I buy my books at @orellfuessli.bsky.social. They get me books I want. They have a nice shop. I just wish they dropped their flirting with "protection money" racketeering when they try to sell me insurance for ordering a book online and picking it up at their store.

Wow. #Frontiers fights back with an opinion piece shouting "The fault is in the researchers, leave Frontiers alone!" And with the piece having no disclaimers of funding and donations, and apparently no editorial revision this opens the possibility of Frontiers paying for propaganda.

Samuel Moore@samuelmoore.org · 5mo ago

Although academic incentives are of course responsible for loads of weird and dodgy behaviour, no amount of incentive reform will stop the commercialisation of academic labour by the publishing industry. You can't say the 'junkification' of research is purely a problem of academic incentives.

Thrilled to see this finally out!! Our new work suggests #Starships helped #Colletotrichum acquire the genes needed to infect lupin. A glimpse into how fungal pathogens emerge through horizontal transfer and genome reshaping. biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Fungi #Genomics #Pathogenicity #evolution

After having consulted the #DRC & #Uganda where the #Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus is known to be currently occurring, I determine that the epidemic constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), as defined in the provisions of IHR. My statement: bit.ly/4wGGiwX

Chinese newspaper cartoon (Today... 😂 )

"STAY HYDRATED" #WeAreAllImmigrants

Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

#bugsky 🐛🪲🐞 I love the view of Onychophora on a Saturday morning

Gwyllm Llwydd@gwyllm.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The ancient Peripatus (Velvet Worm)

Seems the UK needs to acknowledge it has a white supremacy terrorism problem. And it wouldn't be hard to find out who's been promoting hate in politics.

You're about to see headlines saying abortion pills can't be shipped. THAT IS NOT TRUE You can still get abortion pills by mail to all fifty states. Some providers will switch to miso-only, some will ship both mife & miso. I got into all of this when the federal court ruling first dropped:

The Biggest Attack on Abortion Since the End of Roe

A federal court wants to end mifepristone by mail—it's not happening

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Who would've thought cuts on food security (3500 FDA jobs, 9% Food Safety and Inspection Service jobs, cut on Safety programs, cut on 17 Inspector Generals, having the grifter Marty Makary as FDA comissioner, blocking a rule proposal aimed to reduce Salmonella in poultry) would have consequences.

Deborah Blum@deborahb.bsky.social · 5mo ago

In the last couple weeks, we've seen a remarkable number of food recalls due to salmonella contamination. So many, in fact, that it's worth our time to take a deeper look at some of the reasons why. 1/10

Every time I am pushed an iHerb (the vitamin supplement Big Pharma company) ad on YouTube, I will repost this link to the time when the California State found dangerous levels of the heavy metal Cadmium in iHerb products #BigPharma #VitaminScam oag.ca.gov/system/files...

🌱🌎 #EcologySky #QuantitativeEcology 📈🌳

Paul Caplat 🌲🌳🐦🦋@paulcaplat.bsky.social · 5mo ago

#Job opportunity! We are looking for a post-doc with experience in quantitative #ecology, preferably with modelling plant dynamics at large scale, to work 2 years with the fantastic @climatecocentre.bsky.social at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social .

#Job opportunity! We are looking for a post-doc with experience in quantitative #ecology, preferably with modelling plant dynamics at large scale, to work 2 years with the fantastic @climatecocentre.bsky.social at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social .

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.

Fireblight of apples and pears was the first plant infection to be diagnosed as caused by bacteria in 1880 by Burrill, he called it Micrococcus amylovorus. In 1920 the bacterium was reclassified as Erwinia amylovora by Winslow. Photo Roberta Pastorelli #fireblight #apples #pears #disease #bacteria

Thank you to @sciam.bsky.social for letting me dig into the protein enhancement fad. 1. If you are an elite athlete, OR elderly/frail, maybe you do need extra protein. 2. That's not you. You're not an elite athlete. 3. If it is you: consider yogurt. www.scientificamerican.com/article/prot...

Are protein-boosted foods and drinks actually more healthy?

Extra protein can be found in everything now, from potato chips to Pop-Tarts. Does this benefit the average eater?

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Is there a good colony counting tool for images as this one out there? I tried OpenCFU here and it didn't work at all. 🧪

🔴 In Australia, two paddleboarders rescued an exhausted wallaby that had been swept out to sea. Now he'll go and tell it in his own circle, and none of them will believe him either.

Sound advice www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/o...

Opinion | Here’s How Freaked Out You Should Be About the Hantavirus Cruise Ship

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Everyone is freaking out about hantavirus, so I read my notes from my MPH and a bunch of articles so you don't have to. Long story short - it's shit for people impacted, but you are very, very unlikely to be impacted. gidmk.substack.com/p/you-probab...

You Probably Don't Need To Stress About Hantavirus

Some facts about the new outbreak that's worrying the globe

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At first I thought it was a sleeping bee, & it moved very quickly when I tried to touch it. But then it stopped moving again and I finally saw why. Such good camouflage, a white crab spider in a white pear blossom. 🌱 #inverts

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: Scientists isolated a fungus—A. calidoustus—from NASA’s clean rooms where Mars-bound spacecraft are prepped. Then they tried and failed to kill it with conditions mimicking Mars and deep space. The implications... aren’t great. www.scientificamerican.com/article/coul...

Could this fungus live on Mars? Maybe it already does

An almost unkillable fungal strain isolated from NASA’s ultrasterile clean rooms hints at “critical gaps” in interplanetary quarantine

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The most embarrassing moment of being a scientist of the 21st century is watching the tsunami of misinformation in nutrition, health and microbiome research while witnessing the actual expert scientists produce the most ridiculous excuses on why its not their job to correct such lies.

#MicroSky people, have you ever grown a Staph aureus biofilm that forms a crispy or hard exterior crust (not in urine)? My MBio student Izabela has, and we are not finding much literature on this.

Some serious analyses on replicability rate as a measure of reliability. Worth reading the thread and the preperint!

Berna Devezer@devezer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Replication remains valuable for evidence accumulation, calibration, and characterizing variability. But replicability rate is NOT a demarcation criterion. Replicability rate-based verdicts on fields are INVALID. If there is a crisis in science, it cannot be established by these methods.

#WildBees and #pollinators need our help. You can help some of them with bee hotels. They also need food, pollen and nectar. So use less #lawnmower, and let #wildflowers bloom in your yard and garden! #bees #bumblebees #wasps #wildlife #backyard #beehotels

🪲🐞🐛🐜🕷🦋🦟🦗🪰 #InverteFest #BugSky #pollinator #wildbee #nativebee #Bern Another furrow bee for this season. Lassioglossum politum