Helmut Bürgmann

Aquatic Microbial Ecologist at Eawag - Surface Waters Dept.
Environmental AMR, N and methane cycling. Metagenomics. Surface waters and wastewater treatment.

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Marcel Salathémarcelsalathe
2023-01-25

Interesting and worrying: Antidepressants can induce mutation and enhance persistence toward multiple antibiotics

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

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2023-01-25

Posit/RStudio is partnering with Palantir which has ties to Cambridge Analytica & supports oppressive surveillance by ICE and other agencies. Very disturbing development for the #opensource community!
finance.yahoo.com/news/palanti

2023-01-18

Eawag's new director, Martin Ackermann, has taken office and answered a few questions on his plans and vision:
eawag.ch/en/news-agenda/news-p

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2023-01-18

What a job! I'm tired just reading the abstract!

"Measuring the global response to antimicrobial resistance, 2020–21: a systematic governance analysis of 114 countries" thelancet.com/journals/laninf/

2023-01-18

Colleagues - can anyone recommend a simple #project-management software tool that allows a good overview of (science) projects (gantt charts, people involved, grant sum, etc.) across reserach groups or departments, with multi-user access - but isn't geared towards intrusive task management (we e.g. tried Asana and didn't like it)?

2022-12-21

@MomoSaysSo Not sure I understand - How would notification settings help? Thanks!

2022-12-21

@kasw - Thank you - i will have a look at lists. But to add an account to a list, I need to already follow them, right? So they will still clutter my "Home" feed - or do I misnuderstand how this works?

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2022-12-21
2022-12-21

One difficulty I encounter at #Mastodon compared to #twitter is that if I follow prolific accounts (e.g. BioRxiv - @biorxivpreprint, Guardian @TheGuardian_uk, ...). They totally swamp my feed. So I unfollowed, but not following interesting accoutns also seems a bad solution. How do others deal with this? #twittermigration

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Mastodon gets un-suspended and then goes for the posterizing dunk right out of the gate #tech #socialmedia

2022-12-07

Xmas came early 😃 #sequencer #Metagenomics

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Jan Böhmermann 🤨 :verified:janboehm@edi.social
2022-12-04

Ich folge auf Twitter circa 2200 Leuten, Medien und Institutionen. Hier folge ich einem Bruchteil davon. Meine Mastodon-Timeline ist allerdings nur bedingt lesbar und sehr unübersichtlich, weil es KEINE Auswahl des Inhalts gibt. Ich brauche mehr Einstellmöglichkeiten. Z.B. Zeige nur Beiträge mit mind. 10 Boosts und 20 Favourites etc. Dann kann ich mir eine "Schnelllesespalte" bauen, die einfacher handlebar ist.

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2022-12-01

I just graphed Mastodon's MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS each day for the month of November.

At the end of October there were 496K active users, and at the end of November there are 2.6M -- that's 424% growth.

This is just ACTIVE users; there are millions more non-active accounts.

(For comparison, Twitter allegedly has 396.5M monthly active users, or about 152x the active userbase of Mastodon.)

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Filipe Carvalho 💙💛ffchcarvalho84@mstdn.science
2022-11-20

And here it is: @bioRxiv_microbio ! 👍

2022-11-20

Here is my #introduction - I am a #microbial #ecologist with Eawag: #Swiss Federal Institute of #Aquatic #Science and Technology in the Surface Waters department. Interested in the role of #microbes in #biogeochemistry of #lake, #river, #sediment & #wastewater. Also #research on #AntibioticResistance in the #environment.
We use #metagenomics, #metatranscriptomics #qPCR and good old-fashioned #microbiology.

#MicrobialEcology
#EnvironmentalMicrobiology
#AMR #Antibiotic
#methane #nitrogen

2022-11-16

Video der Pressekonferenz des NFP 72 «Antimikrobielle Resistenz». youtu.be/s_Vw1_tdoIw

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2022-11-16

RT @GreenJJNews@twitter.com

The big plans to end sewage disharges commence April 2025. @GreenJennyJones@twitter.com "They have had all the money they needed to sort this out, but they gave it away in dividend payments." Tell @Ofwat@twitter.com to stop the big cheques to senior execs and dividend payments until this is sorted?

🐦🔗: twitter.com/GreenJJNews/status

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