The horror!!!

biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 130 different clones from the same Pelagibacter species at a single point in time and space in the Western Med

More population genomics through long-read metagenomics from my lab biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

In 40 years of work I have never passed the first filter of these "so-called" high-profile journals. The editors feel that itis not adequate to pass to revision. Could that be because my name is Rodriguez and I work at a second-rate Spanish institution? Who are these guys anyway?

annualreviews.org/content/journa… The diversity of gene pools carried by different strains of bacteria is maintained due to the control exercised by viral predation that maintains a high strain diversity and facilitates the degradation of dissolved organic matter in the ocean.

link.springer.com/article/10.118… More on well-known limitations of MAGs

I hate two-tier journals with one high impact and one or several low impact. It is a mean way not to lose money coming from less appealing author names/institutions, not to mention subjective and discriminatory

Finally!! Leveraging SAGs to identify phage-host relationships. I've been suggesting it to SAG wizards for years. Contrasting defense strategies of oligotrophs and copiotrophs revealed by single-cell-resolved virus–host pairing of freshwater bacteria biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The catch-22 of scientific careers: To publish in high-profile journals you have to be a high-profile scientist but to be a high-profile scientist to have to publish in high-profile journals

It is not WHAT you say, it is WHO you are and from WHERE you say it

writing the intro of a manuscript to enhance the novelty of your work rather than reflecting what is really known has become a common, but highly unethical, behavior

How Viruses Shape Microbial Plankton Microdiversity | Annual Reviews - go.shr.lc/4eOt9J8

No me lo puedo creer. El pueblo de Madrid se levanto en armas contra los franceses para poner en el poder a...Fernando VII, que locura! Ayudando a los ingleses que nos habian hundido la flota en Trafalgar!!🙄

Rhodopsins galore in our recent collaborations with Kirill Kovalev: Cryo and further on FArhodopsins to come soon

nature.com/articles/s4158… Rekindles my faith in Microbiology

Using Illumina MAGs to do population genomics=fixing a smartphone with a can-opener. Sorry

Everything is everywhere svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5552/?et_rid=4…