Peste porcina: Los análisis genéticos sugieren que el virus no salió del laboratorio de la Generalitat que estaba a cientos de metros (según una primera comparativa "no concluyente") elpais.com/ciencia/2025...

Flavita Banana: magufadas Viñeta del 25 de diciembre de 2025 elpais.com/opinion/2025...

Visto en Facebook 😆 www.facebook.com/share/p/1Bh9...

On January 1st, I promised to document 52 ancestors with AI assistance. Eleven months later, the project finally started. Now it's a December sprint: 62 ancestors, 31 days, GPS methodology, mistakes corrected in public. Is "vibe genealogy" a compliment or a warning? Maybe both.

One in three adults in the UK are using artificial intelligence (AI) for emotional support or social interaction?? www.bbc.com/news/article...

La Generalitat no ve indicios de que el brote de peste porcina saliera del laboratorio de Bellaterra "Solo la comparación exhaustiva del ADN de los virus de dentro y de fuera de las instalaciones aclarará el origen del patógeno" (Ya están tardando mucho, ¿no?) elpais.com/espana/catal...

Read the Uplifting Letter That Albert Einstein Sent to Marie Curie During a Time of Personal Crisis (1911) www.openculture.com/2025/12/the-...

🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines Special interest: AI methodologies 📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026 👥 2-12 years post-PhD Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea... #JobOpportunity #Research

Ahora me han entrado ganas de comer chipirones or calamares fritos... 😆

Day 8️⃣ of our Ocean Art Advent Calendar... Microscopic magic of the sea-son! Diatoms, radiolarians and other plankton that form the foundation of ocean life. Beautiful artwork by Rebecca Cusack. hashtag#MicroscopyMonday hashtag#OceanScience hashtag#FestiveOceanArt

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Great viewpoint article by @kevinsblake.bsky.social & Gautam Dantas "we must rethink the brute force approaches that attempt (futilely) to fight resistance (...). Instead, we should pursue complementary strategies that mitigate selection of antibiotic resistance" 🦠 revive.gardp.org/ecological-s...

Ya en otras ocasiones se ha documentado la expansión del virus que causa esta enfermedad a través de restos de comida contaminada. Nos lo cuenta @microbioblog.bsky.social:  

📢 We have multiple open PhD positions to study bacterial immune systems using cutting-edge cryo-EM, microbiology, and biochemistry in our group! Join us and uncover how bacterial defenses eliminate predators and engineer next-gen biotech tools. 🔥 Apply by Jan 8, 2026 Details: phd.pages.ista.ac.at

If you or someone you know is looking for a post-doctoral position working on mycobacterial envelope biology, please get in touch. I am recruiting here at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada.

A team of researchers from across the globe is making the case for conservation... of some of tiniest and least-liked species on the planet. 🦠

I am recruiting graduate students for Fall 2026! The Microbial Ecosystems Lab @hot-mes-asu.bsky.social at ASU studies microbial interactions, spatial ecology, and imaging-driven microbiome science. If you love microbes, microfluidics, or single-cell analysis, let’s talk! www.microbialeco.systems

Peste porcina africana en España: "Es muy pronto para saber cuál es el origen del brote de peste porcina africana (PPA). Aún así, la posibilidad de que el virus provenga del abandono de embutido contaminado en un bocadillo es muy alto" elpais.com/economia/202...

Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free. Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.

Really cool paper from @vincentdebakker.bsky.social @jonbakerlab.bsky.social now published @natcomms.nature.com #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Beni: Surviving Sleeping Sickness "Meet Beni, a young boy from the Democratic Republic of Congo who survived sleeping sickness. His life changed after a tsetse fly bite transmitted this neglected disease, which attacks the central nervous system and can be fatal without timely treatment"

Q: Why does AI re-imagine a photo instead of editing it? A: It doesn't "restore" your photo — it paints a new one, guessing details from millions of other images. Eye color, skin tone? Fabricated. Always label. Always cite. Illustration, not evidence. #genealogy

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Very happy to share our work on lipopolysaccharide assembly by the Lpt complex, published today in @natcomms.nature.com Fantastic collaboration with @raffaeleieva.bsky.social l and t @pstansfeld.bsky.social Congrats to all authors, especially Haoxiang, Axel & Violette 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s414...

"En estos 44 días desde que se rubricara el alto el fuego, el Gobierno de Gaza contabiliza la muerte de 342 civiles -la mayoría de ellos niños, mujeres y ancianos, según el ministerio de Sanidad gazatí-, 875 heridos y 35 detenciones arbitrarias durante incursiones y redadas" efe.com/mundo/2025-1...

