The feed here is much more soothing than whatever is up on X. One after other I see advocates of meritocracy and enemies of reservation on the latter. Here all I have to see are publications and some reasonable posts. What a sweet place to be

Never thought of this aspect of host pathogen interaction. Quite Interesting paper

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How do parasites adapt to multiple hosts with a single genome? This study supports the adaptive decoupling hypothesis and help explain how complex multi-host life cycles evolve. Laura Gramolini et al. @humboldtuni.bsky.social @igb-berlin.de doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Talk Alert! Introducing the brand new series "Ecological Dynamics". Featuring Oliver Meacock! Oliver will talk on using growth accelerations to link niche theory to ecosystem coexistence. 📆 24th July 2026 | ⏱️ 9:30 PM IST Joining link: northeastern.zoom.us/j/9832742702... #Microbiomes #PopDyn

Are you an early-career researcher based in the Global South? Apply by 20 November 2026 for BiO Global South Conference Travel Grants to attend an international biological or biomedical conference. More information at www.biologists.com/grants/bio-g...

"I believe that Wittgenstein was right when he said that in any language there are things that cannot be said." - @dereklowe.bsky.social which means much remains unlearnable by ML, despite what the AI universalists say. The End of Disease | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...

The End of Disease

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Just saw a woman scientist make a definitive statement on a subject in which she is undeniably an expert, and almost immediately some random man who is not a scientist or an expert in the topic contradicted her It's exhausting to even look at this shit. Absolutely incredible.

Hi ! I would like to perform a time lapse microscope to analyse interaction between a gram -ve and +ve bacteria. Unfortunately the +ve one has no fluorescent protein, the -ve one has gfp plasmid. Is there anyway i can visualise their interaction without getting the +ve one tagged? Thanks beforehand

Dear funding agencies, I know we all want to discover the wonder drug that will cure the horrible diseases, but to do that, we need to invest in basic, unsexy, foundational research on how the systems work. Funding can’t all be drug development. Sincerely, Looking for basic research grants.

4th year biology major from IISERM here looking for masters thesis position. My interests lie in microbial evolution preferably questions related to origin and evoln of multicellularity, AMR, adaptation. I am trained in basic molbio lab techniques and bioinfo. Any suggestions on whom can I approach?

deeeepsmita.notion.site/Would-Tony-S... Let me know what you think about privilege in academia.

Would Tony Stark be Tony Stark if he weren’t a billionaire? Privilege in academia | Notion

Would Tony Stark be Tony Stark if he weren’t a billionaire?

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Im gonna challenge myself with something new from upcoming week ( i.e. tomorrow). I shall upload a short note which shall be related to something I learnt in the day. Apart from helping me with consistency, it might help others too. Meanwhile if u find some error, let me know.

Found on linkedin that Paul Dirac's PhD thesis was handwritten. I would love to write my master's thesis the same way. ( I got a good handwriting✍️) Is it still allowed. Has someone else done it???

Anyway, back to the Old Camera and some excellent Colorado birds

Its that season of the year where many students who have appeared IAT are asking about IISER life.It took me 3yrs to realise that science in India is for people who come from privileged family. Just want to get done with my degree and leave this college ASAP.

Saw these purple colored mangoes back in my village. Anyone got any idea which variety it might be.

In the times in which we live maybe there's not a ton of interest in new science results, but we remain intensely proud of this (UPDATED) preprint out of the lab - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Oocyte mitochondria link maternal environment to offspring phenotype

During oogenesis and maturation oocytes undergo a recently discovered mitochondrial electron transport chain (ETC) remodeling in flies, frogs, and humans. This conserved oocyte ETC remodeling is regul...

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An intuitive visualization of the regulatory layers influencing the stoichiometry of a protein complex. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

You know more than ever I would really like to have a wiki or some other resource listing academic conferences with virtual or hybrid participation

🧩 PhD Position – Origins of Darwinian Inheritance 🧩 This joint PhD project between the @rug.nl (Rampal Etienne & Martijn Egas) and @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social (Bram van Dijk) explores how simple prebiotic systems could evolve reliable information transfer. Apply here: shorturl.at/WgYMF

New vacancy in my team! PhD student position on microbial genome evolution, focusing on the evolutionary principles underlying bacterial genome architecture. Please repost and share with talented MSc students in #evobio, bioinformatics or related :) www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #MEvoSky #MicroSky

Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!

Researchers in the Jain lab engineered DNA and RNA-based liquids with programmable properties such as viscosity and elasticity. It's research that could offer insights into how biomolecular condensates assemble within cells. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sequence-encoded intermolecular base pairing modulates fluidity in DNA and RNA condensates - Nature Communications

Engineered DNA and RNA sequences create programmable liquid droplets with tunable properties, shedding light on both synthetic materials and the physics of RNA-based cellular condensates.

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😻 HUGE NEWS! One of the "Magnificent 8" – key missing lineages for understanding animal origins – is ALIVE in our lab! Watch the video! Massive thanks to @luisjagago.bsky.social (isolation wizard!) & @beaplab.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @prbb.org @csic.es @erc.europa.eu #protistsonSky

Very cool new work by @megbehri.bsky.social and William F. McLaughlin: Starvation drives co-existence in cross-feeding bacterial populations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Starvation drives co-existence in cross-feeding bacterial populations

Cross-feeding is a universal feature of natural microbial communities that extends even into subpopulation structures, generating cooperative ecotypes. However, we still lack an understanding of the e...

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How does complex multicellularity emerge? A key step is the invention of cell differentiation, allowing division of labour and spatial patterning. Here's a great review in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social @wcratcliff.bsky.social @multicellgenome.bsky.social sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our new preprint by @nanamikubota.bsky.social shows that P. aeruginosa, and likely many other bacteria carrying filamentous prophages (like V. parahaemolyticus), risk being exploited by these phages in a runaway process that reduces fitness of both host and virus. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵

Filamentous cheater phages drive bacterial and phage populations to lower fitness

Many bacteria carry phage genome(s) in their chromosome (i.e., prophage), and this intertwines the fitness of the bacterium and the phage. Most Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains carry filamentous phages ...

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