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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control @ecdc.europa.eu · 01/10/2026

A multi-country foodborne outbreak has been detected. You’re joining the investigation. Our new e-learning puts you in the role of a junior epidemiologist working through a real-world outbreak scenario. Click: learning.ecdc.europa.eu/course/view.... #IDsky #EpiSky #PublicHealth #FoodBorne

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Russell Garwood @russellgarwood.co.uk · 15/09/2026

Interested in how species diversity is split between major animal groups? Here is the infographic for you! 🧪⚒️🦀🦑 #evosky

An infographic showing the number of described and estimated species for major animal groups. There are more insects than anything else. Of the remaining groups, arachnids and nematodes are the most diverse.

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Tom Larkin @tomlarkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.

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The Orchard Project @theorchardproject.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🥧 If you can’t face yet another crumble & have a freezer full of fruit, it's time to consider sharing your surplus! Check out our fruit donation directory to find a willing recipient nearby: www.theorchardproject.org.uk/donate-apples #CommunityOrchards

Hand holding out a white and red flushed apple that is cut in half to show the pips, with blurred body in the background

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UK Health Security Agency @ukhsa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

UK mosquitoes can be annoying, but did you realise that they used to carry a form of malaria? 🦟 Human malaria was eliminated here in the early 20th century through a combination of land drainage and mosquito control. 🧪

Text graphic with a blue to green gradient background. Text reads: "Did you know? Historically known as ‘ague’, malaria was once common in the marshy areas of southern England but had largely disappeared by the 19th century." A white emblem of marsh plants appears at the bottom right.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

What's the most brutal insult you've ever heard in your language? I think the most savagely specific one that I've ever encountered was from Finnish... sun gradu oli varmaan 20 sivua. It means "your thesis was probably 20 pages long"

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Anthony Wilson @arboviral.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Risk assessment, risk management, risk communication!

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Michael Marks @drmichaelmarks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Still 1 week to apply. Looking for a great mathematical modeller to come and do a post-doc @lshtm.bsky.social focused on STI modelling in the UK.

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Seth Finnegan @sethf.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

My home department (Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley) is searching for an assistant professor in ecology—please distribute widely! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

Assistant Professor –Ecology- Integrative Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There's a GOOD Max Miller and a BAD one. The /good/ one does "Tasting History", a history vlog told through food & recipes. This episode covers the Aztec staple, tamales. I'd like to dig a little deeper on 'nixtamalization', the processing of corn with alkaline solutions to unlock nutrients.

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Unwrapping Aztec Tamales | The Tamale Wars

YouTube video by Tasting History with Max Miller

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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hive mind! I’m on the lookout for people who have moved to Manchester from London and bought a house, for a piece on the market here. If you’ve done that and fancy a chat about your experience (where you bought, why, how it compares to London etc) please do shout me

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Freya Harrison @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It's taken 12 years and a lot of work from many fantastic people, but we have published an analysis of how our reconstruction of Bald's eyesalve kills bacteria. This was driven by @tosinorababa.bsky.social & Jess Furner-Pardoe through their PhD work #MicroSky journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... [1/n]

Jess in the lab, holding an onion and a garlic bulb and talking; Tosin in the lab holding a petri dish and inspecting it; two glass bottles labelled "eyesalve 33/6/14"

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John Lees @johnlees.bacpop.org · 03/09/2026

I am hiring in this round – please do apply if you are interested in: machine learning (protein/genome/gene language models), methods for pathogen data analysis, pangenomes (or share with any students who might want to work with us)

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 02/09/2026

Feeling inspired by the talks at the IMAV meeting? Submit your research to the JGV Arboviruses collection and help foster progress and interactions in this important area of virology. Submit here: www.microbiologyresearch.org/conten… #JGV #IMAV2026

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The second round of the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants scheme is now open. Our most popular funding opportunity supports UK-based Postdoctoral researchers – or equivalent – in the humanities and social sciences. Find out more: bit.ly/4iwQQtI

British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants, deadline of 4 November 2026. Independent scholars deadline 28 October 2026

