Once upon a time Desk Editors quietly fixed minor issues in accepted papers to ensure format compliance. Now, even the smallest formatting slip sends a ms back to the authors for trivial corrections. Is this really about maintaining standards—or just saving salaries of those used to handle this 🤔?

Diese #Klimademo war laut, bunt, wütend, hoffnungsvoll - ich bin stolz auf dich #Berlin, weiter so 💪🏻

Bio-desulfurization of fossil fuels has been a classic env biotech challenge for decades, but the field became stagnant for a while … until @pglekas.bsky.social et al leveraged SynBio tools to develop superior whole-cell catalysts enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 😱

Very honored to receive the Royal Society Research Culture Award - this represents the work of a great team who've worked non-stop since we launched bioRxiv in 2013 royalsociety.org/news/2025/08... www.cshl.edu/inglis-and-s...

I gave a symposium talk at the European Society for Evolutionary Biology 2025 (#eseb2025) meeting last week and this was my title slide showcasing how I was speaking as an independent scientist because @dalhousieu.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social has locked us out.

#Synthetic C1 #metabolism in #Pseudomonas putida enables strict formatotrophy and methylotrophy via the reductive glycine pathway—led by J. Turlin, M. G. Alván, @oscarpuiggene.bsky.social w/@stefanodonati.bsky.social & @sebwenk.bsky.social @mbio.bsky.social #SynBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

A discovery journey of almost 4 years initiated by J. Turlin, and then continued by M. G. Alván, @oscarpuiggene.bsky.social with the precious collaboration of @stefanodonati.bsky.social and @sebwenk.bsky.social! 5/5

Spain is on fire. Italy, Greece, Portugal — all burning. We have had summer fires before, but never like this. This is climate breakdown in real time. It is killing people, animals, and our future. DAMN the climate deniers. DAMN those who know and could do but do NOTHING www.bbc.com/news/article...

There are more than a million Dominicans in NYC, and yesterday on 6th Avenue I felt every bit of that pride. Thank you for welcoming me in to celebrate the vibrant, beautiful culture and community that does so much for our city. 🇩🇴

New paper alert! 🚨 Plasmids promote bacterial evolution through a copy number-driven increase in mutation rate. We combine theory, simulations, experimental evolution, and bioinformatics to demonstrate that mutation rates scale with plasmid copy number. Let's dive in! 🧵👇

We're hiring for 2 postdocs to work in our lab in London on the newly announced Wellcome Trust SynHG project. If you know people looking to work on big-scale ambitious science like this, please RT and share this with them. Apply by 7/20, interviews in Aug. imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Bacteria poison and eat their neighbors | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We are strict with time #TCTeAC

New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

@asm.org and @vscooper.micropopbio.org #ASMMicrobe is there a plan for ASM Microbe next week to guarantee the safety of all attendees? Given there will be hundreds or thousands of international attendees how can they be safe from ICE, the National Guard, and rioters? #microsky 🦠🧪

Mega! Congratulations Dr. Orsi. Looking forward to future collaborations and fruitful exchanges for our quest to sustainable bioproduction ♻️🧪🦠🧑‍🔬

🚨 preprint 2️⃣ this month: our (purely experimental🧪) venture into #ChemBio We prouldy present: ADD-tagging of proteins (or "ADDing") —a super convenient enzymatic technique to install click chemistry handles on proteins. Led by superstar @wahyuwidodo.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A 🧵👇🏽

London bus stop near Amazon HQ 🔥

Journal editors are now receiving such letters from the US government. The entire scientific community must unite to support our journals in flatly resisting such illegal interventions.

Define fascism

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

I'm super excited and grateful-yesterday I was appointed full professor at the Centre for Molecular Biology (ZMBH) at the University of Heidelberg. I am very grateful to my team, colleagues and mentors who have helped me along the way. I very much look forward to the next phase.

David Baker talks about how the current uncertainty and instability hinder creativity because of the difficulty in thinking long-term. From this week’s Night Science Podcast nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis... @nightsciencepod.bsky.social

8 yr Tomás Jr. celebrates Father’s Day—in Spain, March 19, St Joseph—with this drawing for our lab colleague Tomás Aparicio. We scientists are passionate about our work & that passion is felt (& sometimes endured!) by those around us! See how a SEVA plasmid is about to enter our beloved P. putida 😍!

