Antoine Zboralski
@micro-zbo.bsky.social
👨🔬 Researcher working on plant-microbes interactions, plant pathology & biocontrol at @irbv.bsky.social, @umontreal.ca, @espacepourlavie.bsky.social 🇫🇷 🇨🇦
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Francis Hallé, botaniste et infatigable défenseur des arbres, est mort à l’âge de 87 ans
Francis Hallé, botaniste et infatigable défenseur des arbres, est mort à l’âge de 87 ans
Le dendrologue, spécialiste des forêts tropicales et de l’architecture des arbres, avait réussi, grâce à ses talents de pédagogue et à ses dons de dessinateur, à capter l’attention et la sympathie du grand public. Il est mort le 31 décembre.
www.lemonde.fr
January 2, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Francis Hallé, botaniste et infatigable défenseur des arbres, est mort à l’âge de 87 ans
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It's official - my new book is officially published today! If you mentor science students who write - grad or undergrad - you're the reason we wrote this. Mentoring/teaching writing is hard; but we can make it easier!
It’s publication day! “Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences”
Ok, we’re seriously excited – not for tonight’s fireworks, but because after several years of work, our new book is officially published today! That’s right – Teaching and Mentoring Writers i…
scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
It's official - my new book is officially published today! If you mentor science students who write - grad or undergrad - you're the reason we wrote this. Mentoring/teaching writing is hard; but we can make it easier!
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Our new publication in #ISMEJournal (@isme-microbes.bsky.social) describes how Bacillus and Trichoderma works together to fight against the plant pathogen Fusarium, a superb collaboration with Zhihui Xu at Nanjing Agricultural University, including the experiments by @jiyuxie.bsky.social at #IBL
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December 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Our new publication in #ISMEJournal (@isme-microbes.bsky.social) describes how Bacillus and Trichoderma works together to fight against the plant pathogen Fusarium, a superb collaboration with Zhihui Xu at Nanjing Agricultural University, including the experiments by @jiyuxie.bsky.social at #IBL
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Check out the Microbial Primers page. Short articles written to help people new to a field to get quickly up to speed. @microbiologysociety.org
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...
Microbial Primers | Microbiology Society
In the constantly evolving world of microbiology, new research and discoveries can often be overwhelming. ‘Microbial Primers’ is a series of short articles designed to simplify and illuminate intricat...
www.microbiologyresearch.org
December 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Check out the Microbial Primers page. Short articles written to help people new to a field to get quickly up to speed. @microbiologysociety.org
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...
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Shoutout to @annualreviews.bsky.social
“In a sea of polished, plausible noise, expertise matters more than ever.”
New blog 👇🏾
“In a sea of polished, plausible noise, expertise matters more than ever.”
New blog 👇🏾
I just published: In praise of experts: distinguishing sense from nonsense in the age of AI
Can chatbots flag bad science? In a sea of polished, plausible noise, expertise matters more
than ever.
medium.com/p/in-praise-...
Can chatbots flag bad science? In a sea of polished, plausible noise, expertise matters more
than ever.
medium.com/p/in-praise-...
In praise of experts: distinguishing sense from nonsense in the age of AI
Can chatbots flag bad science? In a sea of polished, plausible noise, expertise matters more than ever.
medium.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Shoutout to @annualreviews.bsky.social
“In a sea of polished, plausible noise, expertise matters more than ever.”
New blog 👇🏾
“In a sea of polished, plausible noise, expertise matters more than ever.”
New blog 👇🏾
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On my far-too-late realization that science is done by people, and that people are idiosyncratic (and sometimes weird), and that this matters in all kinds of interesting ways.
My far-too-late discovery of “science studies”
Warning: somewhat more technical than usual, but you can skip ahead when you need to. Did you know there’s a scholarly field called “science studies”? For an embarrassingly long time, I didn’t. Ju…
scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
On my far-too-late realization that science is done by people, and that people are idiosyncratic (and sometimes weird), and that this matters in all kinds of interesting ways.
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Happy to post our latest paper:
doi.org/10.1111/1751...
Biases accumulate with age, so it is essential to begin teaching critical thinking as early as possible. The problems are HOW, given the complexity of its theory, and IN WHAT EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT? The solutions we propose in this paper are...
doi.org/10.1111/1751...
Biases accumulate with age, so it is essential to begin teaching critical thinking as early as possible. The problems are HOW, given the complexity of its theory, and IN WHAT EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT? The solutions we propose in this paper are...
December 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Happy to post our latest paper:
doi.org/10.1111/1751...
Biases accumulate with age, so it is essential to begin teaching critical thinking as early as possible. The problems are HOW, given the complexity of its theory, and IN WHAT EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT? The solutions we propose in this paper are...
doi.org/10.1111/1751...
Biases accumulate with age, so it is essential to begin teaching critical thinking as early as possible. The problems are HOW, given the complexity of its theory, and IN WHAT EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT? The solutions we propose in this paper are...
