Is this the future of peer review? New from @biologyopen.bsky.social: expanded Fast & Fair trial paying reviewers £220 per paper The result: rapid peer review with no drop in quality or change in acceptance rate Paying referees makes peer review faster & fairer www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...

In the first eleven months of 2025, 10,109 doctoral-trained scientists left the federal government. The losses were concentrated in agencies that fund medical research, regulate environmental standards and model climate. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/more-than-...?

We are hiring again! Our lab is looking for an experimental epigenetics postdoc to work on an exciting 3-year ASAP funded research project studying the role of cell type specific epigenetic regulation in response to toxicant exposures and Parkinson's.

Astounding 🤯

I'm so tired of being expected to read things that no one has bothered to write.

Human activity may be enabling the expansion of golden jackals across Europe by reducing the suppressive effect of grey wolves, suggests research in Nature Ecology & Evolution. This human-mediated interaction could allow jackals to occupy up to 75% of the continent. go.nature.com/4nLOJ5O 🌍🧪

If I grow up I want to write this well www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...

We are looking for a new group leader to join the IGH (Montpellier, France). I can’t wait to meet my future colleague! Apply :-) More infos here: igh.cnrs.fr/join-igh-as-...

Latest paper from the lab 🤩

Improve what you see in Google Search, by adding The Conversation as a preferred source. Here's how 👉

A paper in Nature presents a detailed map of human chromosomes within the nucleus. This resource provides a foundation for an improved understanding of how the physical layout of human DNA is associated with biological expression. go.nature.com/4pI8knB 🧬 🧪

A really nice article in The Scientist about q.e.d! @qedscience.bsky.social - If you're not using it yet, now's the time! www.the-scientist.com/q-e-d-an-ai-...

Excited to be co-organizing this @embo.org Workshop on #Pathogen #Immunity and #Signalling next June 8-12 2026 in Leiden! 🥳🥳🥳 #Savethedate

Over the last year, Nature’s Careers team has been tapping into its global community of readers, writers, friends and colleagues to compile a list of laboratory hacks to help make scientists’ working lives easier. Here’s a list of 99 of those hacks. #Academicsky 🧪

RANBP2 is a major susceptibility factor in Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy. But is it a single protein, or are there other isoforms with distinct roles we should be studying? @sdesgraupes.bsky.social @aneinternational.bsky.social @irim-life.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

2023 HPAI outbreak in South American Sea Lions: atypically high number of abortions + abnormal reproductive behaviours: including males retaining and mounting females outside the breeding season + necrophilia 👉 revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/ac...

A new study in JAMA has examined a rare but severe complication that can occur in children who contract the flu. This complication, called acute necrotizing encephalopathy, or ANE, carries a mortality rate of 27% despite intensive care and treatment, according to the new research. cnn.it/4lzElLI

Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine. www.wired.com/story/the-fi...

ANE: The Brain Emergency Every Doctor Should Recognize. #AcuteNecrotizingEncephalopathy #ANEAwareness #ANE1 #SickKidsToronto #PediatricNeurology #Influenza #BrainHealth #EmergencyPediatrics #RareDiseaseAwareness #ViralEncephalopathy @arhelnathalie.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=ywrf...

The @sierralab.bsky.social lab is hiring! Postdoctoral position in #microglial development (#IKUR) www.achucarro.org/job/postdoct...

Are you interested in human brain #organoids to study #microglia but don't know where to start?🧠🧪 #neuroskyence Here's our piece of advice on "Building Immunocompetent Cerebral Organoids From a Developmental Perspective" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

In this piece, I reflect on how research agendas, funding structures and publishing ecosystems are dominated by a few wealthy countries, and outline concrete steps we could take to redress inequities. #EquitableScience #GlobalHealth #ResearchJustice #DecolonizingScience

Vaccine Integrity Project has been created at the University of Minnesota to counter misinformation and a concern about data manipulation by current HHS leadership. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Starting tomorrow! Topic: ANEmone Time: Apr 28, 2025 08:30 AM Paris Join Zoom Meeting umontpellier-fr.zoom.us/j/9545768422... Meeting ID: 954 5768 4221 Passcode: 991470

Super excited for the ANEmone colloque tomorrow reuniting families, clinicians and scientists in order to better understand ANE1 ! @arhelnathalie.bsky.social

Five years on: how COVID was the catalyst for Africa’s genomic revolution “We built a culture of collaboration, not competition,” Read more of this piece in Nature at the gem - issuu.com/the.gem/docs... #Genomics #Africa #Fellowship

My art is based on my experiences of breast cancer. I’ll have a book out later this year. I am fully confident that AI could not replicate an expression of something that’s a deeply human experience.

RANBP2 regulates influenza RNA replication and nuclear export, triggering hyper-inflammation, offering insight into Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy pathogenesis doi.org/10.1101/2025...

The genetic driver of Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy, RANBP2, regulates the inflammatory response to Influenza A virus infection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.23.644734v1

Our latest collaborative study with the Pasteur Institute and University of Toronto on the role of RANBP2 in #influenza -associated hyperinflammation #AcuteNecrotizingEncephalopathy @aneinternational.bsky.social @ribonucleicacids.bsky.social @irim-life.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Latest paper from the VTRIS team @irim-life.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social 👏👏👏

#Kenya: Kala-azar is the second deadliest parasitic disease after malaria, with a 95% death rate if untreated. With rising cases reported since September, and three reported deaths since, MSF teams are on the ground supporting the Ministry of Health in an emergency response.

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

Thanks Google!

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

#Gaza: Doctors Without Borders strongly denounces Israel’s announcement to block aid into Gaza. Humanitarian aid should never be used as a tool of war. Regardless of negotiations between warring parties, people in Gaza still need an immediate and massive scale-up of humanitarian supplies.

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

Macrophages recycle phagocytosed bacteria to fuel immunometabolic responses @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#DrCongo: Since Jan. numerous incidents have affected our base & the hospital in Masisi view the incident list below ⬇️

Check our latest opinion piece, just out in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social! We delve into how the antiviral RNase ISG20 targets viral RNA and how some viruses escape it. @irim-life.bsky.social @ciri-lyon.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/micro...

The reality of #influenza associated #AcuteNecrotizingEncephalopathy . The only protection from this heartbreaking disease is vaccination. We know. #ANEandUs #ANEawareness www.aneinternational.org

#AcuteNecrotizingEncephalopathy occurs following a viral infection such as #influenza & can sometimes be fatal. In children with severe ANE, seizures may occur & there may be a rapid progression to a comatose state within 24–72 hours from the onset of symptoms. aneinternational.org

#USA: “Every day that passes is an emergency for millions of people for whom PEPFAR is a lifeline.” 3 weeks after the US government froze PEPFAR funding, uncertainty remains over whether this lifeline for millions of people living with HIV has been cut. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/uncertainty-...

Two more weeks to apply to join us in Paris ! research.pasteur.fr/en/call/call...

Dear Virology Community, please see ASV’s statement to our members and the scientific community. asv.org/asv-statemen...

I’m not kidding: those who delegate all their writing, thinking and creative expression to machines are going to wake up one day and discover that they can no longer write or think. You need to make your own art. You need to keep your brain working. You need to stay human.