@mads100tist.bsky.social @zebrafishrock.bsky.social: Who's volunteering to log back into to the twitter account to Chuck Norris up the zebrafish factoids?

Adam Kucharski@adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 21h ago

Two fictional (presumably AI) stories in recent X posts, now repeated as a Google summary. No need to tell tall tales about your achievements when the AI ecosystem will now do it for you…

The headlines are still covering the cyclosporiasis outbreak from lettuce, but let's talk about a different summer, long ago. The headlines in Bavaria would have called it "summer diarrhea" & it was killing babies. Enter our hero, Professor Theodor Escherich of the Julius Hospital, Würzburg.

"After you open a new bottle be sure to mark it with the date"

New research just dropped today that makes octopuses even weirder than they already are… let me explain🧵🧪🐙🐡🦑

Work on the new edition of the Mycobacteria Protocols is well underway. We have a couple of spaces, so if you are interested and have a new method you think would be a no brainer to include, drop us a line.. #Mycobacteria #MycobacteriaProtocols #TB #TBResearch🦠🧪

🚨🚨 Faculty search! Spread the word! 🚨🚨 The Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology Department at Vanderbilt is hiring! Special consideration will be given to faculty working with Risk Group 3 pathogens (so you can join us in our brand new state-of-the-art BSL3!) apply.interfolio.com/188545

@alnajifg.bsky.social's long-delayed masterpiece (spanning his time in my and Marco Vignuzzi's labs) on influenza virus WT/DelVG co-evolutionary dynamics is finally out!! Lots of exciting data about how DelVGs evolve and compete within complex populations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fadi Alnaji@alnajifg.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Finally, it's up on bioRxiv! It's been a rewarding journey shaping this story. My deepest gratitude to @vignuzzilab.bsky.social and @christopherbrooke.bsky.social for their incredible support, and to the @mcbillinois.bsky.social & @astar-idlabs.bsky.social for enabling this research

#zebrafish jobs 🧪

Ákos T Kovács@evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · last wk.

Join us at Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) as an Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Mechanisms of Disease Apply before 31st August, 2026: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan...

Please repost! #microsky🦠 The Glickman Lab at MSK is recruiting! Projects in Mtb pathogenesis, basic biology of mycobacteria, and mycobacterial cancer therapies. See our publications here: tinyurl.com/3f386f4x Send CV and cover letter to: glickmanmycolab@gmail.com

It's not a star wars escape pod, it's star trek eject the core

Lieutenant Shaxs: I Say We Eject The Warp Core!

Alt: Lieutenant Shaxs: I Say We Eject The Warp Core!

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Science Magazine@science.org · 2w ago

These microbial clusters can eject “escape pods” to survive. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4gJ8WrE

Almost 20 years after my first in vivo live imaging infection it infuriates me when graduate students blindly recite the dogma of intravellular v extracellular infections. Nice summary countering the dogma around two of the (worst?) examples I hear about

Jose Bengoechea@josebengoechea.bsky.social · 3w ago

Delighted with the publication in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social of a concept note where we propose a new framework to capture the complexity of infections in vivo: metapopulation infection biology. Supported by Klebsiella and Cryptococcus research among other pathogens www.cell.com/trends/micro...

In keeping with ZII8 tradition, ZII9 will feature a plenary by some yobbo from the west of a Southern Hemisphere city (this guy!)

Zebrafish Disease Models Society (ZDMS)@zdmsociety.bsky.social · 4w ago

Already planning to attend #ZDM19 in Oxford? Consider staying a bit longer to attend 'Zebrafish Infection and Immunity 9' held the day after the main conference ends, at Worcester College. For more details on this joint meeting, visit their official conference website: www.zebrafishinfection.co.uk

Congrats to the 5 winners of @biologyopen.bsky.social Global South travel grants #EZM2026 was an honor to meet & learn about your science

What is the best way to spell/pronounce the name of the small freshwater fish called Danio rerio? Let's settle it on the pitch! ⚽🐟🏆 Follow us throughout the remainder of the tournament as we update the bracket after each round! Which one is your favorite to win? 🗺️🤔 #ZebrafishWorldCup #zebrafish 🧪

"never stopping to ask yourself whether a machine that was trained on failed drugs (most drugs are failed drugs) might have a tendency to generate more of them" 😂

Yasin Dagdas@plantophagy.bsky.social · last mo.

I will arrive at your therapeutic area with a molecule so chiral, so offensive to your multi-parameter optimization algorithm, that your model will flag it as “not drug-like.” It will then proceed to work, in vivo. inpreparation.substack.com/p/go-ahead-a...

Excited to share this work out as a preprint! We found that E. faecalis biofilms suppress neutrophil effector functions through two complementary mechanisms: extracellular acidification that dampens ATP and NADPH production and a bacterial density-dependent inhibitory effect.

