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Are history classes a thing in the US? Seriously?! FFS

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Really happy to announce that the updated version of BioTIME is out!!🚨 This is the largest #database of #biodiversity #timeseries - now with 708 studies and >56 thousand species from across the planet!🦊🐀🐦🐊🐟🐙🦋🐞🌲🍀 & over 400 co-authors sharing their data🤩🤩 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

¡Hasta siempre Pepe!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

It’s Black Inclusion Week this week. If you are a Black microbiologist we would recommend connecting with the Black Microbiologists Association. They are working hard to increase visibility and facilitate connections: blackinmicrobiology.org #BlackInMicro #BIW2025

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A very nice example of the use of #metagenomics for diagnosis of rare #infections "Woman's eyesight saved by cutting-edge test after mystery infection" It was "a rare strain of the bacterial infection leptospirosis" #MicroSky www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

#OnThisDay in 1993, CERN released the World Wide Web software to the public. Proposed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the web was originally created to allow scientists and institutes working on CERN data to share information accurately and quickly from across the globe. #WorldWideWeb

submitted 24 days ago • 18 comments

I am very happy (and anxious) to share with you our most recent work in which we evaluated four of the most popular long-read assemblers, www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and tell you just a little bit about it in the following 🧵

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

All 25 supported bakeries in Gaza have now shut down. As the blockade on Gaza continues for over a month, people face growing risks of severe hunger, malnutrition, and lack of adequate health care. Urgent humanitarian access is critical to resume lifesaving services #ceasefire

submitted 28 days ago • 7 comments

Geopolitical events must not stall crucial research in the fastest-warming place on Earth, says Torben R. Christensen https://go.nature.com/3GjDsrY

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Race IS a social construct, but what does that actually mean? In the wake of Trump’s scientifically illiterate statements on race, I have written a handy explainer. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

submitted 33 days ago • 17 comments

So, covid.gov now redirects to, uh, this... www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru...

submitted 35 days ago • 298 comments

𝗡𝗼, 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗞𝟮-𝟭𝟴𝗯'𝘀 𝗮𝘁𝗺𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲. K2-18b is back in the news, now with a bold claim that biosignature molecules (DMS and/or DMDS) have been 'detected at 3σ'. Most exoplanet astronomers are extremely sceptical about these claims, let's see why (1/n). 🔭🧪🪐 #exoplanet

submitted 36 days ago • 38 comments

Check out our newest #research! We quantify the interactions between increased #temperature & #heatwave & #drought in #Arctic #plants, with focus on #VOCs, #photosynthesis & #phenology. doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... @voltcenter.bsky.social @dg.dk @villumfonden.bsky.social @globalchangebio.bsky.social

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

This picture may haunt me to the end of my days. It is an ICE agent taking an axe to the car window of an immigrant in New Bedford, MA. Not far from where I sit now. An immigrant with no criminal record was abducted by this smiling man. An axe taken to a car window and to our democracy. 1/ #MomSky

submitted 38 days ago • 699 comments

On 23 March contact was lost with a team of Palestinian rescue workers and medics in southern Gaza. A week later their bodies were recovered from a mass grave. #FreePalestine #StandWithPalestine

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The full report by the Tony Blair Institute is out, in which they detail how copyright should be "rebooted" in the AI age. It reads like a big tech lobbying document. I hope they will be asked serious questions at its launch in London today. Some very brief highlights: 🧵 1/8

submitted 52 days ago • 38 comments

On the first day of Eid, Israel killed more than 76 people in Gaza.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

This report should break something in all of us. 15,613 children. The first 27 pages of the report list children whose ages are 0. 26% were under the age of 5

submitted 57 days ago • 20 comments

Calls for papers from FEMS Microbiology Ecology: Thematic Issue on Ecology of Soil Microorganisms Editors: @pbaldrian.bsky.social @jennihultman.bsky.social Petr Kohout Minna Männistö @tainapennanen.bsky.social academic.oup.com/femsec/pages... Submission deadline: 28 November 2025

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

We are hiring a postdoctoral scholar to join us in the sometime in the next ~6 months. oliveriolab.org with a focus on microbial eukaryotes in extreme environments. Please email w/CV if you'd like to chat. Official ad soon. #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky #ProtistsOnSky

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

Syke’s postdoctoral programme continues with 7 open positions! The positions will focus on research questions addressing nature and ecosystems as well as socio-economic systems in areas that face high knowledge demand in administration and business. Read more and apply: www.syke.fi/en/about-us/...

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

submitted 60 days ago • 139 comments

Interested in #soil #viruses? We are! Excited to share our study on #Acidobacteriota #phages in #Arctic #tundra #soils being now published together with an easy-to-follow video abstract: microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

A day as good as any to remember Aaron Swartz, who was prosecuted by the US government for "computer fraud". Copyright infringement laws mattered in his case, much so that he was facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in jail when he took his own life. The same WILL NOT happen to Suckerberg.

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

Happy International Day of Forests! Biodiversity strategy requires Finland to protect old, natural forests. However, the criteria announced yesterday are so strict that there is nothing left to protect in southern Finland. But the idea of protection was still nice. 1/3

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

Join us on 22 May in Kajaani, Finland's Arctic data center hub, to explore industry growth and sustainability. Plus, get to visit @lumi-supercomputer.eu, one of Europe’s most powerful supercomputers! Limited spots – register now: kamk.fi/tutkimus-ja-... @kajaaniamk.bsky.social @luke.fi

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

The new front in the battle of academic oneupmanship is how many of your papers Meta stole to train its AI. Can see this replacing the h index.

submitted 64 days ago • 3 comments

I wish I could unfollow anyone not skeeting about Gaza and Palestine right now. There is a for-real genocide going on RIGHT NOW and people are still skeeting about sandwiches and art and USians having protest signs. It makes me want to throw up.

submitted 64 days ago • 2 comments

A new genomic study in Science reveals how Indigenous traditional farming practices have shaped the evolution of manioc—one of the world’s most important staple crops—for the better. scim.ag/3DRY0H1

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

An excellent letter by Dennis Hazelett: www.nature.com/articles/s41... And below is my attempt to motivate people in my group and others elsewhere to read it. Putting it here as well in case it may work on you, too :p

submitted 66 days ago • 3 comments

....just joined Bsky & worth a follow BEPSII is a great group of polar scientists investigating the Biogeochemical Exchange Processes at Sea-Ice Interfaces Follow them at: @bepsiiseaice.bsky.social

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

If you want to publish open access articles (and why wouldn’t you), very few reasons for not to publish in society journals. ”The question for you, as an author, is where to spend research funds. Is it better to publish in journals that profit your academic community or profit from that community?”

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Hoje faz 7 anos que Marielle Franco foi assasinada. Antes de morrer, ela estava lutando para inviabilizar uma das fontes mais lucrativas da milícia: a grilagem. Para entender por que os vizinhos do Bolsonaro participaram do crime, falamos com o jornalista Sérgio Ramalho.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Great talk by @jannekotiaho.bsky.social at the @oikosfinland.bsky.social 2025 conference in Jyväskylä. Not an easy message to digest, but a crucial one for the present time of ecological, social, and political breakdown

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) is a great example of an organization that is supposed to stand up for science and scientists, but is completely spineless. They're kowtowing to pressure from the Admin, refusing to stand up at one of the most critical times in U.S. science. Compare👇

submitted 75 days ago • 8 comments