Great premise tho

Still - congrats

LinkedIn is just wall to wall people congratulating other peoples press releases tho

It is odd - something about this site doesn’t encourage the old fashioned pile on or even a spirited debate. Not sure that is necessarily a bad thing (late twitter PTSD here) but I agree it doesn’t have the spice of OG twitter.

However, for balance, it would be nice if microbiome folk routinely reported their positive, negative and spike-in controls to help understand genuine variation and comparability

Couldn’t agree more. Also see huge numbers of crap papers like ‘which is better for microbiome - Illumina or Nanopore’ comparing wildly different end to end methodologies lab and bioinformatics not realising those primarily drive differences - drives me mad.

so...personally I think this is a very poor work which is really deeply confused about what metagenomics is, why we do it, and what the key biologically relevant biases actually are.

But, hey, I know there are deep divisions in the field which can't be overcome through micro-posts.

Key table:

Pure sensationalism - I cannot see any scientific justification for this ‘study’

Omg

I’m always here