Germán Bonilla-Rosso
@germusthermophilus.bsky.social
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🦠🧪🖥🧬microbial ecology & evolution | agricultural microbiomes | food security | metabolism | 🐝🌺 host-microbe interactions | functional -omics | bioinformatics | salsa | philosophy | equality | UNAM | mSystems / mBio polyimmigrant! 🇲🇽🇸🇪🇦🇺🇨🇭
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germusthermophilus.bsky.social
🎓Part of the current #ScientificCrisis is the cult of the #LoneGenius myth. Great scientists are not isolated geniuses but a cultural phenomena, product of education systems, funding structures, social capital, historical paradigms - and lots of privilege and invisible labor.
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#AcademicSky
germusthermophilus.bsky.social
🦋🪲🐞🐛🧪🔬 #BugSky
Tracking of Monarch butterflies during migration!
saskajanet.bsky.social
UPDATE: I saw it happen! At the Birds Canada research station at the tip of Long Point I watched an expert ever-so-gently and carefully put one of these tiny tags on a monarch. Let me walk you through the steps (1/4)
saskajanet.bsky.social
So cool to visit the Motus workshop at Birds Canada headquarters. The Motus community is studying the movement of birds, bats and insects. This tiny radio telemetry device will fit on a Monarch butterfly 😲 #invertebrates #birds 🌿 www.birdscanada.org/bird-science...
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meehubs.bsky.social
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
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germusthermophilus.bsky.social
If the #NobelPrize is about "prestige and recognition" and "promote scientific progress"... why are they given to already prestigious researchers at the end of their career and not grant their PhDs and Postdocs tenure track or faculty positions of their choice?
1M USD = 8y 100,000 USD
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germusthermophilus.bsky.social
🧪🔬🦠🧫🧬🖥 #CRISPR - mediated immunity is a second level of defense against #phages after mutation...

A fantastic manuacript by the Brockhurst lab...
brockhurstlab.bsky.social
New preprint!

Ever wondered why only a fraction of genomes encode CRISPR immunity? 🧬 🦠

Turns out CRISPR is rarely beneficial against virulent phages, being most beneficial against those for which resistance mutations are rare!

An epic effort by Rosanna Wright

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Resistance mutation supply modulates the benefit of CRISPR immunity against virulent phages
Only a fraction of bacterial genomes encode CRISPR-Cas systems but the selective causes of this variation are unexplained. How naturally virulent bacteriophages (phages) select for CRISPR immunity has...
www.biorxiv.org
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methanojen.bsky.social
📣 New bacterial order name change alert!

🦠 The uncultivated alphaproteobacterial order (formerly TMED127) is now "Methylaequorales" in @seqcode.bsky.social

📝 New AEM paper on these marine methylotrophs: journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10....

🙏 Special thanks @rodriguez-r.bsky.social & SeqCode team
Diel cycle of lanthanide-dependent methylotrophy by TMED127/Methylaequorales bacteria in oligotrophic surface seawater
journals.asm.org
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mattbrignall.bsky.social
I'll never forget the abuse piled on public health workers like me by Bhattacharya, Kulldorff, and Prasad. Fact is, they won the pandemic, and the mindset that allowed them to do so is tearing our country apart.
germusthermophilus.bsky.social
🧪🦠🖥️🧬🧫🔬 The Roadmap for equitable use of public microbiome data -including the Data Reuse Information Tag (DRI)- by the #DataReuseConsortium.
Must read if you use or produce microbiome data!

Kudos to the Data Reuse Core Team for their hard work!

doi.org/10.1038/s415...
A Roadmap for equitable use of public microbiome data published in Nature Microbiology by The Data Reuse Core team @alexjprobst.bsky.social @lhug.bsky.social @environmicrobio.bsky.social Cristina Moraru @geomicrosoares.bsky.social @folker.bsky.social Anke Heyder 

and a QR code that takes you to the webpage of the manuscript
germusthermophilus.bsky.social
What part of "I will not tolerate people who are asking to entertain the idea that people like me should be put in jail or deported simply because how I look or what I think" you don't understand?

