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Nathalie J Arhel

@arhelnathalie.bsky.social
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CNRS research director, McGill visiting professor 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇨🇦, nuclear trafficking, viruses, innate immunity

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Nathalie J Arhel @arhelnathalie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Artificial plagiarism
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 29/09/2026
👀 "U.K. funder uses ‘AI triage’ to reject grant proposals—leaving researchers dismayed. The AI-based assessment, which wasn’t explicitly described in the funding call, has raised privacy and fairness concerns." www.science.org/content/arti...
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U.K. funder uses ‘AI triage’ to reject grant proposals—leaving researchers dismayed
The AI-based assessment, which wasn’t explicitly described in the funding call, has raised privacy and fairness concerns
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For those interested in how dictionaries are made, as well as the secret lives of the apparently ordinary words we use, may I recommend this podcast? It’s made by two colleagues at the Oxford English Dictionary who really know their stuff. rss.com/podcasts/lex...
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The OED’s September update enters the twerpy mountweazel timeline | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Why do we love the mountweazel (and what is it)? Who was the original twerp? How did timeline constitute a two-for-one bargain? Join editors Fiona McPherson and Craig Leyland as they dive into some of...
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Nathalie J Arhel @arhelnathalie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'm stunned. @merriam-webster.com is this true? American/British acknowledgment/acknowledgement
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Holy smokes an unreal rendition of "I Will Always Love You" by Cynthia Erivo in Vancouver last night to honor Dolly Parton….incredible
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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A.I. just helps people who don't want to write make things people don't want to read
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“Practice any Art: music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money & fame but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.” IAN McKELLEN & the words of KURT VONNEGUT
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Nathalie J Arhel @arhelnathalie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Grant proposals written with the help of AI simply recycle ideas from previously funded projects. By using generative AI, we are gradually collapsing the diversity and semantic distinctiveness of our research. Be original, don't use AI. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The rise of large language models and the direction and impact of US federal research funding | PNAS
Federal research funding shapes the direction, diversity, and impact of the US scientific enterprise. Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly diff...
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Kranzusch Lab @kranzuschlab.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The shared principles of human and bacterial antiviral immunity An honor to highlight remarkable discoveries from many labs over the past 12 years that unite previously disparate fields of how animal cells and prokaryotes defend against viruses. www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fzwyB
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Shared principles of human and bacterial antiviral immunity - Nature
The Review describes shared ancient, conserved mechanisms between human antiviral immunity and bacterial anti-phage systems, outlining universal principles of pathogen sensing, signalling and effector...
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
With everything that's happening, seemingly everywhere, it blows my mind that people still say we should take climate action 'for our grandchildren'
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I don't 'hope' for serious action on climate and nature I hope for things when I have no power - I hope it'll rain, I hope the bus comes on time, and I hope we score So I don't hope for climate action, instead I work to make it happen
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Global News @globalnews.ca · 29/06/2026
Doctors have detailed the death of an Ontario child from rabies in 2024 after contact with a bat to warn people to seek medical attention should they have any contact with the mammal to prevent a potential infection. globalnews.ca/news/1194258...
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Doctors detail 2024 Ontario child rabies death in effort to warn about contact with bats | Globalnews.ca
The 11-year-old boy was at a cottage in northern Ontario in the summer of 2024 and was awoken by a bat lying on his nose and mouth, the case report said.
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Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
HPAI caused a substantial morality event of elephant seals on Heard Island - with 62% pups found dead overall, and in some harems, mortality as high as 97%. Surprising that MRCA is likely in 2025 (later than Gough, Crozet, Kerguelen). 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Is this the future of peer review? New from @biologyopen.bsky.social: expanded Fast & Fair trial paying reviewers £220 per paper The result: rapid peer review with no drop in quality or change in acceptance rate Paying referees makes peer review faster & fairer www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 03/06/2026
I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...
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Enshittification, Despotification, and the Open Internet
It’s not about whether technology is inherently good or bad, liberating or oppressive. Architecture shapes incentives; incentives shape outcomes.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
In the first eleven months of 2025, 10,109 doctoral-trained scientists left the federal government. The losses were concentrated in agencies that fund medical research, regulate environmental standards and model climate. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/more-than-...?
