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Tenured full Professorship in Genetics and Molecular Cell Biology at the University Of Cologne, Germany It's an opportunity to rebuild the place that used to be home to luminaries including Benno Müller-Hill, Max Delbruck, Campos-Ortega, Diethard Tautz Maria Leptin, Thomas Langer

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academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #protistsonsky

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Remember last month, when you didn’t have to worry about the safety of the US nuclear arsenal? Or when you could get on a plane pretty sure you'd survive the flight? Those were the days. My @nytimes.com Guest Essay on DOGE, the wrecking ball crushing Americans' last remaining trust in government.

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🧵 Thread ahead. For over a decade, the evidence shows that social media platforms, especially Meta and Google, have profited financially from spreading misinformation because they sell highly engaging content to advertisers. Below are some examples of how they profit from spreading misinformation.

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#SymbioSky #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky

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Here’s a story about actual Nazis, the Original Gastruloid, and the lengths scientists will go for other scientists and for science itself. Welcome to Episode Two of the #LongBibliography #DevBiol #SciHist 🧵. 1/13

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Thanks to @pwoakes.bsky.social for a nice write-up about our Zyxin paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/current-biol...

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NEW: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany: Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left. www.ft.com/content/29fd...

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Can a microbial community become an evolutionary individual? #CurrOpinMicrobiol by @salazarafra.bsky.social and @saramitri.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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🚨 New preprint alert 🚨! 👉🏼 @fedevignale.bsky.social 🏔️ Our latest study explores seasonal biogeochemical variations in a modern microbialite reef at Laguna Pozo Bravo 🇦🇷 - a site with conditions reminiscent of early Earth 🌍🦠 📖 Read here : doi.org/10.1101/2025... @embl.org @cssbhamburg.bsky.social

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How humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones - Geologists think our indelible mark on the planet - 'technofossils' - will be fast food, fast fashion, and concrete #anthropocene Story by me www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says Green sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy security #netzero #cimatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Open call! The EMBO Global Investigator Network supports group young leaders who are setting up their laboratories in Chile, India, Singapore or Taiwan. Apply by 1 May: https://www.embo.org/funding/fellowships-grants-and-career-support/global-investigator-network/ #ResearchFunding #LifeSciences 🧪

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The European federation of Academies of Sciences has posted a statement of concern about the developments in the US. They now have added the option to endorse this statement as an organisation. Would be great if this could go viral. allea.org/portfolio-it...

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Fantastic work from the lab of @maxplanck.de colleague Paul Rainey, demonstrating how a locus can evolve to become hypermutable. Mutation rates depend on evolutionary relevance of this evolved locus! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Are you interested in plant evolution? 🦠🌱🫛 Join us @gmivienna.bsky.social for the 4th #EMBO Workshop "Plant evolution: from origins to diversification on land" on November 25-27 2025 Submit your abstract by August 25! #algae #bryophytes #nonseedplants #plantevodevo

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Featuring quotes from @jeremymberg.bsky.social @peiferlabunc.bsky.social and the research of @chelsamicro.bsky.social

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Silence will not shield scientists from the consequences of an increasingly hostile political landscape. UK and other non-US scientists must act to support our US colleagues. Here's what I think we should be doing... 🧵 1/35

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I have been trying to find the time to move away from the polical hellscape we find ourselves in to finish and share a bluetorial about science. This helps me remember what this is all about. Ironically, it is about the treatment of pain.

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Bravo @plos.org! US exec orders "stand in direct conflict with our core values, our mission, edit policies" "PLOS will not compromise on issues of scientific rigor & editorial integrity... we seek diversity because more expert voices make for better science" theplosblog.plos.org/2025/02/plos...

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BIG news: Jason Chin is leaving the Division of Protein & Nucleic Acid Chemistry of @mrclmb.bsky.social to spend yet another billionaire's ££ in Oxford. This will create a gap that will need filling! So, if you're thinking of making a move, now is the time to reach out! www.eit.org/news/profess...

