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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 14h

Half of microbial eukaryote literature focuses on only twelve human parasites

-in #ISMEJournal by Joanna Lepper, @hbrappap.bsky.social and @oliverio.bsky.social

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Half of microbial eukaryote literature focuses on only twelve human parasites

Abstract. Although microbial eukaryotes comprise the majority of eukaryotic phylogenetic diversity and inhabit nearly all ecosystems globally, most researc

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 4d

#ZebrafishFunFacts: As the most-cited #zebrafish cancer research paper, Amsterdam et al screened hundreds of heterozygous lines for embryonic lethal mutations & found elevated cancer incidence in ribosomal genes. This previously underappreciated finding was published @plosbiology.org 21 years ago. 🧪

Figure 1. Spindle Cell Tumors Resembling MPNSTs in Zebrafish Heterozygous for Mutations in RP Genes
(A and B) Fish with apparent masses, as indicated by the arrows, or other evident pathology were selected for histological analysis: (A) a hi2582 fish, (B) a hi1034B fish. (C–H) Histopathology of representative tumors stained with hematoxylin and eosin reveals patterns consistent with the diagnosis of MPNST in hi10 fish (C and D), hi1974 fish (E–G), and hi1807 fish (H). (D) A large tumor with central necrosis is seen emanating from the optic nerve (n) (e, eye) (20×).

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 5d

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to give a seminar at the Fellows Conference, which will be held on 10 March 2026.

Candidates who win Fellowships will be offered a Tenure Track Group Leader position from the outset, initially for 5 years.

Find out more: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...

Independent Research Fellowships Leading to Tenured Faculty Positions | John Innes Centre

The John Innes Centre (JIC), is a world leading centre of excellence in plant and microbial sciences based on the Norwich Research Park, UK. We are inviting applications from outstanding researchers…

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James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social · 13d

OK, here it is. Come work with me at the University of Liverpool making ALL THE AI models from ALL THE prokaryote pangenome data. Heck, we will make models from ALL the pangenomes, even eukaryotes!!! (link below👇) 1/4

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 14d

I and other participants of the Novel Approaches to Preventing Publication Bias Workshop, hosted by the NINDS Office of Research Quality in May 2024, have published a framework to encourage the publication of null results in science: 🧪

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Ending publication bias: A values-based approach to surface null and negative results

Sharing knowledge is a fundamental principle within the scientific community, yet null and negative results are still being underreported. This Consensus View discusses the problem of such publication...

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 13d

Sharing knowledge is a fundamental principle within the scientific community, yet null and negative results are still being underreported. @scurry.bsky.social &co present a roadmap to a solution that has a role for everyone in the scientific community 🧪 #Academicsky #reproducibility
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Ending publication bias: A values-based approach to surface null and negative results

Sharing knowledge is a fundamental principle within the scientific community, yet null and negative results are still being underreported. This Consensus View discusses the problem of such publication...

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Kif Liakath-Ali @kifla.bsky.social · 13d

Null & negative results ≠ failure. They’re essential—but still sidelined.

Proud to co-author this @plosbiology.org paper tackling systemic bias & calling for culture change.

ECRs pay the highest price for this biased culture!

Blog by @scurry.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ysc23wrx

#PublicationBias

Ending publication bias: A values-based approach to surface null and negative results

Sharing knowledge is a fundamental principle within the scientific community, yet null and negative results are still being underreported. This Consensus View discusses the problem of such publication...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16d

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases.

This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions.

arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review

Large language models (LLMs) are playing an increasingly integral, though largely informal, role in scholarly peer review. Yet it remains unclear whether LLMs reproduce the biases observed in human de...

