🚨Two fully-funded #PhD positions🚨 Join @slcuplants.bsky.social to help us explore intriguing fundamental plant development questions in a supportive, friendly institute with fantastic supervisors & exceptional support services 🌿🧬🔬 Find out more www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/PhD Pls share #plantscijobs 1/3🧵

Are you interested in @ceplas.bsky.social single cell data and spatial transcriptomic data analysis and inference? Then apply for this PhD position in our graduate school HDS-LEE in my group co-supervised by Prof Assent. www.fz-juelich.de/en/careers/j.... For questions don't hesitate to contact me.

Bacillus thuringiensis and insects: a century of intimate history #JBacteriol #Minireview from Leyla Slamti and Didier Lereclus journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Quite clever how you can detect Mycobacterial antigens in extracellular vehicles in blood during asymptomatic TB. Useful as biomarkers but maybe also to work out in vivo what are early / most abundant Mtb antigens produced. #TBSky academic.oup.com/jid/advance-...

Mark your calendar! We're proud to sponsor this free webinar from @repro4everyone.bsky.social featuring @doctorzen.net on designing effective scientific posters. Don't miss this great resource for students and researchers!

"Belugas travel to warm, shallow estuaries to give birth and care for their young. Knowledge holders inform us that some of these estuaries have been visited by belugas for several hundred years. But not just any estuary will do!" A summary of our new BES paper by @jaclynaubin.bsky.social 👇

🧵 After years out of the field, I and my lab are again working on bacterial type IV pili. We have just posted our first preprints, and I'm excited to share what we have discovered. This shows Neisseria gonorrheae bacteria infecting a human epithelical cell. Here, you can see the pili in red. 1/

For all #Treg lovers, @labliston.bsky.social @annualreviews.bsky.social 👇👇👇 👉 doi.org/10.1146/annu...

🧵 New preprint! Our 4-lab team evolved Streptococcus pneumoniae in antibiotic-treated mice of varying immune states and discovered something surprising: bacteria rarely evolved resistance. Instead, they found a different way to survive — by rewiring RNA turnover. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Something very different and cool for my lab. Sequencing a 4.4mb TB genome using the Artic-style PCR amplicon method with >5128 primers in two reactions 🤯 Enables culture-free WGS for TB! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

How specific are heritable symbioses? And what can we learn from swapping obligate symbionts across host species? We address this in our latest, led by @inespons.bsky.social & in our collaboration w/ @microbiome.bsky.social 🦠🪲 Out today in @natcomms.nature.com! 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reading this for my ecological genomics class. Pretty mind-blowing stuff, even identifying insect-bacterial symbionts from high covariance in airborne eDNA!

In the absence of real oversight, we will continue to bear the costs of an administration that privileges ideology over evidence: increased risk of disease, narrowing scope for discovery and innovation, and reduced economic activity. Grievance has its consequences.

Important from Arne Duncan and David Pressman: "There is little effort among university leaders to coordinate a political response to attacks on academic independence by the administration. Appeasement is being coordinated while resistance is not." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Proanthocyanidins are flavonoid antioxidants found in many fruits and vegetables. Here, Sanhong Liu & team report proanthocyanidins promote PD-L1 degradation via SYVN1 to enhance antitumor immunity in preclinical models of lung and colon cancer: doi.org/10.1172/JCI1...

A beautiful panorama of cosmic life & death: These images of the Sculptor Galaxy combine 100 exposures in thousands of colors, 300 gigs of data. They show 500 planetary nebulae (the demise of other Suns) + a central "chimney" caused by a burst of newly formed stars. 🧪🔭 www.eso.org/public/news/...

Good Sunday, all. Here is your weekly selection of papers in #cancermetabolism and #mitochondrialbiology. So many exciting findings!! biomed.news/bims-camemi/... @biomednews.bsky.social Biomed News #keepreading "I am a part of all that I have met."-Alfred Tennyson

A new collection of papers on #Mitochondria in #Health and #Disease! #MitochondrialDisease 📚 biomed.news/bims-mitdis/... @biomednews.bsky.social @gavinmcstay.bsky.social @mitoscientist.bsky.social Mt superoxide regulates nuclear integrity and ageing via lipid metab www.nature.com/articles/s42...

There should be Congressional hearings over this

ICYMI: Don’t overlook the kidney in SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia—even in the absence of overt acute kidney injury @olilen.bsky.social, @tharaux-lenoir-lab.bsky.social & team report on a strong association between kidney-derived proteins & IL-10 levels & mortality: doi.org/10.1172/jci....

