I voted in Pennsylvania! Go little ballot, go!

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Working South of the equator is sometimes;

I was on the radio this morning here in NZ talking a bit about #phageswww.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Fighting antibiotic resistance

How can phages, the viruses of bacteria, be used to reduce agrichemical and antibiotic use? Dr Heather Hendrickson explains.

Watercolors. Utah's Great Salt Lake hold beauty only revealed from above. Here, a lone, inaccessible road separates two bodies of water with dramatically different colors.

Phages to the rescue: in situ editing of the gut microbiota #TrendsMicrobiolwww.cell.com/trends/micro...

Phages to the rescue: in situ editing of the gut microbiota

The gut microbiome contains numerous bacteria tied to our health. However, genetically modifying this community remains a major challenge. Brödel et al. take a critical step by engineering bacteriopha...

Artificial selection improves pollutant degradation by bacterial communities #NatureComms@saramitri.bsky.socialwww.nature.com/articles/s41...

Artificial selection improves pollutant degradation by bacterial communities - Nature Communications

Artificial selection is a promising way to improve microbial community functions. Here, Arias-Sánchez et al. evaluate a method inspired by genetic algorithms to select small bacterial communities of k...

Nice! Have a good time :)

There are a bunch of talks I would love to be able to attend as well! Sort of a shame to have them all on the same night!

Yes! Phages are everywhere; in us, on us, around us, from the past, for the future… sounds a bit like a cult?

That’s a shame! I am sure you have heard most of this :) I just finished my book group book and I wouldn’t want to miss either! Is this group at the library?