A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

On the reading list!

let me share a little story about a remarkable wasp that I encountered yesterday in our local deserts I stumbled across her, and scrambled to get a few crappy photos .... but then realized that she had a burrow, perhaps a better photo op was possible ?? here she is at her burrow entrance.

@nieuws.nos.nl waarom geven jullie aan mannen die prinsenvlag meevoeren, antisem leuzen roepen en hitlergroet brengen de apolitieke benaming “relschoppers”? bovendien, eerder noemden jullie het “in zwart geklede mannen”. nos.nl/l/2583277.

Enigszins beschonken Duitsers, zebrakoeien en een dieet van teflon: dit zijn de winnaars op het Ig Nobelfeest

I'll be presenting preclinical data on the BNT164 tuberculosis vaccine candidates at this years #mRNA health conference in Berlin. If you're attending, don't hesitate to reach out.

Thoughts @scommandeur.bsky.social? Thanks @aliciadwright.bsky.social for bring the paper to my timeline.

Interesting finding. Mtb L6 in a cat in Italy. Surprising result and would be interesting if questions were asked regarding cat food. I'm not aware of active transmission in that region, but my info might be outdated. www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic...

Alle talkshows die vanavond Kimmel behandelen: laat zien welke Nederlandse politieke partijen het in hun verkiezingsprogramma hebben gemunt op de media. ‘Tuig van de richel’ noemen. Ben je verafschuwd wat daar gebeurt? Voorkom dan dat het hier begint. Het is geen ‘free speech’ maar ‘protect speech’

We are looking to hire post-docs to work on T cell responses to M. tuberculosis infection using murine and NHP models. If you know T cells and wanna work on the top global infectious killer check us out. BSL3 experience not required. The NIH intramural program in Bethesda MD is an amazing place!

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

There you go - TB shaping the immune system (MHC class II) of meerkats! #TBSky #ImmunoSky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How is tuberculosis safely diagnosed and researched? Khalima Mamutova guides us through the BSL-3 lab in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan.

Hi Folks, happy to say I'll be speaking about our BNT164 TB vaccines at the WVC Europe next month. Do get in touch if you're also attending. Speaker list share.google/BdWxoBs2rugj...

So, happy 92nd anniversary to this diary entry, whose last line you will not be able to predict

youtube.com/shorts/RE1fK... @drjorhodes.com putting the FUN in fungal infections...

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Happy RNA Day to those who celebrate! 🧪 It’s AUG 1: the day we Met 🤓

Deutsche Bahn Deutsche Bahn. Can you make travelling any worse... Alternative to the alternative to the alternative to the alternative connection now cancelled. 2.5+ delay. @bahn.de

Happy to share the most recent preprint from the lab, the thesis work of Dr. Adam Krebs and a collaboration with many, including the Geissmann lab @mskcancercenter.bsky.social Here is a short paper thread. #tuberculosis #macrophages 🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Newest paper from the lab out today (doi.org/10.1084/jem....)! Here, we describe PathMHC, a novel MS-based approach to identify rare pathogen-derived peptides on MHC-I and MHC-II. We apply this to a range of pathogens Mtb, SARS-CoV-2, and Listeria.

No follow-up to this. Could this be the start of a dystopian apocalypse movie? Hope @daltmann.bsky.social is OK ;).

Such an interesting case report from my brilliant former colleague Jeroen. Amazing when you have the power to cure yourself through science. Something that should be available to more people.

I'm obsessed with this visual abstract. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

On a tragic note, though, (well, depending on how much you enjoy laughing at the misfortunes of others, I suppose, and on the extent to which the passage of time lessens tragedy) it’s 251 years to the day since the first death in a submarine

As it’s 20 June, we might celebrate any number of marvellous events today. Firstly, there’s the 451st anniversary of the birth of Wilhelm Kettler, Duke of Courland and Semigallia, and owner and wearer of these still unsurpassed trousers

I received essays from over half of my students in which they attributed the Neolithic Revolution to Margaret Atwood. Perfectly crafted essays explained how she and her dark themes brought agriculture to humanity. I hid her name in the assignment to catch AI. You're right— LLMs don't know facts.

