If the @royalsociety.org won’t stand up for scientific values like truth, evidence & the importance of not spreading misinformation on an industrial scale, then who will? www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

After 4 years of joint effort of my Lab and Dr. Llorente Team we took for first time SCRaMbLE to a bacterial system! This allowed us to massively reordered the main chromosome of Vibrio natriegens! biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Here's a 🧵

"As part of its ongoing assault on Palestinian life and institutions, the Israeli occupying army carried out a military invasion of Birzeit University during official working hours, at a time when the campus was filled with students, faculty members, and staff." www.birzeit.edu/en/news/stat...

Why are academic societies still on X it must violate all their code of conducts?

"How can funders avoid crossing the Szilard point?" The Szilard point is "the threshold at which the total cost of competing for a grant equals (or surpasses) the value of the available funding."

A lot of Christmas spirit this year in the lab. We wish you an happy holiday season.

Go have a look at this great paper by @julietteluiselli.bsky.social and Paul Banse!!

In my case, this painstaking labor in the process through which the science gets done. Science isn't measuring stuff in a lab. It's thinking deeply, extracting the heart of idea from the soup of thoughts running through my mind, molding it, and finding a way to communicate that idea to others.

Frances Elizabeth Allen: The Woman Who Made Code Run Fast - And Was Forgotten Because It Worked voxmeditantis.com/2025/12/13/f... #WomenInSTEM #STEM #CompilerOptimisation #ProgramAnalysis #ParallelComputing

This thread is 💯. Labor precarity in academia means the evisceration of faculty governance and academic freedom, opening the door to administrative purges of the most vulnerable. And faculty-esp tenured faculty and academic leaders-who aren't defending their trans colleagues are enabling it.

The end of academic freedom, Flowchart Edition.

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...

I know I'm spamming you all with the world's largest flower this week but look at THIS! A rare glimpse inside Rafflesia arnoldi!

With this working, as a first test we took two plasmids, identical save for 8 point mutations changing the color, and competed them against one another. Here’s a video of what it looked like when we activated the recombinase. You can see the two compete in real time: 4/

⚠️ When “technology will save us” becomes a climate risk! A new paper from great colleagues takes a careful look at techno-optimism — the belief that technology will largely solve climate change — and what it means for real-world climate action. (1/4)👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...

We are looking for a postdoc to join our team! If you're interested in translating a cutting edge genomics technology (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) to real-life applications in hematology, this is for you. We offer a unique working environment ON THE BEACH: recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...

Still looking for our perfect doctoral candidate as part of @evomg-dn.bsky.social - come and join us to work on the evolutionary pressures that shape gene expression and disease in the uterus! Please RT (or is it RB? not sure how our lingo has changed!)

New blog post. This week, @marycolwell1 gave the eulogy to the Slender-billed Curlew at the AEWA meeting of parties in Bonn. You can now read the eulogy on our new blog post. www.curlewaction.org/the-bird-wit...

🔥 At conferences, who asks the questions shapes who gets seen. Across 24 ID&CM meetings, women were 55% of delegates but asked 36% of questions. 💬 When women moderate or speak first, others follow. Let’s change the pattern bit.ly/47VL0eH 🙏 @maudsalmona.bsky.social & MicroID EmpowHERment consortium

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

disappointed that @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social is implicitly endorsing the use of LLMs to replace scientific thought @richardsever.bsky.social this is a short-sighted move and a net negative for science

Des ERC mais en deux mois je ne peux pas avoir un badge d'accès pour un chercheur international qui a obtenu une chaire. "C'est compliqué". Quand je vais à Cambridge comme invitée, ils savent que j'arrive et j'ai un badge en une demi seconde. Fin de la blague.

