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Snapshot of my lilypond, taken few years ago. Warm and cool! Peace and harmony!

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Loggerhead turtles have an uncontrollable urge to dance whenever they anticipate food—a trait scientists used to test whether the reptiles can memorize their favorite feeding sites based on Earth’s magnetic fields. Learn more: https://scim.ag/42VqsSz

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Autophagy UK & Proteostasis UK joint meeting -June 3-5. Exploring the lifecycle of cellular components from synthesis to degradation. Going to be a great meeting and we look forward to welcoming you to Dundee! Exciting lineup of speakers and opportunities for ECRs Register here: tinyurl.com/mr3p49f9

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ASM stands firm in its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, as such efforts are critical to advancing the microbial sciences for everyone. Read our statement: asm.org/Press-Releas...

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Community is more valuable than ever - submit an abstract and attend #Worm25 !

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Delighted to share our new study. A collaboration with the Thurlow lab. Antibiotic resistance rapidly emerges and thrives in diabetic mice. A worrying coming together of two major and growing health problems worldwide www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Fed up with having to reconcile comments from Reviewer 1 and #Reviewer2? At eLife, editors and reviewers discuss their reviews with each other before reaching a consensus, letting you focus on how to improve. https://elifesciences.org/about/peer-review?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_camp…

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Shadow cabinet and ministers in the opposition do a good job in the UK. A model to think about, for US.

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Congratulations Pablo

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A Novel Mouse Model of Parkinson's Disease for Investigating Progressive Pathology and Neuroprotection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.13.638053v1

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His genes forecast Alzheimer's. His brain had other plans www.npr.org/2025/02/12/n...

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New paper out in ISME Journal. Social interactions between strains shape bacterial communities. However, their impact on community functioning is lower compared to basic strain identity features. @joskramer.bsky.social @alexfig.bsky.social @simonmarech.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

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"The CF story of progress and transformation would not exist as it does today without the NIH and the research it supports. “ www.cff.org/press-releas...

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I am watching from across the Atlantic. I can only imagine how frustrating it must be to see each new day bring another unthinkable, human-wrought calamity. On the other hand, I am heartened by the collective pushback. Keep it up, everyone. We are rooting for you, tireless @barrlab.bsky.social

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UK C. elegans meeting alert! Register here www.davieslab.org/ukwormmeetin...

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New in 𝐶𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝗣𝗮𝘆(𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱) 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝘀𝗲 Intranasal 𝐿𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑢𝑠 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑢𝑚 (Lp) engineered to release drugs in the olfactory epithelium, facilitating their transport to the brain intranasal Lp-secreted leptin (appetite-regulating hormone) reduced obesity in mice www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Many universities are preparing for BBSRC Doctoral Focal awards but is this really the most efficient way to deliver these PhD programs? e.g there’s max 2 AI in biology focal awards. Time and energy spent on these applications and evaluations across UK… why not supplement to existing DTPs?

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Very clever!

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"It is impossible to be a top-line manager and administrator and mentor and researcher and writer and outreach officer and IT expert and online instructor and pedagogical innovator and recruiter and teacher and marker and external examiner and press pundit and grant bidder and editor."

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A treasure trove! Julius Adler would have loved this review.

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Two new positions for group leaders working on #AMR at the Ineos Oxford Institute. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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MC4R regulates #BodyWeight at hypothalamic neuronal #cilia, but its levels are normally v low. @nachury.bsky.social &co show that MC4R accumulation is prevented via continuous ubiquitin- & β-arrestin-dependent exit from cilia, unless MC4R is inhibited by AgRP 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/40MWUUz

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@stevestuwill.bsky.social you posted on 𝕏 on Dec 5, 2020 this stunning video - why not repeat on 🔵bsky ? (sorry, I did)... "Time-lapse footage of a vampire amoeba: a microscopic organism that feeds on algal cells by breaking through their cell walls and sucking out their insides." #ProtistsOnSky

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Our new study in @naturecomms.bsky.social showing the recurrent assembly of microbial modules over polar day and night, based on four years of autonomous sampling in the Arctic www.nature.com/articles/s41... Fantastic teamwork by #AWI @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social @hhu.bsky.social & many others 🙂

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I’ll be in conversation about “enemy feminism” with @reproutopia.bsky.social as part of the @qucl.bsky.social annual lecture, alongside Emrah Karakus and Victoria Mangan 🥰 I hope to see many new and old UCL friends! www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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We’re celebrating LGBT+ History Month and Race Equality Week at the University of Dundee. Join this fun and fact-filled happening, featuring 3-5 minute presentations on Friday in the Global Room at 6pm. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/powerpoint...