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Sarah Marzi @sj-marzi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
We are hiring again! Our lab is looking for an experimental epigenetics postdoc to work on an exciting 3-year ASAP funded research project studying the role of cell type specific epigenetic regulation in response to toxicant exposures and Parkinson's.
The Marzi Lab at the UK DRI Connectome conference
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Nathalie J Arhel @arhelnathalie.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Astounding 🤯
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Cassie Evans @cassiecodes.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I'm so tired of being expected to read things that no one has bothered to write.
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 26/05/2026
Human activity may be enabling the expansion of golden jackals across Europe by reducing the suppressive effect of grey wolves, suggests research in Nature Ecology & Evolution. This human-mediated interaction could allow jackals to occupy up to 75% of the continent. go.nature.com/4nLOJ5O 🌍🧪
This is figure 1, which shows golden jackals are rapidly expanding into Europe.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
If I grow up I want to write this well www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
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Jon Cohen @cohenjon.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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CDC leader calls for new journal to ‘elevate scientific rigor’
Bhattacharya publicly slams vaccine study he pulled from agency’s flagship publication
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Jon Cohen @cohenjon.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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How an HIV/AIDS tragedy spurred human evolution
Before antiretroviral drugs reached South Africa, high death toll shaped immune system genes
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Charlène Boumendil (She/Her) @charleneboumendil.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
We are looking for a new group leader to join the IGH (Montpellier, France). I can’t wait to meet my future colleague! Apply :-) More infos here: igh.cnrs.fr/join-igh-as-...
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Join IGH as Group Leader - IGH
The Institute of Human Genetics invites applications for a Principal Investigator position in its main research areas. Read more...
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Nathalie J Arhel @arhelnathalie.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Latest paper from the lab 🤩
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 24/02/2026
Improve what you see in Google Search, by adding The Conversation as a preferred source. Here's how 👉
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How to make The Conversation a preferred source on Google
Improve your Google Search results by making The Conversation a preferred source.
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Healthcare-Global @healthcare-global.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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Flu surges in 45 states as doctor visits reach highest level in nearly 30 years
About 5,000 people have died of the flu so far this season, including 9 children, as the Trump administration pulls back on advice to get kids vaccinated.
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 19/12/2025
A paper in Nature presents a detailed map of human chromosomes within the nucleus. This resource provides a foundation for an improved understanding of how the physical layout of human DNA is associated with biological expression. go.nature.com/4pI8knB 🧬 🧪
This is figure 1, which gives an overview of the approach to generate and integrate genomic data on the 4D nucleome.
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
A really nice article in The Scientist about q.e.d! @qedscience.bsky.social - If you're not using it yet, now's the time! www.the-scientist.com/q-e-d-an-ai-...
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q.e.d: An AI Tool for Smarter Manuscript Review
A team of researchers developed q.e.d, an AI-powered system designed to deliver rigorous and constructive feedback on scientific manuscripts in minutes.
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Anna Kajaste-Rudnitski Lab @kajastelab.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Excited to be co-organizing this @embo.org Workshop on #Pathogen #Immunity and #Signalling next June 8-12 2026 in Leiden! 🥳🥳🥳 #Savethedate
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 06/10/2025
Over the last year, Nature’s Careers team has been tapping into its global community of readers, writers, friends and colleagues to compile a list of laboratory hacks to help make scientists’ working lives easier. Here’s a list of 99 of those hacks. #Academicsky 🧪
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These 99 'lab hacks' will make your scientific work easier
Nature asked contributors, editors and working researchers to share their best advice for scientists.
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Nathalie J Arhel @arhelnathalie.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
RANBP2 is a major susceptibility factor in Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy. But is it a single protein, or are there other isoforms with distinct roles we should be studying? @sdesgraupes.bsky.social @aneinternational.bsky.social @irim-life.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Unravelling the diversity of RANBP2: protein isoforms and implications for cellular function and human disease
RANBP2 (also known as Nup358) is the largest nucleoporin of the nuclear pore complex (NPC), where it constitutes the main component of the cytoplasmic…
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Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
2023 HPAI outbreak in South American Sea Lions: atypically high number of abortions + abnormal reproductive behaviours: including males retaining and mounting females outside the breeding season + necrophilia 👉 revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/ac...
