view of the US from the other shore of the atlantic ocean: the staging of charlie kirk's death by MAGA is so similar to the 𝕹𝖆𝖟𝖎 staging of horst wessel's death in germany in 1930+ that it is appropriate to speak of plagiarism. read this 🧵by markus poessel bsky.app/profile/mpoe...

marcel duchamp goes @contamclub.bsky.social 😄

we're expecting tropical storm gabrielle to reach the #Açores on thursday evening with 6 beaufort

yesterday, two tourists chatting on porto pim beach #Faial #Açores (german) tourist: "ist das kunst oder kann das weg?" me: "art? nope! just the footwork of a molecular biologist who has spent far too long thinking about circular bacterial chromosomes... by tomorrow, tide or wind have done the job.

gladly sharing a peace of mind moment... #açores #saojorge

...on combatting citrus canker caused by 𝘟𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘳𝘪 (Gammaproteobacteria) thanks for this 🧵 #MicroSky

this... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

#RNASky antisense oligos, so cool!

Captive https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/in-the-houses-of-st-germain-1914

@carlbergstrom.com 👇 one for you (?)

as always, banksy is spot-on. #Banksy

health policy, for what it's worth

occasionally, and often before rain, volcanoes put on a cap ("mütze"). scientifically, these clouds are called Lenticularis (just ask wikipedia, which links to cloudappreciationsociety.org). the formation of a lenticularis takes a while, think of a plasmid DNA miniprep... here it starts...

Bacterial cell widening alters periplasmic size and activates envelope stress responses Kerwyn Huang, @typaslab.bsky.social et al find that E. coli outer-membrane protein RcsF senses reduced periplasm thickness due to increased cell width, & activates Rcs signaling www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

#MicroSky yeah, cable bacteria 🤗

Ganz Deutschland sollte erfahren, was diesen Herbst in #Hamburg erkämpft werden kann. Die Zeiten sind hart, aber die Hoffnung lebt - solange wir laut bleiben. Spread the word. #Zukunftsentscheid

schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2... #MicroSky

@philipcball.bsky.social I had the 'weimar scenario' in mind, which daniel ziblatt outlines with much more detail than I ever could, when I recently lamented that I sorely miss the appropriate firm response from the US democratic party to the current US administration's blatant attack on democracy.

#SymbioSky #MicroSky

in all seriousness, I humbly suggest the people of buñol perform their next 'tomatina' in gaza and bring the ~100.000 kg of tomatoes along with them (plus other nutrients).

christoph: from what I see during hiking across faial island, açores, it's a paradise for lichens, here a small Usnea sp. #FungiFriends

this 👇is for you, ákos 🙂 @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social

#MicroSky probably no less intriguing than the programmed frameshift in dnaX, which is also conserved across various phyla

european academic institutions likewise imho

so much light in here

#MicroSky ...and now the freshwater cousins of 𝘗𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳 (SAR11). @jcamthrash.bsky.social ! could someone please make a PDF of the paper available for me?

#MicroSky STC had a post on 'explorative growth' in 2020, featuring work of the same authors (great to see that they continue!) > schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2...

a novel lateral-budding Planctomycete, 𝘒𝘰𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢, isolated from the coast of Panarea (👇) like its cousin 𝘚𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴 𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘹, which we featured earlier in STC: schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2...

#RNASky aha!

says david grosmman 🇮🇱 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

wow, here comes PelV-1, the armand duplantis of phages & viruses... #PhageSky #virus

post someone with great eyes