What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

a high armhole allows for freer and more comfortable movement

A reminder that the my department has an ongoing faculty search! Would love to have more colleagues here!

Giving a webinar on #BlueSoup this Friday, in case anyone wants to pop in during their lunch!

My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed an executive order which permits pharmacists and other medical personnel to administer vaccines recommended by state officials, no prior prescription needed. The order also requires insurance companies to cover the vaccines.

🚨 New Crofts lab paper🚨 Functional metagenomic libraries let us study bacterial genes 🧫🧬 from microbiomes💩, even if they've never been annotated with a function before 📒. However, these libraries often require more metagenomic DNA than is available from some samples.

Once Donald Trump gets the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law – what comes next?

Our department (Berkeley PMB) is hiring an asst. prof. in Plant Resilience to Climate Change! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05049

In the coming days, we expect to see what's playing out in LA and DC happen in Chicago. These efforts are not about fighting crime or making communities safer. This is about Donald Trump testing his power and producing political drama to cover up his own corruption.

"It's ok, honey. The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout won't hurt you!" The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout:

Check out this new preprint from my group + @campbell-thelab.bsky.social on precision fMRI in PD by ⭐️ grad student @jakechernicky.bsky.social #neuroskyence #neuroimaging #MedSky #psychscisky #scicomm #neuroscience #parkinsons

My God, what an awful idea. I’m glad it’s been rolled back.

(5/5) 🚨 It’s time to flood the zone. NIH scientists just took a huge risk speaking out. Now it’s our turn. 📜 Read the Bethesda Declaration ✍️ Sign the Public Letter of Support 👯‍♀️Follow NIHers doing the work: @nihvigils.bsky.social Read and sign here 👉 www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs. Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng Custom Lab Hardware Turn Key Genetic Design Please repost for reach 💚

We happily present: “Bakta Web – rapid and standardized genome annotation on scalable infrastructures” @OxUniPress NAR’s Web Server issue doi.org/10.1093/nar/... Easy to use, no registration, fast, scalable, various visualizations, in sync with Bakta CLI: bakta.computational.bio (1/5)

alright i have my laptop, guess i'm livetweeting the dire wolf preprint. so a quick reminder: this is not yet peer-reviewed, so there's some different expectations re: quality. also let's be clear, i'm a hella biased reader, bc i don't trust the hype they're courting

ASM stands firm in its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, as such efforts are critical to advancing the microbial sciences for everyone. Read our statement: asm.org/Press-Releas...

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

This paper has been a long time coming: We looked at the genomes of historical bacterial samples over a century to look for trends of antibiotic resistance genes, finding multiple instances of them in infections before the age of antibiotics, but an increase in both frequency and mobility after

Generic Diagramming Platform (GDP): a comprehensive database of high-quality biomedical graphics Website BioGDP.com Open Access academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

You bet JURASSICAN! We’ll get your results back with speed – leaving you plenty of time to draw dinos 🧬🦖

It’s official: The Microbiology Society is on Bluesky!

[bookstore] ME: do you have any books about the study of plants? CLERK: botany? ME: no that's why I'm here

The Golden Age of Antibiotics Credit: #OurWorldInData #salonium

Many people talk about the "Golden Age of Antibiotics", but I hadn't seen it visualized properly. Just how many types of antibiotics were discovered during that time? So, I visualized it myself!

Happy Saturday. If you're working on your NIH specific Aims for a February submission, don't include a figure. grants.nih.gov/grants-proce....

The leaked prerender scene featuring a trans story line that Disney/Pixar removed from their new show Win or Lose. (sped up a bit to meet the upload limit)

Yes, bacteria transfer AMR genes on plasmids, but what else is there? Lots of metabolic genes! A few of them strongly co-occur with AMR genes and could even act on the ecology of HGT with some metabolic genes even found to protect against antibiotic treatment. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

To celebrate the closing of my first year as a PI, I present the drastically miss-sized things I have ordered next to what I was trying to order, a thread. #sciencesky #neuroskyence #neuroscience Up first...Rosie the wrench. Silver lining torque is amazing and we now have a lab mascot.

As my first post on bsky post, I thought I'd share a recent paper of ours published in @naturecomms.bsky.social . Here we use various techniques to determine the molecular mechanisms for an observed rise in chloramphenicol susceptibility at the same time as an increase in ESBL resistance.

I have a YouTube playlist (10 videos) for #MolecularBiology for my undergrad interns in the lab. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... I usually have my interns watch these videos to get introduced to the basic concepts before I go show them how to in the lab.

In "Disentangling type 2 diabetes and metformin treatment signatures in the human gut microbiota", @inanna-nalytica.bsky.social showed that a supposed T2D #microbiome signature is actually driven by drug treatment with metformin (2015) www.nature.com/artic...

"Fecal microbial load is a major confounder in microbiome studies." Fecal microbial load is a major determinant of gut microbiome variation and a confounder for disease associations. #Cell @cellpress.bsky.social Open Access www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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What do bacteriophage and James Bond have in common? Answer: LYSINS TO KILL

And remember to spay and neuter.

If you had a really nice looking alignment of about thirty 100kb virus genomes and you wanted to find recombination breakpoints, what software/methods would you use? All suggestions, snark, links to papers etc. welcome. Trying to navigate a new field... Please repost! 🧪

Check out our interactive timeline of the most devastating disease outbreaks in human history, and the scientific and medical advances to help control them. In English, Welsh, Irish, Gaelic, German and Spanish. 🦠🤒🏥🧑🏻‍🔬💊💉

I took biochem in 2001, and for nearly 20 years read amino acid sequences daily… and I never knew Dayhoff named them or even the logic behind things like Q until last Friday (h/t Mike Janech). Also, this is another big Dayhoff moment for me. She was incredible! #proteomics #bioinformatics

Tonight we have an original, perhaps unnecessary, riff on the Penicillin as requested by @pschochet.bsky.social The Augmentin 2 oz anejo tequila ¾ honey-ginger syrup ¾ oz lime ⅓ oz herbal liqueur (Green Chartreuse) ⅓ oz Mezcal to float #medsky #neosky #PCCMeats #scicocktail #cocktail 🍸

fMRI network measures are affected by sampling error 🎲, physiological artifacts 💗, arousal 👀, and task state 🎞️. We argue that a major challenge in studies of 🧠 network dynamics is distinguishing between these sources of variability. A 🧵 …

Vedanth made the argNorm video tutorial! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx8M...

Hi everyone, I tried assembling a Microbiome & friends starter pack. 🦠🧫🔬 Still learning to use bluesky and might have missed you, let me know if you would like to be included. go.bsky.app/Fq36egy

Wow, Bluesky really took off in the last couple of days! The first microbiome starter pack is full now and I started a second one with non-overlapping profiles. Check out these people below and please let me know if you would like to be included! go.bsky.app/6vPBEty

Incredible graphic - the myriad of ways that bacteria defend themselves against antibiotics. 14 resistance mechanisms, summarised by Idan Yelin & Roy Kishony in Cell www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hello Blueskis. The Gen Micro I pack is full. Due to many requests, here is Gen Micro II starter pack. I have added fungal and others too. Please feel free to self nominate. go.bsky.app/TiF8tR8