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A new community-driven lab handbook for reducing conflict and creating more positive and equitable work environments gets strong support from a survey of 200 researchers.
buff.ly/K7CGFLV
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December 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
A new community-driven lab handbook for reducing conflict and creating more positive and equitable work environments gets strong support from a survey of 200 researchers.
buff.ly/K7CGFLV
buff.ly/K7CGFLV
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Thank you for coming to my TED Talk 🎤
If you’ve read this far and still need convincing, please check out our preprint arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 and this infographic: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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If you’ve read this far and still need convincing, please check out our preprint arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 and this infographic: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk 🎤
If you’ve read this far and still need convincing, please check out our preprint arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 and this infographic: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
10/10
If you’ve read this far and still need convincing, please check out our preprint arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 and this infographic: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
10/10
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This obit of Watson is *amazing*.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This obit of Watson is *amazing*.
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Canadian graduate students... how do you feel about members of parliament going through your transcripts and the personal information you disclosed in your applications in order to question whether you deserved your fellowship or not?
@supportourscience.bsky.social
@supportourscience.bsky.social
Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
October 31, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Canadian graduate students... how do you feel about members of parliament going through your transcripts and the personal information you disclosed in your applications in order to question whether you deserved your fellowship or not?
@supportourscience.bsky.social
@supportourscience.bsky.social
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Very excited to see our @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab x Feng Zhou lab work featured on the cover of Science!
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.
Using precise spatial and temporal analysis, researchers in Science provide insight into how bacteria around the root interact both with the plant and with each other.
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk
October 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Very excited to see our @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab x Feng Zhou lab work featured on the cover of Science!
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.
Happy to see the data from the main paper of my PhD being used to build this tool!
New publication: Predicting #rhizosphere-competence-related catabolic gene clusters in plant-associated #bacteria with rhizoSMASH, by @raaijmakersjm.bsky.social and others. #microbiome #biodiversity
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
October 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Happy to see the data from the main paper of my PhD being used to build this tool!
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Here's a reminder on #InternationalCoffeeDay: It's OK to take a (coffee) break. ☕
"It’s ... helpful to have a venue to share the day-to-day ups and downs of life as a grad student," a #PhD student wrote in this 2019 #ScienceWorkingLife. https://scim.ag/4nvLTBb
"It’s ... helpful to have a venue to share the day-to-day ups and downs of life as a grad student," a #PhD student wrote in this 2019 #ScienceWorkingLife. https://scim.ag/4nvLTBb
October 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Here's a reminder on #InternationalCoffeeDay: It's OK to take a (coffee) break. ☕
"It’s ... helpful to have a venue to share the day-to-day ups and downs of life as a grad student," a #PhD student wrote in this 2019 #ScienceWorkingLife. https://scim.ag/4nvLTBb
"It’s ... helpful to have a venue to share the day-to-day ups and downs of life as a grad student," a #PhD student wrote in this 2019 #ScienceWorkingLife. https://scim.ag/4nvLTBb
🧫 Happy International Microorganism Day!
Exactly 342 years ago today, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek described a single-celled organism for the first time in a letter to the Royal Society of London. After several centuries of research, there is still much to discover! ✨
#InternationalMicroorganismDay
Exactly 342 years ago today, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek described a single-celled organism for the first time in a letter to the Royal Society of London. After several centuries of research, there is still much to discover! ✨
#InternationalMicroorganismDay
September 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🧫 Happy International Microorganism Day!
Exactly 342 years ago today, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek described a single-celled organism for the first time in a letter to the Royal Society of London. After several centuries of research, there is still much to discover! ✨
#InternationalMicroorganismDay
Exactly 342 years ago today, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek described a single-celled organism for the first time in a letter to the Royal Society of London. After several centuries of research, there is still much to discover! ✨
#InternationalMicroorganismDay
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Join us at the Plant Science Research Institute of the University of Montreal to develop your research group in Plant Molecular Genetics:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with Institut de recherche en biologie végétale (IRBV) | 12844852
A full-time tenure-track assistant professor position at the IRBV, Université de Montréal.
www.nature.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Join us at the Plant Science Research Institute of the University of Montreal to develop your research group in Plant Molecular Genetics:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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We started a Starter Pack at the #RPB2025 meeting on Plant-Bacteria Interaction Research in Aussois, France 🗻. Let me know if you want to be added!
go.bsky.app/MgodMB4
go.bsky.app/MgodMB4
January 15, 2025 at 8:58 AM
We started a Starter Pack at the #RPB2025 meeting on Plant-Bacteria Interaction Research in Aussois, France 🗻. Let me know if you want to be added!
go.bsky.app/MgodMB4
go.bsky.app/MgodMB4
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Coexistence ecology of pathogen-inhibiting microbes in the phytobiome
#Pseudomonas "bacterial coexistence and interactions in host plant–microbe and microbe–microbe relationships" 🌱
@cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social Review from Heribert Hirt
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
#Pseudomonas "bacterial coexistence and interactions in host plant–microbe and microbe–microbe relationships" 🌱
@cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social Review from Heribert Hirt
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
Coexistence ecology of pathogen-inhibiting microbes in the phytobiome
Certain microbes have considerable potential as biocontrol agents against various
pathogens, but they coexist with other microbial species in complex networks of interactions
that influence their func...
