Google Scholar now offers a new feature, Scholar Labs, that uses AI to help you search for papers by asking complex research questions. The search will provide you with a list of papers and, for each one, a brief explanation of how it addresses your query. 🌊🧪 scholar.google.com/scholar_labs...

Russian human rights organization OVD-Info has been cuf off from payment systems working inside Russia and can no longer receive donations from Russian cards. Their activities on advocating anti-war protesters are endangered. Donate them from non-Russian cards by the link below donate.ovd.legal/en

My colleague Dmitry Ravcheev used to be an experienced and cited bioinformatician 🧪💻 While residing in Ireland, he faced depression that made him unable to work. Now, he is almost homeless and has no money for treatment Please donate if you can - or repost this 💗 www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-re...

New discovery in ulcerative colitis: a bacterial toxin that kills macrophages and increases inflammation, which could be the foundation for a new treatment science.org/doi/10.1126/... science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org

A bacterial toxin disarms gut defenses against inflammation | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪

Would you like some speculative evolution? In this alternative history of life, Asgard archaea died, but giant sulfur bacteria evolved into multicellular eukaryote-like life 🧪🦠 AI helped me to visualize this imaginary world 💻 Read more in my blog: communities.springernature.com/posts/altern...

Teenage Russian street musician gets 13 more days in prison after singing anti-Kremlin songs, @nbcnews.com tells Diana Loginova — a music student with the stage name “Naoko” — was first arrested in St. Petersburg last month after her performance of a banned track www.nbcnews.com/world/russia...

A new video by the Crossroads II project tells the story of how people populated North America. New dating methods and DNA analysis provide new insights about these prehistoric times 🧪🧬 #history

A Russian independent media outlet Novaya Gazeta tells how Moscow schoolchildren and their parents are dismissing a new state-developed messenger MAX. This messenger is a part of the digital control strategy by Russian authorities and is implemented under kourbash. novayagazeta.ru/articles/202...

🧪 ADHD isn’t just a childhood condition. Our major review pulls together genetics, neuroimaging, comorbidities, and treatment data to map what adult ADHD actually looks like : onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Repeat performance. St Petersburg street musician Naoko fined and re‑arrested within hours of completing 13‑day jail sentence She had been already jailed twice for performing songs deemed politically sensitive en.zona.media/article/2025...

Kindergarten vaccination rates jumped substantially in four states that eliminated nonmedical exemptions between 2015 and 2021. A new study found parents didn't simply shift to medical exemptions instead – they protected their children. buff.ly/okboz1y 🧪#VaccinesWork

My new video! How can we see traces of ancient migrations on a modern map of the Caucasus? What new knowledge about the genetics of peoples can be gained by analyzing human populations in the same way as the populations of any other large mammals? youtu.be/9dt-AJj-BCA?...

Check out this Review article by Mohamed S. Elgawish, Mohamed S. H. Salem & co on the advances in using artificial intelligence in the development of kinase inhibitors, as seen in our Kinases collection👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍Suez Canal University and SANKEN The University of Osaka 🧪

A carnivorous “death ball” sponge is among 30 previously unknown deep-sea species found by scientists in one of the most remote parts of the planet. They also found new armoured & iridescent scale worms, new crustaceans plus rare gastropods & bivalves. 🧪🐚🦀🦑 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How can we see traces of ancient migrations and the process of settlement of the region by hunters and gatherers on a modern map of the Caucasus? David Tarkhnishvili, evolutionary biologist and professor at Ilia State University, presents new data 🧪🧬 youtu.be/9dt-AJj-BCA?...

Issue #88 now available at sillylinguistics.com Silly Linguistics is a magazine for language lovers

Translators across the world are experiencing income crisis due to partial replacement by AI, @financialtimes.com tells I am one of those translators who has learned this hard way, and now I am out of translation work. Jessica Spengler’s story is also my story www.ft.com/content/50b1...

Three members of the Petersburg street band Stoptime have been sentenced to 12 and 13 days in prison for their “unauthorised” concerts. Singer Diana Loginova (aka Naoko), drummer Vladislav Leontyev and guitarist Aleksandr Orlov often play songs by artists who have been declared “foreign agents”.

Russia jails street band for performing antiwar songs. The group, called Stoptime, had been performing anti-Kremlin songs for months and gaining in popularity before the authorities moved against the open dissent. The story by @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/w...

Halloween decorations from big stores can cost several hundred dollars. Now that’s terrifying! Skip the pricey big-box decor and conjure up these scare tactics using devices you may already own.

A photograph worth remembering The year 2025. Eighteen-year-old Diana Loginova, arrested for singing "extremist" songs on the street, looks at a police officer who will put handcuffs on her in a few seconds. Diana will probably now receive a prison sentence of 15-20 years. #Putin #Russia #Russian

A teenage Russian street musician Diana "Naoko" Loginova was jailed for 13 days on Thursday after she played a banned anti-Kremlin song on St Petersburg's central avenue www.reuters.com/world/russia...

