But in fact, fly immunity is highly reproducible! 🎊 ~80% of claims could be verified. Moreover, some challenged claims just reflect the field advancing its knowledge/tools. The lesson: if the tools are good and the research largely exempt from direct translation pressures, science works. 3.5/n

L’IHPE recrute un-e technicien-ne en expérimentation animale. Date limite 11/7 recrutement.upvd.fr/poste/afifwk...

Important: Journals Operating Predatory Practices Are Systematically Eroding the Science Ethos: A Gate and Code Strategy to Minimise Their Operating Space and Restore Research Best Practice enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨Call for papers on Non-traditional model organisms for #BMCBiology🚨 Guest Editors: Eve Gazave @stemdevevo.bsky.social, @ijmonod.bsky.social Vladimír Hampl, @sciencecharles.bsky.social Jason Podrabsky, Portland State U Deanne Whitworth, U of Queensland www.biomedcentral.com/collections/...

Exciting fundamental discovery! Early embryos fight bacteria WITHOUT immune cells Zebrafish, mouse, and human embryos use epithelial cells (trophoectoderm)—not immune cells—to engulf and destroy 𝘌. 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘪 and 𝘚. 𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘶𝘴 Hoijman Lab Barcelona 🇪🇸 𝘊𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘏𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘦 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our last paper just came out ! A great piece of work from the talented Laura Onillon and teammates with the pleasure to share this adventure with friendly collaborators @vincentdlft.bsky.social and @soldatilab.bsky.social !

Symbnet PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses - Oeiras Portugal. Students from all over the world are eligible, we sponsor selected students. Please Repost! gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s...

Check out our most recent preprint where we describe Mecp2 as a régulatrice of cGAS-STING associated signaling. 🧪🔥

Problematic Paper Screener: Trawling for fraud in the scientific literature Have you ever heard of the Joined Together States? our paper screener has been instrumental in more than 1,000 retractions theconversation.com/problematic-...

Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

I'm delighted to share our opinion on #papermills published in Nature. Science is flooded with papers from paper mills.Certain steps can be taken, but this is a challenge that neither universities nor journals are ready to face.Some use paper mills to their advantage. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Les couloirs bruissaient depuis plusieurs semaines d'une nouvelle phase de démantèlement du CNRS menée par Antoine Petit: les labo étoilés sur lesquels se concentreraient les moyens, les autres étant laissés à l'abandon. Ils s’appelleront "keylabs".

Newsletter CNRS: 'Création du label CNRS Keylabs. Pour faire face à la compétition internationale, le CNRS doit construire des masses critiques et faire porter un effort particulier sur un nombre plus restreint d’unités, celles qui peuvent légitimement prétendre à être qualifiée “de rang mondial”'

Today we report that an engineered skin bacterium, swabbed gently on the head of a mouse, can unleash a potent antibody response against a pathogen. Could lead to topical vaccines that are applied in a cream. @djenetbousbaine.bsky.social led the charge... @natureportfolio.bsky.social 1/55

Frequent Q is how mirror bacterium could persist in nature. Marine Prochlorococcus good example. Little downside in terms of competitiveness + resistant to protists and phages. Net positive growth allows invasion. See Chapter 8 of technical report here: purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036

Important piece by Gittleman - “It’s impossible to separate human health from health of the natural world. Ecology is the unifying science that integrates knowledge..[the] One Health approach is unlimited, exciting, & necessary for the health of life on our planet” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪🌎🌐🌾

I don’t normally stray here into politics, but this is global health and child mortality: somewhat terrified this will negatively impact not just public health in the USA, but could normalise this view further afield

Registration is now open for the 2025 Symposium on the Immune System of Bacteria, taking place this year in Paris (April 8-10). We have a fantastic lineup of speakers! Register here: www.sisb2025.conferences-pasteur.org/home

Plasmid afficionados: Does anybody know of any chromosomal genes that are required for plasmid conjugation? We have found a few by chance in a recent experiment and I would be really interested to know if there are other examples. #microsky #plasmid

"Bluesky is emerging as the new platform for science" mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...

The #Drosophila Immunity Handbook 🧵 This project started as a review with the aim, in some sense, to update Lemaitre and Hoffmann (2007; Ann Rev Imm). Then it kinda... got out of hand. But the reason that happened is because Hannah is amazing. Find the free PDF here btw: bit.ly/DrosImmBook 1/n

🚨 The Alker Lab is starting at the University of Rhode Island in early 2025 and we will be hiring! 🚨 If you are interested in marine microbiology, bacterial genetics and/or symbiosis, please consider reaching out! Repost to help spread the word 🪸🧪🧬🌊

Universités en Danger 🚨 L’UM alerte sur un désengagement financier de l’État (-17 M€ en 2025). Son président, Philippe Augé, pointe un risque majeur pour l’attractivité de l’enseignement supérieur et le rôle social des universités. ⤵️ france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/occitanie/he...

A Toulouse, une école universitaire de recherche formera les prochains experts des maladies infectieuses émergentes à partir de la rentrée 2025 👇 www.univ-tlse3.fr/actualite-de...

Wow - bluesky! 📈 🦠 Please help me amplify a special faculty search. We're looking for someone in "Microbial Systems Biology" to join me and @kreynoldslab.bsky.social at UTSW Sys Bio / Bioinformatics. There is an empty lab space right next to us waiting for you! apply.interfolio.com/154339 1/4

Reading this fabulous, honest and revealing autobiographical article by John Hopfield « Now what? » on finding a good research problem. I think this is a must read. I note the importance of teaching and serendipity. pni.princeton.edu/people/john-...