We investigated and identified several skin-derived bacteria that antagonize common pathogenic species: www.nature.com/articles/s41... A cool highlight was that bacteria from feet, where fungi are particularly diverse, tended to be more broadly antifungal than those from other body sites! #microevo

Large-scale investigation for antimicrobial activity reveals newly-identified defensive species across the healthy skin microbiome - Nature Communications

Authors present the EPithelial Isolate Collection (EPIC), a large skin microbiome culture collection, uncovering new species, widespread antifungal activity, and hidden biosynthetic diversity, reveali...

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I never thought that I would have to write this piece about my university. But after weeks of demonstrating privately to senior managers that their case is based on a false prospectus, that their data are inaccurate and their claims misleading, there was little choice. substack.com/@lucasamin/n...

Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

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No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

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Cause if individual feel responsible, will they really organize or ask politicians for action?

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · last wk.

The personal climate footprint framework is a strategic distraction from going after the fossil fuel industry and other major sources of greenhouse gases. Too, chickens are trivial business compared to cows, let alone to Andy Burnham's apparent decision to go after North Sea oil.

Fuck AI 🧪

Kayleigh Diaz 🫜@kayleighdiaz.com · last wk.

So we're now at the point where generations of kids are outsourcing their critical thinking, completely skipping the productive struggle—probably losing some neural plasticity as a result—believing & retaining false info, losing the ability to think through problems & come up with unique solutions,

Wall Street is caught in an AI-spending death spiral, with no rescue in sight. Analysis from today by Eva Roytburg:

I am beyond excited to share that our paper, "Neurodivergent Perceptions, Experiences, and Perspectives in Academic Biological Sciences Spaces" has been published! A 🧵incoming because this paper is so special to me and the co-authors. doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

Neurodivergent Perceptions, Experiences, and Perspectives in Academic Biological Sciences Spaces

Abstract. Neurodiversity has received considerable attention recently from the general population and academic researchers, coinciding with an increase in

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When you are ready for submission and you see the funder updated their template with a lot more requirements

Ugh No Michael Scott No

Alt: Close up of a disappointed face

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Super cool mechanism tbh

Barbara Marte@barbmarte.bsky.social · 7d ago

new out in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Brain mitochondria as key drivers of cognition and behaviour — a Review by Carmen Sandi, Mary Kay Lobo, Fiona Hollis, Yusuke Hirabayashi, Jaime de Juan-Sanz & Juan P. Bolaños #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Brain mitochondria as key drivers of cognition and behaviour - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Neuronal and glial mitochondria support neuronal circuit function and plasticity through the supply of energetic substrates and the regulation of cellular physiology. Sandi and colleagues describe how...

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my american colleagues: "do you think you might move back to the states at some point?" me:

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last wk.

Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters The plastic, non-lethal aircraft, which can smash windows and ram attackers will be at the ready at certain schools in Colorado, Florida and Georgia www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

I am excited to announce the latest paper from our lab, published in Science ! In this study, we show that thalamocortical-like circuits in the zebrafish brain process sensory information hierarchically across topographically organized forebrain circuits.

Hierarchical sensory processing in zebrafish thalamocortical-like circuits

Thalamocortical projections shape the functional regionalization and parallel sensory computations across the mammalian cortex. However, the principles of thalamocortical computations in non-mammalian...

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience@kavlintnu.bsky.social · last mo.

Out now in @science.org by @emreyaksi.bsky.social, Anh-Tuan Trinh and colleagues at the Kavli Institute in Trondheim: Hierarchical sensory processing in zebrafish thalamocortical-like circuits doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Happy to share my first preprint as senior author! Our great PhD student @kimjuli.bsky.social in @beckergroup.bsky.social shows that macrophages are quite dynamic and heterogeneous after spinal cord injury in 🐟 and all express regeneration-relevant genes! Find more in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social

Diverse origins and transcriptional profiles of macrophages in a spinal lesion in zebrafish

The injury responses of tissue-resident macrophages in the CNS (microglia) and blood-derived macrophages (BDMs) play key roles in successful regeneration of the zebrafish spinal cord, but the origins ...