A call for action by Ken Timmis — Academic institutions worldwide must welcome de-funded US researchers · Read the statement here 👇 iums.org/kenneth-timm...

This 👉🏻 iums.org/kenneth-timm...

Out now! Our latest paper where we show a "one-pot" labelling technique which allows for simultaneous mechanical and fluorescent readouts from a protein (Hsp90): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Congratulations to everyone who worked on this, especially Laura!

This 👉🏻 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 😱

🔥 rGlyP > CBB 🔥 A few letters with a crazy implication. Check out the work of my friend Beau who did an amazing job engineering and evolving C. necator growth on CO2 and formate!!!

"This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong...."

Hands down meine schöneste Unterhaltung bei BlueSky bisher. Real talk ft. @simonhammann.bsky.social 😎

If someone spends 3y doing experiments and wants constructive feedback, spending 4-6h providing it shouldn't be a chore - especially given it's what you want when you are an author. Reminds me of Yaniv Erlich's simple equation: review 3X as many papers as you write, and the system should work.

It's a huge honor to be a part of this truly remarkable set of speakers at the Stand Up for Science rally tomorrow in DC in front of the Lincoln Memorial! (My first speech at this kind of an event!) standupforscience2025.org/dc-rally/

Getting ready to #StandUpForScience tomorrow! 🗽🧪🧬🔬🌦️🧫🔭🌎🐁🌱🦫🐕 Join me: standupforscience2025.org

Seattle science colleagues (and friends): I hope you’re ready to see the awesome artistic skills (or lack thereof) on our lab’s posters at the science march tomorrow! Come for the science! Stay for your community!

Check out Sebastians crazy effort to engineer E. coli to grow on formate via the synthetic Serine-Threonine-Cycle. In contrast to the rGlyp the STC works even at ambient CO2!🔥

We just #published an end-to-end work for the computer-aided design💻, construction🛠️, validation✅, characterization🔬 & application💪 of #auxotroph metabolic sensors, the work-horses of in vivo growth-coupled selection screening systems-using glycolate as test case. 🧵👇1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚀 The SEM Group (Lab Nikel) is officially on Bluesky! We’re kicking things off with our latest paper: an end-to-end journey on designing, implementing & applying auxotrophic metabolic sensors for bioengineering! 🧬🔬 @naturecomms.bsky.social Check it out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in Sustainability, Metabolic Engineering and Evolution? Check out how we convinced E. coli to grow on the CO2-derived substrate formic acid using the synthetic Serine Threonine Cycle! ♻️🌱🦠 OPEN ACCESS publication to be found here: 🚨 doi.org/10.1016/j.ym... 🚨 #MEvoSky #microsky (1/🧵)

Huge congratulations to Laura for being the first PhD student to graduate from the KT lab! Laura did amazingly well both during her PhD (on Hsp90, of course) and in defending it. Big thanks to our examination and assessment committees and the chair of the session! 🧪

One of the joys of attending meetings is seeing again awesome colleagues and enjoy conversations on all types of topics—the conference in Asilomar is no exception to this 😃! Here having breakfast with Ariel Lindner and Patrick Cai 👇

Happy 37th birthday to the LTEE! the-ltee.org/history/

Publish EXCLUSIVELY in society journals!

Diversity is our greatest asset, even if the government disagrees… They not like us! POC in STEM are here to stay. They tried to rig the game but you can’t fake influence! Mustard on the [Be][At] bro. Happy Black History Month!

Chris & team continue to revolutionize (evolutionary) biology 👍🏻

Every scientist, long before they were a scientist, was a little kid who stood in front of a fish tank or stared up at the stars or turned over a rock to look at the bugs underneath and said “wow”. On the best days, working in science still feels like that.

Hello Bluesky community, transitioning from passive observer to active participant on this platform, I want to quickly introduce myself: I am a synthetic biologist with a passion for enzymes and metabolic pathways that enable microbial growth on CO2/CO2-derived carbon sources.

“What if I’m wrong?” Scientists ask themselves this question all the time and think of ways to carefully test their ideas in controlled experiments. Is Co-President Elon Musk asking himself what if he’s wrong about completely changing how science is funded in the United States?

Here's the promised natural product preprint: Flavoaffinins, elusive cellulose-binding natural products from an anaerobic bacterium. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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