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CNN @cnn.com · 19/08/2025
A new study in JAMA has examined a rare but severe complication that can occur in children who contract the flu. This complication, called acute necrotizing encephalopathy, or ANE, carries a mortality rate of 27% despite intensive care and treatment, according to the new research. cnn.it/4lzElLI
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WIRED @wired.com · 01/08/2025
Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine. www.wired.com/story/the-fi...
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The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children
Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine.
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ANE International @aneinternational.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
ANE: The Brain Emergency Every Doctor Should Recognize. #AcuteNecrotizingEncephalopathy #ANEAwareness #ANE1 #SickKidsToronto #PediatricNeurology #Influenza #BrainHealth #EmergencyPediatrics #RareDiseaseAwareness #ViralEncephalopathy @arhelnathalie.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=ywrf...
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ANE Clinical Overview: Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment | Dr. E. Ann Yeh at ANEmone 2025
YouTube video by ANE International
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Ʌʗʜʋʗɑɼɼʘ @achucarro.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The @sierralab.bsky.social lab is hiring! Postdoctoral position in #microglial development (#IKUR) www.achucarro.org/job/postdoct...
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Amanda Sierra @sierralab.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Are you interested in human brain #organoids to study #microglia but don't know where to start?🧠🧪 #neuroskyence Here's our piece of advice on "Building Immunocompetent Cerebral Organoids From a Developmental Perspective" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Building Immunocompetent Cerebral Organoids From a Developmental Perspective
Conventional cerebral organoids do not contain microglia, which must be added. We propose recommendations to assess microglial immunocompetence using quantitative approaches and stringent statist...
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Nathalie J Arhel @arhelnathalie.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
In this piece, I reflect on how research agendas, funding structures and publishing ecosystems are dominated by a few wealthy countries, and outline concrete steps we could take to redress inequities. #EquitableScience #GlobalHealth #ResearchJustice #DecolonizingScience
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William C Phelps, PhD @wcphelps.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Vaccine Integrity Project has been created at the University of Minnesota to counter misinformation and a concern about data manipulation by current HHS leadership. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
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Vaccine experts band together to counter U.S. government misinformation
Vaccine Integrity Project intends to provide scientific responses to ill-founded vaccine moves
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Nathalie J Arhel @arhelnathalie.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Starting tomorrow! Topic: ANEmone Time: Apr 28, 2025 08:30 AM Paris Join Zoom Meeting umontpellier-fr.zoom.us/j/9545768422... Meeting ID: 954 5768 4221 Passcode: 991470
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Sophie Desgraupes @sdesgraupes.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Super excited for the ANEmone colloque tomorrow reuniting families, clinicians and scientists in order to better understand ANE1 ! @arhelnathalie.bsky.social
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Tulio de Oliveira @tuliodna.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Five years on: how COVID was the catalyst for Africa’s genomic revolution “We built a culture of collaboration, not competition,” Read more of this piece in Nature at the gem - issuu.com/the.gem/docs... #Genomics #Africa #Fellowship
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Hayley Gullen @hayleygullen.com · 28/03/2025
My art is based on my experiences of breast cancer. I’ll have a book out later this year. I am fully confident that AI could not replicate an expression of something that’s a deeply human experience.
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
RANBP2 regulates influenza RNA replication and nuclear export, triggering hyper-inflammation, offering insight into Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy pathogenesis doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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bioRxiv Immunology @biorxiv-immuno.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The genetic driver of Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy, RANBP2, regulates the inflammatory response to Influenza A virus infection www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Nathalie J Arhel @arhelnathalie.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Our latest collaborative study with the Pasteur Institute and University of Toronto on the role of RANBP2 in #influenza -associated hyperinflammation #AcuteNecrotizingEncephalopathy @aneinternational.bsky.social @ribonucleicacids.bsky.social @irim-life.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The genetic driver of Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy, RANBP2, regulates the inflammatory response to Influenza A virus infection
Influenza virus infections can cause severe complications such as Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy (ANE), which is characterised by rapid onset pathological inflammation following febrile infection. H...
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Nathalie J Arhel @arhelnathalie.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Latest paper from the VTRIS team @irim-life.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social 👏👏👏
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 14/03/2025
#Kenya: Kala-azar is the second deadliest parasitic disease after malaria, with a 95% death rate if untreated. With rising cases reported since September, and three reported deaths since, MSF teams are on the ground supporting the Ministry of Health in an emergency response.
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n
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Homepage - openRxiv
openRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community.
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