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 19d

This Primer explores two @plosbiology.org studies that reveal how short axon cells in the #OlfactoryBulb integrate #cholinergic input from the basal #forebrain to dynamically regulate #olfactory input 🧪Papers: plos.io/4pvost3 plos.io/3VnO1hT Primer: plos.io/3Ivzcqy

Short axon cells of the olfactory bulb dynamically filter olfactory sensory input during attention and after learning. As mice learn to discriminate odors (left), providing a cue before presenting odors (top) improves performance by recruiting cholinergic signaling from the basal forebrain (ACh, blue) to inhibit short axon cells (SAC, magenta) which, in turn, disinhibits olfactory sensory neuron (OSN, green and orange) axon terminals in olfactory bulb glomeruli (dashed circles), and increases their signaling onto mitral and tufted cells (MTCs, gray). After learning (right), SACs remodel to make stronger contacts with reward-associated OSNs (top) and cholinergic signaling is disengaged during the cued period before odor presentations. Cholinergic signaling, however, is strongly recruited during presentations of the reward-associated odor (bottom), allowing disinhibition of reward-linked odor signaling from OSNs to MTCs.

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 19d

How do your #linguistic, #economic & #gender backgrounds impact your #scientific productivity? @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social & co reveal that being a woman, a non-native English speaker, and from a low-income country is associated with a 70% reduction in productivity @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4n3RLRQ

Scientific productivity gap based on English-language peer-reviewed papers. Shown are the maximum % differences in the number of peer-reviewed papers published by female native English speakers from a high-income country (-45%), female non-native English speakers from a high-income country (-60%), and female non-native English speakers from a lower-middle income country (-70%), compared to male native English speakers from a high-income country (red flag). Credit: Tatsuya Amano

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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 19d

This looks terrific & the photo is artsy to boot.

It however reminds me of my Twitter timeline in the first months of the pandemic, when the whole world seemed to be baking bread while I homeschooled two kids & started a new job… cortisol levels on the rise just thinking about it
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Sourdough2021 @sourdough2021.bsky.social · 19d

Crumb shot of my multi-seeded sourdough using a Colorado levain, 15% scalded home milled YQ grain (5% cracked), 50% scalded home milled Atle grain, sage, 30% very strong white Canadian flour, 60g olive oil plus 65g mixed seeds. Less rise but more flavour!!! #sourdough #bread #breadsky #canadian

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PLOS @plos.org · 20d

The rise of AI is reshaping how we think, write, and review science. This #PeerReviewWeek, we’re asking how do we preserve trust and transparency in a system that’s rapidly evolving?

🔗 Read our latest blog: plos.io/46d8BI9

@peerreviewweek.bsky.social

#OpenScience #PRW2025

Promotional image for PLOS article titled 'The Promise and Perils of AI Use in Peer Review' featuring a close-up of a butterfly on the right, with abstract colorful lines on a dark background to the left. Text on the image details the influence of AI on scholarly publishing and the rethinking of peer review in the AI era.

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PLOS @plos.org · 20d

We have submitted a response to the National Institutes of Health's Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs. We believe that equitable access to publishing is essential to advancing open science.

🔗 Read our full response here: plos.io/4n9MEzF

Image featuring a PLOS (Public Library of Science) statement on maximizing research funds by limiting publishing costs, next to a graphical representation of a butterfly with multi-colored lines symbolizing data or connectivity.

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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 23d

Retuning here always warms my heart ❤️

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 23d

Look out for our Editor in Chief at “The Human Microbiome” symposium @embl.org this week!

We are keen to provide those of you working with human-associated microbes a home for your research, so do reach out to @npariente.bsky.social for a chat

Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 23d

Starting the final leg of my journey to the @embl.org symposium “The Human Microbiome”

It’s been a surprisingly long travel day! I am really looking forward to seeing everyone there, and to Heidelberg itself, where I lived 9yrs. It’s always a pleasure to visit

Come say hello this week!

Poster for the EMBO-EMBL symposium “The Human Microbiome”

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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 23d

Starting the final leg of my journey to the @embl.org symposium “The Human Microbiome”

It’s been a surprisingly long travel day! I am really looking forward to seeing everyone there, and to Heidelberg itself, where I lived 9yrs. It’s always a pleasure to visit

Come say hello this week!

