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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Jul 10

But in fact, fly immunity is highly reproducible! 🎊

~80% of claims could be verified. Moreover, some challenged claims just reflect the field advancing its knowledge/tools.

The lesson: if the tools are good and the research largely exempt from direct translation pressures, science works.

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A chart depicting the track of claims into verified, unchallenged, challenged, partially verified, or mixed.

Figure 1: Flow of the study.
Claims were first classified in five categories based on literature. 45 unchallenged claims were selected to be experimentally tested and
classified either as challenged or as verified. We further classify some unchallenged as consistent or inconsistent depending on their
consistency with current knowledge.

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cgru.bsky.social @cgru.bsky.social · Jun 28

L’IHPE recrute un-e technicien-ne en expérimentation animale. Date limite 11/7 recrutement.upvd.fr/poste/afifwk...

Technicien en expérimentation animale (H/F)

recrutement.upvd.fr

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Jun 21

Important: Journals Operating Predatory Practices Are Systematically Eroding the Science Ethos: A Gate and Code Strategy to Minimise Their Operating Space and Restore Research Best Practice enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Journals Operating Predatory Practices Are Systematically Eroding the Science Ethos: A Gate and Code Strategy to Minimise Their Operating Space and Restore Research Best Practice

Scientific research seeks to extend knowledge and understanding, an activity that perhaps more than any other advances society and humanity. In essence, it is the search for truth. But, because it se....

enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Caitlyn Cardetti, PhD @caitlyncardetti.bsky.social · Jun 16

🚨Call for papers on Non-traditional model organisms for #BMCBiology🚨

Guest Editors:
Eve Gazave @stemdevevo.bsky.social, @ijmonod.bsky.social
Vladimír Hampl, @sciencecharles.bsky.social
Jason Podrabsky, Portland State U
Deanne Whitworth, U of Queensland

www.biomedcentral.com/collections/...

Image Credit: Bob Goldstein, a black and white sketch of various organisms - butterfly, fish, worm, some sort of plant, a rodent, some un-named sea creatures.

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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · Jun 21

Exciting fundamental discovery!

Early embryos fight bacteria WITHOUT immune cells

Zebrafish, mouse, and human embryos use epithelial cells (trophoectoderm)—not immune cells—to engulf and destroy 𝘌. 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘪 and 𝘚. 𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘶𝘴

Hoijman Lab Barcelona 🇪🇸
𝘊𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘏𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘦

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Guillaume Charriere @gm-charriere.bsky.social · Jun 19

Congrats Angélique !!!

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Guillaume Charriere @gm-charriere.bsky.social · Jun 19

Our last paper just came out ! A great piece of work from the talented Laura Onillon and teammates with the pleasure to share this adventure with friendly collaborators @vincentdlft.bsky.social and @soldatilab.bsky.social !

Paramoeba atlantica as a Natural Intracellular Niche for Vibrios in Marine Ecosystems

Various vibrios can colonise a large vacuole called VCV (Vibrio-containing-vacuole) within Paramoeba atlantica. The VCVs acidify and the vibrios multiply and remain alive inside the VCVs for hours. T...

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Guillaume Charriere @gm-charriere.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thank you @soldatilab.bsky.social it was great to benefit from your inputs and expertise !

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Karina Xavier Lab @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social · Mar 16

Symbnet PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses - Oeiras Portugal. Students from all over the world are eligible, we sponsor selected students. Please Repost!
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PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses 2025

Symbnet PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM) & Católica Biomedical Research Centre (CBR) July 06...

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Nadine Laguette @nadinelaguette.bsky.social · Feb 5

Check out our most recent preprint where we describe Mecp2 as a régulatrice of cGAS-STING associated signaling. 🧪🔥

bioRxiv Immunology @biorxiv-immuno.bsky.social · Feb 5

The methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 inhibits cGAS-associated signaling https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.30.635818v1

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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · Jan 31

Problematic Paper Screener: Trawling for fraud in the scientific literature

Have you ever heard of the Joined Together States?

our paper screener has been instrumental in more than 1,000 retractions

theconversation.com/problematic-...