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Last year when we visited Spain, it was on fire. This year, Spain is on fire again. Welcome to the future.

It's particularly insulting that our entire research and education sector in the US is getting dismantled by such absolute dipshits.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

3. I know this will strain credulity, but at times it seems as if the report's author Michael Kratsios has absolutely no idea what he is talking about. Take this statement. As a former member of a department of biological sciences and a department of life sciences, I have no idea what this means.

The Swinburne Lab is hiring a Lab Assistant! Join us in using zebrafish and live imaging to uncover how organs form and function. If you're passionate about cell and developmental biology, we'd love to hear from you. Apply and help spread the word! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05459

Jr Specialist/Assistant Specialist – Developmental Biology/Cell Biology – Molecular and Cell Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Love this!

Cristian Gutierrez-Ibañez@gallinaciega.bsky.social · 2w ago

Neural correlates of seed-eating in songbirds royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... Our new paper showing that songbirds that dehusk seeds with the beak and tongue have an enlarged trigeminal nucleus in the brainstem, particularly the part where the tongue is represented.

We did! And the fancy pants

MadScientist@mads100tist.bsky.social · 4w ago

We found the beer @drgillesv.bsky.social

Someone on Reddit used this prompt to get "AI" to reveal its copyrighted training data, and I decided to test it myself and what do you know, anyway, "AI" is trained on theft, don't use it

Cell-to-cell cooperation through membrane vesicles enhances antibiotic persistence @science.org @bcmfromthelabs.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Going to Janelia for a conference in October, maybe it's time to go visit my US based colleagues

Astrid Laimer-Digruber (from Monika Ehling-Schulz group at University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna) on EVs for Lunch: Bacterial extracellular vesicles as recyclable nutrient reservoirs See their recent @natcomms.nature.com paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #BACELL2026

Bacterial extracellular vesicles as recyclable nutrient reservoirs - Nature Communications

Bacterial extracellular vesicles can mediate intercellular communication, virulence, and immune modulation. Here the authors show that bacteria can also utilise these vesicles as recyclable nutrient r...

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I loved that conference, and it was so good to present my people's work!

You have no idea how proud I am of of this paper from the lab showing that RANK signalling affects the development of Tuft and BEST4 cells in the zebrafish gut, with in vivo evidence indicating that BEST4 cells contribute to defences against enteropathogens

🧠We offer 1-2 Postdoc positions in Circuit Neuroscience!🧠 Join us at @dandrite.bsky.social to study thalamic circuits for visual processing, funded by an ERC starting grant and the Lundbeck foundation. Deadline: 14. Juni 2026 Apply here: international.au.dk/about/profil...

The brain body physiology meeting at CSHL was amazing. Can't wait for 2028 and the sequel. So many cool ideas and amazing science, Cold spring harbor is also so beautiful

Monkey auditory neurons "did not show enhanced responses to unexpected stimulus repetitions, contrary to predictive-coding theory. However, they did show enhanced responses to unexpected stimulus omissions." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

It's out! Happy to present ITEC, a semi supervised algorithm with an extremely low error rate that can track cells in files of any size (think Terabytes!). We used it in many organisms, including zebrafish, to study how organs form and linked it to gene expression www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... +🧪

What if quorum sensing doesn’t promote biofilms - but restrains it? 🤔 New work from @harisantypas.bsky.social shows that the Fsr QS system in Enterococcus faecalis acts as a brake on biofilm formation and pathogenesis during infective endocarditis (IE). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Loss of Fsr quorum sensing promotes biofilm formation and worsens outcomes in enterococcal infective endocarditis - Nature Communications

Infective endocarditis (IE) is an understudied biofilm-associated infection. Here, analyses of preclinical and clinical data reveal that the Fsr quorum sensing (QS) system of Enterococcus faecalis is ...

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Yeah, not very surprising, in the thread Anthropic had the same results. So maybe we should stop pushing AI everywhere?

Pause AI in BC Schools@aicaution.ca · 6mo ago

Even Microsoft's own paid studies show that AI harms learning. Students that just took notes did better than those that used AI. Students that used AI and took notes didn't do as well as those that just took notes. From this puff-piece page on their site: www.microsoft.com/en-us/educat...