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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 01/09/2026

Science story editors! If you are looking for pitches, lemme know. I am looking to do some quick turnaround stories next week and quite a few of the people I usually pitch to are away.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“The population of the world’s heaviest parrot, the kākāpō, has surpassed 300 birds for the first time in 75 years, after a record breeding season triggered by the mass fruiting of a native New Zealand tree” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Kākāpō rising: 90 chicks swell population of the world’s heaviest parrot

Critically endangered New Zealand bird enjoys record breeding season triggered by mass fruiting of native tree, pushing its numbers to 325

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

'There are deadly viruses all around us, and viruses routinely jump from animals to humans and cause severe outbreaks. This is a real, documented risk. This is the risk we should worry about. This is the risk we should prepare for. But instead, we worry about fictitious AI-designed viruses'

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I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus

God save us from economists who think they can competently talk about biology

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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🦇 Invitation to Tender: Statistical consultant. BCT alongside Bat Conservation Ireland and @ptes-org.bsky.social are seeking a statistician to take on this work for all 3 organisations, providing a common statistical approach across all projects. More info: www.bats.org.uk/the-trust/jo...

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Invitation to Tender: Statistical consultant - Jobs / Contracts - Bat Conservation Trust

The Bat Conservation Trust (BCT), Bat Conservation Ireland (BCIreland) and People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) each independently administer lo...

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A tetanus-diphtheria vaccine that doesn’t need a fridge has passed its first human trial. UK scientists reformulated a licensed shot using trehalose, the sugar that lets desert plants survive without water, keeping it stable for up to two years at 30°C. Gavi buff.ly/1kNIUHB #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Fridge-free vaccine passes first human trial, raising hopes for the hardest-to-reach

Unreliable electricity makes it hard to keep vaccines at the right temperature – this development could change that.

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Kristyn J @sciencekristyn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

High school science department help! A full week of inservice coming up- can you help us get ready for students to start in a week? Your donations make our activities possible! Also one big wish item just for me :) please take a look! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Multiple examples of our Petri dish embroidery project

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 24/08/2026

We've arrived on Bluesky! We hope you will follow along as we share inspiring, motivational and exciting content about the achievements and individuals that have been awarded a Nobel Prize. Stay tuned.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

diarrhea Taylor Farms, salmonella chicken parm, bags of frozen blueberries that straight-up kill your ass heavy metal sourdough, listeria soup bowl refreshing summer popsicle that's filled with shards of glass we didn't start the fire...

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Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Penn State @ciddpsu.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Come work with our excellent colleague @nitanother.bsky.social ... and all of us at CIDD!

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Attention Ecologists! We are going to need *a lot* of ecologists. The First Lego League Teams need to speak with a scientist about their projects every year. Every year it's a different type of scientist. Last year was archaeologists. This year, ecologists! Sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A fish is a teacher, wearing a button-up shirt with a collar. He says "Volunteer to speak with classrooms in front of a chalkboard that says "Skype a scientist needs YOU!". A snail on his desk says Help! And a shrimp says "Lego league is coming!" and a nervous seahorse says "this year's theme is ecosystems"

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Lydia Mulvey @lydiamulvey.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

my brother got these shots on his SeeStar telescope #eclipse #solareclipse2026

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Anthony Wilson @arboviral.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Very important safety advice for this evening!

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Anthony Wilson @arboviral.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Oh my god, these are brutal...

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 11/05/2026

"Scientists don't want you to know-" Buddy there are so many things I, as a scientist, want you to know and the only thing stopping me from writing more papers and posts about it and then starting a podcast to tell you even MORE things is that I am limited by hours in the day

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Anthony Wilson @arboviral.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Entire thread is lovely, but this one in particular feels like it can apply pretty broadly

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 21/06/2026

Traditionally on Father’s Day I have posted about my own father, but today I am going to post instead about becoming one. /1

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Lucy van Dorp @lucyvandorp.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

We are advertising a 3-year Evolution Education Trust funded #PhD studentship at @ugiatucl.bsky.social UCL to investigate the genomic history of infectious diseases preserved within historical pathology collections. Details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... #findaphd #EET

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Unlocking the Genomic History of Pathogens Through Pathology Archives at University College London on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Unlocking the Genomic History of Pathogens Through Pathology Archives at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Anthony Wilson @arboviral.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Unironically _this_ is the content I am on this platform for Deep experts just dumping a huge thread about their expertise

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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Background: a month ago I predicted the scum pond they've made will delaminate in ~5 years. That turned out to be ~5 years too optimistic, and here's why (I think). 2/x bsky.app/profile/mona...

