How every layer of science's "self-correcting machinery" failed when Iva Veseli and I simply wanted to reproduce the findings of a high-profile study on gut microbiome and autism: merenlab.org/2026/04/15/u...

Such a pleasure to present the great work my y4 @unistrathclyde.bsky.social undergrads did, this year at the @microbiologysociety.org #AC26 ! Papers will be coming, watch this space! Just give us a minute, ~8 -80 boxes + data to sort through 😅 #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 💻🧬 🧪

Good morning, especially to everyone in Hungary 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 growing up in Vienna I have such nice memories of trips to your wonderful country, so happy for you 😊

Off to Belfast, cool data in the luggage, but not sure about where or when to submit? Come see us - #Microbial #Genomics #MGen pitch-a-paper session @microbiologysociety.org annual conference (aka SGM, for my generation 😅), 11:30-12 at the society stand! microbiologysociety.org/event/annual...

Today, 4 years ago, on April 8, 2022, ruZzia deliberatly attacked the #Kramatorsk railway station with ballistic missiles, killing 61 people including 9 children and injuring 150 - while they were trying to flee to safety. Never forget. Never forgive. 🕯️

It’s called the Cycle of Abuse or the Walker Wheel: calm followed by rising tension, the explosion of violence, the reconciliation, the incremental intensification of violence over time.

If you're at @bspparasitology.bsky.social #BSP2026 next week, come say hello 😊👋 I'll be around with my @microbiologysociety.org #Microbial #Genomics Editor-in-Chief hat on, to talk all things publishing for the community 🤓 💻🧬 #MicroSky #parasites 🧪 1/2

If you're at @bspparasitology.bsky.social #BSP2026 next week, come say hello 😊👋 I'll be around with my @microbiologysociety.org #Microbial #Genomics Editor-in-Chief hat on, to talk all things publishing for the community 🤓 💻🧬 #MicroSky #parasites 🧪 1/2

If anyone needs something positive these days (I mean who doesn't...), here it is! @theawkwardyeti.bsky.social never fails to tell the tales of how our poor hearts, brains, stomachs etc despeartely try to keep us humans functioning... 😂 #IDSky #art #SciArt www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

Great week for #Klebsiella papers - what happens to an ST that is long-time associated in a hospital? See what Allan Zuza found out in the course of his masters (!!!), outstanding work 😊 #MicroSky #IDSky #MedSky 💻🧬 in #MGen @microbiologysociety.org www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

News from the #Klebsiella world! #Protein #vaccine targets might be worth a look... Human systemic and mucosal immune responses support further exploration of a Klebsiella pneumoniae protein-based vaccine. 💻🧬 #MicroSky #IDSky #MicrobiomeSky #AMR #MedSky #GlobalHealth www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Make your Bluesky experience better #academicsky #medsky #newskies

Liebes @ZDF, ganz kurz zum Wording! FALSCH: „Personenzüge geraten ins Visier“ RICHTIG: „Russland bombardiert Personenzüge“ FALSCH: „Lviv wurde von Drohnen getroffen“ RICHTIG: „Russland hat Lviv bombardiert“. Bitteschön, gern geschehen.

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Oh nothing, just a peer reviewed paper my colleagues found... doi.org/10.1016/j.ma... "1 mL of the mass killing of an ethnic group was opposed to 20 mL of the skin sample and unprotected to light for 7 min." Even AI knows what's wrong here, but @elsevierconnect.bsky.social doesn't.

if i see the SLIGHTEST whiff of genAI in your add not only will I avoid you, I will tell EVERYONE to avoid you

I don't "feel" my work has been stolen. I know it. This kind of language use by the NYT is part of the problem. Framing it as some kind of emotional woo woo instead of a clear copyright breach...

If anyone needs something positive these days (I mean who doesn't...), here it is! @theawkwardyeti.bsky.social never fails to tell the tales of how our poor hearts, brains, stomachs etc despeartely try to keep us humans functioning... 😂 #IDSky #art #SciArt www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

I realize that to people outside the PNW this is just an interesting news item, but if you're in the PNW, where tracking orca pods is a local religion, this is basically like being visited by alien gods

This is why I truly believe researching, checking and evaluating sources, branching out into teaching yourself about mundane and complex things is so important They have such little else to take from us, they’re trying to make using your own intelligence harder and behind a paywall Don’t let them

I think about this a lot.

We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing.

This should become a case study in global health ethics courses

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Just 10 more subscribers, and the SciArt Feed with be the #40 most popular Feed on Bluesky! Please help Like, Pin, and Share if you enjoy the intersection of art & science (with _no_ generative AI). #academicsky #medsky 🧪🐡🎨🩺

Hey fellow scientists, I'm just letting you know that if you're promoting something with some junky AI image, I'm not gonna click. You've got a workshop, a conference, a new paper? Just not gonna bother. You want a bespoke image? Hire an illustrator.

You can tell that the US blew up that school because everyone’s doing everything possible to find a way to disqualify the obvious. The country that was bragging about knowing everything it hits suddenly being quiet and wanting to move past the situation while its journalists blame the AI system? Ok.

The man walked right smack, face-first into the whole point, and did not see the damn thing.

Ugh, I woke up

Wow.

This pops up every once in awhile and I always share it. Wu Tang goes in and out of popularity with the times, but there's no denying there was a Dream Team level of talent and brilliance on that roster. True artists.

Sing it

Hot off the press; an update from last year's conference on Microbial Genomics of Eukaryotes, highlights from our collection in MGen & tiny 2027 teaser 😊@fionahenriquez.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky #IDSky #Protistonsky 💻🧬 www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

TV. They've just reinvented TV.

A female Hooded Merganser communicating a message to a male Hooded Merganser. I think she wanted to go for a walk, because soon after this they were strolling along the icy shoreline together.

How is the dinocon board handling the Epstein field more seriously that than the United States dept of justice??

Reposted with alt text for people with screen readers - this is a welcome departure from how certain large organizations are handling revelations that high-profile members associated with and accepted money from Epstein and his organization, _AFTER 2008_ when he was convicted for soliciting a minor.

Love this, seeing ourselves in our own little corner of our universe 🔭

Heute in den USA (links). Vor 100 Jahren in Deutschland (rechts).

Letter from chief exec of UKRI www.ukri.org/news/open-le...

One more reason my soul shrivels up every time I hear someone say "I just used chatgpt to ____"

don't mean to blow anyone's mind with this shocking insight but the direct line between epstein, 4chan, gamergate, tech bro fascists etc is misogyny. prolific rapists, guys who believe women have inferior intelligence, and guys who hate women for rejecting them all have something big in common!

Second paper from MRes (!!) student Caitlin Duggan; #AMR mechanisms and the challenges of actually measuring and defining what is "resistant", deep dive into #cefiderocol susceptibility testing & resistance mutations #MicroSky #IDSky 💻🧬 #MicrobiomeSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very nice thread about our piece on AI "peer" review.

The UK has lost its measles elimination status, the World Health Organization has announced. Vaccine disinformation is a worldwide pandemic that is killing us.

This is probably one of the most powerful things I’ve read in recent history. Damn. 👏👏👏

I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, ads, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers. This project includes configuration files, a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and MS Edge.

SA und SS Vibes werden stärker....