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Many scientists are puzzled by MDPI: is it predatory or not? In a data-driven post I argue it is something different: aggressive rent extraction. MDPI strategy is innovative & successful, but unsustainable and ultimately bad for science. paolocrosetto.wordpress.com/2021/04/12/is-…

Not surprising that anti-vax pseudo-science is published in MDPI journals. Their business model gives up control of the journals, with Editorial Boards made up of >1k editors & hundreds of loosely controlled Special Issues. Things like these are bound to happen.

Our working group "Microbial Genome Research" supervised by Ulrich Nübel works on manifold projects, dealing with genome-based molecular #epidemiology and #FunctionalGenomics of microbial producers. I'll talk about all our projects on Wednesday!

Interested in the environmental spread of #AntimicrobialResistance? We are seeking a #PhD student to start ASAP. Please RT. For more details: jobrxiv.org/job/leibniz-in…

Hey microbiome people, I've compiled several lists (&regularly updating!) that might be of your interest: 👔Microbiome events github.com/SvetlanaUP/Mic… 📻Microbiome podcasts github.com/SvetlanaUP/Mic… 🧫<->💻Bioinformatics learning resources github.com/SvetlanaUP/A-m… Happy Friday!

📣LAST REMINDER: Submit your abstract for oral and poster presentations at the "International workshop on Biology of Bacteria Producing Natural Products" 🗓 DL for submission: 31 July 👉 prelim programm & more: bit.ly/3qOopus VAAM - Vereinigung f. Allg. u. Ang. Mikrobiologie #workshop #antimicrobials

First plenary meeting of the Leibniz Research Alliance INFECTIONS (ww.leibniz-infections21.de) at Leibniz-Institut DSMZ. New Scientific Advisory Board confirmed our uniqueness and relevance for interdisciplinary infection research. We will continue with new ideas and great motivation

Are Digital Sequence Information important for #biodiversity? Yes, they are! Here’s why: #opendsi

Today we meet at Leibniz-IUF in Düsseldorf for a workshop of the DUSTRISK project (tropos.de/en/research/pr…), sharing exciting new results on health effects of Sahara dust. Collaboration among TROPOS_eu, Leibniz-Institut DSMZ, FZ Borstel, IUF, and six institutions from Cabo Verde.

We are seeking a bioinformatician interested in pathogen genomic epidemiology and #AntimicrobialResistance. Please RT. For more details: dsmz.de/dsmz/career/jo…

Looks like #Mastodon is trending on Twitter as more and more people are announcing their new profiles. Welcome to the better social media that does not belong to a single company and cannot be sold, welcome to the fediverse!

I've written a short post explaining what mastodon actually is ; happykhan.com/posts/what-is-… It's not as complicated as you think. We are setting up our own instance for science esp. microbial genomics. scientists and science enthusiasts welcome.

Follow me on #Mastodon: @[email protected]

Talking about #Mastodon...

I got interviewed by Science about MDPI's IJERPH losing its impact factor. A small thread to list what we know of this case as of today (29.3) -- if you know more, chip in. A 🧶 science.org/content/articl…

Hey molecular epidemiologists! If you ever asked yourself, “is it the same strain?”, this paper might be for you. Our sameStrain modelling framework created with Lulla and Audrey Duval is published today in The Lancet Microbe doi.org/10.1016/S2666-…

Very excited that our paper is now published in Microbial Biotechnology (Microbial Biotechnology (MBT))! Finding the time point of BGC transcription and #NaturalProduct production in a #myxobacteria by linking #genomics, #transcriptomics, and #metabolomics. ami-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

Why is it that most plasmids are spp. specific, even if mobile? Liam Shaw from Craig MacLean grp has really nice ideas & supporting evidence to explain. Great talk Microbiology Society #microbio23. Forthcoming paper preprinted here biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Happy to share our research article published in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy discussing antimicrobial resistance in Clostridioides difficile. Read more: academic.oup.com/jac/article/do… #teameffort #research #antibiotics #AMR #bacteriology #bioinformatics #epidemiology

RT @[email protected] Very excited to announce our latest publication in Nucleic Acids Research! doi.org/10.1093/nar/gk… It provides an update on the content and tools of the EnteroBase platform for web-based pathogen genomic surveillance mstdn.science/@unuebel/11336…