Researchers at the Nebraska Public Health Laboratory worked round the clock to develop a test for the Andes virus at the center of the deadly cruise ship outbreak

New zoonosis reported in Japan: The nematode Onchocerca takaokai, usually a parasite of wild boars, was identified in a 24-year-old man.🧪 #openaccess 🔗: doi.org/10.1051/para...

I decided to tinker with my pop-sci article titled "Alternative history of life on Earth: complex life evolving from giant sulfur bacteria" and have turned it into a scientific preprint 🧪🦠 Dear colleagues, which journal could you recommend to submit this to? www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

Here in @forbes.com I cover the misinformation and disinformation about the Andes virus outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship that's been spreading faster and farther than the hantavirus itself. 🛟 🧪 😷 #AcademicSky #MedSky #episky🩺 #HiSciSky Public Health #science www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...

I've spent yesterday and today talking to researchers across the globe trying to understand the hantavirus outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius. My story in @science.org is here (and some threaded thoughts coming): www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 #IDsky

🧪 #hantavirus #IDsky Excellent piece from @helenbranswell.bsky.social with a link below to everyone who has already used up their 3 free @statnews.com articles for May 🫣 archive.ph/iSbAs www.statnews.com/2026/05/07/h...

I have just enjoyed a new collaboration on speculative biology. Artist Victoria Volina-Luchian invited me to act as a scientific consultant for an illustrated book on astrobiology 🧪🪐 The book is now available on Amazon – with my name listed in the publication details: www.amazon.com/dp/B0GZSHV41V/

I've designed a promotional card for my new preprint — it is just a redesigned version of a similar slide for the older one 🧪🦠🌳🚶‍♂️ How to you find it? :-) The preprint itself: doi.org/10.20944/pre...

Interested in learning more about the effects of climate change on coral reefs? 🪸🌎 And what strategies there may be to help? 🧪💭 Read our short Plain Language summary below 👇 appliedecologistsblog.com/2026/04/08/c...

Dear colleagues from biology, I need a piece of advice 🧪💻 I have submitted my preprint below to ISMB 2026. However, some colleagues and Perplexity noted methodological problems in it. Would you recommend to withdraw it from the conference? #AcademicSky www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

My blog article (having been translated into Russian and republished) has taken second place in "BioMolText-2025/2026" organized by Biomolekula magazine. It is a good occasion to read it once again and explore the complexity of giant sulfur bacteria 🧪🦠 communities.springernature.com/posts/altern...

My colleague Dmitry Ravcheev is a highly cited computational biologist of a senior level. But, due to mental issues, he lost his job and working permit and has been left destitute 🧪💻🆘 Your donation might help him to pay for his treatment and return to work 💶 www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-re...

Researchers working on Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The latest edition of #PeriodicGraphics in @cenmag.bsky.social looks at applications of MOFs, including water harvesting, gas storage, and more: cen.acs.org/materials/me... #PeriodicGraphics#ChemSky 🧪

Last night, the astronauts on the Artemis mission successfully returned to Earth, splashing down off the California coast. Their mission symbolically marked humanity’s return to the Moon 🧪 🌚 At the same time, Russia declared Stanford University a ‘undesirable organisation’. This is symbolic, too 😡

Ever feel like an independent researcher? It’s like rolling up to a conference in a wheelchair — no ramps, just “Where’s your institution?” My latest chronicles expose the barriers 🧪♿🔬 Read on! #AcademicSky oxylipins.substack.com/p/independen...

REMINDER: Our civilization is built on climate norms. It's how we know when to plant crops, or where to build cities. But that foundation of climate predictability is being rapidly undermined by a system that has entrenched fossil fuel dependency. We need to act before it's too late. #ClimateSky

Becoming an independent researcher feels like rolling a wheelchair through academia — no ramps, no access, just sidelong glances. One tiny checkbox on a preprint server made me feel seen. Barrier-free science? Still fiction. 🧪🧬♿ #AcademicInclusion #AcademicSky open.substack.com/pub/oxylipin...

Because of climate change caused by burning shittons of fossil fuels.

NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis.bsky.social) live tracker by @artbrwsk.bsky.social: artemis.rtem.io 🧪🌖🚀

Happy Easter from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology 🍫 🧪⚙️🌱🔋 #ChemicalEngineering #Biotechnology #CambridgeUniversity

Left academia → tried to publish as an independent researcher → got ignored by journals like a spam bot. One even required a university seal on my cover letter. Turns out, some treat science like a restricted facility — no papers without a pass 🤣🧪 #AcademicSky oxylipins.substack.com/p/independen...

Oxylipins are ancient lipid signalling compounds found across all life from cyanobacteria to us 🧪🦠 Could they be the molecules that enabled ancient single cells to join forces and become multicellular? Our old writing for @rsb.org.uk — now on the new website 💻 biologist.rsb.org.uk/all_together...

