I’ve arrived at the #canvas25 meeting in Salt Lake City. Today I’ll be at sessions on crop genetics/breeding and crop physiology/metabolism followed by the opening keynotes. But message me if you’d like to meet up at any point to talk about your research, open science and @plos.org or @plosone.org.

We've just launched the first large, site-less (home, direct to participant) randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid, testing tirzepatide (a GLP-1 drug) vs placebo. Please help spread the word www.scripps.edu/news-and-eve...

We are looking for a computational postdoc to work with us on new optimisation algorithms to make #RELION even better. Join our bubbly team at the @mrclmb.bsky.social in Cambridge, UK. 🤗 RTs appreciated. mrc.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

🚨 A fantastic opportunity to join HIRI to start your research group on RNA Biology 👇 www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Why do complex traits differ in their genetic architecture? In our new PLOS Biology paper, we will try to convince you that two simple scaling laws drive differences in the number, effect sizes and frequencies of causal variants affecting complex traits. Thread: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Intercropping and crop rotation are ancient agricultural practices. This @plosbiology.org Essay explores the role of plant-derived metabolites and plant-associated microbes in these agricultural systems and how they can help sustainable agriculture. plos.io/4op7k6W 🧪

1/ "Hemispherotomy leads to persistent sleep-like slow waves in the isolated cortex of awake humans" - out now in @plosbiology.org, led by Michele Colombo, Jacopo Favaro, & Marcello Massimini. 🧠

Out today in @plosbiology.org (1/5) Siblings and non-parental adults provide alternative pathways to cultural inheritance in juvenile great tits 🐦🧩 Link to study: 10.0.5.91/journal.pbio... Co-authors: @lucymaplin.bsky.social @galarconnieto.bsky.social

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Half of microbial eukaryote literature focuses on only twelve human parasites -in #ISMEJournal by Joanna Lepper, @hbrappap.bsky.social and @oliverio.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

#ZebrafishFunFacts: As the most-cited #zebrafish cancer research paper, Amsterdam et al screened hundreds of heterozygous lines for embryonic lethal mutations & found elevated cancer incidence in ribosomal genes. This previously underappreciated finding was published @plosbiology.org 21 years ago. 🧪

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to give a seminar at the Fellows Conference, which will be held on 10 March 2026. Candidates who win Fellowships will be offered a Tenure Track Group Leader position from the outset, initially for 5 years. Find out more: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...

OK, here it is. Come work with me at the University of Liverpool making ALL THE AI models from ALL THE prokaryote pangenome data. Heck, we will make models from ALL the pangenomes, even eukaryotes!!! (link below👇) 1/4

I and other participants of the Novel Approaches to Preventing Publication Bias Workshop, hosted by the NINDS Office of Research Quality in May 2024, have published a framework to encourage the publication of null results in science: 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Sharing knowledge is a fundamental principle within the scientific community, yet null and negative results are still being underreported. @scurry.bsky.social &co present a roadmap to a solution that has a role for everyone in the scientific community 🧪 #Academicsky #reproducibility plos.io/3VwaU2O

Null & negative results ≠ failure. They’re essential—but still sidelined. Proud to co-author this @plosbiology.org paper tackling systemic bias & calling for culture change. ECRs pay the highest price for this biased culture! Blog by @scurry.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ysc23wrx #PublicationBias

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases. This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions. arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

This Primer explores two @plosbiology.org studies that reveal how short axon cells in the #OlfactoryBulb integrate #cholinergic input from the basal #forebrain to dynamically regulate #olfactory input 🧪Papers: plos.io/4pvost3 plos.io/3VnO1hT Primer: plos.io/3Ivzcqy

How do your #linguistic, #economic & #gender backgrounds impact your #scientific productivity? @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social & co reveal that being a woman, a non-native English speaker, and from a low-income country is associated with a 70% reduction in productivity @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4n3RLRQ

This looks terrific & the photo is artsy to boot. It however reminds me of my Twitter timeline in the first months of the pandemic, when the whole world seemed to be baking bread while I homeschooled two kids & started a new job… cortisol levels on the rise just thinking about it 😱

The rise of AI is reshaping how we think, write, and review science. This #PeerReviewWeek, we’re asking how do we preserve trust and transparency in a system that’s rapidly evolving? 🔗 Read our latest blog: plos.io/46d8BI9 @peerreviewweek.bsky.social #OpenScience #PRW2025

We have submitted a response to the National Institutes of Health's Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs. We believe that equitable access to publishing is essential to advancing open science. 🔗 Read our full response here: plos.io/4n9MEzF

Retuning here always warms my heart ❤️

Look out for our Editor in Chief at “The Human Microbiome” symposium @embl.org this week! We are keen to provide those of you working with human-associated microbes a home for your research, so do reach out to @npariente.bsky.social for a chat

Starting the final leg of my journey to the @embl.org symposium “The Human Microbiome” It’s been a surprisingly long travel day! I am really looking forward to seeing everyone there, and to Heidelberg itself, where I lived 9yrs. It’s always a pleasure to visit Come say hello this week!

