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Zannah Salter

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Pathogen genomics, Ornithobacterium hominis, microbiome (and contamination of course!) at University of Cambridge

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Zannah Salter @zannahdu.bsky.social · Nov 25

In a new room, it's always nice to shout a bit about #Ornithobacterium hominis!

I'm working on this Gram neg nasopharyngeal species with colleagues in Australia, South Africa & Cambodia.

Isolates are very rare - if you spot it in your samples or metagenomes, reach out! I'd love to collaborate. 🦠🧬👀

Zannah Salter @zannahdu.bsky.social · 21h

(The study I volunteered for was a bit different to this, it involved focusing on one voice while a second voice spoke in your other ear)

Zannah Salter @zannahdu.bsky.social · 21h

I took part in a study like this, and let me tell you I was not prepared for how difficult it would be to concentrate on one thing when I'm capable of listening to 2 conversations at once and I'm NOSY

PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 1d

How does attention shape #AuditoryProcessing? This study shows that #attention enhances sound encoding only at the cortical level, not in #auditory periphery or #brainstem, so humans’ ability to focus on a single voice in noise relies on cortical mechanisms @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4pY5L1f

Subcortical sound encoding is not affected by selective attention, while cortical sound encoding is. Top left: The CAP to the attended (red) and unattended (black) speech for the 12 subjects with the eardrum electrode. Bottom left: The ABR for all 28 subjects when attended (red) or unattended (black). No significant differences were observed between conditions for either the CAP or ABR. Shaded regions represent SEM. Right: Cortical responses to attended (top) and unattended (middle) stimuli. Bottom right: The difference waveform and scalp topographies at the selected time points. Asterisks indicate the electrodes that were significantly different across conditions at that time.

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 1d

After being with the journal since its very inception, the time has come for me to step back from Microbial Genomics. This is a wonderful opportunity to have a leadership role in one of the leading journals for microbial genomics research

microbiologysociety.org/news/society...

<i>Microbial Genomics </i> Deputy Editor-in-Chief: Call for Expressions of interest

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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 2d

Published today!

'The Kocurious case of Noodlococcus: genomic insights into Kocuria rhizophila from characterisation of a laboratory contaminant'

A labour of love in the group, led by @gemccallum.bsky.social @biostan.bsky.social @prob91.bsky.social

www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

The Kocurious case of Noodlococcus: genomic insights into Kocuria rhizophila from characterisation of a laboratory contaminant

The laboratory contaminant strain Noodlococcus was named for its coccoid cells and unusual colony morphology, which resembled a pile of noodles. Along with laboratory characterisation and electron mic...

www.microbiologyresearch.org

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Zannah Salter @zannahdu.bsky.social · 3d

Personally I like to accept 3 review invitations for every paper I submit. Sometimes its a few more.

Lately there have been so many requests I just cannot, my name must have got on a list somewhere!

Zannah Salter @zannahdu.bsky.social · 7d

Quality trolling that

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Ryan Wick @rrwick.bsky.social · 9d

Happy to share that the paper describing Autocycler is now 100% up:
doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
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Autocycler: long-read consensus assembly for bacterial genomes

AbstractMotivation. Long-read sequencing enables complete bacterial genome assemblies, but individual assemblers are imperfect and often produce sequence-l

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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 12d

Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols.
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 15d

the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 21d

I do enjoy a good WEF/Klaus Schwab conspiracy though. I met Schwab once in Davos and saw a clown squeegee his bald head. He was a good sport about it. True story.

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Zannah Salter @zannahdu.bsky.social · 22d

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Professor Lesley Hoyles @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social · 25d

If you are UK-based and working on any aspect of microbiomes (human, plant, insect, soil, animal, ...), please do sign up to Microbiome-Net for details of networking, funding and training opportunities.

forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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Skype a Scientist @skypeascientist.bsky.social · 25d

In short, we need more Archaeologists again. The First Lego League squads just keep rolling in. Spread the word among Archaeologists!

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25d

I run @skypeascientist.bsky.social which matches scientists w/classrooms, libraries, etc for Q&As.

We match First Lego League teams too. This tends to wipe out one category of scientist bc so many teams sign up for the same category (this year, archaeologists). We're almost out of archaeologists.

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Alexandre Almeida @alexmsalmeida.bsky.social · 28d

🚨 New pre-print from the lab! We performed a large-scale meta-analysis of the uncultured gut #microbiome in >10,000 metagenomes enabling us to identify a new candidate biomarker of health. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Meta-analysis of the uncultured gut microbiome across 11,115 global metagenomes reveals a new candidate biomarker of health

The human gut microbiome plays an important biological role in host health, yet over 60% of gut species remain uncultured and hence inaccessible to experimental manipulation. Here we analysed 11,115 h...

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · Sep 8

Join us for Annual Conference 2026!

Abstract submission and registration are open for the UK’s largest annual gathering of microbiologists.
Held in Belfast, UK, this year’s Conference also features two-day attendance tickets.

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David Cleary @bacterioskeptic.bsky.social · Sep 8

New paper out in Pneumonia. More data from the carriage study in Southampton, UK looking at pneumococci in pre-PCV13 era versus early- and late-PCV13 periods. pneumonia.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... (I also snuck in some bits on other bacteria ... just for a bit of variety)

Changes in carriage and serotype diversity of Streptococcus pneumoniae and other respiratory pathobionts in the UK between pre-PCV13 (2006-10), early-PCV13 (2010-12) and late-PCV13 (2012-23) periods -...

The ongoing burden of mortality and morbidity associated with Streptococcus pneumoniae infections requires that monitoring of carriage epidemiology continues. Here, we present data from the annual, cr...

pneumonia.biomedcentral.com

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Zannah Salter @zannahdu.bsky.social · Sep 2

I had exactly this ticket in with IT recently 😅

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · Sep 2

I have been online since 1997 and every day I think that is too long.

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Lucy van Dorp @lucyvandorp.bsky.social · Sep 1

Excited to say we’re hiring 😊. We’re looking for a post-doc in ancient pathogen genomics to join our friendly supportive team in London at @ugiatucl.bsky.social. Start date January 2026.

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Katie Collins @spissatella.bsky.social · Aug 23

Learning how to linocut simply to illustrate my most banger bsky posts 😂

A hand holding up a piece of white paper on which is printed in blue a picture of a clam and the words NO HEADS NO LEGS NO GODS NO MASTERS NO GENDERS. Behind this is the inked lino block

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Zannah Salter @zannahdu.bsky.social · Aug 21

I am shocked! NIH website still points to it. Access via Google is giving me hacked website warnings 🤷‍♀️

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Hugerth lab @h-mel.bsky.social · Aug 21

Anyone know what happened to hmpdacc.org?

More importantly, does anyone know how to apply for HMP participant data nowadays?

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Sophia Belkhir @sophiabelkhir.bsky.social · Aug 21

If you are at #ESEB2025 and want to learn more about Tasmanian Devils and/or transmissible cancers, I'll be presenting some of my work on those cute animals and their fascinating disease Friday at 11:30 in room 122+123!

a wanted poster for tasmanian devil with a cartoon character

ALT: a wanted poster for tasmanian devil with a cartoon character

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Josie Bryant @josiebryant.bsky.social · Aug 20

Closing soon. Great opportunity to do spatial transcriptomics on pre-antibiotic TB

Josie Bryant @josiebryant.bsky.social · Jul 16

⭐ Excellence fellowships accepting applications ⭐ for Black ECRs who have a degree from the UK. sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Wellco...
I have an amazing spatial transcriptomics project available on the world's most important pathogen, TB: www.sanger.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
Please reach out!