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heard UMAP was popular on twitter, anyone have any advice on how to tighten up the clusters?

I wrote a blog post about scientific racism and the AllofUsResearch figure illustrating their ancestry analysis. The post was inspired by a presentation of Delaney Sullivan at our lab DEI meeting organized by Nikhila Swarna (Nikki) last week. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2024/02/26/all… cc Josh Denny

Beside analysing nappies our mission is to share the joy of microbiome science by surprising our little helpers (nappy donors) w/GIANT microbes Let us introduce our plushies 🔵Candidatus Cibionibacter quicibialis 🟡Catenibacterium tridentinum ©UniTrento Ph.Federico Nardelli 3/3

Deeply sequenced microbiome data from non-industrialized settings are uncommon. In new #HNL work, we use metagenomic data from 1,871 people in 19 isolated Honduras villages to report associations between bacterial species and human phenotypes and factors. cell.com/cell-reports/p…

Environmental, socioeconomic, and health factors are associated with gut microbiome species and strains in isolated Honduras villages. New #HNL work with Shiv, Francesco Beghini Marcus Alexander, MD, PhD A Singh, R Juarez, & Ilana Brito cell.com/cell-reports/p… #microbiome #LMICs

Environmental, socioeconomic, and health factors associated with gut microbiome species and strains in isolated Honduras villages dlvr.it/T99Tcm

One more time for the people in the back: AI is a software wrapper around machine learning, machine learning is fancy words for statistics, thanks for coming to my TED talk

The bacteria in your gut depend on where you are in the social network. And the microbes within us treat our social networks as the extended environment in which they thrive. They can spread from person to person. New #HNL work out today in nature. 1/

"Gut microbiome strain-sharing within isolated village social networks" nature.com/articles/s4158… with Francesco Beghini, Jackson Pullman, Marcus Alexander, MD, PhD, Shiv, Drew Prinster (same @ other app), Adarsh Singh, RM Juárez, Edo Airoldi, Ilana Brito #HNL 2/

Using both species-level and strain-level data, we show that microbial sharing occurs in many relationship types, notably including non-familial and non-household connections. 6/

We can actually predict who your friends are based on whether you have similar bacteria in your poop! And that metric outperforms other more usual social features, such as how you resemble your friends on a host of traits like age, sex, wealth, etc. 7/

Furthermore, gut microbiome strain-sharing extends to one's friends’ friends within social networks, indicating the relevance of a person’s broader social network, at two degrees of separation. 8/

We also observe that socially central people are more microbially similar to the overall village than socially peripheral people. But popular people resemble the microbiomes of individual friends less. 9/

Among 301 people in 4 villages whose microbiome was re-measured 2 years later, we observe greater convergence in gut microbiome strain-sharing in connected versus otherwise similar unconnected co-villagers. 10/

Clusters of microbiome species and strains occur within clusters of people in village social networks. It’s like clouds of microbes occurring within clusters of people. nature.com/articles/s4158… 11/

This work has implications for a radical idea: diseases formerly thought to be biologically non-communicable (e.g., obesity, depression, hypertension, arthritis, etc.) may actually be (somewhat!) communicable, via the spread of the microbiome. nature.com/articles/s4158… 13/

It may prove to be the case that groups of inter-connected people might share phenotypes not only because of shared genes or transmitted behaviors, but also because of shared microbes. nature.com/articles/s4158… 16/

News coverage of “Gut microbiome strain-sharing within isolated village social networks” via @nature is here: nature.com/articles/d4158… 17/

This work was supported by the NOMIS foundation, with additional support via Schmidt Futures Eric Schmidt Pershing Square Philanthropies Bill Ackman JM Rothberg. Underlying cohort supported by Gates Foundation & NIH. New support for work on the biology of social life at #HNL via Paul Graham. 19/

A new study found that we share parts of our microbiome with people in our social networks, beyond family members. Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis joins us to discuss the research and how scientists can identify your friends—just by looking at your poop. buff.ly/3VphYOQ