Between grants getting politically targeted and my lab’s building getting literally fucking bombed, 2025 is going great thanks

We have an open PhD position (application deadline 9 January 2026) in "Theory of fitness landscapes" at @unibe.ch 🤓⛰️📊👩‍💻🎓: banklab.github.io/positions/ Please share widely! #QueerInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #CarersInSTEM #AcademicSky #HigherED

Scientists themselves determine what is valued within science. Yet we act as if beholden to external managers, bean-counters who confuse the production of papers with scientific progress. We don't have to find better ways to navigate the prison of metrics-driven scientific assessment.

ALIA lance une alerte sur les risques que fait peser sur la liberté académique et la production scientifique la multiplication des laboratoires soumis au statut de Zone à Régime Restrictif (ZRR). Elle prend la forme d’une lettre ouverte sur les ZRR. liberte-academique.fr/zones-a-regi...

One of my colleagues discovered a journal had published an article co-authored by her that she never wrote. Appears to have been AI generated and put behind a paywall. Identity fraud, plagiarism, exploitation. Just more awesome benefits of AI... #NihilismAndTechnology

I highly recommend Jon & Mafalda's super cool lab!

“Developmental biology is fundamentally beautiful. We are no less beautiful for our variation. Instead, perhaps we are more so. Perhaps we are remarkable. Perhaps we are full of wonder.” Read this insightful post by Bethan on the Node. thenode.biologists.com/developmenta... #Disability

Just tried this on a paper I co-wrote. I think I prefer the old-school method of reading tea leaves though.

We are hiring a ✨ bioinformatics PhD student ✨ for fall 2026 as part of the @evomg-dn.bsky.social MSCA doctoral network! Our project in a nutshell: can the evolution of gene expression in the uterus point us towards which genes are important for human uterine diseases? To apply 👉 www.evomg-dn.eu

Massive PhD cuts at Harvard. OEB (Organismal and Evolutionary Biology) is dropping from 12 students in the new class to 3, for example. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Wrote a thing www.liberalcurrents.com/wars-on-scie...

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

🚨🚨🚨 Two super well-funded PhD grants from our MSCA Doctoral Network @evomg-dn.bsky.social at our lab at @melisupf.bsky.social, @crg.eu and the @evomg-bcn.bsky.social Program. If you're excited about evolution, genomics and biomedical research, this is your DN! 😃 Further info: www.evomg-dn.eu and 👇

OMFG….this is crazy! He works at NIH & he was going for his green card hearing & he was kidnapped by ICE 😱

Toute ressemblance avec un certain labo de l'ENS Lyon...

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events. Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... 1/14

Please RT! Together with the fantastic @jcarnesecchi.bsky.social we are looking for a M2 student. The internship will take place primarily in her lab at IGMM with a part at ISEM (5-10min away). Don't miss this unique opportunity to mix molecular and cellular experiments with evolution. Apply!

We can remember Goodall’s accomplishments and legacy while recognizing that National Geographic created a narrative that erased the local people who contributed to her research. Her African colleagues deserve to be credited, not erased (10/10).

It's finally out 🥳🥳!! Check out the last bits of my PhD work at @plos.org Computational Biology: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... #transcription #supercoiling #evolution #genome

Comme il y a beaucoup de nouveaux arrivants, c'est le moment d'une nouvelle présentation ! Je suis chercheuse en biologie évolutive du développement et dans mon équipe, nous essayons de comprendre comment et par quels mécanismes les espèces (et surtout les chiroptères !! 🦇) se diversifient 👇🧵

A great opportunity in a super interesting project!!

HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

👩‍🔬J'ai commencé un kit de démarrage "chercheuses en France" go.bsky.app/TBEzKC #FemmesEnScience J'ai besoin de votre aide pour le remplir et donner de la visibilité aux chercheuses que vous connaissez et qui sont sur Bluesky ! ▶️Taguez celles que vous connaissez, je les ajoute !

J'aurais besoin de conseils juridiques pour savoir sur une menace de procès (lettre d'avocat) pour quelque chose que j'ai dis sur les réseaux sociaux est solide, ou du bluff. Quelqu'un de compétent pour m'aider? Merci

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.