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If you are worried about science there IS something that you can do! Join us next Friday in DC to make your voice heard. Come and stand up for science! Show that science is for everyone. I’ll be there and I can’t wait to see you there too! @standupforscience.bsky.social

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All those asking about a Stand Up For Science event in NYC, here you go! www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

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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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Beautiful and important work! Congratulations to @davidlabmsk.bsky.social and all who were involved!

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New version of DefenseFinder available defensefinder.mdmlab.fr (& cli) Now encompassing 263 systems (+111 this year..!). Thanks @ftesson.bsky.social, DefenseFinder grandmaster. Full list of systems here: defense-finder-models/List_system_article.md at master · mdmparis/defense-finder-models

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I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

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Please check out our preprint where we find that mitotic transcription helps ensure ecDNA inheritance through chromosomal tethering: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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New mechanism of gene transfer! With @tcostalab.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, we discovered that cf-PICIs form tail-less elements that, once released, spread among different bacterial species by hijacking tails from various phages. More exciting news soon! shorturl.at/kRJqE

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Happy to share our latest piece of work on the PARIS bacterial immune system. We performed a detailed characterization of the AriB Toprim nuclease, the effector of PARIS immunity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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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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If you’re a federal govt employee targeted for leave or termination on the basis of your DEI work, please file an EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) complaint & retain legal counsel. I’m a former NIH PI. Happy to refer you to a law firm that has successfully sued the govt many times! Pls repost 🙏❤️

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How do you find the gorilla hiding in your data? The "Postdoc Night Science NYC" club meets for the second time next Thursday to discuss this at NYU. The response so far has been overwhelming but there are probably a few more spots if you can join us! docs.google.com/forms/d/1Shc...

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Fun to see it out in print! I was really lucky to have an amazing team to work with on this. If this sort of work seems interesting to you or someone you know, please feel free to reach out (planning to staff a lab later this year). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Excited to have been awarded an ERC Proof-of-Concept grant to further explore the possibilities to use prokaryotic Argonautes for diagnostics applications! 🥳

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Congrats Leemor Joshua-Tor @cshlaboratory.bsky.social for this new paper characterizing human FN3K! Happy to play a role in the biochemical analysis, beautifully done by my TPCB rock star student Yang Xiao 💪🏻🤩 @mskcancercenter.bsky.social @weillcornell.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Our paper out @CellCellPress: Structure guided discovery of viral proteins that inhibit host immunity Congrats Erez Yirmiya, Azita Leavitt, Gil Amitai, our collaborators at the Kranzusch lab, and coauthors A 🧵 1/10 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

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And there's this: www.science.org/content/arti...

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This paper has been a long time coming: We looked at the genomes of historical bacterial samples over a century to look for trends of antibiotic resistance genes, finding multiple instances of them in infections before the age of antibiotics, but an increase in both frequency and mobility after

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In a great collaboration with @hummerlab.bsky.social and the Kräusslich lab: HIV capsid doesn't break at the NPC; instead, it cracks open the NPC itself! Details in Cell: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... @mpibp.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social A thread below:

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If there's something we don't understand I assume transposons are responsible unless proven otherwise

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Congratulations @marasherman.bsky.social !!! Incredible recognition 🤩

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Need help w data plotting. Two data curves, 16 timepoints each - plotted as lines through the average at each timepoint, with error bars. In actual fact each timepoint is a violin plot of 20k cells. What tools exist to leverage the nongaussian nature of the data and draw smth like ribbon plots?

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👋 Hi antiphage defense community, we are soon releasing an update of DefenseFinder. We are doing our best to include all the great discoveries from the community, but with so much going on we might miss things. Please answer wt preprints/papers with new systems or mail/git them to us. 🙏

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I'm thrilled to be opening my own lab this Fall at the @maxplanck.de MPI for Brain Research in Frankfurt. The lab is going to investigate the neuronal and genetic underpinnings of behavioral evolution. We are hiring on all levels. Don't hesitate to share widely and reach out if interested.

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What is the diversity of antiphage systems out there ? We used protein and genomic language models (and defense score!) to start bringing some answers: >45 000 protein families. Leb by E. Mordret. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Interactive UMAP to have fun mdmparis.github.io/antiphage-la...

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New to 🦋 but beyond thrilled to share that I’m joining the new cohort of @hhmi.bsky.social #HannaGrayFellows! 🎉 I’m so excited to connect with this incredible community of scientists. Many thanks to HHMI for this opportunity and my mentors @lydiafinley.bsky.social and Luciano Marraffini!

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🚨New review🚨 Evolution and ecology of anti-defence systems in phages and plasmids Link: www.cell.com/current-biol...

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🦠Bacteria serve as an amazing reservoir of immune genes for eukaryotes but also of essential cellular functions! ⬇️New exaptation example : euk RNA-guided RNA modification originated from "bridge RNA" IS110 transposons. Led by @hugovaysset.bsky.social and C. Meers from Sternberg lab! rdcu.be/d5ovZ

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Single molecule imaging of RecB in vivo reveals dynamics of DNA Double Strand Break repair in Escherichia coli https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.18.629153v1

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Out just in time for my last days @caltech.edu www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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New research from Dr. @lucksmith.bsky.social, Dr. Seungjae Lee, and their collaborators at the Icahn School of Medicine, point to an opportunity to improve therapies that use small #RNAs to silence disease-causing genes, potentially including those involved in #cancer. bit.ly/3W47epC

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AT LAST OUR PEER-REVIEWED PRE-PRINT IS PUBLISHED We finally vanquished Reviewer #3 - with great support from the academic editors @ScienceAdvances Cross-modal sensory compensation increases mosquito attraction to humans | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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New year, new beginnings! 🎉 The Aviram Lab will officially open its doors on March 1st @mskcancercenter.bsky.social! We’ll study microbial immune systems and their connection to fundamental cellular processes like #RNA transcription and #DNA integrity. #NewPI #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM (1/2)

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What a great way to end the year! ✨ Today in @cellpress.bsky.social we report the structure and function of the Shedu anti-phage defense system. tinyurl.com/4crj6dnx A long 🧵...

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False. We only allow pictures of people with beards.

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The big 4 of grant writing: 1. Credibility: The topic fits your expertise 2. Narrative: It's clear what is the problem, the solution, and why you’re the right person for it 3. Juicy details: Flex your mastery of the topic 4. The concept: You connect every part to the big question

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Hi Bluesky, just in time for the holidays I am excited to share the latest pre-print from my group! We solved the 3D structure of a mysterious viral RNA that resists degradation by host nucleases. A short 🧵 &link below – please also check out the full video! #RNA #RNAbiology #RNASky #lovevirology

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The Serebrenik Lab is hiring! Join us in unraveling proteostasis with pooled protein tagging and manipulation! Interested postdocs can learn more & meet other excellent labs at the Rutgers Postdoc Peek (Apr 3-4, 2025). Apply by 1/8/25: rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Wow, congrats to Seungjae and @lucksmith.bsky.social on this important breakthrough!!

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📣 Postdoc position available in my group at Pitt to study how Klebsiella controls its cell surface and develop new projects. themikelab.com Read more and apply here by Jan 12: cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio... Reposts are appreciated! #klebclub #newPI

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