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Rebecca Mosher @rm0sher.bsky.social · 23d

Three Associate Professor (or Professor) positions available at Oxford Biology. Come be my colleague! www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/we-a...

We are hiring! Oxford biology has three associate professorships available as we move to new state-of-the-art facilities

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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 26d

Though recently a @plosbiology author got an email inviting them to submit their published paper to another journal 🙄

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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 26d

This really is devolving into an authoritarian state at record speed

Now he wants sham trials…

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26d

Trump on Fox & Friends: "One thing I say is we have to have quick trials. I called it quick trial. 'Cause in China they do have quick trials, you know? ... They should have a trial the following day."

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Mikel López Iturriaga @mikeliturriaga.bsky.social · 28d

Restringir la comercialización y aumentar los impuestos a los ultraprocesados. Prohibir su venta y su publicidad en las escuelas, y hacer frente a las injerencias de su industria. Propuestas que más de uno y de una tildaría aquí de comunistas-dictatoriales-bolivarianas, pero que hace... UNICEF.

EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 28d

Por primera vez, la obesidad supera al bajo peso como forma dominante de malnutrición a nivel mundial entre los niños y adolescentes. La prevalencia de sobrepeso aumenta en países de ingresos bajos. social.elpais.com/1d7au9

Por primera vez, la obesidad supera al bajo peso como forma de malnutrición entre niños y adolescentes en el mundo, según Unicef

Un nuevo informe alerta del rápido aumento de la prevalencia de sobrepeso en países de ingresos bajos. Los comedores escolares, que han aumentado su cobertura, son una herramienta clave de prevención

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · Sep 8

Science is under siege from weaponised disinformation – posing a threat to human civilisation | Michael Mann and Peter Hotez

From Covid misinformation to climate denialism, understanding the divergent paths of Australia and the US can help us fight the powerful forces that threaten our world As two scientists who lived through Australia’s black summer bushfires and the Covid-19 crisis in the United States, we have seen firsthand how science in modern societies is under siege from an even more insidious “antiscience virus” of weaponised disinformation that undermines our ability to confront these crises. There are five primary, interconnected forces behind the assault on science and reason. We call them the “five Ps”: the plutocrats, the petrostates, the pros (eg paid promoters of anti-science), the propagandists and – with important exceptions – the media. Together they have generated a perfect storm of antiscientific disinformation that now threatens humanity. Continue reading...

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Daniel S. Katz @danielskatz.org · Sep 8

I'm happy to be at @oecd-ocde.bsky.social today, co-running the "Access to research software: Opportunities and challenges" workshop (www.oecd.org/en/events/20...), which hopefully will lead to new policies that support access to research software as a key enabler towards advancing open science

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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · Sep 6

Dangerous misinformation and quackery on the rise in the UK…

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Doctor uses Reform conference speech to link king’s cancer to Covid vaccine

Aseem Malhotra claimed ‘eminent oncologist’ said jab was ‘significant factor in the cancer of members of royal family’

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Sep 4

Uropathogenic #Ecoli #UPEC proliferate as round coccoid cells during intracellular infection; @alaskapokhrel.bsky.social @bill-lab.bsky.social &co show that accelerated division via FtsZ constriction drives this, the coccobacillus form persisting for generations @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4gdx97i

Divisome dynamics in intracellular UPEC cells during infection. Left: Representative confocal image of intracellular UTI89 expressing a division marker (FtsZ-mCitrine; pseudo coloured green) with mCherry (pseudo coloured magenta) as cytoplasmic marker, bladder cell membranes shown in blue (CellBrite Steady Membrane 405) and nuclei shown in gold (NucSpot Live Cell 650). Right: Still images of a time-lapse sequence showing FtsZ-mCitrine (pseudo coloured green) driven coccobacilli divisions imaged using HiLo illumination.

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · Sep 3

Science has already saved countless lives and will save many more if we let it. Hearing firsthand from patients whose lives have been saved by medical research (tinyurl.com/m65339fh) shows how vital this funding is, even for those lucky enough not to have needed it yet.
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