www.cell.com
June 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Coexistence ecology of pathogen-inhibiting microbes in the phytobiome
#Pseudomonas "bacterial coexistence and interactions in host plant–microbe and microbe–microbe relationships" 🌱
@cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social Review from Heribert Hirt
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
#Pseudomonas "bacterial coexistence and interactions in host plant–microbe and microbe–microbe relationships" 🌱
@cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social Review from Heribert Hirt
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
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Sowing success: ecological insights into seedling microbial colonisation for robust plant microbiota engineering
by
@microbialmarie.bsky.social et al
In Trends in Plant Science
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
by
@microbialmarie.bsky.social et al
In Trends in Plant Science
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
Sowing success: ecological insights into seedling microbial colonisation for robust plant microbiota engineering
Manipulating the seedling microbiota through seed or soil inoculations has the potential
to improve plant health. Mixed in-field results have been attributed to a lack of
consideration for ecological ...
www.cell.com
February 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Sowing success: ecological insights into seedling microbial colonisation for robust plant microbiota engineering
by
@microbialmarie.bsky.social et al
In Trends in Plant Science
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
by
@microbialmarie.bsky.social et al
In Trends in Plant Science
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
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TONS to dig into here on the meteoric rise in publications from China - a trend that is unambiguously good for science, but has outpaced adaptation at Western journals, their reviewers, and their editors/editorial board members.
Guest Post — How the Growth of Chinese Research Is Bringing Western Publishing to Breaking Point scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/08/g...
Guest Post - How the Growth of Chinese Research Is Bringing Western Publishing to Breaking Point - The Scholarly Kitchen
Christos Petrou examines the rapid growth in publication volume coming from China, and how that is impacting the publishing industry.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
July 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
TONS to dig into here on the meteoric rise in publications from China - a trend that is unambiguously good for science, but has outpaced adaptation at Western journals, their reviewers, and their editors/editorial board members.
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July issue of @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social is now online, with our review by @xinmingxu.bsky.social @neftalyl.bsky.social on Composing a microbial symphony and a matching cover illustration by @lizahaart.bsky.social
#SynCom #PlantMicrobiome #MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology
#SynCom #PlantMicrobiome #MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology
July 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
July issue of @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social is now online, with our review by @xinmingxu.bsky.social @neftalyl.bsky.social on Composing a microbial symphony and a matching cover illustration by @lizahaart.bsky.social
#SynCom #PlantMicrobiome #MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology
#SynCom #PlantMicrobiome #MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology
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New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊
Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).
Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊
Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).
Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io
June 10, 2025 at 5:49 AM
New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊
Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).
Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊
Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).
Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
🌿 Happy to share the latest paper published today from my postdoc at Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada!
🦠 Specific #lipopeptides produced by a #Pseudomonas strain inhibit the plant pathogen #Sclerotinia sclerotiorum for effective #biocontrol
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
#peptin #mycin #brabantamides
🦠 Specific #lipopeptides produced by a #Pseudomonas strain inhibit the plant pathogen #Sclerotinia sclerotiorum for effective #biocontrol
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
#peptin #mycin #brabantamides
June 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
🌿 Happy to share the latest paper published today from my postdoc at Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada!
🦠 Specific #lipopeptides produced by a #Pseudomonas strain inhibit the plant pathogen #Sclerotinia sclerotiorum for effective #biocontrol
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
#peptin #mycin #brabantamides
🦠 Specific #lipopeptides produced by a #Pseudomonas strain inhibit the plant pathogen #Sclerotinia sclerotiorum for effective #biocontrol
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
#peptin #mycin #brabantamides
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Science covered our recent meeting, as we try and get microbial conservation integrated into the IUCN.
‘A publicity problem’: New group pushes for microbes to be conserved like other endangered species | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
‘A publicity problem’: New group pushes for microbes to be conserved like other endangered species | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
‘A publicity problem’: New group pushes for microbes to be conserved like other endangered species
Science speaks with conservation scientist Kent Redford about why microbes need protection from extinction—and how to achieve it
www.science.org
May 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Science covered our recent meeting, as we try and get microbial conservation integrated into the IUCN.
‘A publicity problem’: New group pushes for microbes to be conserved like other endangered species | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
‘A publicity problem’: New group pushes for microbes to be conserved like other endangered species | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Not only will this create a network effect, but because bioRxiv is intended to be an enabling platform that stimulates evolution, it will allow _other people_ to do great things e.g. connect.biorxiv.org/news/2021/05... 2/2
An easy access dashboard now provides links to scientific discussion and evaluation of bioRxiv preprints.
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
connect.biorxiv.org
December 21, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Not only will this create a network effect, but because bioRxiv is intended to be an enabling platform that stimulates evolution, it will allow _other people_ to do great things e.g. connect.biorxiv.org/news/2021/05... 2/2