Three Associate Professor (or Professor) positions available at Oxford Biology. Come be my colleague! www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/we-a...

This really is devolving into an authoritarian state at record speed Now he wants sham trials…

Restringir la comercialización y aumentar los impuestos a los ultraprocesados. Prohibir su venta y su publicidad en las escuelas, y hacer frente a las injerencias de su industria. Propuestas que más de uno y de una tildaría aquí de comunistas-dictatoriales-bolivarianas, pero que hace... UNICEF.

Science is under siege from weaponised disinformation – posing a threat to human civilisation | Michael Mann and Peter Hotez

I'm happy to be at @oecd-ocde.bsky.social today, co-running the "Access to research software: Opportunities and challenges" workshop (www.oecd.org/en/events/20...), which hopefully will lead to new policies that support access to research software as a key enabler towards advancing open science

Dangerous misinformation and quackery on the rise in the UK… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Uropathogenic #Ecoli #UPEC proliferate as round coccoid cells during intracellular infection; @alaskapokhrel.bsky.social @bill-lab.bsky.social &co show that accelerated division via FtsZ constriction drives this, the coccobacillus form persisting for generations @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4gdx97i

Science has already saved countless lives and will save many more if we let it. Hearing firsthand from patients whose lives have been saved by medical research (tinyurl.com/m65339fh) shows how vital this funding is, even for those lucky enough not to have needed it yet. Please share #ScienceSavedMe

This is so so so cool! Evolution is amazing - xenoparous reproduction “females must clone males of another species because they require their sperm to produce the worker caste. […] males from the same mother exhibit distinct genomes and morphologies” 🤯 😎🧪

A new arXiv preprint from Iain Hrynaszkiewicz and Lauren Cadwallader at PLOS with Prof Giovanni Colavizza, explores links between open science practices and citation impact across over 576,000 publications. 🔗 Read the full preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2508.20747 #OpenScience #OSI #Preprints

When other journals were too nervous to lean into this topic, this one leaned in. They specifically have a discovery report section for new insights based on initial observations. Can’t recommend this @plosbiology.org team enough!

Probing the evolutionary diversity of placental development: Francesca Soncin explores a @plosbiology.org study that provides a spatial transcriptomic characterization of the porcine #placenta, developing a new swine trophoblast #organoid model 🧪 Paper: plos.io/47jf3yd Primer: plos.io/3HZodFB

What causes viral transmission bottlenecks? This study uses barcoded virions to show that in the case of #influenza A #virus, early within-host replication dynamics (rather than a reduced inoculum population) drive loss of diversity during transmission @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4ngicDK

What determines the human gut fungal community? @emilyvansyoc.bsky.social @erdavenport.bsky.social @symbionticism.bsky.social &co present the first #GWAS of human genetic loci that influence the abundance of gut #fungi, linking these to disease risk #mycobiome @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/42bCKou

The UN need to rethink the location of their headquarters pronto. This is outrageous

Just back from Spain and demoralized at what passes for produce in the UK. Are all plants bonsai now? Full prize for miniature tomatoes (wrapped in plastic) and toy-sized aubergines 😰

El pequeño Marco Rubio, ministro de Asuntos Exteriores del tirano Taco I, ha denegado las visas de entrada de múltiples miembros de la Autoridad Palestina para asistir a la Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas que va a tener lugar en Septiembre. Quizás sea el momento de plantearse una nueva sede.

I absolutely love the FEARLESS Dr. Peter Hotez!!!!!

How can we improve the #training of future #biology researchers? This Community Page presents a competency-based framework to use to align curriculum and trainee outcomes with educational objectives in the life sciences. 🧪 #academicsky plos.io/3HIpuB1

How does the alvinellid worm Paralvinella hessleri survive the toxic extremes of deep-sea #HydrothermalVents? A new study shows that it detoxifies its environment by forming orpiment minerals inside cells; this unique #biomineralization is a novel adaptation to toxic environments.🧪 plos.io/3HtVCZ6

This is how your email finds me #IlloteAreoso #Arousa #IlladeArousa #Galicia #GalizaCalidade

This is how your email finds me #IlloteAreoso #Arousa #IlladeArousa #Galicia #GalizaCalidade

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

I need to have this LEGO