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Sebastian Schmidt @tsbschm.bsky.social · 2d

ICE footage from the US is just shocking. As a German it hits particularly hard because they act like the SS and SA did in 1930s Nazi Germany.

And I have been asked countless times, "why did regular people not stand up to the Nazis". Never thought we'd one day have to ask Americans the same thing.

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Sebastian Schmidt @tsbschm.bsky.social · 4d

“It’s more of a comment than a question…”

Sebastian Schmidt @tsbschm.bsky.social · 19d

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Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 20d

As I was saying…

Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21d

Psychologists everywhere frantically scribbling.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21d

I don’t think I’ve ever seen America so embarrassed in front of the entire world.

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Sebastian Schmidt @tsbschm.bsky.social · 21d

See also this perspective piece by Maria Vehreschild:

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

Filtered hopes and full-spectrum realities

www.sciencedirect.com

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Sebastian Schmidt @tsbschm.bsky.social · 21d

Fecal filtrate is less effective than donor stool (FMT) for the treatment of C. difficile recurrence. Now shown in a multicentre trial, out today in @lancetgastrohep.bsky.social .

Congratulations to Dina Kao @ualberta.bsky.social & team!

Gift link:

authors.elsevier.com/c/1lphg8nByr...

authors.elsevier.com

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Sebastian Schmidt @tsbschm.bsky.social · 22d

Scientific proof: Dutch is just drunk German.

nltimes.nl/2025/09/19/i...

Ig Nobel prize for study showing that drunk Germans speak Dutch better than sober ones

Dutch Courage can help you speak a foreign language, according to a study by Dutch, English, and German researchers that was awarded an Ig Nobel prize on Thursday. They showed that alcohol consumption...

nltimes.nl

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Sebastian Schmidt @tsbschm.bsky.social · 22d

A toothbrush! A toothbrush! My kingdom for a toothbrush!

bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 22d

The oral microbiome of King Richard III of England https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.21.677585v1

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Sebastian Schmidt @tsbschm.bsky.social · 22d

Miller giving Sportpalast vibes…

Dear USA, we’ve been through all this 80-90 years ago and really 0/10, can’t recommend. Regards, Germany.

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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 25d

GPU-accelerated MMseqs2 offers tremendous speedup for homology retrieval, protein structure prediction with ColabFold, and protein structure search with Foldseek. @martinsteinegger.bsky.social @milot.bsky.social @machine.learning.bio

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

GPU-accelerated homology search with MMseqs2 - Nature Methods

Graphics processing unit-accelerated MMseqs2 offers tremendous speedups for homology retrieval from metagenomic databases, query-centered multiple sequence alignment generation for structure predictio...

www.nature.com

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Luis Pedro Coelho @luispedrocoelho.bsky.social · 26d

Full thread will come later, but @annacusco.bsky.social's preprint on the dog pet gut microbiome is out!

Using ONT+Illumina, we get better MAGs than to corresponding species representative in public databases

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Sebastian Schmidt @tsbschm.bsky.social · 26d

In case you slept in history class:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichst...

Reichstag Fire Decree - Wikipedia

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Sebastian Schmidt @tsbschm.bsky.social · 26d

Seems like the death of Charlie Kirk is really turning into the USA's Reichstagsbrand moment.

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Pamela Ferretti @pamferretti.bsky.social · Aug 15

Manually curated and harmonized metadata for over 110k metagenomic samples! (58k samples from the human gut alone!)🦠

Proud to have contributed to Metalog, the latest @borklab.bsky.social resource:

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

#microsky #microbiome

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Michael Kuhn @biocs.bsky.social · Aug 15

We hope many of you will find it useful, and will continue to add data. Here's the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - hopefully coming soon to a NAR Database Issue near you 😅 Thanks to everyone in the @borklab.bsky.social @embl.org who contributed to this! 7/7

Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples

Metagenomic sequencing enables the in-depth study of microbes and their functions in humans, animals and the environment. While sequencing data is deposited in public databases, the associated context...

www.biorxiv.org

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Michael Kuhn @biocs.bsky.social · Aug 15

We're very happy to release our new database Metalog metalog.embl.de ! It offers manually curated and harmonised contextual data for 110k metagenomics samples across the globe, incl. precomputed taxonomic profiles, for interactive browsing and for download 🧵 1/7

#microsky

Metalog

Metalog is a repository of manually annotated metadata (or contextual data) for metagenomic sequencing data from across the globe.

metalog.embl.de

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John F. Cryan @jfcryan.bsky.social · Aug 11

Putting the Global South on the Microbiome research map -

Really proud of Chilean PhD student @bvalderrama.bsky.social who championed this new important paper just out in ‪@natcomms.nature.com‬
"If microbiome science is to benefit everyone, it must include everyone."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Sebastian Schmidt @tsbschm.bsky.social · Aug 5

Fun party game idea.

Guess the researcher based on G Scholar citation stats:

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Bjo:rn Schro:der @mucubacter.bsky.social · Aug 5

Our study on disentangling the impact of #obesity, #diet, host factors, and #microbiota on small intestinal #antimicrobialpeptide expression is now published in Gut Microbes!
Fantastic work by Fabiola Puértolas-Balint et al!
#microbiomesky #microsky #GastroSky
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Disentangling the impact of obesity, diet, host factors, and microbiota on small intestinal antimicrobial peptide expression

The small intestinal mucosa has the delicate task of allowing absorption of nutrients and limiting microbial colonization at the mucosal surface through production of antimicrobial peptides and pro...

www.tandfonline.com

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Sebastian Schmidt @tsbschm.bsky.social · Jul 28

Ich bin in Gelsenkirchen geboren und habe dort Abitur gemacht. Dieser Artikel macht mich unendlich wütend und traurig. Und leider entspricht das Geschilderte komplett meinen Erfahrungen mit Münsterländern und verbeamteten Lehrer*innen.

www.zeit.de/2025/31/lehr...

Lehrermangel: "Bitte tun Sie das nicht!!!"

Wenn in Gelsenkirchen Lehrer fehlen, kann man doch welche aus Münster hinschicken, dachte die Behörde. Dann kam der Widerstand von Schülern, Eltern und Lehrkräften.

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Sebastian Schmidt @tsbschm.bsky.social · Jul 28

"We will all go together when we go."

Well, Tom Lehrer is gone now and maybe he wasn't wrong after all.

Unrelated, the collective sigh of relief from the New England pigeon population was audible this side of the Atlantic.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIoB...

Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go - with intro

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel

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Sebastian Schmidt @tsbschm.bsky.social · Jul 24

As a German, I've often wondered what 1933/34 must have felt like for people outside Germany.

Now I'd rather not have found out.

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Chan Yeong Kim @chanyeong-kim.bsky.social · Jul 21

The metagenomic datasets used in this study are from SPIRE. academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
If you are interested in the planetary microbiome, see also recent MicrobeAtlas preprint from von Mering group: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

SPIRE: a Searchable, Planetary-scale mIcrobiome REsource

Abstract. Meta’omic data on microbial diversity and function accrue exponentially in public repositories, but derived information is often siloed according

academic.oup.com

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