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National Endowment for the Humanities @nehgov.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

NEH grant recipients who received notification that a terminated award is eligible for reinstatement can find more information about initiating the restatement process here: shorturl.at/0GwBc

Information for NEH grantees on reinstatement of awards

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Dr. Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

If you’re looking for stellar candidates for your tenure-track faculty search or fantastic seminar speakers, check out the @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social fellows! 👇🏾

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IDDjobs @iddjobs.org · 08/06/2026

CLOSING SOON: PhD position (Galway, Ireland) Modelling Host-Parasite Ecology and Evolution to explore how biodiversity and other ecological factors influence disease dynamics with Christina Tadiri at University of Galway More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/2540

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WHO @who.int · 07/06/2026

It's #WorldFoodSafetyDay Unsafe food causes around 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths annually. You can reduce your risk of illness, incl. by: ✅ Cooking meat all the way through ✅ Washing fruit and vegetable with safe water ✅ Keeping food at safe temperatures bit.ly/4vvECoi

Declining global cases of foodborne illnesses from 1.3 billion in 2000 to 866 million in 2021, highlighting effective food safety actions.

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations @fao.org · 07/06/2026

Delicious food starts with safe food. For #WorldFoodSafetyDay, Luisa Torres, Palmiro Ocampo and Alfredo Oropeza share key habits: ✅ separate cutting boards ✅ clean tools ✅ clear labels ✅ organized ingredients ✅ proper handwashing Food safety is care.

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Josh Mayfield @bean525.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I'd REALLY appreciate it if anyone who sees this would try out my text generators so I can iron out any remaining bugs. Please, and thank you! trek.epicrandomness.com

trek.epicrandomness.com

Star Trek Title Card Generator

Make your own era-accurate Star Trek episode title cards in seconds. Boldly go!

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The return of the alpacas: Radcliffe Camera Lawn has once more welcomed a herd of alpacas to alleviate stress during exam times. Staff and students were encouraged to "take a break and meet, pet and feed these peaceful animals." [image credit Alexandrine Kantor]

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Anthony Wilson @arboviral.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Absolutely fascinating thread! Also made me look up the 1745 cattle plague outbreak in Gloucestershire, and I found a great article on rinderpest epidemiology in the C18th: www.localdroveroads.co.uk/cattle-plagu...

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Cattle Plague or Rinderpest - Local Drove Roads

cattle plague rinderpest drove cattle

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David Thomas MooahahahAHAHA! @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

my twelve year old designed and made a fucken FUNCTIONAL LOCK out of LEGO it doesn't open without the key, and specifically needs the RIGHT key, because it has FUCKEN TUMBLERS MFERS

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Anthony Wilson @arboviral.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I mean, roll this one and the one above it together and that's Stranger Things, basically. Although I feel like Round The Twist deserves a mention here too

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Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Leone Norwood Farrell invented the Toronto Method for large-scale vaccine production, making childhood immunisation programmes more affordable and facilitating the mass production of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine in the 1950s. adalovelaceday.subst...

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Dr Leone Norwood Farrell, Biochemist & microbiologist

Leone Norwood Farrell was a Canadian biochemist and microbiologist whose inventions enabled the large-scale production of the polio vaccine in the 1950s.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

This year I’ve been photographing lots of moths. In Colombia, there are so many that my field guide has disclaimers about how incomplete it is. Anyway. I’m stating a thread to share moths for the rest of 2026. Here’s the first one. Enjoy! 🌱

A brown moth with darker gray wavy lines across the wings. The legs are very furry.

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