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US brain drain: Nature’s guide to the initiatives drawing scientists abroad www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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“Deeply creepy” indeed: 1932, say hello to 2025.

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What happens to science under autocracy? The rise of the National Socialist Party in 1930s Germany provides an (admittedly extreme) example. Prior to the early 1930s, scientists at German institutions won a third of Nobels. 10 years later, that number was 5%, and has never recovered.

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1. This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breathtaking perversity, told in this thread. (There’s a one-page version at the bottom). 🧵

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Come join us next Wednesday for this year's Elisa Izaurralde Memorial Lecture 2025 to be delivered by David Bartel from MIT, Cambridge, USA ▶️More info: shorturl.at/xvOiy 📆: Wednesday 30th April at 3:30pm 📍: IS seminar room (ground floor) #MPI-IS

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NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy www.science.org/content/arti...

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Colon cancer is on the rise around the world. This new report concludes that early-life exposure to gut bacteria that produces colibactin, which is mutagenic, may be contributing www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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New England Journal of Medicine gets swept up in U.S. attorney inquiry into alleged bias www.statnews.com/2025/04/23/n... via @statnews.com

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Historically countries do this just to update their records no biggie

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OH COME ON. NIH cancels a 34-year-old longitudinal study on women's health that started with 160,000 volunteers and continues to answer urgent questions about aging, heart disease, cancer & more 🧪 in @science.org

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1. I study how science works as a collective endeavor to make sense of the physical world. I also study how misinformation about science spreads and affects society. There are fewer examples more poignant than a Minnesota bill that would criminalize mRNA vaccines as weapons of mass destruction.

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So the White House story is now: “We didn’t mean to threaten Harvard, because we didn’t mean to send the threatening letter we sent, but when Harvard rejected the threats we made but didn’t mean to make, we decided to threaten them twice more.” The country is now run by thugs and idiots.

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Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

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🚀 We're expanding our digital presence! 🎉 Mizrahi Lab is now on Bluesky! Follow us for updates on our microbiome research, plasmid dynamics, and lab discoveries. We’ll also share news, conference highlights, and behind-the-scenes insights.

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There always seems to be stochastic processes at work when trying to colonize germfree mice: this helps demystify the process! 🦠🧫

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Wow, just finished reading the @microbiome.bsky.social lab's preprint on how gut flagellin levels influence vaccine responses. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... In the paper, they leverage our MEDI tool (estimating dietary in take from fecal DNA) to come to a really surprising conclusion! 🧵...

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A warm welcome to @canaztekin.bsky.social joining FML Tübingen! He's leading the "Structural Regeneration" group, studying limb regrowth in different species. Learn more about his fascinating research shorturl.at/vIFID #regeneration #evolution #FML #MaxPlanck #biology

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So excited to share this latest work by @kelseyhuus.bsky.social !!! She shows that flagellin in the human gut affects whether or not people develop fever in response to vaccine, and the amount of flagellin reflects diet

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This is a very cool tool: amazing what it can reveal about diets. We have already started to use it and it’s highly recommended 🧫🦠

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It’s not enough to gut the government, they are coming for the foundations, who are self-gutting preemptively.

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That is just so cool:🦠🧫

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Why scratching makes a rash worse and a potential benefit to scratching--it reduced S. aureus on skin. Andrew Liu's paper from our lab is out now at #science #neuroimmune #immunology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

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Clinically relevant eukaryotes quantified from stool metagenomes

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Excited to see how Nearest Balance, our compositional data analysis method, came in handy for defining #microbiome dynamics in our one-sided host-microbiome selection experiment!

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CNN has now confirmed this. www.cnn.com/2025/01/24/h...

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Does this count?

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Here grad student Mirabeau Ngwese shows in samples from Gabon that it’s possible to use metagenomes to assess helminth load in the gut and applies this to datasets from Africa to show consistent associations with microbiota www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🦠🧫

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Trump ends Fauci’s security detail and says he’d feel no responsibility if harm befell him www.statnews.com/2025/01/24/d...

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🦠🧫great work by Taichi Suzuki now at ASU and colleagues at @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social and @mpicybernetics.bsky.social

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Here we show that transmitting the Microbiome can transfer a host trait, independently of selection on the host genome. In mice, with selection for low activity levels. Correlates with levels of lactobacilli and indolelactate: transferring these alone also reduces activity.

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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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fine reminder that flagella are not just for swimming, but flagella tips also for attachment (b) #MicroSky

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Vegans, vegetarians may have healthier guts than meat eaters www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Exciting evolutionary work from Hall lab! Bifidobacteria are adapted to their mammals- so cool to see.🧫🦠

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This work made possible through fantastic help from @felipeimerino.bsky.social whose cryo-EM expertise was invaluable 🦠🧫

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