Elisa Granato
@prokaryota.bsky.social
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Elisa Granato
@prokaryota.bsky.social
· Jun 4
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
Animation videos explaining things with optimistic nihilism since 12,013.
We’re a team of illustrators, animators, number crunchers and one dog who aim to spark curiosity about science and the world ...
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Big news, friends! I just joined the team at Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell @kurzgesagt.org as a Researcher & Fact-Checker 🐦💻🔍
Basically I get to nerd out over science with wildly creative people every day. Dream job 💚
Go watch their stuff if you haven’t already!
www.youtube.com/@kurzgesagt
Basically I get to nerd out over science with wildly creative people every day. Dream job 💚
Go watch their stuff if you haven’t already!
www.youtube.com/@kurzgesagt
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Trees are amazing! They build their bodies from thin air, move water with pressures that would crush a human, and grow using a system of living cables wrapped in layers of corpses. Watch our video to find out how they work, and why they might even be immortal: https://kgs.link/TreesAreDead
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Trees are amazing! They build their bodies from thin air, move water with pressures that would crush a human, and grow using a system of living cables wrapped in layers of corpses. Watch our video to find out how they work, and why they might even be immortal: https://kgs.link/TreesAreDead
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Fat is one of the most powerful organs that controls crucial hormones, but it can be one of the most dangerous organs as well. But what exactly is it? And can the damage caused by excessive amounts be reversed? Watch our full video to find out: https://kgs.link/Fat
November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Fat is one of the most powerful organs that controls crucial hormones, but it can be one of the most dangerous organs as well. But what exactly is it? And can the damage caused by excessive amounts be reversed? Watch our full video to find out: https://kgs.link/Fat
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Note it in your calendars! Aug 3-5, 2026. Excited to bring back MEEHubs to a hub near you (Switzerland, USA, Canada, Mexico, UK, Ukraine, or virtual only)‼️
We’re back! ✨ The next #MeeHubs26 is coming with 7 hubs across the globe and incredible lineups at each. Can’t wait to share more soon! meehubs.org
Home
meehubs.org
October 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Note it in your calendars! Aug 3-5, 2026. Excited to bring back MEEHubs to a hub near you (Switzerland, USA, Canada, Mexico, UK, Ukraine, or virtual only)‼️
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AI-generated content is flooding the internet, and we're entering a new era of information overload. Watch our latest video to find out how AI slop affects the internet and why kurzgesagt videos will always remain human-made: https://kgs.link/AISlop
October 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
AI-generated content is flooding the internet, and we're entering a new era of information overload. Watch our latest video to find out how AI slop affects the internet and why kurzgesagt videos will always remain human-made: https://kgs.link/AISlop
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Pregnancy is brutal, strange, and miraculous. Babies begin as cute invaders, build a new organ inside a different human, and form a fragile truce. Watch the brutal and beautiful story of how you and all of us came to be: kgs.link/Pregnancy
Pregnancy is Insane
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
kgs.link
September 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Pregnancy is brutal, strange, and miraculous. Babies begin as cute invaders, build a new organ inside a different human, and form a fragile truce. Watch the brutal and beautiful story of how you and all of us came to be: kgs.link/Pregnancy
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What if a 100-meter asteroid was discovered just two weeks before impact? The collision would unleash the force of thousands of nuclear bombs. Could we stop it, or would millions die? www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKm7...
The Only Way To Stop A Killer Asteroid
YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
www.youtube.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
What if a 100-meter asteroid was discovered just two weeks before impact? The collision would unleash the force of thousands of nuclear bombs. Could we stop it, or would millions die? www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKm7...
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Our first PC game, Star Birds, is now available in Early Access on Steam! 🚀
Join your flock of Star Birds on a mission across the great beyond, establish a thriving mining operation, and discover new technologies to advance even further.
Play it now: kgs.link/4n1aYnq
Join your flock of Star Birds on a mission across the great beyond, establish a thriving mining operation, and discover new technologies to advance even further.
Play it now: kgs.link/4n1aYnq
September 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Our first PC game, Star Birds, is now available in Early Access on Steam! 🚀
Join your flock of Star Birds on a mission across the great beyond, establish a thriving mining operation, and discover new technologies to advance even further.
Play it now: kgs.link/4n1aYnq
Join your flock of Star Birds on a mission across the great beyond, establish a thriving mining operation, and discover new technologies to advance even further.
Play it now: kgs.link/4n1aYnq
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The sunfish, or Mola, looks like an evolutionary joke. With its car-sized body made of jelly and a brain smaller than a walnut, this awkward, derpy giant doesn’t just survive in the world’s oceans… it thrives. But HOW? Watch our latest video to find out: kgs.link/DumbestAnimal
The Dumbest Animal Alive
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
kgs.link
September 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The sunfish, or Mola, looks like an evolutionary joke. With its car-sized body made of jelly and a brain smaller than a walnut, this awkward, derpy giant doesn’t just survive in the world’s oceans… it thrives. But HOW? Watch our latest video to find out: kgs.link/DumbestAnimal
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Does your lab perform killing assays?
