There have been a lot of reviews published recently with titles such as “Gut microbiome and Asthma”, “Microbiome and Smoking”, and “Microbiome and Brain Disorders”. And in order to keep y’all updated here with the latest microbiome literature, I have been dutifully copy/pasting them into the Microbiome Digest. But today, I could not help feeling a tiny bit tired with all these reviews. Here was another one. And another.

It seems that by now every other scientist has written a Microbiome Review. Even I did a long time ago. When it was still in the early days. But now. There. Are. Too. Many.

So this led me to the following tweet:

 To kick things off, I suggested a couple of titles:

And that resulted in a great list of responses. Here is a selection.

You can see all of them here. And now you know what to do this weekend: choose one of these topics, and write a review about it. Just don’t count on it to appear in the Digest. Thank you all!

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