Because its pretty straightforward for me
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acritschristoph.bsky.social
But isn't it kinda important though how you don't even have to click on the link to guess the answer is: "Because it was in a for-profit, low impact factor journal, that makes money through article processing charges and is therefore incentivized to publish as many articles as possible"?
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carlbergstrom.com
Our mistake when we wrote _Calling Bullshit_ was to assume that people would deliberately abuse the flexibility of quantitative metrics to mislead.

We devoted inadequate attention to people making up complete and utter nonsense with no possible grounding in fact.
Trump Says He Will Get Drug Prices Down By 500% To 1500%

ByBruce Y. Lee,

Senior Contributor.
Bruce Y. Lee,
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esqueer.net
The Heritage Foundation is going after me this morning calling me a terrorist because I am accurately stating what they are intending to do. Michael Knowles at CPAC explicitly called for the "eradication of transgenderism."

I'll continue to speak the truth of what is being done to my community.
A tweet from Oversight Project (@ItsYourGov) shows a screenshot of an Advocate article. The tweet text says: “This is an example of an element of TIVE rhetoric coming from @Harvard Professor Alejandra Caraballo @Esqueer_in the @TheAdvocateMag. The notion that opposing Transgender Ideology is a form of violence (‘eradication’ here) leads people to justify violence.” The screenshot highlights a quote from Alejandra Caraballo criticizing a Heritage Foundation policy proposal: “They want us all eradicated.”
germusthermophilus.bsky.social
Sorry to pop up in your thread but... could you point me towards some sources about this?

I couldn't care less about sports nor Harris, but I like supporting my arguments when fighting discrimination.
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hopfnerlab.bsky.social
Thrilled that our work is now finally out in Nature Comms!
rdcu.be/eG3vP

We reveal cryo-EM structures of the MRN complex bound to DNA & TRF2 - showing how DNA breaks are sensed and regulated at telomeres.
Fantastic work by first authors @yilanfan.bsky.social @filizkuybu.bsky.social & Hengjun!
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jencross.bsky.social
A sweat bee busy looking for snacks. The flower is an aster and the center of the flower contains lots of small florets that produce pollen and nectar. Asters are a wonderful fall food source for lots of insects. #inverts
(Augochlora sp.) PA
A green bee rooting around in the center of a bright yellow flower, looking for food.
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dezene.me
"Considering the long history of liars winning debates by lying, you would have thought that intellectuals might have learned to stop debating liars." @hormiga.bsky.social

...from old timey creationism "debates", to climate etc. social media today. 🧪

scienceforeveryone.science/debating-is-...
Debating is bad. Professor Watchlists are bad.
Disagreement and listening is good. Taking facts seriously is good.
scienceforeveryone.science
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aarum.bsky.social
This was a word AND he cussed 😂
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emergencybod.medsky.social
“Bloody Indians, Pakistanis and Indians, coming over here, inventing us a national cuisine.”
A man stands at an Indian food stall under a tent labelled “SOUTHBANK CENTRE” and “FOOD MARKET.” He is draped in a large England flag like a cape, with the red cross of St George and the word “ENGLAND” running down the side. The stall’s bright pink signage reads “INDIAN FOOD – BIRYANI – SAMOSAS – BHAJIS” in both English and Gujarati. A server inside the stall prepares food while another customer waits nearby. The scene captures the irony of overt national pride being wrapped in the very immigrant cuisine it protests against.
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patrickgaley.bsky.social
I made a chart you can share to any citizen concerned about the "cost" of immigrants www.datawrapper.de/_/fGPis/
germusthermophilus.bsky.social
Charlie Kirk was NOT an advocate of open dialogue and free expression. By hijacking debates to promote hate propaganda and target those he didn't agree with, he became one of the biggest threats to non-violent dialogue under and democracy
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Ds beste Wuche Gmües von Radieslihof! #Solawi
#CommunityBasedAgriculture #cropsharing #FRACP #SharedAgriculturalRisk
A photo of the weekly vegetable basket from Radiesli: a community-supported agriculture organization- with tomatoes, corn, zucchini, lettufe, fennel, onion, a giant aubergine, peas and greenbeans, an onion and even capsicum.