TL;DR: we’ve identified a problem that can bias the outcome of killing assays, making antagonism look stronger than it really is.
Adding a simple extra step can mitigate this bias!

Out now at #MicrobioJ www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
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TL;DR: we’ve identified a problem that can bias the outcome of killing assays, making antagonism look stronger than it really is.
Adding a simple extra step can mitigate this bias!

Out now at #MicrobioJ www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
1/n
Type VI secretion system activity at lethal antibiotic concentrations leads to overestimation of weapon potency
Competition assays are a mainstay of modern microbiology, offering a simple and cost-effective means to quantify microbe–microbe interactions in vitro. Here, we demonstrate a key weakness of this meth...
www.microbiologyresearch.org
August 31, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Does your lab perform killing assays?
TL;DR: we’ve identified a problem that can bias the outcome of killing assays, making antagonism look stronger than it really is.
Adding a simple extra step can mitigate this bias!

Out now at #MicrobioJ www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
1/n
TL;DR: we’ve identified a problem that can bias the outcome of killing assays, making antagonism look stronger than it really is.
Adding a simple extra step can mitigate this bias!

Out now at #MicrobioJ www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
1/n
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New paper alert! Toxins can skew the results of competition assays, fascinating short communication from @prokaryota.bsky.social and @willpjsmith.bsky.social. @microbiologysociety.org www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Type VI secretion system activity at lethal antibiotic concentrations leads to overestimation of weapon potency
Competition assays are a mainstay of modern microbiology, offering a simple and cost-effective means to quantify microbe–microbe interactions in vitro. Here, we demonstrate a key weakness of this meth...
www.microbiologyresearch.org
August 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
New paper alert! Toxins can skew the results of competition assays, fascinating short communication from @prokaryota.bsky.social and @willpjsmith.bsky.social. @microbiologysociety.org www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
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Was tun, wenn man plötzlich für tot erklärt wird? Elisa Granato @prokaryota.bsky.social wurde als erste mit AstraZeneca geimpft–und wurde wenig später Opfer von Fake News. Im Podcast spricht sie darüber und ihre Forschung – und wie sich Zellen gegenseitig bekriegen.
open.spotify.com/episode/2hB8...
open.spotify.com/episode/2hB8...
#28 - Von Kamikaze-Bakterien und viralen Todeserklärungen – Mit Dr. Elisa Granato
Was los, Wissenschaft?! · Episode
open.spotify.com
June 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Was tun, wenn man plötzlich für tot erklärt wird? Elisa Granato @prokaryota.bsky.social wurde als erste mit AstraZeneca geimpft–und wurde wenig später Opfer von Fake News. Im Podcast spricht sie darüber und ihre Forschung – und wie sich Zellen gegenseitig bekriegen.
open.spotify.com/episode/2hB8...
open.spotify.com/episode/2hB8...
Postdoc alert!! Rolf is an amazing advisor and Zurich is a great place to live. Send your best students this way! ⬇️📢 #MicroSky 🦠❤️
We are looking for a highly motivated postdoc to work on pathogen interactions. Please send in your application via
jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
UZH: Postdoctoral researcher in microbiology
The Department of Quantitative Biomedicine is an interdisciplinary biomedical research unit that combines basic science with biotechnological and medical research, using both experimental and computat...
jobs.uzh.ch
June 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Postdoc alert!! Rolf is an amazing advisor and Zurich is a great place to live. Send your best students this way! ⬇️📢 #MicroSky 🦠❤️
Big news, friends! I just joined the team at Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell @kurzgesagt.org as a Researcher & Fact-Checker 🐦💻🔍
Basically I get to nerd out over science with wildly creative people every day. Dream job 💚
Go watch their stuff if you haven’t already!
www.youtube.com/@kurzgesagt
Basically I get to nerd out over science with wildly creative people every day. Dream job 💚
Go watch their stuff if you haven’t already!
www.youtube.com/@kurzgesagt
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
Animation videos explaining things with optimistic nihilism since 12,013.
We’re a team of illustrators, animators, number crunchers and one dog who aim to spark curiosity about science and the world ...
www.youtube.com
June 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Big news, friends! I just joined the team at Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell @kurzgesagt.org as a Researcher & Fact-Checker 🐦💻🔍
Basically I get to nerd out over science with wildly creative people every day. Dream job 💚
Go watch their stuff if you haven’t already!
www.youtube.com/@kurzgesagt
Basically I get to nerd out over science with wildly creative people every day. Dream job 💚
Go watch their stuff if you haven’t already!
