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Don’t miss this wonderful Post-doc club ‘Night Science' workshop at Tel Aviv University with the amazingly creative Itai Yanai! Register now at forms.office.com/r/xVhzcHTy1t Senior PhD students are also welcome.

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Half sold out in a week!

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Join the Interdisciplinary Postdoc Fellowship Program at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), one of the best places to do research in modern biology and develop your career. Great opportunities for statisticians, comp. biologists, AI experts, mathem. modelers! www.embl.org/eipod-linc

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Check out my latest paper on fitness costs and benefits of hosting a killer virus if you're a yeast in the forest! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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📣📣Are you looking for a postdoc? 📣📣 Does a EU or Horizon Europe assoc country (eg UK, S Korea) seem like a good destination? These fellowships a great funding option for anyone in the 🌎 👀 Check them out - next call opens 8 May 🧪 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

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Half sold out in one week! Hurry and register for Woodstock Night Science!!

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When your kids ask you what you did to save US science in the crisis of ‘25, you will say that you showed up! Please spread the word and join us!! @standupforscience.bsky.social

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A rapid CRISPR test could completely transform the diagnosis of Pneumocystis pneumonia, a life-threatening fungal infection. Today it typically requires invasive bronchoscopy, but this test enables rapid detection from blood or throat swabs. www.jci.org/articles/vie...

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I want to tell you a story about computers, creativity and art. (1/N) 🧵 Sydney Brenner once said in 2012 that “nobody has actually read the human genome. I mean, computers have processed the human genome, but we all know computers are stupid.” (Summary of a talk I gave at the Sanger last week)

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A call for the United States to continue investing in science | ASM Case Reports journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

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Nice perspective in Science of work that my great collaborator and TAU colleague, Prof. Micha Fridman, an amazing medicinal chemist, who makes it possible to visualize and think more deeply about antifungal drug interactions with their fungal targets. www.science.org/content/blog...

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nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Cool! Fungi use RNAi on plants.

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Wise words from Eleanor Roosevelt seen on the streets of Pasadena.

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On January 6th, 1995, my (now ex) wife and I boarded a flight from Heathrow to JFK on a one way ticket. We had two suitcases and about $900 in cash - this was everything we owned and we were moving to the US. We thought it was maybe for 2-3 years. I had visited the US once, for a conference, and

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#medsky#pedsky#idsky#immunosky 🧪 In the midst of all of the scary headlines recently, I thought I could take a moment to share a bit of good news: for the first time in history, a malaria vaccine with >90% efficacy seems to be within reach! Here’s why that’s a really big deal for EVERYONE 🧵

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Nice distraction: How Not to Start a Microbial Evolution Experiment telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2025/02/08/h... by @relenski.bsky.social

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Time to post this again

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If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me. Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.

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Failure is always in the background of any creative project; when the experiments are not working or the results don’t seem to make sense. But for discovery, you can’t deny yourself the permission to fail, and we should better teach failure in all its glory.

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Chemical Formulas xkcd.com/3040

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Valley fever, or coccidioidomycosis is on the move—endemic to the SW USA, but with increasing hot, dry conditions its being found farther north! Nice story on it in Science www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...

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I can’t love this more.

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I have read few papers as immediately useful and important as this one on Cacio e Pepe phase behavior. Tl;dr: the starchy pasta water is absolutely critical to avoiding “mozzarella phase” arxiv.org/abs/2501.00536

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Trainee sending an email with their PI copied on it.

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The four basic kinds of scientific papers: 1. Noise (no claim and no evidence) 2. Resource (no claim but lots of data) 3. Conjecture (makes a claim, but no evidence) 4. Scientific advance (both makes a claim and presents evidence)

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Virtual science buddies? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/s...

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Short personal reviews of 31 novels on #ResearchIntegrity "Novels can realistically depict the dilemmas scholars need to navigate ... This may help them to reflect on what a good researcher is and what academic scholars can do to stay close to that ideal." bit.ly/409E5ff

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This is a pedagogical experiment I tried and plan to build upon. Details are in the screnshot and the lecture notes are in the link below. All comments and feedback are welcome! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Excited to share my postdoc work now on bioRxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We discovered a non-genetic drug-adapted state that emerges frequently in the the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans. 1/6

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Can't wait for this new meeting on drug resistance and tolerance across species and diseases. A principle revealed in one system – maybe using different terminology – could be the big new idea when imported to another! Abstract deadline in January! s.embl.org/ees25-01 @EMBO/@embl.org

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Really looking forward to this NEW EMBO | EMBL Symposium--and hoping to get lots of cross-community interactions! Mechanisms of drug resistance and tolerance in bacteria, bsky.app/profile/even...

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Looking for reviewers before Christmas

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Some papers are very difficult to read but that doesn’t necessarily mean they're deeper than other papers. Authors must work very hard to make their story easy to read and understand by others. Or as Stephen King says: "the shorter the book, the less bullshit".

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The 8 ways we experience Awe: 1 Moral beauty (Strength, courage, kindness, or extraordinary abilities of others) 2 Nature 3 Music 4 Art & visual design 5 Collective movement in actions - dance and sports 6 Mystical encounters 7 Encountering life & death 8 Big ideas or epiphanies

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Love this! So excited by your discoveries—And you all have the branding on lock 😊 @fungage-lab.bsky.social @mycomile.bsky.social

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The good idea comes when one person feels comfortable enough to say something that might make them look stupid and their friend is open enough to recognize its potential.

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Come join us in Tucson!! I am excited to announce a tenure track faculty position on the genomics of resilience @uofa-eeb.bsky.social! Read more about the position in the updated link below! We will begin reviewing applications on December 9! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

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Calling all systems and computational biologists in search of a faculty position: We have Assistant and Associate Professor positions! 🚀 Pittsburgh is beautiful, and we are doing amazing science here. cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio... cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio... Please apply by Dec 2!

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Hey everyone, brilliant IMI colleague @hjtsai.bsky.social is on here too!

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The HPV vaccine has been recommended in the US since 2006. New study out today shows that cervical cancer deaths in young women in the years that followed have plummeted, decreasing 15% per year from 2013-2015. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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📢 Brand new ID faculty position just posted @fredhutch.bsky.social in Seattle. Join our ID group that studies infections in immunocompromised hosts. The Emerald city has great academics, phenomenal facilities, outstanding collaborators - all in amazing surroundings. apply.interfolio.com/159913

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What could go wrong? 🤷‍♂️

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Saying ‘I don’t know’ in talks has become a lost art, unfortunately. Super interesting discussions require us to be open about what we don’t know and what still needs to be explored. Here’s my recipe for answering questions in talks:

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