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…

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Those aren’t resurrected dire wolves, they’re customised grey wolves | Georgy Kurakin While the headlines proclaim the resurrection of the dire wolf, in reality Colossal Biosciences have invented the gene-edited pet dog

Only 50 years ago, microbiology was to be found only in thick textbooks full of biochemical details and Latin nomenclature 🧪🦠📘 But now we have a bust of microbiology-related comics — and I explain it for #FEMSmicroBlog by @femsmicro.org #MicrobiologyInArt fems-microbiology.org/femsmicroblo...

This is my poster from MCCMB conference which I attended recently 🧪🦠🌳 I tried to make it interactive, graphical, and vivid :-) QR codes, shortDOIs are at your service, as Mr. Peeve Pathogen ad Mr. Smiling Symbiont do. Hope you will like them — as well as the work itself :-)

Last Christmas, @bmj.com published an article, where probable diseases of Disney princesses were discussed. I disagreed on the diagnoses of Belle and Aurora and sent a rapid response to BMJ, but it has not been published. I wrote about this for Mel.fm (in Russian) 🧪 mel.fm/blog/georgy-...

Would you like some infographics on the phylogeny of steroid 5-alpha reductases and their emergence in plants and vertebrates? 🌳🦠🧪🦕 This is my poster from #ISMBECCB2025 conference (by @iscb.bsky.social). It is now available on F1000Research and fully citable: doi.org/10.7490/f100...

Today is #WorldHepatitisDay. Seven #LaskerAward winners were recognized for their work to detect, prevent, and treat #hepatitis. Learn more: ow.ly/NHXE50PiGSl 🧪

Physicist Avi Loeb claims the object 3I/ATLAS is an alien spacecraft that will be here in November to invade our planet and start hostilities. Nothing of the sort! That's just my friends from another galaxy coming for my milestone birthday 🥳🤣 Due to Avi Loeb, I'm now sure they'll be in time 🚀🧪

⚡️⚡️Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES) is going to be stripped of accreditation soon, as Groza Media reports. ❗️❗️Groza cites anonymous sources inside the university and the audio recording from the internal meeting with the chancellor.

🐆 #MammalMonday: Amur Leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) A critically endangered leopard subspecies, fewer than 120 remain in the wild. One of the most endangered felids on Earth. 🧪 🦤 🦊 🌍 Photos: © Royle Safaris © krunku, CC-BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

Hey wildlife disease folk! How do you see parasites in conservation? Something to be eradicated, or valued alongside the host? We'd love to hear from you as part of our research survey on attitudes to parasite conservation. Deadline 29th August 🌍🧪🪱🦠. Survey form: forms.office.com/e/KBPhk6fgz3

🧪280 NASA employees past & present + at least 4 astronauts, have signed a declaration of opposition to the many of the impending drastic changes The last six months have been full of rapid, wasteful & catastrophic changes that have sabotaged their mission. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The #ISMBECCB2025 conference started with the amazing talk by John Jumper from Google DeepMind. It was a summary of the history of AlphaFold. Meanwhile, I am presenting a virtual poster on steroid 5-alpha reductases. In the virtual poster hall, I explore their evolution. @iscb.bsky.social

Steroid 5-alpha reductase is one of the important pharmacological target in humans 🧪💊 But the same enzyme powers the steroid biosynthesis in plants🌳🌷 How did this similarity originate and evolve? Let's discuss this under my virtual poster at ISMB-ECCB 2025! #ISMBECCB2025 @iscb.bsky.social

We're a month out from #ISMBECCB2025!  You can now access the abridged agenda, downloadable schedules, poster listings, and SciFinder search tool links directly from the homepage: https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025/home Click the link you need, or use the Programme &  Agenda menu for more options!

Why are humans biochemically boring creatures, when compared to plants? Do plants need intelligence and sentience? And how horizontal gene transfer could look like in our usual world? I explained these questions to Russian ecological media Kedr Media (in Russian) 🌳🧪 kedr.media/interview/na...

Researchers claim their AI model simulates the human mind. Others are skeptical | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

I can now congratulate you all: we have a first photo of an exoplanet 🪐🔭🧪 It has been obtained by James Webb Space Telescope.

Does anybody know how to switch off the "AI Overview" function in Google Search? It is a nasty disservice that drives me crazy! #Google #AI #IT

By flipping an evolutionarily disabled genetic switch involved in Vitamin A metabolism, researchers in Science have enabled ear tissue regeneration in mice. Learn more: scim.ag/3TzUSnH

The Trump administration has ended several U.S. science agencies’ subscriptions to Springer Nature journals, including the prestigious Nature titles. scim.ag/3I2aJJ4

The United States reneged on its foreign aid commitments. Nepal’s malnourished children and their families are paying the price. Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/46cnJFO

Fifth President of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili, has condemned the latest arrests of opposition figures, calling the number of political prisoners detained in just one week unprecedented, not only for Georgia, but for many countries worldwide.

Number of political prisoners in Georgia — Who's Next? - Performance in Zugdidi. #GeorgiaProtests Day 212 📷 Tsabunia Vartagava

BREAKING: Elene Khoshtaria announces a hunger strike! She is one of the leaders of Coalition for Change, the leader of Droa party and one of the couple of leaders who aren’t jailed by the regime yet. She will remain at the protest location, Rustaveli Avenue.

Helen Khoshtaria—one of the few opposition leaders in Georgia not yet behind bars—has begun a hunger strike on Rustaveli Avenue. She’ll be there 24/7. She has multiple chronic health conditions. She has four children (three minors). Time is running out in Georgia.

For the 122th consecutive night, Rustaveli Avenue is blocked. Protests continue in 8+ cities across Georgia.