Checkout this article I found at PLOS: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

I volunteered on a COVID project titled Crowdfight — but when I asked for help on my own work, I was locked out for lacking an affiliation. How do they build open, collaborative science by slamming that door, especially on their own volunteers? 🧪💻 oxylipins.substack.com/p/independen...

Cif is a bacterial epoxide hydrolase, whose primary target was believed to be CFTR. A new research shows that the oxylipin-cleaving activity of Cif is not less important and might enable bacteria both to colonize plants and to infect humans 🧪🦠🌾🐛🚶‍♂️ communities.springernature.com/posts/a-bact...

My recent preprint on cross-kingdom bacteria has just obtained an easily readable HTML version — like in journals and on bioRxiv 🧪🦠🌾 Now you can read it easily without downloading and decide on was it was worth rejecting by bioRxiv or not www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

‘Dark oxygen’ discovered 4,000 meters below the Pacific Ocean where sunlight has never reached | Dark oxygen discovered under the Pacific Ocean (Image source: AI-generated) For decades, school textbooks have explained that oxygen on Earth is mainly produced through photosynthesis, a process that…

A new post in my research blog features a new controversial paper of mine 🧪 It shows how CFTR inhibitory factors (Cif) can transform bacteria into universal cross-kingdom colonizers. However, it was rejected even by bioRxiv - for its simplicity 🦠🌾⛔ communities.springernature.com/posts/cif-do...

Gender roles in Neolithic Hungary may have been more flexible than researchers previously expected. 🏺🧪

Cif — CFTR inhibitory factor — was believed to be just a bacterial enzyme phenocopying cystic fibrosis. My recent research suggests that it might target plants, marine invertebrates, and humans by interfering with oxylipin signalling 🧪🦠🌾🚶‍♂️ communities.springernature.com/posts/a-bact...

AI developer Oleg Greshnev and sociologist Anna Kuleshova argue that the current AI literally bites the hand that feed it. By eliminating early-career environment, it depletes the expertise it depends on. They offer sustainable solutions of the problem 🧪💻 #ΑΙ #socsky papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

@seandstacey.bsky.social, add me to the Microbiology feed, please #AddMicrobiology

Please guys can we stop calling complex systems "more than the sum of their parts?" I'm guilty of this word crime myself, but I did my time by writing this post. 🧪

— Gemini, create an image of the living world that could have emerged if multicellular life had developed not from classical eukaryotes, but from the descendants of giant sulphur bacteria, which complicated multicellularity and formed complex cell compartmentalisation 🧪🦠 — No problem 💻

I have published a new preprint on how bacteria can exploit the host's oxylipin signalling system in both plants and animals. Cif — CFTR inhibitory factor — might enable them to simultaneously infect plants, animals, and humans 🧪🦠🚶‍♂️🌳 www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research 🧪 #Macroecology

Today, we have marked 4 years of uninterrupted nightmare. I starve for peace and freedom

My new issue of the "Independent researcher's chronicles" is live 🧪💻 Since I left academia and became and independent researcher, I faced two similar cases of ignoring me by editorial offices. It looks like deliberate suspending me from communications oxylipins.substack.com/p/independen...

I am starting my little blog series titled "Independent researcher's chronicles", where I tell about the struggles of a researcher without an affiliation 🧪🚫 The first post covers the case of Crowdfight, a science collaboration network oxylipins.substack.com/p/independen...

New artworks are now available on my personal artistic website georgykurakin.artstation.com #art

🔬The @csic.es is also part of the XTREAM team! Meet the largest public research institution in Spain and one of the most prestigious in Europe. The Centre of Astrobiology is an institution within CSIC that works to learn more about extremophiles. Learn more about them 👉https://www.csic.es/es

Snowball Earth might have had a dynamic climate and open seas ⚒️🧪 www.sciencenews.org/article/snow...

Exoplanet in focus, unexpected gas detected, extraterrestrial life claimed - and then not confirmed. It has already become a tradition. Why do we face recurrent "scientific coveries" in astrobiology? I discuss this problem for @skeptic.org.uk 🧪🪐🌌 www.skeptic.org.uk/2026/02/dime...

My recently published article for The Skeptic. This time, I covered the problems of astrobiology

Perseverance celebrates 5 years on Mars! This is a painting of the day Ingenuity unfolded (rip 🥲🚁) #space #astronomy 🔭🧪🐡

Terrifying medical details on the injuries of the protesters in Iran have been published by @theguardian.com The pattern of injuries clearly shows that the aim of the regime was not to disperse the crowd, but to disfigure and blind them www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Amazing essay about the possible boost of multicellularity evolution made by "Snowball Earth" 🧪🦠

Teens are falling in love with AI. 🤖🧪 A new study from the @cdt.org found that 86% of high school students use artificial intelligence tools for homework, advice, and conversation. youtube.com/shorts/7O4vX...

A new wave of protest is rising in Iran, with mourning families, students and medical workers openly defying the regime, @wsj.com tells Iranian authorities have made small concessions, such as releasing a protester on bail and issuing motorcycle licenses to women. www.wsj.com/world/middle...