www.youtube.com/@kurzgesagt
Reposted by Elisa Granato
#Bacteria use weapons to outcompete rivals, but what happens if they're transferred? @prokaryota.bsky.social @jdpal.bsky.social &co show that HGT of toxin #plasmids is rare but recipients can thrive under relaxed nutrient competition, reshaping bacterial warfare @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/43vC3X7
May 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
#Bacteria use weapons to outcompete rivals, but what happens if they're transferred? @prokaryota.bsky.social @jdpal.bsky.social &co show that HGT of toxin #plasmids is rare but recipients can thrive under relaxed nutrient competition, reshaping bacterial warfare @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/43vC3X7
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Our findings suggest that the growth and associated ecosystem services of species-rich mixtures in afforestation projects can be optimized by artificially selecting seed families with high mixture performance in biodiversity experiments.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Identifying seed families with high mixture performance in a subtropical forest biodiversity experiment
Afforestation projects using species mixtures are expected to better support ecosystem services than monoculture plantations. While grassland studies have shown natural selection favoring high-perfo...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Our findings suggest that the growth and associated ecosystem services of species-rich mixtures in afforestation projects can be optimized by artificially selecting seed families with high mixture performance in biodiversity experiments.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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If you have one or two indoor-only cats between 6 months and 13 years of age, you can help researchers at the University of Edinburgh with a study about environmental enrichment! 🐱 #catscience
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/...
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/...
January 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
If you have one or two indoor-only cats between 6 months and 13 years of age, you can help researchers at the University of Edinburgh with a study about environmental enrichment! 🐱 #catscience
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/...
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/...
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I am confident that scientific societies will play an unusually important role in the coming years. If you are a microbiologist of any kind, please consider joining @asm.org if you haven't already. There are many ways to get involved, including advocacy.
To learn more:
asm.org/About-ASM/Vo...
To learn more:
asm.org/About-ASM/Vo...
Volunteer With ASM | Overview
ASM volunteer opportunities range from speaking with legislators about funding research during ASM's annual Hill Day, to writing articles for asm.org, to serving on committees and the Board of Directo...
asm.org
January 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I am confident that scientific societies will play an unusually important role in the coming years. If you are a microbiologist of any kind, please consider joining @asm.org if you haven't already. There are many ways to get involved, including advocacy.
To learn more:
asm.org/About-ASM/Vo...
To learn more:
asm.org/About-ASM/Vo...
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So this happened. Somebody is not getting tenure @ethzurich.bsky.social. It took a lot of people with a lot of courage and strength to make this happen. Thinking of them today!
www.tagesanzeiger.ch/klimaforsche...
www.tagesanzeiger.ch/klimaforsche...
Weltbekannter Klimaforscher muss die ETH Zürich nach Vorwürfen verlassen
Gegen den Professor haben acht Personen Vorwürfe erhoben. Er bestreitet jedes Fehlverhalten. Nach Berichten dieser Redaktion ordnete die ETH eine Untersuchung an und handelt nun.
www.tagesanzeiger.ch
December 19, 2024 at 1:45 PM
So this happened. Somebody is not getting tenure @ethzurich.bsky.social. It took a lot of people with a lot of courage and strength to make this happen. Thinking of them today!
www.tagesanzeiger.ch/klimaforsche...
www.tagesanzeiger.ch/klimaforsche...
An important message
December 11, 2024 at 2:05 PM
An important message
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Interested in being and editor for the journal 'Microbial Genomics' @MicrobioSoc :
microbiologysociety.org/news/society...?
microbiologysociety.org/news/society...?
<i>Microbial Genomics</i> Editor and Editors: call for expressions of interest
microbiologysociety.org
December 6, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Interested in being and editor for the journal 'Microbial Genomics' @MicrobioSoc :
microbiologysociety.org/news/society...?
microbiologysociety.org/news/society...?
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It’s simple. Many of us share #science. Please join up.
go.bsky.app/H3qcvgP
Please add your name below and expertise and you’ll be added!
#scientistswhocommunicatescience #scicomm #womeninsciencw
go.bsky.app/H3qcvgP
Please add your name below and expertise and you’ll be added!
#scientistswhocommunicatescience #scicomm #womeninsciencw
December 2, 2024 at 2:07 AM
It’s simple. Many of us share #science. Please join up.
go.bsky.app/H3qcvgP
Please add your name below and expertise and you’ll be added!
#scientistswhocommunicatescience #scicomm #womeninsciencw
go.bsky.app/H3qcvgP
Please add your name below and expertise and you’ll be added!
#scientistswhocommunicatescience #scicomm #womeninsciencw
Reviewing my lab book
December 2, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Reviewing my lab book
An important message
December 2, 2024 at 6:26 PM
An important message
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I created this stater pack with women in ecology and evolution.
If you want to be added you can comment or DM me, but also please suggest the names of those I am missing 🧪🌎🌐
go.bsky.app/8jFH7cS
If you want to be added you can comment or DM me, but also please suggest the names of those I am missing 🧪🌎🌐
go.bsky.app/8jFH7cS
November 30, 2024 at 10:51 PM
I created this stater pack with women in ecology and evolution.
If you want to be added you can comment or DM me, but also please suggest the names of those I am missing 🧪🌎🌐
go.bsky.app/8jFH7cS
If you want to be added you can comment or DM me, but also please suggest the names of those I am missing 🧪🌎🌐
go.bsky.app/8jFH7cS