"Work-life flexibility is no longer optional, it’s fundamental. For academic institutions, embracing hybrid models, flexible scheduling, and caregiver-friendly benefits isn’t just about empathy; it’s about sustainability. These policies protect productivity, performance, and institutional health" 💯

To keep antibiotics effective for everyone, here’s what NOT to do: ❌ Do not use antibiotics for colds, flu or sore throats. Antibiotics do not treat viruses. ❌ Do not share your antibiotics with others. ❌ Do not save leftover antibiotics for use later. Learn more 👉 bit.ly/4otAEcV

This week is World #AntimicrobialResistance Awareness week To mark the occasion, Dr Scott-Dearing reflects on her @natcomms.nature.com#AntimicrobialResistancepaper published in January, noting the setbacks and progress made in tackling #AMR since

After two years of violence, #Gaza’s children are finally breathing moments of quiet. The fragile ceasefire has given children a chance to breathe, connect, play and even start to heal. But trauma, injury, grief, and shattered childhoods will take far longer to heal.

'Alabama rot' or cutaneous and renal glomerular vasculopathy (CRGV) "is rare but often fatal in dogs, causing blood vessel damage that leads to skin sores and potential kidney failure" "Vets believe the disease could be caused by a bacteria or a toxin" www.bbc.com/news/article...

🚨#PhD studentship opportunity! Plasmids provide bacteria with antimicrobial resistance, but do they have more fundamental effects on behaviour? 🧫🦠💫🧟‍♂️ Apply for a 4y funded MRC DiMeN position with me and Jamie Wheeler @livuni-ives.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Are you looking for female speakers in CryoEM for seminars and conferences? Are you a woman in CryoEM and not yet on the ‚woman in CryoEM‘ list? Find your speakers and add/update name and affiliation! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Fabulous opportunity to study phage biology with Andreas Haag in St Andrews. Don’t miss out.

Gut Microbes Can Make Mice Lazy "Behavioral traits get passed on via an animal’s genetics, but a new study reveals that the microbiome can pass them on too" @microbiome.bsky.social #microbiome

Editorial @elpais.com : Franco, medio siglo después "Cincuenta años después de la muerte del dictador y en pleno auge de la extrema derecha, el 17% de los jóvenes cree que la democracia que protege sus derechos es peor que la dictadura que no sufrieron" elpais.com/opinion/2025...

Nice write up of our paper here, thanks! 🧫🦠 dailyneuron.com/how-gut-micr...

El país de las 6.000 fosas "La Guerra Civil y el franquismo convirtieron España en una gran fosa común, donde fueron enterradas las víctimas de la violencia política. Más de 140.000 personas fueron asesinadas por los sublevados y la dictadura hasta 1950. Y más de 49.000 a manos de republicanos"

🔶RTVE ha presentado hoy 'El país de las 6.000 fosas', el primer mapa audiovisual que se ha hecho de las fosas comunes de la Guerra Civil y el franquismo. www.rtve.es/play/videos/te...

El país de las 6.000 fosas El mapa de fosas de RTVE: imágenes y sonidos para recuperar la memoria www.rtve.es/n/16796627/

"Todos los españoles viven a menos de 50 kilómetros de una fosa común del franquismo" "El Gobierno y RTVE presentan un mapa interactivo con los cerca de 6.000 enterramientos clandestinos repartidos por todo el país" elpais.com/cultura/2025...

The 'AI slop' critics point to? That's just beginner output. Learning LLMs is like learning to ride a bike—you can't read your way to mastery. Smart people try once, produce dreck, then dismiss the tool. But they're confusing their inexperience with the tool's limits.

South Africa has begun clinical trials for Africa’s first locally manufactured oral cholera vaccine, aiming to boost regional self-sufficiency as cholera outbreaks and vaccine shortages challenge the continent. apanews.net/south-africa...

We selected the laziest mouse at each round to inoculate the next batch of germfree mice: over rounds of selection and passaging, behavior shifted without changes to the mouse genome: rdcu.be/eM3rO 🦠🧫

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Healthy Islands vision. @natcomms.nature.com has launched a new collection seeking manuscripts on Pacific Islander health in collaboration with @commsmed.nature.com and Scientific Reports. Please consider submitting your work to us!

What if even the core of bacterial nanomachines wasn’t static? We found that the T3SS core protein SctD in Yersinia dynamically exchanges subunits — and this flexibility is essential for proper assembly & function. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @kit.edu @t3sss.bsky.social

We are looking for a PhD student to work on an exciting plastid endosymbiosis in microbial eukaryotes. This position involves sampling, exciting microscopy such as CARDFISH, ExM and FIBSEM, single-cell transcriptomics and more. #protistsonsky 1/2