Problematic Paper Screener: Trawling for fraud in the scientific literature

Science sleuths are stepping up efforts to detect bogus science papers. This includes building tools that comb through millions of journal articles for signs of tortured phrases spawned by AI.

theconversation.com

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Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social · Jan 27

Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies...
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

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Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social · Jan 27

I'm delighted to share our opinion on #papermills published in Nature. Science is flooded with papers from paper mills.Certain steps can be taken, but this is a challenge that neither universities nor journals are ready to face.Some use paper mills to their advantage.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Stamp out paper mills’ — science sleuths on how to fight fake research

A group of scientists who are experts at spotting fraudulent research outline five essential steps to combat industrialized scientific misconduct.

www.nature.com

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Pr. Logos @prlogos.bsky.social · Dec 12

Les couloirs bruissaient depuis plusieurs semaines d'une nouvelle phase de démantèlement du CNRS menée par Antoine Petit: les labo étoilés sur lesquels se concentreraient les moyens, les autres étant laissés à l'abandon. Ils s’appelleront "keylabs".

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Christophe 🔬 L @christlet.bsky.social · Jan 11

Newsletter CNRS:
'Création du label CNRS Keylabs. Pour faire face à la compétition internationale, le CNRS doit construire des masses critiques et faire porter un effort particulier sur un nombre plus restreint d’unités, celles qui peuvent légitimement prétendre à être qualifiée “de rang mondial”'

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Karim Majzoub @karimaj.bsky.social · Dec 13

Regulation of human interferon signaling by transposon exonization

Transposable element exonization can yield functional protein isoforms as seen for primate-specific IFNAR2.

www.cell.com

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Michael Fischbach @mfgrp.bsky.social · Dec 11

Today we report that an engineered skin bacterium, swabbed gently on the head of a mouse, can unleash a potent antibody response against a pathogen. Could lead to topical vaccines that are applied in a cream. @djenetbousbaine.bsky.social led the charge... @natureportfolio.bsky.social 1/55

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Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social · Dec 13

Frequent Q is how mirror bacterium could persist in nature. Marine Prochlorococcus good example. Little downside in terms of competitiveness + resistant to protists and phages. Net positive growth allows invasion.

See Chapter 8 of technical report here:
purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036

Figure 8.2 from technical report on mirror bacteria, showing potential for net population growth and invasion of marine environment by mirror phototrophic bacteria.

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Dec 13

Important piece by Gittleman - “It’s impossible to separate human health from health of the natural world. Ecology is the unifying science that integrates knowledge..[the] One Health approach is unlimited, exciting, & necessary for the health of life on our planet” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪🌎🌐🌾

Photo of the front page of the paper - showing animals and plants and people encircled across the globe - There needs to be more emphasis on the ecological component of One Health as we consider the problems of biodiversity loss, climate extremes, habitat fragmentation, and emerging disease. Image credit: Shutterstock/BeataGFX.

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Prof Danny Altmann @daltmann.bsky.social · Dec 13

I don’t normally stray here into politics, but this is global health and child mortality: somewhat terrified this will negatively impact not just public health in the USA, but could normalise this view further afield

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Sorek Lab @soreklab.bsky.social · Dec 10

Registration is now open for the 2025 Symposium on the Immune System of Bacteria, taking place this year in Paris (April 8-10).

We have a fantastic lineup of speakers!

Register here: www.sisb2025.conferences-pasteur.org/home

Aude Bernheim @audeber.bsky.social · Dec 9

Registration now open for the EMBO Workshop: Immune System of Bacteria !!!!

www.sisb2025.conferences-pasteur.org/home

Joins us in Institut Pasteur, Paris, April 8-10th.

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Craig MacLean @craigmaclean.bsky.social · Nov 27

Plasmid afficionados: Does anybody know of any chromosomal genes that are required for plasmid conjugation? We have found a few by chance in a recent experiment and I would be really interested to know if there are other examples.
#microsky
#plasmid

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · Nov 29

"Bluesky is emerging as the new platform for science"

mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...

Bluesky is emerging as the new platform for science - Mike Young Academy

Scientific Twitter is about to find its true successor. And it is not X. This, our latest release, shows that the Bluesky network of scientists is growing — and growing.

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Sep 14

The #Drosophila Immunity Handbook 🧵

This project started as a review with the aim, in some sense, to update Lemaitre and Hoffmann (2007; Ann Rev Imm). Then it kinda... got out of hand. But the reason that happened is because Hannah is amazing.

Find the free PDF here btw: bit.ly/DrosImmBook
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Amanda Alker @atp-alker.bsky.social · Nov 30

🚨 The Alker Lab is starting at the University of Rhode Island in early 2025 and we will be hiring! 🚨

If you are interested in marine microbiology, bacterial genetics and/or symbiosis, please consider reaching out! Repost to help spread the word 🪸🧪🧬🌊

The Alker lab at the University of Rhode Island is hiring (students, postdocs and lab staff)! We use cutting edge tools in microbiology to investigate marine animal symbioses. Email or DM for further inquiries

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