Vivek Mutalik
@vivekmutalik.bsky.social
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Dad, Teacher, Artist, Gardener and Scientist. Ps. All I post is my personal opinion, in my personal times, using my personal tools, not my employers.
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#phagesky

Some partnerships are always fun!! Excited to share one such 🎉 product w Simon Roux, perspectives on our favorite “atypical” phages, for special issue to celebrate my former mentor Carol Gross @ UCSF

Tapping the treasure trove of atypical phages

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Tapping the treasure trove of atypical phages
With advancements in genomics technologies, a vast diversity of ‘atypical’ phages, that is, with single-stranded DNA or RNA genomes, are being uncover…
www.sciencedirect.com
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#amr #phage #phagesky #microsky
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WHO @who.int · 2h
Between 2018–2023, antibiotic resistance increased in over 40% of the pathogen–antibiotic combinations monitored, with an average annual rise of 5–15%.

Resistance is highest in the WHO South-East Asian & Eastern Mediterranean Regions, where 1 in 3 reported infections were resistant 👉 bit.ly/438Ta1u
Text reads “Antibiotic resistance is rising,” with an upward arrow and a “40%” warning icon. Below, a text box says: “Between 2018 and 2023, resistance increased in over 40% of the monitored pathogen–antibiotic combinations, with an annual rise of 5–15%.”
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This was one of the best meetings I attended in a very long time. So proud to see my team presenting their unpublished work on diverse aspects of characterizing receptors & crispri of 100’s of phages, building sophisticated predictive models & systematic lineage tracking of phage-host coevolution!
Scientific poster Scientific poster Scientific poster Scientific poster
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oregonian.com
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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aubreyhirsch.bsky.social
Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
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#microsky 😮
typaslab.bsky.social
Excited to share our preprint led by Carlos Voogdt et al

We developed new genetic tools & genome-wide libraries for species of the Bacteroidales order; constructed saturated barcoded transposon libraries in key representatives of three genera.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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#phage #phagesky #microsky
antimicrobial.bsky.social
WHO reports 1 in 6 bacterial infections worldwide are antibiotic-resistant, with resistance rising sharply since 2018. Gram-negative bacteria like E. coli and K. pneumoniae pose the biggest threat. Action on #AMR surveillance and responsible antibiotic use is needed.

www.who.int/news/item/13...
WHO warns of widespread resistance to common antibiotics worldwide
One in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections causing common infections in people worldwide in 2023 were resistant to antibiotic treatments, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) r...
www.who.int
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4nikkolas.bsky.social
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
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addgene.bsky.social
On-again, off-again with your favorite gene? Maybe some new plasmids are just what your experiment needs! Check out our recently updated Tetracycline Inducible Expression collection page!
🧬: https://twp.ai/4is3BR
A series of schematics, each with one illustration of the system without tetracycline (or dox) and one with tetracycline present. Left (TetR): without tetracycline, the TetR protein binds to DNA at the tetO site and transcription of the downstream gene is blocked; with tetracycline bound, TetR releases from the DNA and transcription occurs. Center (Tet-Off): without tetracycline, the tTA binds to DNA at the TRE and enhances transcription of the downstream gene; with tetracycline bound, tTA releases from the TRE and transcription halts. Right (Tet-On): without tetracycline, the rtTA does not bind to the TRE and transcription halts; with tetracycline bound, rtTA binds the TRE and enhances transcription of the downstream gene.
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#microsky
embojournal.org
Type IV secretion systems: from structures to mechanisms
Kévin Macé and colleagues summarize recent structural insights into the assembly and function of bacterial type IV secretion systems
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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How to carry out peaceful protest ❤️
oregonian.com
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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Not outsourcing the pure joy and fulfillment of creating something
faineg.bsky.social
there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually
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#phage #phagesky #microsky
evelienadri.bsky.social
For those of you working on tailed #phages, this is the virus realm for you!
#Duplodnaviria #virus #taxonomy

The Profile in #JGenVirol provides the citable reference. More details in the chapter on the ICTV website: ictv.global/report/chapt...
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Hmm.
moreperfectunion.bsky.social
BREAKING: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the US has finalized a plan to give $20 billion to Argentina.
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asm.org
ASM @asm.org · 6d
It’s time to let your creativity grow! Submit your entry for this year’s Agar Art Contest: Microbes Make the World Go Round. From food and health to climate and beyond, microbes shape our lives—now show us your story in agar! Submit by Oct. 26: asm.social/2Dt
Pain palette with microbes as the paint swatches.