in Gaza, right now

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Sarit Avrani @saritavrani.bsky.social · Jul 28

Our paper on cyanophages of marine sponge symbionts is finally out. It is the outcome of a great collaboration with Laura Steindler's lab and was led by Tzipora Perez.

Cyanophage Infections in a Sponge Intracellular Cyanobacterial Symbiont

Intracellular cyanobacterial symbionts of sponges are shown to be susceptible to cyanophages, challenging assumptions about their isolation from viral exposure. The study reveals novel phage–host int...

enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Freya Harrison @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social · Jul 28

#MicroSky job alert: Senior Research Technician in the Mausz Lab at Warwick, on responses of marine microbes to nutrient limitation & environmental changes. warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

Senior Research Technician (110703-0725) - University of Warwick

Title: Senior Research Technician (110703-0725). Application Deadline: 24/08/2025, 23:55. Position Type: Fixed Term

warwick-careers.tal.net

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