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Vivek Mutalik

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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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Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · Nov 21

#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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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · 4d

Three Bicentenary research fellowships on offer at @officialuom.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social for exceptional ECRs with <3y postdoc experience

3yrs salary + £30k pa research expenses

Do you have a great idea & want to join @mermanchester.bsky.social?

www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/research/sup...

Bicentenary Early Career Research Fellowships | Biology, Medicine and Health | University of Manchester

Find out about and apply for a Bicentenary Early Career Research Fellowship.

www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk

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Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 23h

#microsky 😮

Typas Lab @typaslab.bsky.social · 1d

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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Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 23h

😳

#phage #phagesky #microsky

Antimicrobial resistance #AMR @antimicrobial.bsky.social · 1d

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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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 1d

Terrific article. Could @standupforscience.bsky.social become one of this generation’s “Garland Fund” revolutionaries?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...

Opinion | How to Save the American Experiment

www.nytimes.com

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Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to this inaugural Conference on Bacteriophages: Biology, Dynamics, and Therapeutics,
Starting tomorrow.

www.iasusa.org/bacteriophag...

#phage #phagesky

Conference on Bacteriophages: Biology, Dynamics, and Therapeutics - IAS-USA

Physical Education: Bridging Clinical Research and Patient Care

www.iasusa.org

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Emmanuele Severi @emmseveri.bsky.social · 2d

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

#synbio

Enzyme specificity prediction using cross attention graph neural networks - Nature

Nature - Enzyme specificity prediction using cross attention graph neural networks

www.nature.com

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Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 3d

❤️

Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 3d

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.

Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 3d

#microsky

Comprehensive genetic interaction analysis of the Bacillus subtilis envelope using double-CRISPRi: Cell Systems www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Comprehensive genetic interaction analysis of the Bacillus subtilis envelope using double-CRISPRi

Koo et al. apply genome-scale double-CRISPRi to map cell envelope gene interactions in Bacillus subtilis, revealing >1,000 genetic interactions and uncovering gene networks in envelope biogenesis and ...

www.cell.com

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Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 3d

Every day news is like 😳

a man with long hair and a beard is holding a glass with the words huh you want what written below him

Alt: a man with long hair and a beard is holding a glass with the words huh you want what written below him

media.tenor.com

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Addgene @addgene.bsky.social · 3d

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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Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 3d

#microsky

The EMBO Journal @embojournal.org · 5d

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....

Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 3d

How to carry out peaceful protest ❤️

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4d

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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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 4d

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Dr Linda McIver @lindamciver.adsei.org · 3d

gosh, who could possibly have foreseen this?? 🙄

Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 3d

"Put simply, only the extremely wealthy appear to be benefiting from all of this."

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 3d

Not outsourcing the pure joy and fulfillment of creating something

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 4d

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

Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 3d

#phage #phagesky #microsky

Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social · 4d

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...

Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 4d

😂

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 4d

Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 4d

😅

Funny cartoon on how random non scientist talking about finding a cure without doing any research

Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 4d

Hmm.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the US has finalized a plan to give $20 billion to Argentina.

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ASM @asm.org · 5d

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.

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Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 4d

Science in the USA

Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 4d

Doctor: Now tell me about your good days.

Me: My what now?

MyBodylsTryingTokilMe.com

[background is colorful mountainscape - really beautiful]

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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 4d

Important perspective from Laurent Fraisse, PhD, former longtime VP for Infectious Diseases at Sanofi and now the R&D director of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative

Pharma’s shift away from infectious disease research could spell disaster for the world’s poorest people

The number of “innovation champions” in the pharma industry working on infectious diseases is dropping — and that’s troubling, writes R&D director for Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative.

www.statnews.com

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Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 5d

#microsky

Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 5d

Holy moly

Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 5d

Direct single-molecule detection and super-resolution imaging with a low-cost portable smartphone-based microscope www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 6d

Biology is much more complicated than most non-biologists can imagine. And AI is not going to change this anytime soon.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/we-still-c...

We still can’t predict much of anything in biology

Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI.

blog.genesmindsmachines.com

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Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 6d

How selfless, generous & empathetic ❤️

In this moment of crisis, across all levels of society, there are a few shining examples of kindness and pure heart.

Michelle Witte @michellewitte.bsky.social · 6d

You can see him explain in this documentary produced by a PBS station years ago, which is free to watch on YouTube; it's about 1-1/4 hour long. It describes how he painted 3 copies of each per episode: 1 before that he looked at while on air, 1 during taping, 1 after to photograph for his books.

Bob Ross: The Happy Painter - Full Documentary

YouTube video by Bob Ross