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Associate prof position at Stockholm U in plant molecular physiology, including phytoplankton www.su.se/department-o...

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Legitmately thrilled to share our latest work, in which @fernpizza.bsky.social solved an experimental challenge in plasmid biology as old as the field: measuring how plasmids compete and evolve within individual cells!

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EMBL International PhD Programme - summer recruitment 2025! 👀 Research groups across EMBL are recruiting now! www.embl.org/about/info/e... Don’t miss this opportunity to receive dedicated mentoring while doing interdisciplinary research. 🧪#AcademicSky #MolBiol #PhDSky #careers @ebi.embl.org

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I am thrilled to share our new review on holocentric chromosomes. It was a lot of fun to write it together with Ines Drinnenberg! Same but different: Centromere regulations in holocentric insects and plants doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

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Program is out for our first EMBL #singlemolecule gene regulation meeting! Check out the dedicated panel sessions on single molecule genomics, single molecule imaging and theory where we would like to brainstorm the future of the field: Registration is open! 👇 www.embl.org/about/info/c...

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new out in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Submit your abstract now! #MLD8 The 8th Molecular Life of Diatoms Conference in Ghent. 👇🦠 #diatom #algae #protists #ocean www.vibconferences.be/events/molec...

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Tough guys: A new study shows that ice #algae grow extremely efficiently, despite having hardly any #nutrients at hand. They can thus accelerate #glacier #melting, highly relevant for our #climate. mpi-bremen.de/en/Resilient... Paper @naturecomms.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... @au.dk

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I feel so strongly about the need for evidence-based policy and a dogged defence of science I said it in 2020, and will reiterate it til the end of time. The world may change - our principles should not

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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A new collaborative paper with Anja Spang, Wen-Cong Huang, @chrisrinke.bsky.social @ettema.bsky.social @ssolo.bsky.social Zheng-Shuang Hua Maraike Probst and Lenard Szantho. We investigated the phylogenetic position and metabolic evolution of Panguiarchaeum.

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I had two grant proposals up for review in the NIH Bacterial Virulence (BV) study section. It was canceled without notice this morning. Without those grants, my lab must close within a year. And so the purge of scientific research in the US continues 🤬 #MicroSky 🦠🧫🧪🧬🔬

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Hear!!! hear!!! (Seen at @gautamdey.bsky.social lab)

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The Royal Institution Christmas lectures are 200 years old this year! There will be lots of events to celebrate, but if you're in or near London, this is a good start - a live show with the best science demos from two centuries. I'm sure it'll sell out quickly. Tickets here: www.rigb.org/whats-o...

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I'm delighted to announce that the 2025 @microbiologysociety.org meeting on "Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics" will be held in Liverpool 26-27 November 2025! Abstract submission will open soon... #microsky 🧪🧫🦠 microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...

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🔈 We will be releasing the registration website in the coming week. Watch this space for any #Africa based mycologists wanting to use fluorescence microscopy to study fungal pathogenic mechanisms!

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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

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1/6 Super excited to share with you our work on Marchantia intra-specific diversity and pan-genomics, just out @naturegenet.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... Everything on the discoveries in the thread by @chloe-beaulieu.bsky.social I want to emphasize 5 additional points:

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Not long until the deadline for this faculty position @dunnschool.bsky.social... Are you the one to lead a group doing great research in a special environment, while teaching outstanding students? www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...

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Really pleased with this mitosis watercolor. Analog #sciart ftw

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I maxed out my credit card, emptied my savings account, and took out a loan to move from Alabama to Bethesda, MD. I don’t even qualify for unemployment since I’ve only worked at NIH for a month. I will be financially and medically devastated. Seeking suggestions for anywhere that’s hiring!!

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💔🧵 from a close collaborator and friend. My wife and I left the US soon after grad school to build our family and lives elsewhere. We left behind many close friends, Americans and wanderers from all over the world - I knew we would miss them but never once did I imagine we would fear for them

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