Kimberly Kline 🏔@kimingeneva.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We've been learning a lot about how Enterococcus faecalis interacts with neutrophils lately. In our latest preprint, @harisantypas.bsky.social describes how lactic acid from E. faecalis dampens neutrophil metabolism leading to NETosis and phagoytosis suppression. #microsky

Cool new tool from Keir Balla Lab @czbiohub.bsky.social 🐟🧬 Give it a try: portal.rnaquarium.org

bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 2mo ago

RNAquarium: an archive-scale atlas of zebrafish gene expression coupled with pan-taxonomic profiling reveals diverse viral drivers of transcriptomic states https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.17.732950v1

Crap news to end the weekend with for everyone that ever interacted with Richard or the melanoma institute. What a legend. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

'What a legacy': Pioneering researcher Richard Scolyer dies aged 59

The 2024 Australian of the Year Professor Richard Scolyer has died. In his final message he urged all Australians to "pursue their dreams and passion with humility, love and compassion".

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Thrilled to announce that the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington, School of Medicine is hiring at the Assistant Professor level (tenure-track)! The Pacific Northwest is an awesome place to live and do science 🧪🦠. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/185622 Applications due 8/1.

Great opportunity to join Vincenzo's lab, embedded in one of the hottest young cellular microbiology clusters in the UK!

VinTorraca@vintorraca.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to study Shigella persistent infection using the zebrafish infection model! Deadline to apply: 03-Jun-2026 Link to post: shorturl.at/cCZjK Any questions feel free to get in touch! @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Please repost!

🚨Faculty job search: University of Illinois Chicago Micro & Immuno department is hiring! Open rank and open area within host-pathogen interactions. Apply by May 31 to join us in UI College of Medicine in the heart of Chicago! uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

🎨Calling all artists and scientists!🐟🧬 The Zebrafish Disease Models Society (ZDMS) is launching its first #SciArt Competition. We are looking for creative work that illustrates how zebrafish research is transforming human health. And there’s cash prizes for the winners! 💰🐟 See thread for details⬇️

We are hiring @umichmicroimmuno.bsky.social ! Tenure-track assistant professor position in our Microbiology and Immunology department. We are especially looking for someone working in bacterial pathogenesis

Hey that's @carolineleiwee.bsky.social from across the road!

Zebrafish Disease Models Society (ZDMS)@zdmsociety.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Introducing our third set of invited speakers at #ZDM19! Please join Rashmi Priya, Paul Riley, Caroline Wee & the rest of the #ZDMS community in Oxford 🐟 We hope to see you there! Don't forget to submit an abstract! Extended deadline ends May 15th ⌛ To submit: www.zdmsociety.org/zdm19-abstra... ✨

Open-rank search: 2 (!) PI positions in Pulmonary Biology at @cuanschutz.bsky.social 🌄 We are looking for new colleagues @cupediatrics.bsky.social, working in lung fibrosis, focusing on #devbio, stem cell, & regen.biology of the lung 🫁🫀. Please help spread the word! cu.taleo.net/careersectio...

Thrilled to share the first paper from the lab, out now in Molecular Cell! A wonderful collaboration with @thurstonlab.bsky.social bridging Salmonella host-pathogen interactions and regulatory genomics - two of my favourite things in one story. www.cell.com/molecular-ce... 🦠 🧵1/10

Salmonella effector SteE reprograms the macrophage regulatory network to drive specific hyperactivation of STAT3 target genes

Diaz-del-Olmo et al. reveal how a Salmonella virulence protein alters the transcriptional layout of infected macrophages through hyperactivation of a transcription factor and coordinated chromatin rem...

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So we blocked IFNγ in Mtb infected macaques and….the animals were fine. Turns out mice overestimate the importance of IFNγ in TB because IFNγ drives iNOS in mice but not macaques or humans. This means we don’t actually know how T cells suppress Mtb. rdcu.be/ff9GB #tuberculosis #immunology

The Bourgeois Lab is recruiting a postdoc to work on our DoD-funded human genetics project aimed at understanding Lyme disease outcomes. wpi.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/WPI_External...

We're hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow! How does Mycobacterium tuberculosis survive drug treatment? You'll use molecular genetics and single-cell approaches to investigate how gene expression variability drives drug-tolerant subpopulations. Full details and application instructions below.

Post-TB lung disease is real—but still invisible in global health systems. Read the full article to understand why this gap matters. #PostTBcare @lshtm.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social @suhealthsci.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#Post-tuberculosis lung disease: no ICD code, no problem?

Zintle was aged 23 years when she presented for the first time to our clinic in South Africa. Her oxygen saturation was 59% on room air, and for months she had been too short of breath to leave her ho...

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