Today, 22/04/2026, Ana Villena Giménez defends her PhD at #I2SysBio. This thesis, supervised by Victoria Castiglioni and Santiago Elena @sfelena.bsky.social, studies the effect of below-background radiation and microgravity on host and virus mutual responses.👏🎉 www.i2sysbio.es/communicatio... 🧪🧫🦠

Yesterday Ana Villena from @sfelena.bsky.social group defended her PhD at @i2sysbio.es #microsky #viruses

En À Punt Radiotelevisió Valenciana @apuntmedia.es han entrevistat Santiago Elena @sfelena.bsky.social, catedràtic del @csic.es i antic codirector de l’I2SysBio, pel seu nomenament com a nou membre de l’Acadèmia Americana de Microbiologia.👏🏆 #virus #microsky 🦠🧬🖥️🧪 🌐 www.apuntmedia.es/programes/l-...

Pathogen host-jumps pose major risks to health, but how can we predict them? This study shows that #pathogen novelty, rather than #spillover rate, is a stronger predictor of host-jump risk, so we should monitor emerging pathogens with limited spillover histories @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4ss5WCY

More good news! I’m happy to announce my election as a new fellow of the European Academy of Microbiology! fems-microbiology.org/european-aca...

SFI’s Santiago Elena has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. He joins 62 fellows in the 2026 class. His work explores how RNA viruses adapt to hosts and manipulate cellular resources. Since joining SFI in 2008, he has organized several working groups on virus evolution.

"Nothing like this has existed before, and we don't quite know what it does to people." @carlbergstrom.com spoke to Mihingarangi Forbes about living with AI on Saturday Morning this morning → www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro... #cccss26 🧪

Honored to be elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology! I look forward to working alongside my colleagues to advance microbial science for the benefit of society. Learn more about the 2026 Fellowship Class: press release link

More than 70 people attend the 2nd Public-Private Collaboration Workshop organised by I2SysBio www.i2sysbio.es/communicatio...

The 14th edition of the Master's Degree in Bioinformatics begins. With many teachers from the @i2sysbio.es and the @cipfvalencia.bsky.social

@i2sysbio.es @uv.es @sfelena.bsky.social @dicv.csic.es ‬ www.uv.es/uvweb/uv-not...

Tuesday was an amazing day. The @i2sysbio.es organized the II Jornada de Colaboración Público-privada. We could meet the private sector and share our dreams and concerns with them. www.i2sysbio.es/communicatio...

How to deal with the multiscale nature of evolution, which displays different time scales of change? We need to replace classic genotype spaces with multiscapes. Here's a great paper by my friend Susanna Manrubia and coworkers @mncn-csic.bsky.social rsob.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royo... …

Evolutionary features in a minimal physical system: Diversity, selection, growth, inheritance, and adaptation | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

Check the latest publication from our group! rdcu.be/ey1Fj @i2sysbio.es @csic.es

Fantástica jornada "¿Cómo tu ciencia puede ayudar a la sostenibilidad?" organizada por @iatacsic.bsky.social y el @i2sysbio.bsky.social. Conocimos la ciencia en sostenibilidad de @dicv.csic.es y nos inspiramos para aplicar nuestros conocimientos a este problema. Pensando ya en futuras actividades!

Con las prisas, se me olvidaron otras JAE Intros disponibles en otros labs del @i2sysbio.bsky.social: @sfelena.bsky.social, @rafa-sanjuan.bsky.social, @rongellerlab.bsky.social y Carlos Garcia y Gustavo Gomez.

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

#ESTALMAT ha visitado nuestro instituto en su proyecto para la detección, orientación y estímulo del talento matemático de estudiantes escolares @raciencias.bsky.social #matemáticas #divulgación #OVS #FECYT @javierbuceta.bsky.social @pathogenomics.bsky.social 💻🧬

Experimental evolution of evolvability | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Delighted to share this paper out via Virus Evolution: academic.oup.com/ve/advance-a... in which we develop and assess a quantitative method to infer phage and bacterial mutations driving changes in infection phenotypes arising in coevolutionary dynamics. a 🧵 about people (and some science)

"“Una vez más, la banalidad nos rodea”, lamenta pesaroso el arzobispo Luis Argüello. La misma banalidad que reacciona con más dolor y rapidez ante una estampita satírica que ante el escándalo de la pedofilia en la Iglesia" La Santa Vaquilla vs. los ultras de Torquemada ✍️ Por Iñigo Sáenz de Ugarte

Investigating tomato black ring virus DVGs! This study uncovers the impact of host-to-host transmission on viral evolution, with deletions dominating in diverse host species. #VirusBioinformatics #DVGs #PlantVirology 📄 doi.org/10.1128/jvi.... EVBC👤: @sfelena.bsky.social

A reminder for any academics who needs to hear it: there are SO many ways to serve the scientific community. Choose the ones that fulfill you, bring you joy (even if they are hard), and are in line with your values. It’s okay to say no/ resign/change tracks! And put your efforts/energy elsewhere.