@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social protocol for conducting efficient deletion of genes from activated effector, resting naive and memory primary murine CD8 T cells using RNP-based Crispr/Cas9 technology @seattlechildrens.org www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Exciting new undergraduate research opportunities here at Carnegie Museum in Botany! Applications due March 1. drive.google.com/file/d/1jNNy...

Unraveling TIME: CD8+ T cell- and CXCL11-driven endocrine resistance in breast cancer: doi.org/10.1172/JCI2... Tim Kong & Cynthia X. Ma provide a Commentary on Fabiana Napolitano: doi.org/10.1172/JCI1...

Wild things happening at the Clay County, MN GOP caucus. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

According to a leading mathematical model, the destruction of USAID has resulted in 800,000 people dying who otherwise wouldn’t have. It is as if every single person in North Dakota had died over the last year—that is, if 2/3rds of North Dakota were children www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

A year ago Elon Musk tweeted that he had fed USAID "into the wood chipper." It was an act that killed people. We don't know most of their names, but we know 27. I've listed them below. Much like with Renee Good + Alex Pretti, we should also remember these lives taken by the cruel men who lead us

"The National Institutes of Health wants to transition at least one of seven national primate research centers into an animal sanctuary, aiming to move away from animal testing in favor of alternative methods." www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

A bright spot amidst all the public health doom and gloom: we're getting closer to a Guinea worm-free world Our very beloved President Carter was a key leader in the fight against Guinea worm 1986: ~3.5 MILLION cases 2025: 10 cases 🤯 bsky.app/profile/cidr...

Read this. ICE can pick up anyone, citizen, legal or no, fly them from their home state to the detention facility in Texas, say Whoopsee & dump you in El Paso. Even if you don't care about other folks, this could happen to YOU. Call Congress! 1/2

"AMR doesn't just mean different drugs; it means longer treatment, more side effects, and a much harder journey back to health." A patient's experience of living with antimicrobial-resistant TB: ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/12/04/l...

PLOS Biology is proud to present our new collection of comment and opinionated review articles on the many facets of #immunometabolism! 🧪 #immunosky #immunology #metabolism plos.io/4c5z6Cn See 🧵⬇️ for more details

We are hiring!

Proteins often bind targets using avidity, the combined interaction strength of multiple weak binders. Now we’ve harnessed this principle for compact, *single*-component optogenetic tools for translocation. Lead by phenom PhD student @dennishuang.bsky.social #synbiosky🧵 📝 tinyurl.com/aviatar

granular, practical, well organized info here: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.

B cells drive CD4 T cell immunosenescence and age-associated health decline Age-associated decline in immune system function causes increased risk to infectious disease. T cells are effected, and it are B cells part responsible. www.science.org/doi/... 1/3

Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes across Berlin

Gastrointestinal tissues are initial sites of SIV rebound after antiretroviral treatment cessation in rhesus macaques @natcomms.nature.com @vgti.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Friends, please help spread the word about our microbiology REU program at Montana State University. www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/ Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided. Details in the attached pic--Feb 14 deadline 🧫🧪🦠#microsky

Review @cp-molcell.bsky.social Lysosomes as hubs of metabolic sensing and cellular homeostasis www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

Friends! I am so happy to share our new preprint! Hydrogen peroxide has been the most common reactive chemical threat to life forms since the Great Oxygenation Event 2.5 billion years ago. How do animals like C. elegans sense it fast and escape? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread 1/

#InterferonFriendsOrFoes? Another cool one @ellenfoxman.bsky.social &friends out @plosbiology.org about how excessive #IFNs delay repair by activating LATS & degrading YAP/TAZ in the Hippo 🦛 pathway! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... 👇👇👇

#Interferons protect against #ViralInfection, but can hinder tissue repair - how? @ellenfoxman.bsky.social &co show that high IFN levels suppress #BronchialCell migration & proliferation during tissue repair via JAK-driven LATS1 activation, independent of STAT1 @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4k1pyKA

I’ve never been prouder to be a Minnesotan.

Foege and others devised the strategy that ended smallpox. Smallpox is no longer a disease that people get. We were close to that condition with polio. Global unrest and the powerful ignorance of the US government will change that.

ICE thinks Minnesotans will eventually give up, it’s like they’re unfamiliar with Vikings fandom