A hard truth of science communication is that knowledge and attitudes (to say nothing of behavior) are not intrinsically linked. A panel from my 2017 comic on the intersection of science and religion, free to read: jordancollver.myportfolio.com/comics #sciart

Are you familiar with Niels Steensen? Sounds like a character you'd be interested in.

Hey @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social & @hankgreen.bsky.social Am disappointed by the claim made in this week's "We're Here" narrative around the smallpox vaccine. Variolation was a practice throughout history that pre-dates Jenner. Onesimus, a west African slave, introduced the technique to America.

New from The Strain Team: 🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊 Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗). Gross! 😀 1/n #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

Sickening. I know there are bigger problems in the world. But ugh.

cording Mycobacterium #tuberculosis in yellow (HN878, made by @tiphainecms.bsky.social) in the day 30 infected mouse lung. Imaged by Lorenzo Iseppi, with #Bcells in magenta. so simple, so pretty.

Hi friends! @goletti-delia.bsky.social just landed on the blue planet! Follow her if you’re interested in TB and other infectious diseases.

Made a cocktail for my wife and she put it in the freezer, inadvertently creating a new superorganism please hel—*glurk*

Noone ever complain again that Bluesky is less then the old Scitwitter days. Sometimes it just takes longer to get there. This thread is one month old, but worth every second. #Noodlococcus and #bluesoup vibes. @contamclub.bsky.social

Archaea xkcd.com/3095/

We are looking for post-docs interested in studying T cell responses to M. tuberculosis infection…especially basic T cell immunologists who are interested in learning to work with BSL3 pathogens. The NIH intramural program is an amazing place to train!

Dear uLIPSTIC users, We have been getting reports that, under some more inflammatory settings like TB or chronic LCMV infection, uLIPSTIC-expressing lymphocytes adoptively transferred into cre-negative uLIPSTIC hosts may be rejected at later timepoints (>1 wk).

ᗪIᗪ YOᑌ KᑎOᗯ? (IᑎᑎᗩTE IᗰᗰᑌᑎITY) Before modern refrigerators, Russian and Finnish people kept live brown frogs in milk to preserve its freshness Later scientists discovered that frogs’ skin secretes antimicrobial peptides like magainins to kill 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘶𝘴 and 𝘚𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢, slowing spoilage

How brilliant is this! All those asymmetric ones... mesmerising. #iteachphysics www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB7K...

Success in academia often has more to do with luck, patronage and the job market than “hard work”. Good academics acknowledge this. I worked hard, but I was in the right place at the right time on occasion. Historians far more talented than I have fallen between the cracks.

My quote of the day My dad used to say: “Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value." Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

Did the inmates use beta lactam to weaken the cell wall?

Apart from the monetary issue, it also sends a clear message of "you're not welcome here". This has a lot of impact (at least on me).

Why are prior and concurrent #TB such huge risk factors for M. abscessus infection? #zebrafish preprint lead by our research officer Denise Wee discovers tuberculous granulomas (yellow blob) act as a safe haven for opportunistic mycobacterial pathogens (magenta blobs).

𝘔𝘺𝘤𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘵𝘶𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘴 continues to cause substantial illness globally. In this phase 2b randomized trial, BCG revaccination did not prevent sustained 𝘔. 𝘵𝘶𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘴 infection in IGRA-negative, HIV-negative adolescents. Full BCG REVAX trial results: nej.md/3GKdPkf #MedSky #IDSky

Professors Rachel Tanner and Thomas Cousins are working together as part of new inter-disciplinary @ox.ac.uk consortium awarded £5 million funding from @ineosoxford.bsky.social to develop novel therapies for drug-resistant tuberculosis bit.ly/42ZMCRT #research #tuberculosis

🦠💨 Why do some TB strains make you cough more? Cough isn’t just an annoying sign and symptom of active tuberculosis - it’s one way that Mycobacterium tuberculosis spreads from person to person. 1/14 #Tuberculosis #CoughScience #Aerobiology #Neuroimmunology #Microbiology youtu.be/9qqHOKUXY5U?...

It's not an accident that the people chosen by this administration for important roles consistently appear to be the worst possible option. Installing leaders who are uniformly hated by their subordinates means they are wholly reliant on executive favor for power. It guarantees loyalty