Policy makers, journalists, and the public should consider what it means if the incoming head of NIH failed to design, execute, interpret, and communicate a public health study in a critical moment in the pandemic, and continued to double-down on the interpretation.

#PhD Advert: Please share! Are you looking for a PhD studentship in comparative- or population-genomics, using 300+ species of #Drosophila and 1000+ genomes of #melanogaster? #Entomology #Genomics #PopGen #Phylogenetics

Early Abstract closes on Dec. 3, and Regular Abstract submission closes on Jan. 22, 2025, so get your microbiome data analysis abstracts ready, remember to submit, and join us to talk all about data management best practices and how to make the most out of your microbiome data !

FANTASTIC PERMANENT RESEARCH POSITION for Ecologist/Statistician (Interdisciplinary) focused on conservation at Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute (Front Royal, VA)! www.usajobs.gov/job/819535900. Come be my colleague! Please repost/ send to qualified candidates.

Open position: young group leader in the infection area preferably in virology for the Nordic EMBL node MIMS (Laboratory for Molecular Infection Sweden) in Umea, Sweden See also www.umu.se/en/mims/ or the QR code provided below

Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

«Les teories conspiratives proliferen sempre en moments d'incertesa» Des de la DANA, científics com @fernadovalladares.bsky.social han sigut el blanc d'un assetjament creixent en xarxes socials per part de grups que promouen l'escepticisme climàtic. ✍️ @anacamps25.bsky.social

Our research institute I2SysBio🇪🇸 has created a starter pack for researchers in systems biology, everybody is welcome, write us if you want to be added 🔬🧫🧬🖥🦑🦠🌱🦟🪳🪸🌾

How to write an excellent Review article @natrevbioeng.bsky.social #scisky #Science #REVIEW Open Access www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Research on cultural and technological evolution is thriving at our Institute of Evolutionary Biology, which makes me very happy. It is an exciting time for multidisciplinary approaches to biological evolution! #CultEvo

Are the major evolutionary transitions describable as phase transitions, as in statistical physics? A great example of this is the transition to eukaryotic cells, as shown by this excellent paper by Jordi Bascompte and co-workers europepmc.org/api/fulltext...

LO que viene siendo estatr a la altura de la reconsrucción www.eldiario.es/comunitat-va...

El ruido se mide en abascales y el silencio en mazones.

Es menester compartir aquí tambien esto que me curré con el Paint.

Cero sorpresas... 290.000 euros al amiguete... www.eldiario.es/comunitat-va...

Can colleagues amplify this appeal to journals and journal editors to open accounts on Bluesky, please? @MicrobioSoc @TrendsMicrobiol @CellCellPress @JBacteriology @jbiolchem @Nature @ScienceMagazine @PNASNews @MolMicroEditors @NAR_Open @NatureMicrobiol @NatureComms @ASMicrobiology 🙏 🦠🧪🧫🧬

I want to know everyone's experiences publishing in: * MDPI journals * Hindawi journals * Frontiers journals Not stories about what you heard, please, but your literal experience. what happened to you. Editors of said journals particularly welcome. RT this. A lot.

Creationists in WVa are relentless. While current wording is deliberately vague in protecting freedom to teach, it opens the door to ID lectures ncse.ngo/west-virgini...

Lytic bacteriophages interact with respiratory epithelial cells and induce the secretion of antiviral and proinflammatory cytokines https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.06.579115v1

Intriguing results from Greg Velicer's group: "[T]he temperature at which prey grow ... can determine the very direction of predation, reversing predator and prey identities." (hat tip to @astrobrian.bsky.social) #MicroSky #ecology #microbiology #science journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

It was a great pleasure to host Marco Incarbone for a seminar in our institute I2SysBio today with @sfelena.bsky.social. Great way to resume the new year with fascinating plant virus stories and great scientific discussions.

Today is a very special day for @SFElenaLab: we have published our first preprint on C. elegans - OrV at @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Any feedback will be appreciated!

Since I felt a lack of a #Virus #Evolution feed here, I have gone ahead and created one so we can follow posts related to this. For now, no need to sign-up, simply tag your posts with #VirEvol and they will be collected there! bsky.app/profile/did:... 🧪 #MicroSky #phagesky #evolsky