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A very timely piece from our sister journal, given current events in the USA - where, sadly, it might be hard to action some of the suggestions made here…

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Collagen is secreted in soluble form, endocytosed, then resecreted for fibril formation. I’m excited to see this published! It could explain our observations in #Celegans #aECM

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New PERSPECTIVE - A decade of advances in human gut microbiome-derived biotherapeutics by Alena Pribyl, Phil Hugenholtz & Matthew Cooper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Very cool paper!!!

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Join our lively interactive community of evolutionary biologists in Northern Germany! 7 PhD positions on TransEvo topics, incl 1 PhD position in the Schulenburg lab. @transevo.bsky.social

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🧪Very proud of our latest publication at @elife.bsky.social, brought to you by #NIH funding! This collaboration with Chris Rongo's lab covers a lot of ground, focusing on the transcriptional response to BMP/Smad signaling. 1/n doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

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OUT NOW: Human enteric α-defensin 5 interacts with colonic epithelial receptor P2Y11 to induce filopodia and promote Shigella infection by Kai Ye & co www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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In solidarity. A letter of support from Europe, to academics and researchers in the United States. Sign & send it to your colleagues. rogueesr.fr/in-solidarity/

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Malayan leaf frog🐸

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Rare diseases may be individually rare, but did you know at least 300 million people worldwide are living with a rare disease? If you have a rare disease, you are not alone! #RareDiseaseDay2025 🦓

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I liked this paper in @pnas.org Scott et al. The evolution of signaling and monitoring in plant–fungal networks w/ @tobykiers.bsky.social Appreciated the clarification of what "signal" means in evolutionary terms. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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How do real scientists find our publishing model? Well, we’ve been asking authors like Hironori Funabiki at Rockefeller University. Read about his experience in our latest blog. https://buff.ly/4hmln9O

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A single-cell and spatial wheat root atlas with cross-species annotations delineates conserved tissue-specific marker genes and regulators: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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I wrote this just two weeks ago - could not have imagined how broadly #science and #researchers in the US have been impacted since then   Science is a #global community 🌍 🌎 🌏 We're all very concerned for our friends, colleagues, and young researchers in the US right now   #solidarityforscience 🧪

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UK scientist wins prize for invention that could help avert ‘phosphogeddon’. Phosphate, key to food production, is choking waterways, but a new sponge-like material (Phosphate Removal Material or PRM) returns it to the soil for crops. 🧪🌱🌾🐟 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Fruit flies have a different type of blood to us, and their insulin comes from neurons instead of pancreatic cells. But important similarities mean scientists could use them to better understand human health. https://elifesciences.org/digests/98514/a-closer-look-at-insulin-producing-cells?utm_sour…

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Our new paper in ISME Journal reports that swarms of anaerobic bacteria isolated from the human mouth exhibit mesmerizing flower-like, wave-like, and chrysanthemum firework patterns, via developmental phase transitions, to establish scattered colonies in new region academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

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Tomorrow at 6pm UK/1pm EST, join @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social and myself for a livestream discussion: "Crisis at UK universities. Lessons from Save Sheffield Archaeology" youtube.com/live/-PICWDM...

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This disc coral rolls, slides, and pulses its dome-shaped body to “walk” in the direction of a light source. Learn more: https://scim.ag/40YcOvx

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Reminder that @europepmc.org is a mirror of Pubmed with better search and that it indexes all bioRxiv preprints (as well as ResearchSquare), not just the ones funded by NIH like chauvinist Pubmed

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1. A viable scientific ecosystem provides a great variety of environments for scientists to thrive. Some need to be left alone & work best in a small group, some like large multidisciplinary consortia, some build a body of work slowly & incrementally over many years, others seek a few big findings

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