What if a time traveler accidentally killed Asgard archaea, and eukaryotes never emerged? Giant sulfur bacteria might still develop complex life. Using neural networks, I try to show this alternative living world 🧪🦠 #BiologyWeek communities.springernature.com/posts/altern...

This tiny jumping spider refused to surrender its hard-earned meal when faced with a camera lens, impressive! I finally managed to get out with the camera, now I'm on parental leave. We're still waiting for the little one to grace us with her presence, it could be any day now! #Macrophotography 🧪

Congratulations to bicyclists: you're one of the most efficient movers in the animal kingdom! 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

In 2010, a scientist argued that 2.1 billion-year-old African specimens showed complex life appearing 500 million years ahead of schedule. His critics say they are — literally — fool's gold. At stake? The question of when and how complex life arose at all. My cover story (!) for @sciam.bsky.social!

It's #BiologyWeek now, but I am posting a photo of mine out of a working environment — because I am no longer in academia. But I am still a freelance science communicator, my computational research project in microbial biology is going on — thus still #IAmABiologist!

Today is Kelly's last day in the lab. She is the first research assistant I ever hired and made an enormous impact: quick to learn and delivering top-quality results. All while applying for a PhD - and she succeeded! I hope this book from @zjayres.bsky.social will help her with her journey.

🧵 FAQ: Q: What even is this? This account tracks the live level of the urine tank on the International Space Station. Q: So it's, like, real? Live? Right now? Yes.

Today is #InternationalMicroorganismDay! My #Bio350 #Micronauts were offered extra credit to create artwork to celebrate the Small Masters of our #PlanetMicrobe. Please enjoy! This one celebrates ice nucleation bacteria! @univpugetsound.bsky.social @asm.org @microbetv.bsky.social #IMD2025

For #InternationalMicroorganismDay, I would like to highlight my favourite microbes – the main characters of my blog about evolution of multicellularity 🦠 They have something in common: all of them tell us something about the nature of multicellularity itself 🧪 Read the thread! 🧵⬇️ #MicroSky

It’s International Microorganism Day! We asked the Society’s Champions to tell us about their favourite microbes and, our Champion, Eliza Wolfson, has created some fun illustrations to show you a bit more of their character! @eliza-coli.bsky.social @femsmicro.org #InternationalMicroorganismDay

Bioinformatician Dmitry Ravcheev has a good portfolio of articles and working experience in US, Luxembourg, and Ireland. However, now he is in a vitious cycle of mental illness and lack of money. You could donate him to help pay for the treatment and come back to science. gofund.me/fcfd3918

Cif is a bacterial epoxide hydrolase which is believed to inactivate CFTR protein in humans and thus contribute to bacterial virulence. However, my preliminary data show it might also "spoof" oxylipin signalling 🧪🦠 Read my conference paper from MCCMB 2025 📃 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Could a diverse group of compounds known as oxylipins, found across the kingdoms of life, be the molecules that enabled ancient single cells to join forces and become multicellular? We looked at the evidence in The Biologist (by @rsb.org.uk) 🧪🦠🌳 thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-fe...

Biology Week will be returning this October! Running from 11-19 October 2025, there will be a variety of events hosted in-person and online throughout the week. Find out what’s on and how to get involved: www.rsb.org.uk/rsb-gears-up... #BiologyWeek #BiologyWeek2025 #BiosciencesForAll

📣 Calling all biologists! Each year during Biology Week in October, we aim to inspire future biologists by highlighting the diverse roles available in the biosciences through our #IAmABiologist campaign - but to do that, we need your help! (1/2)

Why is the pharmaceutical industry still hooked on horseshoe crab blood for drug testing when there are synthetic alternatives? In the latest issue of The Biologist, Rich Gorman, Jolie Crunelle, and Kristoffer Whitney explore this question. Read the article: thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-fe...

Amazing time-lapse video of the embryogenesis of salamander by @natgeotv.bsky.social 🧪 youtu.be/SEejivHRIbE?...

Autumn coziness is starting 🍂🍁🎑🎃

When I talk about oxylipins in bacteria, nobody cares 🧪 🦠 But even as I granted an interview about biochemistry of love to a local newspaper, my phrase about "charivari of neurotransmitters" got viral everywhere ❤️ And was even translated into French :-) www.zakweli.com/combien-de-t...

The problem of domestic violence in Russia has significantly exacerbated during the last years. Nasiliu.net center protects women against it despite the "foreign agent" status: nasiliu.net/about-center/ Support them by a recurrent donation: nasiliu.net/podderzhat/

Meet me as a full member of one more scientific society – @microbiologysociety.org . Now I am a Full Concessionary Member. I hope that the new status will mean more opportunities to bring you interesting content on microbes and to study their life 🦠🧫🧪 microbiologysociety.org/member/Georg...

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We shouldn’t fear a “zombie fungus”, like The Last of Us… but a threat from fungi is real | Georgy Kurakin While a fungal threat is incredibly unlikely, rising global temperatures mean we're increasingly at risk from a life-threatening fungal pathogen skeptic.org.uk/2024/08/we-sho…