Great thread by @MJShepherd on the bird site in response to some (unsurprisingly) bad takes by that selfish gene guy.

Reproduced here bc I think it's a well-written opportunity to reflect on #ableism in #evolution #EvolutionaryBiology

"Disappointing (although predictable) from Dawkins. Linked blog makes a poor attempt to dismiss an important discussion around how evolutionary biology has been used to prop up scientific racism/ableism and what we should do about it 1/7"

50 papers by Didier Raoult have been flagged with expressions of concern by PLOS. in an ongoing investigation into >100 articles.

Seems to be the latest in a series of accusations relating to data integrity, conflicts of interest, and other ethical issues.

Feels like wherever you see the word hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin, dodgy data is not far away... https://retractionwatch.com/2022/12/13/plos-flags-nearly-50-papers-by-controversial-french-covid-researcher-for-ethics-concerns/

#Introduction

I’m a Post-doc at the University of Oxford, working on the evolution of bacterial genomes and pangenomes. I’m interested in bacterial cooperation and ecology, and how these might interact with horizontal gene transfer.

I’m on the train to Manchester for the #MicroEvo22 meeting, where I’ll be presenting a poster (no. 17). Looking forward to seeing lots of you there!

#Bacteria #SocialEvolution #Plasmids #HorizontalGeneTransfer #Pangenomes #ComparativeGenomics

While I'm very happy I made the decision to swap from #Pseudomonas to #Acinetobacter for my #Ecology and #experimentalEvolution study system and #research, trying to set everything up from scratch is such a pain.

Turns out you take a lot for granted when working on P. aeruginosa... So any advice or resources people have for studying #microbiology using A. baumannii would be much appreciated 🦠

Efflux-linked accelerated evolution of antibiotic resistance at a population edge

-in @MolecularCell by @necrosignaling et al from @sci_rasika

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1097276522010243

Effects of Bacillus subtilis and Pseudomonas fluorescens as the soil amendment

-in @HeliyonJournal

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844022029620?via%3Dihub

Seems increasingly likely the other site will be going down soon!

Don’t forget there’s a tool you can use to find the Mastodon profiles of folks you interacted with on the bird site! It can generate a csv of all the Mastodon handles in the profiles of those who you follow, share lists with, or are followed by! You can import it to Mastodon, easy peasy, though it needs the bird site to be live, may not be forever unfortunately! Check it out here: https://fedifinder.glitch.me/

Spatial self-segregation of pioneer cyanobacterial species drives microbiome organization in biocrusts

-in @ISMEComms from @FerranPichel

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43705-022-00199-0